skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A number of folks have given you advise on what to do to keep the business going. But I would suggest sending out an email to your current customers, giving them a shut down date, and then shutting it down. It might sound harsh, but here's why:

You have learned a lot! You made a product, you launched it, you made a little money. That is a fantastic education. But remember not every "business" actually takes off and becomes a business. I have started and given up on a number of great ideas. It's ok to move on to the next idea.

In fact, sometimes it's best to move to the next idea right now. You are in a lull on this idea. It's not working out. It's not sustainable. It will take a significant amount of time to make it sustainable and honestly, will it make you happy? Do you love it? Are you passionate about it? If you are waffling on these at all, then move on and make something great.

I am reminded of a rather well known Angel investor that often tells a story of when she was young having an idea for a particular business. She worked on it night and day for 2 years and didn't make a dime. She was so disappointed as she had to take a part time job selling apartments in New York to make ends meet. Then she realized that this was her real business and passion. She killed off the first business, and made a killing in the second one.
I can't for the life of me figure out why the headline writer put the word 'slaves' in quotes.
You're forgetting the cost of being tied to a mortgage, in places where you can't just "walk away" from the property and have the debt released.
Yeh I really like Google's account section. They also do a nice monthly email report of your account activity.
That story about trying to encourage his wife to try the PC version reminds me very much of most experiences I have with or watching console gamers moving to the PC.

The complexity at times isn't worth it because it loses sight of what the purpose was, to have fun
I think we'll have to see how the campaigns play out, it might just get resonance with voters.
How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes
"parse-and-pray" is a problem that only exists in the imaginations of Windows programmers.
The same argument can be made about the OS itself.
The operative principle here is "three can keep a secret if two of them are dead". A secret can only stay secret if everyone who knows it is unanimous in the desire for keeping it.

Alice can keep her own secrets. If Alice sends a secret to Bob, she is now dependent on Bob's willingness to keep it. But if Bob wants to share Alice's secrets with Eve, there is no scheme possible that would allow Alice to tell Bob and not Eve.

The best Alice can possibly do is identify Bob as the person who told Eve the secret, and then visit him in the dead of night and beat the willingness out of him with a PEX tube full of sand.

And if Alice wants to do that, she has to use a watermarking scheme that is undetectable to both Bob and Eve, otherwise Bob can remove it before sending the secret on to Eve, or Eve can strip it out as she gets it from Bob. You see the problem, here, since the whole reason Alice is doing this is because she has some difficulty keeping secrets. She is essentially hiding a steganographic message to herself inside her message to Bob, such that if she can detect it in any message from Eve to anyone else, she knows to pay Bob an angry visit.

Alice's real problem is that she's an abusive, crazy, dramatic, jealous stalker, to the point where Bob would usually rather deal with the shady, disreputable Eve than with her. As a result, Alice's schemes are often the figurative equivalent of "Bob, unlock your phone so I can read your mail, texts, and tweets," and sometimes even literally that exact thing.
"Apple collects tons of user data..."

I gateway all my devices through one computer running a stripped down kernel. Through this host I monitor all attempted network connections. I block ads and of course this means I block Apple.

Apple devices are like beacons, attempting to contact a variety of Apple servers from the moment you turn them on and continuing to "phone home" incessantly 24/7 until you turn them off. That is only one example, but to me it is the most egregious.

Apple's competititors are no better. Do users really believe that one of these companies is going to protect them?

When the owner of a Chromecast plugs it in for the first time it tries to connect to Google to patch itself and prevent the owner from jailbreaking.

Perhaps my favourite was this patent application from Apple, with the CEO as a listed inventor.

http://www.google.com/patents/US20090265214

As for "providing advertisers with guided access to your eyeball" I believe that is what the App Store system does; it lets the app developers do the providing by embedding advertising into applications (cf. operating system, as in the above application).
Wouldn't the counter argument be that what the renter doesn't make in equity they would make in returns via stocks?
I think concurrency has nothing to do with doing things "at the same time". Concurrency is about overlapped execution, and you can very well have concurrency without parallelism.

It might be one of those terms in computer science that has multiple definitions.
Ran it on this(http://www.naturalnews.com/049944_vegetable_oil_omega-3_pest...) NN article and it's still processing 20 minutes later. I'd like to think it's breaking whatever scale is being applied to it, but it's most likely the connection speed in my office. :P
Swarm is a CRDT-based replicated model library (M of MVC)
> This was a really good read, although it did come off as a bit 'over positive' towards Elon & Tesla.

