skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sama, how does this commitment to fund companies for life, up to $300 million valuation combine with your own belief that current funding rounds might be bubbly: specifically does this not substantially raise the bar for applicant companies that you are not sure about, by eliciting in you the natural reasoning while you're thinking about YC applications: "Interesting idea. On the other hand this idea may suck. I'm not decided. But if it does suck they may still continue to raise rounds until the overvaluation climate is corrected, and we are committed to funnelling them money while they do. Then it will correct, and since the idea sucks we will lose money. So, we won't invest now, it's too big of a commitment. If they build the idea elsewhere and it turns out not to suck, we can reconsider then."

The direct effect of this is that "backtesting" this reasoning would have resulted in many of your biggest successes, simply not being funded at all. (Because they were too large gambles.)

Note: due to the provocative question I would have preferred to ask you by email, but I think it just gets routed away and you don't see my emails.
A lot of murders get solved not because of great forensic work, but because someone comes forward with information; here, nobody has, or at least not with good enough information.

Also, it's not just sex or money that lead to murder. Anger and stupidity are huge factors. Every day, people get into fights over the stupidest stuff and, given the right circumstances, kill other people just because they can.
I saw a comment elsewhere that stated in the win/sys32/gwx path to create a 0 byte gwx.exe which I believe has helped with disabling the notification as well.
Australia doesn't have a national identity card, and we don't have anything that's used like the SSN. Indeed, the Tax File Number (which identifies one's tax record, similarly to how the IRS uses the SSN) is legally protected such that it's a criminal offence for anyone other than the Tax Office, an employer, a financial institution or an accountant to even ask you to provide it. Centrelink Customer Reference Numbers (which are used for our equivalent of the Social Security program) aren't legally protected (as far as I know), but since only half the population even has one, the only reason a private sector organisation will ask you for it is to check that you're receiving social security benefits.

You do see driver's licence and passport numbers being used, but it's far from the de facto standard that the SSN is, and thus far less of a data security nightmare.
Note of caution on point 2. If you still do a lot of coding, this can really impede on your productivity, and break you out of any flow state.

When an employee asks you a question, you will feel like you don't want to be abrupt and will find yourself taking a few minutes each time.

I find a lot of the time employees will come with questions they could have asked over slack/chat that would have not broken my flow, and could be resolved quickly with a link, etc.

Its much better to develop a consensus on how to best use productivity tools asynchronously, and optimise your flow.

E.g.

- Instead of walking over - ask on slack first.
- If something is less urgent, link to Trello card/Github issue/etc. with more details.

On Slack, using the right channels/rooms is important too. Serendipity and collaboration from overheard conversations is really really important. Physically overhearing discussions that you could weigh in on can save huge amounts of time and catch problems early on, but can be a distraction. In flow/with headphones you lose this ability to overhear. Having public chat rooms you can monitor regularly is the best. Avoiding employees private messaging each other is the goal.
First of all, I do have first- and second-hand experience of this, so I'm not talking entirely out of my ass.

Also, there are actually a lot of people who deny any psychological involvement with depression, and you'll see this a lot on forums (including HN). I'm not going to go into more detail, as it will likely just start another flame war, suffice to say it is definitely an issue.

I'm well aware of the difficulty in doing anything about depression, and it wasn't backpeddling. I was just making the point that it is possible to improve depression through making changes. I wasn't saying that it's people's own fault, or they just need to pull themselves together, or anything like that, which seems to be what people somehow implied from my comments.
Thanks for explaining that, who are we at war against then?
This.

I found it amazing that the article didn't mention the role that the credit agencies play in this. Almost all the time you are asked for your SSN, certainly in commercial transactions, it's so a credit check can be run. The credit agencies could solve this. They could even some it securely.
He didn't leave Dropbox for Google, Apple, or Amazon. He switched to SpiderOak. Their selling point is that everything is encrypted client-side and they have no access to unencrypted files.

I have not yet abandoned DropBox. I am still paying ~$10/mo for their services. But I sympathize with the GP. Those questions are exactly the things I want answers to as well.
As far as (3) is concerned, I'd say that it's more important to actually have an "I might be wrong and would want to change my beliefs in that case" attitude and just be honest.

It's terribly easy to notice when someone gives a canned "I'm not sure it's the right approach" response while thinking that it's obviously wrong. Noticing that causes many people to feel patronized and/or lose trust in that someone.
In addition to everything already said, I reemphasize:

- allow your team to focus

- provide just enough structure (and no more)

- help shorten feedback loops

- try to remove hurdles to acquiring information

Deep focus unleashes creativity, passion, and great work. I know that's when I'm the happiest.
UltraDNS Server Problem Pulls Down Websites, Including Netflix, for 90 Minutes
A lot of the reason why they'll get superfast internet before everyone else is because they never got sorta-fast internet. It's profitable to build a fibernetwork in areas with no pre-existing cable or DSL service. You know everyone will sign up, they have no other choice.

