skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"True systemic quality will lower costs, speed production, and increase value all at once."

When you say "true systemic quality" are you speaking far beyond the scope of what any one company is responsible for?

Otherwise, I suspect those replying to you are correct - if bug-free software can be written, quicker and cheaper than software that winds up retaining some bugs, based on work well enough known for 20 years, we'd be seeing someone out there winning with it.
It's not doing less, it's actually doing anything, and yes it's very related to age and view on life. As You, in my twenties I would burn into flow to swallow a lot of things. Now I don't. The irony is that I was quite stupid younger, and have a much much broader and stronger understanding of abstraction, geometry, holism etc, all things life teaches you with time. But .. unnecessary complexity and other goals have taken hold of my `libido` if I may say so. My comment wasn't much about finding drive again but also accepting that passion isn't always there but life requires you to be able to work. I find that people that weren't passion driven at first thus spent a lot of time working on things that were tough or unrelated to their dream and are more stable in the long run.
Counterpoint: If you've ever really been burned by having a crappy neighbor -- or a string of them -- you may be inclined to get as far away as possible.

I'm sensitive to noise, and I ended up not with average neighbors but with extremely noisy ones, on multiple occasions. (On one occasion, inescapable even when I was across the street and down two houses.)

I'd like a greater sense of community, but I never want to go through that, again.

I don't know whether manners have changed, or more people are sensitive to noise (some aspect of the autistic spectrum or the like?). Regardless, for me, higher density living will only become attractive with improvements in soundproofing of such units and/or better control of noisy behavior.

(Come to think of it, people didn't used to have such absurd stereos and televisions producing such absurd levels of bass, either -- on average. Not that that is the only problem with noise, these days.)

P.S. I'll add that the sound of kids playing and the like doesn't bother me, in reasonable measure. The situations I encountered went FAR beyond that.

Sociologists/anthropologists and urban planners need to broaden their perspective with regard to this, in my opinion, when considering contemporary U.S. environments and their like.

Further, I can add that I have made upwards of 10 good friends in the last decade. Not neighbors -- although I am friendly with several of them -- but people who, while differing in details and some beliefs and opinions, are kind and respectful.

So... is it that we don't have "casual interactions" near our homes? Or, is something else going on? Probably some of each.

Again, if you want to promote higher density living, amongst other things ameliorate the noise issues. Better sound-proofing. Effective ordinances.
Same here, with Firefox for Android. Left and right margins are not necessary. Also, please let all text wrap and let users zoom in and out the way they want.
Jeez... it's like the guy is looking for an excuse to find a new thing groups can hate one another about.
Maybe it only works for apples, strawberries.
Here you go, $256 billion in farm subsidies since 1995. Do farmers pay market rates for anything?

http://farm.ewg.org
The only real failure here is that the author gave two years of his life (including holidays) working for the Cheungs. Hopefully he was in his early 20s, otherwise he has no excuse.
This is really odd, though it may reveal the dynamic between the founders. Wonder what the conversations have been, and if any even occurred.
He also defended AirBnBs founders when they were publicly blaming-the-victim: customer whose house had been trashed by meth heads after renting it out on AirBnB.

Eventually the company seemed to hire a crisis consultant and started acting better.

But in the early days the founders were being extremely douchy and PG wrote an article that I was astounded to receive, defending the douchiness.

That was the point that I started to think YC isn't better than the average level of Silicon Valley.

BTW, many YC companies engage in fake traction tactics sometimes ones that cross the line into dishonesty-- for example AirBnBs "we'll spam people listing their places on craigslist while pretending to be someone else" marketing scheme.
How is Google's SEO team structured?
I assume a lot of secrecy is needed. How do they deal with it?
Don’t count on STARTTLS to automatically encrypt your sensitive e-mails
I quite understand what you're saying. I used to be dogmatic, perfectionist. But some events in life do realign your mind and suddenly you start to have a larger view on life and satisfying one's idealistic view on world fades away.

The issue is not taking passion for granted and ending up being bipolar, ability to actually enjoy mundane casual work is good. But it's also tough to balance with marketplace demands, sometimes you can't have unproductive days even if you're out of attraction (say a large contract badly built on fragile tech with no design and no care). Your paycheck depends on it.
> To maintain our community, if a founder behaves unethically during or after YC, we will revoke their YC founder status. This includes access to all Y Combinator spaces, software, lists and events. All founders in a company may be held responsible for the unethical actions of a single co-founder or a company employee, depending on the circumstances.

https://www.ycombinator.com/ethics/
"Approximately 16 people bear this surname"

That actually sounds a bit high.
1. Didn't get that. IMO Enabling/disabling APIs should be a separate menu item from Credentials.

