skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm not a bad person

When push comes to shove, your personal opinion on whether you're good or bad is irrelevant. Others might judge you differently. I've said it before; if we ever have a violent proletariat uprising, I think there will be a few people here who are surprised to see what side they're considered "on".

The HBGary leaks showed a slide deck of Palantir suggesting a few very underhanded tricks to kill WikiLeaks and discredit people trying to do "good" work, for money. How and why is that acceptable?
In the case of the human personal assistant the governing terms originate with the person being assisted, and so the data and the ways it can be used remain in control of the owner.

Tech companies are inverting this control, which has very dangerous implications for those they assist.

There are ways to keep control with the user, however these require a level of architecture inversion the consumers haven't fought for yet.
Cogent: Code and Proof Co-Generation
I agree. Stewardess strikes me as a threat to national security or at the very least her own passengers. How would she react during a real crisis??
I think you're missing the greater point here. From the original announcement a few things were quite clear. You welcomed a different perspective [0] and those who wouldn't want to go through the normal interview process [0], people was supposed to be nice [1], bias to be avoided [2] and that HN would decide. With this apology you've largely satisfied HN, but left everyone else wondering if they can ever trust an YC announcement again.

The things that was different about him was called out as faults (participating on his own terms, not knowing rules, making you uncomfortable), he was forced into the normal interview process (which you both said wouldn't happen and explicitly tried to attract people who wouldn't want to, then using that as an excuse to reject him), the "be nice" rules wasn't enforced on the many comments attacking his character as a result of this process and bias wasn't avoided.

It's one thing to change the rules, another not to be true to the premise of the experiment. How could someone now in good faith recommend a YC initiative to someone who doesn't fit the mould, when you can't even make it work with "one of your own"?

[0] "Hacker News users have many diverse perspectives on technology and business. Perhaps if HN picked startups, it would pick differently than YC. Maybe different startups would be motivated to apply, if they knew that the interviewing and deciding would be done by the HN community." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627

[1] "Anybody who applies to HN in public this way is putting both themselves and their baby in a super vulnerable position. We're going to rise to the occasion by being not only civil, but nice." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627

[2] "It’s easy to form some really bad habits when you sit in a position of power to judge the potential of a person, a team, an idea and their execution—believing that you know better and focusing your time on finding weakness." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440843
Just like your salary compensation should be determined by the value you bring to your company, instead of how well you negotiate and get people to identify you as "one of us".

Just like presidents should be decided by issues instead of how good looking they are. http://paulgraham.com/charisma.html

The other agents in all of our interactions are humans. Fallible, emotional creatures, guided by an unimaginably complicated, overlapping, self-contradicting set of heuristics optimized over millions of years to make us as effective as possible at creating more humans.

View any behavior approaching rationality as something to be treasured and appreciated, rather than the norm-- _Even within ourselves_. Even very smart people need prolonged introspection/mindfulness practice to become aware of how rarely we actually act as a rational being.

Wishing things were one way has no bearing on whether they are that way. We do ourselves a disfavor if we act as if the world worked the way we want it to rather than the way it does.
For those of you struggling to identify "RML", its Richard M. Langworth, former editor.

"The Churchill Centre has announced that Richard M. Langworth will retire as editor of its quarterly journal Finest Hour on October 31, 2014 after completion of the Autumn 2014 issue."
Rather than confront the people who are describing the (negative) consequences of your way of thinking, you instead disregard their shared commentary as being off-topic. A class act. You hope your logic will live on, yet you choose to ignore its contradictions.
Is Empty Nose Syndrome Real? If Not, Why Are People Killing Themselves Over It
I think the author forgets how bad other programming languages can be. I wanted to make my life easier and tried to write a specialized image processing framework in Python. It currently runs 2 to 3 times slower than my naive C++ owing to deep copies everywhere, for example in multiprocessing's queue. I will probably need to rewrite it in C++. There is a large category of things that are easy to do in C++ but hard to do in other languages.
"The pilot seemed to be embarrassed" and "security deemed him to not be a 'credible threat'" were the parts that stood out to me.
That was an awesome insight, thanks. I guess that fakers in the future will leave out Mailinator addresses... But that leaves still plenty of room for the other methods.
The FHS thing in Debian and Ubuntu must be relatively new, I certainly have no recollection of it back then when we looked into delivering unbundled software for it. And we did look for it, and we even combed through the Debian packaging specification back then.

