skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of a website is to communicate information with your users. Design is important only so far as it helps with this goal. All books look the same too - a stack of paper between two covers made of cardboard, bound on the left side, and containing text and/or pictures. The content is what differentiates them. These are two of my favorite websites:

www.sheldonbrown.com
www.toyodiy.com

Neither has got anything interesting in the way of design and I don't care at all. Both of them are completely loaded with content that has been worth (to me) hundreds or thousands of dollars in saved money and effort.
These stats are great, or at least they sound great to an aspiring entrepreneur. I've seen stuff like this for a long time on HN, and a feeling took hold in me that I've only started to really shake recently, a feeling that the best and most determined founders will always get into YC, and that failing to get into (or apply to) YC is an indication of weakness.

But just remember that, even though these numbers look amazing, you can create a business via other means and still possibly achieve whatever sort of success you're after -- you don't have to join an accelerator, or get prestigious seed or venture funding.

Or at least, I think that you shouldn't have to.
I think the bigger thought here is that "change is uncomfortable". It's also unfamiliar.

Also, the designers to whom this article references work for clients, who are not the visionaries. And the design agencies job is to make them happy, via conformity.
Doesn't it seem just a bit odd that a hacker (or a close associate) that just held ransom a massive company would post on twitter of all places evidence that they are connected to the hack?

Call me a skeptic but this seems like a distraction... obviously Krebs did a ton more research than I did, but I found this when snooping around his profile: http://186.42.193.241/FRaboudan/status/635121718202208257
There isn't any contradiction, if you were implying there was. All of the information compiled in this article was published to the public. Any private information that has been revealed about this individual is likely misdirection or irrelevant.
Hey man if I'm following your robots.txt it's all good right? You have the power to only allow the people that give you benefit:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
User-Agent: bingbot
Allow: /
What's this year's high demand thing?
A few years ago UX/UI was on of the hottest things in Web development and apps, RoR was "omg the best ever," and so on. If you had to e, plain to your non-technical friends, what would be the current "thing" everyone can't get enough of?
Sure, having a baby is a choice, but it's also a universal human right -- and like the other rights, society needs to protect those.

I think we have different definitions of what a "right" is. A "right" in my book, is "something you don't need to ask permission to do". So yeah, I agree that having a baby, in and of itself, is a right. But, I disagree that the exercise of that right then automatically creates a burden on me, or you, or anybody else, to support the new baby.

That doesn't mean that you, or I, or anyone else in particular, won't sometimes - if the means are available - help a less fortunate person who is struggling to feed their child or what-have-you. And I personally am FAR more sensitive to the needs of children than I am to adults. But there's a big difference between what someone will do, if asked, because they believe it is right, and the idea that they are obligated to do those things.

A society where rights become secondary to the unrestricted pursuit of profit is not a good society.

As far as I'm concerned, your rights are your rights, and profit doesn't even enter into the equation. But, again, we probably have a different idea of what a "right" is.

To put it a different way, I do not believe in so-called "positive rights" as discussed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
Sam also just tweeted that 300 YC companies are no longer around. Amazing how much transparent they are and how great YC is at picking and training. So many really crazy ideas that most would think are insane and YC is able to find the ones that make sense and help them. Seems like that's a bit less than 1/3 of all YC companies

Tweet is here: https://twitter.com/sama/status/636586179970752512
In the grand scheme of federal budgets, and how much we waste and destroy by not doing it, it's 'nothing'.
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another stat from sama on twitter:

> Oh, another important stat: about 300 of the companies we have funded have shut down.
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Just wanted to say I appreciate your book metaphor - it's an interesting way of thinking about design and its purpose.
Interesting twitter update by sama

> Oh, another important stat: about 300 of the companies we have funded have shut down.

This is a hard gig. Even after you get into the top accelerator in silicon valley.
(And posted on HN 1 month ago and 4 years ago. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Tsunami%20stone&sort=byPopular... )
I daresay that some codebases might rely on overflowing behaviour even if they don't know it. I've worked with a codebase where assumptions about unused RAM were that it was always zeroed out. Moving to a different platform (Linux) changed those assumptions, and there was lots of weird behaviour in the codebase because of that.

I'll bet there are lots of legacy codebases that would actively resist using such a compiler technology for C/C++ because of unknown behaviours happening in their codebase (and because there is no test suite, or just poor test coverage).
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> “Are the older and younger generations wildly underutilizing each other as resource?”

