skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't being on the brink of bankruptcy, staring death in the eye and beating the odds what running a startup is all about (at least initially)?

Reading "The money will run out within a couple of months, and the debts won’t be able to be paid", I couldn't help but think: "wait, you have a couple of months?". People have gone by on less.

Maybe failing to innovate for a few years has doomed your company to fail. Then again, maybe not. The party's only over when the lights go out :)

I know it's cheesy to quote PG on HN, but what the hell: "Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep typing!" – http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
6. I'm not sure where you're getting these numbers from. You talk in black in white and categorically (and quite unfairly) paint startups as slave labor camps where employees are treated like shit and exploited at every possible opportunity. I know a lot of people both founding and working for startups, and I've never actually heard of employees being asked or even implicitly pressured to work 100+ hour weeks. That's not to say that it never happens, but from the pretty large sample I have, I've personally never heard of it. That seems to pretty much contradict your statement outright, given that it's so extreme and broad.

Dave phrased his answer in very reasonable terms that, based on my experience, closely match reality. You just flat out ignored them and went back to your original claim as if his points simply had no merit.
Meh. Passenger demonstrates willingness to a) revisit the incident later and b) use the word 'terrorist' on the plane.

They don't have to actually think he'll blow up the plane; it only takes one closet nut case to overhear this and cause a ruckus mid flight. In a small confined space at 30k feet that's a very real safety issue. Consider that an irrational fear of flying isn't that uncommon, and this is a route where there isn't much of an alternative.

Finally, they're under no obligation to tell a passenger the real reason for booting him off the plane; if it was the above, doing so could only make it worse for themselves.
"Sorry, this download is not supported by your system." Meh.
Perhaps this is just my opinion, but if you make a statement that you don't know to be true and assert it as a true statement, you have lied.
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I should start a company in portable EMPs.
>Set an example of what? That if you don't write a glowing review they're going to throw an infantile fit on the internet?

Set an example of what happens when you fudge facts to get a better story.
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The title of the article ("Timeless suits from London's Savile Row back in fashion") is a contradiction in terms. Either the suits are timeless OR they go in and out of fashion. Can't have both.
"Everyone who’s held a smartphone to the ear or watched a movie with a laptop balanced on their knees knows the devices get hot. Most are unaware the same battery technology is widely used in electric cars and has made few notable advances in a decade."

This is the first paragraph. Sounds sensible, but when you think about it, more heat from these devices is coming from the CPU, isn't it?
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So basically just about everybody is reading HN only at work. Procrastinators, ahoy!
Quite of a funny coincidence - I was just discussing this with my colleague literally a few seconds before seeing this link.

We were both going through the same book recently - Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman. Interesting read if you want to find out more about those phenomenons.
Typeform really looks like a beautiful UX for online forms and form creation!
I would do some research before spouting this claptrap about 100% platform control. There is huge effort going on in the W3C and Sysapps groups to get this whole priviledged access and installable apps standardised.

The biggest thing about Chrome Apps is not the new API's, it is that we are getting developers to think about building good offline installable apps.
Brilliant. Thanks for your input. Mind if I add you to a "thanks" page of sorts?
It also has remarkably little information.

I know it is supposed to be just introduction post, but still some research data and/or actual implementation should have been available. Now it is just "Intel has done that" and people should believe this is true.
everyone would, but standards take a long time, and lead with experience based of existing implementations.
You'd have made (will make?) a fantastic Nazi.
Why would a bird or insect design use Ornithopter design rather than helicopter design?
If you flat-out accuse the flight attendant of lying, you're going to trigger an "us versus them" situation with the flight staff.

That was already triggered by the FA's clandestine response to the traveller's openness, and the COMMAND to leave the plane. To blame this on the passenger is very comfortable and very cowardly IMO. "she lied", "that's not true".. those are the same thing when it comes to what this actually was about. He wasn't escorted off the plane for hurting the ego of staff by failing to be intimidated; it was about wether he took pictures after having being asked to stop, at least allegedly.

And yes, the captain has to decide wether his staff is comfortable with passengers, and more importantly, wether that is the fault of said passengers or said staff. If it's the passenger, kick them out, if it's the staff, likewise. In that sense I totally agree, but someone who can't even make eye contact is not up to this; so it's up to the airline weither they feel comfortable having weak staff on board of expensive equipment.
The biggest reason we have these apps is not really OS Level information, it is offline. We want developers to build and deliver great offline first experiences, and on the Web we just don't have that (even with AppCache).
To be fair though, I know that you (and I!) follow more Rubyists than the average HN reader or analyst ;-)
And using Dart is a great way to achieve this goal :)
Don't feel bad for the investors, they took a risk and it didn't work out. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off etc.
Well, you need a human to make a difference.

