skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point taken ... It's not measly individually. But it is measly corporately. With over thirty years in the tech business, I've become sensitive to false economies.

YC was essentially crowd-sourcing application review as an experiment in how well we'd pick winners. As a thought experiment, let's say there are 250 of us involved and that we each spent an average of four hour reviewing applications (posts), discussing candidate awardees and voting. YC effectively paid a "measly" $2 per (wo)man hour.

My opinion is that this time was well invested and I have no problem donating expertise here or elsewhere. As an added bonus, I think the exercise also strengthened the community ... We normally have discussions but this projects turned the natural flow of those discussions into motive force.

The wasted time and mental energy started when the post-decision arguments and interpersonal conflict happened. How many more hours were wasted at the "measly" pay rate calculated above?

Here's my proposal to make the process better ... Make votes cost something. My original thought was to propose that same $2 per vote, and that you could vote for as many applicants as you wanted but only vote for each applicant once. Now I'm leaning towards each vote costing 100 points of karma.

And since I'm calling $2 "measly", I proposal we each donate $8 cash to create a fellowship for another YC applicant ... Or we could simply crowd fund pinboard (though I agree that pinboard doesn't really fit the spirit of the original proposal) ... Tell me where to send the money and I'll post it today,

@llamataboot is right ... There's nothing "measly" about $20k when it's applied in a way that changes someone's life. I'd also caution those who think it would solve all their problems ... You have to understand how you ended up with those problems or it will make no long-term difference in your life.
Haven't had experience in GCD, looks interesting, are there any tutorials I can read up other than Apple resources?
DP will be better than maxwell cards but you need to wait and see if it can beat kepler (IMO it will).
It's not this simple. That code will only work if you are root or in a virtualenv — and having to create a virtualenv manually contradicts the idea of a self-contained, standalone script that manages dependencies on its own. To install bar as a non-root user you will have to do

import pip
pip.main(['install', '--user', 'bar'])

which throws an error, e.g., if bar is already installed, meaning you will have to wrap the calls to pip.main() in a "try" block and differentiate between the types of errors they throw.

The above already makes it noticably less convenient for a script to manage its own dependencies. The killing blow, however, comes form the fact that pip won't let you install multiple versions of the same package in parallel: the most recently installed version overwrites the previous one. This means that a script that relies on a per-user package store can only be safe if it checks the version of every package it uses and replaces it if needed each time it is run. This can a take a long time and is error prone (what if your Internet connection goes down?) but the alternative is simply to deal with the brittleness.

I can see this being solved for Python but the solution will probably involve automatically creating and caching per-script virtualenvs. For now, though, something like PyInstaller (i.e., binaries) remains more practical if you want to distribute standalone Python scripts.
I've written a fun little OS X/iOS game in Swift 2.0 and found the language incredibly satisfying. Swift 3.0 seems to bring a ton of improvements including some of the bugbears I encountered during that first project.

It's probably mostly personal preference, but I prefer Swift's approach to things over Go or Rust. Go in particular does a lot of things that I personally find obnoxious (capitalization of method names indicating exporting instead of using a proper keyword I find particularly egregious, but I also find the := assignment operator annoying as well.)

Swift is the first language I've learned in a while that had way more "OH yeah that's awesome!" than "What?! Why did they do that?"
Fort McMurray evacuee here.

I was in the Thickwood neighbourhood, and we were in complete gridlock. This only changed once the RCMP did exactly what you suggest -- they used both sides of the highway.

Both sides on the north side of the city were used for traffic heading north. Same on the south side.

Once they did that, traffic started moving again.
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How to build a windmill [2012]
Super impressive to see things resolved this way! Well done.
You are right and you are probably left leaning politically and are pro immigration, also you are probably not physically strong. The reason for your avoidance of competition is both environmentally affected and genetic. Your parents, maybe even grandparents, were probably raised in an environment where they didn't have to struggle too much at life. This kind of life changes genetic expression in a way that adapts to this environment. It causes rabbit like behaviour - breed as much as possible, don't care to much about offspring, don't care to much about quality of mate, consume food without much competition for it and react only to the current and immediate threat to your life. If threat avoided, don't plan ahead to prevent it. Physically the affected gene expression reduces the size of amygdala which causes individual to be unable to perceive threats. Also it causes the brain to constantly seek novelty and reduces dopamine reward for things that normally would motivate you to seek competition and success. So your avoidance of competition is likely inherited.
There is an official Bing API coming out soon (a Bing developer recently mentioned this in an HN thread a couple days ago, although I can't find it atm), so they won't have to rely on Yandex for much longer. I have no idea if the pricing will be comparable to Yahoo BOSS though.
>welcome to global warming.

