skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had a lot of requests for that, but it is not on our immediate roadmap yet. If there is a good source out there (vertical search engine), it could be incorporated via DuckDuckHack (http://duckduckhack.com) -- that would be the best bet.
Of course many humans understand war the same way, but are caught in a trap comprised of a mix of game theory and forces beyond their control.
Gabriel, thank you for DDG I have been using and promoting for years.

In terms of mobile any plans for the future you can reveal? How do you feel about Siri, Google Now and Cortana is it something you think DDG can do or can be used as a backend/source ?
No, but it's a sign that we need drug reform that it was on the market at all. If they can't even validate the psychiatric drugs we're giving to people, how can we expect them to make sweeping decisions for an entire population? It's not paranoia at that scale, it's just kicking the tires to see if our government actually has the wherewithal to make these kinds of decisions. It seems extremely obvious to me they don't, and we've only seen positive change on this front in the last ~seven years at the NIH, FDA, and DEA in terms of recognizing and resolving these past issues.

And it's not so much that there was a mandate to prescribe risperidone, more that they prescribed me a very, very shitty medication when I was a ward of the state. It's their responsibility to ensure the doctors and RNs have accurate, up to date knowledge of the medication they're educated to prescribe by the FDA. IMHO they failed with risperidone.
Regarding personal information, I have no problem providing payment information, as long as that isn't tied to accounts/searches/etc. (A separate service, similar to Patreon, seems ideal.) But I do realize that the number of people willing to pay you may not justify the work needed to set something up.

I do understand your concern about not wanting to appear to take donations, though. I just wish I had some way to pay you for your service that doesn't involve viewing or clicking on ads.
DARPA, the publicly funded agency that generates most of the core tech that sustains Silicon Valley, has an annual budget of $3B. The National Science Foundation, which funds a large chunk of core science research, is $7B.

Where would YC Research fit in this landscape? Would it be seeking government funds, and just offer a different institutional model than universities for hosting the research? Or would it be primarily based in private funding somehow (and how?)
> YC has a very high problem flux at this point

From this statement and, more generally, YC's focus on creating high-growth businesses, I'm guessing they'll be focused on long-term research with potential to disrupt markets and have practical impact.

> So is this initiative meant to keep scientists like me working on the problems we're working on, or is it meant to prevent computer scientists working on a new way for cars to drive themselves from jumping ship and joining Google or Uber?

Are these the only options? You sound dismissive of scientists (computer or otherwise) working on solving practical problems.
We know from the elliptic curve debacle that standards committees provide an opportunity for active sabotage.

IPSec is a useless nightmare as you say.
The iPad Pro doesn't not have palm detection, as far as I know. This is kind of a deal breaker to port the app.
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Thanks! We are working on something that could tell the platform (duck.co) how much each instant answer is being used. Now each answer has a page (at http://duck.co/ia). Bangs are a bit different but we're working on open sourcing that too.

Dax, yes! We're going through internal branding strategy right now and your comment is very welcome in that context.
Both are very fast, especially on the second load.
ARPA-E (The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, http://arpa-e.energy.gov/) has some interesting models on how to encourage meaningful innovation tied to continued funding. Might be worth a look. Same with DARPA.
I think that the fact that DDG has a no tracking policy allows users to turn their ad blocking off, this might contribute something towards profitability...
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Reminds me in some way of this tweet from PG last year:

> Paul Graham (@pg) — Markets are usually quite clever but one place they break is in encouraging treatments rather than vaccines. Subscription revenue.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/498875418527543297
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Dirt cheap. I'd wager that land would ordinarily go for about $250 an acre if all purchased at once.
It's unfortunate that Docker uses an imperative model. A functional model would have much better cache utilization.
Can you link me to that? Would love to understand better what's important and what people look for in that sort of analysis.
Shinichi Mochizuki and the impenetrable proof
/r/shitredditsays is liberal-leaned and is supported by the administration.
The W3C still exists? I thought it was defunded by 2000.
I'd be inclined to believe they trim the 's' to "singularize" the search term, so "cars" becomes "car", etc, then query where " LIKE '%bee%' "
Aside from some veiled (but still unacceptable) misogyny, I don't see anything objectionable in the default subs. The ratio of homophobic, racist, and antisemitic remarks seems in the ballpark of any southern high school.

Is this something to still actively fight and change? Yes. But you yourself pointed out that reddit isn't making the content, nor are they encouraging it. What if the solution is MORE connected free speech, not less? The more representative a user base reddit gets, the less bigoted they'll be. I'm more worried about secretive and niche networks of extremists.
That's a difficult question. Essentially, some part of any job sucks. Even within a given field, some jobs and/or projects will suck more than others. Some tools and languages suck more for certain applications than for others.

