skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but healthcare and unemployment, etc., as wasteful as they are, still improve my quality of life, while paying for defending rich countries like Japan or Germany, does not.
Oh no, they don't use it on cheese...
Goldman Sachs to pay less than touted $5.1B for role in subprime mortgage crisis
Not a strict policy, but if the article points to a more substantive source and the audience is capable of absorbing it (i.e. not too highly specialized and/or in a field that is widely understood here), we tend to swap for that.
> Perhaps they ARE god, and don't need to wonder about that.

If they were, how would they know?
Appeals court halts class action on whether Uber drivers are employees
If something can be stolen from you, then you own it. You're trying to have it both ways by playing with semantics.

A land value tax charges taxes for owning land. Now you're saying that it wouldn't be taxes on the land, but rather, taxes on improvements. Then it's no longer a land value tax at all then. The whole point of a land-value tax is that the tax reflects the potential value of the land, regardless of any improvements that might be on it, e.g. the Empire State Building or a flat parking lot would owe the same amount of LVT in midtown Manhattan. What you are proposing is a regular property tax, which does take improvements into account.
Invitations and rejections have been sent for applications that were submitted before the deadline. If you haven't gotten an email, it may have bounced, so please check at https://apply.ycombinator.com with the account that you applied with to see the status.
Oh man, that explains a bit. Unfortunately it explains how someone who I thought to be at least 50 yrs. old is (was) making that kind of money today (actually 1998), and could find a new job within a day. No doubt there are people doing exactly this, but not too commonly.
The fact that you cite only a single source should stand as simple enough reason to discredit it.

In response, I offer you a single citation [0].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
I assume we are so used to living without meaning, that to simulate a world where there was inherent meaning seems a hyperbole. Yet if I could attempt to name it, perhaps it would be a reality with defined endpoints, and where we were not unwilling, clueless participants.
The basic issue is that if that thing hurts or kills someone, Ikea's rep is on the line for selling crap products.

Over on Amazon, anyone can offer something for sale. And the only real indication you have is the "sold by XYZ, fulfilled by Amazon" line somewhere near the top.

The site is amazon.com, the logo and design is all Amazon, but Amazon never had to place an order for the item, nor is on the hook if something blows up. They just act as a combo of UPS and Paypal for the transaction.
So he did Twitter.com (small), and Medium.com What next, Large.com? The domain is for sale.
I think the WHATWG would have a nice time finishing off CSS3.

(Seriously, the W3C started writing drafts in 1999; is it ever going to be finished? Why did they start on CSS4 before finishing CSS3?)
Lyft, Didi Kuaidi Launch U.S. Ride-Sharing for Chinese Visitors
I just think that one or both sides is being misrepresented or is being dishonest. If you don't want free speech, do you want censorship? If you don't want social justice, do you want social injustice? It's not like you must have one of censorship or social injustice. There's a false dichotomy going on here.
Thank you for the heads up!
Interesting also the linked study on Psilocybin, which seems to decrease activity among brain hubs:
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/6/2138.full
"Psilocybin caused a significant decrease in the positive coupling between the mPFC and PCC. These results strongly imply that the subjective effects of psychedelic drugs are caused by decreased activity and connectivity in the brain's key connector hubs, enabling a state of unconstrained cognition."
I bought five anker USB cables after reading about them on HN, and a wall charger, and I was actually really disappointed. All the cables stopped working within three weeks. Monoprice USB cables didn't fare well either, but the OEM cables that came with my Icons, kindle, and S3 have lasted years.

Wall charger still works great, but the cables are what I was really interested in because people are always running off with them. Still haven't found anything satisfactory.
There are lawsuits filed for delivering shoddy work, unmet deadlines/commitments. They are just less publicized, because human life is (usually) not at stake.
I don’t really understand how this is an example of circumventing the dev/ops split.

My understanding (if I understood correctly), from talking to a friend who is an SRE, is that SREs are also part of the design process. The developers want resources, so they contact and work with SRE teams to make sure their project is both planned for in capacity and can be efficiently served. If it can't be served, maybe another component needs to be deployed that makes the data efficiently usable for the new app or feature (I'm unsure on this, but it sounded like it may have been implicated).

That is, SRE teams become devs of certain components of the project, and work to support the project when in development. This should defeat some of the dev/ops split, because SREs also work on the same project, and are invested in its launch and success.
Hmm, OKCupid seemed to have a much higher reply rate---something like 30-50%. (But haven't used for three years, since I'm not single anymore.)
I do not vet the politics of all my co-speakers. That said, if my black friends are dropping out of a conference because they feel deeply uncomfortable even being near someone, that's as clear a signal as I'm likely to get that something isn't right.
Worth noting that mileage varies, many people report an after-glow, not 'feeling awful', when coming down from MDMA, which may linger for hours or be present the next day.

