skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mmhm. As with everything, it's a balance. It's important to understand that reading is one of the most effective forms of procrastination that has ever been invented. It's also the prism through which your entire future passes, but everyone already knows that.

For example, Carmack was able to "invent" BSP because he was (as far as I've heard) an avid reader of medical journals. Specifically, journals and papers about the graphics techniques they used at the time. The field of medicine turns out to be very lucrative for an ambitious graphics programmer, because they're often at the frontiers of what's currently possible. So apparently BSP was used in accelerating medical renderings, and Carmack was able to see their potential for realtime graphics. The only reason he was able to do that was by reading pretty much every possible thing.

None of that will help you unless you force yourself to do and not read, though.
Maybe not your intelligence. But this article is just about intelligence as a trait, not about how to live.

The question you ask for yourself is "how do I live well?"
Resharper depends on Visual Studio. Can't run Visual Studio on Mac or Linux. :(
Sorry, I don't usually go in for circumlocution but this is a tough one. Let me try again. There may be factors beyond 'obvious bad behavior deserving of mob wrath', which (if they knew what they were) would make some commenters here ashamed of what they've posted. For example, I think most people would be ashamed to publicly express glee over something that turned out to be, say, a health issue.

Sometimes in cases like this, there's an information vaccuum for a reason. Unfortunately, since the Internet abhors a vaccuum, Schadenfreude rushes in, which brings out the ugliness in people and leads to frenzy.

Normally we penalize such threads, but HN's policy is to intervene less when a bad story is YC-related, so we held off. But this morning, when I saw the dozens of comments that Michael had posted overnight, and the condemning and goading responses, it was dismayingly clear that this is something other than the usual trainwreck that people find so entertaining.

The line between righteous indignation and cruelty is not obvious, and worse, is a line that feels great to cross. If we're not mindful of that, cruelty is the default, so let's be mindful of that.
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That sounds great, if they don't grind my computer to a halt. But if you host a site that lets bad actors chuck evil spew into the web stream, it doesn't matter what your content is. You are bad by association.
How many people do you think advised Obama against running for president?

You don't know before you try. You don't even know if Lessig very well knew that the didn't have a big chance but just wanted to see if he could build political momentum behind is case.

Of course we can have opinions about what he did but ultimately those are not important. Even my opinions about those opinions are not important.

The only thing that is important is that some people try and whether they fail or succeed the fact that they do, despite the obviousness of the failure that we can sit and look at afterwards it's more important that someone does that than someone comment on it.

In the political game giving voice even to minority of the voters is an important part of the democratic proces. If not enough voter gets behind it they fail but at least they have the opportunity to try.

At least to me that was the gist of the quote and the reason for the quote.

Being able to claim that Lessig was obviously wrong for even trying has zero value.
There are multiple BSD flavors. Just because one switches to a different init system doesn't mean they all will.
Multidimensional Range Search in Dynamically Balanced Trees [pdf]
Apple pays $0 for security bugs, of any severity. You probably won't even get a lousy t-shirt.

They are kind enough to credit you by name on security updates.
Generate tests from existing code and Object deconstruction on Ruby
Stanford's Don Knuth, a pioneering hero of computer programming (2011)
Volkswagen emission cheating scandal spreads to Porsche
Distributed hash tables are a recent idea in networking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table#History
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Every generation goes through the "kids these days" phase, everything new isn't as good as it was "back in my day." Add to this, as the author points out, a neo-ludism around the technology being used and the affect is magnified.

Overall, communication technology has made us more connected not less. What throws people is that those connections are no longer geographically bound. So that person you see staring at their phone isn't disconnected to those locally, they are very well connected to an international community.

Of course, one quibble. The author states:

"Maybe your friend has taken his smartphone out of his pocket because he has gotten a message that he needs to reply now. Or maybe it’s just that he feels a bit uncomfortable and is using his phone to try and avoid the awkwardness of the moment because he has social anxiety and you should respect that."

But I don't think it's neo-ludism to think it's rude to treat conversations you are in fact having locally as less valuable simply because they are local. Of course there are emergencies but when someone is constantly checking to see if there is a better interaction to be had, I'd still call it rude.

That aside, and I should point out the author concedes that there are rude people and situations involving technology, the points raised by the author are well stated and all to frequently missed.
> It really is all about reducing the total number of accidental gun injuries/deaths.

This is a noble sentiment, but it really isn't. It's about gun control, plain and simple.
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/citizens-united-v...

