skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not affiliated with the project, but my take on this is either have a really simple block syntax, like Smalltalk "[ block ... ]" (ed: Or use only indentation, like python), or have semantically meaningful start/end. To take eg: html, I always find stuff like:

<div class="navigation">
<div class="dropdown" id="misc"> ... </div>
(... imagine a few hundred lines here)
</div> <!-- text body? navigation? -->

... tends to get messy after a lot of editing and re-editing. Now this is just an example, with html5 we take a step back towards SGML/XML, and can use <article> so that </article> means "end article" (but which one?) and not "end navigation".

Stuff like this easily gets out of hand with complicated meta-programming/inclusion/"transclusion". Say you import a footer, and then needs to debug the output. What is that "}" supposed to close? (This is true both for generating eg: java code, and for generating various templates/document types).
lacking hardware support for new graphic cards and some weird wireless cards

printing is incredibly broken and sometimes cumbersome

some games and applications (photoshop, et cetera) people care for don't run or only with some work involved

it does not come pre-installed with computers people buy

not sure about power efficiency (power drain optimizations for notebooks and the like), but last I checked it's less efficient there

not necessarily a gui for everything

mere fact that there is so much choice (distributions, desktop environments, et cetera) that it is confusing

no central customer support

xorg is a mess, wayland afaik with some bad design decisions already

those were always the reasons weren't they?

your comment seems to imply it's not usable on the desktop, that's not the case, but for above reasons it has never gone mainstream (and will not in the near future) for the desktop.

but I am really an unsympathetic person to the whole linux-on-desktop mission. for me it's a server os or for specific use cases (ps4 based on freebsd, android, et cetera), that's where it shines, it's nice it works on the desktop, and I always use bsd/linux for my machines, but some think it apparently has to rival/beat windows/macos, don't agree with that. (in many ways it's particularly nice for developers/geeks because it's a server os working on the desktop, not another windows/macos - tell that to the systemd folks...)
Yes, on mobile phone it might take a few tries just to alter that web address, especially when the domain name looks like sslmadomaiinnahas. Try remembering that. Navigating to the front part of the url to copy that domain is borderline impossible on tiny safari screen. Clearing the blog part or the part after domain/long-url-ending can also make you rip your hair out because your device might delete the entire url.
Just to be clear, I'm asking why the original commenter believes that this is PG's opinion and a source backing this up.

To be honest, bit odd that YC wouldn't know this before even inviting a startup in for an interview; or if agility is the goal, nametags with first names that match a brief covering roles, responsibilities, etc. with headshot on the sheet too.

If someone is using the question to express something indirectly, I would rather someone directly express what they're thinking.

Personally, not knowing who's the CEO in my opinion isn't an issue; in my opinion, partners not understanding what's being said, being unable to answer a question, not agreeing, giving conflicting answers, etc. - are issues.
Are you suggesting that Apple invented security questions for your account? Because that sounds highly implausible. Are you sure you didn't set up actual security questions so long ago that you simply don't remember doing it anymore?
Hilariously these releases are apparently accompanied by songs with choruses that make reference to "secure by default" http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song59b.mp3

To me, there's nothing quite like the feeling OpenBSD offers you of running `ps -ax` and seeing a nice, clean, minimal list of essential processes.
An incredible learning and activating experience, you will feel super engaged and motivated to get shit done. I've also connected with some of the most influential people in Tech that are making ripples and doing amazing things.
To begin, I think this was a perfectly healthy and rational conversation, and that no one involved was in the wrong, in any way.

That said, I think this may show one reason men are enticed to "take the red pill." Morbidhawk claimed that his marriage was in shambles until he changed the way he acted toward his wife, and that she was irrational and entitled. Without knowing his situation, most repliers accused him of not being sympathetic enough for his wife, and then that his wife was actually working much harder than he gave her credit for.