2. Ok.

3. Yeah. Naming is a start. I also want to know what does it have access to.

4. Yeah. It's quite messy. Also there are Service Accounts in "Credentials" and also in "Permissions". There are multiple "Google APIs service account" in Permissions. I have no idea what they are for and what does it have access to
The article is just bad propaganda. I say "bad" because it relies on the reader not having spent time outside the USA. You can compare apples and oranges all day. If Sweden suffers from "poverty" than its a type of poverty that looks pretty cozy to me.
>No, it's me trying to articulate the overall impression you're giving me so that we can have a real discussion rather than just talk around each other's ideology. But you don't seem to want to do that.

I'm not "talking around" your ideology. I'm highlighting the deficiencies in the assumptions that structurally underpin it (i.e. the myth of the rational investor/consumer), pointing to research that supports the disproval of that presumption.

Your lack of desire to examine those wrong assumptions which your own ideology relies upon is the actual reason why we are not having a real discussion.

>Fight-flight responses are temporary.

Fight/flight mode is as temporary as the threat which you are responding to. Ask a soldier suffering from PTSD if it's "only ever temporary". Seriously. Do.

>Way more temporary than it takes to wait in line at a payday loan shop.

We've already established pretty well that your self-professed ability to analyze the psychology of poverty mainly revolves around gawping at it from a distance on the Pablo Escobar tour and maybe being short of money once or twice in your life.
22LR is marginal for taking deer at close range with a rifle. Taking one with a revolver would require almost contact distance to be tenable - and if you shoot it in the lung or heart, it's going to run a long way until it dies.

I doubt the person telling you the story has much experience with taking deer, let alone with a 22.
Honestly I don't know why, but that got me laughing more than I expected.

Oh also, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201468
(How to install Windows using Boot Camp)
Imagine "stop watching yourporn all night long mate" "we're looking at your traffic"

yeah.. no thanks.
My second mobile phone was an Ericsson GH688. I spent an obscene amount of money on an Ericsson T68 when they first came out. The iPhone was better than any Ericsson phone I ever owned, as a phone (I owned a total of 8 Ericsson phones).
If the case for global warming is so strong, why are you referring to it as "climate change"?
I'm not sure what the author expects the rest of the world to do. Indonesia is a sovereign state that also claims to have a full fledged democracy and the rule of law. Surely they have all the tools to fix this problem.

The outside world has complained to Indonesia about these illegal fires for decades and each time Indonesia has said it would take care of it, giving assurance they will never happen again.

But as history has shown us, those assurances are worthless as those fires keep happening. And they keep happening, not not because the world does not care, but rather, the sovereign state of Indonesia is corrupt to the core.

Now, hopefully this time will be the last, only because this time around has been the worst ever and the Indonesia population is now being directly effected with multiple deaths and widespread suffering. The have a vote, they should use it.

But I doubt much will change, as those corrupt politicians will still be there this time next year.
Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery (2014)
The urban-rural divide does create issues, though the author is very selective and invents a fractious view of reality concocted from stereotypes that does more to perpetuate the problem than help, and blurs cultural and political lines. Politically, rural States are inherently over-represented Federally by virtue of each State having two Senators regardless of population, and that has and will continue work to the detriment of urbanized States. Politically the complaints about government dependence by urbanites selectively ignore that more tax dollars are sent proportionally to rural States than urban states, which are in no small part a product of rural States having immense power over the Feds. relative to urbanized States. Slagging the "The Life of Julia" as a "dependency narrative" ignores that a big point of the narrative was keeping the government out of Julia's reproductive choices and other life choices, freedoms rural religious-minded folks are not keen on protecting. On top of that (and perversely amusingly), rural areas have steadily outgrown proportional rates for use of food stamps and food assistance programs than urban areas. Culturally, rural states idealize a kind of independence that's a product of a political structure that hands out capital and favors to quietly prop those rural areas up while turning a blind eye to their benefit from the government to assist themselves.
I completely agree everyone should be blocking ads for security, but this comparison is not right. Antivirus should already protect you from many known javascript-based malware. The difference is that antivirus will block (some of) the attacks being executed and let ads through. Adblock will block both normal ads and malware.

That's why nobody ever argued that running antivirus is morally wrong.
Keep. No zoom needed. Great
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (1909)
"you get better looking collisions and it doesn't cost you much, if anything."

Yeah I dunno about this. Generating good convex polyhedra isn't free. Their cache missing extra memory isn't free. Nor is the test free.