Does parasite gives a shit what meat he is eating, dolphin or human.
Does human gives shit what meat he is eating, usually not until you give him pretty pictures and moral books and tell what to do.

Children love meat, children can watch how pig is squeaking and is slaughtered, split open and chopped up, it is more of wow event that anything else.
Same pig yesterday he rode and and considered a friend, had a name for it.(this is nothing to do with children who live in boxes, this is children in farm environment, hunter environment).

Still, human is interesting, because sharks do not hunt human for food, if they bite one it is more or less curiosity.
Same with many other predator species, it is like human is somehow ignored.

Yet, only we can make sense out of it. By giving it the meaning.

But everything is opinion of mine and yours as there is no built in meaning and sense into anything.

We stick to opinions we feel fancy until we don't and repeat until we die.
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> I didn't include a link as the existing site is almost irrelevant and the vast majority needs to be scrapped. I'm more interested in how people would approach this from scratch with no preconceived notions.

Well, first I would look at the page to see what the problems are.

Your move.
So we should make it even easier for aggressive powers to invade and kill innocent people? It isn't easy enough already? The more you make it hard for the people you're victimizing to hit back the more they'll be forced to the only action left to them: things like 9/11.
We are working on it. Mac has some interesting things that we need to do to get it working.
Well articulated, David. I also implore anyone reading this to use common sense and a huge risk-discount when evaluating the value of stock. As an employee the primary thing you should worry about is not whether the company is going to be 100x or 1000x return, it's whether it's going to succeed at all and you are far better equipped to do this than you realise.

An investor's job is to catch the winners. An employee's job is to avoid the losers.

As an employee, your main interest is not in what the top end of the stock may be, you don't have a portfolio, you aren't doing "black swan investments" you are investing your life and your time. It makes sense for professional investors to go in even at ridiculous valuations because one win can carry 19 losses.

As an employee you do not have a 20 strong portfolio. If you start young you have maybe five or six swings at bat and then you'll have a mortgage, kids, family. The return as an employee simply doesn't justify high levels of risk, the main job is just to ensure you're a part of something that works.

So how can you do that? Ask the questions you know make sense. Are you working for company run by founders who can sensibly and calmly articulate why they will succeed. Do the people around them also believe this and do you trust their judgement? Does the company have a justifiable burn rate and is it on track to make sustainable money in a market that's not unreasonably small? Would you pay money for the product or do you feel your customers are being duped? If the answer to the above questions is yes then put value in your stock. If not then don't.
"The terrorists have won if [something silly happens in America]"

Not really.

It is political and military pressure on certain countries with high birth rates and weak economies that radicalizes young men - lift the foot from their neck and see them be as indifferent/slightly dismissive towards our lifestyle/religion like we are to theirs.

Airport/aircraft security seems to be part of a trend of law enforcement in the US: harsh punishments for minor crimes, "tough on crime", zero tolerance etc.

Sorry if I missed some sarcasm.
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My PC is under my table whereas my mouse and keyboard are at my fingertips.
courier delivery is another (not with micro uavs though!)

FedEx micro UAV delivery was in Vernor Vinge's 2004 short story Synthetic Serendipity[1] and set in the same universe as his 2006 novel Rainbows End.

"Jerry was looking upward, at the FedEx shipment falling toward his outstretched hands."

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/synthetic-serend...
I'm not sure if I agree with this.

1. There's nothing wrong in failing 2. Investors run a business - with a business, you have things that fail and things that succeed; they know that there is a probability of your startup failing and have gone through that multiple times

If your investors don't want to talk to you anymore just because your startup failed - you have shitty investors.

If they truly believe that you are solely responsible for the failure - they suck. It is their responsibility to help you succeed, and when you dont, be there for you and try to take responsibility for a small part of that failure.

I know it sucks to fail. When impending doom closes on you, you always feel like writing a 200 word rant essay on pastebin, but it is OK to fail and you will succeed. It's all a question of learning from this experience and moving on..
There have been rumors for years suggesting that these types of devices (unarmed) are already being used for domestic surveillance. It should be noted that a google search didn't reveal any solid proof beyond eyewitness accounts. http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/insectdrone.asp
Your data is a bit outdated, currently about 20% of the electricity produced in Estonia comes from renewable sources (biofuel, wind) and the figure is growing rapidly.

Plus the electric cars can only buy renewable energy, it would nullify the point of selling CO2 quotas if they used fossil fuel to produce that energy ;)
I can do things at the same time that don't require my attention, like driving on a known route, using an exercise bike, cooking, etc.