It's difficult for me to avoid bias, but I'm trying, and the point I want to make is that TRP preaches looking at the situation and social dynamics objectively, without contemporary cultural filters, and this is attractive to those who may have had experiences contrary to what that contemporary culture preaches.
All of the above. The USMC is designed to be quickly deployed in such a way that combat operations can continue to be performed with no support dependency (1-3 months, I don't remember). In order to make that happen they've duplicated a slimmed down version of a bunch of DOD components: air, armor, artillery, navy, etc. The moment one of those components underperforms in comparison to the fatter DOD version - it calls the whole endeavor into question, so there is considerable incentive to the folks at the top to make it work. Long story short: the USMC is a statically compiled version of kill.exe.

They rotate the pilots to ground operations as well, FACs - forward air controllers, so there is a pretty close link at the company level: the FAC knows the pilots in the air. Rifle squad leaders are required to be qualified JFOs, joint fire observers, so for every 13 infantrymen you've got someone who can direct fire support. The common practice in the infantry is for individuals to train in tasks performed by the next two levels in one's chain of command, so every rifleman is effectively trained to interface with fire support. This requirement for interoperability is often reflect in weapon design: tanks have comm boxes on the back, grunt phones, where an infantryman can grab the phone and direct the tank commander. This leads to the implementation of the "billet supersedes rank" philosophy, where you often have a lance corporal instructing an officer - and the instruction is cheerfully met with "Direct fire B2, fire for effect, aye aye lance corporal".

The effect of the culture can't be overstated, I've seen a lot of brave men from every branch, but in my experience as an infantry machinegunner - the USMC air wing operated on a whole other level of "Just make it happen". Judgement calls are made at a much lower level in the Corps, which can lead to emotion driven mistakes, but generally results in faster decisions by those with greater situation awareness.
To the now dead trollingengineer, IntelliJ is open source and Apache Licensed.

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community
You misteriously forgot about some stuff, like Hello, the Pocket integration, or the Brendan Eich case.
I have acquaintances who are somewhat invested in the "red pill" worldview, and I've had this conversation with them, and I think this comment oversimplifies.

Yes, "red pill" thinking concentrates on confidence.

But it's directed confidence: red-pillers tend to believe that confidence strategies are effective ways of generating interest from women.

And while there is probably some truth to that, the red pill ideology pretty quickly drives that truth into something dark and broken, by making determinations about women being susceptible to undeserving men who prosper through deceptive confidence and status schemes.
Hey nxzero,

I saw PG say this once in a short interview I saw on Youtube. I'm looking for it now. Will update when I can

[Edit] Found it: https://youtu.be/JK3sVFs6_rs?t=175
"Cinema doesn't have sound. Sound doesn't belong in cinema. True directors can tell stories without sound."

Cinema has always embraced technological innovations. There is nothing that says cinema has to be a shared experience. Semantics.
Old aircraft re-purposed as AI drones for US fighter jets
From the page:

> Yes. Two-factor authentication is a new service built directly into iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan. It uses different methods to trust devices and deliver verification codes, and offers a more streamlined user experience.

Basically, it uses a (presumably) more secure method for handling verification. One benefit of this is OS X computers can now be trusted devices that display verification codes (Two-Step Authentication only allows iOS devices to be trusted devices)
> I hadn't thought about virtual concerts, plays, ballets, operas, symphonies, etc.

I've watched many made-for-VR surround video productions and several of them have the strong feeling resembling that of a play.

Then there's Will Smith's (formerly of Tested) new gig, The Foo Show [1][2] which is like standing on the set of a talk show. It also shows that Max Headroom was even more prescient than we thought ;)

> I live far away from most cultural events, and would absolutely adore being able to catch a ballet again without having to get on a plane.

