jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it be an abandonment of their duty of care to portfolio companies for them to poke the bear, though?

I get that if PG tweeted something like, "We're pulling out of China because they're violently repressing pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong and they run a re-education gulag archipelago for millions of Uighurs and they murder political prisoners so they can sell their organs through their state-administered transplant market", it would be satisfying to read -- but I'm not a YC alum. I don't run a company that could get screwed if YC lands on Beijing's shit list. Sure, that's probably a small slice of the portfolio, but this is still the right call from a business perspective.

Actions speak louder than words, and this decision was pretty clear.
> A good game these days takes at least 40 hours to play through.

I think you are speaking to a very specific segment of the gaming market that will probably not be captured by VR.

There are plenty of games (roguelikes, casual, shooters, racing) that have more emphasis on semi-episodic 'rounds' of gameplay vs long form narrative RPGs that would adapt to this model easily.
> Meanwhile, the world outside of the Vonnegut Museum is performing an homage to him by attempting to recreate Harrison Bergeron.

Diana Moon Glampers demonstrated a competent executive branch of government.

Reality is not so kind.

(If you want to know who Diana Moon Glampers is ... Go read "Harrison Bergeron".)
Writing twitterbots to spam people? Man, I wouldn't have just yelled at you in an interview. I would have engaged in physical violence. Twitter spammers are right down there with Nigerian 419 scammers in my book. I'm disappointed to hear that YC is funding one of them.
It would be so cool to make http://TheWikiGame.com for IMDB data, but I guess the license dis-allows it?
1. Yeah, in PHP it's as simple as generating an MD5 hash, setting that as a session value, and then including it in a form and verifying it when it's POSTed.
2. HTMLPurifier is a good PHP library for cleaning text. But personally, HTML shouldn't be allowed on any site unless you're using a WYSIWYG editor or something.
It's Colombia, with an O :)
He's seeking feedback on his draft. His forum post can be found here: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=6247.0

Edit: He has pointed out issues that he will flesh out in the next version of the paper in the forum thread^.

[He plans to expand the paper's scope only in a superficial way as it pertains to international law: (from the forums) "Your point about internationality is very well taken. The paper is very U.S.-centric. I will try to do a better job in the next draft of pointing that out and mentioning the internationality of bitcoin. I may try to touch upon laws or regulations in other countries, but I don't have expertise in other countries' laws."]
You need to talk to some Angel/VCs as they face these set of issues of founders and may have answers the normal HN crowd may not..

Okay people that are approachable, I would say go local if there are VC/Angels in your geographical area.

It may be that one of the VC/Angels that you contact may be able to help you reach the $250k Startup Visa Act precondition.

Sorry that I do not have more in-depth answers.
QRCode (iPhone app) picked it up almost instantly.
This bad press? http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/03/02/student-petition-ca...
how egotistical is this guy to assume that we should play by his rules, because he doesn't like the outcome of the game.

First its with people leaving his company so obviously its our fault, now its with people that comment on his blog. Its simple if you don't want criticism don't write anything, or if you do want to write controversial things then grow a thicker skin. Lets be real for a minute. People are attacking him because he is saying something controversial and he can't take it.
If employees are continuously forced to justify their employment through impractical challenges with failure resulting in summary dismissal, that would be a toxic work environment. The power dynamics are not the same, and it's disingenuous to equate them.
In addition to the people overtly saying this makes you a no-hire, it's almost impossible not to use this even if you try. Someone smooth and mistake-less will make a better impression on you, and like with most fallacies, you're left flying blind on how much to adjust your expectations to counteract it.
> Does that mean that Manning doesn't deserve his sentence? If so, how?

Because it is immoral to remove a fellow human's freedom for lengthy periods of time unless absolutely necessary, when there is no other way to protect the public from their future actions. For example, in the case of unreformable violent criminals, who must be physically restrained lest they injure others if unrestrained, there may be no other option than multiyear or even (in rare cases) multi-decade imprisonment. But that does not happen often, and even most people who committed violent crimes pose much less risk once they grow older.

There is no way you would be sentenced to 35 years for a nonviolent crime here (Denmark), because the idea is preposterous. Not even if you leaked something that offended the fairly influential and US/NATO-loving military. Sentences longer than 2 years are rare, reserved only for extreme crimes (murder, rape, etc.), which seems quite correct.

