skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A native Arabic speaker here, I must say that I admire the courage and innovation of the graffiti artists and activists who chose this medium to protest and convey their message, which needless to say, that I don't necessarily endorse or share the creators' point of view.

I have to admit that I haven't seen the show yet not even a single shot and I could say too that I have a very thick skin when it comes to "cultural insensitivities" in TV drama or real life.

So, I don't have any problem with media, cinema or drama depicting characters from our region, the Middle East, or ones that share the same cultural background even in very negative and unflattering light.

However, I must say that it's really alarming that not even a single person of the whole crew of the show has a 3rd grade proficiency level of the Arabic language to be able to read and grasp a two word phrase, esp. when the show prides itself on offering their audience deep insight into the characters, their mindsets, their psychological profile that they portray on screen, or that is what I at least was able to collect from the scattered and random reviews that I came across online recently.

EDIT: For clarification and more input.
I might be classified as older but I'd suspect that with this story topping HN, the number of responses, etc. that it's less of a generational thing and more of a people of all ages are sick of cable companies thing.
I liked Michael Lopp's (also known as Rands, from Rands in Repose) book, Managing Humans, when I first became a team lead 18 months ago.

http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Engi...
1Password and the Case of the XARA Bandit
'Breech' means buttocks first (as in breech birth). You want 'Breach'.
What worries me is how long will it take for lobbyists or the government to mess this great free HD over OTA thing up in the US. Let's hope never.
I have big data experience? Neat!
While I think its great to participate pro-rata in later rounds, it feels a lot like YC is backing into becoming yet-another-VC like Sequoia or any other firm in the valley, granted with their 'incubator arm'.

I'd be interested in hearing how being more like a regular VC firm helps YC be better at what it is currently.
This is what it means to not shuffle a deck properly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffling#False_shuffles
"Obama is trying to kill people to make the world a better place."

I wonder if that's why he was given the Nobel Peace Prize.
The producers are making a show about the middle east but can't read arabic. They got exactly what they deserve.
The split definitely helps nudge a new hire to be happier with the offer, all things, being equal, because many hires are still unknowledgeable about the fact that the number of options is irrelevant (like you say), and there is also the subconscious satisfaction of seeing big numbers next to our names that is hard to fight.
I also recommend Patrick Kua's 'Talking with Tech Leads' book: http://blog.fogcreek.com/becoming-a-tech-lead-interview-with...

There is also this interview with him here: http://blog.fogcreek.com/becoming-a-tech-lead-interview-with...
Why don't they provide an HTTPS version of this? It's a bit of a shame.
Assuming of course that they knew for certain that they would get away with it and no one would notice it before it hit the airwaves.

It's a risky proposition and not guaranteed to work most of the time.
It sounded more like patience was relative to expected wait time. If you expect something to take 20 minutes, then a 2 minute wait isn't much at all. If you expect something to take 2 seconds, then a 10 second wait is quite irritating.
well, if you think you are good at investing in startups and helping startups succeed, then artificially limiting the stage at which you are willing to do it seems suboptimal in the long run
The "ff" thing kinda looks like an attempt at ligatures gone horribly wrong on the web, but possibly OK in print.
Yeah, I think a big part of this is that the current conflicts have been in open/desert areas where the range of engagement is simply further than the .223 was originally designed for. A .308 or similar caliber makes a lot more sense when you start looking at those kinds of distances.
Honestly, it sounds like you're backpedaling. I don't mean that to be super critical. There's nothing wrong with changing your position in response to feedback, but pretending that's what you originally meant seems a little fishy. But I may be misinterpreting what you're saying.

To your clarified point, I'm not sure that's really accurate. I've known a LOT of depressed people and had my own struggles. I've never met a depressed person who logically thought there was nothing they could do to improve the situation. It's well established that regular exercise, sufficient sleep, establishing routines, talk therapy, antidepressants, etc. can help with depression. Again, I've never met anyone who suffered from depression and denied those treatments can help. Anecdotal but true.

The problem is that depression is not logical. If you've never experienced it, you really can't understand it. And it's doubly frustrating, because it can manifest itself differently for different people.

I read an analogy recently that I thought was pretty decent. Imagine you are sleepy all the time, just dead tired, exhausted, and you feel like you can never really get fully awake. Now imagine you're talking to somebody who never really gets tired; they're just naturally full of energy. Imagine trying to explain to them what being exhausted feels like. It's not a logical thing. It's not that you think it's a smart decision to stay in bed all day. You're just drained of all energy.

And when you describe what you're feeling, their response is to give you a bunch of solutions you've already tried. Have you tried drinking coffee? Black out curtains? Maybe your mattress is bad? You know when I'm feeling sluggish, I like to get up and do some exercise, that always perks me up!