VR won't replace going there. Instead, it will replace not going there. That's a big deal.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT3jZyOXqzU

[2] http://store.steampowered.com/app/411820/
Anyone from the music or movie industry care to compare VC to your business? I figure most big studios are also operating under the power rule, but I haven't spent a lot of time researching it.
I don't know what other people's issues are with it, but generally the experience isn't entirely smooth, and for some things there aren't fallback methods when problems arise things just go to shit.

My recent negative experience with graphics drivers. I had a Nvidia gpu set with a proprietary driver, switched to an AMD gpu, and then x server fails to start. I didn't know how to fix this on the command line. I had to pop the Nvidia gpu back in, switch to the open driver. After switching back to the AMD gpu there are serious graphical issues that make it impossible to accomplish anything; this same AMD gpu used to work just fine when side-by-side with the Nvidia card, only recently had this issue after the Nvidia card was removed. This experience is very grating. Windows handles gpu swapping with multiple driver installs very well, I didn't have any negative experiences with it on my desktop. I haven't touched Linux for weeks because I dread having to spend time fixing this when I can easily boot Windows and work without issue.
Start with data standards, and build them transparently. Many state and federal agencies are making calls for adoption of standards in data publication, to save time designing and implementing interoperability, or simply compiling data from different jurisdictions for federal reporting.

See the recent call by the US DOT for agencies to adopt and publish transit data using the GTFS data standards (originally developed by Google for streamlining consumption of transit data )from different agencies. http://gis.rita.dot.gov/Transit/downloads/DearColleague.pdf

BLDS Specification originally developed by Accela for building permits. Now many competitors are signing on and adopting the standard. http://permitdata.org/
yip. it's as obvious as it could be
Underworld Performance  KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectice
"Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday that the German comedian had committed a “crime against humanity” by insulting the Turkish head of state."

A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. ARE YOU JOKING.

This is what we have come to, folks.
On one hand, I commend Microsoft for doing this.

On the other, I wonder if they would if Apple hadn't already stood up to the government?
Much of Minneapolis's GDP is based on raw materials out of North and South Dakota (along with rural parts of many other states). Judging economic impact on population is missing a lot of parts of an economy.
Desktop, I'm not sure. Being primarily a laptop user, I find myself missing the superior power management that comes with using the default OS and original drivers. I started with a Windows laptop with a short battery life, where ekeing out every little bit of extra juice was important, to a MacBook Pro that does very well at conserving battery. (Much better than stock Ubuntu/Linux Mint, at least.) The gestures in Mac OS and the HiDPI support are important to me too. I'm a pretty average laptop user, though, so I don't know that I'm the intended audience.

I do miss having a proper package manager. Homebrew is just okay.
Yea, the GAU-8's precision is like 70% within some multiple meter radius at 1km anyways. I don't remember the specifics.
As someone far removed from practicing law, what are the ramifications if Microsoft fails? Would nothing change? Would others be barred from ever suing the U.S. Government for the same reason?
Does it matter? IMO if the companies get into a competitive war over privacy, that's a good thing for the consumer.
who cares? their readers certainly don't! ;)
Good question. Racket tries, and because it's Scheme gets a good part of the way. Mozart/Oz tries, with a different basis, and gets somewhere good.

Visual Basic also seems quite close, especially with features like Linq.
Tapeouts are many, many millions for something that will compete with anything in even your phone
Of course non-programmers aren't used to being extremely precise with their grammar to express solutions to logic problems. We have the capability of getting the "gist" of what someone is trying to express that machines current don't. Expressing those thoughts to a machine requires precise syntax and well formed flow control. I honestly don't find much in this paper that's very surprising, but I think the participants did pretty well given that they aren't expected to be extremely precise on a day-to-day basis.
The red pill distinguishes itself from "pick up artist communities"

Do they? Going by the article (which goes by /r/theredpill), there would seem to be a lot of overlap, jargon-wise:

Alpha – Socially dominant. Somebody who displays high value, or traits that are sexually attractive to women.

SMV – Sexual Market Value. A shorthand statement for “what you bring to the table”, whether for a one-night stand or for a longer relationship.

