skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Statistics are misleading, particularly median [1].

Post the same graph with volume of sales under it (like [2]) to actually make it meaningful.

[1] https://www.openlistings.com/blog/content/images/2016/05/Art...

[2] http://www.gmatpill.com/images/apple-stock.jpg
The "report" was nothing more than a partisan hit-piece by democrats against the Bush administration.

The Senate Intelligence Committee took the unprecedented step of proceeding without Republicans even though previous investigations have always been bipartisan. It cherry-picked from millions of CIA documents and refused to interview any witnesses.

CIA directors from both parties, including George Tenet (who served under Presidents Clinton and Bush) and John Brennan (who serves under President Obama), have rejected many of the report’s factual findings and its central claim that the CIA systematically misled the White House and the president and covered up the abuse of terrorists.
WorldFuture 2016
> Maciej was rejected because Kevin didn't want him to participate in YCF

This is a pretty dishonest characterization, isn't it? Maciej was rejected because he didn't want to participate in YCF, according to what kevin and dang have previously explained about their post-vote phone call. Of course, that was their version of the call. I may have missed where Maciej countered with, "Not true. I wanted to participate in YCF. Kevin didn't want me in the group."

Disclaimer: I voted for Pinboard.
It Takes 300 Hours to Become a Shampooer in Tennessee
Ask HN: How can you work at a desk all day?
I get kinks and aches in various parts of my neck and back, painful blurred vision, headaches, and a general feeling of malaise when working more than a few hours a day on a computer. When I worked full-time I would often start the day early lifting weights at the YMCA. I would take brisk walks around the office for a few minutes several times a day. Plus breaks for bathroom and lunch. But even so it was hard on my body. Working from home I was able to walk on a treadmill while working. This was much better for my body but still hard on my eyes. I feel the only way to keep myself totally healthy is not to work full-time on computers. Unfortunately I don't know of any alternatives that pay as well.

Has anyone tried anything that works to keep their body healthy while working long hours? Maybe longer breaks for outdoor activity. But I really feel our bodies were not designed for this kind of work. Gardening is much more pleasant.
https://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/f-1-opt-optional-practi...
Paysa ranks Palantir #20 in terms of tech talent [1], and also supports a large fraction of their workforce coming from tier 1 schools, as well as salaries [2] that can help attract top talent, even if the work turns out to be unsatisfying.

[1] https://www.paysa.com/company-rank#!companies=Google:::Airbn...

[2] https://www.paysa.com/salaries/palantir-technologies
How many dynos does it take to serve that up, just out of curiousity?
> OK, this is an instant red-flag to me to get out of the conversation.

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
Hard pass
Quamolit: a canvas animation library(experimental) inspired by React
Shadow of the Beast on PS4 Includes the Amiga Original
I had no idea VS Code was actually open-source (MIT)... been using it as my favorite editor for what seems like close to a year now.
Yep, that tool, Palantir Gotham, formerly known as Palantir Government, is a giant tangle of Swing/Spring dependency injected AbstractAutowiringFactoryBeans, but it is pretty powerful when configured correctly.

Most BI tools are based around tabular data and charting (i.e. Tableau). But Gotham is the best tool I've seen for exploring graphical (i.e. nodes + edges) data.

The only other thing in the space worth using is IBM's Analyst's Notebook. That's why Palantir (including Shyam Sankar, quoted in the OP) used some dirty tricks [0] to undercut i2, the company (later acquired by IBM) that developed Analyst's Notebook.

[0] - http://documents.jdsupra.com/3d375dfd-be30-471c-b346-bf434f8...
Actually just 1 Performance-M dyno. With Sidekiq for external/resource-intensive requests, and a pretty large pool configured in Passenger.

ETA: It doesn't get as much press, but ActiveJob is one of my favorite parts of Rails 5. It's an agnostic implementation of background jobs -- ActiveRecord : (Postgres, Mysql, etc) :: ActiveJob : (Sidekiq, Resque, etc). Very nice, flexible syntax and it helps make your application platform-agnostic.

