skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we have this weird notion that people "need" a job and "deserve" a job. But work is something people actually don't want! We might need or deserve an income, but not a job. I've worked hard to reduce the amount of work I have to do. Now I only work part time but I'm still in my 30's and have the same income as many other people my age. I hope to reduce that even further as time goes on.

If we really end up with nothing to do but desperately need to be forced to work, maybe forced labor camps would solve the problem
Kik raises $50m from Tencent
How are you not banned yet?
Lisp and ML represent quite different models of computation.

For a register machine, C can be pretty beautiful.

It's funny you talk about parsing command line options. Plan 9 solved that problem well with the arg(2) macros. [1]

In fact, Plan 9 in general is a premier example of really clean and elegant ANSI C-compatible code. [2]

[1] http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/arg

[2] e.g. https://github.com/0intro/plan9/blob/master/sys/src/libndb/n...
You can name fields in awk so that you don't have to refer to them numerically as $8, $13 or whatever. Example:

BEGIN { first=1; second=2; third=3 }

$first > 42 { print $third }

Here, $first means $ applied to the variable first. Since first evaluates to 1, it means $1.

Broken CSV handling that doesn't respect quotes is easily done in awk using comma as the field separator.
What is the objective existence of information and how is it different from signal?
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Yes, you've come across the core criticism of the VC business model. They fund 500 startups in the hopes that one of them goes big. Not big, gigantic! Humonguous! The next Google! Facebook! Dropbox! They need such a huge return for their business model to work (do you know how expensive it is to fund 500 pie-in-the-sky startups?)

With that in mind, if as a founder you're happy to settle for mid-size, you're going to get into headlong conflict with VCs who've funded you (and thus own majority shares of the company), because you're failing them according to their model.

You may be interested in jwz's and idlewords's comments, who frequently decry this model.
Yeah, except that the VC wants to continue to squeeze more milk from the cow. "More pasture land!" he demands. "Add growth hormones!" he suggests. The cow dies, then he gets to write posts about how the cow's desiccated udders were the bottleneck for his sweet milk.
assuming there is an ounce of coordination and everyone is on the same page on coding standards and so forth.

That's a mighty large assumption.

Typical physicist--at least you can approximate many C++ developers as spheres!
I remember reading that FoundationDB did very well, OH WELL...
Unified vision matters. Peer commentator already noted Steve Jobs, but I wanted to focus on this.

Steve didn't draw the buttons, design the hardware, or write the code -- but he sure as shit told the relevant teams exactly what he wanted -- often directly, with a very shallow management hierarchy -- and told them to try again if they didn't pull it off.

At the same time, he did have SVP-level and VP-level people writing serious, core OS-level code themselves. They were better managers by virtue of actually understanding and having a coherent vision for what it was they were managing.

If the management chain doesn't set product and marketing direction at a company whose purpose is to sell products, then what the hell are they doing in charge?
I think the pressure to grow to unicorn sizes
inherrent in VC things could often result in
weird business choices.

Yes.

It's important to remember the VC is motivated
by the final selling price, and big companies
sell more -- but that's totally not failure.

Maybe not to you, but it would be to the VC. This is a fantastic reason to possibly, just maybe set your startup sights somewhere other than landing funding. Do you want to be beholden to someone who is—ultimately—trying to flip you for a 9 or 10 figure win, or do you want autonomy and the opportunity to pursue a 'modest' success?
I had a CEO like that once. He was very good at giving them impression that he could do the job of anyone in the company better than that person and the only reason anyone else was hired was cause he couldn't be in 200 places at once.
This is such a common knee-jerk reaction, and it is false. You cannot dish out judgement to people simply because their thoughts and actions do not align with yours .. This is equivalent to saying "I don't feel sorry for people who die in hospital abortion bombings" or "I don't feel sympathy for people who released the private records of millions of meat eaters because I'm a vegetarian".

No matter who you are I guarantee there is a club you belong to that, if someone released your private information through this club's security breach, someone will have this knee jerk reaction for YOUR information.

How about treating people equally despite whether you agree with their ethics for once? Have we learned nothing?
You're probably right but I think her new stuff ain't bad at all!
The list of .gov and State govt email accounts is public transparency. Someone should extract those and turn them over to Muckrock.
With that in mind, if as a founder you're happy
to settle for mid-size, you're going to get
fired by your board.

FTFY.
Stop using so many question marks to end your sentences. Use periods instead.
What I really want to see is an 'opt-in' service that allows you to use other peoples' networks if you opt-in to sharing your's. It should be extremely easy to opt-in, and a message should be displayed asking you to opt-in when you try to sign in to someone else's network.

