skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Nowadays, most of the liquidity is happening for large companies paying for startups and hedge funds buying into the latest round. So when this crash happens, it's mostly going to affect the later-stage investors," Blank says. That's different from what happened when the bubble burst previously, inasmuch as "It [the '99 crash] destroyed a lot of public value, not just private capital. Your grandmother got hurt as well."

Newspapers were complaining about the public being unable to invest in unicorns, with all the benefits going to wealthy private investors. Then people on HN started echoing these sentiments (the part where stuff from newspapers gets planted into the heads of normal people and becomes their opinion is really scary, I guess it must be happening to me, too. Really scary to watch this happen though, reading some weird idea in a newspaper and then reading/hearing it repeated by people the next month.)

Will newspapers remember to thank wealthy private investors for taking the hit when the bubble pops? (BTW, what AFAIK doesn't exist but could is a VC fund with publicly traded shares. Of course the average VC produces below-average returns.)
Slut shaming for men is apparently okay
Is It Medically Possible to Live Forever?
Ask HN: Embeddable web component for Shell/C compiler?
Any suggestions for a CodePen type of web component I can embed into a website that will compile in C, or is compatible with Shell?
An old joke about the pentagon goes along the lines of "we don't need to worry about security because our systems are too old, rare and proprietary to find."

As someone else said, security via age and rarity.
Hey, a couple of days ago, you offered me an invite to lobste.rs, but I couldn't respond to you, because your comment was not ranked highly enough. I would love an invite! Been wanting to join there for a while : )
My guess is that with such a massive round, at least some employees were allowed to take some money off the table at this valuation. I'm not sure what their policy is on secondary markets, but employees may be cashing in at the current valuation there as well. If that is the case, those that joined near the time of the $3 billion offer are likely very happy.
> Also ,recent industrial chips are using 28nm, and going beyond that is extremely expensive

Yeah, so ASICs that are not produced in big enough volume will not move to 14nm or less. This means that FPGA that can move to 14nm or less, because of bigger volume, may become competitive against those ASICs.
Interesting... he needs to include his webpage config from each stage. He linked the full one but that will not work when you are still in the starting parts.
Previous discussion of GitHub's diversity culture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067
What you're describing is a CDL. Felon (possibly not all classes, but definitely the serious ones) = no CDL for you. driving drunk/high = no CDL for you. Major traffic violations = No CDL for you. Fail company drug test = No CDL for you.

Our CDL system is really restrictive to the point where it can be a serious PITA since state laws tend to vary a lot in terms of what's a misdemeanor. Towing an unregistered car/trailer in Maine is a misdemeanor, in Vermont it's legal under some circumstances, some States don't even require registration on small enough trailers. Taking someone else's junk to the scrap yard for a few bucks could be the end of your CDL. In Virginia 15 over is a misdemeanor and having an out of state plate would paint a target on you. Traffic flow on most highways is 15-over at times.

Obviously many people manage to get and hold CDLs but a zero tolerance based system does have its flaws.

A basic criminal records check costs ~$20 here FWIW
What do people use to get something like this for C/C++? Also is there any package for auto-completion in C/C++?
He's not treating the women as people, he's treating them as objects.

The reason it would make her feel uncomfortable is because he would probably look at her the same way, because objectifying isn't something you just turn on and turn off.

Also, it's not really a topic you should bring up at work.
All the Supplies You Need to Run a GV Design SPRINT
I can see her not wanting to work with a guy who would view her as a flag to collect.
You don't need reified generics with a more powerful type system. You might be feeling that C# .NET is better than Java, but it's actually a symptom that C#'s type-system also sucks. Basically whenever you have to do an `instanceof` check, that's a sign that the type system isn't strong enough and hence needs to be solved at runtime.

One such thing missing from .NET for example are higher-kinded types. Basically people end up with the need for `instanceOf` because they aren't able to write generic code that abstracts over containers such as List[T].

And this holds back language development on top of .NET actually. There are good reasons for why alternative languages flourished on top of the JVM and not on top of .NET, in spite of its original marketing, which is a little ironic. Not the only reason mind you, other reasons where availability on Linux, having an easier time to generate bytecode along with debugging symbols, more mature tooling, etc, but having reified generics in the runtime either means that you have to limit your language (e.g. C#'s type-system with a different syntax), or it means that you have to do the type erasure yourself and always have performance problems and be considered a second class citizen. Lack of higher-kinded types is actually what's holding F# back as an FP language, because in FP there is a lot of opportunity to abstract over M[T] types, that are just not doable in a static language without HKT.

And don't get me wrong, I like dynamic typing as well, but the problem with languages like Java and C# are that they are neither here, nor there, in many ways being the worst of both worlds.

