skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, been almost 30 minutes without an update.

I'm always curious what the scene looks like at Google right now. Are people screaming at each other? Or are some engineers just calmly looking through logs trying to find out what's going wrong...
As a CS student from Brazil, what opportunities do you think Brazil has in terms of startups that is different from silicon valley and which methods that work there would work here as well??
Agreed. http://www.chicagotribune.com
yeah. still down here in sf.
Dis is racis
We plan to update that across the site :)
Yes, training will make you faster. My first marathon was a 4:22. I've since run a 3:12. I'm training for a 3:05 this fall, and hoping to run sub-3 next year. I'm 43. But we all have our limits. Generally, more running makes you faster... but it also increases the likelihood of injury. Some people can run insane amounts w/o getting injured [1]. Some people have natural ability to run fast w/hardly any training [2]. But even for them, training makes them faster.

The trick is to train enough (enough miles and the right kinds) to meet your goals. And figure out how to do so w/o getting injured. (Hint: go see a PT, have them evaluate you for imbalances and weaknesses. Do the exercises they prescribe. Then build your mileage, slowly and methodically. And you'll get there. Running well takes years for most people. Don't rush it.)

[1] http://www.bunnhill.com/BobHodge/Rodgers/TrainingLogs/br75tr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Way
Stephen Hawking: 'Technology seems to drive inequality'
Is there something about this in your contract?
I say focus on customers instead of Angel Capital, get market and focus on that money instead of a Capitalist injecting money. It's not sustainable forever unless you make money for real!
Wasn't intentional, but I like your thinking :P
Don't you think China had some help getting to where they are today? Western governments and corporations have systematically moved all technological and manufacturing power to China for the past 60 years. How can the U.S. population possibly compete with China, when we've been completely sold out to them? Manufacturing and doing other types of business is not cheap or easy in the U.S. because of the situation that our trusted institutions have driven us into. I really don't think it has anything to do with the population being lazy or unmotivated.

My bet - I think it's going to be a hot war and I think that's been the plan all along. China was conquered long ago by the West, but they are valued by the powers that be since their people are so easily enslaved. China is going to be the new super power and the US simply won't exist anymore. Just my opinion and I hope I'm wrong.
I also like how the last exclamation point on the 500 page is just a '1'... someone forgot to hold down shift :-)
> The root cause appears to have been a switch that was corrupting packets. ... The hypothesis is that occasionally the corrupt packets had valid TCP and Ethernet checksums. One "lucky" packet stored corrupt data in memcache.

Did the server (both source and destination) in question both/all have ECC-protected memory? Hopefully that's a foregone conclusion but that's another big opportunity for errors.
"Shall not be infringed"

Here, pay this money, register here, sign this, don't do that, pay this other fee, and if you do this other thing, you will go to prison. Also, options C through Z are banned, only options A and B are allowed. But we don't consider this infringing a basic right.

Basically, if voting rights were treated like gun rights, Jim Crow era discrimination would pale in comparison.

I full expect the government to twist the wording of this law as well.
Not working at google, but from experience: Those who can fix it, fix it. The rest is running around screaming ;)
Serial over webaudio
"Safety", really?! There always would be rumours.
Why You Should Join Our Startup
I would hope they use Drive at Google, in which case this would be a major disruption to day-to-day activities at Google and then I imagine the engineers scrambling to bring it back up, sweating bullets.
Record warm oceans are causing the third-ever global coral bleaching event
Publication means peer-reviewed and scholarly. Yes, a publication in Nature, Cell, Science, NEJM, etc. opens doors, but so do publications in discipline specific journals (like JACS). What matters is that one's papers be read and cited.

The system is far from perfect, but I don't think you'll find anyone in academia saying otherwise. I think of it being like Churchill's quote about democracy being the worst form of government, except for all the others that were tried.
The insanity of this region blew my mind when I first read about it.
It's more Congress that wants SLS to continue than NASA.
You keep saying "shout in a pit" as if that was the primary benefit of electronic trading. But of course, that's not the primary benefit. The major benefit is that with humans out of the loop, it's harder to grift huge amounts of money from people trying to do simple trades.

For instance: Google [odd eighths scandal].

And that's a modern example of humans rigging the markets, exploiting lack of competition and automation. Things get much worse the further back you go in time.
I'm currently on Win10 Home, but I use Vagrant so extensively that it's probably worth an upgrade (besides that, it provides a lot of other great features, anyway).
Honest question, why do you feel a different super-heavy lift system would be more achievable than the SLS?
This approach won't work if you are looking for academic diamonds in the rough. The names that will get mentioned are probably already scoring big grants and pumping out well-received publications.

