skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the most powerful speeches I've come across.

I'll explain in short.

It makes me happy that such sadness, fear, pain and suffering is not present today.

On the other hand, It makes me sad that all of that meaning is lost in society and we chase frivolous things. We don't value humans for their humaneness anymore. We value them for their external appearance, and other frivolous things.

I understand that I cannot generalize the general public this way, but remember i'm taking a subjective stance. I'm merely stating its impact on my thoughts, it may be far from the truth or on point. I dont care.
Internet sleuths on Facebook and Reddit solve mystery of a missing teenager
With all the shift to contract labs abroad, is finding a new job in chemistry still a thing? The trend for medchem startups these days is to be "fabless", it's a dude with an idea who contracts synthesis and testing out to labs in China.
Boring? I don't want my languages to be exciting, I want what they produce to be exciting. I want my languages to be as simplistic as possible, and to allow the abstractions my problem domain require.
Google Wallet: Send money via text message
An optimizing compiler for a purely functional web app language
Is the android telegram client not open: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram ? I may be missing something.

It seems to me that we could just fork the app and add in any ETE encryption we want. I get that everyone is annoyed at the Telegram people, but there are a bunch of open clients and the encryption we'd want must be independent of the server. For instance I could paste in PGP encrypted messages. Maybe there is some technical reason this wouldn't work?
With gdb, prints, and lots of thinking. In other words, pretty much like you'd debug one elsewhere, except instead of "run" in gdb you need "target remote <guest-gdbserver -address>".
Relax. I'm just trying to encourage you to think about your deeply held assumption, since you seem to care about women.

And no, I am not "deliberately ignor[ing]" nor taking out of context anything. Don't assume malice where simple disagreement may suffice.

I'm just claiming that the very idea that "[gender-associated] styles exist" is the most profound, insidious form of patriarchy there is. The rest of your qualifiers (viz. independence of whether or not they are cultural, or normative, and so forth) are immaterial: I'm claiming the very premise you start with is incredibly damaging, in profound and insidious ways.

Again, I invite you to think about it. Read Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer, but substitute the ζωή-βίος rift with a ζωή-ζωή (or βίος-βίος) rift. And see where that leads you.
Obviously it's not actually a Ponzi scheme if you take the whole "stickers" thing into account. Which is presumably why they aren't being raided by the authorities right now.

But it's definitely meant to mirror the structure of one, just with stickers instead of money. If they had you send in $10,000 instead of a sticker, and promised $20,000 back, it would clearly qualify.

So I'd say it's "a Ponzi scheme, but for stickers."
Hacked at sea: Researchers find ships’ data recorders vulnerable to attack
> Don't matter where its built, but if you are only selling cars the top one percent can afford you are not changing the world.

Once upon a time, only the top one percent could afford cellular telephones. Now, subsistence farmers in the poorest nations in the world have them. Markets for these sorts of things frequently start with the rich, and then expand.
Cooperatives / employee-owned collectives?

Say what you want about efficiencies, but there are absolutely alternatives, especially in non-capital intensive industries.
What kind of artist work can you practically distribute between multiple people and merge? Most things like this are broken into pieces and each piece is tracked separately and assembled later.

I think this is a big mistake programmers make when trying to create VCS for other industries. A lot other fields with binary files don't care about merge as much. Like electronic design automation: track every part's history and even every module on a board or die layout. But, practically it's difficult to have two people productivly work on the same small piece simultaneously.

[edit] I also think a bunch of the reasons programmers require merge are because code is organized into files. Organization into files is arbitrary and often doesn't correlate particularly well with logical structure.
Just to be clear, Dow bought out the remnants of Union Carbide, after they died post-Bhophal. It didn't happen as part of Dow. Dow is extremely safety conscious, and the inexcusable things Union Carbide did would never have happened in a Dow plant.
Indeed. A couple of my distant in-laws are now full-time Uber drivers in a medium sized city. They're making comfortable middle clas incomes--far more than they've been able to earn to date anywhere else.
Sure, but the ability to stay focused enough to write high-quality code for hours on end is a talent in and of itself. I know many programmers who I think I am equal to if we both sit down fully rested and program for a few hours, but they can keep churning out good stuff for a long time after I'm tired and checking Hacker News because I lost focus.
Yahoo’s homepage: A stark example of a company that can’t get its act together
> Uber actually owns the vehicles many of the Uber Driver's operate

The vast majority of Uber vehicles are owned by the driver.
> Pricing starts at $50.00 per policy record per month.

Not cheap.

Then, following the link:

> A policy record represents the application of an Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow policy to a specific DNS name (such as www.example.com) in order to use the traffic policy to manage traffic for that DNS name.

So to do this right in all-but-trivial cases, you'll likely need more than one policy record.

