skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I'm really skeptical of this kind of accusation, since it looks a lot like a loony conspiracy theory, but the Internet of Things turns it into an everyday hack instead of a super-secret state-level one.
Do you guys really consider SJ State to be a low-tier school? Not even for something like mathematics?
Nails don't generally become more dangerous to the hammer when hit.
Hey :)

Just to clarify my statement - for some companies, it makes complete sense to stay in their local territory (think a young Alibaba). For some others, it doesn't. It's case by case.
> then there is no means to prove that was the case.

It's called court. No provided reason does not imply a lack of reason, and (say) discussing pay on a public forum would certainly be relevant evidence, if highly circumstantial.
Hey Sam! We're disrupting a $3.2B information market, full of old slow tech. We've received encouragement from YC alum to apply and had help with our application, but warned that what we're doing might be too difficult for the average tech person to grasp and be vetted out for this reason. We have 11k in revenue from our first sales cycle and 200% mom user growth. Any recommendations on how we can make sure we get heard?
Yeah, unfortunately for the author, it sounded a lot like that to me as well. I've cared for people overly anxious and it sounded like he would have improved a lot with some sedative or just knowing when to take a calm down break.
One would expect differently from Cringley of all person. He made a living about mocking people outsourcing and company being mismanaged.
> That's the best euphemism for bombs and sponsoring what we would otherwise consider terrorist organisations I've ever heard

I do believe you have inadvertently made my point.

"The west" (including Canada) doesn't care about any global issue unless it conflicts with their interests. In this case, the Assad regime was/is uncooperative with the US in particular, which is why the US seized the opportunity to topple his control (via many methods, including funding known terrorist organizations which just happen to also be against the Assad regime at this moment in time).

"The west" is not involved in any other civil war or genocide at the moment, although there are many active around the world.

> >and work is being done to accomplish this.

Perhaps you're not current on events, but non-military options are being taken right now, and are looking somewhat promising.

We've gone far into the weeds here and gotten even further off-topic than we already were. I, however, feel you're the type to want the last word, so feel free.
> > People "know it when they see it" without necessarily being able to define it.

> That path leads to hell.

That's why they pay us the big bucks.

If people could define their problems well enough without iterative design, waterfall development would be a success story and all software would be outsourced to the lowest bidder.
> both Canada and the US have the right to protect their national interests

The unstated premise is that the current structure of our immigration system serves any national interest.

Let's set aside the fact that immigration creates more jobs for natives than it displaces (turns out immigrants buy things just like natives do),[0] and that there's near universal consensus among economists that restrictions on the movement of goods, people, and money invariably hurt a state more than they help, and that we clearly agree with this philosophy when moving these things 3,250 miles from Anchorage to Albany, just somehow don't for the 210 miles from Ottawa.

Let's set all that aside and assume there's some coherent and humane rationale for telling people who they're allowed to do business with and where they're allowed to walk based on the random accident of what hospital they were born in.

Even then, the current administration of immigration law is nonsensical in several ways. If a citizen's brother was born in the Philippines, they would have had to apply 23 years ago for the State Department to even read their application.[1] We have a bunch of categories where we've picked quotas out of a hat that have no meaningful relationship to the country's needs. Quotas are a particularly terrible approach to rationing, especially when you have to apply in a single category, so there's no extra consideration for someone who would be valuable for multiple reasons (ie, someone who holds a unique advanced degree, is a family member of a citizen, and is fleeing persecution in another country).

The fact that all countries do something does not make it right, or even necessarily rational.[2]

[0] https://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/legacy/reports...

[1] http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bull...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery

N.B. - Thank you for your civil comment on a difficult topic, this is exactly why I like discussions on HN, so upvoted even though I'm adding a counterpoint.

EDIT - misplaced cite
Often they sort of happen together--you start going back and forth on an idea with the people that become your cofounders.
Thanks. I'm not from the UK, my dentist and I just talked about the "NICE guidelines."
Another way to punish people for not getting in debt by making it so that they're less desirable on the job market.
If you live in the United States, you might want to connect with us at the Universal Income Project.

We have regular meetups in San Francisco, and are looking for more organizers around the country to collaborate with on Basic Income Create-a-thons. And if you're in a different country, we might be able to connect you with advocates closer to you. There are a ton of interesting, active projects going on right now around the globe.

We recently hosted a talk by Matt Krisiloff, who is managing YC Research's basic income program, and are really excited to see how it develops.

Shoot us an email at questions@universalincome.org if you want to learn more!
Not necessarily their first startups, but: Dre (Beats), Larry Ellison, Travis Kalanick, Phil Knight (Nike), Jack Ma (Alibaba), Sam Walton, Wang Jianlin (Dalian Wanda). Mike Bloomberg and Amancio Ortega (Zara) were nearly 40.
7,917.5 miles?
What do you think about distributed teams?
I had to spend over $6000 last year to get an implant because I let a crook dentist do a root canal when he should have referred me to an endodontist. The endodontist that I eventually hat to go to (after infection had set up) who tried to save the tooth was pulling nasty black stuff out of it that the crook had shoved in. He said that was common amongst dentists "who like to cut corners".

