skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did you learn?

I learned about lipase when I was a kid and followed my dad around at the farm. According to him it was the lipase in the homogenized whole milk that made the difference in taste that I recognized between milk from the storage tank on the farm and bought milk.

Reading up on it now it seems to be a bit more complicated but still.
At the same time, getting either source-layout guarantees or a way to explicitly specify layout is necessary for some task types, to avoid false sharing for instance. Go currently does neither.
How were they handled? I didn't have one.
Electronic trading decreased them. HFT increased trading costs. This is why dark pools are now a thing.
Yes that is absurd. So absurd. I would be furious if I were a parent.

The real reason? Good calories are expensive.
Erlang has good C/OS Process interop so the best route would probably be to capitalize on something written in a faster language to do the raw processing and have Elixir there to coordinate resources and report/store results
I think most people would use the word "mindfulness" for what you're describing. It is an amazing feeling that I get from lifting but never quite got from cardio.
FWIW milk in Germany is also often (most of the time?) homogenized. And it tastes differently depending on the "manufacturer" (the company, not the cows).

*Also PSA: Europe is many different countries, not a single one like the US. So it doesn't make much sense to say "in Europe", because there are huge differences between countries ;-)
If you don't want liquidity don't buy it. No one is forcing you.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/how_to_not_get_rippe...
Thanks for the heads up. As a current influx (and cassandra) user, I'm painfully aware of the limitations at "scale". Influx seems to be the best long term play, but still has some growing up to do.
You should see what happened behind the ship.

http://i1.wp.com/gcaptain.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ku-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx1EDAypi7g
Most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10359491.
So many people talking about how 3d printers is something impractical for everybody.

The other day I attended a talk about the history of personal computers, and certainly it rhymes.

At the time everybody was saying, a personal computer? who wants this? People do not need a database for cooking, or a spreadsheet, it is a very expensive typing machine and it is very hard to use(command line). It was true.

What happened is that personal (and then mobile) computers evolved from a entrepise-centric to user-centric to grandma-could-use-facebook centric computers.

Most people in the old days could not imagine what the future would look like, because computer did exist, but their applications were different to what they predicted.

In the same way I believe 3d printing is amazing, not for what it is now, but what it will became.

I volunteered giving 3d classes for children and it is incredible what they could do after you teach them the basic concepts.

What is shocking for me is that it is "normal" for those 10 years old to design things that I could only do after studying engineering and gaining experience. Some of them absorb knowledge like an sponge.

I see in them the next Linux Towards, but instead of OSes, it becomes possible to design a car, or a plane over the Internet.Before 3d printers it is so hard that is practically impossible for normal people to do it.
Thanks for sharing it as it forced me to look it up. The Wikipedia article has nice summary and traces its effects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU_%28programming_language%29

I knew about some of Liskov's work but didn't know CLU was her precursor to OOP. Among other things. Pretty forward-thinking. I see it as a nice space between Structured Programming and OOP where people wanting some, not all, OOP constructs might be comfortable.
Definitely interesting, but they're talking about "elder" being living past 30. I'm not sure that holds in the realm of cancer and knee replacements, though.
I got two of them, one at 1322 UTC and the other at 1454 UTC (two Premium accounts).
Sometimes genes are a good bit of it. In my family we have ~150lb people who eat endlessly, thousands of calories a day. 6 ft tall, thin as a rail. Many of them. So that's got to be genes.
I'm not sure it's exaggeration. Who do you sell your jug of mercury to at $1850/flask...? Would any scientific or industrial consumer want to buy random flasks of unknown quality from laymen at fair prices? Just quoting bulk commodity prices for mercury is like noting that a particular diamond costs you $2k at the department store and assuming that you must then have an asset worth $2k.
Neither electronic market maker or HFT is a technically defined term, nor is it clear what people mean when they use those terms.

That said, when I was in the industry the common usage of the terms would be that electronic market makers were a subset of HFT.

That is there are HFT strategies that are not market makers, but there are no electronic market makers who are not HFT.
> There are no infrastructure changes, or hardware required. This was one of FTC’s guidelines for the contest.

> Unfortunately, Nomorobo is not available on traditional analog landlines or wireless phones at this time.

Sounds like he failed the challenge...

I don't think his idea is revolutionary - one could setup Asterisk to do what he did.
They are supporting it only in marshmallow as of now
I pay for LastPass because on Android, it will automatically fill in passwords on any screen, saves a ton of time, I wouldn't want to fuss around with a spreadsheet on my phone...
I think 18F is a great idea and seems to be doing good things, but are there not existing options they can use? Why reinvent the wheel?
I don't understand percentages used to describe genetic similarity. I mean I heard that humans share 50% with bananas and 96% with chimpanzees.