I can and will listen to music when I'm doing graphic design.

I prefer silence when I'm doing logical thinking that requires me to use my inner voice, like programming or writing prose. Although I recently found out that it helps when I'm listening to music while writing song lyrics, because it enables me to write from the gut instead of overthinking stuff.
I wish the flight attendants had of asked the guys next to me in Business to stop taking photos. A few of us had been upgraded and these guys next to me were so excited they took about 80 or so photos. Every. Single. One. With. The. Fucking. Flash.

Okay, I was a little annoyed. But the attendants weren't bothered... and the guys did settle after a while.

It wasn't anything to do with photo taking. You _don't_ say on a plane, "I'm not a terrorist". That's kind of dumb.

That said, he was perfectly entitled to take photos for personal use. So the photo taking wasn't really an issue.

There's more to this than the OPs mentioning perhaps.
Holy shit, this is really really awesome! I have so many awesome ideas in my head right now. Thank you!!! :D
And then you have a problem with unemployed aerospace engineers instead. Building a scientific and technological base in order to develop the country by necessity involves spending money on scientific and technological projects.
A bit like "The most terrifying robot video yet" after seeing the Transformers trailer.
also: http://www.multiplayerpiano.com/
So people think it's a bird or insect.
>...you'll get a more thorough check of your car (trunk and backseat), plus a more in-depth check of your car's plates and your ID - because you just made a seemingly unrelated statement about a horrible thing (kidnapping) when the cop pulled you over for something trivial (not obeying speed rules).

Not in a normal society.
Yes. Or the FA could have handled it with a bit more tact. Like this United agent, for example: http://asiangotswog.tumblr.com/post/43637405031/lolsofunny-a...
"Cool" is really subjective. I absolutely love the current design, it looks clean, simple, futuristic, and if they made it any more designer-ish I wouldn't like it as much.

I do not like any of these designs either:
http://www.warbyparker.com/men/optical
Am I alone in actually wanting a features checklist?

I know going in most people will try to insert superfluous "features" just to make their list longer than a competitor. However eventually their are tangible items you can use to compare. I'm not buying your brand, I want to know what I get for the money
> Perhaps this is just my opinion, but if you make a statement that you don't know to be true and assert it as a true statement, you have lied.

No, this is not correct. If the speaker doesn't know that a statement is false, the statement is not a lie. Lying requires knowledge that the remark is false and must include an intent to deceive.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie

Quote: "To lie is to deliver a false statement to another person which the speaking person knows is not the whole truth, intentionally."

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Lie

Quote: "1. A false statement deliberately presented as being true; a falsehood.

2. Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression."

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See the role of knowledge and intent?
Isn't taking photos in public place like a train station completely legal?
??? If I may risk the typical mind fallacy, most people don't think in words most of the time. Just like typing or writing can serve as structure or canvas, imagining words is for special circumstances. For planning to say or write (and sometimes suppressing). For remembering something you heard or read. For imagining interactions or temporarily believing in hypotheses. For prayer, if you're into that.

(I have known people who talk out loud often enough about whatever preoccupies them that I must assume that they're in-their-head doing the same thing much of the time, so these people do exist - I just question if they're most people).

I do find myself remembering things I've read, said, or heard, when they seem relevant. I have vast amounts of "knowledge" that's waiting to be connected to real life experience.

That said, I wouldn't put too much stock into anyone's description of what their whole brain is doing. Why would we know? I find it's sometimes best to just pause, stop trying to steer, and wait for my brain to come up with something, no pressure. Just whatever comes up in response to a question or puzzle in the next X seconds (pick a small amount of time and commit to not act at all until it passes seems best).
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Why do progress bars animate backwards?
The blogger who wrote this up as terrifying isn't really with the program. With a friend of mine building laser-guided mosquito zappers in her backyard, drones like these are relatively easy to deter. Of course it leads to an arms race, but maybe we'll eradicate those mid-summer bloodsuckers while we're at it.

Drone proliferation, military and civil, is unavoidable.
Can you give me a concrete example of delaying adulthood? Or explain to me how going to graduate school delays adulthood?
I've not looked into it. Do you know what the cause was?
Because it makes it look faster?
> the gaming market is growing overall.

False: http://business.time.com/2013/02/11/game-over-why-video-game...
I think they should have different versions. The existing one looks more to me like the "sport" version which is fine to me because I would totally use this while riding my bike in the big city. However I would probably not wear this kind of glasses while at a party so I guess a different style would be better for that case.
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The interpret the phrase as "your enemy".