And the only advantage that .NET's reified generics have over Java is actually the specialization it is doing for primitives. Which is nice for performance reasons, since you avoid boxing and so on, but doing specialization doesn't necessarily need to be a runtime feature, when it can very well be a feature of the language's compiler. And we weren't talking about performance anyway.
The Retro Programmer: TI99/4A Animation with BASIC [video]
Unless I misunderstand, "collecting the flags" refers to being flagged for every possible thing that you can get flagged for - scamming, using fraudulent profiles, being aggressive, being abusive, etc. Someone who is collecting flags is intentionally violating the terms of service and making the Tinder experience unpleasant for others. Feel free to pursue whatever goals you want, but not at the expense of other people's enjoyment. That doesn't have anything to do with gender.
[sic] indicates a spelling error in context, not a political correctness "error" that is still being debated
>Biological sex isn't binary

It most certainly is. XY and XX are two things, therefore binary. Anything else is a defect in the individual's chromosomes.
This strikes me as centralized planning for jobs. It seems like the best way to go about this is focusing on the pool of applicants and making sure everyone gets a fair shake. Making assumptions about the outcome of those hiring decisions independent of the actual applicants seems neither fair nor good for business.
Neanderthal structure deep inside cave is 176,000 years old
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11770273
Let's be clear, my dad and I disagree on a lot of things[1]. I do not advocate passenger hostile systems in airplanes.

The interesting thing for me, reading the comments is that my actual comment (that if security costs 10x to defend and 1x to perpetrate, then the system will by definition fail) has no feedback. I think about ways to "even" the cost on these things. Biometric security is one (although it too has its issues). Using something like Clear[2] at an air port to insure people are who they say they are, and having vetted that person via other mechanisms prior to their flight, seems more efficient and harder to subvert than the current system. It converts the problem from "150 unknown actors are getting on a plane" to "150 known actors are getting on a plane." Does it make it difficult enough for the attackers? They have to forge biometrics and disguise the actual flight they are taking. Not sure if it completely levels the field but it raises the cost for the attacker.

[1] He also thinks that every state should allow and encourage people to carry hand guns so that "crooks and crazy people would think twice."

[2] See http://clearme.com basically at signup biometrics and other data are used to confirm identity and to take a picture. When you arrive at the airport your boarding pass is scanned (an presumably validated) and the operator gets a picture of what you should look like given your biometrics. So if you steal someone else's fingerprints you don't look like them.
I don't know about open. Trying to fish for the price and they do not sell to the U.S. apparently. I would buy this phone, or something similar, if it were actually available.

The thing I can't stand about android aps is that many are not available unless you login to google. It really pisses me off too. Why does my banking ap or my email provider ap have to come directly from google?? Is it that hard to host miniature files on the sites for which the apk's are designed??
My email ap says that the playstore needs to update but the apk still works even though playstore is disabled. Stupid, stupid, stupid. On the jolla phone I would install a barebones version of gapps, if at all. Right now I am using ~9 apk's I can find nowhere else but the playstore and tbh If my phone was rooted I would remove them all.
That works. It also works with "hot" markets. The market gets so hot, it starts boiling then foams over.
And there are scant few JavaScript libraries that let you choose what to take a la carte from them. The most extreme a la carte example I can think of is Lodash, which offers to let you pull each API function it offers as a separate CommonJS require! When you can go to those lengths, you show you care for your users and deservedly beat out the competition.

JavaScript libraries need to do this more. Sure, it is important to offer the uber dependency by default for users that don't care, but the a la carte form has to be available if users like me only want to take bits and pieces.
Resentful nitpicking is a poor genre to begin with, and swerving straight into gender flamewar makes this an outright bad comment for HN. We all know what comes of this, and none of it's good (edit: and in the time it took me to write this, you'd already provoked five of it), so let's please not re-rehearse it.
(Warning: shameless self promotion ahead)

I wrote parched-tasks-webapp, heavily inspired by Brunch, but built on top of gulp and browserify. It does have hot reloading.

Say you want to build a font from .svgs:

npm install --save parched-webfont
mkdir -p app/assets/glyphs/

Now you'll get an icon font from any SVGs in that folder.

Here's an example app to try out: https://github.com/bravenewworlddev/parched-example-app
tl;dr http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-neandert...
Intelligence as in information, not as in smarts.

Intelligence clearance = access to classified information.
I can think of many scenarios where someone could be convicted of car theft where it's not even remotely related to other violent crime.

Young person A (23) drives friends home in friends (person B) car after a party as a designated driver. Parents of person B (who own the car) don't like person A and claim it's theft (even though they got the car back with no issues). Person A gets grand theft on his record. because A couldn't afford decent lawyer.

