skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no special key, no special pattern that unlocks one's extraordinary performance in a given area. Some people happen to have the right combination of brains, experience, commitment, and luck. And they leave the world impressed.

You could literally ask the same questions about Mozart or Einstein. Let me try that: what's their secret? Can you learn it? Is it experience, something you either have or have not? Are men better suited for the job? What clues are you looking for while analyzing a theory? Is there something like a 'perfect' symphony, or did he make a list of positive and negative tone patterns? Are some chords more important than others?
Income tax as a whole is the problem I feel.

We should tax wealth instead.

By not taxing income you avoid placing the burden on those that don't have and thus avoid needing to create loopholes for them.
Something in a similar vain that bothers me is the obsession with slimming down phones. I've never owned a phone that was too thick since flip phones and those were still bearable. I don't care if my phone is thin, but I do care that battery life has hardly improved since my original iPhone. Give me a brick that lasts for 3 days
How I Got Through a Painful Transitional Period in My Career
> The Koran, or the Bible are not "violent" books not are they "peaceful"

The Koran is directly violent and intolerant. It contains direct instructions that are such. The Sunnah describes the violent actions of the violent person claiming to be prophet of the god (which was invented earlier) and his followers. The Old Testament describes the actions of the violent god (an invented being by his believers) and his believers trying to win and control the Canaan territories. The New Testament describes the violent action of authorities who try to keep the order by crucifying the person claiming to be the prophet that brings the end of the world, then contains a lot of briefs of his followers and then one apocalyptic vision.

And not a single one of these texts holds any scientific truth. All are based on myths and superstition.

At the time of the "last revelations" already 800 years passed since Greeks measured the circumference of Earth, the size and distance of Moon and the size and distance of Sun. But the supposed god of the supposed prophet instead spends the energy to leave the message that the uncle of the supposed prophet will burn in hell. He cares about the priorities, you see. In the Old Testament the god actually comes through the house door to his favorite believer and shares a meal with him. Or strolls through the garden. You know, gods have to eat too. Oh, and god also has rest for one day after making the whole world in six.

Read them all and compare.
That seems like a fair concern to me. Like you, the piece strikes me as subtly and uncomfortably gendered. As a hacker myself, my emotional intelligence was never that great. But I think this was vastly compounded by being a guy; society didn't expect me to develop much in the way of emotional skills.

A big thing that changed that for me was doing in-person tech support in college. About 10% of the job was knowing facts. The rest was helping humans in very human ways. When, years later, the term "emotional labor" [1] came around, it made a lot of sense to me. I may not have been natively good at it, but you don't have to have talent to get skill. It just takes more work.

So when he talks about emotional radar and her being the mom and whatnot, it all strikes me as a false dichotomy, one I've worked hard to avoid. It's especially odd to me in a piece about society treating a woman as lesser.

[1] Lots of good stuff on the topic in this amazing Metafilter thread: http://www.metafilter.com/151267/Wheres-My-Cut-On-Unpaid-Emo...
Misleading article title and misleading paper title.
Buenos Aires is incredibly safe when it comes to murder rate. Its petty crime is very high though, with over 900 robberies per 100k people.
Well done cc team!
Vendor lock-out.

And also because I saw Dave Jones do a teardown of one of these things. He tried turning it on with no SIM and it said "please insert SIM" instead of booting to Android.
> Comparable returns an int for what should be a 3-value enum.

To be fair, I can think of another functional language starting with "O" guilty of exactly the same thing...
Wow, that is an unfortunate heat-sink-to-computer size ratio.
Can the Android client cast to a Chromecast? That is one of two major things Microsoft needs for adoption here.
I'm not sure I know how to estimate this, but I'd like to know how many 4004s you could fit on a die the size of the original 4004, if you used today's smallest transistor technology.
pg is the username of Paul Graham on HN, so it's an acronym that he uses.
If I remember correctly, GPL itself is copyright FSF. I don't think you can use it as a base for derivative work.

Besides, why would you want to go back to v2?! I found no strong argument for v2 except for supporting tivoization.
A fair question, but who are we to answer it? Isn't it up to the people of Iraq to decide? Would you want them deciding for your country that invasion, war, and mass death and destruction are worthwhile?

I understand that most Iraqis couldn't express themselves politically under Hussein, but we have no business making this evaluation for them now.

Most importantly, as many do, the question omits what is by far the most important factor, the costs to the people living in Iraqi. Think about it: How many Iraqis died? Were injured? Lost their homes, livelihoods, and dreams? [1] Do you know? I doubt even 1% of people in the invading countries can answer the question, and (IIRC) the U.S. military didn't keep track. Think about that: We invaded their country, cause mass death, and nobody gives a shit about dead Iraqis. When discussing the Iraq War, when is the last time you heard someone even bring it up?