I suppose it all really depends on the use case. The right balance of early out vs precision depends on your data set. Run too many early outs and it can be a net loss. Run too many precise tests and it's a net loss.
On iOS9, iPhone6:
The comment box and comments overflow which require horizontal scrolling or zooming out. It worked better before simply because zooming in (double tap) is easier than zooming out (pinch).
At the time Java was being used in browsers, it had a lot of problems with that machine code generation. It took a long time for the JIT to kick in. The JITed x86 code it produced was poor. The startup time to load in the various libraries required by the applet tech was incredibly slow. It only started downloading the actual java code to run after the applet itself had finished loading everything. And more issues.

There problems were never truly about the idea being bad: it was the implementation that was terrible and was hindered even further by the Sun-Microsoft lawsuits, etc.

If everyone is on board with a technology and work to make it usable instead of 'feature complete', then it is very easy to make this work where Java applets failed. It's actually easy to make Java applets work where Java applets failed if you were to re-implement the idea with the correct focus and buy-in.

It's not technology - it is politics.
Marco Rubio, absentee senator (7/27/2015)
From Noob to Pro Taking CS50
>You have no idea how economies actually work and no inclination to learn

I think that accusation might be a little rash in light of your own refusal to re-examine the assumptions that underpin your rather normative economic ideology.

>trying to drill down into fundamentals is only going to go nowhere.

Those fundamental assumptions that you persist in believing despite all evidence to the contrary are largely the reason why you are so wrong.
I don't think his point needs Slack to have a global network effect built in. I'd assume that, usually, a small handful of people in an organization decide on using Slack. Once the choice is made, network effects lock members in. Assuming the average org has 20 people or so, probably 90% of Slack's users are probably thanks to network effects.
Is it wrong to assume that at least one co-founder in a YC funded startup knows how to write code?
> Pretty much nobody has security lights, some people have lights on their driveway so they can work at night but not specifically security lights.

Those big lights on a pole typically located between the house and the (nearest) shed/barn? They're usually left on all night even if no-one's out, and in my experience the justification you'll hear for that is security. Maybe it's a regional thing?

Of course, their actual primary purpose is to ensure that if you have to work late in the shed you're covered in moths and mayflies by the time you make it back to the house. Wouldn't want to enter the house without a good layer of insects all over you. Not proper. They've really done their job when you get a couple in your mouth. In case you missed dinner.
> For most, after they are married and have kids those potential goals just become fantasy.

The number one piece of career advice for men should be not to get married or have kids. With enough money you can get a young trophy wife and have children at 55 no problem.
I may be mistaken, but is the "you had one job" meme applicable here?
That was painful.

Forced, unfunny jokes. Um every other um word um is um. Talking so slow that even if she knew what she was talking about it would be boring. Skynet for beginners? Laughable. And now there are memes. Just shoot me.
"This is the viewport bug when you try to enter a comment."

This viewport bug appears when I just open the comment page.
Well that's 100% out of phase with my experience. I just ended 21 years in the "Front Range" area; Boulder, Fort Collins CO. Bike trails and bikers abound, anti-car municipal governments impeding road development, everyone living on anti-sprawl 0.2 acre plats. However, actual contact with neighbors was very sparse; a service for every need, everything on auto-pilot.

The last three months I've been living semi-rural in the midwest; all the households are on two acres (minimum, due to to well and septic density.) I've had more direct contact with my neighbors in these 12 weeks than the previous 21 years put together. Maintaining larger properties that are much more distant from the urban core invites collaboration. Household attendance at the HOA meeting last month was almost 50%; waaay more than I saw back in the Front Range burbs.

Your view of the world doesn't match my experience at all. Exactly the opposite.
Really? It looks kind of bad, but is more functional methinks.
What pairing plugin are you using?
Surely these articles lend credence to the idea that AirBnB is only growing at the rate it is because landlords are using it to "abuse" the housing market.

As the situation stands right now, they have absolutely nothing to gain by limiting those "power users", and a substantial amount to lose.
"The fact that "power users" are making so much money from Airbnb indicates just how poorly hotels serve travelers"

There are plenty of well ran boutique hotels that serve travellers very well. "Power users" are making so much money by breaking the law.

If they were following the law, they would be running highly profitable boutique hotels/bed and breakfast houses /above the law/.
There are two kinds of libertarians: the consequentialists who think a libertarian system (small government) would lead to overall better outcomes for society and the deontologists who think individual liberty and the non-aggression principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle) are morally superior philosophies (and everyone in between).