Also, the guest network traffic needs to be sent over a vpn, so you are not responsible for it / don't have to deal with people torrenting, etc on your network. And it should be low priority traffic.
Rare to see dreamless mentioned anywhere; it was a special place while it lasted.
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Thank you for applying for the Y Combinator Fellowship. We’re sorry to say that your startup was not selected for an interview. We think your startup would be more appropriate for YC’s Winter 2016 batch, and we encourage you to apply.

The startups we have invited to YC Fellowship interviews are primarily founders in the idea or prototype stage, and most are first-time founders who haven’t previously raised funding. We're asking almost all companies that are further along or with more experienced founders to apply to YC winter batch.

Applications open the week of August 24th at apply.ycombinator.com. We sincerely hope you will apply!
The key bit of why we do things like this: “useful for testing the value of the answers and for smoking out follow-on questions”.

That statement is not about Knuth’s presumably beautiful work. It’s that the least deterministic (and most important) part of programming is discerning the value of doing the thing at all.
That argument only works if you don't see Pascal as an already-heavily developed language. Pascal itself also evolves. Perhaps you could run Knuth's code on modern Delphi, perhaps it would break. The proof is in the pudding, as they say, and the shell version is much more likely to be used by anyone solving that particular problem.
Search HN for previous years' 'Tools of the Trade' gems:

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That ignores the issue - being hungry is a basic need and it's ok that we keep getting hungry and meeting that need through restaurants.

People getting sick is not a basic need unless you are a healthcare company. That's why the incentives are conflicting.
I wish it was still possible to buy one relatively cheap in the UK. This was a big part of my childhood. Me and my siblings would communicate with each other around the house and even with neighbours down the block. So many memories.
I think you're misunderstanding what happened, there are three people in the story. Bentley asked Knuth to write a literate program to solve the problem. He then asked McIlroy to critique the solution. McIlroy was the one that provided the shell script code.

It's impossible to know if Bentley intentionally picked the problem that would be easy to solve in shell script, but I don't think it's likely.

A lot of text processing problems are solved really well by the standard set of unix tools, I write similar scripts probably about once a month to extract counts out of log files.
This is incredible, I plan on using this a lot. Thanks!
gawker must be wetting themselves with glee about this; now they have content for the next year at least!
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No it doesn't. That ruling is about the illegality of deploying a wi-fi protocol that's meant to interfere with other communication.

A purely passive barrier to electronic signals is a completely different thing. There are no rules against Faraday cages, and the FCC is perfectly aware of them and what they are for; it OKs the use of Faraday cages for use with experimental radio technology that would otherwise require a special permit.
> How about treating people equally despite whether you agree with their ethics for once?

No. In fact, treating people differently based on what you think of their ethics is the basis of justice and civilisation.

The only way your position works is if you assume that all ethical systems are objectively equal - or that ethics doesn't matter.

It's also a position that reduces to absurdity very, very quickly. Consider how you might advocate I treat someone whose ethics approves of murder or rape, and you'll see why.

In fact, I'd go further and say that as a society we don't discriminate on ethics anywhere nearly as strongly as we should.

Edited to add:

> You cannot dish out judgement to people simply because their thoughts and actions do not align with yours

Okay, I'll bite. On what basis should one judge people?
>The page has a total of 72 HTTP requests and a total weight of 4768.7K bytes with empty cache

looks pretty, but maybe put it on a diet?
Thank you for applying for Y Combinator Fellowship. We’re sorry to say that your startup was not selected for an interview. We read through more than 6,500 applications, and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview, we had to turn away a huge number of promising groups.

Unfortunately we can't give you individual feedback about your application. This page explains why: http://ycombinator.com/whynot/

We sincerely hope this won't stop you from pursuing your startup. We're not yet sure if we'll continue to do YC Fellowship past this pilot program, but we definitely welcome and encourage you to apply to YC in the future. Having applied to YC Fellowship will in no way count against you, and a surprisingly large number of companies are funded after applying to YC programs more than once.

We're trying to get better at this, but it's certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.
Awesome! Now you need to make that wireless charger out of concrete to match the aesthetic. :)
What's the largest tech industry in the world? That statement seems like something you'd say to an investor ... I'm not sure your potential users would/should care.
I wanted to avoid sounding too alarmist, but yeah :)
Anyone tell me how much they don't understand what my company does tips for improvent most of my work will be WOM. I still want to attract people from online
Great video. Is there any reason why the color cells had to be split into an even grid? It seems like if the API allowed the software developers to define custom grids on the fly (perhaps with different scenes or levels), it would open up lots of creativity (though I suppose that would also use some memory).
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I've had the predecessor, the AC66U, since March 2013.

I've never had to reboot it outside of firmware updates.

