skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your great feedback,

Seems Netflix is a big concern for a lot of people here. Since I am a subscriber to Netflix too, I think my first action is to unsubscribe soon to help us. Just kidding.

Netflix has some flaws too. And we intend to exploit them :) , let the fight begin
So much of what the House is trying to do here could be accomplished by making the FDA actually make some real guidelines and stick to them.

Like you say, deciding whether not change X is a memo to file, a special, abbreviated, or full 510(k) is pretty much black magic because of how vague FDA is, so it basically comes down what your Regulatory VP is willing to live with, politically, inside the company.

"The specific issue here is that the vagueness and lack of guidance severely penalizes small players. Larger players both have the experience and connections to navigate the rules, and also have the financial resources to absorb the losses when they gamble and lose."

I think the latter part of your larger players argument is most valid: it's not so much that the big guys have people in FDA who can give them informal reads, though that's true. It's that the big guys can take the hit of another year of delay when something doesn't go their way.
Is it really? Maybe he would be producing much better work if he were to focus. We don't really have the information to judge.
This mission was launched 9 years ago. I'm surprised it even had 40GB of storage space.

Mars gets within 0.3 AU of the Earth when the orbits line up. Pluto is at best 29 AU away. That's almost 100x harder, and it's amazing it took only 40 years.
If they play it smart Uber will never die, but I've seen lots of companies fail because a competitor showed up and forced them into a vicious cycle of cutting quality to keep profits up, which drove out customers, etc.

If the good drivers stop working for Uber because Uber is squeezing them, for example, Uber may get a reputation for having poor drivers.
The speech itself was recorded May 15, but the recording is now publicly available because the radio broadcast went out: this is why it's posted now.
Their patents, yes. That's just the beginning.

Now all that one needs to do is to poach their battery engineers. And build their own factories. And iron out the kinks.

It's not like a competitor will be able to get their tech and beat them at their own game overnight - while delivering a cheaper product!
I was honestly trying to be helpful, and was definitely not making a snide remark. Sure, people wondering if this is node running on .Net might click and discover they were wrong, and all is fine.

But if his project from name alone is perceived as being related to .NET, he may not reach out to the full audience of web-developers he may be aiming for. And that's a net loss for him.

If there's a time to reconsider the name, it's now before it gets bigger and more "known". I mean the repo only has around 10 commits at this point :)
AirBnB's that business now. They used to claim they were only a matchmaking service and any risks were to be worked out between the homeowner and renter, but after some really bad publicity c. 2011, they've really doubled-down on customer service and insurance. Everyone I've known whose had a bad experience with AirBnB lately has had it turned into a good experience.
Your statement seems to be a bit self-contradictory, or else I've read it wrong. So you agree that the status-quo is bad, but you think that almost anything else would be worse?

I notice in another reply ITT you stated that you were once employed in engineering medical devices and left that line of work because of the "horrible environment". That's another anecdote I'd use to support my opinion.
> It's easier to expand downwards

Lots of business research says this is not true, and in fact, the opposite. This is why VW is the world's most popular car maker, and not Porsche.
I think he means "product" as in the "dynamic product" we have today with TVs/laptops/iOS/Android etc.
Reminds me of a short story written in 1914 by Franz Kafka called "In the Penal Colony"[1]. It's very much worth a read,
an English translation is available at [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Penal_Colony

[2] http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/kafka/inthepenalcolony.htm

SPOILER:

In the story the condemned prisoners aren't told their sentence. There is a elaborate machine - described in much detail - that carves the sentence into the skin of the convict. The machine works (or used to work) in such precision, that after exactly 24 hours an epiphany about the misdeed and death occur simultaneously.
Sold. So what are the chances that we get PC architecture like this someday? Do you think it may sneak in the backdoor through graphics card manufacturers? Games seem like a huge application.
> standardizing how this information is presented

They could give them actual money. That seems to solve the problem neatly.
60 product mockups and a legit store in 3 min
How can they raise $40m and fail so quickly? How did they burn through that much cash? I hope they actually explain why they failed so others can learn from it.
Interesting considering Google Ventures was an investor in 2 rounds
Linear Algebra for Data Scientists
> The GTR is 2.9 seconds, so the tesla is faster- Its also faster in the 1/4 mile as well, so this is kind of a big deal.

Not until the Tesla goes around the Nurburgring in the same fashion the GTR did.[1][2]

[1] http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/best-cars/86123/fastest-nurburg...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_Nords...
One could argue that much of government regulation came about because of massive information asymmetry. In the age of the Internet it is much harder to peddle snake oil cures (though not impossible, certainly, look at anti-vaxxers) than it was in the early 20th century.
Quantum information is indeed a new field. Yet, I wouldn't compare it with 20s or 70s. In the last 20 years there was hardly any paradigm shift in that matter (don't be fooled by poor science reporting/popularizing or scientist overadvertising their results, in search for fame and grants).