That same crook dentist talked me into a gold crown on what turned out to be a wisdom tooth that was supposedly removed 20 years prior (they extracted the other three but apparently decided to save time and leave one in). My dentist now still shakes his head as to why anyone would have recommended a gold crown over extraction of that tooth.

I don't know if there is a way to find quality dentists but I'm realizing that this country (US) is rife with crook dentists.
Most of us are technical. We can probably understand it, at least a very high level. And we certainly can understand 200% monthly growth.
Sure. Plus, we have to live our lives the way that fits best for us, not the way that fits best for other people. Consider a person who is overly obsequious their whole life, goes to therapy, and learns to start looking out for themself instead of others. Well, anyone who was exploiting the person isn't going to like that change. And will probably say so.
Via http://warisboring.com/articles/the-pentagons-pricey-culture... :

"The root of the problem is the revolving door between the Pentagon and private military contractors.

Remember the big white blimp that broke free from its mooring in Maryland last year and floated across rural Pennsylvania? That’s a good example of an underperforming and expensive military program the government should have canceled years ago.

In fact, the Army did try to cut the program, officially called JLENS, in 2010 — only to have then-vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. James Cartwright, rescue it. Shortly after his retirement from the Marine Corps in 2011, Cartwright joined the board of directors of Raytheon, the prime contractor for — you guessed it — the JLENS.
I'm actively working on data-based civics projects that should hopefully have positive individual financial impact - particularly for lower income households. It's very fulfilling work that perhaps comes close in addressing localized economic problems (eg, neighborhoods).

Problem with this sort of work is that it's generally incremental and has zero immediate effects. In other words, there's no way in hell anyone's going to fund me even on principal. Philanthropists? Nah. YC types? Nope. AVs? heh. Volunteers? Eh. The only way I've found to make it happen is to apply some sort of gamification (ads, app selling), which switches motivation from helping all, to only helping those with a smart phone or easy access to internet.

"No shit, you're asking for free work." is pretty common, but I have a persistently hard time believing it's 100% systemic.

Any thoughts on building capital for a company whose goal is in helping low income areas using YC-loved technology without any expectation of direct income?

(Two examples:

Find/Contest bad parking tickets in Chicago. Work in progress with a newly created team of 3: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/red-bin/chitickets/master/...

Mapping domestic violence shelters in US, as this exists nowhere else : https://red-bin.github.io/ (unfinished) )
This simply isn't true. I received a >$30,000 raise at one of my previous employers after they realized that I was being grossly underpaid for the work I was doing. Granted, I had to bring my managers' attention to this, but they were understanding & did right by me.
When I was in UCLA's Statistics program, I did an independent study class with him, where we met in his sunny office once a week. At the time, I had only a vague idea of his reputation -- he was just "that guy who had his own theorem," who was excited to answer my questions about game theory.

I asked him to give me an intuitive explanation of Nash's theorem, and, while the details are lost to memory, I remember having one of those thrilling epiphanies as he explained how it followed from Brouwer's fixed point theorem.

There was supposed to be required coursework, but every week I'd come into his office and ask questions like that, and we'd end up talking the whole time, often long after the hour was over. Grades and homework didn't seem to matter much to him. It's incredible to think now how much excitement and passion he mustered for the curiosity of a novice.

RIP, Prof Shapely.
Sam,

Here's my side project -

It lets developers browse, understand and document source code via browser.

Here are a few examples Doc/Xref source code it can generate:

* WASM code in the newly release v8 Engine source.

http://www.srcmap.org/sd_share/7/2f4b60db/v8_JS_Engine_WASM....

* Start up script Code trace in Android AOSP code. (10GB of source)

http://www.srcmap.org/sd_share/7/f772faae/Android_AOSP_Platf...

* ES 6 code trace in v8 Engine.

http://www.srcmap.org/sd_share/7/c2018475/v8_ES6_features.ht...

The single binary is hosted in $5 / month VPS in DO. (I am cheap and don't like to burn $.)

Soon anyone can download it and run it on their PC/Laptop. Free to individual, $ for team.

What do you think? Good enough for YC?
Any plans to make borders obsolete?