Having a "pretty good" network in cities holds us back from having a better one. Because these companies aren't going to pay to rewire with fiber when they already spent a lot of money on a copper network.
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Thanks! I'll check those out.
The solution is to legalize cannabis. Lot's of potential for pain management, as well as to let people get high on something much safer.
This seems like a really cool project to hack on. I noticed you have no issues on the github repo, but where do you want to go with it next? Or what would you like more eyes on?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10347519
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... What?
I would like to know too. I know asking is like slapping your generous uncle, who just loves to give you money, but the fountain seems unending?

It must be tied to this free money that only certain individuals can play with, and this stock market that isn't playing by the fundamentals?

Or the wealthy have more play money than I dreamed of?

I'm not knocking it, and would gladly accept funding. I just think it's going to end, and as Willie Brown echoed , 'What are we going to do with all these unemployed Tech workers?'

Then again maybe it won't, and rent for a one bedroom in San Francisco Bay Area will be $15,000/month in a few years?

I obviously don't know much about investing in tech. I just see a lot of money thrown around, and certain CEO's seem clueless about their product, or even if their tech product is better than what we currently have.

Maybe I will never know? Why should I? I'm not investing in these companies. It's not my money, or is it? I do know my investment income is tied to the interest rate. No, I can't afford to gamble, so my investment income relies on Janet Yellen raising the interest rate, and hoping inflation doesn't eat it up.
> And a bunch of redneck young men are killed.

The lack of empathy around such a serious topic, is sad.
Careful. That $1,500 the OP quoted includes HBO, Starz, etc which you can't get OTA.

The $10 set top box is also usually a DVR. An equivalent OTA DVR was $300, the last time I looked. And an OTA USB dongle mated with a computer to function as a DVR still requires a whole computer so there's really no escaping that cost.
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Streaming video is exactly where 10Gbps is total overkill. 50Mbps should stream 4k video in good quality. Remote desktop way less than that.
Gonum has many of these capabilities, but with a slightly different mentality (gonum has weights and sticks to pure []float64 while this defines types and methods, i.e. Coordinate, Float64Data)

gonum/floats for max, min, round, sum, etc.

gonum/stat for mean, std, variance, etc.

gonum/stat/sample for sampling without replacement
American bureaucracies have a bizarre obsession with them. My school issued student IDs with unique numbers, which should have been the end of all such issues.

Unfortunately, they made a bizarre system where US students had their student ID be their SSN with a fixed prefix, and international students got a random number with other prefixes. They refused to give up on using SSN even when they knew it wouldn't work for a good portion of students.

Heaven forbid someone just add an SSN to student ID lookup table to the database.
Entire webmachine framework documentation on one picture
We have fixed it! Thank you!
That's just a slippery slope fallacy.
Related: Replacing incandescent light bulbs with LEDs - nowadays LEDs have about 95-99% of the warmness profile of an incandescent and are relatively cheap (can result in <1y ROI), but people still keep buying incandescents.

Another related: NiMH slow-discharge batteries (Eneloop) are very good, last as long in a remote control, and have more consistent charge levels than an alkaline. Yet people (even enviro-conscious relatives) keep buying alkalines. Why?
I'll add to what others mentioned the fact the proper text selection for bidirectional text is awkward at best, and often outright impossible with buggy UIs. Particularly at the border of where the text changes direction.
In no particular order:

1. Listen before you speak. The people you manage are prone to giving your opinion more weight than it deserves.

2. Give your subordinates problems, not solutions. People like to own a task, not to be told what to do; treating them like adults and professionals empowers them and brings out their potential. Besides, if one person only ever makes all the decisions, no decision can be better than that one person's knowledge. If you're afraid of delegation, institute a tight review loop to ensure that people don't go off-track.

3. You're a facilitator, not a doer. People will come to you with their problems, and you must be available at all times to help them through it. As someone else has pointed out, your productivity is secondary to that of the team. It's your job, among other things, to ensure that your team has a good working environment, including good tools, practices, and access to uninterrupted “flow” time.

4. Be aware of politics. The moment you manage a team, politics become a part of your daily job. This is not a bad thing—“politics” just means managing interpersonal relations; it becomes a bad thing when you ignore it.

5. Never be in a position to take. Success belongs to your teammates; failure is all yours.

6. Face problems head-on. People don't like confrontation, and let problems fester until it's too late to fix them. Instead, provide frequent one-on-one time with all your teammates, exhort them to confide in you, and show them that you're trustworthy. Also see #1.