Maybe this is contrived - I don't know - I can think of a lot of things that are equivalent to "grand theft auto" but no actual harm was done except for a few miles on the car.
The majority of beef raised in the US is raised on corn and soybeans.
idk what about my comment seems disingenuous, i was actually really interested in this in case i missed some huge cool trend. i am interested in products and technology for their own sake. i would love to help the world pisitively, but i am sure it is not depending on me. i was just curious for a different perspective as i am contrarian to some extent, so i was asking for an unhoulds boundless guess at what snapchat could be to add more information to my appraisal of the situation.

> go build something.

i mean, i am. but again, i was just legit curious what i was missing. no need to be a dick about it.

edited out some info

> Brilliant and great insights building on what’s happening now and been happening in the tech industry. Interacting with someone/something that doesn’t judge me opens up a new dimension of conversations. It might normalize honesty in society.

Quote I found interesting.
The main remaining work on the RFC is to implement the `catch` construct. Here's the tracking issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/31436

However, stabilizing `?` is not blocked on any particular work as much as on the relevant team deciding its a good feature without big bugs that they are happy to see made permanent. Given that a minority of the community opposes `?` vehemently, this process will probably move slowly.

Personally, I opt into question mark in all of my nightly code and I absolutely love it. I had a case last night actually where I really wanted `catch` also.
> I know of two students who ETS caught cheating on their TOEFL tests--the university accepted them based on this score. Sadly it was not a surprise to me that when the university was notified of the cheating by ETS, they did not rescind their admission to the school. Many unis would rather take the money and look the other way.

Yikes. I hope news like what happened at Iowa gives schools the kick in the butt they need to either (1) be more strict in who they accept or (2) provide some additional English training for these incoming kids who supposedly know English but really do not
55.7 x 26 mm 580 MHz MIPS single board computer with micro sd and wifi.

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/LinkIt-Smart-7688-p-2573.ht...
> Are they a poor source (honestly don't know)?

Extremely. Breitbart regularly publicizes stories that are misleading at best or just flat out wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart_News_Network#Notable...
Presumably though, employees also got paid a very, very healthy salary while working there too, so it's far from a complete loss...
Jury decides in favor of Google in Google v. Oracle case
Google found not guilty in Oracle v. Google copyright infringement case
What my employer thinks I'm doing: 8 hours on stackoverflow = 8 hours of research

What I'm actually doing: earning reputation to improve my resume
interesting. going to dig up the advert. maybe they have a long play here. thanks.
Most people may seem to fall tolerably close to one of two stereotypes, but that doesn't make biological sex binary, not does it make it sensible to ignore the fact that it is not in the case of those people who do not, and, surreptitiously enough, there's a significant overlay between people whose experienced gender doesn't match their socially ascribed gender and people whose biological sex-related traits other than external genitalia don't line up with external genitalia in the most common way.
They're getting decades out of the software, but "about three-fourths of the $80 billion budget goes to keep aging technology running". Is that worth it to you?
It's semi-automatic. I manually curate a list of foodies (instagram accounts). The places on the map are the most used instagram locations (restaurants) among those foodies.
Not parent, but here's how I learned to understand snapchat.

Think like a younger Millennial (18-25 right now). Their whole social lives have been in public on FB/etc. They're going through a horribly awkward time in their lives, but it's all public. When they act like an immature kid, or aren't sexy, or whatever, that is recorded for all time.

So they feel incredible pressure to be sexy/fit/cool/smart/doing interesting things. People take hundreds of selfies to find the one that meets (what they think) their peers expect.

The pressure to be cool and attractive is intense. With FB, there is no escape.

Now Snapchat offers the opposite. People can "let their hair down", not have to look sexy or be cool, because the message is just temporary.

Most of the time I want candids, not portraits. FB made everything a portrait (intended for consumption by future selves/others).

SnapChat brought it back to the present by making it temporary.
The Technology Bullshit Generator
> as though as the lone female developer you are “representing” all women developers. If you make a mistake it’s because you’re a girl, not because you’re junior. Or tired or hungover or having a bad day.”

Couldn't this be true for any group though? Not to lessen what she's trying to say, but if you're in any way a minority in a field, aren't you in some way representing that whole group?
Python's been around for like 27 years, so 10 more doesn't seem that tough.
My little sister uses it a lot and got me to get on so she could share her silly and over dramatic life a bit more. She's the only one I follow, but not for lack of trying. I know I have a few other friends on it but the ability to discover them seems to be lost on me.

I don't really get it, but she sends me goofy pictures or videos and I'll do the same. Could easily do it over imessage/txt and we do sometimes. I think she mostly digs the "my story" fanout aspect of things.
I got a pair of $400 Prada sunglasses as a "gift" from a Chinese student, first week of school. I was told it would be extremely rude to not accept a gift in Chinese culture. The student was very confused when a lower than expected grade was received.
I disagree. React it's self is very simple. It's web development that is complicated. Other frameworks that try to do everything like angular are also complicated for the developers. The frameworks that do everything and are easy to use (like meteor) don't offer the extensibility of the more bare bones frameworks. Any web site that wants to grow needs a full control of the stack.