If you are really actually looking for long-shots by talented people, you're going to have to access the people nobody is going to mention for fear of marking themselves as a radical or an urchin-lover. Science is packed with these humble types, but they are invisible because of how brightly the superstars (who frequently stand on the shoulders of the more humble) shine.

As an aside, smartness is certainly helpful for research endeavours, but pridelessness is actually what separates the people jousting against windmills and people traveling the hero's journey. The smartest are frequently targeting windmills thinking that they'll be the ones to finally succeed, whereas the prideless are more interested in understanding and exploiting molehills or anthills. Pridelessness allows for maximum flexibility in following reality, preventing ego-driven attachments to incorrect interpretations.
Consider how bad the sex offenders registry is. Now consider that that isn't even a criminal punishment (which is why it can be retroactively applied and extended, which a criminal punishment cannot be).

So it could work out to a nothing fine and all is well, but I would highly doubt it ending up as such.
Ya, OpenBSD has done some pretty remarkable work on the laptop front, and I find it interesting, because it's not where I would have guessed they'd be interested. They're leaders in the accelerated gfx and wireless. I'm used to thinking of the project being more focused on hardening applications. Certainly NetBSD has benefited from the work done in Open, by way of the famous *BSD cross-pollination.

I hope you enjoy Net even a fraction as much as I do.
Just checked it here:

https://www.digicert.com/help/

and chain appears to be correct.
I see a YC Campus with dorms in the future!
You can smell the fear.
Except now an investigation has substantiated these rumors and Prof. Marcy has issued a public apology. These are real incidents. And yet, he is still allowed to take on students. This is insane.
Good point. It would be better to argue with this kind of arguments.
To expand on this, custom elements are supported in Chrome and Firefox (behind a flag in FF at the moment), and there has been public support from both Webkit and Edge, as well as high quality, high performance polyfills.
Where are all the 9's gone? :)
The problem with Elysium is that it just does not sound plausible once you get into the meat of it. Why would the rich "hoard" their technological advances for exclusive use?

For that matter, what is wealth in such a context anyways? What are they wealthy of? Magical mythical currency that they exchange with other rich people? No, they have to give it to someone to do something. Even if it means giving it to the soldiers that have to police the ever-growing population below.

Really, the whole story just relies on an unproven notion that "wealthy people are evil", as that is the only motive that can hold up. Why couldn't the poor simply pool their resources together (government?) and buy one of these things from the rich people.

I'm really bothered that the narrative in the media and movies is constantly presented as "the poor rise up against the evil rich".
Not half as bad as anyone who has ever had to use that god-awful product.
One of the problems with quality of character is that there is no objective standard for character. There are consequentialists, deontologists, religionists, etc. each with their own idea of what a "quality character" might be.
"It's different being a name on a list of millions of names and being aggressively singled out. The latter is effective, the former is not."

I'm actually aware of that, and carefully did not claim otherwise. I don't question the effectiveness of that part of the strategy.

(I do question the ethics, but, well, I'm sure that doesn't surprise anybody, including you. I say this mostly so I don't get a followup from someone conflating my belief in its effectiveness with my belief in its ethicalness. But, yes, I would expect this to be effective. It's also something that will get progressively less effective over time as more people do it, and I also think there is no chance that nobody else will do this, equally publicly. Privately I'm sure it's already been done, of course.)
I'm not allowed to disclose proprietary information. But I don't understand why this is sensitive. My question is why companies try to protect this in the first place.
Not at all. If the company doesn't grow, there is no way any of the common stock shareholders get a noticeable payout due to liquidation preferences. Whether their ownership is in the form of options or stock does not matter.
The Adoption Paradox
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> Do you really think they won't give Netflix the shaft when it suits their strategic interest?

If it suited their strategic interest, sure Netflix could get the shaft. Is that scenario likely to play out, seems unlikely. Netflix is one of AWS earliest and most prominent customers.

I would imagine Netflix would leave Amazon long before Amazon shifts their strategy to take out Netflix.
I don't know, page 8 is pretty marketingy.
Greif.
Thanks for the specific counterpoint! Definitely makes me want to dive into the data and identify other clusters that are atypical like that.
Sort of and sort of not right? So VW came right out and said "The difference is caused by defeat device code programmed into the computer." Great simple answer. None of these people have offered up a theory of why things are different. It could be defeat devices, or it could be something else, they just don't know.

So step two of this process is figure out all the ways in which actual driving differs from lab testing. And when you've eliminated all other explanations, start looking for defeat devices or their equivalents.

I'm guessing one or more of these companies will end up admitting, after looking into it, that their car control software runs differently if it detects the car is being tested.
How the Brain Keeps Time
In that vein, a friend once calculated whether the time saved by not brushing his teeth would be offset by the cost of dentist visits later.

