skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currency is not just the score, it allows for trades and a certain consensus to be achieved (absolute valuation of goods and services, i.e. total order of preference) that can't be achieved through simple peer to peer trading based on personal preference.

Not to mention the inconvenience/logistical inefficiency of having to have a good that interests the seller of your desire, or finding a trading chain. I guess you could create a virtual trading chain that automatically resolves those conflicts (if I recall correctly that's more or less the idea of Ripple), but if the chain fails in the middle the transaction is compromised, and you now depend on a high level of network activity for a viable chain to allow you to trade.
MacGyver: Managing Microservices with Neo4j
> Before 2007, the way to participate in Open Source was fragmented. Each project had their own workflow, patches circulated in emails, issues were reported in a myriad ways, and if anyone wanted to contribute they had to figure out every project's rules.

And it was much better IMO. Now we have a centralized website, in the hands of a single corporation, which requires nonfree JavaScript for much of the basic functionality[1]. Git was designed to work well with email and has commands built-in to format, send and apply patches. I think anyone who used email for patches seriously will agree that they are largely superior to GitHub's pull requests.

The free software movement being fragmented is a good thing. GitHub is the land of trends: web developers using Mac OS X who make apps with the latest trendy frameworks like React and Angular (if you think that's a misportrayal, look at the first three pages of the most starred repositories on GitHub[2]). These people don't care about the free software movement, they're just following the current trends, one of which is "Open Source". But if they really cared about free software, they would not be using Mac OS X or GitHub, which requires you to run nonfree JavaScript code in your browser to report issues, open pull requests, etc.

The serious projects that do care about free software don't use GitHub.

[1]: See Mike Gerwitz's GitHub Does Not Value Software Freedom: https://mikegerwitz.com/about/githubbub

[2]: https://github.com/search?q=stars:%3E1&s=stars&type=Reposito...
Is the code that runs the frontend of the IA open source? I'd be interested in contributing to that, so when requests for certain objects are creating excessive load, a response status code is provided to indicate so, and the alternate URI returned is a magnet link for the object.

EDIT: It appears an HTTP 303 status code accomplishes this
Something tells me you didn't read the article:

> At the end of the shift, the entire log is sent off to an independent triage team, which runs simulations to see what would have happened had the car continued autonomously. In fact, even though Google’s cars have autonomously driven more than 1.3 million miles—routinely logging 10,000 to 15,000 more every week — they have been tested many times more in software, where it’s possible to model 3 million miles of driving in a single day.
Due to perspective projection, it is much easier to play staying as back as possible rather than forward!
I'm really surprised that this is news, or that it's being upvoted on HN. Apparently deaths during trials are really rare. From the article:

>A meta-analysis of non-cancer Phase 1 drug trials, published last year in The British Medical Journal, found serious adverse events in only 0.31 percent of participants, and no life-threatening events or deaths.

And the last event comparable to this, according to the article, happened in 2006 in a different country.

I was surprised by this. I would not have expected drug trials to be risk free, in fact I thought that was the whole point. Apparently they are already super conservative and safe. I'm not sure why people are alarmed or calling for more regulation.

It's probably impossible to 100% safety, and certainly not desirable. Parent comment is definitely right that we kill more people through inaction and need to be far more liberal. Total lives saved is all that should matter.

Somehow one person dying out of many drug trials over many years is news that's on the front page of HN. But the 22,000 people that died of cancer today isn't.
No because nothing on this letter is about gender
How would a cover letter "poison the thought process of the hiring managers"?
NAIL ENGAGEMENT FIRST. THEN GROWTH. Otherwise you are just bruning through users. Your best hope is to attract them back later via transactional notifications.
I concur. Here's a comment I made on another thread about self-driving cars, and my experience with even rudimentary assistance features on my 2016 VW (coming from a car with no such features whatsoever):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10735434
> I think the right initial metric is “do any users love our product so much they spontaneously tell other people to use it?” Until that’s a “yes”, founders are generally better off focusing on this instead of a growth target.

It all comes back to this. I was listening Aaron Harris' interview with Digital Ocean's Mitch Wainer on Startup School Radio the other day (phenomenal podcast). Wainer mentioned how people actually love Digital Ocean, and how rare it is for that word in particular to be paired with the name of a company. I think it's said so often that it can easily be glossed over, but that word is not chosen lightly. Having a product users actually love is extremely difficult, and extremely rewarding.
If the best service (which for me involves quality, selection, and convenience) was a paid service, and was somewhat reasonably priced, I suspect I would pay for it. I don't know exactly what "reasonably priced" would mean, but for the record I do buy a decent amount of music, mostly through iTunes, because I think it generally provides a better service than torrenting.
> The idea that anyone but myself has authority over what goes into my body is absolutely ridiculous.

