skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree, and I personally rarely click through to such "I expand on my thoughts over there" posts. I don't read twitter for that.

But I think there is value to the concept of forcing brevity, and I think it's essential to twitter. As I said, some people abuse it and those people should do just as you said, because that's what they really want.

Connected tweets are basically like a semicolon in normal writing. They imply a loose connectedness between independent thoughts. When used that way I think they're incredibly valuable for certain kinds of expression, and they still force brevity upon you in ways that "oh just go look at my 10,000 word essay on Medium" does not.
I recommend validating your market with a newsletter or some other channel that already has social engineering baked in. In the case of Product Hunt & Mattermark, this allowed them to demonstrate value with curation of highly valuable content for a particular group of people. Once you have validated it, creating the application seeded with those users will ensure you have the well in place. Spending time building the app without having the ability to iterate first on the differentiating aspect might be a waste or at least an inefficient use of early resources.
Arrogance is saying what you are doing is better than what I'm doing, without fully understanding what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. That is the definition of judgement as well.

Competition is gaining resources others are also attempting to obtain. When the trust channels get double bound by others, VCs for example, judgement and arrogance appears. I view competitive arrogance as a special type of judgement that indicates another's approach to the problem you are solving will NOT be competitive. Again, it's easier to judge others than it is yourself. Saying something doesn't make it true.

Competition can occur without judgement. Just look at life, less the human equation.
They better not launch it without 16GB HBM2 GPUs. It would also be great if it supported Vulkan, especially now that they seem to agree that cross-platform gaming is in fact not so bad for consoles. Adopting Vulkan could only help Sony in its war against Microsoft and its DirectX platforms.
I'm specifically thinking of an incident where he yelled at a dev until she cried in the middle of the open office at Mahalo.
A reminder to everyone that the National Labor Relations Act prohibits companies from firing employees for discussing their salaries:

http://www.govdocs.com/can-employees-discuss-pay-salaries/
> I have to praise Google for the way the situation was handled: the company didn't force the spreadsheet to be taken down (in fact, it's still up as I write this), nobody that I know of was fired for it and it generated a healthy amount of internal discussion. After hearing some stories from the Amazon counter part, I wouldn't expect the reaction to be the same.

Taking action against this would've been a violation of US labor law with steep penalties.
Ask HN: What cool NLP project are you working on?
Hey guys, I'm quite keen to get more into NLP, so would anyone want to share what they've been hacking to give me some inspiration?
> Either way, I'm very sad I wasn't able to have my wisdom teeth removed as a child, and the anguish of spending ten years with these things wrecking my mouth was not worth it.

That's a strange follow-up. Nothing in NICE prevented you from removing the teeth if they were wrecking your mouth.
Realistically, no, they always have been walking dead.

Without special licenses, it always was illegal to drive radio hardware out of spec. It was just largely a grey area because of how incredibly hard it was to enforce compliance.

While the hardware technically had shared-source firmware/drivers, you were never legally able to use it modified outside of specially shielded environments, so it's not "open" source in the true sense, and never was. Claiming that the FCC "is killing it" is a red herring, they're just enforcing laws that have been existing for longer than wifi.

Should the laws restricting radio broadcasting be abolished? Maybe. (Accidentally jamming radars or EMT/police radios can be a huge risk.) Maybe not. (If someone wants to jam EMT/police radio or radars on purpose, they can build a better contraption without using off-the-shelf wifi hardware.) But focusing on open versus closed software is a red herring.
Wow. I love how curious folks are here about audiobook production! :)

The pauses between lines/phrases were often tightened up, yes, by pasting room tone over the pauses. This way, the near-silence of the room tone is consistent throughout each pause, which makes the narration easier to comprehend and allows the listener greater immersion into the experience.

The exact duration of room tone impacts the pacing of the narration. This is, in a way, the audiobook editor's "art." They can't over-edit because it would ruin the narrator's dramatic delivery - they need to be able to edit within the stylistic flow of the narrator. At the same time, if they are not careful enough to make the resulting delivery consistent, then the extraneous audio may distract listeners and lead to a lower quality result. That balance is acquired with experience.

The reason this all happens, really, is to ensure a clean "noise floor" - the background sounds heard in addition to the narrator's voice. The sound of the room and the gear, if you will. The narrators are such pros (my experience) - there are many who I could get away with not editing at all, if it weren't for the incredible need for near-silence throughout the entire finished production.
I would think that is against their purpose of making money.
Why would you need to? If you navigate and you don't see the object yet, it's of no help. And when you see it, there's no need in visualizing it.
Distribution is more than half the business model.
No, sama is not obligated to censor his honest opinions about random people he doesn't like. The First Amendment (and in some states, SLAPP statutes) protect him from legal threats of censorship.