Has links to the actual opinion and dissents as well as the arguments made before the court.
when you see such high preferences, that is the equivalent of a down round. A unicorn that is doing very well would not agree to a 2X liquidation preference at late stage. Which is why I don't think it's a bubble - an indication of a bubble would be if investors gave a troubled unicorn a bunch of money without such preferences
Money isn't speech. You can say whatever you want. You're just not entitled to a platform in which to do it.
How were the raw numbers (versus percentages). On the absurd side, if 99.9% of a class of a million drop out, you're still reaching more people than a lecture hall of 100 where only a few drop out.
Maybe this what you're referring to:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023048511045793591...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack ?
$6.67/month is less than $0.33/day (~20 workdays/month)!

That's an trivial amount to pay for effective communications in my book.
I meant glee about the whole thing. I added "to all this" to try to make that clearer.
Parent was asking for (among other things) reasons why cron needs to die; saying Vixie ipse dixit is true, but not a technical argument. Notably, it doesn't help the reader understand what the replacement ought to look like.
The implication is that bubbles require optimistic groupthink. I.e., if everyone thinks it's a good time to buy, then it's a bubble.

Sama's point is that because so many people are saying tech stocks are expensive then there isn't the mass delusion required for a bubble.
If only we could have Bryan Fuller as show-runner, with Mads Mikkelsen as Captain.
You wouldn't like Star Trek on CBS proper. Shows on TV need to be mainstream to work, given how advertisement works. By putting it online, they're changing the expectations: it doesn't have to appeal to everyone. Rather, it can be made for a niche audience, which is good for Star Trek.

That's why Arrested Development (in theory) can work on Netflix but not FOX.
The systemd developers do no care about BSD, full stop. In fact they believe that portability is a negative attribute that leads to compromises and that by coupling everything together systemd can make Linux a better user experience and more like the popular proprietary OSes.
The article says "And everyone has to put their phones away and everyone has to interact with each other". I've done two escape the rooms in NYC (got out both times just in the nick of time btw). In both cases the cellphones were instrumental, whether it was for searching or reading QR codes for example. I don't think you should go into some of these rooms thinking you can't use your phone since in many cases you need it.... (short of searching for a walkthrough which is cheating IMHO)
How long, you think, for ON by default ?
I'm not sure I agree with this sentiment, but it doesn't seem to be a typo. If people _did_ think that tech valuations were cheap, then he's saying that would be a sign of a bubble, because it would mean that people think these companies are undervalued [when they potentially aren't undervalued].
A crush is a situation where you cannot yourself move freely, let alone move to help pick someone up.
You stated "This domain is unique in that it's not a good idea to read."

This is just not true in either of its claims. It's not even useful hyperbole, really, it's just wrong.

Graphics programming is exactly like other domains of technical development, you will learn best by a combination of reading good summaries/examples of what is known, doing work on your own (not cutting corners), and talking to people that know more about that you do.
This is a pretty solid argument for why tech isn't out of bounds, at most any stage.

On the other hand, we've had 7 years of 16% growth in the S&P. At some point, that will correct, and it will have a real effect on tech. We'll all declare the bubble "popped" at that point, and totally reasonable investments will fail, or at least become painfully illiquid for a while.

7 years feels like a long time to have a run like this. Just like every other time, nobody knows when we'll get that correction.
I wonder what the thinking is behind deals like that (2x liquidation preference/3x liquidation cap).

On one hand, it strikes me as incredibly beneficial for the founders if the company is a runaway success.

On the other hand, the VCs are essentially throwing away their unlimited upside potential, and in doing so signalling they don't particularly believe in the company.

There's also the fact that the terms are very unfavorable for founders if they exit at anything below a stellar valuation, though one could argue the entire point of the game is to achieve an incredible exit.

Still, when incentives aren't aligned it's disconcerting.
This has been on my mind since I began this project. Once I get iCloud integration, I want to ask users to anonymously share their data so I can open source them.

We can study patterns that cause other patterns, the type of productivity, behaviours and so much more.
Then, say "potential revenue" was stolen, not content.
The major difference between what's going on now and what happened in 2000 is transparency. Not with what's happening at companies, but what investors are thinking. That's important, because investor sentiment is the proximate cause of any bubble bursting.

In 2000, it was easy to gauge investor sentiment – you just had to look at stock prices, which are real-time, precise indications of how investors as a whole feel. That meant it was easy to tell when the bubble started to burst (arguably on March 10, 2000, when the Nasdaq peaked).

What's hard today, and maybe why there's a lot of these "is it a bubble or not?" stories, is that investors don't know what other investors are thinking. Sam and YC have consistently been open, but they're more the exception that proves the rule. The vast mass of investors are holding their cards close to their chest.

