skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd get a CS degree first instead of a psychology degree and then going back to school. I don't regret what happened, but that would have been more efficient and I'd be paid better.
Thank you, that's really one of the best talks I've seen lately.
Why to build a car from the beginning, while you can start with a skateboard (free)? Lean startup, WTF :)
I always wondered about the observer and how the fuck the particles "know" (or detect) that they are being observed or what is even the criteria - is a human being an observer? What about a measuring device a la Schrodinger? Does the device measuring count as an observation, or is it when a human looks at the device? Turns out we're not the only ones confused:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_(quantum_physics)

Peruse that page and the external link at the bottom to some person's thesis that is a bit long but looks interesting.
Yes. We had numerous SSN and bank account details, basically anything you might find in a personal or professional email inbox. Obviously we weren't making use of any of this, but if we had one malicious engineer, things could have gone very poorly. One automated tool inadvertently posted an individual's SSN on the paid version of our site was very angry. The level of access was something we were always discouraged from discussing with sales folks and management always kept things very vague.
It looks a lot like the stuff I produced a while back with an rnn. I just fed the rnn raw web pages for a giggle. It does surprisingly well, often managing to close braces correctly. It really goes to show how good the browsers are at dealing with junk html. I was thinking about trying to jointly train the html and an image of the webpage, in the vague hope that you might be able to go from image to webpage. One day. Probably quite soon...
Being homeless and getting a job makes it very difficult, almost impossible. Where are you gonna keep a nice suit? Where are you going to get shaving materials? Make-up? Do your hair? Even if you got the job, where will they send your checks? What if you don't have official documentation (birth certidicate, social security, etc) because you're homeless? How would you get around if public transport is unreliable?

And even if you could request them, where would the gov't send the documentation? Where would you do your taxes or anything?

Where are you going to get enough time on the internet to submit hundreds of applications? Or where are you going to print resumes to hand them out?

Being homeless makes the basics of getting a minimum wage job a near insurmountable task for many.
The question we're all wondering about Pinboard
How many new subs did they pick up from this debacle? Maciej is a pretty transparent guy, and I for one am dying to know. This was the best trolling based marketing scheme I have ever seen. Somehow, he got some very rich people to simultaneously:

1. Get egg all over their faces
2. Give him an inordinate amount of free publicity
3. Donate 20k to a worthy charity.

Fucking brilliant.
I find it shocking that anyone wants to trust the American Government with their health..

That seems to be extremely idiotic given the record the American Government has when dealing with Health Care, pick either Medicaid, Medicare or the VA system.... You want that on a National "Universal" Scale... are you a sadist or something?

Most of the current problems with Health care costs in this nation are directly attributable to government policies dating back to the 40's
As an employee of Bleacher Report - yup, we use it a LOT. Everyone loves it.

It's most useful for our services (our consumer facing app is Rails atm) but it's great.
This was precisely the correct resolution. Thanks 'dang and 'kevin for doing the right thing, and understanding the issue at hand. Sorry if we clashed a bit on the other thread, but I wanted to ensure you understood, clearly, how it was misread by so many, even if it didn't occur to you when you wrote it. That happens all too often in anyone's writing. :)

Kudos.
I would say it was marketing genius and Maciej knows how to play YC and the HN community like a master.

Personally if I have been Dan or Kevin I would have called Maciej’s bluff and demanded that Pinboard participate in the program since that is what everyone was voting for and if he still chose to participate then hold his feet to the fire over the time requirement of the YC fellowship program.
“Interview with Aaron Hunter”
That's possible. He rags them a lot but still could use that.
> If you'd pay more taxes, would you also simply donate more toward such efforts?

I currently am, but to Watsi.org. It gives me a bigger bang per dollar compared to the amount of middlemen in the US healthcare model.

I've thought about several ways to drive down the healthcare in the US, and it seems the only sure fire method is for politicians to get into office who believe in single payer. To that end, I use my wealth to max out my contributions to campaigns and PACs (if applicable) of candidates who support that goal.

> Congratulations on your income!

No need for that at all. I only mention it because, so often, I hear people say, "I'm tired of taxes! Less taxes! You already tax me enough!". To which I say, "Its complicated". I mention it because there are people out there (like myself) who do not mind paying taxes.

With my tax dollars, I buy civilization. I would like to buy more civilization for my fellow humans, but I need their help as well, otherwise my efforts are wasted into the ether by themselves.

We are all in this together.
Metalloids
Bunch of reasons:

* Making hedge funds richer didn't actually feel like changing the world.