I personally fall in the first camp while sympathetic to the moral arguments. I would support basic income as it gets us closer to a libertarian system as opposed to status quo and has an actual chance of happening. Milton Friedman, a key figure of the modern libertarian movement and a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recipient, was also a proponent for similar reasons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman#Social_securit...).

If you're genuinely interested in learning more about libertarianism from a consequentialist perspective, I would strongly recommend the "Free to Chose" tv series by Milton Friedman which is freely available here: http://www.freetochoose.tv/ftc80.php. I was in the "statist" camp for most of my life because I had never been fairly exposed to the other side of the medal and this series is what pushed me to dig more into the subject.
Look at what https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10488948 wrote. The laws against insider trading aren't there to protect one market participant from another, they are there to protect a company from its employees.
"The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of Southern whites did not even own slaves; of those who did, 88% owned twenty or fewer. Whites who did not own slaves were primarily yeoman farmers. Practically speaking, the institution of slavery did not help these people. And yet most non-slaveholding white Southerners identified with and defended the institution of slavery. Though many resented the wealth and power of the large slaveholders, they aspired to own slaves themselves and to join the priviledged ranks. In addition, slavery gave the farmers a group of people to feel superior to. They may have been poor, but they were not slaves, and they were not black. They gained a sense of power simply by being white." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2956.html
It is the image from this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10489733 .
This read like a really angry rant against modern culture in general. Yes, politicians don't always make very good choices and yes people spend a lot of time on the web now. This is no reason to call the urban population "clueless."

Rural life is also unscalable. Rural citizens won't always be more knowledge in agriculture. They do not have more or less "common sense" than the urban population.

/rant
An extremely simplistic view of history that is nonetheless false, as not all history are written by 'winners'.

Historians are very interested in the losers as well.
Reasoning about pivot selection in quicksort was once PhD-level work.
it's better! half way to good imo.
Take a look at the original archive.is image which the author posted. You'll notice that the company spelled its own name wrong:

https://archive.is/T3Ms7

I just loaded up her page a few minutes ago and they fixed the spelling. An image is here:

http://imgur.com/pqW4tbC

Pardon my language, but it's fucked up that someone with access changed the spelling but didn't have enough sense to just remove the whole 'banned for spamming'. Especially in light of the fact that one of the founders replied on this thread eight hours ago.

This doesn't seem like the typical bad customer service incident. I'm not trying to excuse this behaviour (because it's wrong on every level), but I really hope that everyone in that company is mentally healthy and safe.
America has never had a famine, though.

Indeed, aside from avocados recently and a few times when there were bacteria scares, I can't think of any time where any American agricultural product couldn't be found in stores.

I definitely believe that the farm subsidies are poorly targeted, but those things above aren't to be snorted at.
Cool. Kunming? I am in south Taiwan =)
> Things like borrowing money to short stocks in a company likely to go bankrupt, while telling people to buy.

It's a dick move, but seems perfectly legal.
Ruby. And some days I feel like a complete idiot
Proper async plugins are the killer feature. For example, if you're using neovim then Syntastic doesn't block the UI when it runs checks. Also off the top of my head, built in terminal emulator and 24 bit color support and far easier integration with external programs. Eventually my hope is that we will have real vi-mode plugins for IDEs that actually load up (neo)vim, though those sort of things are still in their infancy.

I'm a very heavy vim user and have been using neovim for a while now. It causes me zero issues even following git master, but I can definitely notice improvements.
Hm, I think that the lifetime of the LTS of debian or centos are just too long for some projects, and I can only partly blame the projects.

Backporting fixes into a 5 or 10 year old version of the software isn't fun. Or, for example you could not port to python 3 fully and drop python 2 if you wanted to support centos 7 easily.

It's messy, but I'd rather support removing the packages and probably even languages or python packages from the distros repos so you're geared towards effort immediately, instead of installing elasticsearch and then ending up vulnerable.
> Minimum parking requirements

On the flipside, if you have friends who aren't right next door (or perhaps who once were and you don't want to write them off because they moved), it helps to have the ability to drive to their place. I'm not arguing for "car first", but I don't think "pedestrian first" makes sense either. Most of my friends are scattered around a 20-minute radius.

(And quite frankly, you can choose your friends but you can't really choose your neighbors.)

> anti-density zoning laws

I'd have less problem with dense housing (especially since I don't actually care about the stereotypical "yard and a white picket fence") if said housing started including -90dB or better soundproofing.
Seems pretty cohesive, however, that is from an outsiders perspective. Not a ton of VC's because of the tax structure.
Exercise Songs for Preschool Children Part 1