skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a little bit of a career, had a kid, and became a stay-at-home dad. After working from home for a bit, I ended up letting the career slide and ultimately end. Along the way I realized I didn't really care for it.

Now I'm back in school in an unrelated field and realizing that coding can be an asset in the field. I'm working on a personal coding project as a way to get back into things.

My physics prof believes that going to school for computer science is like going to school to learn all how a shovel works, while other majors (like physics) just learn how to use the shovel in order to accomplish their goals.

I don't entirely agree with him, but it made me realize it was never coding that I stopped liking. It was coding about stuff I didn't care about that had killed my interest. (Interest in playing with technology for the sake of playing with technology had faded for me.) Now when I code, it is because the code is a step (one I find fun, enjoyable, and usually relaxing) towards another goal.

So, it might not be a phase. It must just be you are craving more.
Major Security Breaches Found in Google and Yahoo Email Services
all those other businesses add value to the supply chain. While ticket resellers can add value but when they purchase a large portion of the ticket supply they are adding little value.
Pay has nothing to do with it but I don't think it's a stretch to believe that the average MD with 4 years of med school + 4-5 years of 60 hr/week residency would outperform the average CRNA (nursing + 18 months of 40 hr/week residency). The studies done are usually political submarines motivated by one side or the other in the fight against mid level independent practice rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_theory

The occasional spectacular random success is far more memorable than a string of failures, because the string of failures simply proves the ritual wasn't done correctly. Or there's some other unknown reason why it didn't work.

It's also known that rewarding a behaviour at random is better at reinforcing it than constant reward - perhaps because the reward stimulus is fresh each time it's re-experienced.
In my estimation, Sanders is much more charismatic than Clinton.
I believe you would be surprised were you to look under the hood.

There are a number of different "UI areas" in Netflix.com -- homepage, titles, signup (multiple flavors of this, depending on how you're signing up), onboarding, member browsing/viewing experiences, account management, numerous partner integrations, etc... not to mention all the work that goes into per-user customization, AB testing, and internationalization.

No offense taken on the question. IMO, if you look at the site and view it as simple then we've done our job correctly. :)
And how is Ontario doing, generally, with regards to the number of doctors: patients?

I lived there, and know doctors personally. The answer is terrible.
It's actually quite difficult to identify above average.

ISTR a study a few years ago that said the only way you can know for certain that a fund manager is above average is on something like 30+ years of data. There's too much random variation.

I think it was the same article that said the baseball season would need to be several hundred games before you could definitively choose the best team in a given season.
The axis scales are fine as long as the comparisons are apples-to-apples. Since the charts were split between startups and nonstatups, I believe it's fair.

The "statistical significance" issue with using small percentages is fine as long as the sample size is sufficiently large. YC receives thousands of applications each year, which is enough...

...although in 2016, there's only been 1 round of applications so far, whereas other years have 2 rounds of data. Therefore the sample size might be smaller, which can create doubt in the "Slack is 850% better" conclusion. Again, I do not know the exact sample size to verify.
not sure why your getting lots of downvotes, i think your take on adams is pretty good. i was reading scott adams for a while as im sure lots of people were when trump was rising. i kept reading for a while and kept on seeing things that were just really stupid to me. he seems to think because he is a "master persuader" that he knows more about _everything_ than everyone else, but in one post he ventured in the realm of statistics and made some _incredibly ignorant_ arguments. then i saw old posts where he had just as confidently predicted herman cain. so part of what he is doing is just playing a long game, calling unlikely things so that when one of them eventually happens, he looks smart. i dont deny he has interesting insights, but he is wayyyyyy to high on himself and his special little lens. when he posted on twitter that he could convince anyone to vote for trump in 1 hour, i had to unfollow.

i think manipulators are seen as smart by some people because they can be effective, but i have two points that seem to be forgotten: most of the time you eventually catch on to manipulators, and so they stop being effective, and, _more importantly_ they are just assholes. so, i say that it doesnt take intelligence to manipulate and bully and lie, it just takes gall. or heartlessness. as an analogy, i bet some of the lawyers who came up with the idea for ambulance chasing, or bankers who repackaged shitty subprime loans probably that they were really smart, when maybe it was just that there arent that many people willing to go that low.
Zynga Now Worth Less Than Its Own Office Building [Halting Problem]
To be fair, not all of those chat interfaces were fake. Some are just scripts that connect to real people quickly once you interact favorably. Then they try to sell you on $50 of cam show credits.
Beyond Climate Confusion: Why Both Energy Innovation and Deployment Matter
This is exactly what strikes me as odd about the whole thing. 'dang has made an impressive effort to keep everything on HN as transparent as possible, and this explanation just screamed inconsistency.