Maybe people wouldn't doubt climate change if every single negative thing that happens in nature wasn't attributed to it. Massive burns aren't exactly a new phenomenon.

>wait a sec... Alberta? Fort McMurray!? I don't believe in karma, but I could change my mind.

Karma will get you too. Maybe post here when it does so we can say you deserved it.
Fort McMurray evacuee here. One of those Youtube videos is from me. It was indeed apocalyptic to drive through the fire. Watching buildings burning as a fire raged on both sides of the car. Trying to reassure my kids that everything was going to be fine.

We're at a camp in Wandering River now, but unsure of the future.
I found there was a lack of supply at traditional online parts retailers for Xeon brands (consumer v enterprise processors). I picked up a Xeon 2620v3 last year at Microcenter for under $300 b/c of a sale. Also, the 2670 is older, I'd presume he picked it up second hand at that price.
"late last year, the supply became huge when thousands of these processors hit the market as previous-gen servers from Facebook and other big Internet companies were decommissioned by used equipment recyclers" [1]

[1] http://www.techspot.com/review/1155-affordable-dual-xeon-pc/
Amazon/google/facebook/something else replaced a lot of servers with those CPUs, so now ebay is flooded with them - hence price drop ;)
Payment+Processor+Founder+Budovski+Liberty+Reserve+sentenced+20+years+in+prison
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11644462
Income inequality is one of the defining issues of our time. Hmm...
What benefits does baqqer provide over Patreon (for single Makers) and Bountysource Salt (for OSS projects)?

How much does baqqer charge on the donations that a maker gets through it? I can see very little to no information without signing up.
Hot or Not gets creepier: It's now a dating app
FYI, a third option is

mutating func next() -> Element? {
//...
defer { pos += 1 }
return pos
}

Whether it's better is a matter of opinion
As far as I can tell Arian 6 will get tons of government money, almost 3 billion, while private share is only about 0.5 billion. Even with this massive investment the estimated costs are per launch are still quite high.

SpaceX actually has to do a lot of work for those government contracts, and they will lose that money if they can not diliver the capability in the required amount of time. They had to carry most devlopment cost themself and they were also always flighing comercial launches. Governemnts are 70% of the launch market, so I don't think any space company can or will live totally without government contracts.

If they can make the Ariane 6 compete within a decent price, I am not against some government contracts going to them. It makes sense not to give all contracts to one company, but Arianspace (or whoever) has to first devlop a rocket without massiv governemnt investment and show that they are in the 20% range of price. If they can not do that, their are other companies who you can go to. Sure its not fair if the rockets from china or russia are subsidised (not saying the are or ar not) but thats good for Europe because we get cheaper launches that are payed for by other governments.
Designing SSD-Friendly Applications
That is a great description. This fire had been raging South of town for a few days. Some southern neighbourhoods were evacuated temporarily.

We woke up on Tuesday and the sky was blue, and the fire was largely contained.

Then it jumped the Athabasca River (which is a kilometre wide). That's when panic set it.

I live in the Thickwood neighbourhood. We went from "hey, better get organized in case we need to evacuate" to "get the hell out now!" in about 20 minutes.
Some statistical problems I can see here:

1. Sample size n=80. You would need a pretty incredible result for a sample size this small to be significant.

2. All students from the same region of France. Will this result carry over to other countries? Other cultures?

3. The treatment groups were chosen from pre-existing classes. Classes whose composition may not be random.

It's a cool result, and it should definitely be tried again elsewhere but pop science articles shouldn't be saying this is anything worth talking any yet.
In the UK I'd always been told you had to give a reference, usually by phone, and couldn't say anything negative but would just say "she worked here" if the employee wasn't very good.

One day at a small company I worked for the phone rang and a fellow developer answered. He said "the CEO's in a meeting right now, can I help?... Oh Andrew? He was terrible, couldn't code his way out of a cardboard box and he was really hard to get on with. I couldn't stand him personally... Ok, you're welcome, bye". My mouth was on the floor, I'm pretty sure Andrew didn't get that job.
You say

> it could have been more cleanly designed if it was able to abandon the burden of Objective-C interoperability

You mean this for the language itself and not the (standard) libraries; right?

> The standard libraries could have also been much cleaner if it didn't rely on NextStep.

I agree.
>The income multiplier I always considered was 2X annual income

It's generally 3-5x, depending on rates. I know that in Silicon Valley everyone thinks everyone is "killing it", but I bet people would be surprised how few people are actually making the ~$250,000 required to service a mortgage this size. The median income in SF is less than $80,000.
Quoting an 18th century politician citing 18th century anecdotal evidence does not convince anyone who does not already occupy that viewpoint. Especially from outside of the US where the degree of unquestioning reverence, whatever their virtues, given to your founders can come across a little odd and parochial.