Interference with business relationships is only a thing if (among other conditions) the two parties already have some type of agreement. It does not apply to investors approaching founders they don't even know yet.

Slander/libel is only a thing if (among other conditions) the statement is of fact ("Bob is an asshole" etc. are considered opinion and not fact), the statement is false, and the author knows it is false and publishes it anyway.

Here's what happens when dumb lawyers try to censor negative opinions with threats: https://popehat.com/2013/06/25/criticize-your-dentist-thats-...
Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the Genomes of Melanesians
Technology and Underrepresented Minority Groups: The Great Equalizer (Part 3 of 3)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11312799
Hi Sam,

How would YC help an accepted application of just an idea in a technical point of view ? Will there be developers to build a prototype to present during Demo Day ?
It is strange to work in a field where everything produced is lower quality than desired. My wife is continually amazed that I continue to beat my head against the metaphorical keyboard. I have said that I have always hated computers even though I have done nothing but work on them my whole life.
Obviously YC can't enter into NDAs with applicants but can you shed a little bit of light on what YC does to protect the applicants' business ideas?

Some might be discouraged from applying because they fear if the idea is interesting (but not the team or there's another reason it's not accepted) that someone from within YC or a related ecosystem might just take the idea and look at the product so far and decide to just do it themselves (but obviously with more resources, connections, etc and obviously holding more equity).
I wouldn't praise Google for that, considering they actively participated in suppressing tech workers' wages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
The readme is a bit short. In the docs are the actual requirements for the "OpenGrid Service":

A web server for hosting User Interface application
An Java EE application server for deploying service layer (the service template implementation has been tested with JBoss EAP 6.2)
MongoDB version 3.0.6 for storing data and template service layer configuration

Man, I know mongo has some geolocation tools but I would really like to see this with a better database. Good on Chicago for doing a professional job releasing this software though!
Virustotal indicates the attachment has a virus.
Did you follow up with the authorities? Covering up medical malpractice is a serious misbehavior.
> wealth that, again, exists because the winning companies' machines were able to do things more efficiently than the losing companies' human laborers

Losing companies also produce wealth, perhaps even more so, because e.g. they didn't spend enough on advertising. However, in this winner-takes-all economy, the losers have to give up.

All wealth does not exist only because of winning companies.
> Its somewhat useless, but better than nothing.

That's not a glowing review for an organization who's budget was >$12 billion in 2012. [1]

To what better use could that money have been put?

[1]: http://www.un.org/en/hq/dm/budget.shtml http://www.un.org/en/hq/dm/pdfs/oppba/Regular%20Budget.pdf
The candidate could put their minimum acceptable salary in an envelope. The employer could put their maximum acceptable salary in an envelope. The two parties could agree with a third party arbiter that if the maximum from the employer is larger than the minimum from the candidate, the salary will be set to the midpoint between the two numbers, and otherwise, no deal can be reached so both walk away.

That's one way, at least, where neither party has to concede the information advantage.

In fact, I'm surprised there aren't already 37 start-ups that offer this as a service. You could have a cute little envelope logo like the MS Outlook logo and give a TED talk about how you're totally disrupting information asymmetry in recruiting, and eventually be pressured by techtopus to provide data about what candidates are asking for to perpetuate information asymmetry.
I am not from the UK. I was a poor kid from Kentucky in the US.
They might want you to call it a "developmental disorder", which is fair, but nerdy. Or a "physical illness affecting the brain".

The idea that there's a difference is sort of problematic since the mind and the body are the same thing, and it's not falsifiable either unless you can test someone's brain for autism without going through their mind.

There's also a popular claim among tumblr-type people that autism is good and that charities looking for "cures for autism" are evil. Probably not what they meant though.
It seems like you just joined a conversation about work Visas, but you had already decided you wanted to talk about Syria today.
If I got in, I'd introduce myself as YC alumni not Yale alumni :]
Unless you find one of the American women who has an Austin Powers fetish.
It's a grey area, plenty of people have gone direct from E3 to green card with no problems. But yes getting H1 first is theoretically safer ... if you can, given the lottery.
Indeed, apparently even discussing the subject will cause Hacker News readers to aggressively downvote you. :-)
I'd respect you sniping at people more if you did it whilst showing your true identity at the same time. If you're going to attack online from a hidden identity then that's just trolling.
Maybe in the data science field, but not in the tech field more generally. Probably doesn't help that the thread title didn't specify it was data science-related.
I was going to say "no it totally isn't that!" But honestly I cannot form a justification for why an employee has to pay MORE to pay off their student loans solo than they do via a job.

Health insurance already has this issue. You pay more solo than you do via an employer. So it punishes people for doing a startup, being self-employed, or wanting to retire early.

This seems like piling more bad onto bad, and ultimately it really is like a giant financial punishment just for not working at a monster corporation.