Were the real reason, as stated here, published the first time, I wouldn't even have bothered to comment.
>Would that really happen?

Why would it not?

At the margins you make decisions based on a variety of factors. If X costs more than Y, you choose Y. I don't know if, practically, that means 1 potential doctor or 1000 decides not to go to med school. But in a world where we are already short doctors, even the former is "too many".
If you removed votes from all accounts newer than the day you announced this entire program, what would the tally be? If I had to guess it would have still won.
The Hamilton lottery is not worth your time if you're only going to try it once. 100+ people competing for 12 seats (where each lottery winner can get 2 tickets). And now there is an online component, which means you are competing against even more people.
He completed a 4-year undergraduate degree, medical school, and residency by age 22?
I can't reply to dan's reply to this, for some reason, but regarding "I don't see a distinction there. It refers to submissions, and Apply HN posts were submissions, a.k.a. stories in HN's sense (posts that aren't comments).", well, it also says that users should vote for "a story" because it's "intellectually interesting", which is not a rationale (or in the case of "story" a referring term) that seems to make much sense in the present case. So it makes a lot of sense, I think, to construe it as referring to submissions in the narrower sense.

Regardless, the tweets in question were around a long time before Pinboard was disqualified without expectation. The first one certainly predates kevin's phone call, for instance.

(And of course one of the tweets in question was contained a link to the general poll, which was not a submission of Maciej's, and the other, technically, was a link to all the Apply HN posts, not to his.)
I'm not sure that any anti-resale laws would have reduced the scalping or the scalped prices noticeably, considering just what a hot ticket show this is. I've been in NYC for over 10 years and I've never seen such buzz about a Broadway show as this.
> I'm sure that most people who voted for pinboard did not do so because they thought it would be a good investment.

I voted for Maciej fully believing that he had no intention of building a billion dollar startup and just wanted the 20k. That said part of the reason I voted for him is that I thought it could could be a good opportunity for YC anyway, albeit risky, in addition to just being entertaining.

I also think they made the right call not to fund him, given Kevin's explanation.
Didn't Microsoft present the technology for the exact same thing (even used the same pizza-ordering example) during their Build conference this year?
Yup! And I don't intend to ever do that.

But that says nothing about the Apply HN situation. That's new, had a different set of rules (hell, you wrote a polling solution), and the regular guidelines didn't necessarily apply. That they did should have been made clear.

Again, nothing against it this time, since it's all up to you guys - just feedback for the next time.
The post he provided a link to wasn't his Apply HN submission; it was the run-off poll.

I told him when I noticed the same Twitter post that it was going to cause problems (too late!), and he was genuinely surprised.
They provide value if it is sold out and I am willing to pay extra to find a ticket.
Buffett also benefits from having Charlie Munger at his side. Buffet gets most of the credit but Munger is also a world class investor. It's like if Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had worked together.
A minor point to make here, college isn't about learning practical skills;

Yes, on paper that is true. And I alluded to that point in my answer above (or at least I meant to). But from a more pragmatic and real world point of view, colleges are at least partially about teaching practical skills. I don't know the exact percentage, but I'm pretty sure a large percentage of college students go in expecting to learn something that will pointedly enable them to get a job. Of course one can argue whether that's a good idea or not, and I don't really have a position on that. But I don't think we can ignore the phenomenon.
That is a technical solution.
Ideally, yes we would do that! But see other comments about the cost and efficiency of power transmission for the physical challenges involved.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11628965
For you Firefox users, try the add-on RequestPolicy (https://requestpolicycontinued.github.io/) and before a site opens or redirects to another domain, you'll be prompted (you can make policies around your decision for future instances.)
Yeah, I had the exact same reaction. Stack Overflow is used by a huge chunk of developers, so the headline isn't the least bit surprising.

This sort of feels like a "gotcha" -- a headline that's trying to make it look like someone got caught doing something wrong, in the hopes that the story will go viral.
I can drop cargo containers full of Tesla Powerpacks anywhere in the world. I cannot build hydro pumped storage just anywhere.
Right - I agree with you, in general. I just think that this particular situation is a bit different, and Apply HN implies that there are folks outside HN applying /to/ HN. Those folks outside HN may have no idea about the voting rules, and it also isn't clear, even to long-time HN users, that this wasn't a different situation entirely.
this is due to the idea that modern sw developers do not care what they do, but care a lot about how they do things. They pay no attention to the business problem at hand (in my experience they get very upset when I try to draw their attention to the business requirements) but spend all their time discussing what *-pad framework is the best candidate.
And, YC, you can be inconsistent. That's fine with me.

