skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trump's casual racism, misogyny, and conspiracy theories are without precedent among major presidential nominees. He has said that a judge of Mexican descent couldn’t treat him fairly because of his heritage

Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the judge presiding over the Trump university case, is a member of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association. La Raza is a group that
advocates for a path to citizenship for all illegal immigrants.

> we should ban Muslims from entering the country.

Trump wants to ban Muslims from majority Muslim countries that are currently involved in prolonged wars which makes a comprehensive background investigation impossible to do.

> When his supporters beat up a homeless Hispanic man and cited Trump, he called them “very passionate”.

You forgot to mention all of the Trump supporters that get chased and beat up by Mexican flag waving protesters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/0...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2...

This by no means justifies violence on the Trump supporters side, but please do some research to find out the majority of the violence is perpetrated by the protesters that show up to Trump rallies and not the other way around.

I can go on and dismantle every other premise in this article using data and logic, but I will stop here.
> Then at least I know that you've ever programmed in this language before, which sets you apart, strangely enough, from 95% of the applicants.

At best, it sets you apart from 95% of interviewees. I rarely get the chance to prove I can actually program. Even then, I think that is a gross exaggeration.
He just doesn't know when to quit, does he.
By my reading he wasn't attempting to set up Trump in direct comparison to Hitler. His focus was more on comparing the their manipulative rhetorical styles and negative psychological tactics. And on the need for people in his "camp" to stop pretending that they can be silent in the face of what Trump is doing -- without being effectively complicit in it.
Thanks.

Do you have any advice about community building, especially around fostering new and big ideas?
the issue is that those people will procreate more ignorant and insecure people and the issue will never end.

Highly procreative undereducated underclasses have long been a staple of American life. Give people enough resources and opportunities, and they will often better themselves. What you are seeing is what happens when you economically squeeze people.
How is it different from notepad++?
Niklas Zennström of Skype founded Atomico, they're not bound to northern europe where they started, but they've been at it for ten years.

The king.com founders started Sweet Capital, which might be headquartered in Stockholm, but they obviously have an office in SV as well.

So even exit money from non-SV companies end up being reinvested in SV, instead of growing more non-SV companies, and that's just hard for other tech hubs to compete with.
Couldn't this be said of almost any topic taught in middle school?
So, how does this compares to Cesium.js and Worldwind?
This looks pretty great. I've been frustrated trying to implement ACE in a project for Markdown support; it turned out to not work on iOS and Android at all, and it has a ton of bugs elsewhere, too. I ditched it for CodeMirror, which turned out to be nearly as bad on mobile.

A quick test shows that Monaco does work on iOS, although there's apparently no selection support within the editor. Surprisingly, double space produces "." as it should, but it seems iOS autocompletion doesn't work (not sure if it can be enabled).
Can you point me to the part of the code that is responsible for that in Monaco? I'd like to use it in my editor locally.
Take a look at containerd: https://github.com/docker/containerd
Love this idea. Anyone know what grants they received? In the funding sidebar it said they've raised $1M in seed and grants, curious what the mix was.

In Miami we had a startup (founded in 2013) working on this which was recently acquired ClearPath.
http://www.myclearpath.com/
Hi Alan,

We know you are not a big fan of web. Regardless how we got here, what is your view on how we should address the real world decentralization problems in the context of http://www.decentralizedweb.net/ ?
Largest Gender Pay Gaps in the U.S
They have. It's called runc. (Or, if you want a slightly higher level wrapper API to manage your containers, containerd)
> Following this, this country will be completely destroyed by her actions.

I love how much hyperbole exists in the US election. It's like you don't believe you're electing the commander and chief of the military and someone who gets to veto congress but your actually electing the next God of America who will smite whomever doesn't worship them. It's absolutely crazy.

Whomever gets elected, life will pretty much go on as it always has. I'm not saying that there are no differences but there won't be a dissolution of the Union or burning lakes of fire.
His book "The Failure of the New Economics" is a great book as well.
Not necessarily. I have seen one crappy amplifier which picked up commercial radio broadcasts. Many audio devices pick up cellphones. All these signals probably are within spec.
I've worked for companies that would never pay for those, companies that would pay for pretty much anything if we made a case that it would help us, and my current employer, who will pay for things that we can prove delivers value, but don't default to saying "yes, we'll pay for," and who also audit every subscription they're paying for quarterly.
> "The Panama canal is using a large natural lake as the highest level"

The highest level is Gatun Lake, which is artificial.