I've always enjoyed—and still enjoy—the technical aspects of programming.

Since this just came in my email….

"Working at $FIRM offers you the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, challenging, startup environment with a team of passionate individuals who love bringing ideas to life. At $FIRM, no role is small and every person plays a part in the development of our game-changing technology."

fast-paced = you won't have time to think to solve the problems better

challenging = no one knows how to behave themselves, least of all the founders

startup environment = so forget reasonable workweeks and having any time on weekends

team of passionate individuals = they don't have lives, either

no role is small = you will be assigned roles that the last person quit over because it was so trivial

That's the kind of thing I'm done with.
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We are not discussing the scoring system if you pay close attention. I made an initial comment and if it is misunderstood hence the edit of the original comment. Clarifying my comment does not take from the original discussion. Does it?
I guess it's because it breaks the illusion that Sam and everyone else at YC are normal people like most of us.

Not to sound contemptuous, but are there really people out there who consider the folks running YC "normal people?"
Were my "Upgrade Guide" and "Breaking Changes" sections not clear? I tried to make it as clear as possible but you still seem confused…
Thank you! We're of course very focused on making the best mobile experience we can. We think our instant answers can be a big part of that since answers are even better on mobile where space is limited and browsing sites is slower. How to exactly showcase them is a bit unclear, however. So nothing major to reveal yet, sorry :)
Also worth noting that "shielding" electronics is not a binary field-- The damage that occurs depends on both the strength of the magnetic field produced and the specific electronics in question. A strong enough EMP, perhaps one from a coronal mass ejection on the sun, might require a mountain of shielding to adequately protect sensitive electronics. On the flip side, a vacuum tube calculator would be much more resilient than an iphone.
Why are they more likely to shoot you? They will do what we program them to do and we could send them into situations too dangerous for a human team. It wouldn't need to have a gun.
> the far extreme of what mandatory vaccination proponents actually seek

Vaccination proponents seek vaccine-preventable diseases to be largely prevented.

What do you mean by "mandatory vaccination proponents" if not the previous sentence you just dismissed as a straw man. Why are you trying so hard to be combative?
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I haven't used Lichess much, so I hadn't discovered this. It's not very obvious as far as I can tell. I hope that it would also do matchmaking approximately based on rating?

(Though, as I mentioned, I still don't trust my rating at all since my first ranked win gave me 150 rating points. Chess.com's give closer to 8-20, as I recall, which is much more credible. Specifically, I don't trust that my rating varied by 150 in one game, but the range of ratings I see on the front page is only about 1500-1800.. so it seems as though I just skipped almost the entire range in a single game.)
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> I just don't like hanging out with racists and sexists. If Reddit wants to keep me as a contributor to their site, they need to do something about that or I will not return. I doubt I'm alone in feeling that way.

Many, many people think Tech has a sexism problem.

The logic you are applying to Reddit would in theory require you to leave HN as well. It would also apply to any venue that is commonly felt to have a sexism and/or racism problem.

Leaving because a subset of a given population is a "problem" is silly.
Thanks for publishing your book it has been really useful for me.

When you were first working on DDG who did you show it to before you "launched" on here? What kind of early feedback did you get?
Thanks for the link! Should clarify that Recompose works equally well with stateful components created with either createClass or React.Component. It just happens to be especially useful for stateless functional components :)
We really suggest people who want to help to just help spreading DuckDuckGo, which is honestly our biggest problem (not money): https://duckduckgo.com/spread
Make them prove they can code – and actually do the job
In my 5+ years, I tend to agree with you; there are occasionally little spats that I see, but by and large-- I'd never have known about all of this "bad" stuff if it weren't for other people telling me about it.
Oh man, that is a very good idea. Apparently Heroku (our pg provider) supports it as well: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-data-links
Regardless of a fallacy or not, it's effective. So the argument works. Dealing with the populace, citing wikipedia doesn't get you very far.
When I was talking about monospaced fonts I was doing so only to point out that people tend to talk about abolishing them like it's all upside. My point is to suggest that one take a broader view of the subject before advocating a design position, and focusing on the kerning of the Google logo is an example of failing to do that.

If I had written more, it would probably look more like a rant, and if I'd written less, it would've been bull-in-china-shop writing. Writing subtle criticism on the internet is walking a fine line.
Or, as Jarvis Cocker put it: "Shit floats" :-)
> How do we police everyone's thoughts, without offending anyone?

No one is trying to police thoughts.