7. Offer clarity. Explain what you expect others to do in a measurable way to make it possible for both you and your team to understand how well everyone is doing. You can use a method like OKR[0] to track your goals internally.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR
> Heaven forbid someone just add an SSN to student ID lookup table to the database.

Why does a school even need this number?

The only groups that need this number are financial institutions of all types (including employment and borrowing) and government agencies.

A school does not need it. If they lend you money then that department might, but no further.

What I do when places that don't need the number ask for it is pretend I don't remember it. So far I've not had any problems, they mange just fine without it.
Great to hear others have gone through a similar process to the one I am taking now.

> block out areas of time when I could do my own programming

My biggest challenge is that this time for me is evenings and Sundays afternoons which eats into the work/life thing.
I think ElixirScript has more legs. RedScript was just a project I tinkered with 2 years ago and recently refreshed it post ES6 era and after getting into 'functiona' programming.

RedScript is more like CoffeeScript and ElixirScript is more like Elm/ClojureScript IMHO. It has little to no overhead overhead after transpiling however 2.0 will use seamless-immutable (via CommonJS) to help with copying data.

Here's the 1.0 before/after conversions:
https://github.com/AdamBrodzinski/RedScript/blob/master/spec...

It still needs a proper compiler, this is basically using RegEx to match/replace (it was a project to learn RegEx). It's surprising how far it takes you. I've built a small web app with it and it works well. I don't trust the compiled output without testing though (due to the RegEx strategy).

I haven't had to the time to make the changes in the complier but shouldn't take more than a few beers and a weekend :)
"A good solution to identification would be a central state operated database. But it would have to be backed by strong laws defining what it can be used for with no loopholes, not even for police of "national security", and a default deny policy."

Good luck with that, in any country, in any regime.

"However the US has been stuck in a counterproductive attitude of treating regulation as a bad thing"
Which is why other countries have such air-tight centralized databases that are never abused...right?
If you're interested in developing more stats stuff, we'd love to have you as part of the effort. gonum/stat/dist in particular needs a lot more functionality.
I'm not sure you can rehabilitate opiate addicts. Very few of them ever stop using for good.

I think the best solution for the addicts would be lifetime prescriptions for buprenorphine (Suboxone). But then how do you prevent others from abusing the now abundant buprenorphine?
Regarding your examples, shouldn't Round return 3.17 and shouldn't Median be 3.5?
>I'm sorry, you're just completely incorrect. I'm a <insert HTML/CSS/JS worker title here> and literally do this every day.

That's cool. I'm too HTML/JS/CSS dev (among other) and I'm not "just completly wrong".

>The Box model issue is being fixed with flexbox;

It could have been fixed 15 years ago. And when it appeared it broke a ton of librairies developped during those years, like CSS grids and stuffs like jQueryUI which still has some incompatibilites.

It's no fun at all if you have to maintains some older projets are if you are building services for regions were IE 8/9/10 are still used. Even in Europs for some markets you still get about 8% of those 3 versions of IE.

> centering is getting there too, gridding is improving;

Getting there? After 15+ years? We are talking about "centering" and "grids"! And still not there yet. This is just crazy.

>CSS animations are ENTIRELY about style and not to do with JS, it's to state hey, anything style related should be CSSable, not required another language.

Just try something basic : animate an element along a sinusoidal path in CSS. Look at the code you get .

Then try the same in JS.

> CSS is evolving just like any other language. I'd suggest if you really think this about CSS, you're doing it wrong. CSS was painful for a long time, but still light years ahead of HTML styling. This is how tools evolve.

CSS was less painful a few years ago when they were less devices and web applications were simpler. Now with all the differents devices screen size, the need of advanced applications CSS just doesn't make it. Responsive layout using media-queries just adding broken hack on top of the Web stack.
And they don't even need the number to run a credit check!

When some utility wanted the number to run a credit check I said I could not remember it. They ran the check anyway (using Name and Address), and read my social back to me!
Sunshine is redefining the weather industry with sensors in smartphones
If someone comes up with a cheap practical H2 fuel cell then we will have widespread H2 powered vehicles.

If someone comes up with a cheap practical battery then we will have widespread battery powered vehicles.