Nice service though. If you want fast response from locations worldwide, this'll help immensely.
Industrial fertiliser and transport, plastics, energy, etc.
Oral History of Robert “Bob” Metcalfe
Yeah, and even then most of the standards are 50kW(or less) which means that Tesla still has a 2.4x charging advantage(yes I'm aware CCS is supposed to go up higher, but from what I've seen it's limited to 126A vs Supercharger's 300A and we don't see any of them in production yet).
Pimsleur is a child of it's age; a so-called audio-lingual method that has its roots in Skinnerian behaviorism. I think no language acquisition researcher takes it seriously any more. Check This out for a modern viewpoint: https://youtu.be/X1LRoKQzb9U
Starwars, the marketing awaken
I'm not surprised. There's a strange talent in modern architecture for buildings which on the outside are these amazing, breathtaking shapes, and then to completely waste those shapes when designing the interior.

Case in point: the Millennium Dome. This awe-inspiringly huge enclosed space... which was then partitioned up so that visitors couldn't see it.
Seymour Cray: Whats All This about Gallium Arsenide?
Also, allowing customers to choose who to go with.

Uber doesn't allow customers to choose a driver; the system assigns one to you. On the other hand, an eBay customer bids on whatever auctions they want to bid on, and they know the seller's identity beforehand.

With eBay, you can go "I had a bad experience with this guy before, so I'll look and see if anyone else is selling this item so I don't have to deal with this person again". With Uber/Lyft, you're stuck with "ugh, the system matched me with this guy, guess I'm going to have to constantly cancel and re-request until I'm matched with someone else" (for the record, I've only had to do this twice in the almost two years I've been using Lyft).
It's encouraged, but they're not instructed to do so.

Plenty of Uber drivers never offer water or say "sir" but remain on the platform.
Exactly. Tesla's margins are something like 28%. A $100,000 Model S costs around $72,000 to make. If they sell more, their profits go up (or their losses go down, if you prefer).

Tesla's financials are in a weird spot right now because they have all costs for two models of car, but they're essentially only selling one model. Model X production hasn't really ramped up, so they've paid all the massive costs of bringing it to market without the benefits of selling the result. Give it another six months and the picture should look pretty different.
I recommend also keeping track of who's in charge to determine what the new company will end up being.

Detailed example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner#AOL_Time_Warner_me...
I am Peter Roberts, an immigration lawyer who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I am excited and honored to provide (hopefully) helpful advice and information to the community. It can be tough to respond to very fact-specific questions, because relevant information often isn't included, so the best questions are general ones or those with all the pertinent facts. And of course nothing I say should be construed as legal advice. I will be available for the next 2 hours. Thanks!

Edit (1:10 PM PST) This has been an amazing experience for me. Thank you all for participating and for asking such pointed and interesting questions. I look forward to doing this again soon, possibly focusing on one or more specific topics. I need to sign off now, unfortunately, but best wishes to everyone for a happy and healthy new year.
Try making your own yogurt. It's not quite as easy as buying it, but it's still a very simple process. You can make it with whatever fat content you'd like (and less sugar, which was the big draw for me), and it's really remarkably good. A decent yogurt maker will set you back maybe 20 or 25 bucks:

http://amzn.com/B000EX16RY
Hmmm ... interesting points.

On one hand, conservatives in the US have rejected multilateralism. For example, the latter Bush administration openly denigrated and ignored the UN and our European allies. Conservatives criticize even attempting to follow international law or legitimizing US military action through multilateral support, calling it weakness. They say they don't want to be tied down and see the US going it alone. Also, they tend to be more isolationist. Fringe conservatives (a small group) talk about UN black helicopters and world government conspiracies.

On the other, you bring up some good points:

> Consider which group is constantly demonized for globalization, and which group riots at WTO conferences

Just some ideas:

* Perhaps globalisation isn't international cooperation as much as international action - it's seen as the US imposing itself on other nations. The economic equivalent of military action.

* Maybe the WTO is an exception to that, or maybe it's the US creating a legal and bureaucratic tool to further it's power.

* You're mostly talking about the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. They are substantial, but the moderate wing rules and the progressives also criticize Bill Clinton and Obama for globalization.

> Democrats, for the last 100 years, have been protectionists.

This I strongly disagree with. Clinton brought NAFTA to the US, Obama is trying to implement the TPP. That's more than any GOP administration since ... I don't know when. There are protectionist elements in both parties, including unions and progressives among the Dems and businesses in the GOP; I don't think it favors one or the other (but that's just my impression).

> This is the first time I've heard this charge.

I assure you it is nothing new. I will point out that you are talking about economic issues, which is perfectly valid; I was thinking of political issues such as immigration, conflict, etc.
Paul Graham wighted in on this, saying that in his experience by far the most important trait in successful founders is determination. http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html
I just saw a comment by Noam Chompsky,
"Americans don't know what's going on. But they don't even know that they don't know."

