skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah PG should attempt to validate his claim that a better language is actually an advantage. They should have enough data to draw some sort of conclusions. Or be able to ask ex founders if they didn't collect it beforehand. Of course all this compared against various success metrics.

Also good to know when people ended up switching stacks and for what reasons.
They provide a basic CDN hosting service, essentially asset caching.
ClintonKaine.com Sold: Did Trump-Associated Entity Buy It?
I tried searching for 'pig 14' - and got back an error message that included (html removed):

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Distributed Transactions in Vitess
"Only 21% of YC companies are A/B testing, but 93% use Optimizely"

This doesn't sound right. I wonder if the writer meant "93% of the 21% who do A/B testing use Optimizely".
> and he suggests using "depreciating assets" as an alternative.

Interesting.

Maybe, the alternative should be "depreciating assets" + "appreciating liabilities".
They're not even trying to make it not look like a scam
http://investor.neuromama.com/

I'm reminded of Cormac Herley's theory about Nigerian scammers acknowledging they're from Nigeria because they prefer to deal with people naive enough not to see that as a red flag
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...

Unlike your average Nigerian scammer, these guys also presumably had the ability to afford a web designer and someone to write copy that looked vaguely legitimate if they'd wanted to. Trouble is, investors that aren't ludicrously unsophisticated are more likely to ask awkward questions and get lawyers involved...
I suspect you are confused about the facts of the case – specifically, this has nothing to do with Peter Thiel's outing and everything to do with the fact that Gawker released Hulk Hogan's sex tape to the public and a court found that to be an unethical violation of privacy.
I mean, maybe? But ultimately, how will an artificial intelligence that does not have a body understand the visceral experience of kissing, or attach the same value to it that a young boy does, or the different values that a young girl does, or that a horny middle-aged woman does?

The whole presumption that subjective experience does not matter to 'being human' and can be replaced by gormless algorithmic surfaces seems flawed at its root. These things will never be human, because they ARE NOT human. They do not have human bodies, families, histories, friendships, fears, or hopes. They are not experiencing the passage of time; they are not participating in the dance of culture.

Perhaps we can substitute for all of these things algorithmically, but that involves the constructors of these machines to have some insights about what it means to be human, and I just am not seeing that.
You're being intentionally obtuse, for what, internet points?

> kgwgk: But you can trade at the closing price, which is the one used by S&P to do their numbers, can't you?

> readams: No you can't. You can only buy a stock based on the set of offers to sell that stock

readams is unequivocally correct here. You can attempt to trade at the closing price, but doing so is entirely at the mercy of whether or not enough open offers exist to sell that stock.

> chollida1: Then you said the closing price wasn't special. This as well was shown to be false as many ETF's are marked by the closing prices of certain markets, notably the NYSE.

This point by readams is also true. The closing price of a stock isn't special — it's, as (s)he said, simply the price of the last trade of the day. The fact that some ETFs are marked by the price of market close makes their trading price "special", but that doesn't imply anything particular about the closing price of the asset(s) they're based on.

> chollida1: Then you said you aren't guaranteed to get the closing price. This was an even stranger error as the message before I showed you the MOC order which indicates that you will trade at the closing price.

Again, readams is correct. You're guaranteed to get the closing price if and only if there are open orders at that price. Which is a big if and only if, and not actually a guarantee.

> chollida1: Finally you tripled down on this mistake by changing your argument that technically there might not be any trading partner at the close. This is technically true that in theory it might happen, but in practice I'll sit and wait for you to find me a case where this happened.

Consider the context of this entire conversation: index funds that manage billions in assets. If you don't think they can utterly exhaust open buy/sell orders at market close for any trade they need to execute to track their index, you've lost your mind. This whole thread was about how these funds have to strategically place their orders to track the underlying index as faithfully as possible, without losing their shirts to vultures who know that large funds have to execute certain orders to stay on track.
>Just to make sure I'm clear, you're not implying that gay couples are incapable of rearing children in stable homes, right?

I am not implying that. Did you even read the rest of my comment? Do you really think that this "gotcha! you're a bigot" game is a good way to have a frank conversation? It's really one of the most toxic elements of American politics.
Metrics. A metric has a known source, a timestamp, a name and a value. It can also ship with any arbitrary number of descriptive fields.

Similarly, events.
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Blatant penny stock scams /= "a $35 billion stock"
for those having a hard time with scroll, scrolling up and down on trackpad on my MacBook Air scrolled graphic left-right. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out.
It's a PHP application proxying Google search results based on the errors and results.
> the interviewer asked "What is your favourite language?". My head wasn't in the right place at the time, and I said "Latin", and I went on to describe why I think Latin is such an interesting language.