Casting this as a ridiculous argument completely ignores the viewpoint that there may well be externalities caused by this behavior that don't necessarily affect the individual but do affect other individuals. If we take as an example the consumption of illegal drugs the argument can be made that it should be the choice of the individual and not restricted by society, however there is a potential for significant costs (due to the behavior of the individual when under the influence of the drug) that are placed onto the society, thus the subsequent restrictions placed on the individuals.

To be clear I am not intending to debate drug policy or be an apologist for the current war on drugs. My point is to illustrate that a perspective that considers the externalities of a behavior is not a ridiculous position to take as you assert.
I worked on a similar side project a little while ago that focused on items that were below ten dollars. Like 1 Dollar Things, I used your typical affiliate data feeds. It was an interesting development exercise, but I failed to get any steady traffic/interest in the site.

I think the idea has some merit, but my execution wasn't good enough. Good luck with 1 Dollar Things!
The US doesn't fit your recommendation, as most of the population hasn't had firearms safety training. Why do you think it will be able to handle types of civilian disturbances you mentioned earlier, when not everyone is so trained?

Earlier you said "in Europe nobody has a choice but to rely solely on the government to stabilize the situation after a major emergency because they don't have the firearms they would need to restore peace on their own."

Therefore, which scenarios do you think the US, with its armed citizenry, will be able to handle more successfully than the equivalent in most European areas? If more Finns per capita have had more training than Americans, wouldn't that be a safer country still? How is a policy maker supposed to figure out what level of gun ownership and training is optimal?
If that's what you think, why are you even here? Maybe assume positive intent and you'll have better luck understanding all this.
I love wikipedia, and contribute when I can, it does a great service to us all. Where it fails though is regarding controversial subjects. It would be a thesis paper to get into the meat of the issue, but thats its weakpoint.

Which is why I love they have shared their system open source so others can use it.

The real issue boils down to a filter bubble problem, and google isnt helping avoid this. Its that people use wikipedia as a panacea and forgoe actually following sources far too often.

Shades of trusting trust but instead of compilers its editors and censorship.
There are obviously lots of businesses that benefit from VC investments, and for lots of reasons.

For example, at some point, hopefully, you're going to have a product that lots people are willing to pay for, but those people don't really know about it. You could reinvest revenues from existing customers in order to fund growth, but that could take many multiples longer than if you got an influx of cash to do that.

There are lots of first-mover advantages as well. Or if you're taking on a big competitor, that faster you grow, the less time they'll have to adapt. There are also a lot of businesses that eventually become profitable that simply cannot be profitable early on.

I personally don't like these types of businesses and would much rather bootstrap a lifestyle company or companies, but that's a personal preference and I know it limits the types of businesses I could start.
DevOps Team Assistant, 1.60.1 released
This is an example of so many things wrong in American culture.
ffx is a name of one of my computers, but indeed, it seems to be the case for my Firefox as well.
Everyone on Wall Street who wrote insurance-like contacts without insurance-like capital to back thenmshould be prosecuted for selling insurance outside the appropriate regulatory framework.
Newspaper bosses ‘paralyzed’ by change, clueless about paid content
Maybe you've never visited /r/VPN on Reddit.
Great post where great product -> growth, but I think it's not stating the real problem. We need to ask why founders are starting to have this mentality. From my perspective this is because YC tends to give too many generic advices and some sticks more than others. The big one that caused this is PG's startup = growth post, and yes he is right and it specifically states you really need to concentrate on growth.

If you have to take away one thing, then it will be growth but this generalization is very dangerous because as Sam's post states you need a product before growth. The better advice is to not concentrate on one thing but to bluntly say you need to have everything and everything will all come together. You need great team, great product, and great growth. If one is weak, you need to fix it.
Exactly. The Fed or CBRC may not be perfect with their policies, but at least they're beneficially aligned with the future and stability of their currency (rather than a group of rational self-interested actors).
People participate in drug trials as volunteers. Lowering their risks is important for increasing number of them.
Also when traveling to China, remember to whip your machine before and after the trip, and do not leave them unattended in the hotel.
I recently started using Foursquare a bit after mostly abandoning it for Swarm. It's actually really good. By far the best feature for me is the "trending in your city" bit which is fantastic at letting me know about good newly opened places. If there's a better tool than Foursquare for figuring out what exciting new businesses have opened in your neighborhood I don't know what it is.
> Doesn't help when you have to share data with companies and governments, and the information ends up on someone else's disk.

FDE was an example among a vast array of encryption products. Attacking an non-comprehensive example as non-comprehensive isn't very enlightening. I still fail to see which DRM product you are suggesting is the proper tool for this situation. Even further, cryptography and careful allocation of trust seem to be a better solution than DRM for disseminating sensitive information since DRM is generally only a barrier, and not robust against concerted attack.