Whatever it might be, or has been, if Debian and Ubuntu did get /opt, /etc/opt, and /var/opt and are now one small step closer to being System V compliant (from which FHS stems), I for one am very glad for that.
What aspects of systemd is not well documented?
I am sure it exists, but if you're calling BS, better to be explicit.
Actually, the chart shows a pretty damning story for selection bias: despite all the selectivity of schools, there's no sign of improvement in returns for more selective engineering schools. It makes a bit of intuitive sense: any MIT/CMU/Stanford/etc premium on degrees would be capped by management salary structure, since fresh grads don't typically earn more than their boss. It's possible that a linear fit is not a great model, as the little data there is on the far left chart is all above average, but the 10x engineer isn't registering on the radar.

As for what people can do differently: if you have equal chances of succeeding at the most selective arts and humanities college, or the least selective engineering, choosing engineering will net you better 20 year salaries. Especially relevant if you're considering humanities as a law degree path -- the LSAT has logical reasoning test, and if you can hack that, you can probably do okay in engineering math / CS classes.
From my own experience building a platform of products on top of microservices, I find that the most difficult part about this architecture (and the one that nobody ever talks about) is how to share data between microservices via message bus instead of direct requests. If you can get this down the rest, in my opinion, is just pure bliss and a piece of cake.
Facebook was great when it was a way to connect with close friends and people in your immediate community (ex. university) and see what to happening around you. Now thats it trying to evolve into this platform that targets you so that it can make an insane amount of ad revenue, it has become less and less worth it. Especially in respect to our privacy.
> How can nothing have changed about the school? Schools derive a great deal of their funding from property taxes. You just described a school district dramatically gentrifying and going from 80% low-income to less than 15% low-income. The school now has a dramatically larger budget.

This is incorrect. All of the public schools in DC are in one school district, so the changing demographics of neighborhoods don't affect how much money is available for any given school in that district. The property taxes are all going into one pot.
You should educate yourself better. There are 3 doses, and at the monetary cost and health risks of vaccinating every single child in the US? I would definitely not. The vaccination is not risk free, there have been health issues and deaths associated with it. It's not a freebie.
What's the difference between video chat and face to face communication? I don't see any.

And, for that matter, resolving the issue in Slack is often much faster.
Well, linkerd was what the article was about, so it's what I was referring to. A "sidecar" sounds like the more established term for what I was calling an ambassador proxy, so it's nice to learn that that's what people call this pattern.

Your explanation sounds a bit "no duh" though, since I can't imagine any way of implementing this pattern that doesn't abstract away knowledge of how to reach remote partners, perform health checks, load balancing, retry logic, etc. It's generally what the term "proxy" implies. Or am I missing something?

Edit: I think my confusion is caused by my experience with running vanilla Mesos (not Marathon or DCOS, but our own custom frameworks), where it's expected that you just have to implement this stuff yourself. I never even thought of open sourcing or productizing what I've written, because I kind of thought that everybody else must be rolling their own quick solutions for these problems too? I admit I'm probably the one with a messed up worldview though.

I think the mesos community is still in the phase of picking the winners for best practices, and hopefully one day it'll be obvious that you use services like linkerd and don't roll your own solution.
You're putting words in my mouth that I didn't say.
Perhaps you wrote this before American Airlines added more details to the article, but: none of the aircraft crew were aware of what was going on when the plane returned to the gate. The woman in the seat next to the victim lied to the air staff and said she was sick, and only when she had got off the plane did she make her accusation.

The law enforcement agent quickly cleared it up after arriving.

Looks like all the staff here did the best they reasonably could do with the information they were given.
London’s New Mayor, Sadiq Khan, Hailed in UK and Pakistan
> That's a lot different than trying to help your own kids get ahead.

Wow! Really? Who exactly are they getting "ahead" of? And what is the other person being made except for behind?
It wouldn't, not at the scale of inter-device cables.
Extroverts generally cannot understand why someone would not wish to talk. They feel insulted and threatened, and it makes them very anxious.

As an introvert myself, I find extroverts attempts to start a conversation to be intrusive and very tiring, so I have developed techniques to set them at ease. As I noted in another reply, Guido Menzio could have achieved perfect peace for the rest of the journey simply by attempting to explain, in minute technical detail, exactly what he was doing.
What's crusty about Django?
That should be opt-in. What a fucked up feature.