I actually think that the older generation is far better at utilizing the younger, than vice versa.
Apparently, Content ID matching is still in play even for livestreaming, which was one of the reasons gaming streamers went to Twitch in the first place. Given that some companies are trigger-happy with Content ID (Konami, Nintendo), streaming gaming may be risky.
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this is why i dont buy Apple products... dont want to feed corporate greed.
There are a lot of non-engineering jobs there. You've seen plush angry birds in stores, backpacks with angry birds pictures, etc, haven't you? Someone has to design, market them, negotiate with suppliers/retailers, etc.
It has been working in America for decades. Also, Aldi owns Trader Joe's.
No (at least not in one specific OO language, namely C++).

"foo->" means exactly the same thing as "(*foo)." That is, you use "." when you have an object, and "->" when you have a pointer to an object.

I don't know of any other OO language that uses "->". If there is one, my comments here probably do not apply to it...

(Or were you talking about the "." as used in OO, compared with the "->" as used in Clojure? If so, disregard this comment...)
The Canadian Constitution is a huge pandora box no one wants to open.
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Whenever I see this comment I can't resist urge to make reference to Knuth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

No language developer ever seems to take it seriously as a design challenge to solve though. You get tools like rustdoc as "good enough"
Yup. And the changes in government seem to be sticking.
> the only use for his 'Dr' was for getting a good seat table when making a reservation at a restaurant

Does that actually work? Will one get a better table?
"Market cap" is a poorly-chosen descriptor because the vast majority (all?) of the companies in YC's portfolio are private.

The use of the term "market cap" is especially ironic given Sam's recent post on "financial misstatements"[1]. If founders are expected to use financial terms accurately and appropriately, shouldn't investors be expected to do the same?

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/financial-misstatements
The AOL issue is completely separate. AOL self insured which is why they paid out of pocket. Amazon has proper insurance.
Most of the funding I've seen has gone into maintenance for existing projects, nuclear weapons research, and the ITER boondoggle. But if you have any sources of projects that have received billions of dollars that have been about power creation, I'm 100% open to changing my tune.
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> They said Avid Life employees first learned about the breach on July 12 (seven days before my initial story) when they came into work, turned on their computers and saw a threatening message from the Impact Team accompanied by the anthem “Thunderstruck” by Australian rock band AC/DC playing in the background.

This reads like a scene straight out of Hackers or some other campy tech movie. Life imitates art.
Considering there is probably a vintage effect, and currently 5% of YC companies are worth over $100 million, that means that most likely 5-10% of founders that join YC will become millionaires over time. That's pretty impressive.
So Krebs has no conclusive proof for anything?

As he himself admits:

> It is possible that Zu is instead a white hat security researcher or confidential informant

Jeez, how about talking to the police and let them do their job, or at the very least censor the name.

This is just a witch hunt.
These numbers are great from aggregation/press perspective, but they are not enough to tell if YC is doing good or bad. For instance, last 3 YC batches had ~250 (or maybe 300) companies funded. That is almost 1/3 of the total companies funded by YC. It will take another couple of years to determine what the success rate for these companies is.
Do you have a source for those numbers? I'm curious about what % of the top-grossing apps are considered "the best"

i.e. if 1% of apps are making billions but the other 99% are complete flops, it seems ludicrous that anybody would try to enter the market as this stage.
Maybe using the Uber analogy was a mistake. I used the analogy because I wasn't exactly thinking exactly about rentacoder kind of place, I was referring to something more curated, where work is somewhat commoditized.

But I was also thinking of the relationships that actors and crew have with movies, or private contractors with projects. In my view, which admittedly is not that well informed, hiring and firing people à la Rovio or Zynga, based on market trends is a very inefficient way to manage your workfoce. If Rovio stumbles upon another hit, they will probably need all those workers back.
The point is it anectode don't cancel out like that

It's like telling that's acceptable to have a plane crashing for every other plane that arrives safely.
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The population density effect works against Democrats too...

"This demonstrates the level of gerrymandering that republicans have accomplished, maximizing the number of districts that are republican, even if just slightly, while shoving all democrats in their states into a few districts that are heavily democratic."

http://forrestry.blogspot.com/2013/09/population-density-com...
Are you backing any thorium reactor projects?
Perhaps, but the young just have the upper hand in todays market. They don't even have to solve real problems and still people are throwing money after them.
"greater work ethic" meaning "performs well in this system of labor relations". It is a circular moral judgment.

The status quo is maintained by force. The government you have distrust for is the thing that keeps everything from breaking down.
Keep in mind that there really haven't been many large exits, which lock in the valuations. I think YC is doing extraordinarily valuable things, but let's not get too blinded by big numbers. On-paper millionaires are one thing; actually being able to lock that money down is another thing entirely.