The US and its allied forces presently have an overwhelming superiority in drone devices (airborne as well as land and sea based). Other parties are likely to catch up, even if only with more primitive devices and at smaller volumes of production, relatively quickly.

The scenario which becomes ... interesting ... is where all parties have access to technology of this type.

Criticisms of the US notwithstanding, the nation generally acts with some level of conscience and oversight. The same cannot be said of all adversaries. An Al Qaeda, North Korea, Iran, or African warlord with such weapons would likely have far fewer reservations in their use.

Even conventional RC aircraft, radio and GPS controls, and small explosives or other ordinance could be used to lethal effect.
[Sapir-Whorf](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity) is what you're thinking of. The case is usually dramatically overstated.

Clearly he's written a coherent comment. Language plays a role whether he knows it or not :)
It depends on the cost of developing weapons, the cost of countermeasures, the relative effectiveness of both, and target selection.

Shielding high-value targets from ultra-small drones would be relatively easy. For someone bent on terror or softer targets, it's harder, and the attacker need only succeed once (or a relatively small number of times).
Well I guess this is something of a stealth project for myself and I don't really want to link it right now. I hoped for ideas on where someone would start, totally from scratch to give me a fresh approach. If this approach is unwise or inappropriate for here then I apologise and shall leave it at that.
He was respectful when he stopped taking photos

But apparently the FA decided to lie and blow this out of proportion
Much dissonance in this discussion originates from equating the blogger's situation with the general traveller's. Making a scene increases his blog's visibility and has a decent chance of resulting in corrective action. For him, this may outweigh being late for Baku.

As Francis Fukuyama notes, "unlike money, which can simply be divided, dignity is something inherently uncompromisable: either you recognize my dignity, or the dignity of that which I hold sacred, or you do not" [1]. Trading immaterial dignity for getting to one's destination on time makes sense for most travellers.

That is, unless you are trying to make a statement. Fukuyama continues: "for democracy to work, however, citizens of democratic states must...develop a certain irrational thymotic pride in their political system and a way of life." If everyone optimised for their personal utility the aggregate situation would degrade.

There is a fine line between a prima donna and an activist. It is largely a function of the popular support for one's statement and the probability of it resulting in corrective behaviour.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/End-History-Last-Man-ebook/dp/B003DYGO...
Depending on the units you had at your disposal it needed a little practice or was really easy. A bunch of marines with medics (or hydralisks) for example just kill the interceptors quickly enough so carriers aren't a threat anymore. Goliaths worked very well with their range upgrade. Psi storms work wonders and don't even need to be targeted that accurately. There are plenty of cheap and easy options against carriers but I guess as usual with such high-level threats, you shouldn't let your opponent get to the point where they can employ them or at least stay informed on what they do so you can react accordingly.
So by this definition, the OP is a liar because he accused the FA of being intentionally deceptive? I assume he can't read her mind.

Anyway, this is all a bit too meta. It sounds like a huge misunderstanding and an awkward and somewhat confrontational social situation to me.
There's truth to these word, but it is also true that working for a big corporation can be soul crushing experience.
Do you want that he writes out the names of all the hookers he has killed during his "driving around"? Didn't think so.
There are a lot of things to like in Azure but performance isn't one of them. Disk IO is so dismal for VM's, we benchmarked against OrionVM and Zettagrid and the difference was about 10 to 1.
100+ looks like a typo. confluence's original post said 60+. This is common at startups, and there was more to point #6 anyway.

Aside from that typo, confluence's points closely match my perspective. Just rational risk management. Understand the system you're you're getting into, without illusions. drusenko rhetorically asked if this all makes him sociopathic. (That is, an ideal rational amoral self-interest.) Frankly, I think that's a type error -- he's not sociopathic, but his corporation probably is. And that's just plain institutional constraint; startups already have a huge failure rate, even when acting in that kind of rational way. I am not a sociopath, but my corporation overall acts like one. With my support. Otherwise we court extra chance of failure.
Kinda stupid and short-sighted, I think. The technology won't work the way it's shown, it's just not feasible. What happens when you send a thousand tiny bombs or guns into a city? How do you make sure that they don't end up accidentally killing civilians (through malfunction)? How do you make sure that you don't accidentally end up arming your enemy since they can be captured with a simple net? How do you handle MAV's being counteracted by other MAV's and anti-MAV systems? How do you manage the torrent of data from an MAV swarm?

This is just a half-assed fantasy.
Also, if English is not your first language, the word is pump, not bomb.
Plus paying for the service. In this case, the customer was wrong, shamed, inconvenienced, etc.