* I never really clicked on the codebase, didn't understand what was going on in the code, and didn't contribute much. (I don't think the code was easy to understand, and my mentor wasn't much help)

* I wasn't interested in making Palantir my full life, and there was a lot of pressure to have work be life. One of the leaders in my group basically said "yeah, I don't spend time with my pre-Palantir friends anymore."

* I also didn't click with my coworkers. I was about 27, and felt like an old guy. There were a bunch of other things socially that didn't work out. Strong culture that I didn't jive with.

* I got the signal that my 9-7 schedule wasn't enough.

The Government group may have been a better fit for me, I'm not sure.
Not very well, but you can start with [1] and explore the LayoutParams hierarchy from there.

[1] http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/declaring-layou...
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Why the camel cased columns?
Of the homeless I've gotten to know, some shared with me that they were schizophrenic and the other had family but was estranged from them. Others were just down on their luck.

If they have kids and are a single parent, it makes it much tougher to just get a job.

Others have access to the resources, but they don't feel they could do the jobs they know about.

I think the majority of truly homeless need someone to really talk with about things, and many will never on their own be able to overcome their homelessness. If those with billions wanted to help, they would provide these people with analysts, medical attention, and perhaps nursing. I doubt they would want to live in a mental institution, but some really should have that level of attention to help avoid problems with alcoholism, drugs, etc. that are a way of escaping.

Still others are privileged. They could easily go back to their family or friends to get help, but they don't. I have very little sympathy for these people when they suck resources away from the homeless that really need it and make it seem like others that really are in need are there by choice. I wish these people would go live in their parents' basements where they belong.

Others aren't really homeless. Some that hold the cardboard signs may have apartments, homes, etc. I know one person where I used to work that I was told would leave her job, go to the corner and beg, then go home. It was an extra source of income.

Even with all of the people that aren't truly homeless or may not even be poor begging, it is still the right thing to help them if you can. You can put together a care bag with snacks, bathing supplies, etc. and give it to them instead of money. You can buy them food. You might not be able to afford to help them all, but even if you just help one every once in a while, if enough people do that, things would be much better. You can't stop homelessness by ignoring it, and there is such a disparity between most of us on HN and those living on the street, that as long as you know you're not funding a drug or alcohol habit, you're helping.
It is clear from Maciej's posts that the $20K in and of itself is fairly marginal ($20K ~= 3 weeks of revenue). Part of why I was excited about the Pinboard application was to see whether the entire experience would help Maciej improve Pinboard and grow it a bit (not hockey-stick, but an OOM bump), to turn it into a new Delicious. The other part of why I was excited about the Pinboard application was because I think YC would be better off embracing the bowling ball cleanse that Maciej promised; if the VC rule is that the best investments don't look like the best investments, then YC would be smart to embrace Maciej--not that Pinboard will turn into the next hundred bagger, but that getting to know and understand one's smartest critics isn't a bad strategy for escaping one's own biases. The trope isn't called "wise fool" for nothing.

Considering the badness that ensued, Maciej's request for a charitable donation seems entirely correct. Pinboard can earn $20K easily enough, and the potential for good to come of the clash between views is no longer a possibility. It also serves as a useful escape hatch from the controversy; we don't have to revisit it in the future, as the question of how Pinboard spent the money is now moot.
We're not, so we've (belatedly) taken that out.
Interesting. Isn't a fish fin (as in the fins on the side etc) essentially a one-bladed propeller?
So, your purpose in arguing is strictly ideals and principles with no real-world context or constraints. And you don't know there are multiple forms of democracy?

Sophistry or trolling is undeniable now. Goodbye.
You don't donate to charity because maybe it isn't the perfect solution, but obviously giving money to open source is worthwhile?
I need tabs too ...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11643617 and marked it off-topic.
I do see one missed opportunity here, and that was to frame this project not as a NN-based Geocities page generator, but as a mystery.

Imagine instead a much more cryptic domain name and no landing page - just a random page each time (but keeping the shareable links). No credits or attributions, inviting speculation. It could have been the next Horse_ebooks!
Please don't respond in kind when someone else is name-calling. Instead, flag the comment (by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'flag') or email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
How can I determine which school belongs to which tier? I always thought of University of Toronto as a top school based on the fact that it employs some of the best computer scientists in the world (Geoff Hinton is practically a celebrity nowadays). Apparently they were a third-world diploma mill all along and I never knew.
Allow me to quote one of our Founding Fathers

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."

-- Benjamin Franklin
I've uploaded some metrics that compares the two at

http://imgur.com/a/ywdbm

Churn in the images are lines added, changed and deleted that does not involve blank/comment lines.
I totally agree with the first paragraph. The second is well-put and I get where you're coming from. Far as money, several mention it's insignificant but it's what he kept asking for and tweeting about. Mentioned an investment or two it could buy. Then no need for a business use after.