That's pretty much it. The two things are not exclusive. We can and probably will have both.
How does this compare to Postgres' jsonb? I use that at work, I would love to be able to run integration tests using SQLite in memory, as opposed to running against Postgres in a container.
I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but if you're interested in help buliding statistical tools for go, Gonum is always looking for more hands. Look at what we have in github.com/gonum, and/or come introduce yourself at gonum-dev
Which is pretty funny when you think about why cable was created in the first place.
From Apache/PHP to Node.js and Express
Leaking supposedly confidential information to the press is hardly a novel technique in espionage, or in any social context for that matter, eg feeding a juicy tale to the village gossip to embarrass a rival. Machiavelli made a systematic study of such techniques centuries ago. What do you find so insane about it?
The Synthesis Kernel (1988) [pdf]
This isn't really specific to CSS, the web is just a terrible place.
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How do you feel about the data being delayed, sometimes 1 day? Why not stream the data in realtime to the kafka cluster?
From my experience, this has been true at the top tech companies (Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, LinkedIn).
It's important to understand that that when you're a tech lead, your first priority is the productivity of your teammates, not your own productivity. You're responsible for the output of the team as a whole, and if that means you do zero coding, so be it.

You should also be coming up with good ways to use productivity tools asynchronously. But remember that the natural impulse for many employees will be "Oh, the boss is busy, I better not disturb him. Guess I can't do any work until then!" You need to make sure that whatever communication mechanisms you agree on have buy-in from the rest of the team, and that they'll be comfortable interrupting you if they're really blocked and unable to get work done.
It depends....

If you're unaccompanied on someone else's estate, then it's your responsibility to bring the carcass down off the hill. That usually involves tying yourself to the carcass and dragging it (or if the hill is steep enough, it will drag you) down the hill. At the bottom of the hill, or along the way a little, you are likely to have parked a quad or utility vehicle. The carcass remains property of the estate.

If you've leased land, or as part of a syndicate, then you still need to remove the carcass from the hill and transport it to a cool room, where you butcher it yourself and a game dealer will collect it the next day.

Carcasses are always gralloched immediately on the hill, and the entrails left behind.

Part of the training in DSC 1 and then much more thoroughly in DSC 2 is how to properly butcher a carcass.

http://basc.org.uk/sporting-services/basc-training-courses/d...

http://basc.org.uk/sporting-services/basc-training-courses/d...

There are also specific basic carcass and butchery courses:

http://basc.org.uk/sporting-services/basc-training-courses/c...

In the Scottish Highlands a red deer stag isn't really prohibitively expensive, usually around the £450 mark. Hinds, later in the season, are much cheaper.

The real expense is everything that goes with it - the travel to the highlands, accommodation, appropriate clothing and equipment. I think you could probably cull one stag for £1,000 all included.
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I am always disappointed when I try and type something in Arabic on OS X. Now I will install Kawkab-mono and Katib both, and improve matters 200%.
Code can be beautiful, shame so many people consider xterm to be the height of beauty.
Given all of these pitfalls, what would you say is the advantage of Meteor over, for instance, a Node/Express/React/Redux stack?
unlike SSNs, driver's licenses in most states don't have
"Please don't use for other identification purposes"
written on them like SSN cards do.

SSN cards haven't had that printed on them since 1972.
Yeah, last year when traveling in Europe with a friend we had all sorts of trouble trying to get her a SIM card in Germany. They insisted they could only sell it if we provided the address of a German resident to tie the account to.

A German-speaking friend helped us solve it (I still don't know exactly what he worked out with them), but it wasn't a pleasant experience. Especially since in France we literally just walked into an Orange shop, and I said, in my bad US-high-school French, "Nous voulons acheter une carte SIM", and they said "OK", quoted a price and that was that.
I didn't see anything in there about an exchange of capital for surplus labor.
That hasn't been our experience at all.

1) You're working on something meaningful.

Look at what OpenGov is doing: making government financial data more transparent and accessible. Compare that with your average Yet-Another-Food-Delivery startup or "bringing the blockchain to an industry that doesn't need a blockchain."

2) The people you work for are unbelievably appreciative.

Every local government office we work with is so thankful for what we do. Basic features — scheduling an email reminder, scoping by geography, autocomplete — blows their minds. This goes back to (1), since you're helping them accomplish really meaningful objectives.

3) If you keep the hiring bar high, your team is incredible.

Passion is something you hear a lot about in the Valley, but how passionate can you really be about SnapChat. Maybe there are interesting challenges, but get a group together that wants to take on government and you're guaranteed to jump out of bed in the morning.

Precisely _because_ most people see working with governments to be a schlep, the ones who do self-select for passion.
Oxyana has some poignant footage of the problem. Even in the short trailer.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/oxyana/69045041
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists[1]:

"IN GENERAL- That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons."

The wording is vague, however it would be most commonly interpreted as a war against Al-Quaeda. It could possibly but improbably be interpreted as a war against anyone.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit...
Titular hyperbole, much?