I don't remember the conclusion, but after I reminded him that female attention would likely drop off in proportion to bad breath, he decided against testing the idea.

Seriously man, it's food. We all have to eat, what is so important that you can't give up a couple hours a week towards cooking good food and leisurely eating it. Your entire life doesn't have to revolve around the almighty Opportunity Cost.
Yes, the best most often start early. But unlike math and physics, disciplines like biomedical research are very resource intensive which leads to older talent as well. My BS was in physics, and I was coding for peer-reviewed research just over a year into my undergrad. In biotech, things are very different. It's typical for investigations that culminate in a scientific paper to take a couple of years and hundreds of thousands of dollars. We've had Seimen's Foundation Award winning high school students come out of our own lab, but these students aren't setting the course of the investigation. We don't have the money and they don't have the time. These students generally flesh out one aspect of an existing investigation. They do great work, but it would be extremely difficult for them to take a study from concept to completion.

I thought my PhD research was fantastic. It was good, but geez could I have wasted YCR's money at that point. :)
> their rental income is usually taxed at a lower rate than ordinary earnings.

Not in the US. Rental income is income. I think you may be referring to deductions, which exist, but are not nearly as advantageous as taxing rental income at a lower rate outright.
YC deals with lots of foreign founders but maybe it wouldn't work in this case. I still think it would be great if you had a team helping you like John Carmack does.
all while having their privacy thoroughly plundered and raped.
Absolutely, that post is linked to in this YC one.

Startups are incredibly hard. For our particular situation, returning money and closing down was the option I decided on after talking to our investors. More in those posts, though. I would 100% go through YC again.
The section about granting ISOs to avoid a tax burden on employees is downright dishonest. Support 83(b) elections or outright bonus the employee the strike and tax (I've personally seen this happen before). AMT is a motherfucker.
Although liquid helium is kind of a partial BEC, isn't a BEC one of the best examples of a coherent state? Except for certain quantum phase liquids, superfluid systems often exhibit long-range phase coherence.

I'd actually be curious to know the quantum discord of a superfluid Fermi gas.
If it isn't, it damn sure ought to be.
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You're right, although you should also build into that argument the benefits that accrue to technologists that work at HFT firms, and to technology vendors who sell to them.
Do you think venture investors ought to have higher "hit rates"? (Note: I do not believe things like Dropbox and Airbnb sounded crazy in the beginning).
Congratulations! The Segment tools are amazing, and the team is 100% dedicated to success.

For example: I wrote a complex iOS app, and was having app store issues related to metrics; the CEO of Segment came to my office to help, and we looked at the app together, including source code and libraries, to diagnose the issue. This kind of excellent help is why I recommend Segment to all my clients.
You are completely misunderstanding me and, at this point, I feel like you are intentionally twisting my words. I will try one last time to clarify and then I am done:

If you drive everywhere and you visually recognize a person simply because they walk a lot:

A) It is inaccurate to assume you are "acquaintances." The odds are very poor they recognize you. Seeing me repeatedly as you drive past absolutely does not establish a social relationship of that sort.

B) Driving up to a pedestrian, rolling down your window and bombarding them with personal questions is asshole behavior. (Asking directions is okay.)

C) Assuming that someone is poorer than you, even with reasonable cause, gives you no right to walk up or drive up to them, pepper them with personal questions and expect them to politely answer. It is classist in a really ugly manner.

Furthermore, your replies to me here are personally intrusive and it is off topic. I commented on my personal experiences to make a particular point relevant to the question that was asked. That is not an open invitation for you to question me about my personal life or judge me.

I had two main points: 1) Repeated exposure can cause people to feel an unwarranted sense of familiarity and social bonding that has no basis in reality. 2) Doing something out of the ordinary, no matter how innocent or innocuous, tends to attract interest and/or criticism. --> Those two things can combine in a way that gets really problematic if, like the OP, you do not want people butting into your life.

I am done. I would appreciate it if you would drop it.
I assume you mean Alternote (not Alternate) which says it's just an alternative GUI to the Evernote backend. So you still seem to be at the mercy of Evernote?
Yes. But a more competitive wholesale market (which is what the article is suggesting) wouldn't necessarily fix that limitation (on your wife's retail contract).
Both Europe and the US are big places with lots of different rules. In the US roughly half the states ban raw milk sales, another 1/4 allow it to be sold on farms, and the final quarter let it be sold either in farmers markets, stores or both. California is on the less restrictive end -- there's a testing requirement and a warning display requirement but it can be sold anywhere.
The race to the bottom continues.
I loathe the politics/bureaucracy of working at large companies, and yet oddly find myself wanting to work for 18F.
Agreed - this is one thing YC also recommends (not getting caught up in "not work", like getting an office, going to conferences, etc). But YC is good if (a) you want to learn how to do this prioritization and (b) if you aren't planning to bootstrap.
I applaud you trying to maintain perspective because a lot of people lack it.
Wowzers. If I'm understanding that correctly, there are some people alive today whose last common male ancestor with the rest of humanity was a pre-homo sapien? Sheeeit.