Well, Elon Musk is a very polarizing figure (for good and for bad reasons). I believe that he truly wants to save Earth and humanity, and that his ultimate motives are altruistic to the point of fanatism. Tim's article doesn't deal with the way he treats subordinates or his other character flaws, although I'm not sure whether the article would have been the right place for this criticism. What negative aspects of Elon and Tesla did you miss?

> Thanks for introducing me to waitbutwhy.com I like the concept but I've not seen it before.

Tim Urban is an incredibly insightful writer, and I'm really glad I found this website. His series on procrastination [1] helped my productivity immensely.

[1] starting here: http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastin...
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Backup like its 2015 (open source, raspberry pi)
Who here remembers ADN (App.net)? I think even towards the end, ADN had better metrics than this.

I like the premise of Ello, but it's metrics and user-engagement figures are not promising.
How about the generic but at least semi-informative

"We received your application as [JOBTITLE] and thank you for your interest in our company. After careful review of the applications for this position, we regret to inform you that we are considering other candidates which match the skills and qualifications of this position more closely. We will keep your application for the next 2 months should the position reopen, if you wish to oppose this please click this link."

That said I completely oppose OP's (satirical) template. If you want news, grab a phone and just make the call. If you can't get an answer after a reasonable time and an active research from your side, is it really a place you want to work at?
I interviewed at Google; they said they would give me a decision at some (soon) future point, and they did. They called me during work hours to do it... but they definitely did give me an explicit rejection.
React is saying it's V of MVC and this library is interesting. And it works with React too.
The biggest challenge we found in working with a globally dispersed team, is the time difference - between say, India/Thailand and the US. When it is working hours in one zone, it is bedtime in the other. How do you deal with that?
> Again, circling us back around to "different people like different things and that's OK".

Sure, there's always that. However, just commenting on game graphics for a moment, many people have a clear bias towards graphics that are strong aesthetically vs. those which are only technically impressive.

Consider, Sonic the Hedgehog was released in 1991. In my eyes, that game still looks good today, and I don't think that's purely nostalgia, I believe it has a striking, cohesive aesthetic style. Compare that with something like Doom 3, which was released about 10 years ago. Graphically, it's not awful, but it doesn't quite have the same timeless appeal.

Gameplay matters above everything else, but in terms of presentation the aesthetics are IMO more important than the strength of the graphics engine.
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Is this a good time to talk about the US prison labour system we have now? Where many are forced to work. I guess if you give them pennies on the dollar, they are not slaves right?

EDIT: Judging from the down votes, I guess it is not a good time. Maybe tomorrow?
Should we care if the human race goes extinct?
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>> If you're sharing/upvoting this because you think the web design is cool (or in this case, decidedely awful), then that's cool with me.

I think it's safe to assume that people are sharing it and upvoting it because they are Fallout fans who have been waiting for some word on the 4th title in the series. The website is sorta... well absolutely... not the point. I guess we all can't wait for the chance to open thousands of containers full of useless loot. I know I can't!
I disagree there. Just virtualizing means that you now have another machine that you have to audit, keep up to date, have disaster recovery procedures for, etc. Plus, if your potentially trivial app needs to run on multiple boxes, that just amplifies these costs.
> (Depending on area), current rents are in about the same ballpark as payments on a new mortgate,

Not in Toronto, which is like the whole point

> 1) mortgage payments stay approximately the same over the life of the mortgage, whereas rents just go up and up

Condo fees go up and up
My impression is that rejection letters are fairly common but they're almost universally in the form letter "no fit at this time. Will keep on file" vein.

Maybe some companies do more personalized responses but I've never seen it and I would think it would often be difficult. As with many other things, say picking talks for conferences, you're usually not so much rejecting as you're picking some other person or thing. And, yes, there are a lot of reasons the typical HR department would have issues with brutal honesty even aside from the effort it would take.
Exactly my thought! Many of these tools seem overlapping, and to keep these overlapping areas in sync doesn't sound like fun.
Also, as you mentioned, logging into multiple places all the time is sub-optimal.
From reading his NYT opinion piece, it sounds like he just wants the cost of a drug to be part of the treatment discussion - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/opinion/a-hospital-says-no...

It's difficult for most people to make rational decisions about cost and effectiveness when they're looking at a terminal cancer diagnosis. Doctors should be helping patients understand both the monetary costs of these drugs and the often nasty side-effects when telling them it has a X% higher survival rate.
No, I'm not saying software used by advisors HAS to be vetted. I'm saying that I don't know a single compliance officer that would green light a piece of software that provides any type of financial analysis, or recommendations to be used by their company as a whole without it being audited. Due to regulations, the risk is just too high. Now whether the individual advisors use it on their own is a different story. But the main issue there is that there are already an obnoxious number of channels, apps, systems that advisors have to use, the last thing most want to do is add another system into the mix, unless that system greatly simplifies things and integrates into their existing systems somehow, it probably isn't going to happen.