Second ETA: As rapind pointed out, ActiveJob has actually been available since Rails 4.2.
Curious to this as well. Django had a pretty public and reasonable long term support policy.

However 10 year is a bit much. What did anything look like 10 years ago? I could see 3 or 4 year cycle though.
NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series
The first page I saw reminded me an awful lot of the time cube page.
Wow, that's nuts. My gmail account is the gateway to password resetting a bunch of different accounts, not to mention all the private correspondences. It would have to be quite the value proposition to make me give up the keys. And these idiots give it away for nothing at all?
Fraud is a legal term where you lie for personal or financial gain. Nobody here gained anything by lying. Hell, nobody lied at all. They didn't give him the money and he tricked them by giving it to charity. He told them to give it to charity instead and they did.

What a bizarre interpretation of events you've made.
Not to derail you, but you may want to give VS Code a try too... been my default editor for a while now... love the git integration.
Even though 12 blades are less efficient, the article points out that they may have advantages for the bigger system of a whole wind farm, availability of sites, production, transport, control and non-generating time. It's not beyond belief that all those other advantages could counteract the reduced efficiency. You can't really know from intuition unless someone actually studies it.

Another example - commercial aircraft are known to have a relatively inefficient shape, but that's cheaper to produce than the more complex and more aerodynamic alternatives even though they would reduce fuel costs.
My specific suggestions on how to improve the Apply HN process.

1. Allow more than 2000 characters for the application description. I don’t think we need to make this endless - something like 5000 characters should work.

2. Increase the contrast of the text in the description - as a (slightly) older person reading large blocks of light grey text on a light grey background is hard going.

3. Set clear guidelines on what we are supposed to be judging the applications on. Is it what we would most like to see funded, or is it what we think is the best fit for YC?

4. Once a shortlist is selected then let the applicants update the description in light of the discussion they have had. In my case I learned from the questions asked that many people missed what the market was for my idea and dismissed it on that basis. I really needed to go back into the original application and update the description to make this clearer.

5. YC should not limit themselves to the winners of the process. If they see an application they think is a great fit for YC then just interview the applicants. YC is getting a different category of applicants in both cases. In my case I put in an Apply HN application yet I had no interest in applying for a standard YCF or the YC program. Edit. I should add here that I am probably not a good fit for YC, but I am sure some of the other applicants that did not win were.

6. We need some better way of deciding on what is more important - what appeals to the HN community, or what has wider appeal. The HN community is a great resource, but it is not necessarily the best market for a startup. Many of the applications were voted up on what HNers wanted, not on what we thought the wider world wants.
Most spacex dates slip. Sure they are wildly optimistic but the end result is still much faster than anyone else.
"Enterprise" Management Consulting (with code) is what kept ringing in my head reading this article.

You hit the nail on the head, though I would also highlight this from the article:

>But Kimberly-Clark was getting cold feet by early 2016. In January, a year after the initial pilot, Kimberly-Clark executive Anthony J. Palmer said he still wasn’t ready to sign a binding contract, meeting notes show. Palmer also “confirmed our suspicion” that a primary reason Kimberly-Clark had not moved forward was that “they wanted to see if they could do it cheaper themselves,” Kelt told colleagues in January.

My own experience (small, not a big-5 at all) with Management Consulting, and following the sales and execution process, was many times this issue. Providing enough information and value to get FURTHER engagements, with many clients seeing "20% increase in savings is better then $xM a year to $firm" (our little firm).

