skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deceptive title, unintentionally.

FTA: "Instead, the Post reports, the “administration will continue trying to persuade companies that have moved to encrypt their customers’ data to create a way for the government to still peer into people’s data when needed for criminal or terrorism investigations.”

While eschewing attempts to legislatively mandate that tech companies build backdoors into their services, the president is continuing the status quo – that is, informally pressuring companies to give the government access to unencrypted data."

Status quo is that the government doesn't respect the privacy of its citizens.
Vanguard (the manager of the world's biggest funds) has consistently stated that HFT market making has lowered their trading costs and increased returns for investors.
Stories like this are why I support capital punishment for crimes beyond murder (at a higher burden of proof than "beyond a reasonable doubt").

I'd like to see these scammers hanged on national TV without hoods over their faces.
>Try trading in a market with low liquidity and no HFT. It's a nightmare.

Such markets are created specifically for the purpose of avoiding HFT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_liquidity

HFT hasn't been around that long, either. Before 2005 it basically didn't exist.
> If my filesystem gets corrupted, I boot into a live cd, just like everybody does.

And that is what makes someone take the road trip to the server farm at 2am because a ge-wiz dev thought the exact same and never considered a "rescue" mode with network capability.
Amazon Wants to Know How Its Employees Feel Every Day
Thanks Sam. Really appreciate all the time you spend helping the community. It's amazing & inspiring.
@billconan, u might be interested in unshackled.co. they hire onto a h1b.

as an immigrant entrepreneur myself, there are other visas other than a h-1b that would allow you to work/stay through YC.
They aren't American companies, they're multi-nationals, and will keep the money in a tax haven to avoid paying US taxes on it. And this isn't a prediction, this is what is happening RIGHT NOW.

It won't help the US economy one iota, and if you push this dysfunctional nonsense out internationally you have gone from "almost no chance of reform" to "absolutely no chance of reform."
> There was also an article a few years ago that talked about how they have super computers that aggregate all your data thats available about you and make estimates on when you would need something or have a life event.
Its evidently crazy accurate at approximating when you would say get married, buy a car, buy a house, and very good at predicting your shopping habits.

Dear Facebook overlords, when will I meet the girl I'll marry?

Seriously, has anyone tried this?
After Nearly 30 Years, Microsoft’s Developer Division Head Leaves Company
I'm having trouble with the what are you making portion of the application. I know the product speaks for itself but no matter how I try to explain it to people they get confused without seeing it which means I'm not doing a great job of explaining it. Trying to compare it to existing technology doesn't work well with the product, or I can't find the right comparison. What's your advice on how to best answer this question, aside from being concrete and matter of fact?
It was /dev/finance, which became Stripe.

(This was sort of funny years later, when I was sorting through my stock certificates. I momentarily forgot that Stripe was originally called something else, and put that stock cert in the "lost cause" pile.)
Do you think a startup could realistically end up being the entity to develop some of the earliest significant AGI?

What would look like promising, realistic starting points for -- or even attributes of -- such a nascent startup? e.g., chat bots, development platforms, intelligent agents for games?
The explanation was easily inferred. Not a huge fan of your interpretation.
Exactly what Jobs would say of Musk too. They would have been two peas in a pod.
When ignorant people don't like something we should strive to explain the benefits more clearly. Not give up and declare that thing bad just based on a vote.
> Why do people fall for the "work for a startup and get rich" scam?

In all fairness, just like the phone scams, people are warned the best they can be about start-up lottery tickets.
> If gut flora is environmental, then that's a no-go since we span 5 states.

Its environmental, but one of the key environments for transferring them is mother-to-child, particularly at birth.