They were men that agreed and disagreed with each other on lots of matters, not Gods.
If you insist on drawing continuous attention to meta drama (this is something very new to HN since PG stepped back), then please at least document exactly what it is you're apologizing for rather than making some vague remarks then linking to 2 huge threads full of drama. I really tried to figure out what this was all about, but after 5 minutes I've given up.

This is really crap content, please cut it out
Lambda doesn't destroy the instance at the end of the response. It keeps it running just in case other requests arrive. If that happens you might want GC or a worker eventually runs out of memory.

What could happen with Lambda and similar services is that costs will take back under the spotlight "old" languages that run with little memory and little CPU cicles. I'm even thinking about C. I'm not into Go, but that looks like another candidate.

Scenarios: those ubiquitous web services running on a single VM because it's more than enough. The customer has to pay for it all the time and could save money if the app can run on Lambda. Enough to pay more in developer time?
Tesla will not be able to scale its manufacturing capacity
Math (particularly the axiom of choice) is known to be reactionary and evil:

http://alexanderpruss.com/HOAX.pdf
How is this on the front page?

Surely if you are coding something to use this, you would be able to write the 30-odd lines that these sql statements are...

also table names like "UserUserRole" don't look right to me.
It looks so cool.
Some of these people caused similar revolution against their predecessors. We may not be aware that some of their toughs are interesting deviations or improvements for the previous state of things.

Freud is perfect example. He caused huge revolution in the philosophy of mind and changed our culture in many visible ways, but his theories did not survive.

Freud's theories are based on outdated concepts of how the brain works. The evidence was usually incomplete or questionable. Freud based his theories on anecdotes from his practice and his patients were mostly upper class women who suffered from sexual repression. Freud overgeneralized from this very odd set of patients very strange theories.

Still his basic themes are considered correct even today and they were revolutionary at the same way as Einstein's. They seem so basic and obvious to us that we don't think there was controversy or revolution involved.

Five still valid _general_ ideas that are left from his psychodynamics theories after most was debunked:

1. There are unconscious processes. Parts of cognition, motivation and emotions can be hidden from consciousness.

2. There are competing processes and conflicts in the brain.

3. Personality is significantly shaped by childhood

4. Our mental representations of other people shape our social relations.

5. There is a sequence of different developmental stages that create internal psychological conflicts.

http://psych.utoronto.ca/users/peterson/psy430s2001/Westen%2...
I went for the demo and I stopped right away when it asked me to login with Google or Facebook. I went to the repo and it's very light on documentation. At least I learnt about aurelia.io
Nice. That's a beautifully idiomatic implementation of the original intent of post increment, if nothing else.
Getting even a minimum wage job while you have a home can be difficult, even more so when you are homeless.
Un-clicked links in Google Search are black
This is 100% what they are doing.
/{bin,sbin} is for stuff you cannot live without (e.g., sh, mkdir, chmod, rm, ln, etc.)

/usr/{bin,sbin} is for stuff you can live without but expect to be there (e.g., make, grep, less).

/usr/local/{bin,sbin} is for stuff you/your local admin installed (e.g., mosh, cmake).

Also, I use $HOME/{bin,sbin} for wrapper scripts, binaries that I need but don't want to install system-wide (single-file C utils that come without man pages, stuff like that).

I'm not sure where the confusion comes from and I don't really see any advantage in merging / and /usr. On the flip side, I do think there's value in keeping /{bin,sbin} as small as possible (because that stuff has to work).
As the length of any discussion increases, the probability of $anything being mentioned reaches 1. But sure, let's ban all literature from that time period, where so many great thinkers gave their best.

> 'Collectivism is triumphing because of too much individualism' is not a strongly coherent argument.

I wouldn't equate lack of tolerance and cooperation with "individualism". Russel didn't write people should be more alike or less individualistic, at least I don't read it that way.

> Also note that those of the intelligent alluded to here did in fact combine, with historically significant results

Can you elaborate on what exactly you mean by this?
> We have spent many years trying to present gender-neutral environments to our children.

[...]

> This was before school

My son's favourite colour before he started daycare was pink. That rapidly got policed out of him by other children and disappointingly by staff in day care.

We persevered - "anyone can like any colour; boys can have pink as their favourite colour, girls can have blue as their favourite colour" and it sort of worked, but he's now in his first year at school and the policing from other children is pretty fierce (although the teachers are much better).
its funny, I was searching for a library doing this a day ago :)
I guess this is going to be mainstream soon, once the windowed mode gets out :)
I once posted my resume on resumerabbit.com (at the time with a mere 1 years experience with rails) and I was harassed by recruiters for nearly half a decade. (US)
Dynamo is dirt cheap if your requests are low. Run an auto scaler on it in lambs and it should cost you almost nothing.
Surely you can't mean without teaching. It'd be pretty hard to learn to read without someone teaching you.

