skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly pessimistic. Also, in 1911 knowledge about what works and doesn't work was a lot more limited. The safeguards modern democracies employ now are far superior. At the very least the control of information doesn't work as well as some people would like...

On the other hand there will always be a power differential between those who strive to political leadership (often sacrificing a lot on the way) and those who don't participate at all. And even in a completely equal power share, the power of an individual in a nation of millions is so small that it is easy to confuse it with zero.
Egads, what a linkbaity title. I prefer a16z's survey of the WeChat world: http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/
I'm not sure why you believe this, what specific measures are you talking about?
No your final paragraph here express your honest confusion. The paragraph we are talking about has a slightly poor taste reference to gay dating, and an argumentative statement Altman has done nothing but start Loopt. His Wikipedia page suggests he acted as an investor in many companies pre-YC, and worked some means for Reddit to have an unusual ownership form.

This all suggests to me that a man who become rich at 19 on a startup used that to experiment and understand the startup world, and has grown an interest (and willingness to try new ideas) in how ownership affects the outcomes of companies, which is exactly what we are talking about.

So his history suggests a learning path about company ownership and leads directly to here. I would look closely and internally at the causes of your confusion.
Thanks Albert
It is crazy that this stuff that was well down and discussed on HN itself over the years was somehow unknown to YC. When I was a startup employee noob five years ago I learned all the advice of this article, from reading HN.
> In U.S. politics the most important persons are always figure heads. Their prominence hides democratic and not so democratic mechanisms behind decision making or electing these figure heads.

Interesting, watching US politics from the outside it seems like Obama (OK, the executive branch) has a hell of a lot of power. Personally I agree with a lot of his recent "legacy forging" executive orders, but they sure don't feel very democratic.

If Jeb Bush became president, I would expect a very Bush-like reign. War with Iran, for example.
>'cook2': ('A second Phageling you trust to enjoy cooking with!',

Cooks are leaders at Burning Man?

Is this similar to instant runoff voting? Only had time to glance at the code..
Anyone who want more background on Bill Mensch and the 6502 and the other people around it should pick up Brian Bagnall's "Commodore: A Company on the Edge".
Note that this is the first of two volumes of the second edition; the second covers the "Amiga years" and is not yet published (in progress thanks to a Kickstarter[1])

(The first edition was published as one volume, called "On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore"; it covers the entire period up to the bankruptcy in '94 in 561 pages, while "A Company on the Edge" covers just up until 1984 in the same 561 pages)

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-th...
This is already the base with the lobbying industry, but yes, agreed.
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> The issue I take with the message behind these statistics, that one should not worry about one's enemies simply because they're unlikely to do as much damage as other problems, is that they make it seem like the best course is to do nothing; that because the odds are low, no preventative action should be taken because everything will be OK.

There is no message and the article never draws any conclusions so it's up to the reader to decide what the data proves. It would be silly to believe that this is somehow trying to excuse terrorism, it's like letting a murderer go because car accidents killed more than he did that year.
That is a good point - the exact figures are devateabke but yes, thank you
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If you are the eng or sales lead at a startup, you can blog and tweet and sprinkle the magic founder dust on yourself. There is no Office of Dust Control .
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...that one should not worry about one's enemies...

Calling terrorists "enemies" is giving them way too much credit. The USSR was an enemy of the USA. Terrorists are a highly vocal criminal nuisance by comparison. Terror only works if you are terrorized.
That's interesting but for commuter trains I reckon England has us soundly beat, and has always done.

And I hope so. They've been better than the links they've displaced 100% of the time.
It is strange and suspicious that you felt that "gay" was relevant to your analysis.
>Who enforces the law if it isn't?

Your randomly selected police officer.. ;)
What you're saying sounds like that in the absence of evidence that GMO causes harm you're just going believe whatever you want. There's no scientific basis to suspect GMO of causing harm to anything. Your suspicions are based on a big company being involved and oh my god it's made by people. Nature good, people bad. I don't share this sentiment. Aflotoxin is made by nature, it is bad for you. Very very bad. It occurs in everyday food. GMO has been shown by research to mitigate the presence of aflotoxin. GMO is a product of people. If they put GMO labels on stuff, I will be happy, because I will eat the GMO stuff. You can have your organic local peanut butter with its aflotoxins.

Also nobody forced farmers to by the GMO crops, they're buying it for a reason. They're buying it because it's good.
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Isn't California the most economically successful state in the US? Also the most progressive. However terrible the idea is, it isn't doing much harm to California compared to other states. You might not agree with the results of some individual propositions, but maybe overall it has a positive effect?
Technically it's not a diacritic, either; it doesn't attach to any letter. It's a syllable boundary, like the hyphens in Wade-Giles transcription ("Hsi-an" or "Tse-tung").
> You have to look at the 0.2% in relation to the salary that they offer

I disagree. Salary is a real thing that you can use today. Options at a start-up? Some studies indicate that start-up failure is at 90% within the first 3 years. This means those options, 90% of the time, don't mean anything. They're literally useless.

