skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No better way to destroy an intellectual debate than prefacing your headline with Republican or Democrat: http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/

The fact the people involved in this are self described as "anti-government" and small-government, plus the entire issue is reducing federal control back into state law seems to only be an inconvenience... Trying to frame it outside of the scope of left vs right, rather than local vs federal control, doesn't seem to fit well into mainstream political discourse.

Side note: single page article http://harpers.org/archive/2015/02/the-great-republican-land... (admins?)
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We primarily use Ruby / Ruby on Rails on the back end side. Ruby is a great language, but a slow one. We'd like to help make it faster. So we've teamed up with the Ruby creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto on the Ruby 3x3 effort (http://engineering.appfolio.com/appfolio-engineering/2015/11...).

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Paul
>declared a de jure court

What does this mean? Google has no results for that phrase, using any verb tense.
I've been so impressed by the ambitions of YC since sama took over, as well the team that's been built to support it.

pg's biggest contribution to YC may be finding sama and giving him the reins.
Almost had this exact comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10868715
Thank you but I am not looking for MOOC lessons. I want to study a regular master programme and write a master thesis.
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He's saying it would help poverty (I think?). I think it would help income inequality as well, not hurt it as he suggests.
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It's either that or the life of the grasshopper ;)

Now that I think of it, there's another parallel with unwanted pregnancies. There are men that stick around, and there are boys who run and let others clean up after their mess.
Since not even the X.Org Foundation is particularly attached to X anymore, they could just let it lapse and register wayland.org or something.
People are queueing up to take over any domain with moderate amount of traffic. Since the expiry time is public, there are lists of soon-expiring domains. This is way worse for a heavy traffic domain, and probably ridiculous for x.org.
And the followup: http://v8project.blogspot.com/2015/12/theres-mathrandom-and-...
Two points I find have defined it for myself.

* When I lived by myself. I had to do it if it was to get done.

* When what I paid for myself was by me or depended on me and took on all responsibility for debts.
It's taking me about 10 years but the last time I got a significant increase I did not actually increase my spending/lifestyle, which is a first. It's strange. I used to always imagine if I had X amount of money I would never be able spend it. Then when I got there it was so easy to spend it. I'm hoping to be in your position after I get some of my debt paid off.
I bet that too. He has a world-class career, made a fortune, had several wives and multiple children. He hit every "adulthood" milestone western society ever came up with.
They do have that right. Sometimes the legal office gets requests designed to check our GPL compliance. Every release, we file information on the distributions we use, their versions, which libraries we link to, which compiler versions we use, build instructions for any components that we did a custom compilation of, etc. The CYA paperwork is pretty extensive.
I won!!
Exactly.

WeWork is in my mind, a good example of a company that will suffer once their customer base burns through all of their VC money.

http://www.businessinsider.com/weworks-financial-projections...
Perhaps, but Rust and Chicken Scheme are probably applicable in many of these cases (embedded microcontroller). Few people in the field give either of these any appreciation, despite being viable. I will agree that "Don't use C ever" is maybe a poor attitude to take as there are definitely projects that need C as a hard requirement; however, I think your snark is somewhat unjustified as we do have languages that compile to C or compile with no runtime that can beat C in some of these areas that traditionally have been dominated by C.
Well, so the other thing I'd say is that you're probably not looking to move hundreds of amps. If I could "borrow" 50 amps from one neighbor on each side of my house at 48V that's nearly 5kW but 2x 50 amp fuses are very, very doable and fairly cheap.

I'm not saying this is a panacea BTW, just that it might be easier and cheaper for a few neighbors to band together in this kind of a way than for everyone to overbuild their battery banks. If you can go from needing to have 10kW peak of batteries and can instead get down to 5kW peak since you can borrow peak capacity that means your bank can be half as large.
I recall that one of the benchmarks used for one of the car-tracking-fob-based insurance policies was how "hard" they were braking and how often, and possibly high acceleration. Repeated hard braking would imply tailgating and distracted driving, and repeated high acceleration would imply generally reckless driving.
From my limited knowledge of such things, I think it would be possible to set up a credit union where the "common bond" among members is the ability to spot banking practices hostile to banking customers.

If all the members know how to spot a scam, it is unlikely that anyone would vote that everyone should try to run one on themselves.

Excerpt from the membership application exam:

...
B) Take the lower rate with the higher monthly payment.
C) Buy a used car that is about 2 years old instead.

22. Your bank offers to upgrade your debit card such that, for a fee,
a transaction that would ordinarily be declined--or a check that
would have bounced--is instead approved. How do you react?

