skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One can come up with a completely alternative explanation for what's happening with Trump/Sanders, Farage/Corbyn, Modi, etc. based on constructs like 'end of average' and income inequality. 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 tectonic shifts in jobs, wealth, etc. are causing a realignment of electoral coalitions. Low skilled jobs are automated or shifted offshore at an increasingly faster pace. The status quo of the last 40 years is being challenged: in the US with the reshaping of the economic and social landscape of the country, and elsewhere in the world with the emergence of new uncertainly-oriented behemoths in China and India.

A libertarian magazine like Reason would be more than happy to seek and celebrate a libertarian revolution, whether one really exists or not.
Actually we also offer ElasticSearch support for GitLab EE so you can pick whichever solution you want ;)
Have some •s.
Did you try clicking the "web" link above, and then clicking one of the google results? That worked for me, but I think it doesn't always work.
I wasn't aware of Termux. That is a really handy app. Thanks!
A startup is best suited for new product categories/new business models. (Nobody does a startup to directly compete in an established market)

VR is just "gaming, but more", and requires enormous piles of cash to spend on the hard technical challenges it poses. (1000dpi displays with kilohetez refresh rates) Big companies are fairly well suited to these "build me a faster horse" problems, I'd say.
Just the other day I got Bourne's original Bourne shell running on a modern system (as part of Fuzix development). I don't know which version, but it's badged as coming from V7.

I kept finding places which needed adjustment for a modern architecture... and then I looked more closer and saw that they were actually fine. About the only thing I needed to do in the end was fix some headers, rename a symbol which was clashing with a modern utility function, and change the directory reading stuff to use opendir() instead of read().

Everything else just worked on a modern 64-bit system. (It had already been converted from K&R to ANSI C in an earlier pass by someone else.) Good grief, that code is clean. Incomprehensible, but clean.
Trying to define life in terms of physics
I may have been unclear. I was talking about making fresh rice for fresh stir fry--not fried rice.
You think it's unreasonable to take issue with comparing someone on an h1b visa to being in prison?
Sometimes people cross their arms because it's a comfortable resting position. It's common in overweight men, the arms rest on the belly quite naturally. Often people will lean back against the chair or wall at the same time.
To add to Yoricks comment:

Many of our customers have large MySQL clusters running. It's very convenient to be able to just plug GitLab into that.

We have no intention in dropping it in the near future. For instance, our Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) tile makes use of the MySQL cluster in PCF [0].

For those reasons, we'll continue to support MySQL and make sure it's performant.

[0]: http://docs.pivotal.io/gitlab/
amznnewgrad is trolling for sure!
I'd like to know what rodb is. Columnar DB? Columnar DBs often beat "big data" -I've beaten decent sized spark clusters in one thread of J.
Ask HN: How much do you make as a growth hacker/customer acquisition specialist?
4 years experience

NYC based mature start-up

100k base, 10k bonus, 20k equity
This also happens on *NIX and Android.
Brazen Heist of Millions Puts Focus on the Philippines
You might be interested in skimming through Part III and Part IV of Ethics, written by Spinoza in 1677[1]. He is a very sharp observer of how states of mind occur, react and develop. His attempt to apply mathematical rigor to his observations is interesting in itself, but might provide for a perspective that is useful. It has been for me ;)

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3800
Research Scientist
First full-time job
150k

(I saw us make offers as high as 200k for fresh ph.d.'s)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load
>Not quite, we are post-scarcity on the production of those items, but the economy hasn't caught up with it yet, which is why so many in the US severely lack one or more of those necessities

I'm unaware of any significant number of US residents suffering from malnutrition due to lack of access to healthy food or exposure due to insufficient clothing or shelter. That is not to say there are none, but most are due to factors other than the lack of access to basic necessities.

>I would be surprised if you mean the US can't or shouldn't strive to provide better for its citizens ~300 million citizens until all other countries are caught up for the rest of the 7 billion people on Earth, which leaves me unsure about what you're trying to communicate with this.

What I am saying is that I question the assertion that everyone deserves a particular quality of life even if it must be attained at the expense of another.

Even if I were to accept that, the complications of such a position are legion. What constitutes the appropriate quality of life? What happens in an economic downturn when that minimum quality of life is no longer sustainable? Etc.
Your wish is my command; preloaded with V6 Unix.

http://pdp11.aiju.de/
Anonymous strikes Trump
Is it common for salaries at Amazon to decrease?
How many YC company customers are in SF?
Hi Sam,

What are some actions people like myself can take to push our community, nation, and world towards Basic Income?

This is particularly important to me because of how fast Uber/Tesla are rushing towards fully autonomous vehicles. Over 4 million jobs in US alone are as drivers. They're all gonna be laid off soon.
To be clear, it has nothing to do with all the shit he talks about YC. Though that's annoying, it's fine.