The net effect is to prolong an increasingly unsustainable situation. I think it's highly likely that most investors already secretly think we're in a bubble. And that they also believe that other investors haven't realized it (everyone assumes they're the smart one). So we're stuck in this phase of "make my last buck before all the other idiots realize what's going on."
I don't believe so. In a bubble, people think that the current climate is more favorable than it is in reality. So they view assets as cheap when in fact they may be overpriced.
Are you suggesting BSD will get systemd? I don't understand. All this is is an init replacement that takes some cues for systemd and launchd and SMF, but it's certainly not systemd.
> So no selling to USA and it's allies.

Huh? The US is sanctioned by the UN?
Any info on how they rate/compare the algorithms? I could not find anything on the site.
In particular, it would be nice to see how bcrypt/scrypt/PBKDF2 rate.
Until it’s patched you can sell the bug to more than one party. The NSA is around 15% of US intelligence budget and gets 10 billion / year so they do have plenty of money to spend. In the end it's not a question of getting 1+ million from the NSA it's a little from the NSA a little from China, Russia, and or Japan etc.
It's all just a play to get us to accept always-on emissions checkers on every car complete with location logging, you know, for verification.
Should you disclose your current salary during a negotiation?
Thanks for clarifying that sentence -- I was confused by it as well, but this viewpoint makes sense.
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In order to observe an Observable object, you need to have a reference to it. Adding an Observer to something that you shouldn't isn't possible without introducing it as a dependency. If someone does inject something so they can observe it, it's easier to spot the coupling.

It sounds like the legacy code you got stuck maintaining put logic inside the observers, which isn't the Observer Pattern's fault. In my own experience, not using event patterns like the Observer Pattern is probably the biggest cause of difficult-to-maintain code.
I'd love to see an entire blog post about Sam's footnote #1. Though I find it funny that every point about why this is bad for late-stage companies I believe applies exactly the same to post demo-day YC seed stage companies with extremely high valuations.

Though I think in both cases if the company can be disciplined then cheap capital should be good, but staying disciplined is hard...
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O.o seems like a bad option in your case, since not only would you be relying on an internal API that could change at any point, but you'd be relying on the shape of its internal data staying the same too.
While I appreciate humor, and I have a beard myself, this is article is utterly depressing. As if the in vogue trend towards increasingly revolting ways in which we Americans comport ourselves, facial hair and otherwise, is not dismal enough, we have smoked ourselves so stupid to not even be ashamed of a piece like this. For an at least somewhat literate adult, to take even a few minutes to research that war and be left still so unaffected they could follow through with a bad late night party joke is nauseating.

When there is nothing left of your culture, know you are responsible. How funny do you think it would be to live in a world with no genuine scholarly journals? This whole "post-human dignity" generational trend is sickening. Mocking literacy itself. If you really can't wait to see what happens after it's all emoji and porn, then visit that very same history you laugh at. Go get high with some gamers dumb ass.
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AI research has nothing whatsoever to do with Psychometrics so you are not qualified to opine.
I think you are mistaken, the cost per episode of the shows that NetFlix has produced are on a par with anything on Network Television or Cable. What changes is the number of people with fingers in the pie. Certainly the production values of Daredevil were as good as anything on TV at the time. The combination of better CGI (lowering location costs and the costs of set dressing) and streamlining the number of people who want to make a nickel, changes the game with respect to getting new shows on to the viewer's screen.
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That's helpful. I have this side Scala project, a long-lived daemon[1], that I've been meaning to rewrite in something else, as I've grown disenchanted with it. (Bruce Eckel and Paul Phillips contributed to that. [2]) But every alternative I could think of was not so appealing. I'll check this out.

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[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10163446
I think process is a great name.

Keep in mind there are architectures where the BEAM VM runs without a traditional OS below it.

Before: Physical Machine (x86) + x86 VM + Hypervisor + OS + BEAM

After: Physical Machine (x86) + x86 VM + Hypervisor + BEAM

Eventually we might get down to: Physical Machine (ARM) + BEAM

The hypervisor has domains, the OS has processes, and the BEAM VM also has processes. Why introduce yet another name?
CBS has a rich history of using Star Trek to promote new methods of giving viewers content. The track record is... spotty.
No. In a bubble, everyone believes something is undervalued and is desperate to get in. 'I need to buy Pets.com at $100 because in a month it'll be $1000!' Or 'I need to buy Bitcoin at $350 because it's taking off to the moon!' This causes the general surge in prices where everyone buys in because now it's cheap ('the Communist Party has guaranteed stocks as an investment, so I can't lose by buying now'), eventually leading to the crash when suddenly people begin fervently believing everything is way too expensive (and so they should sell).
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