skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can say that to get thick skin on your feet you need to not wear shoes at all for long periods of time and walk/run lots over harsh ground. I would go the entire summer without wearing shoes and running around all day and it would take a month to get thick skin on my feet and it would still be getting thicker by the end of summer. I would start wearing shoes and within a month my feet were back to a more standard thinness.

You do retain the careful walking/running skill, but without the thick skin you can't really run effectively on gravel, etc.
A small clarification: NICE is not the name of the guidelines. NICE is the name of the body that issues those guidelines. NICE issues guidelines for pretty much every kind of treatment throughout the NHS.

https://www.nice.org.uk/about/who-we-are
Like I said, it was just my 2 cents for what they are worth here when Jason is being called a bully to people. I don't expect my experience to be analogous in the VC world or anything.
Rhodes had the Lex Rhodia (which included a provision granting 'general average'); a sort of group-based insurance scheme for differing ventures to compensate those among the group whose ships were lost. So the concept did indeed exist in (or at least before) Roman times.

The Romans also had life insurance, so the concept of insurance was there.

Genoa most certainly had banking houses issuing insurance and loans -- and their rivals in Venice did as well (but that was more state-oriented and derived). However, I'd agree that there doesn't seem to be much evidence towards institutional insuring in Rome.
> These are social consequences of the growing gap between highly skilled and low-skilled workers. The former are more and more important to the economy even as the latter become less so with technological progress and globalization

The thing is though, janitors aren't any less important or in demand than they were a 50 years ago, or retail workers, burger flippers, waiters. Less of the low skill work has been offshored than the high skill frankly because it's all service industry, it requires locality.
Mostly yes. They also don't actually do much of the real work, they subcontract that out to smaller firms after taking their rent.
I had my third molars removed prophylactically and it was a complete disaster, including breaking a healthy tooth. /anecdote

Seriously, guys, the best way to have permanent damage done to your body is getting treatment while your body is healthy. Regularly let them check your teeth but be careful with stuff like that. I would never ever do anything with my teeth again unless there is pain or clear evidence that something bad is going on, like an infection.
> I don't believe Windows ever had a feature to right click> Properties> encrypt.

Windows 7 Professional has it. Windows 7 Home doesn't have this feature.
AMD releases Linux hybrid driver beta with Vulkan support
What are your thoughts regarding the effects venture capital strategy (game theory) has on the compute markets, specifically the creation and acceleration of bubble phases? Do you believe venture capital, beyond the obvious benefits for investors and founders, actually provides a heathy, sustainable ecosystem for innovation and advancement of humanity and the planet?
Yes, the covering up is bad, but I would never sue a professional doing his job.

Once I had an enhanced contrast MRI for my kidneys. To enhance it they injected a ton of iodine into my blood. They warned me that my prostrate would get hot (weird), which it did.

Later when I was back at the urologist I was explaining that I was often experiencing a hot prostate, just like I had during the MRI. He then made a point of the fact that he had never heard of that happening in a MRI. I was surprised considering that he had prescribed the MRI and the nurse had warned me.

I later read about a class-action suit against GE, who made the machine, and doctors who prescribed these tests. Now it all makes sense. He also was covering his ass.
Wow, this is great - I started using Meter Feeder a few months ago in Pittsburgh. I'm sure Pittsburgh is similar to most of the country in that we've had no choice but to use antiquated meters. It really is one of those situations where since it's now easy, I've found myself always paying for parking, whereas before I skipped on payment more often than not.

Looking forward to watching Meter Feeder execute on its goals, and congrats on the acceptance to YC W16!
Just want to say that I love your idea! Though, I do find the font a little hard to read, but that just might be me.
Unrelated to the article: I like the "U" but not the "N". I'm hoping that if we get to ever have a world wide office of any kind, that it will represent "people" instead of "nations". Nations go to war. People are either (1) (ab)used to fight them in name of their nations, or (2) merely trying to protect themselves. The number 1 mostly happens while somehow convincing people of number 2.

Anyway I wish for a "UP", United People, to arise from the ashes of the "UN". Yes, a people movement.
> Powder cocaine is literally the same drug as crack cocaine

Highly incorrect.

Smoking an equivalent amount of cocaine-base (crack) vs snorting cocaine-HCL (powder) is a completely different experience due to purity, ROA, and absorption (surface area of lungs vs nasal passage is 50x), etc.

Not to mention that is not an ionic bond, it is covalent. Different molecule.
That's just shifting the ground-floor.

I mean, how negatively tall could a building get before turning positive again?
I have a feeling the parent commenter knows the rule, but didn't care to follow it.

I have that feeling as well. It's a truly horrible thought.
Only on HN are these incredible compensation packages considered "underpaid".

