skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I've been guilty of advocating for Rails for nearly every task when I first started out but it seems much more prevalent in the beginners node community. The fact about the SQL vs NoSQL thing seems to be a controversial one, but I think SQL databases provide a good set of tools of all the concepts that are needed to create a working data store. Primary keys, foreign keys, ACID compliance, etc. The fact that they are absent from NoSQL just means you, as a developer has to implement it yourself.
Keep reading. The article doesn't even come close to endorsing the people interviewed, and if you read between the lines it's pretty clear the author thinks they're all nuts.
Not necessarily. Cost of users isn't linear with count of users and while it might go down as your userbase grows, you might not have the finances yet to handle that growth.

You can't just "be ready to host a 100 million users, tomorrow" in the early stages of your business.
Nope, restaurants means restaurants. Apologies for not being clear. The food service places were throwing out lots of compostable food in their regular waste so the city made composting mandatory for all customers of Seattle Public Utilities, residents and restaurants alike.

If the compost container kept in the house has a lid with a charcoal filter on it, there's very little to no smell. The small container gets emptied into the big container once every couple of days. As for the bags, I have to buy trash bags, so I buy mostly trash bags and some compost bags. Everybody sells them and they're in a bazillion different sizes (moreso than regular trash bags). I actually buy the tall ones to serve as liners for my compost bin that sits outside--so I don't have to hose it out--and then smaller ones to go in the compost container inside. That way everything stays clean with little fuss.
It was probably to catch the reader's eye - 500 proxies wouldn't have jumped out quite as much (to me, at least). Also, had they omitted the number altogether, the headline would be making a much more radical (and possibly incorrect) claim.
It's a marketing channel. You pay real costs to provision and support free users so that some of them will become paid users.

It only works if there is a high enough proportion of conversions to paid.
Hack disrupted flight plan generation = no new flights.
LOT spokesperson stated during radio interview they turned off internal network responsible for flight plan generation when they realized it was compromised by a hacker, so it wasnt even a hacker directly DOSing their operations.
I don't have a problem with it. I send a mocked time to the application under test using libfaketime using this: http://hitchtest.com

Et voila, no more time issues.
Those would all fit under the first point of relying on word of mouth.
Hey Iris, if by chance you read this I just want you to know you should never be ashamed to be who you are, that there is hope in this life and that you are worthwhile. I am sorry things are so terrible and that you feel so bad. Thanks for being willing to be so open about it in public; honesty about the bad parts of our personal lives in public always takes courage. If you need somebody to talk to I am sure there are plenty of people here, but please feel to reach out to me,
too.
That's a nice starter project. There are lots of "turn your PC into an oscilloscope" USB devices, starting around $50 for a 200KHz sampling rate.[1] For $269, you can get a 2GHz sampling rate.[2] It's hard to justify getting a dedicated scope any more, unless you need something exotic.

[1] https://www.bananarobotics.com/shop/Educational-PC-Oscillosc...
[2] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9263
Yes, I really enjoy having my variables randomly swap between boolean, integer and float.
I found it a little off-putting, because Apple does provide free iPhones to celebrities. They're included in gift bags and freebie tents at most of the events they attend, or often just mailed to them directly free of charge, or sent with a check in exchange for a tweet, etc.

Taylor Swift has probably personally received more than a dozen free iPhones. Even lesser-known celebrities receive multiple copies of all the latest electronics, and just regift them because they have so many.

When she wanted to upgrade to the 6, she most likely did not go to the store and pay for it.

Celebrities that big just receive free stuff shipped to their front door all the time. TVs, electronics, clothes, jewelry, luxury brands.
It's been tried repeatedly without the browser makers' cooperation. It would be nice. The best I saw (for your entertainment) was the Juice [1] project that replaced Java applets (potentially Javascript) with Oberon. Leveraged fact that Oberon is a safe, compiles fast, runs fast, type of language. Combining that with good interface protection between it and the browser plus isolation would get us way more efficient web apps. Possibly more secure, too.

[1] http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt69.htm
If you don't have a contingency plan for how you will handle - operationally, financially, infrastructure-perspective, monetization - user scaling at speed, then not only is your business a charity, it's a hobby, too.

If there are credible signs you will acquire 100m users tomorrow, and you can't walk in to a VC and walk out with a big chunk of money for a small amount of equity, it means you don't have a real business plan.

Additionally, I would be interested in any examples you have of companies acquiring 100m users overnight, or anything within two orders of magnitude of that.
I understand your point of view.

I see asm.js and wasm as an evolution path. The same idea as JVM bytecode but twenty year after.

It can provide the cross-platform and ubiquity advantages to most of existing projects and languages.
> It only works if there is a high enough proportion of
> conversions to paid.