Hire this man. Stat.
from your comment i know you've never read anything on deadspin.

> Here's something to consider: a lot of that is sensationalized yellow journalism as well. They take surveys that include behavior that is usually handled at the social level (e.g. guy goes in for a kiss and girl doesn't want it) and count it as part of the headline "Sexual Assault" figure. In the most technical and pedantic sense they are correct, but no victim would ever file that complaint, no prosecutor would ever bring that charge, and no jury would ever convict on it. i.e. Most of the sexual assaults that count in those statistics wouldn't even be considered as such by the alleged victim.

i mean if you're going to say this at least have something that backs this up.

but regardless, feel free to read the articles themselves and decide for yourself their merit:

Florida Hired Football Booster To Oversee Hearing For Player Accused Of Sexual Assault: http://deadspin.com/florida-hired-football-booster-to-overse...

Or better yet, just read the entire saga about Baylor: http://deadspin.com/tag/baylor-bears
Liking Doctor Who will hinder your love life, Sherlock will help
From [0] and [1], it seems that ConstraintJS does not try to solve constraints, it propagates changes among variables when they change. In particular, variables are not tied to domains.

[0] https://github.com/soney/ConstraintJS/wiki/Constraint-Variab...

[1] https://github.com/soney/constraintjs/wiki/Introduction
I don't even know how to respond to someone comparing murder to running a business. So we'll end this discussion here.
I can vouch for this. I cold-emailed Leo. He responded thoughtfully, and after a few back and forths, I didn't follow up... signaling (correctly) that I wasn't ready at the time.

Here's the thing: we (founders) optimistically believe in our potential. Often we think we are further along than we really are. Multiply this times the widespread inability to communicate clearly and indeed, I can see why the ROI of cold-emails is miniscule.

On the flip-side, I believe VC's greatest limitation to scale is its reliance on warm-intros and who-you-know dealings. 'Uber for capital' will come along and turn the whole industry (...and banking?) on its head, by making capital accessible no matter who you know or don't know - perhaps a protocol on the blockchain?
More like selling a put: you're hoping it expires out of the money, but if volatility goes up, it will be expensive. Upside is limited and short term, downside potentially unlimited and in the long term, so if your discount rate is high (due, perhaps, to low cash reserves) then the NPV of the trade still makes sense.

People who sell a few puts get away with it for a while, but make it your business and you better be too big to fail.

If everybody is selling puts and levering up, you better do it too or you'll find yourself out of a job. And if volatility increases, everybody is exposed at the same time so you won't get personally blamed anyway, and your career will be just fine.
Schwab has a free robo advisor, Vanguard has a fee robo advisor, iShares has a little robo portfolio generator. I'm sure there are others too.
EU came down like a tonne of bricks on max fees that the banks/processors are allowed to charge - those are no longer eating the profit off razor thin margins those chains had
On my stock Android phone, all the searches just return blank pages. Are you saying it actually works on non-mobile clients?
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For reference, Clojure's core.logic: https://gist.github.com/rm-hull/6952960 Or, from Norvig, presumably as an update to the solution he made with Lisp and Prolog, here's a Python version that doesn't use any fancy logic engine: https://gist.github.com/joyrexus/5301901
i'm not confused. i am discussing the hypocrisy of thiel saying he's about protecting free speech when the thing he was originally angry about (his being outed) was free speech. he doesn't give a shit about hulk hogan or his privacy being violated. all he wanted was a legally winnable case to get at gawker.

so to say he still supports free speech is laughable when the origin of his "fight" was something that was legally free speech.
UPS CEO sees 'sense of urgency' over TPP as China seeks own deal
What the hell am I even looking at with neuromama?
> Kindle's and PDFs goes together badly.

My point was that KOReader makes them go together nicely. :)
That's precisely the point - the reason so many companies fall into the trap of technical debt is that they not only don't understand the risks of what they're getting into; they lack the language (and analogies) to describe the risks.
Good of the authors to explicitly acknowledge that there is no causal link indicated here.

Fun Hypothesis: There exists an underlying latent variable that determines both of these. It takes the form of a negative affect activation function; ie. at some level of pain/annoyance we start to consider the source a problem and look for solutions. Adding this latent variable to the analyses would mediate the relationship between acetaminophen use and the child's behavioral 'issues'.

The authors do address this a bit with:

"They looked for a link between a child’s behavioral problems at age 7 and his or her mother’s post-natal acetaminophen use, and found none."