> "planners might be a bit too optimistic in terms of flow"

Certainly, though deforestation leading to reduced water capacity for the area seems to be the larger problem. There are already problems during dry season. The issues you point are already known and important considerations for the Panama Canal and its recent upgrades.
Any American who wants prosperity and safety for our country
Couple of things

1.: I take issue with non concerned issues being dismissed as exactly one reason why people should be concerned. I dislike circular reasoning.
2.: There does not exist uniform agreement that AI is safe, in fact at least in German hacker circles quite the opposite, but as far as I see the problems that AI risk evangelists emphasize are the wrong ones. Take over the world, paperclip etc...not going to happen. For that, AI is too stupid for now. And the rapid takeoff scenarios are not realistic. But ~30% of all jobs are easily replacable by current AI technology, once the laws and the capital is lined up. AI is also making more and more decisions, legitimizing the biases with which it was either trained or programmed because it is "AI" and thus more reliable(\s). And there is a great cargo cult of "data" "science" in development (separate scare quotes intended)
3. I am starting to dislike any explicit mentions of fallacies, especially if they were used just sentences ago by the mentioner
Hi Alan, are you envisioning a way to participate/connect-to YC Research as an independent researcher? I don't mean as an associate since many of us have the daily focus in startups but as a place where our ideas and code would be better nurtured.
Alternative lenders aren’t going away, they’re just misunderstood
I'll have to check it out! Haven't finished this one yet, but I'm enjoying it very much. His ability to break complex ideas down into their most easily consumable bits of logic is very appealing to the technologist in me.
As someone pretty close to this camp, it comes down to your last bullet point - needing to do it, in my opinion. A smaller subset of those people will also learn VBA for the same reason-it helps them get their job done. The benefit those two have is that they are either built in to the tools already (VBA), or a DBA does most of the set up and the used mostly just runs queries against it and doesn't have to worry too much about indexing, performance, schemas, etc (SQL). If I were to try to turn them onto python, it'd be an effort to get it installed and then get them to use the commandline.
I didn't mean it that sense. People in the US tend to always bring a person's employer into the picture whenever they disagree with said person's opinion. So his public opinion can affect ycombinator.
To be fair you first link on point 3 is about the IRS having a new class of legal tax entity to regulate and not enough time or money to check all applications. So, they admittedly focused on anti-tax groups assuming they would be most likely to be in violation of tax code. Those groups just happened to be mostly conservative groups, and the IRS happened to be right, they caught a ton of them breaking the rules.

For my tax dollars, I'm fine with the IRS targeting anti-tax groups, it makes sense and the evidence supported their judicious use of time and resources.Let's not forget these were/are shady 501(c)(4) meant to hide political donations.
gpus

Also a ton of third-party tools and documentation are built with aws support in mind.
They might disagree with him on many things, but I don't think they think he's outright unfit. It seems to me that they still sincerely think he's the best choice when the other one is Clinton.

In any case, it's the electorate that really matters, not the leadership. I don't see any prospective voters afraid to speak their mind. Trump supporters among the general population all seem to be completely sincere. Trump opposers are unafraid to declare it.
Building a more power-efficient browser
"Meta is dangerous" so a safe meta-language within a language will have "fences" to protect.

(Note that "assignment" to a variable is "meta" in a functional language (and you might want to use a "roll back 'worlds' mechanism" (like transactions) for safety when this is needed.)

This is a parallel to various kinds of optimization (many of which violate module boundaries in some way) -- there are ways to make this a lot safer (most languages don't help much)
Also interested; was on a business trip to Copenhagen and Stockholm and could suddenly see myself living in Scandinavia in the future...

FWIW, I was working with a big bank and all business was conducted in English because they were spread across multiple countries.
I'm going to make an argument that will probably be very unpopular, but here we go.

The global economic system is the primary incentive system for human behavior. Under global free-market capitalism, firms are incentivized to increase profits. Unless a superior profit incentive exists for reducing environmentally hostile practices, energy and manufacturing firms will continue to make profit-optimizing choices at the expense of the environment. With our current predominant global economic system, laissez-faire capitalism, there is no way to make firms act in an eco friendly way if it's less than optimal from a profit perspective.
If only every compiler vendor supported C99 (coughMicrosoft), perhaps C99 would be a usable alternative.

And, inertia isn't the only reason for Fortran remaining popular. Put simply: if you tell a mech.eng./physicist/whatever to write code in Fortran, whatever is produced will likely be fast and relatively readable. Do the same with C/C++, and it will be significantly slower and a horrible mess. Templates-all-the-way-down type of stuff.

Sure, a software engineer could write a C/C++ version that was elegant and as fast/faster than the Fortran code. But scientists don't have the money to hire software engineers. You're lucky if these projects are even under version control.
> If such a thing wasn't enforceable Google and others wouldn't be putting it in their contracts.