At that point, you probably want to punch them in the face. They have no idea what they're talking about. If you had enough energy to get up and make coffee – or exercise for christ's sake – you wouldn't be in the situation you are.

Aaaaaaaaanyway, I'm not disagreeing that personal accountability is important. You can't help the depressed person (or alcoholic or anybody suffering from a disease), if they don't make an effort get help. The problem with depression is that making an effort – any effort to do anything – is often the very thing that person is unable to do.

So, people need to be careful discussing "taking responsibility" for depression, especially if they've never had first- or second-hand experience. Despite their best intentions, they're likely to come off looking like ignorant assholes. From your follow up comments, I think it's clear you're not an asshole. :) But I'm also not terribly surprised by danharaj's visceral response to your original sentiment.
Brown person here, I find Homeland stupid but not racist, let's cut the crap. Some Muslims do more damage to the Muslim community than a single show that paint a few Muslims as terrorists. Even 24 which was deemed controversial wouldn't qualify as racist in my book.

They somehow managed to show that terrorists were manipulated by some higher interests , and were no more than "useful idiots". But it never painted the whole Muslim community as terrorist , nor does Homeland. It's always more about US policies and its consequences than anything else.

If we put the "racist" label on everything a little bit controversial then the word itself becomes void of any meaning.
Distributed Programming in Argus (1988) [pdf]
More. 20% (federal LTCG ) + 3.8% (medicare) + 12.3% (CA) + 1% (CA mental health surtax over $1mm/yr). 37.1% (more like 35% since you can deduct state on federal).

vs. 15% and no state tax if you lived in other states before recently. or, 0% up to $10mm gains if you held a stock for 5Y and bought it before 2012.
Half of NASCAR Sprint Cup races are OTA, the other half are cable only. I don't really get to watch xfinity cup or other NASCAR events.
This will just be a small part of what we do. There are now 15 partners on the early stage side and 1 on the late stage side.

Two thoughts:

1) In the same way YC was able to make the early-stage ecosystem better for founders, we think we can do the same for the late-stage ecosystem.

2) It's important that we can support companies at later stages in areas that other investors don't like to support.
Bitbucket is down
I have observed a general frustration that good developers (who are in high demand) still need to do well in an interview setting. Frustrating as it may be, I think that embracing the reality is the best path forward.

A good developer would be smart to realize that this is a part of the project of finding a great new job, and would apply themselves fully to the subtask of preparing for and succeeding at an interview.

I think that, in the same way it is a necessary frustration to make sure the site performs well on IE8, a good developer recognizes the task as essential, and does what is necessary despite the perceived lack of significance.

Of course there is a limit to this lack of significance -- I am not advocating that people become professional interview-ees. But embracing the frustrations of a profession can give you a huge edge over those who don't.

If I were to be seeking employment right now, my first step would absolutely be to sign up for resources like this one, and dedicate a couple hours a day to honing my interview skills. It would be fun, and would develop a skill that opens a lot of doors.
Some excellent advice here already, but I'll add a few more. One is to avoid putting development tasks on your own plate that you won't be able to complete. Your time is now likely to be taxed at 50% or more meaning you'll have a lot of demands on your time for meetings and such and so you'll find dev tasks can pile up. Just take on less work for yourself and delegate.

The other one is learning how to wield your authority. You'll now (hopefully) be invited to or least have visibility into leadership meetings, design reviews, contract reviews, road mapping. Make sure you voice opinions in terms of much time tasks will take, which people are needed, what is feasible/infeasible, if you're signing up for a mission impossible. Stop saying things are "hard" or "easy" and instead identify "risks".

Notice that almost nobody in this thread is telling you to work on your technical skills :)
How are leaders discouraged from attempting network isolation attacks?

How do nodes handle the sudden peaks in traffic when selected on the "round-robin" PoW scheme when load is high? How do the network handle the ever shifting connections (with TCP session setups and all), what's the topology?

Are you considering the effect of the current leader being attacked by 0-days,what do that do to the network when it gets hijacked?

What if the leader drops off or otherwise have connectivity issues?
The article is clearly target at non-technical users, not the HN crowd.
ok but that's not what you wrote. I quoted verbatim what you wrote and it's not correct, Docker images do not "contain full-blown operating systems as they are meant to run arbitrary applications" unless you decide to put a full-blown operating systems in them but that's your choice, you definitely don't have to and everyone recommends not to
I really enjoyed "Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Self Organizing Teams."