In the real world (outside FaceGoogAmaWallstreet), the story for developers is quite different.
TDD is not about reduction of bugs, or race conditions. Robert Martin has said that reduction of bugs is not sufficient enough to warrant using TDD for code.

TDD is about achieving better designed code that is maintainable and readable for many years. TDD uses unit tests, not integration tests. So, the behaviour of each function is asserted independently. Maybe you have a function that sets up a data structure at a particular memory location. Your unit test then is just to assert that the data structure at the memory location was setup correctly. You should even be able to unit test functions used in a bootloader like Grub.
How do you have any confidence that any of their numbers are real? Unlike this thread or even Glassdoor, there's a clear incentive to submit fake data to Comparably because they require you to submit a salary before you can see any of their data (and encourage you to sign in with your LinkedIn account).
Biggest problem of rifling is that the "lands" wear down quickly. For a pistol it's probably good thing that it wears down before it has time to break in other ways. For tank gun, you can use some other, more accurate way to keep track of shots fired.

Probably second biggest down sides of rifling is that it weakens the barrel. How much depends a lot on how the rifling is done. But anyhow this has to be compensated with thicker/stronger barrel.

But that gets problematic at extreme pressures. You wan't to use pressure vessel steel, because such steels 1. have good fatigue strength and 2. they tend to send around little less shrapnel when they fail. Problem is that such steels are typically low alloy steels with somewhat low yield strengths. So you would like to make thicker barrel, but the problem here is that you quickly hit diminishing returns. There is usually very little point making barrel thicker if the outer diameter is twice the inner diameter. (Except if you need more rigidity to improve accuracy. But that's whole another subject.)

Anyhow, the brits still use rifled tank gun.
Not sama, but one suggestion: cut down on the sauna references (Startup Sauna, Silicon Sauna, etc.). It runs the risk of sounding too silly/humorous.
>I eventually decided to learn how to read body language.

Mind elaborating on this? I'm looking for something like this but can't find any good step by step resources suitable for someone who is primarily logic driven. (Don't think I'm on the spectrum, or if I am its too mild to matter)
Ex-Drug Smuggler Turned Data Miner Reclaims Field He Created
If you look closely, you'll notice I've been talking about systemic racism this whole time.
Well that sucks...

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Yeah, thanks for the support. I also like my job and consider the SF office a perk, but I may interview a few other places to get a feel for the market.
Shameless plug:

Several years ago I did a tool that shows differences between disassembled functions basic-block graphs, that you can use for free and it is GPLv2 licensed. I believe my tool shows the differences in a better way than bindiff, and it piggybacks on a disassembler made by a former coworker and friend.

Maybe someone wants to use it.

http://www.coresecurity.com/corelabs-research/open-source-to...

PS: I don't work at Core Security anymore.
Reddit was UVA, which is a pretty good school but not really what people think of as "elite".

Instacart was Waterloo, also a very good school but not a huge name outside of tech.

RethinkDB was Stony Brook University.

Mixpanel was an Arizona State dropout.
Professional editions had this before BitLocker. Seems to be available again in v10. It didn't encrypt file names, only contents.
We do talk about that every once in awhile, but the average company that applies to YC is not very good and thus the experiment would hurt the network (and be painful for us to work with).

What we've more seriously considered is randomly funding some companies just below the threshold.

Also, we do look at our ranking to see how companies at the top vs companies near the cutoff do. It's rare (but not unheard of) for a company very near the cutoff to be one of our most successful companies.
What do you do with the people who are too dumb to go to college?

Serious question; one that seems to get left out among the college educated who are running the place. It's like basketball players assuming everyone is over 6 feet tall and athletic.
Interesting article about the political shenanigans surrounding the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, going on in Vienna at the moment:

http://politics.co.uk/blogs/2016/03/15/the-un-fades-into-irr...
> Taiwan was formed when a bunch of Chinese aristocrats fled the mainland.

This sounds like something out of Chinese Communist Party propaganda - aristocrats? The last Emperor was deposed almost 40 years before, and the Nationalists had nothing to do with them.

The history:

Taiwan, a large island the size of ~Maryland off the SE China coast, had been a somewhat primitive frontier of China for much of its history. Sometimes the Chinese government controlled it, sometimes not. It was a refuge for fugitives at times. Japan controlled it from 1895 until (IIRC) they lost it in WWII.

Before and after WWII there was a civil war for control of China between the right-wing Nationalists, led by Chiang Kai-chek, and the left-wing Communists, led by Mao Tse-tung. Both were brutal authoritarian dictators; there were no white knights here. Not surprisingly, the U.S. favored Chiang, the Soviets favored Mao.

In 1949 the Communists won. The Nationalists fled to Taiwan and the Communists lacked the capacity to attack them there, so they remained. Both parties claimed to be the legitimate government of China and I'm pretty sure the Nationalists even retained China's UN seat.