We collect feedback from YC founders on investors (we have a giant database of this). If you mistreat founders, we don't invite you to Demo Day. This isn't permanent--if you stop mistreating founders we start inviting you again. Also, it's possible that our founders are wrong in their assessment of how a particular investor is treating them, but investors have enough advantages in the system and we unashamedly take the side of our founders.

EDIT: I also never think these things are black and white, and that all of us have good and bad parts. I've heard from plenty of founders that Jason has been very helpful to their companies.
> Considering Russia and China are casually annexing territories, its pretty obvious this framework no longer exists

A pretty big overstatement. The only cross-border war between nations I can think of is Russia and Ukraine. If perfection is our standard, then of course the UN and everything else is a failure. Otherwise, the UN is doing this job effectively.

> The UN made sense when the security council members had some incentive to use the UN system, but when their foreign policy is to circumvent international law at any opportunity, then its easy for them to sidestep it. Autocratic states ultimately can't work with democratic ones. Its unfair to expect one group to 'follow the rules' and another to go off willy-nilly when it serves them. There's no enforcer here, they're supposed to be voluntarily enforcing themselves and obviously that's not happening.

The golden age you imagine never existed. It's always been this way. This is the way the UN, and politics in general, works. I wish it were otherwise and we should work to improve it, but it does work, unless we measure it by the standards of ideals and perfection - and then what human institution (or human being) measures up?
Didn't they remove folder encryption from Windows 8 too ? I wasn't able to do it when in W7 it was a simple right click -> menu folder properties -> encrypt. They sure had that annoying Modern UI menu which is totally useless.

What happened to window essentials ? I don't want to use outlook, that email client was enough and supporter RSS feed reading.
Brilliant man. He is highly revered on my alma mater's campus. RIP.
"Some call lazyness a programmer's trait."

Laziness is only a virtue in programming if it allows you to come up with a simpler/better way of doing something that requires less work (e.g., automating a previously manual task, or realizing that you can use existing software instead of writing your own). Laziness that just keeps you from finishing things won't get you very far in programming.
it would almost make sense (but still be wrong) if it were discussing POSIX shell, where arrays do not exist and these contortions are necessary.

what the author is doing is like this in Python:

stuff=["a b", "c d", "e f"]
for thing in '\n'.join(stuff).split('\n'):
print thing
Unquoted $@ works exactly like unquoted $* .

Quoted "$* " separates the parameters using the first character stored in IFS, or with nothing if IFS is unset/null. Usually, the first character of IFS is space, giving the impression that "$* " means "separate with spaces"; i.e. that it's just an ordinary quote job around $* (i.e. that it is "regular", in your words).

Quoted "$@" does ... what you clearly understand.
How long did it take for us (the West as a whole) to recognise the situation in Syria, and how many Syrians died in the meantime?
On a related note, someone at Google started a spreadsheet about a year ago where people could post (anonymously or not) their salary and a few more interesting datapoints (gender, age, location, etc.) I'm not sure whether the spreadsheet did anything to highlight gender/ethnicity/visa-status disparities (the biggest disparities I remember seeing were based on location, but that's understandable) but it was a great tool to start a conversation about increased transparency in 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.
Hey, TechCrunch: It'd be super-awesome if you'd link to the companies you're talking about. You can always nofollow the anchors if you're worried about sharing that precious PageRank.
Hope @sama answer this question. IMHO hurry up to get a prototype in the client's hands. there you will know how good your team is and if you stand a chance in the industry (afaik your team looks very good)
Why not make any loan re-payments a deduction instead of only being through a employer.... Otherwise you are favoring companies at the expense of independent contractors.
I got the same e-mail today. Upon trying to open the file within a virtualized container there is a word document. Opening the word document without macros enabled I get.

THIS FILE IS PROTECTED WITH RSA KEY
PLEASE ENABLE CONTENT TO SEE THIS DOCUMENT
Hi Sam!

We here in Finland have been slowly developing a startup ecosystem.

The effort started 5-years ago and now finally, thanks to the amazing bunch of volunteers, we have stuff like Slush and Startup Saunato show for it.

What would be your advice in rocketing the finnish startup ecosystem to the next level?

P.S. You should visit us sometime, we'd love to host you at Startup Sauna!
It would depend on the specifics in each case, but probably the potentially huge idea.
No, no, don't worry; there's been more than one occasion when I silently repeated to myself: "please not Texas, please not Texas..."
It's not prison but an H1-B is basically indentured servitude.
You know all those things that make it really easy for Grandma to have her identity stolen when checking her email?

They're coming to car/refrigerator/toaster near you.
Ganar_dinero_con_criptomonedas
Is it still the case that you have to pick one or the other to recognize?