For anyone interested, I recommend visiting the non-profit Erowid.org – a great source of anecdotal 'experience reports' for various psychoactives, as well as often providing information on legality, chemistry, toxicity, etc.

Some other footnoes:

The term 'ecstasy' is sometimes used [and sometime used unscrupiously] to refer to mixtures of pure MDMA with other things, or even mixtures devoid of MDMA entirely.

DanceSafe.org and others have tested and reported on countless 'brands' of pills etc. and in some the primary identified active ingredients are caffeine or amphetamines.

Impurities definitely results in some of the bad experiences associated with ecstasy :(

Be safe out there...!
I like the concept that I have been given 'time' to act as I please. But am I acting as I please, because for the most part I am reacting to an ensemble of random events.
Thought experiment:

Is there a point at which you can treat a person as "sufficiently abhorrent" to dissuade you from associating with them? Does this point include being a productive member of society and taking part in a democratic civic life?

In terms of having a tolerant and open multicultural society, the only things that shouldn't be tolerated are actions and words that run counter to having a tolerant and open multicultural society. Sexism and racism run counter to a tolerant and open multicultural society. However, the exercise of authority to shun those with opinions you don't like is also intolerance. It's obeying "the letter" of tolerance but runs entirely counter to the spirit of tolerance. If you advocate a society where the government codifies and enacts tolerance, but all the citizens are intolerant in their civic life, then you advocate a society of divided enemy groups with a dead civic life, where opposing camps uneasily coexist, fling epithets over walls, and begin to regard the "others" as less than human.

You can't fight intolerance with intolerance precisely because you can't fight hate with hate. The only real way to fight intolerance is through real communication and convincing people. Venting frustration only plays into "an eye for an eye making the whole world blind."
Second that. We should thank Jake for all those amazing Animagraffs on his site. Those are a lot of work to produce.
Rejected, our startup is still in alpha, so see you all in the next round ;)
Apply HN – pnyxter – video app for debates and discussions
www.pnyxter.com

pnyxter - is a video app that allows people to discuss & debate on any topic by posting a video selfie talking about the topic or responding to existing topics via video selfie.

Today, people are used to hearing others talk on any topic via video selfies on youtube and facebook. However, the response to these videos are typically via text based comments. Text based comments encourage easy troll and abuse (a problem faced by many in social media). And meaningful comments are lost in the sea of 100s of useless comments on a FB post.

Real & meaningful debates & discussions happen over face to face - but that has the problem of location & time. With video one can discuss or debate with any person anywhere on earth, anytime. Moreover, a person's true emotions are expressed when he/she speaks - not when he types on keyboard!.

pnyxter is a place discover & aggregate video based debates & discussions for a topic. There is no provision of a text comment. Which means, Subject Matter Experts or people who actually have something meaningful to contribute to the discussion would be encouraged to post a video.

Debate clubs can host debates and participants would not have the restriction of location & time. Although, it would be a different & modern way of debating than the traditional face to face.

We are two developers (full time employees of other companies) and developed this website in part-time to learn web technologies (we are primarily embedded system developers and did not know much about web technologies..up until now) and now are in the process of developing native mobile apps.

Traction is low - and we feel its mainly because of lack of mobile apps. Eventually, we would also like to experiment with Live pre-scheduled Debates - but right now trying to find a product-market fit for offline debates & discussions.

We do need initial content - so feel free to "speak up" on topics of your interests or respond to existing topics.
Look at it this way - if at any point in the future, we ever run even one simulation of the world at our current time, then our odds are 50/50 of being in that simulation. That's only extrapolating from our current capabilities, and not assuming either nested simulations or 'non-historical' simulations. (If we're in a simulation, but not one based on the real universe's past, then we can't even begin to extrapolate from our world to 'universe zero'.)

As for practicality, simulations don't need to support a higher density of life (although they very likely will use approximations and variable level-of-detail to effectively simulate space using less resources than the space itself would use) because they have other advantages; you can pause them, take snapshots, revert to earlier states, branch, etc.

Think of it as like virtualisation for the universe. Even though virtualisation takes up some system resources, there are still huge advantages to running virtual hosts.

As for simulating whole universes being a waste of resources - if we're in a non-historical simulation, we don't even have any conception of what "a waste of resources" means in universe zero. Maybe our entire universe, simulated on a regular grid smaller than the Planck length, is as trivial to store and manipulate on a 5-dimensional universe-zero computer as a 1-dimensional cellular automaton is on a modern desktop computer for us.
Designer's guide to DPI
I'm sorry. I cdr understand your joke.
I submitted my (late) application for the Fellowship program yesterday and just got a rejection email. That was fast!
You're not OP but I can't dignify an asinine Yudkowsky quote with a reply, so you get one instead.