The other 10% of the time? Depending on percentage, dilution and exit (IPO? Sale? Neither?) it's still difficult to get a return on those options in any reasonable timeframe.

In my opinion you should NEVER sacrifice salary for options UNLESS it's an established company where you can see how to get your money out of those options. There is a TON of competition out there for talent, if a company wants a quality candidate they will pay for one.
Aka, people they can rip off the easiest. I m not saying they can't do this, but I want more people to not agree, because it's a bad deal and makes the market worse off for employees.
Here[0] is a demonstration of a good set-up in org-mode. This was written in org-mode and generated the html file. You can tangle the source code[1] and try it. This had greatly helped me to get started in organizing everything.

One of the feature I like is time clocking[2] where in you time all everything that you do (including sleep![3]) and eventually review after a week/month/year, you can generate some analysis on what task took most of your time.

org-drill[4] helped me a lot when there are things that I need to memorize.

I used vim for one year before moving to emacs. Indeed, I can edit files faster in vim rather than emacs but I can get more stuffs than in emacs rather than vim because of org-mode. Therefore, I choose emacs for the reason that org-mode helps me organize everything.

[0] http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

[1] http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.org

[2] http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Clocking

[3] http://sachachua.com/blog/2015/11/weekly-review-week-ending-...
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Ask HN: How competitive are prices for unlocked smartphones?
I think sites like iFixit sometimes give BOM-based estimates far below unlocked prices. They generally ignore costs of design, testing, operations (constraints on volume and delivery schedules of parts), assembly, packaging and shipping... and sufficient profit to continue improving the product line.

Instead, I want to know if we think the retail prices should be good estimates of all that, based on the apparent competitiveness of the market.

Or do carrier lock-in and monthly financing plans mean there's no incentive to offer efficient unlocked prices?
Virtually 100% of English speakers are (in fact, I'd go so far as to say nearly 100% of english speakers are ignorant of all the notable things that might be xian or xi'an). Of the remainder, none will be confused (your worry is ambiguity, right?) by the sort of reference we see here.

I asked your opinion of 陕西 for a reason.
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For example, carrots have a high GI of 47, but you have to eat a pound and a half of them for there to be a steep rise in blood sugar.

carrots are full of water, not to mention roughage, so they don't have high caloric density per unit mass/weight

the glycemic load is precisely articulating the index number adjusted per unit mass to account for stuff like caroots or beets etc.

So basically if you ate de-hydrated fruit or vegetables that will load higher (per unit mass) than stuff full of water...because whater has no cals...so water and starch dilute glycemic index

The glycemic load is calculated by multiplying the glycemic index of a food by the amount of carbs in a 10 gram portion of the food.

In practice, you can dilute glycemic index using fat and protein in addition to water.
Yes, I know the link is a glorified commercial, but 50% off e-books seems like something the HN crowd would be interested in.
You can now do:

rsync --info=progress2 --no-inc-recursive

...and see total transfer progress. This requires rsync to do a full recursive scan before beginning the transfer, but sometimes it's worth it.
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Startups can't fix the tax system.
I'm not saying it is easier, just that if capital wants to invest it needs to do so at a price the founders will accept - and it seems there is far more capital than founders (with good ideas / teams). Which means the price goes up.
That sounds like a perfect use case for type classes, have you tried that? If so, I'd be interested to know why it failed, if you can find the time.
> Jet shoppers bought more than $33 million in goods through Jet in October, up from around $10 million in August.[...] The company’s marketing head, Liza Landsman, said the company will spend, on average, $20 million to $25 million in marketing each month.

$33M in transactions is probably $5M in gross profit. Yet, they are spending $25M in marketing? These numbers don't add up at all. They are losing $200M a year because of marketing alone.
That's awesome to hear, thanks. I realize learning is more than knowledge transfer, you have to keep up the momentum to learn (for me, the joy of an intuition keeps me cranking away at tough topics).
Thanks Ken, same here when starting school :).
English is better as I'd have to run Spanish through Google Translate. Email is in my profile if you don't want to post it here.
> "Xi'an" and "xian" must be able to be distinguished in English because they refer to separate things.

What ridiculous nonsense. You mean like how Michael Jackson and Michael Jackson must be able to be distinguished in English because they refer to separate things? Oh, whoops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame#Names_i...

Maybe you mean how Springfield and Springfield must be able to be distinguished in English because they refer to separate things.