> Whaddya mean there's more than one cultural definition of correct thought, and sometimes the definitions disagree?

Just because there is more than one cultural definition of correct thought does mean there is more than one actual definition.
With HTTP 2 this is actually no longer true. See [1], slide 29. Also e.g. sharding is no longer necessary or even a good idea.

[1] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r7QXGYOLCh4fcUq0jDdD...
I think the team could very well exist permanently. It's just that their aim would then not be to unify tools, but to ensure code quality and work efficiency of various teams, as the author already stated in the article. Quality assurance and checking can be beneficial all along the way, as long as it's not overdone.
Completely agreed, but "southern" is pretty unfair there... I know from personal experience Northern/Western counterparts are just as bad. Young people in general have a large capacity to be cruel regardless of geographic distribution.
I'm still a bit ignorant as to how kinesis works, can someone explain why this would be preferable to uploading directly to S3?
> The only possible "End of History" would be the extermination of the human race.

Or a cessation of literacy. Really either one. Our corpus of history is now far, far too large to be maintained orally.
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It would be very unusual for a planet to be spherical as it would have to not be rotating.
These interviews (I referenced above) were really the first things I did: https://www.youtube.com/user/tractionbook

I blogged all of them on Hacker News (you can search the archives to see), and then started blogging ideas that would become the book and got feedback from those on my blog and on HN.

This was all before really writing. Once we actually started writing we recruited "early readers" periodically to read and give feedback up until we had a full draft more ready to go, in which case we hit up our whole list and got another round of fresh-eyes feedback.
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MVVM. Model-View-ViewModel. It's a well known design pattern that exists outside of Knockout.
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I got different results[1] (2nd picture from the left)

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/MgCrvVu.png
Amazon wants to get companies' data into AWS so they're locked in. They don't want that data flowing the other way.
I understand this can work with some communities of smaller scale (here or MetaFilter) but I feel like Reddit is well beyond a tight, niche community. I would say that line of think is more appropriate for sub reddits.
I definitely whitelist ddg on all my computers.
I'm not quite sure who would have that illusion. The executives of investment companies (which is essentially what YC is, albeit a little bit different) tend to be wealthy.
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The most laughable part is about "Western liberal democracy" being ultimate form of government. Given the following:

- NSA surveillance in USA

- Muslim minorities in EU

- flood of Syrian "refugees"

- Chinese Communist Party

- etc.

I can then formulate hypothesis that the ultimate form of government will be:

1. Surveillance based dictatorship in US

2. Sharia-law based religious dictatorship in Europe and Middle East

3. Communism-based dictatorship in Russia, China and Latin America

4. Tribal/nationalism based dictatorship in Africa

To sum that up: DICTATORSHIP RULEZ :)
It's easier to comment on something specific when you disagree than when you agree but that leaves a very critical trail after a while. Since I've been critical of Sam's airbnb position and expressed a lot of concern over the amount of power a VC would have in the "founder visa" posts in the past, I would like to chime in to say that YC Research is an intriguing and exciting development with a lot of money behind it. This has the potential to be pretty great.
Sorry, I meant when you were working on your search engine
Then the reddit defenders tell you the opposite, "Oh, those subs you hear about on the news are minority subs, best to stay in the defaults like pics and funny!" Err, so which one is it?

I also think its probably impossible to make a site that appeals to high school and college age males very sophisticated. Their identity politics will rule and that means lots of misogyny, racist humor, 'bro' culture, and anti-US politics with a serving of a worship of oppressive autocratic regimes. Fixing reddit may not be possible and shuffling subs around isn't helping much. No one wants to say this, but young people are kinda terrible. I know I was a worse person at that age.
My startup is working on this problem. We are working on an IaaS cloud designed for high-bandwidth users, with much lower pricing than amazon.
Though to be fair, for the last year or so, every time I've needed to hack on a p5 script for $work, my first step has been to convert it to p6. It usually is pretty quick for 50-100 line scripts, and generally it's a lot easier to reason about changing the code once it's in p6.
I'm a bit confused by your bundler-cache. It seems you must be running `bundle install` at runtime, because you can't mount that volume during build. Am I misunderstanding?
The comment user Jach was responding to specifically mentions both xianqi (chinese chess) and weiqi (go).
Almost all commercial JVMs do that.

And you can do that in the reference JDK by setting the execution threshold to 0.
Closing a gate isn't really a violation of privacy, if we use the boat analogy it would be more like you've noticed that some thief's are about to steal the boat so you sail it out yourself.

This is still quite a big violation of privacy, even if was done for good reasons.