Americans seems somewhat vengeful, even sadistic on the subject, rather than rational. Somehow absurdly long sentences like confining someone in a cage for 5 years or even 10 years is seen as a "short" sentence, I guess because compared to locking people in a cage for 30 or 50 years or outright killing them, it seems lenient in comparison. You even hear people joking gleefully about prison rape. Not sure how you could approach fixing that culture.
It was one of those, "we need to do something now and this will work" solutions. We had a really talented consultant working for us, writing some of the early code. He was familiar with Mongo and wanted to go that route. Early on I said we should use Cassandra for this, but it took us quite some time to get to the point of being able to migrate. A testament to his code and the "this will be temporary" foreknowledge is the fact that we could swap data stores in a pretty massive sense without much in the way of outward-facing changes to our processing engine.

I think the hard thing for us up front was that trying to explain Cassandra data models to someone (and this guy is really really good) and then hand the rest of the work over to them to implement now, on a contracting rate is not a trivial problem. And we needed to hurry for both deadlines and burn rate.
Perhaps it's already been mentioned, but GroupTalent [1] has set up a business to offer this type of 'small project as an interview,' or what they call "Date a Company" to help guide primarily freelancers to full-time employment:

They did a pivot after acquiring Kyle's TinyProj [2] customer base, which included us. Wondering if anyone has any good experience with GroupTalent?

[1] https://grouptalent.com/welcome/
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/16/tinyproj-shuts-down-users-s...
What s funnier is, senior people may exchange roles in interviews asymmetrically where sometime A interviews B and sometimes B, A.
HN has its fashionable topics. Interview bashing is popular at the moment. It's also a suggestion to me that maybe there are more people looking for work right now. That's not a particularly good sign. Either the benefits to job swapping are too great to ignore, or there are too many failed startups, and companies failing to retain their staff.

Edit: Or it could be that "school's out for summer", and there are a fresh new batch of grads, masters grads and PhD's on the market.
To add a little extra context to what other people are giving you: large, million-dollar digital tournaments stream on Twitch because they have no other choice if they want to reach viewers. ESL signed a deal with Facebook streaming that destroyed their viewership numbers because people go to Twitch to watch, not the website for the tournament. Organizers have clearly seen this and will not move their stream to another provider unless a large amount of money changes hands (like Facebook sponsoring ESL).

Additionally, Twitch will not allow banned users to appear on other streams including tournament streams. There was a kerfluffle recently where a Twitch-banned player was also banned from a tournament they tried to compete in, solely because the tournament organizer didn't want to jeopardize their streamability.

I hope I've impressed upon you that a Twitch ban is effectively a ban on all opportunities that involve money in the esports scene. There are incredibly few esports careers that could survive a Twitch ban, and not a single one would be unaffected.
Immediately following my physical recovery from COVID, I experienced a dementia like feeling. It was quite scary. Forgetting where I was and going most of all.
Editing is tedious--especially in the later "how did this stupid error make it this far?" stages. But it's definitely easier to start from some sort of foundation for me. That said, this is mostly with respect to editing my own writing. For editing the work of others, I definitely find there's sometimes this uncanny valley where I can't just say "this is trash" but I also can't say this just needs a bit of TLC either. And that's really frustrating because you sort of want to respect the original writer's work, but it really isn't very good.
What constitutes "a heated discussion"?

In what way was the discussion here "heated"? How do you measure it? It quickly becomes subjective, doesn't it? If you know what constitute heated, it's not hard to make it heated as a third party, I'd say. Or if you have access to the back end, you just make it heated and claim it is. It's all concealed after all.

Why even demote a heated discussion? What good does that do? "Ah people disagree, quick, let's remove it." Lots of room for play. Maybe you are right. Maybe I am.

>Be careful about jumping to some kind of conspiracy theory for explanations. It's not healthy.

You don't have to worry about my paranoia, I'm well aware of how it functions, why it does what it does and how to prevent it from going wrong. I'm comfortable with that. The opposite is just as true, by the way.

You on the other hand are claiming to know what is or isn't worth knowing for others, you have no problem calling the careful thoughts of others "conspiracy theories" and try to warn people about health issues, without any inquiry or verification if that applies or not. And when you're corrected or disagreed with you just decide to ignore it and go after another thing you think is wrong with someone else.

What is it you want? Growth of others? Or growth of yourself? Or both? Because from where I'm standing you're trying to give to me what I already have, but you don't take for yourself. I know what my self deception looks like. Do you in which ways you self deceive? Because from where I'm viewing it, you're oblivious to it.

And I wouldn't even have bothered bringing that up if you actually gave me something I could use. I doubt my observations, it's what allows me to see the world in all its shades of grey and see the wiggle room in the details. You only seem to be dealing in certainty and absolutes.

It keeps the world simple, that it does. And accurate enough for you to use with minimal anxiety and I'm sure it paid off for you, again and again confirming you are right. But that doesn't mean it reflects our complex reality any closer than my approach. You are simply more biased.

https://nesslabs.com/occams-razor

>The biggest mistake people make with this mental model is to assume it reasonable to transpose a philosophico-scientific principle to messy day-to-day challenges. It may also be used as a way to gloss over complex but crucial components in an argument, thus falling prey to confirmation bias—our natural tendency to interpret information in a way that affirms our prior hypotheses.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-linear-...