The second half of the book is advice from various tech leads.
"There are 1.2 m people on various stages of their watch list" :-O

That's absolutely terrifying. I wonder how many of those are American citizens.
How Much the Average American Works and Earns Each Year
UFS Explorer Professional Recovery 5.1 Serial Key Free
Their main product is backend storage that supports SSH+rsync, so, not really :-)

(You can also use other backup solutions, but I suspect most use the rsync transport, whether it's by itself or with Duplicity)
My experience was interesting. The uyg clinical geneticists said I had zero genetic predisposition risk! That's a bit surprising it me. II also manually inspected the results and found that most of the risk variants they did see were just genic and I had only one of the snps out of several that are necessary for diseases such as types of cancer.

Personally I found it less than useless, since I can't reasonably conclude I have no risks. I know enough genomics to conclude that beyond a few well understood cases, genomes have little medical predictive ability.
Trello reach 10M users
Good to know - have you used it, or did you read more detail about it somewhere?
Why is it obvious that the attack on the hospital wasn't purposeful?

This article by associated press indicates that they attacked the hospital on purpose.

http://bigstory.ap.org/urn:publicid:ap.org:5e20fcd92aee49e69...

> Obama is trying to kill people to make the world better...

I have no words for this. How a person can even entertain such thoughts is beyond me.
That's why startups exist, right? Startups start as small, focused, nimble entities moving faster than old established things. But, eventually the small, focused, nimble startup becomes successful and itself grows into an oversized sprawling entity.

YC isn't immune to becoming too big for themselves. It just opens up room for a new "startup yc" where everybody can have a strong initial impact again (until the new one grows too big too, then the cycle starts again).
of course if you pay for everything on-demand, you don't need anything else...
"modern war takes far more care to avoid collateral damage" != "modern war causes no collateral damage" != "modern war is humane".

You therefore are not actually rebutting the GP's point.
Braess' paradox: adding a new road to a city can slow down traffic
Adobe warns of 'critical vulnerability' in some versions of Flash
Are we looking for non-carbon based life?
Is it possible that we fail to recognize life simply because it is so far apart from our idea of life?
How many people use the names as opposed to hex values?

I'd rather just use the hex value and ensure it's rendered even if the browser hasn't implemented the latest version of the spec.
Just wanted to share I saw a link to a Gallup research piece (by way of ZeroHedge) that touches on some of the issues young people are facing, with respect to the student loan bubble and starting new businesses:

... the country can't look to people coming out of college to reverse this trend because too many of them are strapped by student loan debt. Results of the 2015 Gallup-Purdue Index -- a study of more than 30,000 college graduates in the U.S. -- provide a worrisome picture of the relationship between student loan debt and the likelihood of graduates starting their own businesses.

Among those who graduated between 2006 and 2015, 63% left college with some amount of student loan debt. Of those, 19% say they have delayed starting a business because of their loan debt. That percentage rises to 25% for graduates who left with more than $25,000 in student loan debt. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 16.9 million bachelor's degrees were conferred in the U.S. over the past 10 years -- a time frame that mirrors Gallup-Purdue Index analysis of recent graduates between 2006 and 2015.

I think Gallup could possibly be an avenue to conduct the study / research you mused about. Wonder if they ever will!

ZH: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-15/how-13-trillion-stu...

Gallup: http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/186179/student-loan-de...
This only changes the apparent IMEI at the OS level to mask oneself from apps that pry.

The hardware is still using the same old IMEI as far as the phone company and SIGINT is concerned. This is not readily, or trivially, changeable.
DeMarco and Lister's "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" was published way back in 1987 with 2 new editions over the years.

And even the first edition untouched is still completely relevant.

While its focus is "getting teams to work well together and develop good software", I think it has excellent viewpoints and advice for any workplace where people use their brains for a living, regardless of what the company does.

I'd also like to add "Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building Solid Teams" by Steve Maguire.
ifttt's ios app location triggers are fucking awful and insanely frustrating
Curious if in 5 years YC figures out a way to OpenIPO YC companies, solving the private/public market impedance mismatch which seems to be happening now.
Right. I thought (when I saw the film) that he was reffering to the leaks by Brandon Bryant:

http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/Brandon-Bryant-Ramst... (etc)
I get about 50 free over-the-air channels ... most are HD.
I used to work at IFTTT and this exact set of problems is why I left to start a company. Pretty much everything I've done in the intervening years has stemmed from exactly what you describe. It's great to see the IFTTT team tackle this stuff head on.
"I humbly suggest people look into the following, and am eager for suggestions from other HN readers:
- rsync"

rsync.net has a deeply discounted rate for new "HN" customers.

Also, we just enabled explicit support for attic/borg.
Less than 2% of TV stations went back to Low band VHF after the transition. I'm in one of those areas where one station decided to go back to low VHF after analog was shut off, and it's an NBC affiliate (and NASCAR and SNL are really the main two things I want to watch).