It's like some one notices that your window is open so they pick the lock on you front door and enter your home to close it.
No I am saying you are fitting a Hard Science Lens to a Soft Science.
Could it be up to the user? For example, subscribers do not see ads, but everybody else does? Or does that not work for your advertising customers?
All good feedback! Thanks!

The option pool math is kinda hard to visualize, and that link's "we think you're worth $x, but let's create $y of new options and call their sum your pre-money" quote is probably the most succinct way of explaining it. Did the blue bar with the dotted component for the new options make sense, or was that too subtle? Any other suggestions for how to show it?
That's because you have a provisional rating for the first few games (it should show up as 1553? or 1250?). Your rating will swing for the first 15-20 games, at which point you'll see the 8-20 fluctuation.

It's likely that you've played quite a few games on Chess.com already.
A whole lot. It depends on how fast it is going. See http://measurespeed.com/deceleration-calculator.php for a quick-and-dirty overview. Gravity accelerates at at 9.8m/s², so if it fell for one second before impacting the ground, and took (for instance) 0.05 seconds to deform before coming to a halt, it'd have experienced 8.91 Gs of shock.
Perhaps it's completely out of reach (fiscally or ethically) but have you considered partnering with Mozilla to become Firefox's default search engine?
I once worked as a developer at a newspaper that had an open floor plan. The biggest issue was the darn emergency scanner radio squawking in the background all day! I often fantasized about taking a baseball bat to it, like they did to a printer on Office Space (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjsSr3z5nVk). It's one of the reasons I no longer work for a newspaper.
Lem wrote some wonderfully whimsical stories; all the more surprising when you consider the times and place in which he wrote.

For another perspective on autonomous drones read Robert Sheckley's Watchbird.
> And when people from marginalized groups say hey, this is not cool, and you ignore them or call them rabble-rousers

You can also just do what everyone on reddit does: label them a SJW, a term with near-limitless utility on reddit, and dismiss them. Anyone with a mind toward social issues will be labeled a SJW in short order, and for some reason that particular accusation resonates with much of the reddit community. This is all just my experience, of course.
Oh man, double face palm :)

I would go around to local meetup groups here in Philly and continually show it to people, as well as friends and family.
OK interface I guess. I don't like that there's nothing about the author of the photo or any other metadata and that you have to click through to (maybe) see that. I would be extremely reluctant to use any of these in a commercial or potentially commercial context without being able to verify and archive the rights clearance information. Also, the tag curation is bad.

If you look at a real stock photo site you see the professionals put in a ton of extra work, eg they'll have maybe 20 photos built around the same model/theme so that if one's not quite right another is, or to give a feeling of depth above and beyond individual pretty photos.

Personally I would not use this service. Stock photography is already cheap and it's already hard enough for photographers to make a living without competition from free, even if it's not free-as-in-beer. I would much rather buy the rights or do the work myself than spend all my time wandering around the Libre Landfill. A term like that might sound cruel or dismissive, but I don't care for the way that the cult of the amateur and the availability of very cheap technology has massively devalued the craft of professional photographers. This is part of a much longer historical trend in which the artistic/creative input to a piece of work is systematically undervalued and more is invested in marketing it than producing it. Selling is important, but the problem is that salespeople generally don't care what they sell as long as they get paid for doing so.
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>But a decade after Reddit launched, it has blossomed into a platform for racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic and other hateful conversations.

blaming the mirror ...
I feel like you're using "normal people" as pejorative. I meant it as "is able to relate to the day-to-day experience of most people in this country."
Are we saying that a "southern high school" is an environment to which no civilized human being should be subjected? b^)
> Can the state compel everyone to be a vegan unless they can show proof of a medical condition that would make it unworkable?

Consider that the state does compel you not to kill humans. If non-humans were accorded similar rights (which is a separate discussion) then yes, they most certainly could.

EDIT: wording
Interesting comments by pg 1322 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3622545
Is Reddit now directly comparable to Digg v3 -> v4? I feel like because Reddit has so many subs it can easily survive without people in some of the larger subs. When all the drama was happening a few months some sub reddits I read had a fair amount of members who had no clue anything was going on.

I guess the way I'm thinking of it as is the vocal majority the right representation and worry for reddit? Think about the petition they tried to get going. The number of signatures was minuscule comparative to the total number of users.
I guess I missed that one (there's also an intel heatsink that shows up quite quickly). Still, at least 95% of the results seem to be apple products.
I'm sure they don't cost Amazon $200 to produce, and assumably they can just bill corporate customers for them if they're not returned. Some amount of loss is probably included in the cost to consumers.