A) Wow, that sounds convenient. I'm in.
B) If I wanted credit, I would have used a credit card.
C) If I can't opt out, I'm closing my account.

23. You need $40 in cash. Your bank does not have any no-fee ATMs
in the area.

A) A fee is no big deal. Withdraw $40 and pay $3.
B) Withdraw the maximum, to minimize the percentage lost.
C) Buy a pack of gum with debit and get $40 cashback.
D) As in C, but also return the gum for a refund.

24. Your bank offers...
EAL7 data diodes with octocouplers and EMSEC do. Oh, snap, you didnt see that coming! :P
What would a holding company with a narrow focus like that do? Sit on the shares? Make other investments? Liquidate assets and return money to shareholders?
Funny idea, and more cool than Gravatar. My emails looks adorable good :)
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Maxing out retirement accounts is the common piece of wisdom thrown around. However, instead I try to put as much money into a liquid fund for entrepreneurial reasons. For the YC crowd, I'm surprised this isn't a more suggested route.
I've been there. That's great to hear.
If you understand what the catalysts of a stock are (both long term and short term), buying individual stocks isn't a bad idea. And it's still possible to beat the market. But yes, most of your money should be invested in low fee index funds.

As an example: a few years back, I owned some yelp stock. At the time, it was a growth stock driven by usage numbers. The quarter before, iOS6 (or 7? cant't remember) was launched, which included yelp support in every iPhone. A few days before yelp's quarterly earnings, Apple announced they sold 15% more iPhones than expected. Guess what? Yelp's numbers for the quarter were up significantly. I made 20% on my money the next day (and sold my shares). If I didn't have subject matter expertise, I might not have seen that.
No, there's no single owner, however in most companies there's a small class of people who own a lot of the stock and have a huge amount of power, while most shareholders have very little stock (esp. if it's owned as part of a mutual fund) and no real power.

So yeah, if you have enough shares that the board really wants to listen to you, complain away. For most people though, that's a waste of time. Just sell your shares and move on. The board doesn't give a rat's ass about some people who just own shares through their retirement funds, only what really large investors want, as those people have the power to affect their position on the board.
anyone else feeling like PG is constructing increasingly obtuse arguments that can all be boiled down to "I'm terrified of paying more taxes than I presently do."
This isn't particularly difficult anymore. The most interesting challenges in web crawling around turning a diaspora of web content into usable data. E.g., how to get prices from 10 million product listings from 1,000 different e-retailers?
http://www.tablesgenerator.com/text_tables
No local hidden variables. Hugely important distinction.
How do you think the rest of us feel? Sure you get a feel for roughly how much a dollar is but I also don't have a currency converter in my head, just in my browser.

Maybe an extension that converted things that look like currency into a grokkable currency of your choice?
I find myself amazed that they wouldn't just renew it for 10+ years at a time, and do that every couple of years.
The assumption is that the average wall street trader has the information in hand but doesn't understand its significance.
I know there is a personal responsibility part of this but banks end up prying on the financial illiterate. Somehow my wife has a student loan with 12% interest. I'm not even sure how that happens. I also don't understand how interest rates are so low but CC interest is so high. They are basically borrowing free money and then charging people 29% on it.
The 'strn' functions are wrong, stop using them.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/stop-using-strn...
Shareholders may value influence on their company more than the money the can get for their shares.
> The more I think about it, the better value Heroku appears to be.

Not really.

Netlify for $9/mo to serve static content over Akamai's network. API Gateway + Lambda + Dynamo for pennies per month when your traffic is low. If you get linked to by HN or some other source of massive traffic, you may pay ~$100 or so, but it will scale up (and back down) with no extra effort.

This setup is basically the same price as the $10/mo Linode for most side projects and will outperform the $250/mo Heroku setup.
What interest does a New Yorker or Californian have in owning 86% of Nevada? Why shouldn't the citizens of the state in question have the right to manage that land for the purposes they deem important?
What interface design? The only thing that should be visible to most people is some sort of alert that explains that an email was blocked because the signature was missing or invalid. Everything else should be setup by IT.

The MUA should find (and verify) the key in the directory service and automatically handle the signing/signature-verification.

You might need UI to use signatures with external email, but that is a separate problem.
The page you linked says drivers aren't locked into the lease, which would indeed be bad.

"Flexible leases from Xchange Leasing, LLC are 36 months with the flexibility to return the vehicle after 30 days with a two week notice and a $250 disposition fee."
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>I am convinced that the reason many relationships, from business to marriages, get in trouble is by avoiding the inevitable conflict or managing it poorly.