In 1972, a falling out between the Communists and Soviet Union created an opportunity that the U.S. exploited. Nixon famously went to mainland China, normalized relations, and the U.S. backed away from Taiwan. The Communists got the UN seat, and all three parties agreed that Taiwan was part of China, not a separate nation, but temporarily with a separate government. Also, the issue would not be resolved by force and the U.S. has an agreement with Taiwan to defend it if necessary.

That arrangement persists until today. Defending Taiwan wasn't a big deal through the 1990s, when China's military was so weak. Now it is a much more serious risk to the U.S.
How old were you? From my experience, most people seem to have them removed in their early 20's.
Build a simulation(in some multiphysics simulation tool) that shows your concept may work and can be validated by a 3rd party.
"And it is a big step towards a low level understanding of what autism is, how it can pan out to be a gift or a disability (not mutually exclusive), and how the challenges many autistic people face work on a fundamental level."

Overall, that's a great comment. I really like most autistic people (my wife and son included). I would never consider this procedure for my son because I don't believe it would make him a better person (but the choice is ultimately his).

One minor point, I would like you tocondider the way you talk about the challenges faced by autistic people. Yes, I live with it frequently. However, it is much better to talk about the challenge in the "interface" between autistic and non autistic people. Why? Because the language you choose can create a victim mentality as it implies the challenge isn't a 2 way street. Let me put it another way, I have been the victim of an autistic boss who was a sociopath - until I recognised (and had it confirmed that he was autistic). Then, I understood that he had almost no empathy. The point is that there is a challenge from both sides.
I found a "YCombinator" account on WeChat yesterday. Is it indeed YC's official WeChat?

Here is the screenshot: http://logicalorange.com/mis/YCWeChat.jpg

Thanks for the AMA Sam!
Claims made in the blog post:

1. There's two forks of RPM. According to Wikipedia, this seems to be correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager#Forks

2. Most of the complaints are about RPM's build chain and the bloat included in it. NSS/NSPR: RPM doesn't care about any standard ways of configuring them – nspr-config, pkg-config, LSB default folders, … ) BDB: Needs to be copied into RPM's source tree. RPM doesn't build its python modules (needed by yum etc.) by default. Yum has a hard dependency on sqlitecachec but doesn't declare it. (sqlitecachec is the piece of software from 2010, BTW.)

(No idea whether those are accurate.)

3. The gnome comparison is, again, related to the build system: RPM does not check all build- and runtime dependencies before building, you have to determine them by trial and error.

(No idea whether this is accurate either.)

4. RPM packages are binary, and to inspect them you either need specialized tools or, well, hex editors. (Also seems to be correct.) This is a marked difference from all competing formats, which are plain text. DEB packages are ar(1) archives with some special files, all ASCII text. Same for Pacman packages (which are tars).

5. I don't think his "package manager wishlist" is unreasonable. A statically compiled package manager that works without any external dependencies is desirable, as it e.g. allows cross-installation from other platforms, and makes the system harder to break with botched updates.

6. Another complaint is the dependency bloat: Why use a mixture of XML text databases (repodata) backed by an SQLite cache (yum) and BDB databases (rpm)? (No idea what's an accurate representation.)

Generally, Fefe has been lobbying for less complex, easier to maintain, easier to verify, more resource efficient software for over a decade. His projects – gatling, dietlibc, minit, fgetty … – show it.
That's actually a separate, but related, issue. Right now, the courts are weighing whether the FBI can force the creation of a modified OS largely because (a) it's possible to do so with how existing iPhones are engineered, and (b) it wouldn't drastically inconvenience Apple to do so in light of their resources. If they get a favorable ruling, they have a precedent they'll try and use to gain access to other phones in their possession. But that really only applies to phones where it's possible to do so right now. If they can't do the same for future phones, the precedent is moot.

The court isn't ruling on whether Apple has the right to modify their systems to prevent this strategy in the future. No matter how the court decides, it won't affect how Apple can design future devices. If the FBI were to ask for a ruling like that, they'd either lose or it'd be overturned on appeal. Something like that, where the government is actively telling manufacturers how they can and cannot design their products, could really only come from a new law instead of trying to backdoor it through the courts.

I don't doubt that the government would love a tool like that, but it'd be aggressively challenged as an unprecedented expansion of federal power if it was ever signed into law. And that's iffy; a law like that would jeopardize overseas sales for tech companies even more than the NSA's actions already have. They'd have no choice but to pour an incredible sum of money into lobbying efforts, major PR campaigns, and campaign donations to fight it politically and hit back hard against any politicians who supported such a law.
Honestly, we are so busy, there are so many companies, and ideas are worth so little, that most of us don't think twice about a specific company once we move on to the next applications.