So if 4% is the difference between humans and chimps then 2-6% can be very significant, right? Or can those numbers even be compared?
Make your coffee out of half-and-half for the real treat!
>Trudeau said he'll "thoroughly examine" it.

The cynical side of me thinks that his constituents don't support the TPP, but he doesn't want to upset his donors by not passing it. So he's using weasel words to make it look like he's against it, but after the election (if he wins) he's going to pass it.
> protects it with trade secrets

Trade secrets, unlike patents and copyrights, are not a legal construct. They're just things you aren't telling anyone.
Better: whipped cream on corn flakes!
The $70,000 Minimum Wage Experiment Reveals a Dark Truth
The video at the "byzantine regulatory framework" link[1] is worth a watch (at least the first 10 minutes to get a taste). One of the most valuable offerings of cloud.gov is (hopefully) the ease with which it can go through the ATO and FISMA processes because it was designed with them in mind.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1S52B1-NT4
>Not expending resources to actively provide a forum is in no sense "telling people they shouldn't be discussing a thing". That's an absurd standard.

It's not the same as commanding them not to discuss in general anywhere, but IT IS shuting them up from discussion in your (the site owner's I mean) premises. Essentially the message is "I don't like how you are discussing, and I'm stopping you from discussing here anymore".

The thing is that that's (a news site comment section) is the only place that all readers of it can discuss it as a community -- the only place that's not disjointed (each own's blog, some social news link site, etc) and the place that guarantess more than any other that readers of the same news piece have a chance to see those comments, and that the writer and outlet will see them too (and publicly).

>What does that have to do with anything? They're not CNN. They're external fora. If you're happy with those, you shouldn't have said anything at all; they exist, they will continue to exist, nobody is talking about shutting them down.

You missed the point. I didn't say Reddit was closing its forum like CNN. I gave it as an example of a place that's often considered very bad for its comment threads, to say that even there one can have great discussions.

My comment meant: "You think the CNN forums are bad? Hey, people knock down Reddit even more, but you can have great discussions there".

>What's your problem then? The whole point of this conversation is CNN and NYT and Wired (eventually) shutting down comment sections, not anybody else. What do you think you're defending, exactly?

I'm defending NOT closing active comment sections in general, from any site that has them. I'm defending having comment sections in news sites.

Why? Because I think discussion on the news, and directly on their source, is important. In fact it was hailed as a big revolution when this web came out -- that readers have a voice to respond to journalists and not just curated "letters to the editor" and disjointed replies from their own website/blog.

>With all due respect, you seem to be so sure you already know what other people are going to say, you don't bother actually reading what they do say.

Why does it have to get to name-calling? Did I say anything ad-hominem? .
Levels the playing field for retail investors.

If your entire strategy is arbitrage, then of course you're going to lose out to someone who is quicker and has better technology. Of course some people who lost out on 'low hanging fruit' are going to be mad someone else bought a bigger ladder.

But if your strategy is anything else (investing or any type of speculative trading) then HFT benefits you.

I've traded on markets with low liquidity and no HFT, and high liquidity with HFT. I don't miss the low-liquidity markets, waiting half a day to see your order executed only to see the price move against you because no one could match your order, meanwhile institutional traders are trading the same stock outside the exchange is the worst kind of infuriating.

The argument against HFT is like saying that bank tellers who exchange currency for a 2% spread are cheating out back-alley money changers who take a 20% spread... Yes someone is losing, but it's not necessarily a bad thing.
I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA
The application deadline for our winter 2016 batch is next Tuesday, and people frequently have a lot of questions about applying. Also happy to talk about anything else!

EDIT 11:15 AM PDT: I have to go. This was fun!
I had very similar issues and I reported to Mailbox a month back. Nothing seemed to have happened so switched to Mac mail...
A $20 fine and a criminal record, which as I understand it is something you _really_ don't want.
Friends of the S.S. United States Send Out a Last S.O.S
Why are NASA inventions not in the public domain, like any other work of the US government?
Local keepass database, synced with $yourpreferredcloudservice.

On my Android phone I use a keepass app that includes a keyboard, which integrates typing in username/password.

Also supports 2fa totp, which feels to me like poking holes in the whole idea, but if you want to use it it's there.
Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast from Parks and Recreation
Just for the sake of multiplatformability...

Is there something remotely as good as 1Password for Linux?
Google is basically running and funding the democratic party in the United States. This combined with their NSA compliance is a scary thing.

I now find it suspect whenever they want to make changes to the search results, especially when it always seems to favor their political party.