Additionally, our company was used as a cudgel against procurement contracts, such as telecom, wherein, if we are brought in, perhaps the 5 year $30M telecom deal would create a cost decrease of 45-55%, so, the incumbent immediately shaved 20% off of the renewal contract, and the company did not engage with our firm further.

telecom and IT procurement savings normally dealing with CFO's/CIO's at $1b-$5b companies. Engagements from 3-8 months standard, with a few at several years. Every contract was a big fight of the above push and pull.
if you read the thread, he's plainly referring to the fact that he missed a very natural reading of his sentence (he thought it was clear he meant "we'll probably change things during this contest," but the sentence really lent itself to meaning "we'll probably change things dramatically next time we do this"--since experiments are rarely changed mid-performance). readers pointed this out, and he got it.

that's not even close to blaming the community, that's taking full responsibility for unintentionally misleading writing.
Does anyone else find it a bit ironic that the same guy who wants to pay people to drop out of college is also the guy who only wants to hire from the "Top schools."

I'm old enough now to know where you went to school doesn't correlate to who you are as a person and your level of intelligence (however you may wish to define the different types of intelligence). That and I've met way too many people from "Top Schools" who are just this side of morons, and too many people who have zero or little education who are quite intelligent/innovative/great "engineers"/etc. Still, it's all about that brand.
The vote brigading thing was just mud slinging. They were pretty clear that they disqualified him because they don't like him. Or at least don't want to work with him.
Hopefully after all the free publicity it is only 2 weeks revenue.
I might be in the minority opinion here, but I think Maciej is getting off light on this one.

I am a happy paying subscriber to Pinboard and enjoy his writing as much as anyone here, but Pinboard can barely be considered a startup at this point in time (running since 2009), and he seems like he has not really been interested in adding much new since then (for good reason..)

The original posting stated "It will be like a lighter version of YC for idea and prototype stage companies" - Which doesn't fit Pinboard at all.

I think the original response to the voting, etc was handled very professionally by YC, and Maciej should spend more time writing and less time stewing up trouble.
Amiga: SILVER5 core released for the Vampire 600 V2
We got hit with the smoke today here in Montana.
I'm surprised DDG can donate so much money to open source. They must be doing well? Or is this money they've helped raise from their users? $225,000! That's a lot of money.
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Good point. Although some people might say that that isn't something they need to protect their website users against, because Quantum Insert is targeted only against very specific users such as terrorists. The Great Cannon targets all internet users indiscriminately, so website owners are more likely to sympathize with them and want to protect them.
For a number of reasons, higher ed supply is slow to react to increased demand (for any given student cohort; scaling out to serve different kinds of students with different demands is a slightly different story), which means you've got a low price elasticity of demand in ay least the short run.

And, in fact, part of this is that largely higher education is monopolistic. Except at the very bottom tier, degrees from established institutions are not, in the market, as having equivalent substitutes when a new entrant comes into the market. The established reputation of institutions is a big part of what people are paying for.
There is too much grief being felt on both sides of the table for a measly $20k. I hope everyone's happy with he outcome but let's avoid this kind of pain in the future.
I really someone within the industry could tell us the secret source of Gigafactory. What EXACTLY is Tesla and Panasonic together doing that make battery cheaper possible?

All these battery are already heavy into bots and automation with laser thin margin. They are already large in their scale, although nowhere near as large as Gigafactory.

So how is it possible for company to squeeze even more efficiecy out of a well battled and automatize industry ?
Fundamentally, work for their problems, not yours, to solve your problem.

Log patterns and avoid premature automation, but write down the time you and others take to fix issues and then you can say that technical debt because of blank cost the company X days this last Y period.

Also work on projects that showcase you can get shit done to build up credibility. Everyone who comes in as a junior engineer with different ideas will come across as the hot shot who thinks he knows better. Reach out to the developers and ask them what are areas where automation would make their job easier. Reach out to management and ask them what they want more control over, or want done quicker through automation. Look for other costs, server costs, service costs, etc.

Your frustration likely matters to nobody but yourself though. Find their frustrations and fix both simultaneously.
Unfortunate. Suggestions for "easy" reading of the like for this subject matter? Meaning, the "technical matters into plain english" outside of the actual Journal article?
I really appreciate that you guys apologized for all this and did the charity thing. But constantly changing your story does not make you seem trustworthy at all.