What are the main levers and milestones?
Apply now. Then immediately resume working on it. If you don't get in now, then apply with your awesome prototype that you've built over 6 months to the next batch. :)
The NICE guidance from 2000:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta1

You don't have to look hard to find criticism of it, but then that's true of most things. There's going to be a review, slated for publication next year:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-tag525
slackpkg ships as part of the default slackware installation. Are you thinking of sbopkg which is used to build packages from slackbuilds.org?
https://twitter.com/JohnLaTwC/status/708309799738314752
The very, very first image that flashed into my mind was not a real steeple or an abstract one, but the gesture for a steeple that you can make with your hands (https://janellrardon.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/facebook-st...). I think the reason is that I hadn't read the entirety of your first line (three sentences), but rather had just seen a few keywords and was "filling in the blanks" as I read the line in detail again. I think my mind just conjured up a random memory involving a steeple of some sort (someone showed me that gesture as a kid).

Unfortunately, I already saw your spoiler in the next paragraph before I re-did the exercise.
I recently had a contrast CT with an iodine contrast agent. I would guess the doctor had never heard of the flushing happening after the initial injection, as the agent is normally out of your body quite quickly (I guess kidney issues might change that). It's a very strange sensation.

Brief searching points to lawsuits involving an agent using gadolinium instead of iodine. When I looked into the agents for my scan, the obvious literature indicated that they chose iodine compounds that were not biologically active.
Panasonic's power-lifting exoskeletons
There is another reason for a PIP: the employer thinks the employee has been doing their job badly but could do acceptably well. The PIP is the last available tool to get them back up to speed.
No need for a website to interpret that bit of body language!
History is written by the victors justifying themselves.

Remember, this occurred in an era of "Social Darwinism" and "noble savages", etc.

That's not to say that these accounts aren't correct, but you can't just accept them at face value without some archaeological evidence to back them up.
AAPL, AMZN, TSLA, GOOGL, INTC, FB, YELP, BOX.

I like tech.
There are encrypted RFID tags, like the Ultralight-C tags commonly used for transit systems.
Were the companies rejected by YC that have gone on to be the most successful often just below the cutoff?
I'd disagree, along with Al Jazeera, RT is one of my staple news sources.
I have excellent social skills, I'm comfortable talking to a room full of people (as long as the material is something I understand well).

I read people well but I don't really emphasise with them on an emotional level, I'm told I'm good at reading people and have worked in sales in the past but its purely for a rational, if I was in this persons position what would I do, likely to be feeling analysis.

I don't really have strong emotions either or more correctly I have them but they are transient and then I return to a ground state, neither happy nor sad just a strange sort of equilibrium, I don't understand people who carry hate or anger, I've experienced both (for sound reasons) but think they are a poison you take til the other person dies (read that somewhere).
Simple: you dumb college down.

If college is the new high school, then college becomes a default path that is more valued for its socialization experience than for academic knowledge imparted. And like AP classes in high school, you have hard majors where the "life of mind" is taught, and push the smart kids to go into those.
I agree.

I've been doing TDD for 4 years now, and I would totally agree that it takes a lot of time to hone the skills. My experiences of TDD on projects is quite similar to yours. However, it took me a year to simply really understand how to do TDD in any kind of sane way.

TDD is not something you can easily pick up in 6 months without a lot of mentoring and training from experienced TDD'ers.
I is fresh grad, basically right out of school, II is mid level, III is basically senior engineer. at that point it goes onto principal and beyond.
Maybe pick Open Source Software which people pay good money for skills in? :)
Instead of “|| true”, I prefer “|| :” – it’s shorter, and : is always a built-in, even in bare-bones shells where “true” is an external command.

Since “|| :” is always written at the end of lines, it should be short and visually unobtrusive.
This happened to my wife when we moved to a new city. We needed a new dentists, and chose one based on Angie's List reviews.

She'd never had a cavity in her life and goes in for a routine cleaning. The guy said she had SIX cavities that needed drilling immediately (wanted to do it that afternoon) and needed a root canal and crown on one of her back teeth. And of course had generous financing options for the amount that this would go over our dental coverage (which he assumed we would be blowing all at once).

She left there in tears and came home.

It sounded like a crock, so we asked at our workplaces and chose a different dentist to get a second opinion. He looks around in her mouth for a few minutes and says the the other guy is crazy, she has one area that just needs to be watched but everything else looked fine. Even said her teeth were in outstanding shape.

If something seems off with any health-related diagnosis, always get a second opinion.
I'm sorry if I gave the wrong idea, but no. We are not building our company (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz7QpBub6fo) to get into YC. Not sure how you deducted that. Trying to apply several times was something that made sense for us at that time and nothing else.
But it would be goog to know if YC is not interested in our company at all.
But their careers have been cut short by their employers becoming international conglomerates that simply don't promote from the ranks. You start on the shop floor, you die on the shop floor; and wage compression does the rest. The exceptions are very rare (mcdonalds and a few others).
How would you differentiate the roles of statistician, data scientist, and data engineer? I've used and heard the titles "statistician" and "data scientist" used interchangeably, and the Wikipedia entry for data science [1] gives evidence to support that usage since the late 90s:

"In November 1997, C.F. Jeff Wu gave the inaugural lecture entitled "Statistics = Data Science?" for his appointment to the H. C. Carver Professorship at the University of Michigan. In this lecture, he characterized statistical work as a trilogy of data collection, data modeling and analysis, and decision making. In his conclusion, he initiated the modern, non-computer science, usage of the term "data science" and advocated that statistics be renamed data science and statisticians data scientists."