That is additionally what makes it a viable business. Loss-leaders are nothing new, in any industry, despite the cute name of "freemium".
pg said: "We've now funded so many different types of founders that we have enough data to see patterns, and there seems to be no benefit from working for a big company."

I assume he's funding companies in the States? One of the bigger advantages of working for a large(r) company is health insurance. Or do all of Y Combinator's startups have good health insurance?

And as others have written, things involving "stuff" tend to need to scale. This might not be a problem in that pg might be confining his remarks to software startups, not things like engineering or science companies?

The odd thing, is that many bloggers have written that while it's great to do a startup, it's crap to work for one. So if it's crap to work for a startup AND for a larger company, I guess everything will be done in groups of 2-4 people?!
Also note that DNS lookups do not go through a SOCKS proxy, which leaves a huge surface of attack and monitoring.
I have no idea what this is about, but her Twitter feed looks like it may be a better place to watch for any updates: https://mobile.twitter.com/IrisClasson?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogl...
> developers do not know that they mustn't call
> datetime.now()

Plenty of languages where it's easy to mock the equivalent to that call.
If you're hosted on AWS by chance, check out their "CloudWatch" services. Monitors everything I usually need, sends alerts as-needed, etc.
Hamming, “You and Your Research” (June 6, 1995)
On the subject of amusing names, since this one looks so similar to "ascii enema", wouldn't yours be the "titty player"? :-)
Yes, but they weren't a gaming company when YC invested.
HOLY SHIT. You changed my life.

Note: you must drag straight down, if you veer left or right it wont work.
If you read what I wrote a little more carefully, you will see that I already understood that.
That's the thing about "exposure" though.
You have no control over it.
You can't plan for it.
You are missing the point. 100 million was just a number. The corpses of businesses that scaled past their ability to serve their customers are real.

But part of your argument has merit: it's the same reason that "exposure" doesn't create album sales. There's no real chance (really, there isn't) that you have a product that will reach 100m people tomorrow, so you shouldn't be producing music as if you would.
From her Twitter:

>Iris is under medical care and observation at the hospital and will be so for a while. Thank you for your best wishes and concerns

>She is breathing on her own, partly conscious, able to hold down some food. There is significant organ damage. Will keep posted

Written by a third party. Yikes. Hoping for the best.
Speaking of `git-stash` I've always thought of `git-stash` as a less featureful version of `git-branch stash`
Because you had to use a Dictionary I had to use a Thesaurus? :)
This is a good point. There's an actual bottom in the race to the bottom. Past that point, nothing will get attention.
I just watched it. I heard pretty much the same aspirations since the 1980s. See https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/section2_82_2.html for when AutoDesk looked at entering this field.

At 15:56 the speaker says "Synthetic chemists normally they design things with plastic model sets."

This just isn't true, and hasn't been for a very long time. At 17:54 he even says there's GUI-based software now to design molecules. That's what most chemists use.

My experience is that it doesn't take 20 minutes to draw a molecule using the current generation of tools. In fact, you can try it now - go to http://web.chemdoodle.com/demos/sketcher or https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/edit2/index.html or http://scitouch.net/ketcher-demo/ketcher.html and draw one yourself. (This is for small molecule chemistry. For large molecule chemistry, there are other tools and other issues to worry about.)

In minute 23 he talks about computing the second derivative of the force fields, and how complex it is. Thing is, my co-worker did that manually when he wrote the original NAMD implementation. (NAMD is a molecular dynamic program.) So it's not something that's all that hard to compute. It's just tedious. (And his code is 10% slower than the hand-written code, so he knows that people do this sort of thing manually.)

While it's useful to have automatic code generators if you want to add new force fields often, we just don't do it all that often, because parameterizing the force field is the hard problem, not computing the second derivative.

At 31:25 he says that SciPy is only really possible because of Boost.Python. This isn't true. I just downloaded scipy-0.16.0b2 and verified that it does not use Boost.Python. ("ag -i BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE" finds no matches.)

At 49:30 he talks about a technique that sounds like pharmacophore models, which have been around since at least the 1990s. There are tools that will build molecules to fit pharmacophore models.

What I didn't see was anything about dealing with waters, and counter-ions, toxicity, or AMDE (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion) issues.

I didn't hear anything which required multiple years of tool building ("yak shaving") to get to what he wanted. Every technique he mentioned is something that people have been doing already, in C/C++/Python.
Site down, here is cache: https://archive.is/TTR4f
Start up VMD and see my name in the credits. :)
Ever tried to pin something on github.com? All the major browsers have disabled bookmarklets that conflict with content security policies.
The DOM is going to be the first thing to go if WebAssembly actually takes off.