And for example, when I as attending conferences in quantum information (my PhD field), people were constantly lowering their expectations and making predictions more humble; much more "10 years ago we said it would be in 10 years; now we can say the same".

I don't claim that there is no progress. Just that is depressingly slow comparing to the frontier fields of science in engineering. (If it were fast, believe me, I would have stayed in physics.) Of course, future may be different, but who knows...

Compare it with e.g. DNA sequencing, where costs went down quite a few orders of magnitude in the last decade. Or image recognition, where in the last decade things though to be extremely hard (because of problems in 70s) like face recognition, image recognition etc - are now standard techniques.
This is like saying that the Formula 1, exists for nothing. This is the way to test all the engineering efforts, it also leaves that knowledge in the company for future and further improvements, which directly influences the design and execution of the Model 3.

But I have to agree that waiting for an affordable Tesla car is getting anoying, and they do need to create an income stream from a lower priced model for creating a sustainable company, and take advantage of the wow factor that still surrounds Tesla and evertything they make.

But they have also innovated in other areas like the house batteries, which for me was a surprise (for me it seems odd that Tesla makes batteries for the average household) but they are generating other income streams, so it seems that Teslas agenda is not only the Model 3.
Not sure about the P85D specifically but the regular 85 KWh battery pack fuse[0] is $272 (min order 3) from Digi-Key [1]

[0] http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/37023-P85D-Pow...

[1] http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/170M4416/170M4416-N...
Half empty? We put a drop of water in the glass! :-)

Don't worry someone is working on making space flight cheap. In 20 years, the drone craze will go interplanetary. Gonna fund my Kickstarter?
Any good C++ codebases?
Upload an image and see for yourself and let us know what you think. Looking for feedback and partners.

This is the first place for us to announce and pos about the app, which has been in development for a couple years.

Our processing technology is proprietary and runs in the cloud using virtualization.

Much appreciated and we will be responding to any questions asap.
I think you're off on most of your points. Obviously the startups are not using undocumented workers. The risks are far too high. Gross margins are more like 20%, which is plenty to operate such a business. Not sure how it's indentured servitude compared to any other sort of job. Not sure your point about background checks. Supply & demand works out the numbers.
The sub-two-second club is pretty slim. Zeroto60times.com has a pretty comprehensive list:

http://www.zeroto60times.com/2-second-cars-0-60-mph-times/

The Tesla is the only sedan on the list. The majority of the cars are mid/rear engine super cars or track-day cars that you wouldn't care to drive every day. Any way you slice it, this is remarkable company.
Show HN: I opensourced my UI library for building web apps
I turned down a recent offer from a startup aftet being offered x-thousand shares of common stock because they wouldn't give me any details about what other investors had priority shares over that among other basic questions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-based_pricing
> My personal rule of thumb right now is that the odds of getting equity that's worth a damn if I'm not a co-founder would typically not be worth it, so I make decisions based on the rest of the compensation package.

This is, for most employees, the correct approach. The reality is that most of the information you might ask for and be provided is usually going to be of limited value and for a limited period of time unless you happen to join the company right before its final financing or an exit. Put more simply, equity structure is typically not static.

If you join a company in part because you like the equity structure at Series A, you have no guarantee that the equity structure will be as appealing to you after the Series B or C.
What your parent might be talking about is the distinction between a product that is continually supported by the creator (such as a hardware device with software that can be updated) and an artefact that is produced and then effectively forgotten about by the creator (though there might exist a first- or third-party market for repair and maintenance).

I have a feeling that many auto manufacturers still think more in terms of artefacts than in terms of products (like many corporations used to treat software).
Hey since i use a lot pinterest too, and I am a man too, and French, here is my favourite board : https://fr.pinterest.com/ludobos/t-as-pas-du-sel-/

We don't intend to be "Netflix for blacks" or "Netflix for African people only" too, that's a bizarre idea to me, in fact.
We have some quality movies in our catalog, and we hope to make it discover to all of you people :)
That game is called Fluxx. A part of the game is that you can play cards that change the rules. So people draw cards and work on strategies that inevitably change before they can be finished. Eventually someone looks at the board and realizes that they've won. Usually completely by accident.

Personally I hate it, but there are plenty of people who like it too.
I fell for FOMO once. Never again.
Email is not entirely sender-initiated. The sender must know the email address of the receiver, and that step -- getting to know the email address of the receiver -- is not supported in the protocol itself.

In other words, email is not "near-universal" and entirely open, because the receiver must give you his email address, by means of which he is consenting to receive your emails.