This is simply false. Almost every contract signed in the US contains unenforceable language. The vast majority of people signing these contracts simply believe that if it's there, it's legal. For example, property law is wildly tenant friendly if you actually push it. The explicit reason for this is that landlords have an illusion of power and almost always include unenforceable provisions.
This one lasted less than half an hour on the front page, despite being written by the president of YC. Granted, that's about 29 minutes longer than other political posts last, but it's a pretty rough ride for something with > 200 upvotes.
An analogy from the United States: after the September 11th attacks, one of the side-effects was standardization of the emergency responder radio codes at a national level. Previously, each jurisdiction had its own radio short-number codes; they worked in the jurisdiction just fine, and were incompatible cross-jurisdictions. This was generally a non-issue, until the friction from NYC first responders and Jersey first responders needing to inter-operate under a shared command structure revealed what a problem it was.

There's a perhaps surprising number of things that are not done in a standardized way. Firefighting in general is still done in a very local fashion vis. best practices, equipment, etc... With the exception of the radio codes and the national / international standards for labeling shipping containers (necessary because if a firefighting team rolls up on an overturned tractor trailer engulfed in flames, they need to be able to tell quickly whether the trailer contained the sort of thing that pouring on water will douse or the sort of thing that pouring on water will cause spatter or (much worse), violent combustion / polymerization reactions.
Although I don't want to turn this into oppression olympics, and at the risk of getting downvoted heavily, I want to point out that mass deportation of Hispanics wouldn't compare against hundreds of years of slavery of African Americans, forced mass migration and slaughter of Native Americans and the placing Japanese Americans in internment camps.

This is in no way saying "its not that bad of a policy" its still a horrible thing to propose, but saying "American policy tilt harder against one particular race than it ever has in the past" is ignoring a lot of history, unless you're talking about very recent events.
Bug free code the first time? Probably not
Reflecting on the recent events involving the DAO, why isn't there a mechanism built into Ethereum to modify contract code? Unknown-unknowns are always in code. In my day-to-day dealings with product features I always assume I'll need to patch existing code already running in production, and I build my environment upon the axiom that I'll need to change things as I hit edge cases.

It's almost as if Ethereum requires us to use the waterfall approach to design and implementation contracts, which just will not fly in the world of software.

I'm sure I'm not the first to think of this, so is there any work being done in this area? Have people been working on, maybe, a multi-sig scheme where contract code can be modified in a secure and agreed upon ways?
If Trump were any less of a lunatic I would say that people are definitely bending the truth around him. But he supplies so much fuel for his opponents there's really no need.
Putin is not a country.
Most enterprise application users who are working are unhappy users. I'm not trying to fix that problem.
SQL is declarative. Compare:

for user in table_users:
if user.is_active:
return user.first_name;

vs:

SELECT first_name FROM users_table
WHERE is_active

It's unfortunate that the order of the clauses in SQL is "wrong" (e.g. you should say FROM, WHERE, SELECT: Define the universe of relevant data, filter it down, select what you care about), but it's still quite easy to wrap your mind around. You are asking the computer for something, and if you ask nicely, it tells you what you want to know. Compare that to procedural programming, where you are telling the computer what to do, and even if it does what you say, that may not have been what you actually wanted after all.
You would be correct to question if there is a first-order advantage to having the most powerful supercomputer. But it is a national strategic benchmark, like precision manufacturing, certain kinds of biotechnology, rocketry, etc.

What matters most might be that China is maturing CPU technology that isn't nearly as congenial for US TLAs to hack in to. It might not matter so much for this supercomputer, but if Chinese suppliers put price ahead of things like opaque management processors, it might lead to tipping the balance away from easily exploitable endpoints.
Also, if you drive everywhere, park at the opposite end of the parking lot... this gives quite a bit of boost to your activity per day. Though harder to do in Phoenix at the end of Jone, when it's in the high 1-teens.
I was surprised Portland didn't show up on the list. First thing I did after viewing the page was come back here and ctrl-f for it.

Strongly considering moving there within a year from now.
I'd assume that depends on your measure of worth, I'd say. Many operating systems had little academic significance when it was most academically or commercially fruitful to invest time in. Microkernel and dependency specific operating systems would be interesting. Or hardware based capability based operating systems.
Version 2.0 might need to include emigration, given the sheer number of "if X is elected, I'm leaving the country" cases in popular culture.
I've spent sometime studying this. I personally believe Lumosity and the like are a waste of time (if not a downright scam) and do not make anyone smarter. Until I see scientific data that proves otherwise this will remain my belief. However that doesn't mean I don't believe in brain training

By your definition, smart is knowledge AND the ability to draw connection between facts and ideas. And although solving simple puzzles may not train you for the latter, continuously solving mathematical problems (that may otherwise not have any real world applications) will train your brain to find patterns.