A lot of things that are environmental rather than genetic are shaped particularly strongly by the early (prenatal, perinatal, or early childhood) environment, which can confound efforts to intuit the degree to which a feature is genetic vs. environmental based on unstructured observations of the degree to which it seems to be associated with families.
I used zero sum here incorrectly but didn't want to change the comment. It would have been more correct to say that any trade regardless of hold time is any more or less zero sum than any other trade.
More than 10k problems fixed through 'Improve Detroit' app
related https://www.kaggle.com/c/the-allen-ai-science-challenge
There's definitely a popular DL library in Java:

http://deeplearning4j.org/

And at least one seemingly fairly current NN library:

https://github.com/ivan-vasilev/neuralnetworks

An an older "pre deep learning" NN library called Neuroph.

http://neuroph.sourceforge.net/

and another older one called JOONE:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/joone/files/joone-engine/

So in general, the answer is "yes" as to whether or not people are doing Neural Network / DL work in Java. I can't tell you how much such work is happening, or really compare Java/Scala to Python, etc., at that level of granularity though.

And just for a little bit more perspective: IBM Watson is (or was) apparently largely Java based:

http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/ibms-watson-written-mostly-in-jav...
HN title should have a "- For Now" at the end.
You have a better chance of reforming bad laws if other countries have better one that can be pointed to. When bad laws are pushed onto other countries then they become the 'standard' and you have less chance of getting them reformed.
Lots and lots of people have indicated interest in more precise data layout options. Someone even tried to make AoS vs SoA in a macro.
A lot of the events are specific to the business discussed (the ownership structure with passive investors with preference for dividends, big-ticket customers with strong opinions).

Paying above average to increase retention rate is not new. Henry Ford pioneered it for automated assembly line, Costco pays above average compared to others in retail, tech companies attempt to lock in four-year commitments by issuing stock options.

The idea is that the company gets competitive advantage by minimizing employee onboarding/training costs and maximizing said employee's productivity. For some industries it's a good bet, for others not.
In the 10+ years I've been running, I'd guess I've felt a "high" maybe 3 times? The first one was actually my first year running - a brisk 5-miler in the early Fall in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Another during the second 800 of my first fairly competitive mile (dropped 12 seconds off my PR). And the third during a late Fall run in Lexington, VA (another 5-miler). In each instance I felt this impenetrable happiness, lightness, and ease. My form, breathing, even the air-circulation allowed by my clothing, were all perfect. I remember not wanting to acknowledge what was happening for fear of it disappearing as soon as I "looked" at it. Whole-body tingles, no soreness afterwards.

I think, in each case there were a couple of prevailing influences to the sensation:

1.) Feeling alone. Even during my mile, surrounded by 10 other racers, I felt pleasantly alone. Everything was quiet, non-distracting, sublime even.

2.) I was also on the verge of a major breakthrough in my training. My first year running, my 5K went from 22:09 to 17:21, and that first high was probably two weeks before that new PR. Same for the run in Lexington. Luckily it came in the MIDDLE of my mile, because I'd run the exact same time the past 4 races in a row.

3.) The weather. In each case, the weather was extremely mild - cool, brisk, gentle breeze, but no wind.

I'm probably over-analyzing it. Also TONS of nostalgia. But still, I want to make that feeling a more regular part of my life as time ticks on :)

EDIT: There's a fourth.

4.) Running was joyful. Not something I was doing to rack up mileage, or beat a competitor, or "push myself to the edge." Yeah, those things happened as a consequence of training, but they weren't the goal. The goal was to enjoy going fast. And yeah, I got high from it. It's when the focus became about those other things that the best I could do was get in a groove.
Were you involved with YC at the time? What sold you on the team/business?
"Build something people love." ~sama
Well a close relative of mine recently got tricked by a phone scammer who claimed to be from Microsoft. They did the virus alert scam, claiming CRSS.EXE was a virulent virus and needed immediate attention. Hence, they request to connect, using TeamViewer and promptly change his windows account name to a phone number (CALL-XXX-XXX-XXXX) and put a password on it. They immediately disconnect.

Fix, 300+ for two years protection or 400 or so for three years. Needless to say fixing a password locked Windows computer is beyond the majority out there. Apparently its pretty common to declare themselves from Dell, Microsoft, or similar.

