skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say we have a problem with inequality in the "real existing capitalist democracy". That doesn't mean we have to abandoned capitalism to fix it, it just means that the particular form of economy+government we have is not as good as we like.

I would expect we'll get a lot further trying to make it better, than starting from scratch. It's also a lot more likely to happen.

Waelth inequality is probably going to be very hard to eliminate, wealth distribution follows zipfs law, which suggests that inequality is the stable configuration and equality will tend to fall apart.
I would like to use your website without telling you my location. At least on safari, I'm unable to do it. The request for my location keeps reappearing after clicking no.
Leaving out the possibility that Facebook and Apple have agreements that let Facebook bypass restrictions that other vendors are subject too.

Remember that Apple is not a government and can and does show favoritism in how it relates to developers selling through their system.

Although the prospect of Google, Facebook or Apple doing always on Voice Recognition seems unlikely in terms of bandwidth and power requirements.
Not sure what it's trying to suggest ;) http://i.imgur.com/KfGH6Rb.jpg
Meta: We might have more respect -- in limited measure -- for the government's position if they actually cleaned up their own malfeasance, instead of persistently, predictably trying to bury it.

You want transparency? Lead by example.
I care because it's a convention. Without knowing too much about Angular 2, I know that it's got major breaking changes compared to Angular 1. Likewise, I know that a 1.15.2 should upgrade from a 1.15.1 fairly trivially, whereas a 1.16.0 might take a little more consideration.

With all that said, the responses to my question are very reasonable, such as "people I know and respect have used it and stated sane upgrades historically." In the absence of this piece of tech in my own social circle, SemVer is a convention that Facebook will have to live up to. 6 months to a year after Facebook switches to it, I can research how reasonable they are with introducing breaking changes and supporting old, stable versions. I believe that more people will be vocal about a major breaking change post 1.0 than pre-1.0.
I am, and love it.

It's not without flaws, but it's compelling enough that I live with its shortcomings.

What do I like ?

1) One codebase that supports 57 targets. This code is well exercised.

2) Nice balance of conservatism and progressiveness. Seems well-rooted in tradition, but still progressive/interesting with things like the RUMP kernels[0], Lua kernel interface[1], etc.

3) Plays well with others. It's probably out-and-about more than people realize. I once had a printer that had NetBSD as its OS. Original Apple airport units[2] were NetBSD (as is a good amount of MacOS X userland[3], apparently) -- but as an explicit product (i.e.: using it directly by choice), it's nice, and it interacts well enough with other systems as well. It's got a simple httpd in the base, and ftpd, ssh, etc for swapping files in/out in an emergency. It will read FAT filesystems, or ext2,3(,4?), it runs firefox, etc. (admittedly, I don't care too much about high-level end-user software, and depending on what you think you need, you might be better served elsewhere -- including moving to Windows or MacOS X).

4) I've used NetBSD as my principle OS since 1.6 (2002). It has supported my work, taught me things, and kept my interest. If you're interested in seeing what it's about, you should install it and give it a good try.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_kernel

[1] https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/mbalmer/fosdem2...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4117803

[3] http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/products.html#darwin
WSJ/Dowjones Announce Unauthorized Access Between 2012-15 [pdf]
New York pioneered this with their 311 phone service. That was originally set up to get minor problems off of 911, and ended up being the main way citizens get the city to do something.

With a mobile phone, you can have pictures and geolocation, which helps. It's a good way to report health and safety violations, because you get pictures.

The real question is, do you get a ticket number you can track? Any support service where you can't track your requests is more cosmetic than useful.
I read this the other way. That the post you're replying to here was saying 'flip the table around and try to read the experience from the other side'. Are the engineers really flat and without life, or is it that the venn diagram of their mutual interests has a very small overlap and neither is particularly good at figuring out how to engage the other?
Like lightsabers?
The cynic in me says for you not to worry.

In 10 years the United States will (unfortunately) be no closer to landing a man on Mars. The mess that is the Congressional budget process will guarantee it.

Much like fusion and AI, an American on Mars always seems about 20-25 years away.
My point is that we're not getting liberal copyright laws here. At least this helps our economy.
A single alternative (your program) doesn't do much to follow up for the "fail once, fail forever" system. You'd need a healthy ecosystem of competitors to your program to accomplish that. I guess someone who failed at a project in your research program could ostensibly transition to the industry side of their field, but there's still no going back to academia once you've left.
As I understand it, 18F started off as part of USDS. But the Obama administration wanted the program to outlive his tenure as POTUS, so they tucked 18F into the GSA.
Click the "Info" tab near the top for a key.
You should use:

#!/usr/bin/env python

or preferably

#!/usr/bin/env python2

or

#!/usr/bin/env python3

env supposed to always be in /usr/bin, while python doesn't. On FreeBSD for example it is in /usr/local/bin because it is not integral part of the OS.
Speaking as a researcher, IMO you might be belittling the OP's concern. While the YC initiative is noble, it has yet to be tested. I have worked in research and tech startups, and in very many ways the two couldn't be more different. Some of the best biotech research comes from incremental and ponderous study of minutiae, not 'ends driven' processes.