Bernie Sanders will never win simply because his goal is to put a stop to this bullshit.
Oh, thank you. I was desperately trying to work out if this was a "A16Z" (Andreessen Horowitz) thing...
Google AMP sounds bad for the web
I speak from personal experience. It was all greed with certain major players.
Hi Sam, thanks for doing this.

Is there any advice you can give to young founders trying to get into YC or raise a seed round? It’s worth noting we’re students with graduation quickly approaching. I fear my previous applications weren’t seriously considered since my team and I lack true industry experience, which leaves us seemingly unqualified.
Recently a plethora of startups working on new nuclear energy technology have been created: Transatomic power, Flibe, Helion and UPower (to name a few). These startups, respectively, have technology based on molten salt reactors (MSR), new fuels (Thorium), or new modalities (small distributed scale and fusion). Most of these startups face a huge challenge (and capital requirement) to go from idea/concept to pilot/demonstration plant. As Chairman of Helion and UPower how do you see these new startups commercializing their technology? Will they require partnerships with existing utilities and what is the expected timeline?
Hi @sama. Are there any technologies that you would not consider funding?
Thanks!

I fixed that typo. We will make sure to review thoroughly and better we will offer tools to the community to edit and moderate. Currently, we can add more moderators for the page.

1]
Quora is great for getting crowdsourced opinions.
Ex: Its great for I am turning 30 what do I do with my life.
There is no 1 person expert in that.
But when I want something like 'How does YC decide whom to make a partner' => I want one of the partners to answer it and not just opinions. The partners can just become moderators of their Q&A page and do that.

2]
For the page I shared, it's more like a Q&A Wikipedia. Wikipedia just has facts while these Q&As and discussions are also valuable. Here are few more wiki like pages:
www.askmeanything.me/influencers/markcuban
www.askmeanything.me/influencers/GuyKawasaki

For Above YC/Guy Kawasaki, Mark Cuban can anytime claim ownership.

3]
At the same time, we also have interesting people answering questions all the time on their Own page
Founding Engineer of Pinterest: www.askmeanything.me/influencers/yashnelapati

4]
We also have startups using us to customize their Q&A page and tell their stories and use it for humanizing their brands(Brand marketing)
www.askmeanything.me/brands/tint

This will evolve pretty quickly though. We did all the above in 2 months.
Keepass has apps on Android, I've seen an implementation for WP, I'm not sure about iOS.
They will maintain it like any company does - hand off support for existing products as employees leave.
People often post about their families on Facebook. Then the scammers look into the profiles of those family members and look for someone who recently left on a vacation trip or something.
Thanks for your response. So Angular 2 going to break almost everything in angular 1.x versions?
Is this something you do on a regular basis? Do you do something "high profile" when you do this? Or do you do it everytime you access internet?
Yeah. Don't know. Maybe its "of the genes that vary"?
In New Zealand there is no mandatory car insurance, and that's how I think it should be.

(I do not live in New Zealand).

Take your own risks in life. Don't drive a car you can't afford to replace.
Hey Sam, would it be okay to use third party links to prove our market exists? - would the software that you use to scan through apps create a hyperlink and allow the partner reading the app to click thru?
Patreon Leak Analysis
My company uses join.me (a Logmein product) all the time for easy screen sharing. It's one of the few quick screen sharing apps out there that doesn't require a heavy download and is user friendly enough to be used by all of the people in our company and all of our client.

I've been using LastPass since 2011 and have been really happy with it (other than the slightly opaque UI and design from the 90's).

I'm hopeful about the acquisition, maybe logmein can give some UI/UX guidance to the LastPass team, while the LastPass team can help expand and grow to help more people to use a password manager.

If not, there are plenty of other password managers out there, I suppose.
> I don't think his idea is revolutionary - one could setup Asterisk to do what he did.

Twilio is stupid simple to prototype and get up and running with, at which point you could transition to your own SIP provider with a cluster of Asterisk servers when you're at scale.
Please change to one pager.

http://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/the-70000-minimum-wag...
Hi @sama. Since anyone could have applied to YC Fellowship, do you think that it finally became just a small "seed round" for the startups that would win YC Winter 2016.
No, there is rarely a fine line. It's a very obvious line of "are you trading on information on the market". An HFT doesn't even have the ability to front-run unless they are also providing a brokerage service.
Hi @sama, I'm From Brazil and CEO of an EdTech startup. We're profitable, with 60 employees and a lot consumer traction/revenue, but didn't raise a Series A yet. Questions:

1) What advice would you give to applicants from Brazil and other large countries (India, China, Russia), whose products initially target their local markets?