The very best ideas usually don't seem worth stealing.
Transaction IDs are 64 bits, but they need to be stored in the tuples themselves for visibility purposes. So, only the low 32 bits are stored, but that creates a wraparound problem.
Or another idea along these lines might be to have a checkbox on the application that says "Submit to audience choice if rejected" and, if they don't get in, those applications are opened to voting by HN users above a certain karma threshold. Pick the five highest ranked applications and bring them in as a normal YC company.
And it's interesting because the difference between "valid negotiating tactic" and "being an asshole" is so context dependent.

There are plenty of situations where flat out lying is not just acceptable, but expected as a bargaining tactic, along with other behavior that would be unacceptable in other situations.

Just thinking about the different ways I buy things at flea markets, the grocery store, and an auto dealership shows 3 very different behaviors.
> And the "arrogance" I think the author is referring to is Sam's notion [0] that the people working all these soon-to-be-obsolete jobs across the country are going to suddenly need UBI so they don't end up living out on the street, which just doesn't seem true.

Doesn't it though?

Automation pretty much has a formula. The cost of R&D for the automation has to be less than [human compensation for doing X] times [number of humans who do X] in order for X to be automated.

The cost of developing the automation is highly correlated with how much intelligence is required to do the job, so the things automation targets most easily are anything that pays well, employs a lot of people and doesn't require high intelligence.

Automation replaces jobs starting from the middle and going up and down from there. So the safest jobs are the ones requiring the highest intelligence and the ones paying the lowest wages, and as automation improves, the level of intelligence required to be in the first group will increase and the wages paid to the second group will decrease.

Now suppose you're someone who is already below the intelligence threshold for the first group. You can still get the second type of job, but soon enough that type of job won't pay a living wage (assuming it even does currently). And if we continue to have minimum wage laws then you will instead find yourself unemployed, because automation will drive the value of unskilled labor below minimum wage.

UBI fixes that. It lets you add the UBI to the low value of your labor and end up with enough to live on. Or use the UBI as the safety net required to do higher reward work with higher risk of failure.
Russia and China are permanent veto members of the Security Council. That the members of the Security Council had far greater freedom of action was always baked into the system, and was required to get buy in from the the most powerful nations, without which the UN would fail (see: League of Nations).
Agreed, I was commenting on the losing 15 dollars per unit angle, but you are right that there is a burden of responsibility when using other's money.
Another part of the great lessons here.
If any partner can unilaterally say yes to any application, it makes the NIPS study irrelevant to their problem.
I agree, I watched that a couple of years ago and very much enjoyed it.
Leaving your area for three months isn't taking on risks. I'm sure YC would be foaming at the mouth to take basecamp and if they could start over with the ability to apply to YC I'm sure DHH and Jason would still turn it down if they were required to go to SF.
> Ye sit is stupid to request a package manager that uses unsecured packages with disabled SSL and curl and wget to download packages and manage them so that any hacker could install any package it wants with a simple script.

That was not the demand. The demand was a package manager that works without requiring openssl as a dynamically linked dependency, so the package manager still works if those dependencies are broken or missing (due to e.g. a botched update) and can repair dynamic libraries for the rest of the system.
One technique I've tried that seems to get a particularly stubborn hiring manager or recruiter past the salary question is giving a generic number range. Before talking to anyone I usually do some basic research to get some idea of what a generally reasonable range is for the position, and adjust that based on my situation at the time. If pressed (I still don't give it up right away) I give that range.

Example: today I was talking with a recruiter about an iOS developer position. The salary question came up (in the form of: how much do you make right now?), and I gave the standard deflection about wanting to make sure the position was a right fit, etc... When pressed, I said that based on my research, the base for this position is $75k - $95k, and that a number in that range would be acceptable as a starting point for negotiation, but contingent on the details of the position.

This kind of response seems to give you some wiggle room without giving up all your leverage, while giving everyone a general idea if you're in the ballpark. I only use this as a last resort if I'm getting the feeling that there is little chance I'll be able to proceed with the opportunity if I don't answer. True, by not establishing salary up front you may be wasting each others' time due to different expectations, but that is a very small risk to take compared with the potential upside of a big raise.
Can you imagine the fallout for firing an employee for discussing salary after the recent NyTimes article? It'd be PR suicide.

Now, your relationship with your manager might be strained, but hey, that's life.
If a felony means you can't work in an industry, it's a race issue. Felonies are associated with poverty, and for historic and social reasons poverty is associated with being black. Just because they didn't say "sorry we can't hire you, you're black" doesn't mean it doesn't further the cycle of poverty.

I'm not wagging my finger at the weed places. I get their logic, they're running a business that's already on shaky ground... avoiding any employees who might increase that risk makes sense. I'm wagging my finger at society for providing another example of how we keep perpetuating systemic racism.
What did you take instead?