I would not suppose that this activation function is linear which may confound the authors attempt to control for this.
I'm not trying to play a gotcha game. I was asking a very genuine question because I know there are in fact lots of people in this country (and world) who believe just that. I was also trying to be charitable, assuming I had misunderstood you, and was seeking clarification before saying anything else.
What an unnecessary, garbage drug; one that's responsible for half the liver failures in the United States. Maybe a restriction on pregnant women taking it could move it behind the counter, or better, into the dimly-remembered past.
BTW Pregnant women should not take ibuprofen either due to the potential for premature closure or patent ductus arteriosus.

So if this is true I don't think there are any safe painkillers during pregnancy.
> This offensive, paternalistic attitude towards users needs to stop. You do not get to decide these things for end users.

I thought that's what security updates are?

> Problems in this area are the fault of the vendor, not the user,

That's what security updates are.

> None of this requires stealing user data (or "telemetry")

This is deliberately incendiary language trying to redefine an industry practice so benign and common that it's difficult to find any products that DON'T do it. Even in the free software space!

> Your "solution" is to take away the General Purpose Computer from the user.

Wait. Pardon me? I think you've projected an argument onto me that I am not having? Having your computer click an automatic idle reboot unless you step in to tell it otherwise is not "removing general purpose computing." That's not really even the auspice of most OS's right now!

> This is a cheap excuse to not address actual security.

The idea that security problems can be prevented in advance by better discipline and tools is a fantasy. The technology and process simply don't exist. Until such time as we verify every byte of code from the firmware up, security risks will exist (even then, hardware bugs!). You cannot simply say "Try harder!"

> The negligent security practices of most businesses over the last few decades are becoming a serious problem, and as usual the guilty are trying to deflect the blame onto the people least responsible: the users.

I submit that moving to a regular security update paradigm and tying business interests to product longevity and security. In this, I think Windows 10 is a better strategy for pro-consumer outputs than Apple's current strategy. More in line with Google's forevergreen OS goal.
https://github.com/openhatch/oh-mainline/graphs/contributors

But mostly because I know them (in particular paulproteus who is hard at work on sandstorm.io). It's a _great_ project that I've done some volunteer (non development) work for but would need a big infusion of money or contributors to be made useful again in 2016 as a project finder.

Same goes for OpenHatch's 'open source comes to campus' outreach program. At least many other organizations are doing substantial and scaleable work in that vein.

Not sure there's any large scale effort at building a project finder, but every small thing like Maintainers Wanted is good and helpful.
In my personal experience of fund raising (I raised from billionaires Tim Draper and Marc Benioff of Salesforce for http://gun.js.org/ ) is that it is all about social proof, referral, and not missing out on a deal that another reputable name is already in on.

This surprised me, because I'm an extreme penny pincher, so it was odd to see people move large sums of money in a "where's the money at" mentality rather than (perhaps my poor-man's mentality?) "what is the best value I can get?" process.

Although Tim Draper was my lead, so he got the best value in the deal. ;) And I'm happy for it, because he's been remarkable to work with - very supporting, encouraging, and edifying.
Things have calmed down a bit, so I'll just double down on this before I go:

Do you even hear yourself when you talk? "What could be more regressive?"

Um, how about deporting children? How about mandatory minimums in drug sentencing? How about forced pregnancy to death? How about racial gerrymandering?

How about, jesus, any actually regressive policy? No, when it starts interrupting low-fi YouTube debates about hypothetical public transit infrastructure, that is when the tyranny of the majority has gone too far!

Wow. Honestly, I don't even care if you or anyone wants to use HN to score a few points in Gatorade's famously unpopular ARG. But you know, people do read this stuff, and the public already has a very low opinion of technical folks' political aptitude, so when you say something outright absurd like that it reflects poorly on all of us.

Anyway, there's my "politics", hope you like them <3
Seems like a great release. Faster compilation and faster at runtime. Normally these 2 are considered opposite of each other.
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Getting blank pages on my MBP. So apparently not.
Agreed. Acetaminophen is really not safe in high quantities. Ibuprofen has a much better safety profile.

PS. Don't walk on the ankle just because you don't feel the pain! You can turn a 3 month recovery into a 2 year recovery if you do that.
Github can't verify you actually committed a change unless it's signed. You can set whatever email address you want on any commit.

They could verify who pushed it to github, since that action is authenticated, but restricting pushing other people's commits would break many workflows (eg, a bot pushing from a local git server), or a reviewer pushing code sent to a mailing list, or resolving conflicts in a merge locally.