That is to say, if you are disseminating information to untrustworthy sources via DRM, then in the great majority of cases, you can consider the information compromised. Most DRMed content is copyable with as simple a solution as recording your screen. Even HDCP can be defeated with a simple camcorder.
Yes, I've been doing some work, and so have some other contributors. Shopify is upstreaming some patches so they can get back on master.
In the panopticon, you could be being watched at any moment. If you don't know which cameras are dummies...
That seems like a terrible idea... hashes are small, and I should be able to run an AV scan without connecting to the net.
You don’t fail you ‘un-pivot’: the latest buzzword taking entrepreneurs by storm
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10908301
Having a 'spam email' that you use to sign up for stuff and a separate one for non-automated communication only is definitely a good idea.
Show HN: OhLife for Work Teams
I don't know, have you tried to buy plane tickets with a credit card? It takes me a solid half hour every time, between the "verified by Visa" crap, the merchant not accepting the card and some failure on their system. With Bitcoin, you tap the link and press "confirm".

It's miles ahead of any other payment system I know, including cash (because you don't have to be in proximity of the recipient).
Nah. People need to learn that you simply can't build a decentralized, egalitarian system on capitalist foundations.
Hi all! Happy to answer any questions about this effort. I'm targeting 1.26.0 sometime in the next couple of weeks.
Or if you're like most people I've met... you have no idea what FN, Alt-Gr, or the menu key even are.

My point was more about not knowing what those are rather than the keyboards that lack them or have alternative inputs.
Readme says he tested on ZDoom and Crispy Doom.
He used jDoom in his recent walkthrough of E1
Replying as I can no longer update: I misread the article. I would follow this post [1] by Derek Lowe for more accurate info. If preliminary reports are correct the drug in question may be a FAAH inhibitor [2] which could lead to increased Andandamide [3]

1. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/01/15/a-c...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid_amide_hydrolase

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anandamide
It's again because it's calling back to this one from 2012! http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2012-09-22-resque--let-s-...
> The GitHub issue tracker does need to change.

Does anyone like any bugtracker?

That's a serious question. I've never used one that was a joy to use as a submitter (GH's issue tracker is one of the better ones, as it's so simple) or as a maintainer. As a maintainer I've found them really frustrating in general; JIRA has been one of the better ones for me.

Any consensus on 'decent' trackers?
Sorry about that, article was confusing.
Nice Starbucks/Dunkin' Donut submarine article.
Dunno about the rest but TradeWars is still being maintained! As are some really nice helpers, like SWATH. One of these days, I'd like to maybe run my own server again. (I had no problems getting TWGS to run jailed under Wine/VNC/screen on my FreeBSD servers, and SWATH ran well under Wine on my Mac.)
Show HN: "What's This?" – machine learning with react-native and tensorflow
If they can control ever growing swathes of the world's economy, they are not doing themselves a disservice. Maybe they are giving you less service than before, but they are simply doing what big companies do.
No, but I did notice that it's almost entirely individual contributors rather than maintainers
Actually, I think the main reason that music went DRM free was to circumvent Apple's dominance. Since they had by far the most popular portable digital music platform, and wouldn't allow third party DRM on it, the music industry had a choice -- either deal with Apple, or forego DRM altogether.
The economics of this are really difficult to add up at scale. You can't pay sustainable wages on a model like this unless the delivery costs are prohibitively high for an average consumer.
That is why there was a Silk Road but they got busted by the FBI. Would sell drugs and ship them in a CD holder, claiming it was a CD-ROM for Bitcoins.

There are other sites that sell things for Bitcoins that are not drugs. But there aren't that many of them.

You have to get the banks to support Bitcoin so you can exchange from Bitcoin and back and that hasn't happened on a large scale yet.

When I went to buy Bitcoin I saw a lot of Russian based sites, and not sure I could trust my bank account info with them as they might be run by the Russian mafia for money laundering.
As Warren Buffet has said, the best strategies are “simple but hard.” This is YC advice at it’s best.

(I'm paraphrasing Buffet)
> A world war in 2015 killed nearly three billion people.

Too bad we already severed.
Decent Reddit discussion

https://www.reddit.com/r/vulkan/comments/4137sn/nvidia_engag...
You know the best way to "do no harm"? Do nothing. If you accept that doing nothing is, in fact, doing harm, then the comment you're replying to has a good point.
Please don't post drive-by dismissals to Hacker News. Even if you're right and the article is worthless, it degrades the quality of the discussions here and signals the wrong things. And if you're wrong, i.e. if the article has value and you missed it, then you're really damaging the thread.

In such a case, please either flag the article and move on, or post something substantive about its specifics.
Tiny Villages: Horizontally Scaling Society
Awesome post.

Part 1: http://www.filfre.net/2015/12/a-pirates-life-for-me-part-1-d...