I want to help people with their student loans, but this is a BAD way to go about that. If they insist then make it a private deductible everyone can get.
Hello Sam, what is your opinion on REST APIs (A CRUD based model) vs RPC APIs (a more functional based model)?
Careful, they can fire you for NO reason, but they can't fire you for ANY reason.
I had to stop and give a response. As a fellow entrepreneur/founder I'd say if you're building a startup to get into YC, you're not worried about the right thing. The metrics I've found most useful in building a startup/company in general are

1. Are your users happy?
2. Are your users happy enough to refer other people to join?

If you nail those, then what does anything else matter?
Hey Sam,

VR, AI, etc are really cool. But how about normal markets and solving usual problems?

We're working on a service on top of any possible static website generator (from jekyll to hugo) (i.e. yet another website builder) that brings total freedom for artists, musicians, photographers with complete syncronization with dribble, soundcloud, dropbox and so on giving universal content editor and marketplace.

Much cheaper, simpler and easier than other (will not count names), schema.org out of the box, blah, blah, blah — really a lot of features.

Sounds easy, but internally it's a bunch of cool technical solutions.

Any chance to be a part of YC Core/Fellowship family? If yes, we'll definitely try to set-up a demo asap and apply.

Cheers,
Art
Whatever you do, do not say a low number expecting to increase it later.

If you want to give a number, give a high one that you are ok with the company negotiating down, because that is what will happen.
Show HN: Hug 2.0.0 – An API framework and a great reason to switch to Python3
Thanks! Maybe if people upvote the question he will answer. ;)
If the binary depends on userland libraries, then duh of course it'll fail, you're not copying over the entire application. But if it only makes syscalls then it should still work.
Can you please specify which domain? tech stack used, programming language, technology etc.
I'm not sure why you'd say that. TripAdvisor, my first FT gig, offered new hires $85K in Boston in 2010, plus a pretty significant stock package. Today, in 2016 (or even last year), $90K in a similar CoL, similar demand market is nothing to write home about.
I don't believe Windows ever had a feature to right click> Properties> encrypt. Perhaps you had an application installed that had an extension enabling that?
> Why is it, then, that crack cocaine is a high-penalty drug, and hallucinogens are low-penalty drugs?

Because people are much more likely to kill, rob, rape, and do other heinous crimes from crack use than occasional LSD use.

When crack-cocaine hit the black communities, it absolutely destroyed them far much more than any previous drugs did.
This makes me wonder: Why do 401k plans exist? Wouldn't it be easier to allow people to put money directly into an IRA of their choice?

It looks to me like a direct subsidy to the financial sector and in addition employers have the burden of choosing a plan manager.
See: http://www.hug.rest/website/latest for new features specific to this release
> It is so much better than Glassdoor at dissecting salary data.

... perhaps, if you fit in its narrow definitions, share your own salary data, and are happy to 'sign in with linkedin' or give them your email before seeing any results. I wasn't, so can't comment.
That might make sense; strongarm negotiating doesn't necessarily mean you treat everyone like crap, but when there is more VC money than there are companies to invest in might cause you to lose out on deals.
IMHO nuclear weapons have done far more for peace (specifically in the prevention of world war and conventional international wars) than the UN.
every year they give you 100k in stock? or just at signing?
It has only been 6 years for me since the dentist told me I'd be begging him to pull my wisdom teeth in the next few months. Since then I've chipped a corner off of it and it still doesn't bother me one bit.

This article highlights many of my thoughts on it - if they aren't bothering me isn't the cure worse than the disease? I'm glad someone is looking into this and willing to go against what seems to be normal.
11" 2010 Macbook Air, but I do most of my word on a workstation since I want/need 64 GB of RAM and a decent graphics card. The laptop is mainly for hacking on the go.
That being said I love the MBA, my only real complaint is that the battery barely gets 3 hours with light/medium use these days.
Why smart people are better off with fewer friends
The title is misleading... Empires by definition are encompassing and large, not local and regional. The article does touch on the empires and kingdoms that have affected the location, though.
Man, I'm getting tons of early-2000s vibes from the design of the zynamics website.
I can't reply to your other comment as its nested too deeply, but I'm not posting to earn your respect. If you don't believe me that's fine, but equivocating anonymity with trolling is a strawman if I've ever seen one.
> However by my 20's I ended up learning that sometimes what is socially expected is expected exactly because it's the smartest thing to do in that situation.

Perhaps you should develop some kind of mathematical model (say, some kind of proof calculus) for computing what is the smartest thing to do, so that teenager in the future can derive mathematical correctness proofs that it really is the best (in a mathematical sense) to do so that they can invest their hate of conformity into things that are much more worth it.
Thanks for your thoughts debacle! Let me address them slightly out of order:

> Each individual Atlassian tool has enough minor style differences to make the ecosystem feel less cohesive.