2) What advice would you give to post-Seed and pre-Series A applicants? When (if at all) would you consider them "too big for YC"?

3) If you select a post Seed startup, would YC invest at their latest valuation, or would it only offer the standard deal, even if it would be a "down round" for current investors?

Heard you are visiting India and know you've been to Mexico not long ago. Ever thought about coming to Brazil? Best regards, Bernardo
>Given how much Go already does for one

How much is that? As far as modern (2000 and onwards) languages Go, Golang and the compiler are pretty barebones. The compiler especially is as basic as it gets...
That's a trip. I agree with you about HPC having much wisdom that isn't exploited outside of it. Lots of what I heard from "cloud," etc had already been done in MPP's, etc. They still haven't caught up to the field totally and I still plan on resurrecting MPP eventually.

A prior discussion here suggests what holds it back is cultures. The HPC people keep to themselves and don't try to make anything useful outside the field. The cloud projects act like they're the only thing going on. And so on. Bridging the gap may never happen but I always encourage upstarts to dig into the HPC literature on their topics as they might find gold. One of few cases an ACM/IEEE fee is worthwhile. ;)

Personal example was trying to find a patent-resistant, NUMA architecture to use for security-enhanced SPARC CPU's. Stumbled upon the MIT Alewife machine that did NUMA up to 512 nodes using (a) SPARC processor modified for quick context-switching & message passing; (b) a single, custom chip to handle NUMA aspects. Making cheap, COTS hardware NUMA w/ open design would take one ASIC development using that architecture. Just cuz I studied supercomputing once and remembered to look it up. :)
I was wondering about the new open ip effort for the r&d lab. I work in the air force research lab and am working to do the same for us and other gov agencies. How do you plan to release/license ip... Marketing strategies, etc
Will YCR accept donations from outsiders?
Given that the posted article made that comparison and it matches my experience in the industry it seemed ok to "pretend" that electronic market making was a subset of HFT.

I understand that these terms are used differently by different people, so maybe you can define what you mean to make it more clear what you think the distinctions are.

[edit] You've edited your comment since I replied to call me a shill. Full disclosure, I have worked in HFT and make no secret of it. I do not currently.
I thought that people already stopped using Swiftkey.
@Sama,

So my question is about YC Research. You said in that earlier thread you will be hand picking the people. How exactly do you intend to do that if you don't me asking? Are you partnering with schools? Are they going to be recommended? Do you already have a database?
So does KeyPassX, quite well actually, at least on iOS but there are Android apps as well.

iOS (MiniKeyPass): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minikeepass-secure-password/...

Source: https://github.com/MiniKeePass/MiniKeePass
In Los Angeles, it maps out to ethnicity pretty nicely. I don't know why, I wouldn't think it would, but it clearly does.
Uber finds signs linking Lyft exec to hack of its driver database
In your opinion: If global human society would be a startup.

What could/would be our 10x growth lever in innovation/living quality.

(reason i ask - in the end YC is one of those companies shaping global innovation that could help move towards above)
It has an implementation in Chrome and Firefox and both Microsoft Edge and the WebKit teams have indicated that they will support it. On top of that there are 2 super excellent polyfills.

In the world of the web platform it doesn't get much more standard than that.
Hey Sam, given your position I imagine you see numerous unique, novel ideas and the trends that drive them. Having said that is there any particular trend that you're seeing today that has you particularly intrigued or excited?
Yeah, even more so than income. It is kinda weird that way.
A comprehensive test looking at the BRCAs may deeply sequence sequence the entire gene(s); spanning around 150 thousand base pairs. You'd not only want to look for SNPs, but novel SNVs, and various structural variants (SVs) and copy-number variants (CNVs). I don't know the most common class of mutations for BRCA1 and 2, so it may be the case that a smaller, cheaper panel could be nearly as effective as well.
This accusation could be very damaging to the single biggest advantage Lyft seems to have over Uber -- its good-guy reputation.
Is YC positioning itself to become a competitive alternative to traditional universities with YCR?
If you're handing off a struct to C code, the order of your fields is going to be significant. If the Go compiler began reordering struct fields as an optimization, it would need to provide some way to disable that optimization on a per-struct basis (and unless Go could automatically detect which structs are crossing an FFI boundary, this optimization would need to be opt-in rather than opt-out in order to avoid breaking existing code). As a precedent, Rust deliberately does what you describe and reserves the right to reorder struct fields (though AFAIK it's not actually exercising this right yet), and in order to manually enforce a struct's layout you must tag it with the #[repr(C)] attribute.
Will we have another startup school this year? I haven't seen any information.