HB – Hot Babe (often followed by a ranking on a 1-10 scale).
It was a hoax
Figuring out what tech new YC co's use
Either they buy a risc-v chip someone taped out or they synthesize one in the FPGA. The latter will be competitive with 10-20 year old technology.
why are the gcc and llvm versions so old? everything else seems recent.
Just walked out of this talk @ Clojure West today; when the video is put online, I think it's worth your time.

("IDE for Quadcopters" would be the catchy, soundbitey name)
The right way to deal with this is to set up your system such that you can't turn over customer data because it's encrypted with a key to which only the customer access.
So, a company that has added telemetry services to 90% of the desktop devices that are impossible to turn off completely (unless you block their entire IP range) is suing someone for not respecting user's privacy? What a joke.
I fully agree here. I'm just wondering, if Apple hadn't done that, where would we be today?

Edward Snowden says, "Courage is contagious." I'm just wondering if this is an example of that, or if they would have done this regardless.
It is the same with NetBSD, which I love, although it annoys me that Inetd is turned on by default.
The argument that we have to take people who are unfamiliar with the work and look at how they approach it is alienating me. Would you design mathematical notations based on the opinion of 5th graders? Would you build a skyscraper based on how 5th graders feel about it because it's more natural?

EDIT: For those who didn't read the article, I say 5th grader here because a large part of the study is actually about them. Not because I arrogantly compare people from other fields to children.
I mis-remembered. It's a monster from Rogue! I could swear I played some Rogue variant very long ago where it was spelled with an "a". Quick research shows that Rogue had it as "kestrel" since forever, though. These "hallucinatory monsters" ("bogusmon") seem like a new addition to Nethack.
Note that Ireland case happened long time before: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/judge-rules-that-mi...

"The Microsoft case is believed to be the first time that an American company has fought against a domestic search warrant for data stored overseas."
A kestrel is a type of bird. A falcon. There's lots of projects and products named after it.
Excellent point. I didn't check the date on that, and wasn't familiar with the background.
Do they expect you to fix Roblox by reprogramming it? it seems pretty buggy... and it is quite different from Minecraft...
Years ago, iTunes would aggressively push users to install QuickTime. Many will not yet have uninstalled it.
If I'm not mistaken, MATE is far away from being the only fork of the 2.x version.
Good call.

Stan Lee has said he created the X-Men (and others) in part to tell a story about racism without talking about race. Instead of it being skin color, it was the (often invisible) genetic aspects that people used to define the in/out-groups.

The Watchmen, Ender's Game, and Starship Troopers all work for this one too.

Ender's Game also showed what happens - blame and recriminations - after the external threat is removed.. people go back to their old struggles, fights, etc.
Companies can take sides, but one complicit in trying to steer public opinion that has been called out in studies for already manipulating sentiment....it opens them up to a significant amount of likely deserved backlash if things go south.

The bigger risk here is the number of people on FB, who usually don't vote, geared towards (or away from) a choice they haven't actually thought about.
This is a wonderful idea. There are few programming environments that are useful to non-programmers with the possible exception of Excel.

A study like this helps us gain inspiration and to remind ourselves how non-programmers think about programming problems.

In the words of the linked pdf: "Programming may be more difficult than necessary because it requires solutions to be expressed in ways that are not familiar or natural for beginners."
Can't believe someone hasn't written this already: fonts. I've used Debian and Arch and had massive trouble a) figuring out what fonts are installed, b) how to install new fonts, c) getting them to not look like absolute shit. Example case: trying to use Adobe's "Source Code Pro" font with Debian's default terminal, at around 12-14px, on a 2560x1440 screen. I could get it to look good at 10px, and at 18px, but nowhere in between. One of the most frustrating experiences ever. To this day my font size is smaller than I'd like.