---

In any protocol where the message stayed at the sender's server and could be fetched by an authorized potential receiver (such as the one I linked to, with variations introduced by my imagination) there could be ways to quickly "get" one's email address, like today we do by reading the address itself.

For example, instead of showing a written email address in his website, one could show a link to third-party identification/message-request authority which would be in charge of filtering these things and letting the potential receiver choose what he would want to receive. This introduces the problem of spam again, but at least it is outside of the main protocol, and the protocol could live without it.

Another solution, now thinking specifically about the "streams" (see my previous link) protocol, is that each person willing to accept email from new people could open public streams -- and yes, they would be subjected to spam, but since the receiver would have absolute control of that stream and what does its server does with the messages, it could enforce a strict format (for example, every message could only be "let me talk to you, add my stream at ____"), and it could change its address from time to time. The customizability of the thing would be its main feature, since no spammer machine would be able to go into all these personal standards.

Also, having a public communication channel that is restricted to messages that say "I want to talk to you" is going to totally inhibit spammer behavior. No spammer will spend time trying to get people to talk to him. It will filter out machines and let only people.

In any way, the social introduction, as you called it, can exist, and does not have to be supported by the protocol (although, like in my second example, it could be done though the protocol). Supporting it as a feature of the protocol would only make it more automatable and easy for spammers.

---

I've just came up with these ideas while writing, so there are probably a lot of problems, but the main point was that there is always a pre-protocol social introduction, and that can be bad or good depending on how things work. Probably with email it was good to just give your address to everybody on the internet some years ago, but now just by writing it in a post you're going to be massively spammed.
You're correct but I think he is more on your side than not.

Where you want to lay claim to 'capitalism' as meaning 'free markets' I believe he chooses to relegate the term 'capitalism' to the sort of crony-stroking global corporate fascism that has evolved instead of free markets. I've often thought that free market advocates should just give up on claiming the "real" meaning of the term capitalism and just invent a new word that can't be conflated as easily.

That said, I'm not sure what to think about this gentleman's article and conclusions. It seems he is able to identify things that actually ARE real problems... however my initial reaction to what he describes as 'postcapitalism' is to be skeptical and to suspect that he may have an agenda. His rhetoric is notably light on actual details, however it has a subtle yet distinct flavor of forced redistribution that leaves an unpleasant taste.
Google’s New, Simplified Patent Search Now Integrates Google Scholar
Cutest tutorial ever: How dns works
How I Make $200k a Year Demanding Money from Men Online
Yeah, its weird that this "bad history" inspires such vitriol.

When people hear about this for the first time it strikes them as interesting because it places something that at first glance seems ancient (the Aztecs) on the same timeline as something that still exists to this day. Yeah it’s a simplification, but its still essentially a valid point.

Its similar to learning that the Egyptian pyramids were older to Julius Caesar than Caesar is to us. Its not a slight towards Egyptian construction prowess, just surprise that some things are so ancient that they were ancient to people we think of as ancient.

Everyone that knows anything needs to learn it for the first time. It’s not necessary to jump down their throats for not knowing everything right away (or accuse them of racism).
How the FDA handled the removal of CFC's from inhalers shows you clearly they are not on the side of the consumer. The slowness likely has something to do with incumbent companies not wanting to spend on R&D.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/10/heres-why-your...
Yes. JS runs in the browser.
Can you refer me that personal cleaner? I am in that same situation. Used to use Homejoy but looking for someone good. Can provide references to you if you don't trust an anonymous HN guy! Thank you.

mike.anon@hotmail.com
> 1. The cleaners were not professionals. It felt like they were just recruiting anyone who wanted a job. You could really feel this with the lack of passion from the cleaners and the severe lack of quality cleaning. Most of the people complained and were quite rude sometimes. Cleaning is very much a skill as much as it is manual labor.

Maybe their passion wasn't cleaning your house for you and they just wanted some money to pursue real passions.
Aren't VW and Porsche part of the same company?
Cofounder of thumbtack here. I think you misunderstand our business model. We don't hire anybody; we're just a marketplace. A request comes in, we connect it with qualified professionals, and then they bid directly on the job.

At no time have we gone out and hired "MBA students or aspiring actors" to fill our provider directory. From day one all of our providers were actually working in their industry prior to signing up with us.

Further, I would say that we don't have the same quality problem that Homejoy does. If you submit a request on our site, you'll get a choice between several providers at different price points and quality points. You choose the provider. Poor providers will get low ratings and will either have to lower their prices or exit the system.
I am a developer for over 25 years. I have been using company time and equipment for my own personal projects. Immoral.. not cool? Maybe. I still work the 8 hours and sometimes stay longer. I am very productive and every company is satisfied with my output. They will never know what I am doing on my computer. They don't care. The only way they would know if they install screen capture software. I would never work for a company who does this. Worst worst case that can ever happen is I will get fired. So what? There are tons of companies who would be happy to hire me. It's the company's who fired me loss.. not really mine.