Let's also remember the other costs: Their nation, its economy and its institutions are in ruins for a generation at least. Their own government doesn't even control large parts of the country, other foriegn powers such as Iran and U.S. decide much of what happens in your own country, many Iraqis now live under ISIL's brutal oppression, and you can't even field an effective military. If you were and 18 year old Iraqi in 2003 and planned to go to college, maybe to become a developer or doctor, where are your dreams now? If you survived, maybe you are now a 30 year old former militia member with a high school education, without skills or prospects in a sea of economic and political desolation. [2]

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[1] Over 100,000 died, by the most conservative but serious estimates I've seen. I recently saw a politically conservative publication say it was 150,000.

[2] I don't know enough about Iraq to know what a typical life story would look like, and probably few went to college before the war. But whatever their dreams and plans, they certainly weren't this.
my first company, thesixtyone, would've never happened if it weren't for jessica. she welcomed me to yc teas when i was just a starry eyed idea dude from los angeles (hello, xobnis and zenters!), and she also saved our face and investment after i naively bumbled pg's verbal offer.
Don't forget state income tax. In California this tops out around 12% or so. State + federal adds up to over 50% total.
How is the market being destroyed correcting the problem? If people can't be compensated and work doesn't get done, the market is a failure.
Talk less and learn to watch and listen. You will be amazed at how better your instincts become.

I think her traits are what make her good at this. She doesn't like attention and is more of an introvert. These traits probably make her very good at listening and a great observer of people.

Most introverts I know are very good at judging people because they don't want the attention on themselves.
It's called "peer review," and it doesn't require a subpoena.
"Work with experts" the way you already work with accountants, lawyers, etc. Hire two and have one check the other.

And no, it's not unreasonable to expect a non-technical person to review the data or the methods either. Many people don't want to put the time in to try but it's well within the reach of any high-school grad.
I suggest you read the essay again. PG clearly writes that Jessica's way of dealing with people is by listening. And she's damn good at that. It is harder to listen when you speak, or when everybody watches your every move.
how does this have 4 upvotes in less than 1 minute? its ridiculous how rigged HN has become... just like reddit
Yes, picadas (which means chopped in Spanish) are pretty common in Argentina and people usually drink beer with them. You can order them at pubs and they are something standard in social gatherings.

But I think mezze includes more elaborated food; the typical picada includes cheese, cold cuts, olives, peanuts, bread, snack food and that's it. The things served are more similar to the italian antipasto, but the way of serving them (many small dishes distributed over the table) resembles the mezze.
This is really dirty politics. Even if Lamar can't find anything that actually supports his argument he can drop embarrassing or out-of-context emails to the press in an attempt to discredit scientists.
"Try our site on a Windows PC or a Mac instead.
Your current device won't work with our site."
It sounds like a group of people abused the Social Group feature of vBulletin[1] to piggyback off of his forum to have their own little area without having to host their own forum/server. Depending on how vBulletin is configured, you can basically create a wholly independent forum within the Social Group that can't be accessed/seen outside of the group.

[1]http://www.myth-weavers.com/wiki/index.php/Help:VBulletin:So...
Without having time to read the paper, this seems like a proof by obscurity. It's very conceivable that this problem is solvable in polynomial time with very high bounds. The problem is also so vaguely worded that it is practically meaningless, and the interpretation of "how the game designers intended" is also ambiguous.

The collection of games is also odd. Is Pitfall NP-complete? What about how Pitfall was designed to be played? Is Tetris NP-Hard? Is it even hard? ...

What about Minesweeper? Or Pong?

In particular, this article heading totally disregards the result from the first section:

> We can obtain some positive results if we bound the "memory" of the game. For example, recall
that in Super Mario Bros. everything substantially off screen resets to its initial state. Thus, if we
generalize the stage size in Super Mario Bros. but keep the screen size constant, then reachability of
the goal can be decided in polynomial time: the state space is polynomial in size, so we can simply
traverse the entire state space and check whether the goal is reachable. Similar results hold for
the other games if we bound the screen size in Donkey Kong Country or the room size in Legend
of Zelda, Metroid, and Pokemon. The screen-size bound is more realistic (though fairly large in
practice), while there is no standard size for rooms in Metroid and Pokémon.

So already revising the definition of the games themselves.
They could probably preload it with more bitcoins than this device is likely to mine in its lifetime for the same cost.

It stumps me why they'd include the miner at all, but they may be trying to pivot from the miner as their main product. My impression from their press releases was that they were aiming more at crazy IoT things like embedding miners into household objects.
The Ramsay Principle requires there to be no commercial purpose. But "commercial purpose" is so broad that you can fall into it without even trying.
Great essay. Besides setting the record straight on Jessica's key role in the founding and growth of YC, it also offers a rare glimpse into how and why YC became the juggernaut it is today.