I suppose it's not the AC68U, but out of all of the high end Asus APs I've had, I don't think I've ever had a problem with one.

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What would be the best way you recommend of doing that?
Federal judge rules OPT extension for STEM students invalid
You could do that. Just ask people who you see using cell phones and laptops to leave. You don't have to resort to violating federal law.
Fair enough! I've never really delved too deeply into it as most of the time the stuff I deal with is pretty simple. Though some other comments parallel to mine seem to agree with me
Just left an example of this, founder built a product with a core cadre of about 5 developers, after a slow first 5 years, the market caught up, and then sales doubled every year for next 5 years ($100M plus in sales).

CEO was highly involved with the product, even led the dev team for several years. Unfortunately he was little more than an enthusiastic amateur when it came to technical matters, and had strong opinions on how to implement things. His team was not experienced, so didn't recognize the hole they'd dug themselves. This led to a lava layered mess that failed to scale to the largest customers.

Enter investors, a rewrite, and plummeting sales. CEO was replaced with a sales guy. See ya, good luck with that!
Using what as a metric?
Stolen Ashley Madison user data published by hackers
What if they lobby against better, safer solutions developed in the future because it affects their bottom line?
The Definitive Guide to GTFS-Realtime
Thankfully, the law is not C++ and we have this thing called "judgement".

This is unlawful interference, pure and simple.
Lead iOS Development at Memebox (YC W15)
> You are doing it wrong. You are not supposed to "learn" C++, not entirely.

If you aren't expected to do this, or even to be able to, perhaps the language is poorly designed.
Ask HN: How many contacts do you have in your address book
How many contacts do you have in your address book and what % have you not met in real life?
I get the sense I'm not selling you on this, but the conversation may end up getting FAQed ;-)

How do you see taxation/fees working across borders?

Good question, and one I hadn't really considered, but I'd divide it out into respective chunks:

1. Let's get back to the goal here: it's to provide sufficient compensation to authors and artists of works distributed in electronic form with a minimal of interference, overhead, control, cencorship, or privacy invasion, while enabling, facilitating, and encouraging open distribution of such works. It's not "build a perfect utility-capture system", and it's not "prevent the least amount of unauthorized / uncompensated use."

To that end, a first-order solution to foreign use is "it doesn't matter.

But let's say that's not quite satisfactory.

2. The total global GDP is presently about $70 trillion. Roughly half of that by nominal GDP is contained within the G7 nations: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US.[1] The G20 (20 largest economies) are 85%.[2] The OECD -- 34 nations -- ⅔ of global GDP.[3] Again, Zipf power functions are your friend. This puts the lion's share of interest in a subset of the 206 sovereign states of Earth.

As with other international tariff treaties (postal, telecoms), most are based on bidirectional rights. If your country's producing significant informational goods, you'll have higher incentives to strike a deal with other countries. States which produce little by way of intellectual property would of course have little incentive. Most of these would be developing nations.

Note as well: this scheme would be fully compatible with CC or Free Software/OpenSource licensing. Authors/creators could register and be eligible for compensation.

3. And as with broadcast, your interest is finding a representative population to sample*. The largest providers, servers, or ISPs within a given nation. If this is based on some sort of licensing arrangement, you'd be looking at those parties to set up monitoring and enforcement.

So: first approximation, don't worry about it and treat each nation independently.

Second: scale out among largest economies first.

Third: approach largest broadband / connectivity providers first.

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Notes:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G7_(major_advanced_economies)

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oecd

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states
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> Well, you did ask about justifying the sciences, not the other things that go into a toaster.

If those other things didn't go into the toaster, science would not make a toaster. Science is useful, but its usefulness is tied up in the rest of human endeavor. Science is a human process. It is good at what it does. Its goodness enriches us because of how it fits into everything else we do.

> Maybe you could name some uncontroversially good social changes that came from philosophy?

I think most people would consider Enlightenment ideals much, much better than what came before them. But I think we're starting to circle around where we are disconnected. You are threading a narrative of progress, of milestones; you're marking human development with milestones where things become better.

I am very much more concerned with the process of coming to and going beyond particular advancements. Philosophy is important because it is a rich store of human experience dealing with human experience, human methods. For example, philosophical methods were and are employed in figuring out what probability is. The history of probability is very rich with ideas. How we come to modern probability is interesting, and it is inseparable from the philosophical investigations of probability.

Really, it doesn't matter whether you or I respects philosophy or deploys it in our lives. Its usefulness or not is what it is. All I'm saying is, you're missing out if you're discarding it. At the very least, if you were to become versed in philosophy and still decided it wasn't worth much, you would have a much better grasp of what science is; your facility with scientific methods would be improved at a minimum.
The cells were split into an even grid because that's how the video chip was designed. There was no other grid size and no customization. There was no room on the silicon to do other grid sizes.