Anyway, take it or leave it. I just saw what you were doing and wanted to make you aware. It's up to you to accept that or not. As you learn more and more, you're going to hit the limitations of your linear approach more and more (like happened here). The only way forward is to switch paradigm.
A scrape is not a leak
Read what I said in context, the vikings stopped trading in slaves after converting to Christianity
https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistori...
I also very much doubt your statement that Christian nations enslaved for the longest period and more people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slave...
Slavery was banned because it was declared as being against the laws of god and many of the early anti slavery activists were deeply religious.
I am not a christian but am offended by the bigoted tone some people take with Christianity
Exploratory Study on the Design of Combined Aero-Thermo-Structural Experiments in High Speed Flows

https://etd.ohiolink.edu/ap/10?106431717476248::NO:10:P10_ET...
Agreed – I'm not cheerful about the implications of making things less user-serviceable but … it's not like we don't know how well that's worked out.

If you haven't already read it, SwiftOnSecurity's “A story about Jessica” is rather good for illustrating how badly we've failed as an industry to produce devices which are safe for non-experts to use:

http://swiftonsecurity.tumblr.com/post/98675308034/a-story-a...
Very interesting article. I've been thinking about this more often recently (perhaps it's watching the 31C3 talks that do it) and I find that I'm becoming increasingly conflicted over the whole issue of surveillance.

On one level, my gut instinct is "mass surveillance of innocent people is wrong"... But the moment I think of it from the law enforcement point of view, I realise how desperately I'd want that bulk data and how damn useful it would be.

I can easily see myself, in another lifetime, being the one who said "Hey, you know if we stick a camera here, I can get a computer to read the number plates and beep if it sees a car we need to stop." - That's nothing other than a great use of technology to do what a human could do, but much more efficiently. A good hack, nothing not to like about it at all.

At first it'd seem only reasonable to use that technology ONLY to flag vehicles that were known to be of interest at the time. Keeping dates/times/plates of innocent vehicles might not be right. But then again... How seductive to sling all that data into a database. How powerful, how efficient, how god damned _useful_ it would be to be able to go back in time and, for any given number plate, rule a vehicle's presence in or out of suspicion. OK, clearly a possibility of "wrong place, wrong time" for the unlucky, but an equal chance of such historical information actually verifying an alibi, proving that a person of interest is as innocent as they claim.

The extent to which you could get a whole lot of law enforcement done, purely with a big database and some well-written SQL queries... It's seductive. If I were law enforcement, I'd want that /so/ bad.

I wasn't a fan of "you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide" before the Snowden revelations, or after. But today I find myself realising just how useful the results of such surveillance /could/ be. I wonder if I've just given in, taken the cowardly way out and somehow convinced myself to be comfortable with the idea of such intrusion because it's obviously never going to end, or whether my mind on the subject has been genuinely changed.

Quite a quandary. Still not sure where I stand on the issue now.
To a large extent, I think it is because there are very few companies that can deal with the complexity of, say, going public or writing CDS contracts. So to a certain extent people, particularly large clients with billions under management, don't have much choice.
Now I understand why I was never able to find out anything about where my great-grandfather came from -- very likely it was one of those little villages that were simply wiped out.
Indeed.

And, if memory serves, when they first began providing access to the Internet they also charged extra for it (although I may very well be mixing them up with someone else).
Was he born a millionaire? Define 'self made.'
John Oliver has a great segment on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PK-netuhHA
Sorry, but favorite restaurants or dietary habits aren't likely a cause for discrimination or divisiveness in the corporate world, unlike sexuality. That's definitely a distinction of note. Yes, his sexual orientation is not strictly relevant to the issue at hand, but it provides context to his unique combination of position (head of a massively successful company) and personal story (sexuality). News articles generally try to toe the line between giving specific details for the informed reader, and giving general backdrop for those uninformed but seeking to learn more.
Looks familiar: https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib
http://applinks.org from Facebook is an open-standard. The source is open and I believe you can run your own server to translate links.
Ah I see, thank you very much, this is exactly what I was looking for.
> entrepreneurial energy of the USA

So I can go anywhere in the USA and find the exact same amount of entrepreneurial energy as everywhere else? Good to know.
I think a huge point is being missed. If I bought a wordpress theme, I wouldn't be inclined to resell it or give it away simply because I want my site to look more unique.
Google would be in a much worse position if Apple had mobile handset hegemony. iAds + native apps isn't something they can break into. Now developers targeting mobile have a much stronger incentive to just develop a web app and cover both platforms when possible. That's a much better situation for Google, even if they don't have default services installed on the handsets.
Trump was pursuing a real-politik strategy - US energy / oil independence. Without it, US just can’t afford to put SA in the corner. Biden instead is pursuing nice PR, cancelling pipelines and alienating SA (as it seems so far... we’ll see if there’s a grand strategy behind it).
We studied feminism briefly in a Communications course I took at the University, the prof (female) was very sympathetic of the feminist movement. I didn't make up the notion of the patriarchal society.