My understanding was that the US, for example, doesn't recognize Taiwan because it would mean losing trade with China; and that if a country recognizes Taiwan, it loses the ability to trade with mainland China, but gets various benefits from Taiwan as well as easier trade terms.

Of course, it's likely that this has changed; my information is probably a few years out of date, maybe a decade or two.
Hello Sam. I'm a Software Engineer at a Big Tech Co. I've been ambivalent about going back to school to do a part-time master's degree in AI, or just do self-studying. Creating a startup in the US is not an option for me yet since I'm on a TN visa (hoping to get a green card in the following years). What do you think is the best investment of my time, and how far ahead in the future should someone plan to start a "hard tech" startup? (I'm on my mid 20's)
No. It's nowhere nearly that simple; you can say exactly the same thing about firing someone because they're black, or because they complained about sexual harassment.

From experience (as a bystander), what really happens in a case like this is:

* Employee is terminated

* Employee believes they were terminated for a reason forbidden by state or federal law

* Employee retains an employment lawyer, who drafts a letter demanding compensation for the improper termination, citing specific claims of (say) sexual harassment, complaints articulated to superiors and to HR, and subsequent retaliatory firing.

* Employee does not necessarily prove those claims; they need only demonstrate sufficient facts and allegations to ensure that a lawsuit would not easily be dismissed.

* Employer almost invariably settles.

The two cases where employers don't settle:

* Employer is stupid, and believes that they will pay less to litigate a wrongful termination case than to settle.

* Employer is smart, and has an HR department that keeps excruciatingly careful records of things like sexual harassment complaints, alleged racially-tinged comments, ratio of black/white hires to black/white applications, &c, and is prepared to make it clear to employee's lawyer that the case will cost too much to pursue.

If you've ever wondered why smart employers go fucking apeshit when people make racially-tinged jokes, or why it's not necessarily in your best interests to bring your concerns to HR unless your game plan is to bring a wrongful termination complaint, there you go.

This is also the reason why, despite at-will status in basically every locale where you can hire people, "Performance Improvement Plan" is a euphemism for "slow-motion termination". The purpose of a PIP is to establish in the written record that an employee is a non-performer, so that when they're terminated, the employer can present evidence that there were reasons other than retaliation or discrimination.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11313452
Patients who might have avoided the surgery in the absence
of confirmed pathology are consigned to a numb jaw or lip
or tongue for the rest of their lives.

I found this excerpt to be the most shocking of the article.

The computer scientist in me should be more offended at the 2/3 spurious extraction rate and its subsequent drain on the economy, but that excerpt is what excited me.
Yup.

The old man the boat.

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.

The man whistling tunes pianos.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

The cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi.

I convinced her children are noisy.

Gets all of 'em wrong.
"this guy" and "this person" with the "stupid blog post" is Felix von Leitner, for reference. Understand that, and understand things like diet libc, libowfat, and minit, and you will understand some of the bases of M. von Leitner's opinions here.

* https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Leitner

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Leitner
Note that these options don't propagate to subshells. So be avare of your commands between ` marks.
Did you not read my whole comment?

People adopted agriculture because the forests no longer had enough food. Hunter-gatherer lifestyles were no longer viable. So of course they wanted a more predictable food supply.

Long before this point in time, that wasn't a concern: the forests were full of food, so there was no reason to bother with agriculture. People invented agriculture out of necessity, like most inventions.

Where did I talk about "agricultural mass-starvation"? Agriculture is how people avoided starvation when the resources ran out. But it wasn't as nice as the "golden years" when the forests had plenty of food and there weren't many humans competing for it. But there was no way to go back to that time, just as there isn't now.
I don't blame you for being nervous, but it's actually against the law to punish employees for sharing salary data. Companies try to hide it, but the NLRB would be interested to hear about it.
Was there a moment in your life that created a sense of urgency to live life to the fullest? From the looks of things you're doing so many (cool) things.
"Heat" maybe, but as far as I understand nobody was fired. The spreadsheet is still up and going strong.
Reminds me of the "dancing Azure girls" at NDC '12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zww2ivWdLas
Although the idea of a 'United Democracies' or whatever it gets called sounds appealing, it has many flaws.

One of which you highlighted regarding what constitutes a democracy - some could even argue that the Electoral College in the USA means it isn't a true democracy!

Others are what legitimacy it would have in relation to countries that aren't members. Why should those countries care or co-operate with the organisation? Likely it would end up with UD trying to impose its will by force, which is a backwards step.

Furthermore, just because a country is a democracy doesn't mean it is automatically superior to every respect and entitled to adopt the high ground. Many democratic countries around the world have engaged in human rights abuses, started wars and interfered with other sovereign countries to install leaders who push their interests over that of the citizens. There is the danger that said countries in the UD would end up turning a blind eye to each other abuses because they, by definition, "wouldn't do that sort of thing".
What's the Windows status there? I have looked at their web page many times and it's just confusing.