Part 2: http://www.filfre.net/2016/01/a-pirates-life-for-me-part-2-t...
Monthly HN Office Hours
Love: mental disorder, key to happiness, or just crazy?
Horrible PayPal customer service. This person should not be allowed on their Twitter account.
>A decentralized currency where the development, mining and discussion is controlled by less than a dozen people which is a joke

Again: why does anyone think you can get a decentralized structure out of a property-norm design (commodity money, held privately as capital) designed to create centralization and hierarchy?
This is closely related to Aristotle's concept of potentiality[1] and the active intellect. More succinctly, a startup must build up the potential energy of its product prior to transforming it into the kinetic energy of growth.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentiality_and_actuality
I don't think it's really about that, especially because getting most of the pie doesn't really matter if your business collapses a year later, or users move on because they got bored with the product or service.

I think it's really just the nature of so many startups acting in the consumer space, where you need to have tons of users otherwise your business has no purpose.
Suppose you have a program that uses SGX. Perhaps this program requires some public keys which it uses as a root of trust. Presumably you've baked these public keys into your program, you load this binary with the code+public keys into the enclave and execute it.

Now, how do you know that malware didn't modify the public key sitting in your binary before your code was loaded into the enclave? You need hardware to ensure that it only loads your code and not the modified code. This is where Intel's signing process comes in. There isn't really any way around it.
Well, coffee is certainly in the future of ordering for delivery, but why wouldn't it be? The article only describes a partnership between Starbucks/Postmates and Dunkin' Donuts/Postmates/DoorDash. Postmates and DoorDash provide delivery for things that traditionally aren't delivered (ie, fast food and coffee).

Frankly it's right up their alley to try this.
Inherit the Stars Wars
Those were some good reads. Appreciate it. The use of API naming to indicate intent for a license was particularly clever.
Which PHP Cryptography Libraries Are Actually Secure?
Thanks - I hadnt completely finished the article. :)
I guess I get that but the marketplace is also a big place and often times there is room for more than one player. Apple and Samsung, Gillette and Schick, Pepsi and Coke. You don't need to totally wipe out competition in order to be a successful company. Furthermore, when there are totalizing effects, it's because the technology benefitted from massive built-in network effects (i.e. Facebook, Uber.) Many (possibly even most) start-ups don't rely on those.
> I think we get away with [distinguishing singular/plural and number/name] in natural languages because we are willing to be fuzzy about that ... Whereas the only distinctions it makes sense to use in programming languages are those that we can make precise.

I see no conflict between a mental process being a fuzzy "natural language" thing in our brains and the code modelling that concept using a precise formulation.

Indeed, to the degree I'm wrong we're in trouble. To read and write code we have to use what we've got -- our brains -- and we have to work with them the way they insist on working:

"Janet Siegmund and her colleagues observed 17 participants inside an fMRI scanner while they were comprehending short source-code snippets

...

The programmers in the study recruited parts of the brain typically associated with language processing and verbal oriented processing (ventral lateral prefrontal cortex)

...

Interestingly, even though there was code that involve mathematical operations, conditionals, and loop iteration, for these particular tasks, programming had less in common with mathematics and more in common with language. Mathematical calculations typically take place in the intraparietal sulcus, mathematical reasoning in the right frontal pole, and logical reasoning in the left frontal pole. These areas were not strongly activated in comprehending source code."

~~ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-parnin/scientists-begin-...
And UBSan for finding undefined behavior.
I think it is applicable in how it brings up how these redesigns focus on aesthetics at the expense of information. Wikiwand puts aside what it doesn't think is important, but if they had talked to anyone who actually uses Wikipedia they would learn otherwise. For example, look how much prominence it gives to images. While these are aesthetically pleasing, they reduce the information density and give the images more prominence than the actual content. I also bought up how it hides so much important parts of an article. How is a reader/editor supposed to bring up their concerns if they don't clearly know that there is a talk page? What if they felt that the article suddenly changed drastically and wanted to view the article history? What if they landed on the wrong article and can't see the hatnotes that usually tell them about the article they likely wanted? The blog post has this to say:

> Why Wikipedia? Because you often stumbled upon it and thought “Urgh, it’s so ugly!”? If so, you weren’t using it. You were looking at it.

and I think it rings quite true.
> The latter group would argue that a campaign to restore hearing to the deaf would actually be a kind of genocide.

Only if it's not optional I think, where ethics get really interesting is when deaf parents want a deaf child, that's one that still isn't settled due to cochlear implants which are already a kind of cyborg.

I'm able bodied (apart from a degenerative spinal condition) and I'd happily swap that part out if I could, wouldn't even think about it for more than 5 seconds.
They've maybe won the game they thought they were playing - the one where you get an investment and maybe mentioned on TechCrunch and stuff. They lose the game they're actually playing, which is to build a sustainable business.
On Oscar Wilde and Plagiarism