However, it's easier to avoid a lot of "inevitable conflict" by not getting into a relationship with someone whose worldview is too different from your own. Any marriage is going to have some conflict, but picking your partner wisely can minimize that. People I think tend not to think about this when they're young because they haven't been through a failed marriage, and society feeds them a lot of fairy-tale bullshit about how "love conquers all".
I'm a software engineer, very aware of the insecurity in email, and I could have made that kind of mistake easily. What hope is there for an accountant? No the business process is flat out broken, and its not fair to blame the accountant here. The problem is higher up the responsibility chain.
I'd love to talk more details with you sometime! We(PayScale) don't scrape linkedin, but we have been collecting, analyzing and predicting pay for over a decade.
"There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The boy is walking through the street of his town. He is thinking of the future and of the figure he will cut in the world. Ambitions and regrets awake within him. Suddenly something happens; he stops under a tree and waits as for a voice calling his name. Ghosts of old things creep into his consciousness; the voices outside of himself whisper a message concerning the limitations of life. From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy. With a little gasp he sees himself as merely a leaf blown by the wind through the streets of his village. He knows that in spite of all the stout talk of his fellows he must live and die in uncertainty, a thing blown by the winds, a thing destined like corn to wilt in the sun. He shivers and looks eagerly about. The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears death calling. With all his heart he wants to come close to some other human, touch someone with his hands, be touched by the hand of another. If he prefers that the other be a woman, that is because he believes that a woman will be gentle, that she will understand. He wants, most of all, understanding."
I know someone who works for Blizzard; if they wear a Fitbit and meet the goal set on it, they get a healthcare discount or a small cash kickback, I forget which.

Found a detailed presentation of the incentive plan here: http://www.myablife.com/files/HIP-Presentation.pdf
On top of that you have enough exposure to that company's risk by working for them.
I think a lot about this. But note that if your employer matches contributions, you can come out ahead even if you withdraw those funds immediately and pay the penalties.

In reality, I have to trick myself into saving so that I don't spend on non-entrepreneurial things. :)
The big problem with investing in your sector is too much specialization.

I realized one day that investing large sums of money in my employer's stock is essentially putting all my eggs in one basket- both my investments & my paycheck depend on the same company.

I extend that to my market sector, too. I avoid investing in my market sector now.
>First, anyone has the right to complain about anything.

Maybe, but the rest of us have the right to make fun of those people for tilting at windmills.
If you're referring to adtech, Rocket Fuel IPO'd in 2013, and has steadily declined since then[0]. They raised $77M in VC funding, and their current market cap is $138M. The post-IPO peak valuation was ~$3B.

0: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=FUEL+Interactive#%7B"rang...
I don't know about Network Solutions, but allowing anyone to renew a domain is not the norm. In some situations, it can even pose legal problems. For instance, a somewhat common resolution to domain trademark disputes is for the owner to pledge to discontinue use of a domain and to allow the domain to expire without renewing or transferring it. If anyone is allowed to renew a domain without needing the owner's permission, they can potentially put the owner of a trademark-infringing domain in a sticky situation.
Yeah, I always thought that was insane. If you had a medical emergency when you were out of work (and with no insurance coverage), it would cost the most, precisely when you could afford it the least.
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I have to take that back. For Contents-Source, it's ugly. The rest is fine though.
After hopping through every distro you mentioned, I ended up with Arch, which I've been running happily for several years now in VMs, desktops, laptops and even my retina macbook pro. Up to date kernels and drivers means I no longer have to deal with the pain of proprietary GPU drivers (Mesa3d is already better than the OSX drivers and rapidly improving).

The initial setup takes about an hour if you've never done it before (I keep the installation guide open on my tablet and go through it step by step.) Once you've done it once, reinstalling takes maybe 15 minutes on a fast internet connection.

That said, if you've decided your tinkering days are over, then your best bet is OSX. Myself, I have to use OSX, Windows and Linux for dev work, and Arch is the only distro I can tolerate these days. The lack of a graphical installer means it's certainly not for everyone, however, once the initial setup it's a breath of fresh air, compared to the constant buginess of Ubuntu and ($god forbid) Fedora.
Why.... why would you want to pipe output from your terminal to a third party service like slack to store and analyse at will?

Who gives a shit about security, let's throw everything at Slack, because Slack!
Isn't stuff like leaving out comments kind of redundant if you use Sass or Less?