Use your judgement on what you can do at the company. In every case, I was able to work on my stuff any time. Usually all the company cares about is that your do your job and meet or exceed their expectations.

Some people might not like these suggestions. But come on.. stop living in fear. If this a job that you really are afraid to lose, then you probably want to be more careful. You're not going to go to prison for working on company's time and equipment. If you create a software, there's no proof how you created it. I am working on the same stuff at home and work. A company doesn't care if I sell some software.. as long it's not competing with their own. Then they would come and say I am using their IP.

Anyone who says the company owns everything you create using their time and equipment. Just legal words of fear mongering. Prove it.
>> Though the startup is still debating how much information to give to the candidate, it will likely need to produce a policy around such requests soon.

If you're going to offer an employee something that sounds like ownership in the company, you should probably be willing/required to lay it all on the table. Failure to do so is a sure sign that what you're offering is not what you want them to think it is.
How is this anything like reading Java? Are you sure you looked at the correct examples? Is it because of "main" and the ES6 imports at the top? This comment is truly baffling to me.
Quick ≠ Fast

(Acceleration vs top speed, agility, etc...)
I wouldn't describe the Atom as a true production car.
Here+is+the+video+of+Linus+Torvalds+riding+a+fighter+jet
It takes a certain personality flaw to belittle such an engineering accomplishment.
Have no money to work in Starbucks cafes? You are always welcome here
I think its unfair to suggest that the reason iPhones have horrible code quality is because they don't go through some approval process. They don't have good code quality because, sadly, they don't need it. AAPL's market cap will show you that. BECAUSE iPhones aren't mission critical, BECAUSE they won't (directly?) kill anyone, they can get by with poor code quality. That market, for whatever reason, favors shiny over reliability. For an even better example: take iOS game. Those things have a shelf life of a few months, it would make no sense to make sure those things are battle tested.
One of the two big startups quoted in the article made me an offer for an engineering job years ago, but wouldn't tell me the strike price of X options they offered -- never mind the percent of the company or priorities.
I'm not sure I would ding a prospective employer for withholding that information. I would be OK with known the rough amount raised and that it's probably all about 1x preferred. In addition to what % and strike price I'm being offered. I don't think most employees need to know the details of all the fundraising.
Hey, I am the creator of the UI library. Happy to give answers on any questions :)
My point is that the vast, vast, vast amount of products out there don't have auto-update. This includes my morning cereal, my fancy designer dustbin, my bicycle, my microwave, and my 2-year old son's favourite teddybeardogthing.

To only call something a product when it has auto-update is such ridiculous HN navel gazing that it's just funny.

EDIT: removed useless rant for fear of losing even more internet points!
Good question about the precision; we only hear little snippets about hitting virtual windows in space within 100km or so. New Horizons is running a MIPS-1 R3000 processor[0], that has double-precision floating point available but presumably fixed-point arithmetic could be more suitable here. But I don't know that there would be so much accumulated error, there were a few course corrections between Earth and Pluto. Maybe the precision is not so much of an issue?

As for the fly-by, well. Speed is a problem. At the point of closest approach to Pluto it was going at 13.78 km/s, and it's about the mass of a grand piano[1] so that's about 45TJ of kinetic energy. Or some large number anyway. Let's just carry on with Newtonian stuff and assume the numbers get worse if you do it properly. At current speed its orbital radius[2] would be about ... 4600 metres. Three miles!

That's somewhere deep within the icy core, I'm guessing.

In order to orbit at the distance of the photos we're getting now, it would need to slow right down to 264m/s, shedding basically all of that kinetic energy. Back of the envelope numbers suggest that would require about the equivalent of a 90 megaton explosion! Of course, if we strapped the Tsar Bomba[3] onto New Horizons, there would be more mass, so we'd need more stopping power ... and so on.

Other reasons for doing a flyby, I suspect, is that we get to see more stuff this way. There are a few moons, and an uncharted Kuiper Belt. Seems a shame to come all this way and only see the one thing. Not to mention the allure of the tantalising glimpse ... always leave them wanting more! This mission started with Pluto being nothing but a blurry dot occupying a dozen pixels. Imagine what the next mission can do, based on what we're already learning! Iterate and improve.

[0] http://blog.imgtec.com/mips-processors/mips-goes-to-pluto
[1] https://what-if.xkcd.com/137/
[2] http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/circles/Lesson-4/Mathe...
[3] http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html
That's basically what insurance companies do. You're saying the equivalent of, I hope those programmers don't forget to declare their variables, or else their code won't work!