You can also verify the GPG key independently of Github. Perhaps your CI system could verify all commits it builds are signed, and your deployment system could too. There's no need to use Github as the authoritative source for that sort of thing.
You can see some of that info via Siftery - https://siftery.com/groups/y-combinator-portfolio?activetab=...
Their Android app only has 10-50 installs :0
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vica.chat
That's how I read it: 21% A/B test, of whom 93% use Optimizely.
Ask HN: What are your startup ideas that you aren't pursuing?
(I'm going to keep posting this topic on HN - partially because I think the answers will be interesting, but also partially as an experiment to see how much randomness goes into a HN post becoming successful).
I had no problems transferring stocks held in Wealthfront to Fidelity, using an 'in-kind transfer'.

https://support.wealthfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/209353226-...

The securities appeared in my Fidelity account, and the cost basis information populated a few days later. It also doesn't trigger a taxable event, and there were no fees for transferring out of Wealthfront.
Accusations of cognitive dissonance are fruitless – there's a sizable block of 'gay conservative Christians' who probably think that you're experiencing cognitive dissonance and that their beliefs make sens given their worldview.
Heres mine: My proposed business is a centralized website similar to Kickstarter that does the financing for new music albums. With the spread of streaming services, many artists are now making an insufficient amount of money through record sales. Bands would list the albums they could potentially release (ie their next album, a live album, b sides etc) on a website where once the band has reached their asking price, they will start working on/or release that album. The price listed is not how much the album costs the band to make, but the amount of money that it would take the band to feel sufficiently incentivized to make/release the album. Once the album reaches this point, the band would release the album for free online. This creates two new streams of revenue - fans who really love an artist (or have lots of money) can contribute proportionally. Additionally, cheap fans that otherwise wouldn't pay for the album would be incentivized to with the hope that the album comes out sooner, or out of fear that it won't be released at all. You can read more details here: http://danfrank.ca/startup-ideas/
To be clear, the project isn't mine - the author looks to be https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zevv
Given the issues with NSAIDs in general (and even moreso with NSAIDs with particular populations), acetaminophen being available remains important. It definitely has dangers particularly if used improperly (and a much narrower gap between normal and dangerous doses than many other drugs), but its not an unnecessary or garbage drug.
The value in that is that they also tell your neighbors what they can't do with their property.
Wow that logo looks like a birthday banner
Great point! Just looked it up and the last information I could find showed just below $500 as the average HOA in Seattle. In theory based on the original guidelines you still end up ahead - but it's very close. I recently bought a SFH in Seattle and it ended up way in my favor over renting for things people choose not to include in the other direction (having to pay for parking, having to pay per pet, etc)
I suppose it's debatable. I'm talking about stuff like the iPhone singlehandedly revolutionizing the touchscreen mobile market, and the iPad essentially creating the tablet market from scratch - they existed before, but were pretty much uniformly awful and I can't remember anybody ever wanting one.

It's not like email or webmail didn't exist before GMail, but I suppose you could argue that the revolutionary at the time use of AJAX plus gigabyte standard storage space, plus great spam filters was enough to transform webmail from a handicapped second-class citizen to something that tech experts would be happy to leave desktop email clients for.

But then, Google Maps was better than the competition, but enough better to be a revolutionary difference? I'd say no. But where do you draw the line between a good refinement of a pre-existing class of application to something that qualifies as revolutionary?
Show HN: Make Australian Census Great Again – Web Scale Version
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> However, this is obviously highly inefficient on long duration seeks.

Is it that bad? On the podcast, Marco claimed that seeking forward through an MP3 to find the correct time is pretty efficient, and that the reason for all this trouble is that streaming (specifically, requesting the correct byte offset from the server, if you want to jump to a specific time on the stream) is the problem he's trying to tackle here. He said that if it weren't for the streaming use case, he'd be fine with forward-reading.
Read the (Important Disclosure) pdf at the bottom of http://investor.neuromama.com/ - It's amazingly crazy.
But you get rewards! http://fsr.neuromama.com
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And most games on PS3 end up using SPU very little or completely leaving it for middleware used since it's was too complicated to work with for average programmer. Though there was really nice DICE presentation on their deferred shading using PS3 SPUs: http://www.dice.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Christina_Coff...
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And smaller binary size too. For a statically linked blob, that's a big plus.
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On the line after talking about using CloudFlare as a hosting provider, they separately talk about using CloudFlare as a CDN.
There's… a 17-minute rant about Google being bad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok-8uVR4Pa0

Note the fake NASDAQ symbol.

I only watched 5 minutes of it. Interestingly, Neuromama.com does indeed return Microsoft as the top result for "computer software": https://neuromama.com/get/web/computer+software

But the rest is the same as Google.
For some condominiums (especially apartment-style, many-units-in-one-building condos), HOA fees often largely go to maintaining common areas and shared structure.

This is often less true with detached, single-family homes with HOAs.