The main description page says Mac only, a blog post from long ago says Windows is available (with some restrictions).
Why doesn't a director have enough money saved up to support their family for at least three months? And I knew Navy folks who were away from their families for months at a time, so it is definitely possible (if not fun) to do this. But if you're becoming an entrepreneur for the fun, it's time to question your motives.
We don't require many things--founders are not are employees.

However, we do offer cofounder communication workshops to the batch. Innerspace puts them on, and they always get incredible reviews--in fact, some of the most positive reviews of anything we do.
As much as Taleb's attitude and lack of manners are annoying, he does have a point and the article quoted by Pinker fails to get it.

For instance:

"To a normal person, the statement ‘terrorism kills far fewer people than falls from ladders’ means a purely factual statement about the number of casualties over a specified period in the past. "

No, it really doesn't. The whole point of these statements is to hint at latent properties, not merely to report historical records.
what do you think about the recent article calling out on arrogance of SV?
What are the pros and cons of Silicon Valley being the VC capital of the world? How do you feel about it on the whole? Do you guys ever talk about diversifying, either inside the US or out?
I think I made that pretty clear. I'd add petty as well.
> Emotions are not confined to the right frontotemporal area.
That is true. I should have been more specific.

Just out of interest, do you believe that neuronal connectivity between regions of the brain are involved in ASD?
Why is the linked site served over http? http://www.zynamics.com/software.html

Changing to https reveals a security cert valid for *.google.com, but not for www.zynamics.com.
Jason is a bully. I've heard plenty of horror stories of people who have worked for him. I'm not surprised in the least and I'm extremely glad to see people standing up to him.
1. Pease has some good points to make about the use of fuzzy logic in control systems (e.g., difficult to prove robustness of nonlinear models) but it appears that he never stopped criticizing long enough to really find out what fuzzy logic was and the advantages it might bring (e.g., nonlinear control systems, use of human intuitive knowledge in control systems).

Nonetheless Pease is funny reading and his writings likely contributed to slow US adoption of fuzzy logic control systems. As a result of this (and the unfortunate literal minterpretations of the term itself perhaps) fuzzy logic control systems in steadicams, helicopter guidance, subway control systems, rice cookers, washing machines, etc. that we use today mostly originate from abroad. .

2. I've never read/heard the term "Multivariate Logic" used as a synonym for fuzzy logic.
37K is extremely low for a SDE, even in rural America. Sorry dude. You can probably go to another similar COL place and make 45-80K.
When YC started, it was so small that PG and Jessica knew everyone's names and could invest a lot of time and effort into making the startups successful. One complaint as YC gets bigger is that there is more "Fast food advice", i.e. there are so many startups that a partner can't hardly remember all of them and we both know that most often than not the devil is in the details. What's YC plan to make sure this doesn't happen as it continues to grow stronger? I assume getting more partners on board is definitely one, and having special group for certain verticals (i.e. biotech or hardware). Any other plans? Thanks for the AMA
Thanks, Sam! I'm hopeful too, but prediction markets still, distressingly, give Trump a 20% chance of winning it all. I'm sure there are a lot of people in CA who have skills that are in short supply (familiarity with stats, social networks, programming, etc. -- think Nate Silver), and who would want to volunteer on a part-time basis. It's not clear at the moment how they could put these skills to good use, other than by maybe volunteering for the Clinton campaign (which sounds to me like the non-profit equivalent of working for Microsoft). Probably there is room for small, technical non-profits with creative ideas.
What are some counterexamples?

I wasn't suggesting that you should only fund founders from top schools, but that you should select for it (which it sounds like you already do).

The pedigrees of some of YC's most successful founders, for anyone who's curious:

* Twitch: Yale, MIT

* Cruise: MIT, Claremont McKenna

* OMGPOP: Princeton

* Heroku: UCSD

* Airbnb: RISD, Harvard

* Dropbox: MIT

* Zenefits: Harvard

It's interesting that Stanford and Berkeley are not represented here, probably because good companies founded by students there can easily get funded without going through YC. It seems like YC's strength lies in drawing elites from the rest of the country to SV.
Hmm... hosting costs are around $150.00 / month. Github account is $50.00 / month. Hoovers subscription is $100 / month or so. Co-working at American Underground @ Main is $200 / month. Domain names are probably $100.00 / year counting the occasional purchase of some speculative new domain.

So, whatever all that adds up to. We don't have any customer revenue yet, so I sustain things out of my "day job" salary.
Trust, but verify.

We've always found that writing your own smoke tests for the other guy's code saves a lot of head scratching and the game I like to call Blame Tennis, when each side insists that any new problem must be in the other side's stuff because surely WE haven't broken anything.