If someone can make Calculus, Graph Theory and Discrete Mathematics fun enough for people to tackle daily, you'll have a real brain exercise platform.
Race can be a motivator, you know that right? Human beings are not machines with 0 bias just because they are in a position where they are supposed to have 0 bias.
MHD generators powered by decelerating nuclei fragments are possible and aren't subject to the limits of the Carnot Cycle, but they're still uneconomic at this point.
Tricky question. One answer would be to ask whether there is an intrinsic difference between "computer science" and (say) physics? Or are the differences just that computing is where science was in the Middle Ages?
How Dermalogica New Zealand Obtained a 61% Growth in Campaign Revenue
> "He needs someone highly experienced and very knowledgeable because it's pretty obvious he doesn't know a lot about the issues," McConnell said of a running mate for the mogul.

He doesn't say he is "unfit" because he can't -- How can you not think a comment like that from McConnell is pretty damning of Trump's abilities?
France is one of perhaps four countries in the world capable of projecting power (i.e. blowing things up and running around shooting at people) globally for a sustained operational period. The ability to deliver violence is still what buys you a seat at the top table, and France is in the top five.
funny thing, the Burke one seems to be a misquote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#False_quotations
Hi Alan,

I came up with an idea that seems a bit like the Dynabook. It helps the user to understand design decisions. Here's a short video about it (under 2 mins):

https://www.vimeo.com/24332798

In this case it's about how to build a digger.

I'd love to know what you think about it.
It's been many years, but I seem to remember porting the NCAR Graphics Package written in FORTRAN IV to FORTRAN 77 on a Data General MV series box.

If memory serves, they had a trick to create simulated pointers, by declaring a one element array somewhere in memory, and then indexing way outside of its bounds in order to point into other areas of memory.

I don't remember the details, but I seem to remember there was a statement ("EQUIVALENCE"?) that facilitated this magic.
It's a manifestation of dog whistle politics. He says this stuff and we understand the implication that Mexicans are coming here and screwing things up. But his supporters can deflect criticism because the literal words are sufficiently vague that you can accuse people of inferring too much.
Tabs or spaces? :-)
This looks like Tutum, which was bought by Docker in Oct '15 [0], has been fully integrated into the Docker ecosystem. I enjoyed using Tutum for a few of my small side projects.

[0] https://blog.tutum.co/2015/10/21/docker-tutum/
I use a bot in Telegram called Nate. It's in a group chat and does all sorts of useful things, from Urban Dictionary lookups to wolfram alpha evaluations to spamming cat pictures.
Yes, this idea was originally Nicholas Negroponte's in the 70s. The Parc version was called "Ubiquitous Computing" and was led by Mark Wieser in the 80s ...
> Give people enough resources and opportunities, and they will often better themselves.

The paradox is that giving people resources and opportunities is the wisdom behind left-wing politics, the opposite of what Trump and the Republican party represent...
This happened to me about 5 years ago on ebay when selling an iPhone. I was an eBay member since 1999, 100% positive feedback, occasional seller (about once a month). I sold a perfectly fine iPhone, buyer with no feedback history complains to eBay he never received the phone despite tracking showing it was delivered. He also leaves me negative feedback (in broken English). eBay sided with the buyer immediately and attempted to withdraw the money out of my paypal account which I'd fortunately already withdrawn. They demanded for over a year that I pay them the money they claim I owe them or they'd destroy my credit. Fuck eBay, fuck PayPal, terrible companies that should have gone out of business long ago.
Spotify crosses 100M listeners
Now that's geofencing, smart homes, etc... Apps like Tasker on Android can do some of it.
Fair enough. :)

Disclaimer regarding the above, I work on the Flynn project.
Vice's Shane Smith: 'Expect a bloodbath' in media within the next year
You're nitpicking man. It's not about the exact wording Trump used. Candidates are constantly paraphrased, that's part of the way it goes. Trump agreed with the reporter's assertion, and the basis of what he says is the same; that the guy's heritage implies his ability to do his job. Which is absurd, AND one of the main reasons that it has gotten so much attention is it highlights that Trump is aware that he has angered latinos with his overt racism.

Anyway, whatever, man. Keep nitpicking if you want. It's really sad that you feel a need to do that to make even a weak attempt to defend that horrible piece of human garbage.
Charles Stross might not have been far off with the lobsters in Accelerando...
Yes, it can be. And if it is a major factor in this case, then there are methods of legal recourse.

But instead he says that the judge treated him unfairly due to his race. Literally racist.
> You also conveniently ignored the fact that Trump wants to ...

I didn't ignore it, nobody even mentioned. Every argument should stand on its own, and be built on facts and logic.

Tossing in words like Nazis, frothing-in-the-mouth, dangerous, fool, racism, misogyny, and dictator are all unrelated buzzwords.

If you think this judge situation is so vile and leads to racist dictatorship, why have you not called for the resignation of Obama after his admin tried to force a judge with Iranian heritage from hearing Iranian-American immigration cases?
>we're drowning in political correctness
I'm always curious when people say this, what do they actually mean? Is there a specific thing happening that I'm not aware of here? In all seriousness, what is Sam referring to here?