Perhaps you mean an experiment where a child is raised by a blind caregiver who never talks about reading. Given full access to children's books and other media but no one to tell them about reading, will they pick it up?
Swift is more like Java ecosystem than Rust is ideal as the next gen C++. Otherwise, Obj-C would have been popular when it tried to compete with C/C++. There was an article mentioning.
Sure, there is that.

But same sex parents report similar things happening. And many parents try really pretty to fight aspects of this - talking about movies and tv shows; not conforming to the roles; etc.
> In the era of the internet and "the cloud", the report is going to be available to everyone forever (if it was ever available in the first place).

Not forever. Only as long as there's enough people caring about it. Even if it won't disappear over the next years as companies shut down their cloud services and people don't move all their data to new ones, it can and will effectively disappear when people lose "references" pointing to it. To find something on-line, you need an engine that indexes it, but more importantly, you need to be aware what to look for in the first place (and have a reason to). Link rot is a real thing too.

The cloud is one of the most fragile and short-term way of storing information humanity has ever invented.
This is how I got through undergrad and grad school. I framed every class and assignment as a competition me vs. the teacher and/or me vs. the other students.
It is different. In 2007 the bubble was everywhere. Today markets like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver are at or above 2007 levels. Other markets like Phoenix, Atlanta and most others have still not recovered.

It's lack of inventory causing the increase, not sub prime mortgages. I just bought a house myself in a hot market. It had 35 offers on it. That week there were about 3 houses available in the entire county of similar price. And every week I've shopped, the outlook was just as grim. They will need to build a lot more to meet the demand, but there isn't enough space.
Understood, but that means that Rails has been serverless almost forever because of Heroku. The console is simpler than the one of AWS and you deploy with git push. You didn't have to worry about the db because you only had PostgreSQL for a long time. And you could buy add on services to do almost everything. It just happened before the buzzword was born.
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Riemann is a good example of this when talking about Riemann surfaces but what essay of Musil's are you talking about?
Why are these coprocessors still positioned as graphics cards?
[Video]How to draw beautiful things on the screen of Mac
We are only looking for people who have experience working with Go, C or C++.
I think you mean "is the solution, not the problem"
This will be pretty nice for VR cause it will push older generation cards back in price
Plus the whole tracking issue. I assume most people with privacy blockers are blocking disqus anyway.
Bee model could be breakthrough for autonomous drone development
WiFi capacity doubled at less than half the size
Well I shouldn't have used the term "conservative" since it is too politicized, but I'm thinking of sentiment like Voltaires statement that "if God didn't exist it would be necessary to invent him". This in opposition to the more radical atheism which believed that religious belief in itself was bad. Obviously Voltaire was very critical towards the church, but believed religion itself was valuable.
Can You Decode This “Alien Message”?
Hello,

>another C-like language

Oberon is also a system programming language.

I guess, the code would not look as C-like to you, if it would use some threading or socket library, may be written in "oop" way.

It might create an impression of being close to C because it uses the same way of dealing with sockets as people do in C usually. If the code would use TThread and TSocket classes, like in Object Pascal, it might look different.

It requires less efforts to create wrappers, than to write libraries. Probably if there were more "speakers" of the language, then there would be more ready to use libraries for developers.

This also may explain why that code could be improved, as you have pointed out - it serves more as an example of how to write a wrapper, rather than example of how to, or not to, program in Oberon.

I also know that the code could be improved, I can add that for instance I do not like that the main server module imports SYSTEM module, which flags it as unportable and potentially dangerous. But never thought that it could appear at such a crowded space as HN and deferred the improvements. Also, I did not think the code deserves a lot of attention.

>What "good ideas" should I be looking at?

To me it is important that it's low level and system programming language which, if compared to C, is still is more safe and less error prone.

It is important to me that Oberon is modular. That types, variables, functions are "private", unless explicitly exported. Strong typing. Type checks across module boundaries. In Oberon systems I could point out dynamic module loading, tasks vs threads, active objects in the language, single address space operating system is controversial but interesting. These are good ideas I can mention without even thinking.
On one hand I agree with you that borrowing a term like "sweatshop" to describe Palantir is ridiculous. The abuse of language not just in this instance, but overall, is ridiculous to both extremes.

Having said that, I think the intention was to describe Palantir in relative terms compared to other companies in SV. With that in mind, then yes, Palantir is one of the worst places to work at among companies of the same type: well-funded startups with a rather convenient revenue stream.
Those were missing: Most lisps, perl6, cperl, php 7, ruby 3
Anyone remember the movie Idiocracy?
Are you for real?