It's simply not a suitable performant model for a GUI event/render tree.
There's no potential rewriting of history before they merge your pull request, only a series of unaccepted draft commits. :)
... yet the bug count keeps rising.
From the preamble of the page you linked:

> In fact, regular expression culture is a mess, and I share some of the blame for making it that way. Since my mother always told me to clean up my own messes, I suppose I'll have to do just that.

So Larry aimed to do better in Perl 6. Do you think he is as good at solving problems as he is at identifying them -- or more specifically, what do you think of the "Rules" system[1] he came up with for Perl 6?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6_rules
It is a common simplification of Euclid's proof to convert it to a proof by contradiction. In fact, I believe I was taught this version of the proof in an early undergraduate math class. This version is not constructive, actually the first example of the wikipedia article on constructive proofs points this out:

Euclid's proof is constructive. But a common way of simplifying Euclid's proof postulates that, contrary to the assertion in the theorem, there are only a finite number of them, in which case there is a largest one, denoted n. Then consider the number n! + 1 (1 + the product of the first n numbers). Either this number is prime, or all of its prime factors are greater than n. Without establishing a specific prime number, this proves that one exists that is greater than n, contrary to the original postulate.
> If they get evacuated from a disaster zone they get charged for the costs. And as everything the US Gov does is horrendously price inflated, there are cases of people getting "rescued" and then wishing they'd been left behind after being served with massive bills.

Citation please? The only thing I've ever heard of even remotely close to this ate the occasional local search and rescue operations that are caused by poor judgement. That has nothing at all to do with the U.S. government.

The next time there's a disaster in almost any country - look around. That's a U.S. Navy carrier providing electricity for emergency relief. Those are U.S. Marines distributing rice, ponchos, and water. Those are U.S. Navy Corpsmen delivering first aid to the wounded.

As bad as people like to make this country out to be, we are the first ones there with the biggest shovel any time another country needs to be dug out.
Users rarely get a choice when vendors decide to switch to rent-seeking licensing models, so where is it that they seem to prefer it?
In theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice they are not.
> You can't plan for it.

Sounds like a good way to get sued by your investors.

> The corpses of businesses that scaled past their ability
> to serve their customers are real.

Turns out that a Rails App + someone calling themselves a "Serial Startup CEO" on LinkedIn don't necessarily equate to a business.
I believe these are called "bookmarks."
LinkedIn is a site where recruiters can contact you (for a fee, through LinkedIn) disguised as a professional social networking site.
I think now it is time for Slack to make a "paradigm shift". It seems Slack, like GitHub, is filling a place that was reserved to free open source offerings in the past (e-mail, IRC, newsgroups, etc) so they need to expand their freemium features.
Can someone explain what is going on here? Database connection error.
Cached version here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
$5/mo for an IRC client? That's just silly.

Geek cultured called -- they want their technology back. Apparently startup culture has corrupted our industry to a degree that people think $5/mo for a hosted IRC client is a fair exchange of value.
I'll add to your comment that light sensitivity in general is a known issue with many people (eg autistics). They actually feel pain from seeing lights that are too bright including lots of sunlight or artificial light. So, one or more of these people might have this condition.
Not to diminish Matthias' amazing abilities, but only to highlight the challenges that go into making anything out of wood: plywood, isn't really wood per se. If you built things out of wood you'd have to worry about grain direction, because cross-grain strength in wood is very low. This adds a whole another level of complexity to the engineering process.
It's more than 18-30 year olds don't have fixed preferences yet. Most 18-30 year olds are discovering "their favorite" beer, brand of car, toothpaste, etc. Most 60 year olds, even though they have more disposable income, have more established brand preference. Hence, it makes more sense to market to the younger people, even if the older people actually spend more. The genius thing is to have a ladder of products and bring people in at the bottom -- say, a cheap Yaris or Echo to start, and then they move "naturally" upmarket as those cars themselves move upmarket (remember when the Corolla was a low end car? Now there are several models below it, if you include Scion, for new buyers). People also tend to move upmarket within the same brand, say up to a Camry, Avalon, Highlander, or even a Lexus.

(Obviously this varies by product/market, but generally for most consumer purchases it is valid.)
Slack's "sticker shock" is pretty big. I'm not sure if it's autodetecting and giving me Australian dollars in it's pricing, but in the first paid band it's showing me $6.67/user/mo for annual (who knows how many users a small team will have in a year?) or $8/user/mo for month-to-month (the usual pricing). $8/user/month for chat. And it's double that to get business-level SLAs. With 25 users in the account, including external teams and contractors, that would mean we're paying $200/month ($400 for business SLAs). Per month. For chat. Crazy.

And slackbot keeps on claiming any "thank you" that someone says, even if specified @someone, the greedy little bugger.
With many freemium services capping free accounts at single-digit numbers of users, "no limit" is a reasonable way to let people know that they can stop looking for the catch. It would be more confusing if they said "up to 5,000" users, which sends the wrong message about who their service is targeting.