You're not offering advice, but you're offering the code which generates recommendations on position allocations. Any recommendation is considered 'advice' by FINRA and has to follow strict suitability requirements. Whether or not this would require any registration, licensing, etc on your part I have no idea, but it's definitely something I'd check into just to be safe. In general as long as you're not charging in some way for said advice there's no FINRA requirements, BUT that doesn't mean there wouldn't be any liability.

Every broker/dealer has their own management software/platform for client accounts, some more comprehensive than others. Though I don't know any of them that allow use by the general public, you have be be a registered rep of their firm to use them. The reason you don't see them publicly available is because of regulatory requirements regarding suitability for recommendations. Though companies like Fidelity and Schwab have some pretty in-depth tools for account management on their sites.
I'm pretty sure laziness would have more to do with not getting a proper rejection than the chance of triggering a lawsuit. If I'm applying to a small to medium sized business in my neck of the woods then nine times out of ten when I don't get a reply its because the hiring manager hasn't taken the time out of their week to get back to me.

When I applied to a local company the hiring manager kept emailing me about how he was "swamped" or some other variation of the word busy and would get back to me in the next few days. He did that for about two weeks before calling me and finding out I had accepted an offer somewhere else.

Heck when I applied to Google the recruiter (who contacted me first) took 5 months to get back to me after I sent in my CV and transcript, apologized profusely, and told me that the reason it took so long was because who ever was handling my case left abruptly without handing off the cases she was working on.

I know these are anecdotal but I have an extremely hard time believing that HR managers in the US are so worried about triggering a discrimination lawsuit that they choose inaction.

Very little, if anything, supports your claim. A quick search on the topic of why recruiters don't follow up with candidates reveals that the vast majority of people in the industry just have a really hard time with the hiring process. Its just plain broken.

Does your company not get back to candidates because they fear a discrimination lawsuit? Someone else's? I would love to know which companies' HR teams or recruiters have discrimination lawsuits at the top of their "things I'm really scared could happen if I reply to a job seeker" list.
Yes, every story should be made to be about the US. It's really the only place that matters.

Oh and FYI, slavery for punishment is legal in the US.
"A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that."
It sounds, based on the comments here, that both job seekers and employers can sometimes run into a frustrating lack of response (job seekers when they submit an application and never hear back; employers when they try to engage an applicant and never hear back).

I wonder if there might be a business opportunity here.

Suppose there were some way for both job applicants and employers to publicly commit themselves to offering at least a cursory reply (sort of how LinkedIn guarantees a response to each InMail, even if the response is just a boilerplate "Not interested").

If either party fails to respond within some designated timeframe, the penalty could be as simple as publicly noting the fact that they broke their commitment, which is likely to affect their trustworthiness.

This would be advantageous for both parties.

There might even be some decent money-making potential in being such a commitment clearinghouse. For instance, employers who participate might pay to have their jobs listed on the site, with the expectation that a "reply guaranteed" will be an effective way to bring in applicants.
too meta man, too meta.
Looks a lot like the Creation Engine from Skyrim to me. It looks good, but not as much of a leap graphically as I maybe expected given the shift in console generations. Hopefully that means they've concentrated their efforts on improving other areas like physics and quests.
No, this is not a good time to talk about the US prison labor system. If you have an interesting link about that topic, submit it and maybe it'll get upvoted. But don't just find a topic that's vaguely similar and hijack it.
Yes this is all I want.
I track all my applications and what stage I'm at with each company. It makes it incredibly difficult when they can't even be bothered to send me a generic rejection email.
On "Who is hiring", you can abstain from upvoting those companies where you had a negative experience (or even downvote them, if you feel that's justified).
They do. Broadband access in rural US is terrible [1].

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/rural-broadband-access-still-lacking-...
I don't think it will work, also because of self-interest (tragedy of the commons :)), but I'm sure they'll try.
No it's not, it's an insult.
"Squarespace trial accounts are not visible to the public. When you are ready to publish your website, upgrading your trial will make your site active to the world."
> I gateway all my devices through one computer running a stripped down kernel. Through this host I monitor all network connections. I block ads and of course this means I block Apple.

Do you do this always via a vpn or something or was it just to try it out?
This is funny, and probably very satisfying, but if you need to send this kind of email, you're doing it wrong. I get that other industries are different, but if you're looking for a job in the tech world, do your homework.