Maybe you mean that English must distinguish between strings of one syllable and strings of two. Unfortunately for you, that's still nonsense. Consider this variation on a classic example sentence: "I spent the evening evening out a ripple in the rug."
In Russia I believe there are still coaches that are detached from one train and attached to another. This way you can go from Moscow all the way to Bar, Montenegro all in one coach (unless they changed something).

Of course, trains do stop before detaching-attaching takes place.

They also change axles at gauge border.
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> What we've learned from Bitcoin is that blockchain technology is robust enough to strongly resist attacks.

Bitcoin is highly vulnerable to spam attacks (as demonstrated several times), malleability, and has forked twice so far, with a double-spend demonstrated during one of them.

Sure Bitcoin's crypto hasn't been broken, but how is that impressive? Bitcoin did not innovate there in any way. It's not like Satoshi invented Merkle trees (otherwise I'm sure they'd be called Satoshi trees:)
Would be interested to read how CloudFlare solve flapping problem with their Anycast network:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-brief-anycast-primer/
Genuine question: how does Org-Mode handle mindmap style information management? By "mindmap" I mean applications such as Freemind, Xmind, etc.?

I recently started to use Xmind after years of Vimoutliner. Both the upsides and downsides are huge for me. For text based approach such as Vim, it is great in fast input, text manipulations, complex searches, integrate with other tools, portability, etc.

But on the other hand in Xmind(or other mindmap applications), being able to see the nodes spreading out on the screen(with colors, icons and whatnot) , drag them around freely into various structures(trees, flow charts, fishbone diagrams, etc.) is really helpful to thinking and manipulation. Also you can attach a host of files(images, videos and stuff like that) to those nodes. I am torn between these two types of approaches, each with their respective advantages.
It's a bizarre article. On one hand I understand their frustration with OpenStack. On the other hand, if they expected to pretty much build their own AWS without any warning bells going off all over the place I find it very hard to be sympathetic - they're not remotely large enough for that. If they'd set their goals lower they could have had a very capable system fairly easily.

That they're having problems getting load balancing working properly is a real sign that their ops team just didn't know what they're doing.
Push notifications are the online equivalent of the Home Shopping Network.

Heck, I hated Pointcast with a passion when it came out, what, 20 years ago?
You can be interested in the company's success without being delusional about the limits of its potential for success.
I got Ulcerative Colitis one year after my first child was born. Lack of sleep, stress and a course of anti biotics were the triggers. What you've just said certainly resonates with me.

My doctor noted that smokers don't tend to get UC. Ex smokers however, are even more likely to get UC than non smokers. I think that is something to do with how smokers user smoking and nicotine to handle stress in general.
What is LinkedIn sending that generates so much traffic that they need this? They're not Netflix.

(Never mind, I just looked at LinkedIn, which I don't use much. With their new layout, I had to scroll through three screens of ads to get to anything that affected me.)
I'm English, and I have never used or even heard the phrase "host it on physical tin" before.

Then again, I just tend to say "hosted on our own hardware" or just simply "self-hosted".
Thanks. It's great exploring these "What if?" questions with kids (or adults). Math becomes more like a world to explore than something we're supposed to "learn".
The thing is, basically by definition, no one who is middle class (aside from perhaps upper, upper middle class) maxes out both their TFSA and RRSP. Even with the reduced TFSA limit, that's 18% of income plus $5500 per year. So really all a lower TFSA means is that more RRSP needs to be used to get the same sheltered space.

The TFSA certainly has advantages: flexibility being the biggest one. No bookkeeping, put money in whenever, and take it out with minimal restriction (aside from waiting until Jan. 1 to re-contribute). That said, as long as you invest the tax refund you get from contributing to the RRSP (or even better, file a T1213 so you don't pay those taxes in the first place), the RRSP is arguably a better retirement savings vehicle for most people (ie anyone who expects to be in a lower tax bracket in retirement than while they are contributing). Also, the lack of flexibility makes it more likely that the money will still be there in retirement.

The TFSA is great, and selfishly I'd love to keep the extra space. I have to agree though that it (the larger size, not necessarily the TFSA in general) disproportionately benefits the wealthy, and that government revenue would be better spent elsewhere.
You might try wrapping a layer of strong tape at the part that keeps fraying while it is still functional to reinforce it.
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I think the equivalent might be something like a beam search or quantum annealing for highly efficient reproduction (local minimum, not absolute) given a hostile environment; selected individually, it's almost certainly an NP-hard problem. However, I don't think this is a productive way to look at evolution: there is no intention, many different evolutionary processes interleave in complicated ways, and selection takes the entire lifetime of the reproduced life form (which may never end!). So it's much more instructive to think of an ecosystem selecting for minimum entropy, IMHO, which is pretty far removed from the genetic level.
British person: I don't think this is one I've come across.
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Money probably no object given that they were using Cisco UCS and Netapp storage to begin with. With that as a starting point, a perceived disaster brewing and what's likely to be fairly steep discounts from AWS to get them to move given their size I'm sure it looked attractive (if you're paying list prices for AWS at any kind of size, you're leaving money on the table; if you're first going to use AWS at least make sure to negotiate).
The ACME client only has to run once every 90 days, to validate domain ownership and retrieve an updated certificate. After that, the certificate can be stored on and loaded from disk - the same way most of the files being served are probably stored.