I just got finished building a folded dipole specifically for this channel (6 foot half-wavelength). It works great beside the TV, it's not really doing great in my attic. I'm going to try and re-position it more than a wavelength off of the roofline and see if that helps.
Something doesn't need to be complex to be special. Consider this card deck order:

8C KH 3S 10D 2C 7H 9S 5D QC 4H AS 6D
JC 8H KS 3D 10C 2H 7S 9D 5C QH 4S AD
6C JH 8S KD 3C 10H 2S 7D 9C 5H QS 4D
AC 6H JS 8D KC 3H 10S 2D 7C 9H 5S QD
4C AH 6S JD

As far as mathematics go, it's as probabilistically likely as any other sequence, but among deck orders, this particular sequence is special because not only it happens more often than most other deck orders, but it even has a name. As it turns out, that sequence can be easily reconstructed from a mnemonic and it's often used in magic tricks.
> * The DOM. Its slow and full of old cruft that takes up memory and increases execution time.

I'm not going to say that the DOM is wonderful but … have you actually measured this to be a significant problem? Almost every time I see claims that the DOM is slow a benchmark shows that the actual problem is a framework which was marketed as having so much magic performance pixie dust that the developer never actually profiled it.
They are, in millions of lab notebooks around the world that will never see the light of day, and for good reason. There are so many more experiments that end with the unqualified final note "samples contaminated" than successful ones that if biologists spent time tracking down the source or even the type of the contamination, we probably still wouldn't have modern medicine.
Why are the creators of the show absolved of their personal responsibility regarding the impact of their actions? If a company poisons the local reservoir with their chemical run-off, are they morally able to say, "Well, they shouldn't have drank that water. They knew they lived near a chemical plant."

No, we trust fiction-based-on-reality to have a semblence of reality to it and to not be blatently racist. That's a cultural evolution we've developed. We are criticizing a show for not being what it should be. That's our responsibility as viewers, and we're fulfilling it.
Great question! I just wrote an article on this very topic here...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/real-work-management-marcus-b...

If you're looking for books, I recommend Johanna Rothman's "Behind Closed Doors" as a great book about leading software teams.

Good luck!
I use the hex-values/rgba because what does 'papaya whip' even mean? Plus not everyone on the internet are literate in English so RGBA or hex-RGB is far more internationalized.
I'm not interested in a debate about the meaning of truth - replace empirical correctness with everyday practicality and my point stands. You're free to define the term "racism" however you want to. However, you might regret ignoring your personal and cultural context if you care about not getting called racist.
Unfortunately, hydrogen doesn't have the energy density required for trucks. They'll need to move to natural gas or biodiesel until batteries catch up.
What will happen if you insist they wear a 24hr body-cam? (Not that this would ever go through, but imagine it.)
Previous post on the pro rata thing seems to be https://blog.ycombinator.com/pro-rata -- AFAICT, the change there is that it's now <$300MM instead of <=$250MM.
Wait until toxcore is no longer 0.0.0
Can you elaborate on the problems you found with those providers?

I mean, I don't imagine running OwnCloud would be unfeasible on a Raspberry Pi or anything (I can't speak to the performance of that), but you'd need to set up Dynamic DNS if you're planning on running it from your home, as well as a way to traverse the NAT. You'd also be limited by your upstream bandwidth, and I think most ISP's actually "forbid" running a server.

as far as deploying it on a VPS (virtual private server, so like an Amazon AWS instance, Linode, etc), you'd be limited by their TOS, etc, but I honestly think that's the best option. OwnCloud looks to be pretty simple to actually setup though, but I guess I'd have to try it out to checkout performance.

As far as I'm aware though, and as much as I could google, there's going to be some setup on your part.

So yeah, if you could elaborate a little more about what about each option didn't provide, we might be able to steer you closer to something that's acceptable.
So this announcement got me thinking and while this is slightly off topic and it may seem like a dumb question but I'm going to ask it anyway because I'm curious: where does YC get the money to do everything it does (seed and later stage investment, research, running hacker news, employees, startup school, etc)?

I mean I know roughly how it works from the standpoint of taking investment money and funneling it into companies but unless I missed it I have yet to see them "cash out" on any existing investments so are they bringing in any money from those investments or is it just more and more funding to do further investments that powers everything?
It says so right in the article: "In Bitcoin-NG, the protocol is, instead, forward-looking: every 10 minutes, NG elects a leader, who then vets future transactions as soon as they happen."
FYI the https link goes to a pure html website for some reason, I would recommend following their http link.

Seneca seems like quite a cool company I like the Roman references. I would be curious what kind of opportunities do you see in a European context for government tech?
I thought this was funny, and striking: https://twitter.com/sandman_leb/status/579021886845243392