The modern day roofers, driveway sealers, and such.

on a side note, who do you report these guys too?
Sam, should everyone's genomes be sequenced? Will most Americans have their DNA sequenced by 2025,2030?

When will we see the peak of the commercial and medical results of having a sequenced population?

What could prevent us from getting all our genes sequenced? Shouldn't we try to facilitate mass sequencing, for all the medical benefits it could provide? What can YCombinator do to influence corporate and political entities to collaborate and reach a solution to expedite this process?
Not exactly, Flushing in Queens is not obese, but isn't at all a rich neighborhood (assuming blue=good, red=bad, this thing doesn't have a key).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing,_Queens
Does anyone know the survey sample size or where/how this survey was conducted?

Title says "savings", article is about savings accounts. Also, the definition of millennials, is quite eye popping
​Matthew Garrett is not forking Linux
We don't mind ideas that start off sounding modest if you have a great answer to how it could possibly develop into something huge. In fact, we like ideas like that.
From REST to GraphQL
How do we fix food deserts? I have no idea but I wish we could solve it.

If I was a billionaire I would subsidize running Whole Foods in impoverished neighborhoods.
And this is why Linux user space is going down the tube.

Basically that exact capability is why people adopted Linux in the first place to run the servers that run the net.

I don't see how having a / that can get up and running even when the larger system housed in /usr and such is down for the count, is anything more complex that the piles of VMs and containers that is being advocated today.
Roboform: http://roboform.com has been excellent for me. Not sure why I switched to LastPass, but I'm switching back.
On Being a Senior Engineer
It's all in how one defines the terms, isn't it?

https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/606480315842830336

Equivocation is a powerful force.
Yes, I think so, and I'd be surprised if it's not commonplace by 2030.

I think the best thing YC can do is fund startups enabling this (and offering good applications on top of it).
> get the dividends that owning stock gives rights to, or I suppose they want to be able to have the voting rights stocks grant.

IE: People want actual stock. The stock has innate value due to the potential for dividends or to influence the future of a company.

That is a significant amount of value.
Apologies for the meta comment, but this post has been banished from the HN front page [1]. Any ideas why?

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Update: It has been restored as of 9:33am PST. No sure why the downvotes, I found this is be somewhat amazing given whose post this was.

[1] as of 9:28am PST at least
Where does the data come from? It doesn't say.
By far the most notable improvement in this release:

The command line (REPL) now supports tab-completion of emoji characters. (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/107090)
N1QL Query in the Context of a Social Network from Couchbase
Well shit, time to look for alternatives. What else exists other than 1password?
Build fully responsive web apps, no code required
Dell Inspiron 17 5748 5000 2.0ghz HASWELL Core I7-4510U 8GB 1TB WINDOWS 8 PRO
I think the real story here is "users have ZERO trust in Facebook"
Well shit. What oither alternatives besides 1password exist?
There is a smattering of users across the globe...
I think this perspective needs to be expanded on (thank you btw). I'd like to see a couple IP experts 'debate' the issue and the implications of its facets.
Yes, for sure.

I think the starting points you mention are very promising ones.
Roboform works everywhere: http://roboform.com
I think he actually means, "which one shows the most actual stuff." In that case, I'd say one of the infrared spectrums would be it.
It's worth noting that neural networks has been used for Chinese and Japanese keyboards for some years now.