To (a small amount of) background research on companies that would fit with your situation. Find out what the open reqs are, and who the hiring manager is for each one. Pre-screen yourself by finding a req that you're qualified for and apply specifically for that job. Write a custom cover letter for each application, even if it's just an informal 4-line email. If possible, get a warm introduction.

If you do all that still don't get a quick response, move on without a second thought. You don't want to work for this company anyway.
The flood of negativity in this post made me sad for a bit, then I thought of kittens, and I was happy again
The entire premise of Portal is based on the ability to use 3D rendering technology to create the effect of opening up portals between surfaces. I don't think anyone would argue that Portal is a shallow tech demo. Narbacular Drop maybe was a shallow tech demo, but that same tech-based premise, when used by a masterful game design team, created one of the best video games of all time.

Likewise, the entire premise of Minecraft depends purely on the simplicity of a voxel-based world - a technique for defining a procedurally-generatable, deformable landscape. Maybe Minecraft is only a tech demo or an interactive experience, but... it's a damned successful one.
Thanks for the feedback! The dashed border was a really good suggestion. I like white better than 'transparent', though.
Interix did this, and then they were shelved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix
> Condo fees go up and up

Indeed. As a building ages, you can be assured that the condo fee will go up with inflation.
> Toyama believes it’s foolish to think education is about having content available to study. [...] "we have fed it to them online possibly through some fancy interactive graphic"

It's hard to tell whether the author is engaging heavily in quote-out-of-context or whether Kentaro is truly just amazingly narrow-minded.

Of course having online-access is not a panacea. How useful it is to any given person depends on what kind of person that person is in the first place.

However, to those people who would go to a library and dig through books to learn knowledge, who would try and gain some knowledge before making a decision, the internet works as a massive force multiplier just by providing basic access to text. I can say this because i grew up in the depths of eastern germany, in the poorest part of the country, and having only minimal resources available to me for the first 15 years of my life, and then moving over the course of a few short years when the wall fell to being able to rely on the internet to provide reliable information on all manner of subjects ranging from simple things like gardening to personal health.

Frankly, the way people who grew up in the lap of luxury try to disparage the internet disgusts me.
The Violent Land - Would certainly recommend it for a non-technical read.
Do they store video chats?
I once worked for a company that was sunk by a microservice-first architecture. The "architect" in charge was a big Fowler fan who would quote him to justify every decision. Every developer knew the architecture was wrong (and many said so - but the architect had the authority to overrule them, which is maybe the real problem).

I guess it's good to finally see some acknowledgement, but this is too late for that particular organization. Beware of hyped architecture bandwagons?
"Thank you for your application, unfortunately the position has been filled."

That doesn't say anything that can be misconstrued as discriminatory hiring.

Sadly as an employer you are sometimes rewarded for being considerate with an argumentative or nasty reply.
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As long as the renter is investing the money that would've been property equity in the stock market.
Well, not chattel slavery, which is what Americans usually mean by the term.

The prison can't sell prisoners like you could sell a car or something.
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And how do they automatically detect the criminal wrongdoing being committed by that car or its occupants? That is the part I don't get. Yes if they decide to look for John Smith, License plate 1AMJ0HN, then they can probably automatically find his car in that footage, and they can watch that footage to see what he was up to. But watching that footage and figuring out if he did anything they can prosecute him for is not a simple task for any computer algorithm I can think of, and would require time to do manually. And with out doing it in an automated manner they can't possibly do this for 'everyone' which means they have to have reason to already suspect the people they do choose.

I see absolutely no way that bringing up the existence of license plate scanners created a situation where there was no slippery slope.

Also the recorded video collection grows to be a ridiculously large amount of data over time, even detecting all video of John Smith's car across the United States will become an expensive task to complete computationally. And for everyone? Well even more expensive.

Add on the concept that camera's will not be covering all of the United States at times, and if you are just using make, model, and color of cars to track people between license plate readers shell games where similar cars rearrange them selves in tunnels or garages will become extremely effective at defeating surveillance if license plate readers are not basically everywhere.

So in spite of you deciding to bring up license plate readers, and explain how they can be used to assist in tracking with airborne surveillance I still fail to see the relevance of how they ensure that 'everyone' will be monitored.
Just enter the Captcha. Sorry about that
Nowadays at least you can see videos on youtube about the game. In the old days with the magazines you only could see the screenshots (with a real camera in front the monitor/TV) and trust the author of the review.
Mobile Jazz? Is that like radio on the internet?