Of course, if all you're building is a static web page then I can see just using some HTML and CSS. But if you want to work professionally as a web developer then you need to know javascript and at least one major framework. You can not stay employed as a "full stack dev" if all you do is write an a couple HTML and CSS files and serve them with python httpSimpleServer.
In 2007, Peter Thiel told me media was dead. Now he's trying to kill it
http://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html
Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour
> Chinese students cheat because cheating is part of Chinese culture.

It's not Chinese culture. It's about penalty. During my college study, two student had to quit school at them forth year because they got caught in an Exam. No one will risk that dangerous to cheat in an Exam. If school didn't punish the cheater, this will happen again and again. I think you are filtering all positive news about China(Like most media in western country do) and judge Chinese people based on these negative news. Please open your mind.
Bunch of grumps here.
What Algorithmic Injustice Looks Like in Real Life
Indeed. It's hard to miss just how much better rustc performance has become recently. As I've watched this I been left wondering; is it just the blood and sweat of the compiler developers doing this or is the language somehow inherently efficient to compile? I know there are other, much older languages that seem unable to deal with their compiler performance problems.
So like international data costs over Snapchat?
Google wins trial against Oracle as jury finds Android is fair use
Ok, that makes sense.

However, hypothetically speaking if someone wanted to be called a name that I considered to be vulgar or offensive, I would not call them that.
Relies on cmake integration but worth a look: https://github.com/atilaneves/cmake-ide
canceling GET is the simplest use case, XMLHttpRequest/fetch is already able to abort. POST/PUT/DELETE, however, modifies remote resources which cannot be easily "canceled" (it might corrupt server state and/or transaction might even have to extend to client being able to fully "resolve" the Promise?)
Jury rules in favor of Google on fair use in Oracle court battle
Ansible has none of the things that make declarative languages good, though. Good Declarative languages allow composition - Having a base object, adding properties to it, overriding others. Ansible handles none of that in it's playbook syntax or it's vars syntax. In the role and module syntax, sure, but they're turing complete anyway.
> So you have admirable cultural thing of valuing education and it comes with negative side effect where people try to get it even when they don't have the ability.

Good observation. It's not limited to Asia. There are blue collar jobs available, as Mike Rowe tells us. You can make a decent living as a plumber. But people don't want to deal with actual shit. They'd rather deal with the metaphorical variety =)

Anyway, student debt is going through the roof in the US. We may have invented the problem.
Elixir developer? HelloSign (YC W11) is hiring
I hate to say it but the lack of technological freedom that exists in the US is in direct relationship to the lack of 'open' phone technologies being offered. Essentially the US is paying so that good hardware (as in private and secure) is being held back from the general public. This shit has to stop.
Against a Universal Definition of Type
I agree with the distinctions you draw between what Snowden and Manning did and the fact that most politicians get away with leaking confidential information that benefits them. However, it wasn't Cheney who leaked Plame's employer and your attribution of intent to the people involved in those events says more about your political leanings than anything else.
XX and XY have a strong correlation with sex traits, but not a 1:1 correspondence. (And neither those chromosome configurations nor other biological sex traits map 1:1 to external genitalia, which is Italy the basis of socially ascribed gender.)

So the fact that XX and XY configurations exist and other configurations are considered "defects" doesn't make biological sex a binary trait that correspondence to the manner in which gender is usually digitally ascribed and for which people are labeled "transgender" when their gender identity differs from that social judgement.
Sounds very anti-DRY, though I get where you are coming from.
Is this legit? If so, thank goodness.
The private sector usually manages to keep it's systems updated. This here seems like the typical incentive and accountability problems of government bureaucracy.
Just want to note that yes, cost can rise in advance of growth. Whether or not that's "OK" depends on the unit economics.

Frankly, I share your skepticism. I think you hit the nail on the head - Twilio has few, if any moats, that can't be crossed by large competitors like Google or Amazon.

And if I'm Bezos and Twilio is making all this money off the back of AWS, why not just cut out Twilio? Heck, Amazon is doing that to friggin vitamin makers, why not do it to tech companies?
I must be missing something, but what is the advantage of this over something like Emacs Tags (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsTags) ?
Automating your presence in conference calls
> Aren't we like ten ... years past that point?

Not actually debating the merits of outing a public figure, but regarding your timeline, this was 2007, or 9 years ago, so it's possible that no, we were not past "that point" at that point. However you are defining that point.
How to code using the C programming language in Mac OS X