Here's a nice (and easy to read, even if you don't know how written Japanese works) paper on the structure of a Japanese IME called Simeji by Baidu:

Wu, Xianchao, Rixin Xiao, and Xiaoxin Chen. “Using the Web to Train a Mobile Device Oriented Japanese Input Method Editor,” 2013. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/I/I13/I13-1172.pdf
The semantics of those are different. With trait objects the vtable is attached to the value. You could instead imagine a language with two types of trait bounds: one specialized statically (like Rust trait bounds), and the other handled dynamically (like type classes in Haskell). The semantics of these would be identical (vtable travels independently of values), the only difference is performance. I'm not sure if you'd ever want Haskell's implementation strategy in practice though, unless you want to support features that can't be supported by static specialization like polymorphic recursion or higher rank polymorphism (not to be confused with higher kinds). Interestingly C# does support those features and specialization because it specializes at run time. It's a less known very powerful feature, at least in theory :) You can abuse it to make the CLR generate arbitrary code at run-time.
That the program is likely to fail loudly and obviously, but the overfitted model will just sit there being subtly yet perniciously much wronger than you think is, forever.
What about Password Safe "Passwddsafe" I use it om my computer and android and I'm very satisfied. And of course the fact that is designed by Bruce Schneier is a plus for me.
@sama Sam, what are the barriers to a successful IoT in coming years? Will there be a war of standards?
How relevant is the old RFS 5 (Development on Handhelds, http://old.ycombinator.com/rfs5.html) today compared to 2009 when it was published?
From pg's How to Get Startup Ideas[0]:

> Just as trying to think up startup ideas tends to produce bad ones, working on things that could be dismissed as "toys" often produces good ones. When something is described as a toy, that means it has everything an idea needs except being important. It's cool; users love it; it just doesn't matter. But if you're living in the future and you build something cool that users love, it may matter more than outsiders think.

[0]: http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
OK, but why do they owe you anything for the time you chose to spend with their product? In fact by repeatedly using their product you subtract from their bottom line since you are consuming computing and support resources. As far as I see it, $12 buys you a one year LastPass subscription, not a perpetual right to be consulted on any corporate moves they might make. Practically, you probably have a bit more say than a free user would about the product features, but not nearly as much as one of their team members.

In short, while this change to LastPass might not be good for you (or me) in the long run, I don't see why they'd have any responsibility to consult you or me about whether to sell to LogMeIn. We are customers, not shareholders.
I didn't conclude that. It seems the major difference is pasteurization and homogenization so I guess it's one of them or both.

I should add that my observations are mainly about fresh milk from a farm. But even the ultrapasteurized milk they sell in tetra paks is better digestible for me.
Do not accuse people on HN of being shills. And, remain civil.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20shill&sort=byDat...
Snap Circuits are great.

Home Depot carries a ton of electronics stuff (complex enough for a 10 year old) in their hardware section. I didn't find out until recently - they sell erector set parts, bulbs, wires, battery chassis, etc.
Hello Sam, I am Honduran and applying for the winter 2016 batch with other two co founders. One of my co founders (Venezuelan) and I have student F-1 Visas. Since we cannot work yet until we are at OPT we won't be able to make any profits until January or February 2016. Beta for our platform is due tomorrow so we can have a demo but users won't be able to use it for now. Is this going to affect our application? If so, what would you recommend?
Depends on the area. Renting in midwest suburbs, they pointed out and wrote down every tiny scratch in a walkaround before I picked up the car. Renting in New Jersey, the car looked like it had been beaten with a baseball bat, they didn't mark anything down on the damage report.
I believe any of us could do it.
What do you mean when saying that KeePass works for Firefox?
We never plan this in advance. Depends how many companies we fall in love with.
If you were just starting out again what industry would you focus your efforts on now?
El Captain has been out for more than a week now, and the search bar is just not working. Can you imagine an email client without search?

They also broke integration with OSX. You can't set the app as your default client, so when you click on an email address, Apple's Mail app opens instead.

Incredibly annoying.
There seems to be some kind of 'periphery' effect too, in places: zoom in on Portland, Oregon, and it sort of looks like there's a red ring around the town.

I could see it being a 'rural' thing, but the ring is weird.
Thanks, I didn't know that. Would love to have something similar for other languages, though.
I have a "Hacker News" list with Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Paul Buchheit, Sam Altman and maybe some others. I have another list of tech people I've met locally. I remove anybody who posts lots of noise. I check approximately once a day and I almost always see multiple interesting things.
Why create a new system? Just move everything on top of IPv6? Not like most of this junk isn't routed over the internet anyways...