Why are essays non-actions in your view? Suppose someone had a lengthly career writing $MAXIMALLY_REPUGNANT_VIEW essays and promoting them on the internet. Indeed, was famous for it.

Is there no $MAXIMALLY_REPUGNANT_VIEW that would cause you to feel awkward about being known to associate with this person?
YC Emails Out
Rejection emails anyways
Hi, we applied before the deadline from my account. No email, nothing on apply webpage.
You might like my friends' band The Civil Warblers: https://civilwarblers.bandcamp.com/

They're not a band any more since the singer passed last August but they had some great honkytonkesque country songs.
There's only so many ways in which one could express this level of frustration. Aggressive language tends to do the trick that's universally understood. Now if some people can't handle the truth or the way it was expressed, we'll I'm not about to start self censoring just because I lost 4 points on my karma, and I suggests others do so as well (while following the community guidelines, which I did).
does anyone else want to talk about the elephant in the room? the eMate 300 sitting next to a HTC Vive VR Headset?
The best copy I've ever seen is from a second hand bookseller: http://instagram.com/idea.ltd
Lytro’s Pro Movie Camera Lets Filmmakers Refocus After Shooting
The Raspberry Pi Zero has been available intermittently since it's release, and as of today it is in stock on Adafruit[0]. Many motivated people have been able to obtain it and build a few projects [1].

[0] https://www.adafruit.com/products/2885
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/search?q=pi+zero&restr...
The point is that I am an unwilling participant in an evolutionary unfolding of life that I could not even make sense of until Mr. Darwin figured it out. Isn't it absurd that you are a critical thinking being, thrown onto a random planet with a certain set of initial conditions and limited knowledge collected by a few generations before you? And being aware of this, we go around like it's no big deal, buy our starbucks coffee and go on to complain about the tax rates and suicidal muslims.
don't forget that business insider is gawker, so keep your salt shaker ready when reading.
Thanks. It is always great to get thoughtful feedback.

One of the sticking points in my studies looking into a similar concept was balancing the cost to the student with the expected utility of receiving the certification. So, unless at the debut of the certification there is a large, verified list of employers willing to pay a premium for certified graduates, this concept doesn't make a market value connection in my opinion.

I agree that traditional certification suffers from this problem, but my idea gets around this. Traditional certification requires a large investment in time from the candidate (study) where as mine requires no study. This lowers the barrier to entry to sitting for the certification. With investor backing the tests can initially be made low cost or free further lowering the barrier to entry. I can see it appealing to people with skills but not a tradition education who want to demonstrate they have these skills.

The employers need to value the certification (this is one of the difficulties I listed in my follow-on post). The best way of achieving this is to start in a very narrow industry/skill set, achieve critical mass, and then expand. This solves the typical chicken and the egg problem that you need credibility to be widely used and you need to be widely used be credible.

On another fundamental note, the system as described would be effective in long-term retention knowledge testing, true. Yet this model doesn't seem to incorporate 'continuing education' into the remedial approach. Thus, the certified prior knowledge can be tested and maintained, but there's no inclusion of 'new' studies and knowledge that promote long-term growth on top of the knowledge base.

There is no reason why the system is incompatible with continuing education - you just test the effectiveness of the new education in the same way. In many ways my idea complements continuing education since continued education is one of the ways to keep the knowledge the candidate can draw on in the test fresh in their mind.

As I've experienced in several industries, there are already licensing ('cerification') bodies which have deployed a Continuing Education (CE) credit model (e.g. insurance, finance). This proposed model may benefit from comparison and distinction from these existing, regulated approaches, in addition to the above note regarding expected market value.

If successful I would see a symbiotic relationship developing between the providers of continuing education and the business running my idea. They could use my approach to ensure that their education is making a lasting impact on the participants and is not just a "checklist" requirement done and forgotten.

The think I feel most positive about this idea is it can catalyse a change in education towards long term retention of skills and knowledge. Education providers who use the approach will change the way they teach and move us all away from the current cram and forget model.
I do see that, drop us an email at apps@ycombinator.com and we can help.
There's obviously a continuum here based on community size.

On one end, there are large communities. He has accounts on Twitter and Hacker News. Are you going to stop visiting? Would you avoid a shopping mall if he's there? Avoid sitting in the same movie theater?

On the other end, it's certainly reasonable to decline a dinner invitation if you don't like one of the other guests.