Everyone understands that "unlimited breadsticks" implicitly means "lots and lots but not infinitely many"
Looks like the site is erroring out; here's a screenshot copy: http://imgur.com/a/eCpv8
They also record the amount of time spent on each page and use that to predict the total reading time remaining.

Privacy issues aside, there are a number of really amazing tools Amazon could provide authors/editors/publishers if they were willing to share this data with them. The ability to pinpoint where readers either skip ahead or pick up the pace would offer editors a remarkable glimpse inside how readers approach a given story. It'd be even more useful if those insights could then be applied to help with editing unpublished manuscripts in the future. Compared to the present, where editors are forced to make what are often judgment calls on plotting, having hard data to look at would be a remarkable benefit.
I don't understand your statement.

Mass transit is a different issue. A good mass transit, which holds to a schedule, does not have the same built-in variability that an "everyone is an Uber driver" scheme has.

My ferry example, for example, is mass transit. If I live in the countryside, and have an hourly bus or even twice daily bus, then that's both a maximum time to wait, and a schedule I can plan on, while Uber for that case will be highly variable and therefore difficult to plan around.

Other issues are only specific to the Uber case. If there are no personal vehicles then there's no need to worry about teen drivers with a sunset driving curfew or people with a restraining order who are nevertheless obligated to pick up a passenger.

I am hard pressed to think of a future where "society might no have a choice", but where your proposal makes any sense.
Netflix porn hack?
So I went into Netflix on my iPad a few hours ago and I noticed there was a new account entitled "Lol". I had never seen that profile so I clicked on it to see what it was. When I opened it up, there was porn videos instead of shows or movies. It was all in the correct format that Netflix shows would show up in. I did a bit of research and found out the ip and it was from one of my neighbors. How did he do this? Has this happened to anybody else? I deleted the profile and changed my password, but is that enough to stop it for at least a little while?
Yeah maybe a button to "View Transcript"
Here are my simple thoughts.

If an entity pays for an Apple product or service in the US, Apple has earned an income. This income is without doubt subject to taxes in the US. As far as I know Apple does pay US taxes on these monies. Do we agree this far?

I don't see why we can fault Apple for not repatriating income it earned abroad. They can do as they please with it as long as they don't bring it back in the US. I'm not saying they shouldn't pay a tax if/when they bring it back. I am just saying we should not demonize them for not bringing it back.
> There are a huge number of people who like js

Are you sure that it's not some sort of stockholm syndrome? Or a case of plato's cave?
I'd be interested in getting paid by usage rather than once upfront. And if a free trial period let people get on board that would be fine with me.

I have an app that is "expensive" ($15) but I have dedicated users who paid once four years ago and continue to use the app today. All the major updates since have been free. While I don't know whether the pay-by-usage model would be financially better for me, I'd be pretty open minded about it and wouldn't mind the free trial.
Cut'n'pasting a perfectly relevant answer (that gives reasons to use both stacks) from a previous question is hardly 'an agenda'.
In Perl 6 the regex character escaping rule is:

> Alphanumeric characters and the underscore _ are literal matches. All other characters must either be escaped with a backslash (for example \: to match a colon), or included in quotes.

From http://doc.perl6.org/language/regexes
hey Bartqk, I'm working on something I think you might be interested in, but I can't find your email in your profile. Would love to chat. My email is cammarata.nick@gmail.com
Even with the text, I've no idea. I flagged it cause it seems to be drama that doesn't directly concern us. If she wanted to say what it was (drugs, accidental serious STD, unaware of serious mental illness), she could have. Otherwise this is gossipy IMO. (If you know details, you can talk to other people that know; not publish it for everyone.)

If I'm wrong to flag such a thing, tell me.

That said: unless this kills her or damages her brain, it's unlikely MVP and other stuff are going to be a problem. It's unlikely her career is over. People forgive, forget, or decide it's not relevant. Or give second chances. Books/courses get missed all the time for all reasons. Stuff happens. You get better (if), then slowly build stuff up again.
Science Exchange (YC S11) Sequencing the Extinct Moa Genome
made me think about those old BMG (i think it was) music clubs were you could purchase 12 CDs for 3 cents, and all you had to do is buy x amount of CDs per year. Wonder if the artist got paid for those.
I strongly dislike the "it's not about equality it's about good business" trope, as well intentioned as it may be. There is nothing wrong with wanting to create an equal just, and fair world without regard to the impact of those things on the bottom line.
Scalable chat itself has been solved, but the features the GP wanted were not part of that solution. For example "post links" means you now have to add an external service - that's not a "solved" feature. Likewise, screen/tmux is not a solution for non-techies like the stereotypical 'marketing guy'. Most people don't even know what a terminal is.