I think "Americans" can be replaced with "people in general" (including Europeans and Asians as well)
"Nations are called States commonly." "The USA is unique in that we have states within a nation"

I understand where you are coming from, but I have to disagree that nation and state is the same. They are different as concepts (state is organized territory, nation is people), and although usually states and nations reside in roughly the same place, not all of them do! USA have managed to develop itself as a nation to some degree, but there are enough countries out there that didn't! To understand this it's enough to look at the states with separatist movements or in general at ones in which the feeling of appurtenance to the country is very low to say the least. There are people inside the same country very foreign to each other (speaking from group attachment perspective), close to the report between any given two foreign people on the planet. Is India a state? Well, it has states within it, like USA, and its overall organization is like a state too. Is India a nation? Not really! People inside it fought together for independence, and they may have common problems like a nation does (defense, foreign policy, etc), but the ethnic groups in there although living peacefully with each other don't really adhere much to something "national". Not yet at least. It's the same with Iraq, a state inhabited by different ethnic groups which the head statesmen failed to make a nation from. The same for a bunch of African states. Nation is different from the state.
Side question: at least in the US tax code, can you not write wear and tear on your Uber vehicle off as depreciation?

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/2722277-what-can-an-uber-d...
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You get a lot more drag close to the ground. So, it depends on how 'fast' you mean by fast.

Still, I think in and near city PRT will have a much larger impact. If you could average 40mph in and near city's that's a huge difference in peoples lives.
At my last interview I had this entire pdf in my head:

www.ee.ryerson.ca/~kclowes/documents/eaads.pdf

No I wouldn't say it counted as implementation time. Same way as driving to work doesn't count as work (as unfortunate as that is).
Take a look at Herb Sutter's talk from CppCon 2015. The slides are here (https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2015/blob/master/Keynotes/Wr...) and the video is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEx5DNLWGgA.

Microsoft will be releasing the static analysis tool as a free cross-platform tool (and I think open-source IIRC). They shipped a preview for Visual Studio 2015 with Update 1, and are planning on shipping a cross-platform version soon. As tools like this become free and ubiquitous, it will greatly improve C++ code safety.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10712249 and marked it off-topic.
Anything over ~80-90mph is going to be extremely inefficient due to drag coefficient.
Historically they've been very open about their tools, though, even open-sourcing a lot of them.

Not to say this can't be the exception, just that it does seem a little out of character.
How can people on H1B Visa be founders. What is the best way for them to say spend 6 months figuring out what the product is without actually having an actual company?
That seems like a terrible idea from what I've heard about factory IP concerns in China. Or are labs more trustworthy?
Indonesia's Palm Problem
Can founders of a startup who have majority ownership & with appropriate board having the power to fire them sponsor green card through their startup? Founders are currently on H1b with approved I-140. Thank you
Perhaps you don't have the aptitude to teach that particular kid? It's harder to look inwards, though.
I don't have any system in mind but really anything that will streamline production and manufacturing.

One of the biggest problems usually in this sort of business is inventory management and getting from the inventory to final product to the client, this is where you money is.

I realize this is a bit generic, but you are missing a lot of details here (and that's fine, in your place I would do the same until the deal is final).

From the sound of it though, this is a business ripe for improvement, almost anything you'll touch with good spirit and intentions will likely benefit.
The documentary "Dossier Srebrenica" is a must see with regards to the Balkan war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xwtny39iMs
Interesting picture of Jack biting into [an] Apple.
Ask HN: Are new grads expected to exaggerate their skills on resume?
I'm a masters student graduating next May, so I have been looking for full-time jobs for a time now. I consider myself a above-average programmer, however I've had a very low return rate, especially compared to my friends who have similar (or maybe even worse) technical aptitude as me.

I observed a pattern about companies that called me back:
1) Small companies where my resume was screened by CTO/Software Development Manager
2) Huge companies that can afford to interview a lot of candidates

Naturally, My conclusion was my resume (or linkedin profile?) wasn't attractive to HR. I compared my resume with my friends to see how I could make myself more attractive to HR who did the initial screening. Unfortunately, what I've seen was incredibly troubling, as I realized I was being 'too' honest (if that's even possible).

Wording the project descriptions to hide it was a group project, taking credit for things they didn't do, exaggerating their responsibilities for previous work, writing down technologies they just read about are just a few that comes to my mind.

Funny thing is, during the interviews they are mostly asked about regular algorithms/data structure questions, so they actually can get away with it.