From the same article, a quote from Nate Silver:

"I think data-scientist is a sexed up term for a statistician....Statistics is a branch of science. Data scientist is slightly redundant in some way and people shouldn’t berate the term statistician."

If your skillset differs from a statistician, then calling yourself a data scientist is not going to be a differentiating title in common parlance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science#History
You get stock annually? Otherwise, you have to vest that over several years, severely reducing your annual. AND you're locked in for years just to cash out at maximum value.

Unless you get that kind of equity yearly—which is crazy, and brings up dilution questions—you're better off taking a higher salary and investing as much as possible.

But—adding X market value for equity vesting over Y years with 40% capital gains tax for the first 12 months of holding it leads to a 2016 pay of.... just your salary.

Oh, and you get equity every else in addition to that nice pay, and they don't strap your pager to your face.
That model leaves you with an incredibly unusable history. So I think the chances of going there are zero.
Find a great lawyer and have them use your startup Delaware corp as sponsor for your H1B. It's like moving employers. You may need to move $$$ into the company to demonstrate there is enough money to meet your minimum wage category and few other hoops. Alternatively apply for an investors visa but this will mean more capital injection into your US entity and more of those hoops to jump. Happy to talk offline. I'm no lawyer but have been through few Visas and similar scenario to yours. PS. There is no prison ;-)
No--we try a lot of things but they don't all work. When they don't, we move on to new ones.
Could you share some personal insight into modelling AI systems?
Look up Alan Pease for body language.

It is a difficult path to walk. I learned most of it intuitively as a young child. When I saw a gesture, it would trigger panic, almost certainly creating a self fulfilling prophecy. I also faked my body language to hide it from others, making me near impossible to read. As a young person (under 10), it was a social disaster.

Just so you know, everyone is on the spectrum. There is a threshold that makes it clear if you are autistic or not and often relates to under/over sensitivity of senses. My son is sensitive to sound and light (as an example). He also struggles to string tasks together and can't organise anything. They're all common traits.
Do you have some advice about how a founder should organize their day? How many hours of coding/designing/talking to users/sleeping...?
I would have to say asking Sam Altman for advice. Most founders simply don't think to do it and it ends up hurting them tremendously in the long run. You're on the right track.
State the one you want, not the one you're currently making. They won't (and legally should't be able to) check.

And if they do and somehow, your previous employer disclosed this to them (a big no no), you can always say "I was underpaid then and what I was making there is not relevant to the position I'm applying to with your right now. I also think I've learned a lot in my past position, which justifies this jump in compensation".
Yes, back when I graduated (with a prior internship at a big tech company) my amazon offer was over 100k, similar sign-on bonus, 150k stock.

I ended up not accepting that offer because another company gave me a more interesting role. Also their stock vesting schedule is horrible (most of the money comes in year 4), and many people find amazon to be soul-sucking. You're likely to leave at the 2 year mark, thus losing out on most of the stock anyways. 4 years is a long time to be at Amazon (though if you're the right mix of "in-it-to-win-it" and "workaholic" you might thrive there)
>And that’s even discounting the remote possibility that the funding countries come along and say “Ok guys, the show’s been great, now pack it up and go home, you’re not needed anymore.”

Hah! That will never happen. World governments need a place to send embarrassing brothers-in-law, blowhards, and idiots who can't, for political reasons, simply be drowned in a tub.
And other people will make significantly less than that 40k. So boo-hoo to those only making 40k with access to free healthcare.
I would take this a step further and say NOBODY should write their own ETL. In a world where:

1. SaaS services have APIs

2. Your database is hosted in the cloud

3. You use a standard SQL data warehouse that is also hosted in the cloud.

ETL from (1, 2) to (3) is a completely standard problem, and you should be able to buy a fully-automated solution. My company (Fivetran) does this as a service. We've replaced lots of homebrew data pipelines built by our customers, and we always see the same issues:

* Homebrew ETL pipelines use fancy big-data tech like Hadoop and Kafka in places where it has no relevance, like syncing your 20 GB Salesforce instance.

* Homebrew ETL pipelines don't deal with all the dark corners of the data sources, such as: what happens when someone adds a new custom column? What happens when your MySQL read replica fails over and a new binlog starts? Etc.

The lesson being, don't do this yourself.
> Yes, the covering up is bad, but I would never sue a professional doing his job.

That's stupid. If a surgeon amputates the wrong limb, is he just doing his job?