It's true there might be some added complexity, as the private keys will need to be stored securely. And session resumption data, if you need to support that. Doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem, though.
Options are the right to buy shares at a frozen (& cheap) price. Incentives are aligned because, if the employee helps make the company more valuable, the share value goes up, and they get to walk away with the difference. (A slight oddity is that technically their value needs to go up to be worth exercising, but because of how they get valued -- ~20% of price early VCs pay ~ as soon as VCs would make money, so would anybody owning options.)

Independent of my desires for reform around taxes and illiquidity, offers should be made in terms of the current system, not a make believe one.

You may want to read up on this stuff, esp. if you want to work in startups..
Actually, jewellery is one area this isn't useful. The end product is far too soft and would be damaged.
"That software we've got causes us so many problems, it's disaster! When we get the new software everything will be fixed."

X to Y
Y to X
A to B
B to C

MongoDB to this
MySQL to that
Why we switched
Why we switched back

blah blah

It's one of the oldest themes in computers - man, this software is crap - that new software will fix all our problems! Until you find the problems with the new.

Precisely the same age is the new software vendor harnessing all that negative energy about the competitor and megaphoning the "man, the new will fix the old, we're so excited!"

Having said that, I have worked with the compute servers of all the major cloud vendors and Amazon must be credited for the quality and consistency of its AWS systems, and Google and Microsoft's cloud computing is in almost all respects equally good - there is as far as I can tell absolutely no reason to choose Amazon over Microsoft Azure (yes, even for Linux systems) or Google Compute Engine. In some areas of functionality GCE and Azure I found to work much more easily and smoothly than Amazon. When I went to work with OpenStack I immediately found the lack of completeness, inconsistency and lack of polish characteristic of many open source projects - trying to do simple things instantly became hard problems.
1GHz: then and now (2000 vs. 2015)
> one of the three executive offices

There are not "three" executive offices of the US and the secretary of state certainly isn't one of the three. It's the highest rank cabinet position, but definitely not in the same category as president/vice president.
Way more people have died in New York City from non-terrorism causes than from terrorism.

NYS Leading causes of death in 2012: http://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/vital_statistics/docs/le...

NYC causes of death in 2001: http://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/vital_statistics/2001/ta... -- "Malignant Neoplasms" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplasm#Malignant_neoplasms) alone killed 4x more people than terrorists that year.
if the choice is "let's deploy software on AWS," vs "let's build an AWS work-a-like and then deploy software on it," it'll always be easier to use AWS. Managing physical servers is a pain.

I've been in a similar situation in a small research group, but AWS doesn't fly for privacy and regulatory reasons. Managing hardware and infrastructure is a huge amount of overhead that doesn't directly relate to the core mission.
How is this clickbait? I think it sums up the content of the article nicely. Clickbait would be "We compiled 15 of the coolest WeChat features. #3 will shock you!"
The perfect case study of long vs short term thinking is HP under the founders direct control vs Fiorina's reign of terror.
A single meteorite could kill everyone. Why don't we pay more attention to those?
You're pretty much describing most body shops that call themselves agencies.
Although it's been switched around a few times, since 1947 the order has been Vice President, Speaker of the House, President pro tempore of the Senate, then Secretary of State and the rest of the cabinet.
"they're not remotely large enough for that."

Second that.

Maybe there are only ten companies in the world large enough to have positive ROI to build an internal AWS, like Google, eBay, Facebook, ... who don't want to depend on Amazon.
I also have my personal website on GH pages + Cloudflare. If it is for a static web site I think it is ok, and thanks to both companies that gives us this service for free.

If you pretend more you can pay and use AWS or some other service.
Does Plato cut it?
That would exceed the hn title limit ;-)
That's actually the same in most places with agencies, money are pouring in but doesn't go to devs. It's just the numbers might be higher in other countries. What you're doing is awesome, keep it up.
Except they don't. Under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, both the Speaker and President pro tem come before the Secretary of State.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_lin...
"news.nationalgeographic.com needs to uniquely identify your device to play premium content..."

It begins.
Whatever we call it, it will have to be a new thing. What exists right now in the UK is the BCS who are a laughing stock among any practitioner. Even the respected professional associations such as the IMechE barely look out for the interests of their members, not compared to the BMA at any rate.