From the perspective of a biotech researcher in the US, the funding model here is broken. As a result of funding levels falling for more than a decade, and universities being less willing to invest in individuals without consistent major funding, getting grants has become a very political process.

I applaud YC's efforts. We need alternatives, but I am not sure that YC is interested in the same kinds of research that the legacy funding system used to support. Science is not sexy. The results can be incredibly sexy, but you never go in looking for those sexy results.

EDIT: In addition, it's worth considering the difference in the peak talent age of a researcher as compared to a programmer. You can code in your bedroom as a preteen, but it's very difficult to get unfettered access to a molecular research laboratory before the age of 22. The best researchers are older, and that changes the equation in important ways.
What about the ole Silicon Valley North? :) Although not much has happened in Ottawa since the bubble with the exception of Shopify.
This reminds me an awful lot of KDE's KParts architecture, which among other things, can allow a large program (such as an IDE) to swap out one editor component for another at runtime (many KDE apps do this already, allowing you to switch between Kate and Vim editor components).
Bots talking with each other
If you visit www.wsj.com or other Dowjones owned sites you'll see a banner with the link: "Please click here to read an important security message."
like we have mentioned here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10360682
we have curated the AMA at
http://www.askmeanything.me/brands/ycombinator
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I tried three pictures of Nick Offerman, and it only got one.
Hi Goronmon,

My name is Eva Schweber and I work for AgileBits, the folks who make 1Password.

While it is true that we think it is important for our potential customers to know that we may charge for a future version of 1Password, we have only done this once in the 9 years that 1Password has been available. And that was after a significant upgrade from 1Password 3 to 1Password 4 when we rewrote the entire app from scratch.

Customers who purchased 1Password 4 for iOS have received free upgrades (including Pro Features) to 1Password 5 and 1Password 6. The same is true for our 1Password 4 for Mac customers, who received 1Password 5 (our current version) for free.
Chrome never had support. RSS support was always (and still is) from extensions.
Yes. If I didn't vote, what incentive whatsoever would my representatives have to act in my interest? I may not have a statistically significant impact on the outcome, but neither do any of the other tens of millions of people who vote. Even if an individual vote isn't statistically significant, the aggregate of them is, and because non-voters are self-selecting we can't count on those who vote enthusiastically to be a representative sample of the opinions of the populace. Each person who makes the decision that their vote doesn't matter helps our country slide away from government by the people and towards government by corporations.

Living in a part of the US that skews VERY heavily towards one party, I especially vote in primary elections, which are where it's actually determined which congresscritter or senator we'll be sending to Washington or the state capital. And yes, I will absolutely vote my heart rather than strategically in a primary. "Electable" too often isn't.

And I make sure to vote in off-year state and local elections too because those actually have more impact on my daily quality of life in the short-term than national ones do. (Whereas national elections have more impact on the long-term direction of the country, especially when there are Supreme Court vacancies likely).

My state allows a candidate to run for office on multiple parties' slates, and will aggregate those votes for the candidate. I dislike one party much more than the other, but there are third-parties far closer to my actual positions. I'll often vote for a major-party candidate on a third-party slate, which both helps ensure that the third party remains on the ballot for the next election cycle and hopefully helps send a message to the major party in question.

(Edited for typos.)
Every batch someone from YC does a Q&A.

Additionally YC partners give a lot of good startup advise at events, twitter etc.

We wanted to create a wiki of all YC related Q&A. You can submit any more by emailing askmeanything.me@gmail.com and we will have it posted with due credit to you and the original source. Also please share any feedback.
We loved reading all of them. Hope you like it too!
I haven't used it, but doesn't 1password support multiple vaults?

IE: your company makes a vault in a dropbox directory shared with employees, and multiple people just add that as a secondary vault?

conflicting changes are probably an issue though...
On the issue of tech sector, U Waterloo obviously puts out many great students.

I absolutely agree. But YC doesn't need to be where the university is. I mean, people apply to YC from all over the world, not just from the bay area.

Vancouver is likely even more costly to live than SV.

Relative to average income, yes. But that's just because Vancouver doesn't have much in the way of high-wage industries. In an absolute sense, Vancouver is much cheaper than SV.

KW (and southern Ontario in general) is a great place with warm weather 6 months per year and access to the 3rd largest city in North America.

Assuming you mean Toronto, it's only 3rd if you take "North America" to mean Canada+USA and take "largest" to mean "population within city limits"... a definition which says that Vancouver is smaller than Winnipeg, and San Francisco is smaller than Jacksonville. Based on metropolitan populations Toronto ranks 8th, between Washington DC and Houston.