So, I remain annoyed by that waste or going back on his claims even though I see what you're saying in terms of just ending situation in a mutually agreeable way.
> I know you consumed them at a really impressionable age, and it was really exciting to think about, but

Please keep this sort of personal snark out of HN comments. It's uncivil and unsubstantive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
> I never give to charity because it always seems so abstract, or there might be better ways to solve the problem

It can be difficult to know whether or not you are making an impact with a donation. Fortunately there are sites like Charity Navigator [0] that audit aggregate and audit charities to make things easier. Some sites (like Giving What We Can [1] and GiveWell [2]) make it even simpler by suggesting a few charities that they deem most effective.

For example, one of these top charities is the Against Malaria Foundation [3]. They're a fairly straightforward charity: they receive and review requests for mosquito nets and fulfill orders with donations. When you donate they tell you exactly how many nets were bought with your donation and where they were sent. In this way your dollars (approximately) directly help prevent the spread of malaria. Now, could this problem be better solved with donations to a malaria vaccine research group? Perhaps. For the time being, mitigating the issue with nets seems like a decent interim solution.

My point is that there are many, many charities out there doing great work. It's worth looking into.

(Another note: I don't mean to imply that you shouldn't give to open source projects. I am just trying to say that you could also consider giving to traditional charities.)

[0] - http://www.charitynavigator.org/

[1] - https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/top-charities/

[2] - http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities

[3] - https://www.againstmalaria.com/
No, it's not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633517

Kevin explained pretty clearly that it was his call, and Maciej disagreed with that.
>>Have you tried to get Medicaid in a state? Because I have for a family member (Indiana). There's a waitlist,

Wait are you not for Universal Healthcare... WTF do you think Universal Healthcare will be.... Medicaid for everyone that is what...
Interviewed with them once: took like 2 months and it was a horrible experience. Weirdest thing was I randomly ran into this guy onsite that was a friend-of-a-friend.. and enough of an acquaintance that we had each others' numbers and went drinking a couple times... saw him there wearing the same Palantir t-shirt as everyone else (which was weird) and he barely acknowledged me... like I wasn't "one of them" yet... it was creepy enough that I was glad I didn't get an offer.
Found it. It was a third New York titled publication, nyrb:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/06/25/digital-journalis...
I am pleasantly surprised to see anything Rails or Ruby in the front page of HN again. Most of the time people dont vote on it anymore.

Is Rails 5 any faster then previous version?
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Good question. This db schema is supposed to be used by web developers. With camelCase columns it might be easier for developers to query the database directly from the code (unless they use an ORM, in that case snake_case should also work well).
If this type of analysis can't answer "who Ken Lay likes best", maybe that's not the best question to use as an example.

"Who did Ken Lay like best" was originally going to be the title of the post, until we realized that you can't actually answer that question. It was someone else's idea anyway, but I'm not naming names!

That said, I only had so much time to work on this, and there was a limit to how much depth I could go into. I wanted to go deeper and introduce some network science / social network analysis but had other priorities.

But still, the point was just to illustrate a cool application of that particular technology stack and pique people's interest in it. If that interest helps us land business, that's a nice outcome. If not, maybe somebody learned something or came up with an idea for their own project, as a result of reading it. Those are nice outcomes as well. :-)

There are plenty of more interesting questions ("when did Enron employees start getting nervous or alarmed?")

That is a pretty good one... maybe somebody else will take the bull by the horns and write a post on that. If not, maybe I'll do it later for a "part 2".
Why not. I am having a good time with this for years.
It looks like exactly the same sort of data you would get from a customized ArcGIS system or one of the BI (with GIS) software packages (such as Alteryx and the like).

But why pay $250,000 for software and also hire a good consulting firm when you can pay $18 million a year for the same thing. (I have just realized that I have been grossly underpaid.)

And I'm sure all those engineers they hire make excellent geographic analysts.
In all seriousness, ever since SQLite got WAL support, it's been fine for light multiuser systems. I would define "multiuser" as "around ten or fewer concurrent users", and I think there are some major backup considerations that go with this, but I don't think it's an inherent nonstarter.
The following is a totally reasonable point that some SJW on this site deleted. I would like to know exactly on what grounds.

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The one piece of actual research in this is about discrimination against "black sounding" names. In one quoted tweet the guy mentions having to use his middle name.

Has it occurred to anyone that the main issue here might be people with deliberately weird names, and not race per se?