"The overall atmosphere was shockingly different from a VC's office on Sand Hill Road, in a way that was entirely for the better."

The rest of the essay is filled with words like family, mom, character, culture, authenticity, good(ness), social radar etc. Words you would hardly ever associate with a successful business - let alone a big time, successful VC firm on Sand Hill Road or anywhere else. It sounds like a crazy way to run a company based on such fuzzy concepts. But remarkably, these soft, fuzzy concepts appear to be a key part of YC's huge success - and not some cold, calculated decision making. In a way this bears out one of PG's other theories - that hugely successful startups usually start out with ideas that look really bad or crazy. And in YC's case, the most successful startup to come out of YC may be regarded as YC itself!

Edit: Would like to add a key part of their approach seems to have been to throw out the old, tried and true approach, think from first principles and build the company and culture in a way that they felt comfortable with - and not how it was "supposed to be done".
Why would that be any harder? The tokens are different.
Being able to complete a level requires knowing that the level can be completed.
Volunteer programs? No, not at all. But this is NOT a volunteer program. It is supposed to be a way to better bid out government work, which I will point out is very much not charity.
Which "culture" are you referring to? ISIL?
I still remember, back in 2007, sitting in the old Mountain View office when Jessica came out and yelled "Matt Maroon! I just love that name." I had been a little nervous until that but for some odd reason that was calming.

Those of us in YC knew she wasn't just PG's girlfriend.
People like Lamar Smith should be properly called Climate Criminals. I foresee a day when there will be Nuremburg-style trials for the denialists.
Agreed. But Smith is using a legal process in an attempt to subvert a scientific one. In my humble opinion, that's the crux of the douchebaggery.
Any chance you'd let us in on what that decision/disagreement was about - even in the abstract?
I dislike the idea of government secrecy at all, but the scientists have a better case for keeping their emails secret than negotiators did to keep the TPP treaty details secret.
When 0.05% of the electorate does the nominating of elected officials, and you only get to vote for who was nominated, you have corruption plain and simple. Go view Lawrence Lessig's TEDx talk on this issue. https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_...
Saddam was a terrible dictator, but what the US created was much, much worse.

We can learn something from Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Toppling a dictator doesn't automatically create a new, civilized society. Even promising uprisings like the Libyan uprising of 2011 don't guarantee a good outcome.

In Iraq, the US created a huge power vacuum by decapitating the state — removing not just Saddam, but the entire civil and military leadership, through Paul Bremer's completely misguided process of "de-Baathification". There was no power structure left to ensure the continuity of Iraqi society. Even clerk-level Baathists were dismissed, people in charged of everything from health care to utilities. It's like nobody on the US side had studied any history whatsoever.
What exactly does this line mean from their 'Pro' plan?

"Includes everything from Self-Driving Mode plus the ability to directly customize deductions, earnings, and more."

I don't have any clue if the free plan would work for me or not.
Why not just "Paul"? If I'm just browsing, I'll get turned off by what appears to be worship. Shouldn't communities be more open?
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The government plans to provide special holders for the cards that would hide sensitive information, leaving only the person’s face and name visible.
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The article implies that the there are no worries about info leaks because of the special card carrier that obscures personal details.
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(It was apparently '74 before the first MCM/70s shipped.)
I will say that no prospective YC founders ever really asked me about Jessica. They all asked me about Paul, and I told them to worry less about PG and more about her.
The drawing is undergoing verification. When it's been verified it'll be posted on the download page: http://www.4004.com/#downloads
Zune, is that you?
Lamar Smith is going after others too.

"Representative Lamar Smith (R–TX), the chairman of the science panel of the House of Representatives, announced plans to investigate a nonprofit research group led by climate scientist Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is the lead signer of a letter to White House officials that urges the use of an antiracketeering law to crack down on energy firms that have funded efforts to raise doubts about climate science."

http://news.sciencemag.org/policy/2015/10/turnabout-house-re...
"Download the latest Adobe Flash plugin below."
Well, that was it for trying it...
He's making the case that the simple fact that a Treasury can have a 10-year term makes it riskier than a swap that is marked to market every 24 hours.

This might be a makeable case, but just comparing the terms is not enough to do so. And, while he is using it to explain why Treasuries seem to have a risk premium now, it doesn't explain why they did not previously. Did swaps just start being m2M every 24 hours? Certainly there has been no major change to the nature of Treasuries over the past few months. So why the sudden shift?
I do have to say that Buenos Aires definitely reminds me of NY. But those are first impressions and I'm probably just missing home a bit.
The ways I could imagine reconciling it:

1) "Good people" is relative, and even good people still sometimes do bad things.