I think the minor style differences are in part an artifact of our design process. We have a fairly large portfolio of products these days, and try to avoid dependencies between the release timelines and roadmaps of each. This means that a new design pattern or improvement will often appear in one product several releases before it is syndicated elsewhere. The way this often works on the ground is that a designer will invent a new pattern in one product, see it implemented and shipped, and then later abstracted and incorporated into the Atlassian Design Guidelines and Atlassian UI library that ships with all of our products.

> Administration of your software is opaque, to put it nicely.

Simplifying administration (particularly initial setup) has been a long-time focus of ours, so much so that we codified it into our design principles as "Gracefully reveal depth"[0]. But it's a tough proposition: JIRA is powerful and flexible, but seriously complex, and we're still figuring out how to ease administration without removing or reducing functionality that our customers rely on. We're getting there (check out the admin console in JIRA 7 vs JIRA 6, or any other two consecutive major versions) but I think it will be more or less a constant battle as the products continue to expand in functionality. I appreciate the time you've taken to provide the feedback already, but if you have any specific pain points regarding administration I'd love to hear them.

> All of your tools feel dated and cold. The blue "metro" style design reminds me of Trello's design, and not in a good way.

> It seems as though you use color as a crutch for poor layout. GitHub is fixed width and Bitbucket is fluid but I see so much more on my GitHub homepage than on my Bitbucket homepage.

> There is a stark difference in the experience in navigating both sites. GitHub seems to have to put a lot of thought into page real estate value. Bitbucket in contrast is much more spartan.

I'm personally not an aesthete in any sense of the word, but this seems valuable feedback. I'll bring it to the attention of our design and brand teams (and see if I can get them to jump in and comment). Thanks again for the feedback mate.

[0]: https://design.atlassian.com/how-we-design/principles/
Hits-of-Code Instead of Lines-of-Code
So, you have a plan that helps current students (who are carrying a collective ~$1T in loans), fixes the system so colleges and universities aren't dependent on huge subsidies, and makes college education affordable?
>I can expect to make between 40K and 60K CAD out of college

A chemical engineer with a BS in Alberta can make $120k CAD base-pay, easily.

>and pay higher taxes than in the US.

A San Franciscan making $120k USD pays $46,176 USD in taxes (state+fed)

An Albertan making $120k CAD pays just $32,974 CAD in taxes (prov+fed)

When software engineers want $120k, they move to SF/Seattle and work for <soul-crushing corporate tech-company>. If you want $120k, move to Alberta and work for a gas company.

The vast majority of software engineers (let-alone 'entry level' SEs) in the US aren't making six figures. The ones who move to tech-topia and work for tech-giant and end up getting paid 20% less than their peers who did the same ARE getting ripped off.
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I really really think you're mistaken. I completely agree that users choose passwords from a tiny subset of the possibilities and that counting the whole state space is a nearly useless measure. But there just HAS to be more variability when users are forced to do something different. Like trying to find someone, or trying to find someone who has been disallowed from being at their home or work that day. The second person is going to be much harder to find, even if they're still really predictable and just end up at the coffee shop across the street.

What lists of user passwords were you looking at? I looked through the default one used by John the Ripper (though they recommend using a larger one for any real purpose) and there were hardly any uses of punctuation at all (exceptions "iloveyou!" and "!@#$%^&*") so I can't make the least bit of conclusions. Reading the list of rules it uses to modify passwords, it prepends and appends digits and punctuation but doesn't seem to delete two characters and then replace them with 1!, or anything similar to that. (Though I'll admit to being inexpert at reading the rule formats and not understanding some). That's as close to empirical data as I've got this side of thinking about how I incorporate symbols and numbers.
> I find it willfully ignorant, hateful, and racist ...

> It is disgusting, dishonest and offensive how your portray every H-1B visa holder as a "low cost" worker.

Your Alinsky tactics will not work on me, my friend...you should try more substantive arguments.

I am glad you are doing so well as I, for one, never resent anyone successes in the world.

But facts are stubborn things, and in the aggregate, H1B workers increase corporate profitability at the expense of the established senior ones.
Fast-forwarding the Web Platform
Didn't we know that?

Not that this is "old news", but I thought Rule #1 was that when something is more complicated (or here, "smarter") there's more opportunity for things to go wrong, or for things to get abused.

I feel like we knew this was going to happen, but kind of shrugged it off as irrational.

Right after cell phones with blue tooth were made public, we added "blue snarfing" into our vocabulary.

I mean, I don't put a sticky-note over my webcam; I'm just not surprised at all that hackers are keeping up with tech.
1/3 == "often"?
The fact that these kids have been able to develop and distribute a product, even if they are not making money, is awesome. The experience and skills they gain with this project will be incredibly valuable for every future projects and jobs. It would be great if schools could offer this kind of hands-on experience with real world applications.
Why is hackernews so poorly maintained?