"He made me uncomfortable"
"It wasn't a serious application"
"He'd be a bad fit"
"He vote brigaded"

Which just makes it look like you're throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. My advice, put down the shovel and stop digging the hole deeper.
In theory seawater would work but it's important to consider the increased expenses and operating troubles from seawater. Corrosion, bio-fouling, increased need for filters and filter maintenance, etc...
It wasn't flagged (well, a few users did, but not enough to affect it) and it spent many hours on the front page. It wasn't posted at peak hours, but we didn't plan it that way; it just ended up being the earliest time Kevin and I were both ready.
That's one way of looking at it. The comments and feed make me think his desire was always to troll them rather than invest in his business. I doubt it really changed.

Fraud or not, giving him the money was a waste vs somebody that would do what they said. I'd have apologized then been honest about why I'd not pay him. Something along lines of "He's probably trolling us and will just give it to charity or something. Doesn't really need it for his business." If I had the foresight.
Estrogen and fat are entangled.
> abuse of terrorists

Many of those people who were abused were not terrorists. Partisan meaning that the opposition took shots at the incumbents as they should. Not the two parties conspired together to paint a rosy picture of the situation, as they do in China.

The victors are not writing history. That's the problem.
It will die when it is no longer true.
I agree they they spent a ton of money on recruiting, but many of my interview questions were absolutely terrible trivia questions. They were strictly questions that had a single answers regarding knowledge of shell command line functions. Not familiarity with usage, like when to use grep or ps aux, but things like how do you unzip and search with 5 keystrokes (zgrep)? For a new grad, it was a complete waste of time.
Please do not use SQLite for multiuser systems. You will have a bad time.
I almost completely switched from Atom to VSCode because of performance and nice IntelliSense for JS.

Reading this thread I gave a Atom another shot, uninstalling all plugins, and damn, how much faster it is :) I can open big files easily now.
yeah, esp. when he says "too little done"...
He said he wanted the money for his business. Made a big deal about not getting it and what he could do with it. Ended up in a charity instead when he was going to receive it.

That's what happened rather than a bizarre interpretation. My interpretation was he went back on his own word. Which he did given I couldnt find charity or donation in whole, other thread.
Growing up in Montana not far from US2 we would quite often get the smoke from the forest fires straight west from us.

Getting the Alberta smoke from around Yellowstone is quite impressive and frightening.
By mentioning sed and line-oriented, I means you don't have to read all content of stdin (i.e. full buffering) before matching.
Plugins wouldn't work because they require installing node modules during runtime. Accessing the file system wouldn't work. Any multiprocessor support wouldn't work. I guess I don't see the point in an online editor.

I'm building an electron app that's web compatible and you lose a lot making it work for both and it requires a lot of planning to make feasible.
Wow...horrifying indeed :( For some reason, I found these front-yard bushes casually on fire some of the most dramatic images: https://youtu.be/PCc1FvZ3g0Q?t=134

Probably because that side of the street looks relatively normal except for, you know, that well groomed plant is on fire.
Donating to open-source seems like such a good use of charity money. I never give to charity because it always seems so abstract, or there might be better ways to solve the problem; with open source people are usually laboring over it with no recognition, and even a little seems like it has such high marginal benefit.

I'm in-between jobs right now(occupied with a side project), but at some point I'd really like to fund feature development on some open source projects:

* GNUCash has a solid heart, but has some usability issues that make it a pain to use in practice.

* Freenet last I checked had only 1 fulltime developer. And he's probably taking a serious cut to market salary to work on it.

* GHC could stand to have some performance optimization done on the compiler.

* Inkscape or GIMP are handy to have around. Inkscape even has a page describing how you can host a fundraiser for targeted feature development, which is very rare for open-source.