And yes, after the eventual upturning this evidence is going to force to occur, I think reflections will admit that many made a conscious/unconscious decision to politicize science to avoid being seen as abetting or enabling the sort of horrific philosophies that resulted in the slavery and genocide of the last hundreds of years, culminating in the holocaust.

And so, we lysenkoized science for good intentions and perhaps with good results, but the evidence is beginning to overflow the dam, and I worry that it is soon going to be the time for ... people of a liberal mindset, to get behind the new evidence and find a way to rebuild/salvage the philosophical foundations of legal/cultural equality without the happy simple story at the bottom of it, because if we don't, the door is going to open to the right-wing to use this for their purposes against the left's increasingly strained denials
409A valuations apply to Common Stock, which lack the preferences associated with Preferred Stock (usually sold to investors). As a result, Common Stock is typically priced at a significant discount. It's most certainly in an early stage startup's best interest to keep the Common Stock price low, because it offers more flexibility when incentivizing team members.
ODMs for Node.js– Ottoman Is to Couchbase as Mongoose Is to MongoDB
Same way the Constitution was undermined by obscenity clauses, gun control, voting restriction, and a host of other things.
Is "proprietary" defined in your contract?
200 Coffees
I agree with the comment in the article about using cryptographic hashes (where possible, of course): there are huge peace-of-mind advantages to just not having to worry about a problem. Obviously, there can be situations in which one must make a pragmatic engineering tradeoff between reliability and performance, but in the main I think it's worth doing.
No one (including you) has presented any meaningful distinction between HFT and Electronic Trading in general.
Companies do not create jobs. Demand creates jobs.
>This means that if someone is actually slowing down market data for say AAPL then they are also slowing down quotes for AMZN as well but again

Why should one symbol be tied to a completely unrelated symbol? This doesn't engender confidence in the architecture of these markets (which markets are you referring to, specifically)?

>you start to realize that almost all HFT firms aren't quote stuffing, they are just jockeying for position at the top of the order book.

I'm not sure this is an important distinction. What is quote stuffing but position jockeying?
Pre-YC startups could benefit from the Bay Area ecosystem while they are still building their MVP and getting initial traction to the point where they have something that they CAN apply to YC with.

I know very promising founders personally that were stuck working in parents' basements in the midwest because they did not yet have the resources to move to the Bay Area.

How can YC help during this critical "early development" (or should I say, exploration) stage for founders building companies? Is there a way it can help insulate early founders from learning the hard lessons the hard way? Traditional VCs would call these bets way too "risky."
Numba vs. Cython: How to Choose
In the movie "The Martian" (not a spoiler), there is a part where they describe Mars as international waters. I think it is a pretty interesting take on the subject:
"There’s an international treaty (the Outer Space Treaty signed by the US and Soviet Union in 1967) saying no country can lay claim to anything that’s not Earth. And by another treaty, if you’re not in any country’s territory, maritime law applies. So Mars is “international waters.” NASA is an American nonmilitary organization, and it owns the Hab. So while I’m in the Hab, American law applies. As soon as I step outside, I’m in international waters. Then when I get in the rover, I’m back to American law."

If and when this becomes a legitimate issue, it will be interesting to see who claims what, or if it will be it's own independent place.
NASA hasn't developed a new rocket since the space shuttle, so they simply have no relevant experience. In addition, SpaceX, ULA, and Orbital Sciences have demonstrated an ability to develop space systems much more quickly and reliably than NASA, which usually has cost/scope death spirals, largely due to slow schedules, bureacracy and lack of impetus to move forward. In addition, NASA develops launch systems for a single customer, whereas all the others are trying to develop systems which can be used for a wide variety of customers, meaning that they can amortize development over more launches, as well as offering the opportunity to improve design and manufacturing reliability and cost issues.

SLS is only the latest in a series of system designs which have been cancelled/drastically redesigned.[1] Even if SLS were completed (at over 10 times the cost of any other alternative), it is scheduled for less than one launch per year, which means that it will never demonstrate reliability or achieve economy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System
In Part 6 of that section:

(a) penalties that include sentences of imprisonment as
well as monetary fines sufficiently high to provide
a deterrent to future acts of infringement,
consistently with the level of penalties applied
for crimes of a corresponding gravity

(g) that its competent authorities may act upon their own
initiative to initiate a legal action without the need
for a formal complaint by a private party or right holder