But when you're inconsistent, you should bear a special obligation to be generous and charitable to the people you're disadvantaging. YC didn't live up to that obligation here.
No problem at all! I was just wondering - didn't even have the use case myself.
I get what you're saying, and it's absolutely true. But, at one point I had to step back and look at Reddit as a whole, and decide if I wanted to be a part of the overall community. Do I want to actively ignore my neighbors by wearing blinders, or should I just move to a new neighborhood, where it doesn't hurt to look out my window?

Ultimately, I decided to move. The overwhelming ugliness that has infected Reddit is a hassle that I'd rather not deal with, and that I don't want to be associated with.

Bad users aside, there's also the matter of the warranty canary, rampant guerrilla marketing, bots, and admins messing with the algorithms and UI for monetary reasons.

Circa 2010, I absolutely loved Reddit; I went to meet-ups, modded subs, spoke of narwhals baconing, the whole nine yards. That place is gone now though, and the proof is in the fact that you, an assumingly decent user, has to say ignore the defaults (i.e. the backbone of the site), it's still okay... in certain places! Again, you're on point; there's still no substitute for many its educational, enthusiast, and hobbyist subs, anywhere else online. But, the main decks are flooding with sewage, and many of us want to be clear of the ship, and the waters around it, before the whole thing goes down.
Do you think I would have consciously sabotaged my chances by breaking this rule had I been aware of it? Especially knowing that YC would be looking for any pretext to disqualify me?

Your rules about voting rings are not public. I think that you're so used to modding the site that you forget this, but take a look at the letter of what it actually says in the FAQ.
a.k.a. Tyranny.
New APIs to help developers improve scroll performance
Sure. Think it'll maintain that pace for more than a couple years? Especially given the strange interest in chat bots that people seem to also have.
For pilots, its called the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System [0], which does have immunity (from FAA enforcement actions) for self-reporting pilot mistakes.

The NTSB often "full" investigations into serious incidents involving airliners, such as runway incursions or other near-misses.

In the USAF there is a legal Accident Investigation Board, and a Safety Investigation Board. The SIB is legally privileged, and testimony cannot be used in disciplinary action or legal proceedings.

For doctors, there is whats known as a Morbidity and Mortality conference [1]. This is a meeting between doctors at a hospital in which the discussions are privileged and confidential.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_Safety_Reporting_Syst...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbidity_and_mortality_confer...
When pilots screw up often dozens or hundreds of people die. Even the worst surgeon can't kill more than one patient per mistake.
According to Paul Graham, it's acceptable to downvote for disagreement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
With a couple of thousand applications per year, each one of those small percentages is going to have a 95% bound in the neighborhood of +/-0.5%. The closer a fraction is to 0 or 1, the more significant it is per given denominator. The bounds on some of these will certainly overlap y/y but the large swings over a few years are very much statistically different.

Also, if this analysis is on the full population of YC apps, there's no statistical error if you take it for what it is: trends within YC apps. Not every metric needs to be extrapolated to the maximum feasible population to be interesting.

Finally, the scales on the two graphs you resized shown changes of a factor of 5-7, not counting the first data points, otherwise even more. I'd argue that your scales are the ones that are misleading in this scenario. You'd be right if they had that scale for an 82% to 94% growth, vs. the 2% to 14% or .2% to 1% that they are illusrating.
The question also came with a few stipulations, and the winner did not like them.

This was never about pleasing the HN community.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11626616
I love that book.
Another anecdote: a close loved one lost their leg due to malpractice. Staff infection. He went in and told the doctor he thought he had an infection. The doctor said it was fine even after running other tests. He's has multiple doctors and nurses look at the test since and say that it's pretty obvious that he had an infection.

The greatest part? Their lawyer could not get any doctor to testify as an expert witness, which is required under Utah state law for malpractice (which makes sense, I suppose). Even if they could've, the lawsuit would've only covered $400k since it's capped. Which might've covered the doctor bills, but not the damages to his life... He was between jobs, then ended up in and out of the hospital for a couple years due to the infection getting out of control (lost his leg, had his shoulder replaced, physical therapy, ended up falling and having pretty sever damage and having to start over again). By the time he was on his feet again, he was worn out and past retirement age. Whose going to hire a "gimped old man"?

It was a mess. Still is... But things worked them selves out as best as possible. But it's incredible to me that that doctor is still practicing and possibly destroying other people's lives because no other doctor was willing to "out" a "colleague". Frustrating.
The majority of CS students (including MIT) never studied CS before coming to college. Unless you propose MIT/CMU/Stanford/Berkeley/etc. only admit people to their intro CS classes who have studied CS before (chicken and egg problem, anyone?).
This is how CMU does it. First course: Python. Most people who already have a CS background (usually AP CS) and are ready to dive in skip it. People who aren't sure take it and typically have a phenomenal experience. Final project is "make something using a Python graphics library and spend at least 20 hours on it". Then they have a little demo day where they show off the best of the projects. Second course: data structures and algorithms and C.
Hah! Found it! This discussion reminded me of Robert Heinlein's rant against the automobile. Turns out it is from the YA novel "The Rolling Stones"[1]:

"Despite the name 'automobile' these vehicles had no auto­control circuits; control, such as it was, was exercised second by second for hours on end by a human being peering out through a small pane of dirty silica glass, and judging unassisted and often disastrously his own motion and those of other objects. In almost all cases the operator had no notion of the kinetic energy stored in his missile and could not have written the basic equation. Newton's Laws of Motion were to him mysteries as profound as the meaning of the universe.