I wanted to ask if this is the norm in the industry? Are we expected to 'lie' on our resume to level the playing field?
The Martian; Official Game
I am curious about the approach YC takes for foreign founders who are accepted into YC. How do they come to the US for the initial incubation period? What happens after demo day?
Suggested Education for Future AGI Researchers
Has the AMA started? Where are we to post questions?
His short story The Color Out of Space has an amazingly accurate depiction of the effect of nuclear fallout on the land. People in it go crazy and shun the valley, but I think it's a good way to see what he would have thought about that development.
Recent historians have been looking at how the printing press was more an instrument of state power than anything else. Remember that printing shops were state-controlled and heavily censored (_The Great Cat Massacre_ has a chapter on print shops in 18th-century Paris); most of their output was royal decrees, propaganda pamphlets, and books friendly to the regime in question.

The Reformation began for good reasons -- the Church had been dragging its feet on internal reforms for hundreds of years, and finally implemented these reforms in the Council of Trent, after the Reformation began -- but its spread was normally something that governments did to their people, not something that people chose for themselves. It wasn't an extension of liberty. Henry VIII and Edward VI flooded England with mercenaries, for example; in the Germanies, whether to turn Protestant or not was a decision made by rulers (who were legally entitled to compel their subjects to follow them; some converted to Lutheranism, seized Church property, and then switched back to Catholicism, and persecuted subjects who were slow to make the change each time). First-wave Protestants -- Lutherans and Anglicans -- generally had less religion rather than a different religion; even today, there are conservative branches of the Lutherans and Anglicans who are negotiating with the Catholic Church to return as whole congregations.

Calvinism was (if I remember rightly) never imposed from the top down, and typically took power through revolts by the middle class or the lower aristocracy; but Calvinist states tended to be oppressive, warlike, aggressively-middle-class theocracies -- very bad places to be poor or dissident. (_Albion's Seed_ is revealing on this; the modern Islamic Republic of Iran is a less theocratic, less anti-commercial, less oppressive place than 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts was.)
Not necessarily true. CGI could shell out to other CGI code if it wanted to. Turtles all the way down.
Can I sell my own software as a H1B worker? E.g. my own apps in App Store?
An unusual commission
Good to hear. I left Android a few years ago for iOS because Apple's system was much, much nicer. These days I may be making the move back. iOS continues to suck more with each new release, and Android is (from what I hear) moving in the other direction.
Hello,

Is it possible to do YC, if the founders are initially registered as 'tourists'?
Hi Peter, thanks for taking the time for this AMA. I have a ton of questions, but here's a summary:

1. Can I incorporate a company and look for funding under a B1/B2 Visa?
2. Once incorporated and funded, what type of Visa could I get for myself to work for my own company?
3. Would my two-year home-country presence requirement "212(e)" affect getting those visas?
4. If I'm unable to get any other Visa, could I be living in the US with a B1/B2 Visa working for the company I founded but without receiving a salary? How long could I stay? How about a TN or TD Visa?
This prompts the thought that we ought to reserve a few days at the end of a school year for kids to try out computer programming. Then I realized that would be awesome for all the electives and got sort of excited. Then I remembered that any real change in the school system is effectively impossible and I got sad again.

(Would we still have shop classes if students had a chance to try it out first?)
Django Awarded MOSS Grant from Mozilla
Ask HN: Are you happy with using PayPal on your website?
Seems like a streaming parser wouldn't help too much in this case because all of the data was inside one terminal.
But it still asks the server to pick the group in which to do DH. This has to be exploitable somehow...
DuPont "employee-first" culture hasn't been true since 90s. The business challenges at DuPont and the executive succession in 90s killed that image. DuPont used to be dream company to work for most new ChE graduates. I worked at Dow in mid-90s. I still have friends at both Dow and DuPont in addition to being stockholders of both companies.

I doubt the merger will be approved by US, EU and possibly Chinese regulators without major concessions. The subsequent 3-way split in 18-24 months is just trying to appease the regulators to approve merger. If merger goes through, there will be no major player at least in specialty chemicals in US and most probably 3-4 major players in this segment worldwide. Other proposed segments have similar issues.
If someone is on a visa tied to a specific job at a specific company, what is the legality of working on personal side projects (that may turn a profit)?
if my program crashes, will it crash the unikernel? is there a usermode/kernelmode separation?
What are the top 3 things required to make a strong case to get EB1 for startup founders on H4 EAD?
Alt link: https://ello.co/teanee/post/J1PcWgFPOII7kayeFBcISw
Why should a company have control of "art" into infinity just because they make money on it. Kind of the tail wagging the dog. Copyright was giving someone limited "ownership" to something they created for a limited time so we could create jobs for artists. Think of all the derivative works that aren't created because they are blocked by copyright.
I'm being blunt here but you should really re-think how financially literate you are if you think taking out debt for a unicorn exit is worth it.

It is not the wrong time in your life to take this risk. This is the wrong risk.

Jeeze, I mean you are saying you're willing to cripple yourself financially, and you are already in debt, I mean... I don't know I'm at a loss for words...
I agree that's a very dumb design decision, but supposedly the clients are expected to validate the DH parameters.