2) No detector is perfect, and so a metric of "no YC company has done anything bad" seems strong. Something like, "YC companies are less bad on average than others".

3) Their definition of "good" is not 100% congruent with yours.

4) The high-pressure environment of startups is a double bind. If you don't do at least some bad things you fail, or at least lose out to non-good people.
These stories came around a few years ago when swap spreads went negative, and it seems like the same mistakes in interpretation are being made again. Negative swap spreads do NOT imply that big banks are more creditworthy than the US Treasury. That is obviously fallacious. You are comparing apples and oranges. If you want to do a fair comparison, compare the yield on a Treasury bond with the yield on a non-callable bank bond of the same maturity. Guess what? The Treasury yield will be lower. Or if you prefer, look at the CDS market and compare the CDS spread for protection on the US Government vs the spread for any major bank. Again, the US government spread is less.

If you want to understand this, you need to think about what kind of arbitrage trade would profit from this situation and why it's not happening in large enough size to reverse this. You'll realize that the operative constraints are not fears about the creditworthiness of the US government.
So does chrome (and android webview which is now based on chrome) on lollipop and above. Where did you get the idea that it wasn't? Go to chrome://inspect on your desktop, you need to have a Chrome version on your desktop that's compatible with the chrome/webview version on your android device, usually this means having the same or higher version number on your desktop.

Kitkat marked the transition of android webview to be based on chrome but it wasn't made updateable.

Lollipop upwards have an updateable android webview which tracks the latest chrome version and isn't very far behind usually.
Nigerian scholar solves 156-year-old Mathematics problem, ‘Riemann Hypothesis’
No, it just means that monetary compensation is no longer the largest, or in this case of any consideration. There are other costs, such as time and effort, but there are also other profits, such as reputation and personal satisfaction. Compensation doesn't bottom out zero, it can also go negative. In this specific case, if there were two such people bidding against each other for the 18F contract, one or both of them might have been willing to pay a few dollars for the privilege of working on the project. I got a feeling from this post that the pair of them that did this contract would have had little problem throwing $10 at 18F for the chance to do the project.
I see you don't want to trust even yourself in actually learning the formulas and the basic principles of physics behind them, but that's how it is. Physics works. Humans produce immense amounts of CO2, CO2 in the atmosphere increases the temperature of the planet. It's as simple as that.

Reading other people's mails won't refute the physics.

And no, other factors aren't the answer:

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wor...
Not only the 'West', the 'East' itself is desensitized to violence in the middle-east. It's normal to see newspapers there going out of their way to show bloody and gruesome imagery to reflect how "this is more violent than the last violent thing".

In a nutshell: Bombings, assassinations and airstrikes are business as usual in Beirut/anywhere else in the middle-east and that's why no one is shocked.
we live in a messed up place where women are undermined no matter how great or influential they are. we, society, need to stop doing that. good write up - let's see what happens next.
A useful piece of information would be the cost. I can't find it anywhere on that site. Do they expect me to sign up for a free trial without knowing the cost?
How can an acronym made from initials mean worshiping someone? In this case it's just laziness/terseness.
econsultancy.com most likely have some studies and reports on it.
I have no idea why Java chose that, but thought it worth mentioning "->" has been in use for Ruby longer than the alternative .NET and ES6 syntax.
This company has 121 MILLION in funding [1]. Can this possibly be true? Why would I need my refrigerator to mine bitcoin?

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/21e6#/entity
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Feel free to that, just be aware that your approach lacks any kind of validity and would be regarded as quixotic at best.

Most hadiths (I think that's what you are referring to) have weak veracity and weighted accordingly.

As I stated elsewhere your approach shares a great deal with the Salafist/Wahabist doctrine but, sadly, not a great deal with 1400 years of Islamic thought. Once again, to use the analogy of the US Constitution, your approach is akin to finding a copy of the Constitution in 2015 and trying to produce a functioning government from scratch with no prior knowledge. Sure you'd be able to produce something, but th chances that it would remotely resemble the real thing are slim.
Zapchain is already doing this: http://zapchain.com
Thank you for your work! It amazes me sometimes how simple such powerful tools can become.

> You start by getting information for each Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)

wait, hold on a minute
"So when he talks about emotional radar and her being the mom and whatnot, it all strikes me as a false dichotomy, one I've worked hard to avoid. It's especially odd to me in a piece about society treating a woman as lesser."

That's so much better articulated than what I said! Exactly this.
You're right, the article is kind of vague on the exact set of languages which all assign genders to nouns.
This is confusing because of their previous 'groove' offering which was the origins of Microsoft SharePoint Workspace.
how much spam from Medium can HN take? or are YC investors complacent?
You have to click on the "1 month" and "12 month" buttons for their respective prices to show up. I was confused too.
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