Just use one of those and have them auto strip out CSS comments. That way, the developers can figure out how stuff works from the well formatted .scss files and get the performance benefits from the minified .css ones.

Also, was kind of surprised to see no mention of CSS preprocessors in this guide.
What do you think of http://lesswrong.com/lw/hl/lotteries_a_waste_of_hope/ and http://lesswrong.com/lw/hm/new_improved_lottery/?
For those not wanting to call them, just log in to your T-Mobile account, click on Profile, go to Media settings and turn off Binge On (should be the first item).

I'm just wondering why they would turn it on for me even though I'm on their unlimited data plan??
The government owns all land until it is transferred/sold to a private owner. That's not a new thing: that precedent goes back to Day 1 of the United States, and maybe further.

I've never heard Ranchers request the opportunity to purchase the land. They just want to use it as if they owned it.
"At about age 22 or 23, the brain is pretty much done developing, according to Steinberg, who studies adolescence and brain development."

"Adult plasticity still allows for modifications to the brain, but at that point, the neural structures aren’t going to change."

The above changes to neuroplasticity really hit me hard when I restarted college in my 30s.

Despite "passing" for a 20some student, I realized I learned differently than my younger colleagues.

I had to rely on association with my previous knowledge quite a bit more.

Learning something completely new became near impossible hill to climb.
Congrats @paul - big fan of everything I've seen from you.
Paul I know that YC has a very minor direct role in company funding, but YC is extremely influential - where YC leads many (blindly) follow.

I see this effect here in Australia where founders and startups are trying to follow the YC model to success despite the ecosystem here being really different. The thing I really love about YC (apart from HN) is that you guys are trying to do things differently - the last thing the world needs is a 1000 YC clones all following your lead and nobody trying different approaches.

I too would like to see a literal moonshot. I have thought a lot about this topic over the years and I think everyone is stuck because they have been concentrating on the wrong area. The cheapest component in the whole process is the humans - the way to get a real moonshot off the ground (sorry for the pun) is to put risk back. There are plenty of people willing to be heroes so why not optimise everything around that - the engineering costs go way down if you are willing to tolerate a high failure rate.
But do you feel like the money you earn is "yours" then?

I think maybe that's the disconnect. I don't feel the money I earn "belongs to me". Same for my wife. I don't set my own priorities and budgets. We discuss them.

We're definitely not perfect, and I've definitely bought things that irked her and vice versa. But the joint account means just that. Unless it comes in a birthday card or something, money goes in to a pool. I don't keep a running balance, negative or positive in my head for my contribution.
I think you're right but isn't the second part of your statement ("ever mentioned competition with other tech companies as a recruiting concern") what the following lawsuit was about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... ?

Speaking generally, I don't think startups think about it very much but it seems that the "very top" companies do/did.

Feel free to let me know if I'm wrong. I only have a general understanding of what you mean and the lawsuit.
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...that could phone in a distress call to a private security firm if it was attacked.
Touche... These bookmarks are the result of many Google searches. If I just type in keywords of a particular problem in the browser, I more than likely get one of my bookmarks. Most of the time, the bookmarked info is still relevant too.
I think that this rule applies to C89 too. I don't have an official copy of the standard, but I found a draft here: http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.html#3.5.7

“If there are fewer initializers in a list than there are members of an aggregate, the remainder of the aggregate shall be initialized implicitly the same as objects that have static storage duration.”
I really like this solution, but it is still quite vulnerable to an inside job. To wit, if someone at jotform wanted they could poison the page, and recover the private key (or the data directly).

To address that you need process isolation between the storage of the cyphertext and the manipulation and use of cleartext. This eliminates the browser since for all intents and purposes it is not an isolated process. (You could still use the browser, but provide your tools as an extension that would, presumably, be inspected by users when it updated.)

That said, your solution takes care of a lot of other threat models, but it doesn't really protect users from you.
They chose a default, the choice to change that default is still with the customer. It's also very granular so you can choose for each individual line how you want your service.

While content manipulation would give pause for concern, as it does with Comcast's data cap notifications, that isn't what T-Mobile is doing. They're not altering the traffic, they're altering the transport rate which is very different. By lowering the bandwidth of certain content types, they're triggering the adaptive technologies employed by services to behave differently.

One of the EFF's gripes was that the pipe constriction was indiscriminate and thus services that didn't employ adaptive technologies experienced buffering and stuttering issues. That's probably the only legitimate point they made.
While I agree with your sentiment, I think this is not true in general. The Rust compiler sometimes rejects correct programs, in which case it can be harder to write it in Rust than in C.