But I would say that Toronto would be my second choice out of Canadian cities. The size definitely helps; I don't think it compensates for being three time zones away and twice as hard to reach from SFO though.
That's why file systems that do end to end checksumming should be the norm.
I think YC is the wrong place for this, for all the reasons you say. I don't see any reason that Tarsnap fits in YC besides "community", and even then it would be more of an outlier than a peer. It seems like it would fit in a community of people that are interested in lower risk, slower growing, but more personally lucrative businesses.

YC companies do technically interesting things for sure, but a lot of the community is probably more about hiring, office space, fund raising, financials, and that sort of thing. These are all different for high risk startups.

I heard about this "Micropreneur" thing several years ago. This is something that interests me, and I've been working part time on projects in this vein. It seems to me that people who want slower growth and less personal risk are inherently a little less "collaborative". That describes me and there's nothing wrong with it. Still, I understand the need to bounce ideas off of others, quickly fill in gaps in your knowledge, etc.
> As it is, the chasm between the super rich and the rest is growing.

"The rest", as a complement to "super rich" in the above, clearly means "not super rich". This necessarily includes various categories such as "merely rich, but short of super", as well as "well-off", "struggling", and "flat broke".

The poverty line is an abstraction that demarcates zones in a political field. What it means to be "poor" is a moving target. Someone from the 1600's would laugh at what constitutes a "poor" person today. How can someone be poor and have all that stuff (automobile, iPad, high speed Internet, 50" TV, ...), and weigh 300 pounds, too? And still alive at 45 years old, and smiling---with no missing teeth when doing so. What's more, working only 5 days a week for some 7 hours a day.
It would help if the writers who want to complain about inequality knew what bourgeoisie means.
Thanks - I understand the healthcare website debacle now better. :)
> We have not undergone a 409A valuation to determine the current strike price of Clef stock.

Isn't a 409A valuation required every 6-12 months by the IRS?

EDIT:

"Section 409A requires the value of stock options be determined “by the reasonable application of a reasonable valuation method” with two caveats: 1) the grant price must reflect material information, often referred to as a value creation event (i.e. the price paid in a recent financing); and 2), the calculation of value must not be more than 12 months old. In practice, private companies pursue 409A appraisals from independent qualified valuation firms either immediately after completion of a financing or other significant financial transaction (e.g. merger or acquisition), or, six to nine months of elapsed time since the prior appraisal, whichever comes sooner (more mature companies tend to pursue appraisals more frequently). The receipt of such an appraisal should provide a safe harbor to employees with regard to a potential tax liability as long as your company is less than 10 years old, you don’t have a liquidity event within 12 months after the option grant or you don’t have put or call rights on your company’s stock."

https://blog.wealthfront.com/409a/
Show HN: Promiscuous – the ultimate context switcher using Git and Vim sessions
Quick clarification. 18F is not assigned work by USDS. Federal agencies come to 18F with proposed projects and then 18F chooses which ones it works on based on staffing/scope/impact etc.

I'm an 18F employee.
Computer Scientists Wield Artificial Intelligence to Battle Tax Evasion
I would avoid using .zip file format encryption, who knows how safe that is. PGP as encryptor would probably be a better choice.
did you hear about YC Research announced 2 days ago?

- the link: https://ycr.org
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10347821
Yes, though in the past 10-15 years I've become increasingly jaded to the point where I really wonder if it's worth it, at least at the state and national level.
Please explain because that makes absolutely no sense. It's just an attribute.
There is always the possibility of Facebook listening to conversation. But it is also possible to figure out your interest using context time travel. Google does it all the time.[1]

> Imagine scaling this idea. Imagine you know everything a person goes through. Everything. In the right context, you will be able to predict everything this person does. By studying his past, you can determine his thoughts all the time. Here is something that happened to me a few years ago.

> I've watched a Mexican show on YouTube for a few month. Let's call it a soap opera for now. A month later, I was chatting with a friend in Mexico and I've mentioned the show. She mentioned another Brazilian show she liked. This conversation was happening on whatsapp. The moment I jumped on Google, on my desktop machine, all I had to do was type 2 characters on the search bar and Google completed it with the name of the show she was talking about.

[1] http://idiallo.com/blog/context-time-travel
Hi Isn0gud,
My name is Eva Schweber and I work for AgileBits, the folks who make 1Password.

1Password is not a subscription service. Instead we charge a one-time fee to purchase the app. That license remains valid for the duration of that version's lifetime.
The book/movie depicts Rich Purnell using some NASA/JPL supercomputers to verify his calculations.

Knowing nothing (or less than nothing if thats possible) about Celestial Mechanics, considering that the technique (gravitational assist/slinghsot maneauver???) was used in space probes as early as the 1970s, how much computing power would be needed to do these calculations?