> I've read this half a dozen times and I still can't figure out what it means.

When a man and a woman fall in love, the first thing they try to do in a traditional/conservative society is to try and get married. In the west, the first thing they do is go out together, make out, have sex, maybe move in and live together for years and have children without ever officially getting married.

Unless you want to say this only happens in F.R.I.E.N.D.S but not in real life.
Very cool. Unfortunately I just dont like to watch the news. It takes too much time, I could blow through several text articles faster.

Consider blowing this out from just "news" to an array of sortable niche topics and you might have something more interesting to a more diverse audience.
Which also depends on how many attampted attacks there are.

If terrorists never attempt another plane attack they can count every cancer death that results from the scanners as part of their death toll. And they never have to even waste a resource or another moment of planning.

In fact if I were a terrorist I'd be looking at not only the effect of the attack itself, but the downstream residuals. For example, attacking the water supply would have large casualties, but little downstream residual except tightening security around water supplies.

But attacking elementary schools would result in less upfront damage, but if you could force elementary school kids to walk through these types of scanners everyday of their elementary school lives -- well chalk up more deaths for the terrorists.

I really really hope the government knows something we don't, otherwise that tired old saying "then the terrorists have won" is really beginning to apply.
I disagree strongly with "more mature", "widely understood" and "more documentation".

1. Mature?

I have seen MySQL replication blow up in so many awful ways, it's not funny. And yes, I've seen it happen on 5.* deployments. The worst part is that MySQL hardly ever detects a problem, and you hardly ever know why it went wrong - it just silently corrupts. The only way to detect the corruption is through regular checksum runs which can be costly on large databases (there's a reason why the checksum-utility from maatkit has fairly sophisticated options for incremental checksumming).

2. Widely understood?

I challenge you to prove your understanding and explain only a small subset of the functionality: Please enumerate all failure modes that can lead to corruption in statement based replication, and how to avoid them.

3. More documentation?

That has to be a joke. The MySQL documentation is a mess. It is poorly structured, poorly written and full of conflicting and misleading bits. Please show me the MySQL document about replication that comes remotely close to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/hot-standby.html in terms of clarity and exhaustiveness. Notice the long section about "query conflicts" - where is the MySQL equivalent?
Upon entering any country with visa requirements you are asked - what is the purpose of your visit? If you answer "work" then you need a work visa, simple as that.
I really like this idea, but it really only works for stuff you can build statically.

I'm wondering if there's a middle ground— for example, a busybox container which gives you python and pip, or workflow which lets you install a deb and all its dependencies into a container, without the container needing to itself have all the apt machinery and other bootstrap detritus on board.
Huge congrats Brian!
I would look into https://spark.apache.org/ then. You can get quite good performance out of it, but you need to spend more effort in babysitting your data.
What about DuckDuckGo's recent explosion in popularity?
Thanks for the story - seems to further corroborate the findings in the article
These books that are kind of pop-science descriptions of concepts like dysrationality are great, but what I'd love is a set of workooks (at various levels, e.g. my kids, adult learners like me, etc.) to systematically teach these skills.

Without just being a list of brain teasers where you learn to recognize each trick.

Do books like this exist? I'd love recommendations.
> I didn't (nor do I see what high school has to do with the most basic principle defining a state of law).

It was my way of trying to suggest that, like everyone with a modicum of education in the United States, I'm aware of the principle that accused persons are innocent until proven guilty in US law, and you didn't really need to point it out to me like it was something I hadn't thought of.
I've been using a MySudo phone number to use for signups when I'm forced to give out one. Has reduced the noise i get in my messages for my real number

https://mysudo.com
I don't know that it's all so bad. The final takeaway is that a 660mm2 Intel die at 270W got about 70-80% of the performance that AMD's 1000mm2 MCM gets at 250W. So performance per transistor is similar, but per watt Intel lags. But then the idle draw was significantly better (AMD's idle power remains a problem across the Zen designs), so for many use cases it's probably a draw.

That sounds "competetive enough" to me in the datacenter world, given the existing market lead Intel has.
When the government is buying and selling currency at some rate commensurate with capital coming in and out of the country -> it's a capital control.