If you are named Rainbow, Adolf, Cletus, or LaQuan, I'm going to conclude (from experience) your mother and you are both probably crazy.
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"Kevin reluctantly concluded that Maciej doesn’t want to participate in the program as intended."

"the simple answer is he won the votes, he won the poll, but he made me feel uncomfortable in the end. I went into my good-faith phone call with him very much wanting this to work out and I was disappointed to come out of it tense and with less energy than when I went in. It’s touchy feely, I know, but the truth."

"We revised the rules when it became clear that Kevin wouldn't include Pinboard in the YCF program"

It's seriously hard to even keep track of the different conflicting stories. :)
You're saying that you think Christians don't feel anxious about sex because they are taught to abhor sex outside of marriage?

I think that is a weak reframing of the breadth of sex, and that sex for the supermajority of American people, in and out of the church, is pre-marital.

I think young Christian boys are taught that sexual fantasy and pornography is the same as adultery, a defilement of the temple that is their body. I think one example that's brought up along these lines of narrative is a story of direct divine punishment for the spilling of seed. I think Protestant and non-denominationals with sizeable youth groups form little sexual discussion groups, especially for boys, where they vent their sexual guilt with regards to their fantasy of the day or how they masturbated. I think American Christian parents are ever anxious about government discussion of sex, and that they backwardly expend finite energy to make it a political battle point. And I think American Christian culture is as much about the implicit as it is about the explicit.

But somehow your choice framing of the discussion is that Christians don't feel dirty about sex because they are explicitly taught that only sex outside of marriage is dirty.

Young boys and girls in the church learn the anxiety of the community and their parents first, and then they listen to the belief structures to justify that anxiety.

A straw man, by the way, is a misrepresentation of someone else's discussion, and not actually a logical fallacy at all. It is by definition outside of logical purview. Most people would be better off not ever hearing about logical fallacies, because it gets in the way of quality thinking.

Anyways, I want to make one last point about American Christians expending their precious, finite energy in politics. I say that there are 3 high consensus Christian political issues in America, in order of strength: (1) abortion, (2) homosexuality, and (3) sex education in school. The latter is the weakest, and mostly in state-level politics, but there it is brutally fought. Notice the theme of these 3 issues?

It's really kind of silly that these are the highest consensus issues for American Christians. Um, not poverty, right? Or injustice in the police system, and classism and racism in America? Yes. Let's discuss abortion, homosexuality, and sex education in schools (condoms detract from abstinence!).
Here is a live version of a [Palantir product for the Carter Center](http://www.cartercenter.org/syria-conflict-map/). I'd say it looks quite nice for a digital map.
LOL, no. It's just a fun application of some neat technology. We like to publish those kinds of things on our company blog. It's a chance for our staff to do something fun in between engagements, it helps promote the company, and somebody may learn something from it. We see that as a win-win.
I got a pitch a couple weeks ago from unity inviting me to 'change the world innovating the best game development tool/ecosystem'

It's so tone deaf it blows my mind.
How to make the process better:

- give a 2 week window for applications to go up. Only publish the posts all at once, once the window shuts

- give every user one vote and one vote only so there is a cost to the user in voting
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To me, it was crystal clear from the beginning that there was not any well-defined rules about how this would work. The message I got was that the purpose of this experiment was to get ideas from the community about interesting startup ideas that YC might have been blind to in the past. At no point did I have the impression that this was meant to be an exercise in strict democratic voting for its own sake. Everyone knows the perils of online voting.

dang, I think the criticism you're getting is unfair considering the openness with which you conduct yourself. You could have easily avoided trouble by being secretive, but you didn't. I hope you don't let a contigent of vocally pedantic people discourage you from continuing your experimentation, which benefits us all when done so openly.
Ah, okay. So, Maciej did want to participate in YCF? I'm still not seeing him say that. Because I got the impression he only wanted the $20K (and I was okay with that, which is why I voted for Pinboard).

Edit: I'm probably being overly pedantic here. I rally behind Maciej's contention that we are all adults and don't have to feel warm and fuzzy about each other to work together. I suppose that's his way of saying he was okay with participating in YCF. I seem to be in the group who read the Apply HN experiment as applying via the community, and entailing YCF participation. I keep getting the sense from Maciej and others that their reading was this was a contest to win $20K, with no expectation to participate in YCF. I'm probably in error here.
Tesla is really great, but there exists a "take" on Edison that makes him also not so bad.

Here, listen to Linus talk about him a bit:

https://youtu.be/o8NPllzkFhE?t=17m24s

Linus: "I'm more of an Edison..." (TED2016, Feb. 2016)