Edit: Forgot a word.
I wish the push was more of a law that let users delete their data immediately and completely from a service with the click of a button.
Half a million in Canadian dollars? Is that like paying it out in monopoly money?
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Not to mention that killing cancer cells, which can be done in umpteen way in vitro and in vivo today, seems superior to reverting cells to normal, except on unusual circumstances.

That is, I assume one would want to have a tumor die rather just stabilize as it's cell reverted to normal (if that's even possible). Also killing cells on the outside of tumor seems the most effective way to deliver drugs to the cells on the inside of a tumor.

(Just speaking from common sense, if there's something I'm missing, I'd be interested).
I'd argue the opposite. The AM hack hasn't helped at all, since enough people view it as a just retribution due to it being about a pet moral value that is held dear, namely marital fidelity. And to others, it's all a big joke.

The cheating cheaters (who likely never got the opportunity to cheat) have been named and shamed, and because of those asserting that it's acceptable to do this if it strokes their personal moral vendetta, then this type of chilling privacy violation is on its way to being normalized.
how good or bad are those numbers? only 8/970 companies are worth > 1b and 40 are worth over 100M.

The billion dollar number is freaking incredible. There are 115 venture-backed private companies globally that have unicorn valuations[1]. For 8 of them to have been through the same accelerator is amazing.

[1] http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/
Yeah! That one's pretty nice, though personally I probably would have skipped the gold coating on the lugs.
Why do they need to censor an alias account for someone connected to the hack? There is no "Zu", the photos of Zu and his locations are copied from the internet.
The hacker is a criminal, he's being hunted by the FBI. Brian Krebs is good at tracking down people but he's not a vigilante. In the end the hacker will be arrested and have his day in court.
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unclear if its a witch hunt or if Krebs wants to be on record with his reasoning in order to secure some of that $500K bounty if it turns out to be this guy?

I've never figured out how they actually decide who gets what if they have to split that up.
Did the parent poster say "reasonable"? He said "mainstream".
Sometimes a small scale example helps, my home town of 100K people has a very small semi-navigable river pass through the middle of it, maybe a hundred feet wide and maybe head depth at most, that flows over a hundred cubic meters per second on average per wikipedia or 30K gallons per second.

Some back of the envelope engineering estimates imply 30 kilogallons per second, if somehow shoved thru plumbing, equates to around or over two billion low flow toilet flushes per day.

There's a lot of thirst on the west side of the Mississippi, not so much on the east.

Of course water treatment to drink that river water isn't free, nor sewage treatment to keep it drinkable downstream, but still, that's a lot of water for a river.

There are obvious analogies to income inequality. Humanity has more water than it knows what to do with, but simultaneously there are thirsty individuals.
FWIW Mailvelope also works fine with Fastmail in my experience.
> Type systems are by-definition only a conservative approximation of all programs.

This is where I lost a track of your arguments.

> Ok, that leaves the failure of Lisp outside of hobbyist mom's basements a mystery.

Lisp did not fail. It's in pretty much all the mainstream languages now.
Birth and Bonding [0]

Prohibited Acts / Mistreatment / Retaliation [1]

0. http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/fmla-faqs.htm#7

1. http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/fmla-faqs.htm#19

Best of luck proving retaliation.
This is a ridiculously roundabout way of pointing out self-insurance.

The main reason you are not an insurance company is that insurance only works at scale. But if you have a big enough pile of cash to effectively run your own insurance company, then you can go pay Humana (or whatever) a lot less to just handle the paperwork instead of the actual insurance. It's often a good way to provide better coverage for your employees and spend less money on it, since you aren't paying an insurance company for participation in the risk pool.

But then this does create conflicts of interest where the company is directly incentivized not to pay out for employee health. This isn't particularly worse than the private model; private insurance companies are always incentivized not to pay out.

This is why we need single-payer. You need an actor without a profit motive, and government is it.
What the hell is it with Americans taking their broken healthcare system as a source of pride? You spend more public money on your healthcare system per capita than any country save Norway and Switzerland[1]. You would save money and be able to lower taxes if you adopted universal healthcare, yet you persist in your delusion that your shitty healthcare is what allows you to be an economic powerhouse.

Insanity.

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PCAP?order=wbapi_...
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After all of the excitement of the keynotes and the dazzling new hardware and software products are released, few forget that Steve Jobs was also a very authoritarian and abusive figure, and that Apple is a company just like any other.
Book Face? Huh.
Let me know if you want me to post it for you, under your Twitter handle.
I love how Americans think these are big bad problems that can't be solved. So myopic!