* I don't know that TOR needs much software help, but I wouldn't mind funding some exit nodes. It'd be nice if you could buy a locked-down black-box exit node that you could plug into your wall or something, that was guaranteed not to incriminate you. Maybe outside the scope of this, though.

* Everyone has a little app or site they use where a few people are working without much benefit to maintain something you use all the time.

Is there a good list of needy open-source software?
"It will be like a lighter version of YC for idea and prototype stage companies" - Which doesn't fit Pinboard at all." - I agree 100%
There was a lot of concern over patents and control but I think the decline of Mono had a lot more to do with Novell going bust and developers disappearing.

Vala was an attempt to provide enough c# like features to provide an alternative and while it hasn't exploded in popularity it probably has filled the gap to some extent.
Taxes actually encourage spending, whereas low taxes seem to encourage holding onto wealth. If you can spend X to build your company and write that off, that's better then giving it to the government. There is the persuasive argument that when rates were super high (90%), this spurred investment and jobs.

Also make exec compensation a bigger issue to stockholders. I think I read the Norwegian capital fund is trying the latter.
With all due respect to 'tptacek, there were a lot of folks unhappy with the result and "drum-pounding."
Do you mean had a successful career in a non-tech field and making the switch?
I think ActiveJob has been in there since 4.1 or 4.2. Agree it's nice to have a standard.
I think your comment was informative. It kind of reminds me of "There, but for Fortune", by Phil Ochs:

Show me an alley, show me a train
Show me a hobo who sleeps out in the rain
And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why
And there but for fortune, may go you or I

Especially in countries with (dare I say) primitive social security, going intentionally homeless could quickly become a permanent thing. A broken down car and a medical emergency, a family tragedy -- and coming back might suddenly become an insurmountable obstacle. Difficult to get a job without a place to stay, difficult to get a place to stay without money, difficult to get money without a job...
My New York Misadventure (1932)
The argument is irrelevant. YC doesn't know what it doesn't know (missing out on "black swan mining") and it reached out to the community for assistance. Maciej was anointed and then snubbed. The micro-drama is healthy for human relationships. Whether we will witness a post-experiment, quantum jump by YC remains to be seen. Personally I am excited about the Farm-in-a-Box, but maybe I played too much Sim City 2000.
For the Homeless... Yes. Employers, even min wage, want an address, and generally want someone that has some kind of stability.

There are very few employers that will hire homeless people. Of the ones that do some want to help, often they have been or know someone how has been homeless personally. These employers are VERY VERY VERY VERY rare... the other want to take advantage of their situation to get them to work for cash for next to nothing... the "Come work 8 hours for lunch and $20" jobs...

Further most of the legitimate min wage jobs are for entry level position and employers while never saying out out right do practice ageism... They want young workers that are less likely to understand employment law, and are easier to manipulate that older workers. This is true for older homeless and non-homeless alike so this would play a factor in your "when you're on your way shouldn't you be looking around for any way to earn some cash?"

While people may think the economy has improved and in some regions it has, for the most part is it a buyers market for labor, meaning employers can be very selective as they still have 100's or 1000's of applicant's for entry level positions... Young Adult unemployment is still very very very high.
It is a lot of money, but it's about as much money as you'd need to hire one additional employee.
One problem is the severe rate-limiting. I don't think downmods get rate-limited (I rarely downmod), so someone could downmod (which is not undoable), write up a response and get rate-limited, and never follow through with posting after their limit is up.
would you say there's a consistent theme amongst the strong ones? i.e., they were previously programmers?
This is very narrow-minded. Lots of people are running OS X severs, for reasons you may not have considered.
You should try it again. It's gotten quite good at automatic reloading. I use it with Rspec and as long as you've got spring-commands-rspec[0] installed, it's never a hassle.

[0] https://github.com/jonleighton/spring-commands-rspec
Thesis advisors certainly do this, though.