With as much address space as is available in IPv6, it shouldn't be hard to create something that points to the person yet is malleable enough to not be easily abuse.
I think it depends on the dentist. Mine uses amalgam--of which I already have lots (unfloridated water growing up, among other things probably). On the other hand, a friend of mine told me recently that her dentist wouldn't use an amalgam filling in spite of admitting that the composite wouldn't last as long. This is in US.
What Daniel said. Unless you're living under a frickin rock, or are just totally uninformed -- or worse, MISinformed -- then surely you realize that the capitalism that America so proudly championed died a sad death over the last several decades. Plain and simple, a family making a combined salary of nearly $200K in a decent neighborhood shouldn't be struggling to pay for daycare, nor should mom and dad be unable to spend more time with their children. Nor should students be burned with grad school debt for the rest of their professional lives. Nor should people have to suffer -- either physically or financially, or usually, both -- because of medical expenses. It is not politics, it is rational common sense: just as taxes are used to pay for our fire and police protection, they should be used to pay for health and education too, including and especially providing a support network to enable the most critically important aspect of society, caring for one's family. Because after all, wtf is the point of everything else, if we can't produce a society where everyone is living comfortably, well-educated, healthy, and able to comfortably support their children? This isn't socialism. It's capitalism done right, the way it was done prior to about the 1970s. Geezus. As proud Americans it's our founding fathers' mandated DUTY that we speak out and say when our beloved country is slipping. Well, we're slipping. So let's do something about it already.
Read your link. Dark pools are created so institutions can trade large blocks without moving the price, or to hide transactions.

Dark pools are beneficial to institutions in some circumstances, not to individuals.

And yes HFT hasn't always existed, once upon a time you'd have a pit of screaming traders and brokers, and for an individual to buy/sell stocks you'd have to call your broker on the phone, who'd charge you an obscene amount for the privilege.

Anyhow, HFT is more or less just a euphemism for high-speed arbitrage/market making.

I look at the execution I get on my trades today, I couldn't imagine not having that service available.
Well Gobo basically don't care, it maintains a replica FHS so that minimal effort is needed to get existing software running.

Heck, it originated as one guy's solution for managing self-compiled programs within his home dir on the university mainframe (or some such).

You can still find Rootless (the bootstrap tool for using Gobolinux in the home directory) on the Gobolinux site, but i can't comment on how well maintained it is these days.
Development has been very slow on the mobile front as well. When was the latest major feature addition?
I run 3-4 miles every morning, before work. My before-and-after is pretty drastic, which is why I run every morning.

So I say without ambiguity: I defnitely get runner's high. It changes my personality and my "feeling tone" significantly.
Those don't cover the technical aspects, although to be fair, something like 70-90% of the systemd "debate" is about non-technical issues, like "the Unix philosophy" or "change for change's sake"--just read the comments here!
Give okeylabs a look. Not out yet but for the future.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/20/anti-ageing-h...
A follow up to this would be that if we use market numbers should we use attribution links to show where we got them from?
Quite frankly - speed. Mailbox on the mobile is just blazing fast.
Right, that's the obvious situation that I see. I'm wondering if anyone can argue otherwise?

If not, why isn't there a bigger push for market infrastructure that doesn't advantage high frequency trades?

I don't know that most high frequency microtrades are a real problem either way, since it seems mostly zero sum among the people playing that game. But whenever there is a macro change in a price that takes place over a tiny time scale, it seems that we shouldn't be advantaging speed in getting there first.
I think this is about materials which shrink in all directions when heated. As in that a cube of the material will lose width, height and depth. I don't think that's the case with rubber or the "heat shrink" elastomers used for encasing wires.
@Sama,thanks for the answer.
As far as I know these can be simply bought on black market... it's not like these scammers get them by themselves, hacking into databases etc.
How do you like it so far?