Nevertheless millions of these mechanical jokes swarmed over our home planet, dodging each other by inches or failing to dodge. None of them ever worked right; by their nature they could not work right; and they were constantly getting out of order. Their operators were usually mightily pleased when they worked at all. When they did not, which was every few hundred miles (hundred, not hundred thousand) they hired a member of a social class of arcane specialists to make inadequate and always expensive temporary repairs.

"Despite their mad shortcomings, these 'automobiles' were the most characteristic form of wealth and the most cherished possessions of their time. Three whole generations were slaves to them."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_(novel)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11632636
You're perhaps misreading me. I stated that the lack of side projects shouldn't be held against people. I think it's fine give positive weight to good, relevant side projects.

I would also argue that a person who is more deliberate about their use of fewer hours will do better than someone who is equally smart but practices less deliberately for more hours[1].

I think that imagining two fully equal candidates only differentiated by their volume of personal projects isn't a particularly useful exercise.

[1]http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti...
awinter-py has the correct answer.

And in keeping with the cheese shop gag, a wheel is "A container for cheese." http://wheel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Charisma is defined as "compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others."

It seems, just based on that and ignoring electoral map complexities, that PG predicts that Trump will be the next President.
>Copyright is harder to make a corporate weapon than patents, right?

Copyright is currently life of the creator+70yrs, while patents are a mere 20yrs. So, it seems copyright laws are weaponized for a longer duration.
No private chats at all for Windows/Linux. It is actually insane that (unless I'm missing something) there is no usable/accessible trustworthy end2end encryption chat program that has both mobile and desktop clients.

Note: Telegram desktop alternative apps have major usability issues at least on Linux.

Edit: Also, many people refuse to install/use Chrome for various reasons, so even if you don't have to open ports, this still won't be a solution.
What a delicious idea!
Ask HN: Has anyone attempted an 'open bot platform'?
Basically, an environment where one person could broadcast requests where any bot developed by anyone could see them, and than any bot could respond (With some kind of algorithmic ranking system to not every response is met with 50 hitler posts)

I can see a couple of downsides (Spammers would flock to the system and the developers of the curation system would have to be aggressive about weeding them out, its giving up a lot of user data which tech companies like to hoard, various privacy concerns)
Automated pizza making machines already exist[1] (skip to near end of video to see it in action). Proof of concept: Simply take the end product and pick it up with a multi-rotor and have it autonomously deliver it to the next room.

I've definitely eaten some frozen pizza that were as good as or better than the $5 pizza's from Dominos, I'm in Australia, YMMV.

I imagine if this was more profitable than the existing technology - humans placing toppings and delivering them - it would already be done.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZzRL_9_zJA
Yes, Trump wants to bring factory jobs back to America but then wants to bring in H1B's to replace American IT Workers.

Hmmm...Maybe I can get a job building a wall?
What are you talking about? They promised a certain criteria, disqualified someone who appeared to win by it (minus the vote boost maybe), claimed it for one set of reasons, it looked like it was for worse reasons, half-ass admitted that later, and still aren't fully owning up to it now or presenting it honestly for future participants in these things. At least, that's how I read tptacek's comments throughout thread.

I was about to even agree with one saying the evidence looked fishy given spotting or countering subversive behavior is kind of my thing. Then, kevin's comment appeared just as I was about to write mine to confirm opposition angle a lot.

Full disclosure: First time I've ever found out who idlewords is, I don't use that product, probably didn't give it a vote, I give mixed reviews of Silicon Valley politics/VC's, and say whatever I think facts lead to regardless of blowback. As in, near zero bias in this and people's concerns are still obvious to me.
I'm curious - can you name a scenario in which battery storage isn't reasonable? It seems to me that once we hit the cost/price/weight/density points, they are a solution to pretty much any problem of power storage.
I've noticed a lot of business/corporate people really don't "get" slack the same way an older person is bewildered by something like snapchat. We have a "legacy" (for lack of a better term) Lync system that they are holed up in and the split along those lines is very noticeable. Those same type of people who are on the teams firmly on the slack side tend to stay offline until they get an email notification, answer the mention or DM and then disappear again.