I guess the faster the computing resources, the earlier you would get your solutions. But are these calculations that could be done on more run of the mill computing hardware?
Thought so too.

Right now I am more drawn towards the first two occupations I mentioned.

The startup involves a very interesting business model. However it is technically not very challenging (B2B marketplace). It just seems to be very hard to wind down my engagement there.

My main interest lies within AI (Philosophy/CS student). My thirst for knowledge hasn't been fulfilled yet and so far I really enjoy the academic atmosphere.

I really have to set priorities now. Thanks for your quick response.
There's also the question of inequality. Granting monopolies exacerbates inequality, so a hypothetical short term boost to productivity growth might not translate into meaningfully better quality of life for most people. Government engineered barriers to competitive use of specific ideas could undermine the bargaining power of workers, and artificially inflate or support prices of key goods.

It seems like an innovation supporting tax would be less restrictive, while still rewarding useful innovations that the market somehow fails to reward.
Cut through switching in 10 GbE applications however does not modify ANYTHING about the packet as it gets sent along. It'll calculate that a packet was bad, but at that point it's already too late to do anything about it because it's already forwarded part or all of it onto the next wire segment.

This can be equally frustrating, as now you have to trace the entire path from switch to switch and try and figure out what cable/fibre is bad, and you see error counters increase on multiple interfaces.
We submitted early for last winter, and we noticed 4 complete views of our video, which was comforting.
By the way, you don't have to wait for someone else to do it for you. The whole point of the startup ethos is that you don't need permission to start. No YC where you are? Pool like-minded local entrepreneurs and make your own. It won't be as good at first, but so what? You'd be surprised how much you can achieve.
QQ.H.7(1)(b) would seem to be in place to cover large-scale file sharing that is not done for commercial gain.

At least we have this referring to (b):

> 136 A Party may provide that the volume and value of any infringing items may be taken into account in determining whether the act has a substantial prejudicial impact on the interests of the copyright or related rights owner in relation to the marketplace.

So if your lawmakers are sane (...) you're likely safe singing Happy Birthday.

The true problem with (a) comes in regards to fan-made works that are not clearly reviews or parodies, and are thus not under international standards of fair use.

For instance, there's Japan's dojinshi market, valued at US$588mm/yr, in which it is common for creators of astonishingly professional-quality arrangements of copyrighted video game/anime music (among other things) to charge money for limited runs of physical albums. There's no doubt that allowing this to be commercial allows higher-quality productions to be made, and more people to use this as a way to practice their creative skills... this is true of any creative industry.

There's a real fear that Japan's hand may be forced, if they accept the TPP, to criminalize and prosecute this marketplace, even though right now it is considered a crime that can only be prosecuted if the victim files charges. For if they don't make and enforce such a law, they'd be in violation of the broader treaty.

For more context, see: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-05-21/japanes...

And lest we think this is limited to Japan, consider that any unlicensed cover bands that charge for gigs anywhere in the world, or sell a demo CD, would be considered criminals. And minimum sentencing does indeed exist in the United States...

(IANAL)
You don't want to rearrange structs on every system call. That would be slow.
My problem with Inbox is that it doesn't let you easily delete emails. It's 2 or 3 actions to delete, which is unreasonable with high mail volume. The Google party line is that you should never have to delete, but I don't care to have old quora digests in my archive when I'm searching for actual relevant mail.

In addition, the snooze feature for Mailbox is extremely helpful.
How to get PS3 remote play working on the PlayStation TV
Beg HN: Someone please launch the PostHaven of password management services
* The acquisition of LastPass is extremely disheartening.

* Charge me $5/month.

* Let me create accounts for my family.

* Put my security ahead of a liquidity event.

* Pledge to never be acquired.
Do you think the people that have signed up for YCR haven't considered the career risks?

It seems like anyone seriously interested in being a career researcher would know how unforgiving and competitive mainstream academia is.
Alternatively other people in the same building could have had roaches and somehow made FB aware of it (e.g. status updates), and FB could have targeted him based on his address.
Fauxmentum
Thanks for bringing out his AI comment, it seems much more aligned with the main superintelligence research community now than when I read his thoughts last. Updated.
Well, being realistic, we have three avenues out of our totalitarian mess we find ourselves deeply in:

1. Political (use money, shame, votes, and threats, praying that these things still work to effect change)

2. Technological (use encryption, praying technological solutions are implemented evenly and properly and that there are no back doors)

3. Violence

1 and 2 are the workable strategies, and they only work when practiced together. Currently we are seeing the government's #1 try to trample on #2, frequently using #3. If we can whittle a bit more respect for #2 using #1, it'll make the rest of the journey back to liberal democracy easier. Political changes happen through shifted mindsets.