Another example: any font rendering in a web browser. Generally terrible.
I own a MacBook air, but I never use it. Laptops are ergonomically too unpleasant for my taste.
The EFD-IMF sociopaths(?) continue to play their games over the Greek ruins
The Vigilante Who Hacked Hacking Team Explains How He Did It
If you cherry pick your laptop for Linux and use powertop (it now has a systemd service to implement all powersaving optimizations) its pretty easy to get very good power management.
It's also possible for someone to steal your phone number if your carrier is sloppy.
1995 Programming on the Sega Saturn
Experienced meditator's brains are physically 7 yrs younger than non-meditators
You're clearly more educated on electoral systems than those who'd entertain the notion of using some novel system invented off the cuff by someone without expertise in social choice theory. Hats off.
I come from the book publishing world. Pretty much the same thing one book's sales make up for the other 20 books published.
would not surprise me, it's by far the most widely used and well known though I guess
Silicon Valley's origins are deeply entwined with the military industrial complex and federal money. To argue otherwise is historical revisionism.

William Shockley is credited with making Silicon Valley what it is today. He was a federal researcher who hired eight other federal researchers. [1] They then created Fairchild Semiconductor which developed transistors for the aerospace industry.

Look up the history of Shockley, Noyce, Fairchild, Intel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
Yeah, I know. I didn't expect the goal to be reasonable.

Nothing about the project is really all that reasonable, considering FPGAs are nearly entirely proprietary across the board, and because it'd be super expensive to make something that is actually truly open.

But good for them for trying something new.
From an article on gnu.org discussing related issues, here's a quote from author Neal Stephenson:

> Linux is “open source” software meaning, simply, that anyone can get copies of its source code files.

And the state of Kansas:

> Make use of open-source software (OSS). OSS is software for which the source code is freely and publicly available, though the specific licensing agreements vary as to what one is allowed to do with that code.

For me, the reason for the confusion comes from (1) the ambiguous use of the word "open" (visible) vs "closed" (hidden) and (2) the fact that I've personally never seen until now a project that was "source available" but not open to modify under some license, so I haven't had to deal with the distinction.

(And since I'm a little insulted by your incredulity that a technical person could believe that to be true, FWIW, it's common knowledge among English speakers when to use "its" and "it's".)
>all in one document.

So it is possible to run both R and Python commands in the same notebook?
And then you get legislation requiring backdoors.

People need to get their head around the back that this is a political problem and requires political solutions.
This project seems to be in a superposition of enormously ambitious project, light-years away from reaching the goal and elaborated joke. Does that sound about right? I really have a hard time telling from looking at the repository and I never heard of it before.
I would say beyond just learning, transparency is another major issue.
ok, thank
This blog post makes a number of good points, though it also kind of veers into simplistic VC-bashing. It ends up sounding a little bitter and angry, which undermines the smart insights elsewhere.

The US government is absolutely doing bad things with the NSA. And not wanting to store data in the US is reasonable. But you'd be a fool to think that other governments, especially Russia and China, weren't doing - or trying to do - the exact same things the NSA does.

All the VC money sloshing around in SF these days may well distort valuations. But it isn't 1999. The vast majority of companies that achieve huge valuations do have significant revenues, or otherwise control valuable assets that can easily be converted to cash (e.g. massive user engagement). So a three-year-old startup with $300M in revenue is valued at 20x instead of 10x. So what? It's still massive growth and a tremendous amount of money for a small team to have captured in a short time.

I think a lot of the points about customer behavior and survivability are great. And the point about scepticism towards the US gov is spot on. But then it veers into a kind of cliched VC-bashibg that loses me.
OpenBSD's base gcc is a fork of the last GPLv2 version, like Apple and embedded except with many local changes, e.g. gcc-local(1):

http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/gcc-local.1

There's newer versions of gcc in ports, llvm/clang was recently updated to 3.7.1, post 5.9.
Competition app
what do you guys think of a competition app for people to showcase their skills. I am building one right now.