There is no graphics API in the Commodore 64. You programmed the hardware directly in assembly. If you wanted an API you wrote it yourself.
Thanks for writing this.

> The author certainly spares no effort in praising his partner.

Though it appears he did so after being prompted by a (female!) questioner asking what his wife's up to; he wrote the original Quora answer without mentioning anything about how her career was altered.
And to think, the odds were still thousands of times better than a regular lottery.
Much like almost any video that's a person talking to the viewer, this would be much better as an article. The average reading speed seems to be about 300 WPM while average talking speed is 110-150, along with talking generally being less information-dense because of filler words and repetition. There is the option of increasing the video's speed at least.
Kik Receives $50M Investment from Tencent at a $1B valuation
I'm continuing ReplicatorG development
Just for blogging? I'll stick with Ghost
"At the same time, he did have SVP-level and VP-level people writing serious, core OS-level code themselves."

I find this fascinating. How can I find out more? Which VPs? Which code?
Possibly, but I personally prefer videos to articles, so I don't mind.
Guys, a really important thing I noticed here, and please tell me if this is consistent with what you did: Applying late is bad for YC, especially in this fellowship case.

I got this rejection letter, and there was no evidence my application was even looked at. I didn't apply literally at the last minute, but I submitted the last day.

I had applied for summer YC batch before, and there I got people thoroughly exploring my demo, watching my app videos, and even looking at my linkedin profile. This time I got 0 hits across all mediums. Not even the video.

Please share if you had similar or difference experience as I think we will all benefit from this knowledge.
What am I using that's not Firefox? Pale Moon. Firefox, but not Firefox.
Was there ever any requirement that one be in a relationship to join the site? I'm sure more than a few would have joined, while pretending to be in one, and subsequently have started a relationship.
False choice. It's not impossible to make something that tastes good and is also good for you. Some people find that Apple products are desirable, and incidentally, Apple provides a relatively high level of privacy.

But you can never expect Google to provide such a product as long as it makes money off your data. Maybe it needs to be under a different letter of the Alphabet.
If you want the full stack, you go from Lattice to Cloud Foundry. It gives you service injection, logging, routing and a bunch of other stuff I forget right now.

And it doesn't require you to build your own snowflake PaaS, which you'll be married to forever at your own expense.

I've worked on CF so I'm biased in its favour. But my actual paying job is helping clients to deliver user value. Tinkering around with various tools is fun, but it's not delivering user value.

Typing

cf push app-name

Is.

And it works. It just plain old works. That makes my life 100x easier.
WOW is a verry smart product
Same thing happened to me in 1998 but in tech school. Good times. ;)
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OpenOffice had only 8 commits by 4 authors vs LibreOffice's 4,434 commits by 106 authors in the last month

See my above comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10078640
>amazing

It really isn't.
My router is a Asus RT-N16. It has a 480 MHz Broadcom BCM4716 chip. It uses 100% of the CPU just do to NAT on my 100 mbps connection. Doing QoS on it is out of the question. As is doing VPN at those speeds.

You are right. It isn't that much CPU, but with modern connection speeds (>=100 mbit) you actually need a half way decent CPU. Your old Celeron was probably routing a < 10 mbps connection.
Healthy mood spreads through social contact, depression doesn't
What you're about is the reason I use the platform as a freelancer :)
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yeah. i do not have a great deal of experience in this space, but i have observed enterprise customers happily pay $50k / year for remote support (...which would translate into a few days / month of effort responding to email support requests, etc...).

> 'potential clients who are concerned that you are not going to be around for the long term, be able to provide support, offer assurances on security, data integrity etc'

if you are dealing with a large enterprisey potential client, then arguably they may be happy paying you dramatically more money for these assurances. perhaps they would actually be happier paying you more, as then they know that they would be one of your most valued clients.
Pocket + Firefox is a pretty stanky integration. Very unpleasant to have it bundled in.
With 6,000 applications, the majority are just going to be skimmed. They're not superhumans.
I had an MP2100, way after it was obsolete (but still ten years ago.) What a neat device. Two PCMCIA slots in a handheld device was pretty cool, and I really liked the notetaking app it had. It was like onenote, but far before its time.

I wish I could get an LCD like the one it had, but made with a modern process to perhaps provide better contrast. Monochrome, electroluminescent backlit, fairly large. It would be fun to make a device in the same style but with improved parts.
Interesting, since the TechCrunch article uses the phrase 'Founding' Engineer
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How do QA professionals automate testing for WebSocket APIs used by Internet of Things (IoT) products? webtesting.io http://www.webtesting.io