Edit: I don't give any of my friends consent to use that feature - yet the would still scan my face. How can this even be legal.
I worked on similar software that ran on Windows, though the decision was made 18 years ago. It was driven by:

* GUI dev tools were an order of magnitude better than under linux

* nidaq (very common daq and dio cards) didn't have or had flaky linux drivers. usb may be a better choice today but was not then available. Plus it's convenient/less expensive to push functionality to the computer side and minimize embedded development.

* in the beginning (though we fixed this mistake), we shipped software, our machine, and a ni-daq card; users provided a computer. This was a nightmare. We ended up shipping whole computers custom built by Dell to our specs with ni-daq cards installed (and later glued in to prevent them slipping out during shipping) plus our custom system images. At the time, I don't think Dell would do this for linux; you could find other vendors that would, but they weren't easy to work with or much more expensive.

* Nobody is eager to switch OSes because every software update to the machine has to be FDA certified (ie kiss at least $100k goodbye), so the company is very risk averse. Beyond even the cost to rewrite what has evolved into a relatively complicated gui app.

* As mentioned elsewhere, once you leave windows you have to train people to use linux guis that historically had window managers / gui toolkits that didn't work like windows.

All of the above is complicated by the fact most of these medical device companies pay their devs shit and have trouble hiring good devs. (Engineering shortage, obviously!)
I wasn't meaning to exclude that from the equation. Again, we don't materially disagree. I said it was coded language for what you made explicit. Guess I assumed you'd include all of it into the equation. I'd go back and edit, but whatever. My bad for not restating everything you said to avoid misinterpretation.

My point was that "good school district" is coded language, and gives people a polite way to wrap up all of that into a nice-sounding term that lets them avoid admitting the nastier things. As all coded language does.
"The only winning move is not to play."

Recognize the quote?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
Nvidia  announces GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070
I don't think anyone is willing to take that step. More likely theyll elect angry people
Apple Meets with Podcasters to Hear Wide-Ranging Community Grievances
Trade, at what price?
I love React, but I hate Facebook. I also love C and Unix and the transistor, but I never really cared for AT&T.
How long have you been saving up this one-word response? Because the parent was addressing a complaint about small sample size, and basic reading comprehension would show you that your response was off-topic and did not logically follow.
Ask HN: What font do you use while programming?
While it's true you should never stop the world for CMS in a server-side program where you can control memory tuning, newgen collection is still stop-the-world, and can cause multi-millisecond pauses on ~8GB heaps.
This is one of the cases where HN urgently needs the "dislike" button (karma neutral, of course).
For those who don't realize, this is (arguably) the first extended discussion of quantum computers.

The other founding paper of the field is David Deutsch's superb "Quantum theory, the Church-Turing principle and the universal quantum computer": http://folk.uio.no/ovrum/articles/deutsch85.pdf

Both papers are excellent reading, and surprisingly accessible.
There is decent research on this. And a lot of it. Easy to Google but I can post some once I'm home again.
Apache Hadoop, Hive and Pig, among others.

https://www.palantir.com/wp-assets/wp-content/uploads/2013/1...

And actually, it's usually an enterprise distro such as Cloudera's CDH rather than Apache Hadoop itself, which is kind of a nightmare.
I think we're both wrong, but I think you're wronger than I am.

Yes, it's true that N times spent on tuition does not equal N times more money in an absolute sense because the baseline income for spending zero on tuition is not zero.

However, the article said that the ROI on tuition was 12% annualized, which means that you're not reinvesting the proceeds. If you reinvest the proceeds, then that is additional return on top of the 12%.

But the details are not really relevant. What matters is that the headline is wrong. Where you do to school does matter.
I'm confused -- the video themselves don't contain recordings of the slides (they're focused on the presenter), but they've been synced to the slides and the audio is perfectly fine.

Watching them on the website is a perfectly pleasurable experience.
Fira Code
In the case of the human personal assistant the governing terms originate with the person being assisted, and so the data and the ways it can be used remain in control of the owner.

Well, the data and ways it can be used are also in control of the user now, they just all agree to it - even without knowing it in many cases. My question is: how do we talk to consumers to show them the benefits while also informing them of how it works?

There are ways to keep control with the user, however these require a level of architecture inversion the consumers haven't fought for yet.

I'd be curious to know how you see this working - especially in the case of providing a benefit from network effects. The benefit from these systems is using the inputs of other people, and those by definition release control.