Every other developed country has these policies and importantly they have the work culture to deal with it. People leave for a year on maternity and come back just fine, because people know that's how it's supposed to work.
Larger companies often self-insure, so Amazon might be paying the actual healthcare bills instead of paying insurance premiums.
It's art imitating life. Old school warez, demoscene and hacker groups have always had a very "campy" countercultural aesthetic to them. Hackers the film doesn't hold a candle to the real-life cDc. These types of groups are a dying breed, though.
When did physics become an information science? (the birth of the bit)
This was shown as an example of Long Term Thinking during a presentation on the design of the Clock of the Long Now.
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Is it greedy to want to keep the lights on?
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I believe his GPU (or VDP in the old terminology, GPU seems more specific to 3D coprocessors) can do horizontal and vertical scrolling and 100 sprites.
This is exactly my concern as well.
I second that recommendation. The real selling point for me was that they didn't try to make some sort of "friendly layer" for the beginner to work with. Instead, you build the kit from commonly-available components on a breadboard and learn how everything works from the ground up.

Reading that ebook was a real revelation: exciting and a real boost to my confidence with electronics.
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The front runners at this phase generally are not the nominees, and I make no claims as to whether this Democratic primary cycle is like the next one; see my comment about "anti-inductive".

That said, this is what I meant by it always seems nailbiting at the time to predict that the frontrunners at this phase (remember, well over a year until the election), because surely this time we've got it all figured out? But... no, no we don't, and if anything I think it gets worse every cycle. The news cycle keeps speeding up, and other than Trump's apparently locating the teflon breastplate created by Reagan and then found again by Bill Clinton, every news cycle is an opportunity for a candidate to completely flame out.
If one wanted me to act on my own choices, they would give me the security so that I could.

I don't think anyone who takes the idea of individual freedom seriously, has ever contended that every individual should have the ability to make (or at least act on) any conceivable choice. That is, right this minute, I could make a choice to pack my bags, fly to Sweden, and spend a year chasing Swedish super-models. But I can't actually afford to do that. But that in no way means I'm not free, it just means that there are some choices that aren't available to me. But nobody is putting a gun to my head telling me "You can't go to Sweden". More to the point, I'm perfectly free to continue working at my "wage slave" job for the next year, eat Ramen noodles and spend as little as possible, and save every penny so that - next year - I can take my trip to Sweden.

If society believes in individual freedom, then society ought to provide for all individuals.

That's absurd and contradictory. As soon as you say "society should do X" you are talking about depriving someone of their choice to not do X, unless you believe that you can get 100% unanimous agreement with you idea. And when does that ever happen on a large scale?

The right to dictate another person's actions is not freedom. It is tyranny.

Yes, and another word for it is "government".
The insane thing is that what you're describing isn't even remarkable. Other capitalist countries have it. It's just the U.S. doesn't, and doesn't even want it.
"the option of working for a (homegrown) tech giant isn't even available"

umm.... so what? we should sacrifice the health of a nation of hundreds of millions of folks so a few hundred thousand get to work at 'homegrown tech giants'? w00t!
I know. I'm just pointing at the fact that this is already a lot of pages just for a third of the book.
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So now it's possible to use a Scala macro in the same module it's defined? Good. But then documentation is too much behind, and this is most certainly not good at all.
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> but the interpolated version seems clearly simpler to me. What's the disconnect here?

The disconnect is this. An explicit list of variables to use for interpolation is not redundancy. Because the placeholders does not, by themselves, refer to anything. Placeholders are just holes and only have a meaning in the context of formatting functions. And even in them, they does not refer to a local variables, even when they share a common name. So when you use .format() function, you are actually saying, "here is a string with some named holes. Fill the hole named 'A' with the value from variable 'A', the hole named 'B' with the value from variable 'B'.

So hole 'A' and variable 'A' are different things even if they share the same name.

Now, the simplicity argument.

Every thing should be made as simple as possible. But not simpler. Why not? Because when you simplify further, you are paying a cost (often not apparent initially), some times in clarity, sometimes in correctness and so on. The pigeonhole principle.

In our case, we can further simplify the process by adding an implicit mapping from named placeholders to local variables. When you do so, you are adding something implicit. The costs of which might not be apparent at this point..

So this pep is strapping on something to the whole language, to slightly simplify this one use case. Which is why I said that it is trying to simplify it further than it is possible.
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