A conference seems like a larger and more impersonal gathering. You don't have to go to the talk, but you could go to other talks.
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For me it is clear that we will be doing our own simulations in the future. In short here's how I see our path in relationship with technology and it's rapid advancement:

human > transhuman > energy (in the grid): immortality at this stage > long period of answers about our universe, research and exploration > boredom > nostalgia > depression > take part in simulations where you dive in but to fully enjoy the "animalic" experience you have to forget who you were and start fresh. There are some experiences that only in relationship with death (and knowing that your existence is short) produce really positive effects. This story can get long and is filled with "ifs" but I don't dismiss the idea...at all.
I followed your link to this list of great sci-fi books that involve simulated reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality_in_fiction

Including Accelerando by our very own https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstross
For a counterpoint to this - I decided to do 150 micrograms of LSD after reading a lot about it on HN, talking with many friends that had tried it or do it fairly regularly and reading as much as I could find (Sam Harris, Huxley, What the Dormouse said etc.).

Nothing can really prepare you for it - the dream like state, the visuals and just the capacity of how different things can be. When looking at things I saw them shift, it felt similar to those computer vision machine learning videos from google. As if I could see my vision attempting to resolve images into objects that fit their parameters. I felt like I got some insight into how consciousness works by messing with it.

The trip itself was mostly pleasant - the next day and several months were not.

The next day I couldn't stop pacing, couldn't relax - kept hyperventilating. I couldn't eat either, basically kept having panic attacks. Over the next few weeks I felt outside of myself - like it was weird to be alive and in a person. I was terrified that I was going schizophrenic or losing my mind. I thought I might have a psychotic break. All of this paired with insomnia/general sleep disturbances (which scared me too). I thought I might have to stop working, I had anxiety with real physical effects (headache, lack of appetite, extreme fear). Even watching TV was difficult/overwhelming.

I had serious existential fear about dying and the inevitability of my family dying (and still do to some extent) - sometimes feeling that everyone else is insane for not being afraid.

I didn't end up taking SSRIs, but I did tell people and got help - it's about seven months later and I feel mostly better.

I'd caution people against trying it.
\sigh\

Trust me, you do not want your camera to be cheap. Well-engineered cameras are like putting an IBM Model M keyboard versus a Dell dome-switch keyboard. Not only will the better keyboard last forever, but it'll be vastly more effective during its entire lifespan.

You do not want your tools to be cheap, folks.
In a similar way, letting a known something person speak means they're not intolerant of something. I mean, yeah, you could make that argument, but it sure doesn't seem substantial or useful. That's the point of Xyism at the end: it doesn't have much to do with functional programming , and functional programming is what the conference is explicitly about.

And there is an explicit threat against assholery: perform it and you'll be excluded. Don't and you'll have the same protection any other person has.

It is implicitly not about a very large range of things, namely mostly stuff that isn't functional programming.
not showing a strong intolerance

So everyone needs to show the proper intolerance towards the prescribed things? I'm glad you are coming out and saying that you are engaging in what you think is righteous intolerance.

However, I think taking such a stance misses the point.
Hmm. Get some insight about the cities around you...

Request the Startup Ecosystem Report from here:

http://startup-ecosystem.compass.co/ser2015/

Great research. Interesting notes about Chicago in there.
Same but I sent a email to apps@ycombinator.com
Range drops by how much? How do you know that recharging happens "routinely" and what frequency is "routinely"? I drive 35 miles to work, more than most anyone I know. Range could drop 50% from the stated 200 miles and I still wouldn't need to charge before I got home.
> I had never felt safer in any city around the world, including my own. While many buildings were falling down and their inhabitants living in near poverty, their spirit seemed unbreakable. We may not agree with their economic or social policy, but the people here seem genuinely happy.

People say the same about North Korea.
I don't know what IDA is, but you get an upvote, because I have had this exact experience so many times... so many times.

If I could have a dollar for everytime I put my head to a random problem and came out 3 months later... I'd have more than fifty dollars.
Profited makes it sound like their bonuses were $4bn. It's a borderline useless number when framed vs a group. Regardless of what the article says, there is no way those two made that much solely on their own.
Both are already done.

[1] http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/russian-ransomware-aut...

[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/09/cryptowall_40/
We have not received any email either.
You seem to think quoting an article you just read is educating me

It's true that my knowledge of trading is from my personal experience in my own investments.

However, you're exhibiting precisely the same kind of blinders about the Kochs. It's clear that you don't understand their political positions, or exactly what they've done, you're just jumping on the partisan bandwagon.
Not odd, would be dumb of Apple won't to rely on a single provider.