Beyond that case, making each user train their own CNN is an impossible consumer demand. The way facebook does it with face tagging and google does it with number/letter recognition, everyone is training the CNN - crowd-sourced neural net training.
Care to explain why this would make a difference, or else what it's a reference to?
Is the IoT an existential threat to free media?
Certainly. My ultimate point was that because of the coded language, saying a "good school district" doesn't exist is, to me, equivalent to saying the problems rayiner made explicit don't exist. Just because it's a polite term doesn't mean people don't understand what it signifies, and also doesn't mean the good/bad school divide doesn't exist. I made my point poorly and wish I hadn't, as it has led to misunderstanding.
Discussed extensively here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11648758

And here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11650102

Also submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11650933
Discussed extensively here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11648758

And here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11650102

Also submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11650863
> A few strangely poor-yet-viable kids will move from very bad schools to slightly bad schools (nice but insignificant) while all the bright promising kids will end up in less-effective schools

I may have overstated my position. I know there are some intractable kids that can't be educated. I just don't think the success of parents is a good measure for us to be using here. Not because it isn't a good one. It is. But because it disincentives anyone without such parents from even bothering to try. They will always be measured as the child of a not-successful person. Many such "poor-yet-viable" kids become indistinguishable from the intractable kids very quickly when they become aware of such attitudes. It is far more destructive. We only need an elite in proportion to scarcity. It is in fact only when we can provide an even playing field that the elite can be elite and not merely aristocratic.
don't you think blue-collar and white-collar employment are fundamentally different? it's true that in both cases you need a paycheque to survive, so they are perhaps more similar to each other than to truly self-sufficient life styles or the FUM class (fuck-you money), but that doesn't eliminate the important distinctions that remain between them
This animation shows the land basically behaving like a liquid in response to the impact: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chicxulub-animation....
The background -- oddly not mentioned in the bbc article -- is the blowup of the Doha meeting and SA using oil prices as an economic weapon to punish Iran and Russia with Venezuela getting caught up as collateral damage. Plus their interests in cutting US and Canadian investment in domestic oil production.

see eg http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/18/to-punish-iran-saudis-sc...
Why does selection bias even matter? If you go to Harvard, you will make more than had you gone to a boring state school. Period. Is there selection bias? Yes. Does it change the fact the Harvard kid is wildly successful? No.
This is how it is in England; its called the Comprehensive System. Dreamed up and implemented by people who make very sure their own kids go to Grammar schools, of course.
You are right. I watched them on youtube.
Discussed extensively here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11648758

And here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11650102
"a new study suggests" != "new science"

As good as it is to have new papers on the topic, let's not fall into the pop-science trap of thinking every new research will "cure cancer", "change our entire understanding of physics" and all the other premature comments that people make.
A Melville Marginalia Mystery
You can learn how your roommates parents started a billion dollar company (i.e. How to be successful) at Harvard. You can't at your state school -- because your roommates are playing video games or went downtown for the night.
As someone who subscribes to HIBP, thanks for running these kind of verification instead of just trying logins. I found the "profile" of the email/TLDs/passwords very interesting, I wonder if some correlation algorithm could be build to statistically determine if a certain sample is indeed representative/coherent with the expected distribution of passwords/emails.
Looks like you'll be in Silicon Valley on May 19: come hang out at the startup fair, you'll meet a lot of founders. The fair itself is free (you only need to buy a ticket for the conference that is inside, but everyone you'll meet will come out at some point :-) --> http://thestartupconference.com/tips-for-first-time-attendee...

Redwood City is easy to reach, there's a caltrain stop right next to where the fair is taking place.
"Crusty" is just another way of saying, "I've actually used it for a real application before, or at least know someone first-hand who's used it in production".

When something is early in the HN hype cycle, all anyone knows is blog posts and "hello world" experiments. So it's awesome. Once you use something for a real project, you inevitably run into real-world issues or limitations. So it sucks. And you chase the dragon toward the next newly-hyped thing.

In all seriousness, though... sheesh. Django isn't even a decade old yet. Rails is older, and Sinatra and its clones are barely any younger. There really haven't been any revolutionary ideas in MVC frameworks this decade.
I explicitly said a superior copyleft license. That is, I stated the value I presuppose, and in this context GPLv3's superiority to GPLv3 is clear.
What's "extreme" is denying users control of their own devices, not the reverse.
To be honest, it is threads of comments like this that make me wish HN had a Mute or Block option.

I apologize, but it's just not worth continuing this conversation because we are talking about completely different things.