skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively, based on my assumption that English is only a second language for the authors[1] I also think it might just be a cultural/language issue. Being a non-native english speaker myself, I frequently find myself differing in word usages with the native speakers. And there is probably no formalized naming convention (like scientific names in biology), it's what's all in people's heads. What Fowler said about naming being hard is probably very true [2].

[1]: https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad/graphs/contributors
[2]: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
This isn't just great for international founders, it's great for anyone in YC!

As an international founder, the two things I took away in my batch were: 1) How to deal with visa issues - which can be gruelling + take time and money. That being said, just being associated with YC helps you out a lot. They can recommend great lawyers and alumni who've gone through similar experiences. 2) If you have a non-english sounding accent, pg is likely gonna scream at you when you try to pitch. It's kinda weird, but try not to let it get you down.
In terms of goods and services consumed, grad school was definitely comparable to poverty. Insofar as it differs it's by perhaps a few thousand dollars/year.

Are you suggesting that if we took poor Americans, but gave them health care an extra couple of thousand $/year, that they would suddenly reduce their crime levels to that of graduate students? I feel like this can be tested by comparing the generosity of various state-level welfare programs.

Or again, by looking it (very poor) upper class Indians.

There's also a big difference between being low paid in a generally high paid cultural group vs being in a generally low paid cultural group, in terms of social safety net and psychological climate.

If you switch on showdead you'll see that in my now flagged post, we are discussing whether economics causes poor people to become "bad people". You might be right that psychology does, but that's a totally different claim.
> > Furthermore, the implication that people in poverty are any less "hard-working" than those that have achieved financial success/accessibility to the sciences seems like a claim that needs some citations

> 60% of poor adults (age 18-64) don't work at all. In contrast, 81% of non-poor adults do.

I'm having trouble believing that it is possible to make an argument that % of people in a group who are employed is a good representation of the degree to which people in the group are hardworkers seriously, no matter what the group in question is.

But when its poor vs. non-poor -- that is, when the groups are divided up by an attribute which is fairly strongly influenced by whether or not you have the income derived from a job -- its even harder to believe.

> Why is this a remotely controversial claim, as opposed to simply standard knowledge that all educated people know?

That poor people are less likely to be employed is not a controversial claim, nor was it the claim at issue. That they are less "hard-working" was the claim at issue, which is not one which can be resolved by looking at the degree to which they are employed.
My site https://IndieHackers.com has in-depth interviews with lots of developers who've launched their side projects. There's definitely some good information there!

I also wrote a post about my experience launching Indie Hackers itself: https://www.indiehackers.com/blog/launching-to-300000-pagevi...

To answer your question more directly, I think it really depends on what you're building! If your project does a good job appealing to a niche and, ideally, solving a prickly pain point of theres, that makes it easier. The next step is to find places where those people hang out online, and then learn the rules of those communities so you can respectfully introduce what you've built.
I agree, but I could see how we might previously allowed some data collection because the dangerous analysis seemed infeasible at the time.
There was a post somewhere where they realized it was going nowhere in terms of turning into a real OS. They have no delusions. They said something like they mainly saw its value in experimentation, learning, fun.
So you think that startups with hockey-stick growth should have to design systems which are impervious to extremely sophisticated criminals? That seems unlikely.

Edit: also, the main risk here is password reuse. How is Yahoo supposed to estimate that and why are they on the hook for user's bad security practices?
As do I. I wish that world didn't use struggle sessions and collective guilt (his girlfriend has been driven off social media) in the process.
> We've already seen accusations of misogyny and supporting violence against women levelled at them by people like J. K. Rowling (because apparently suggesting voters will consider politicians responsible for their votes is a call for violence now).

huh?
Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography (CATMOG)
I'd say that .ignore is too generic a name. What is to be ignored by what?

But I like the idea of standardizing this. Perhaps the cache directory tagging standard gives some inspiration.

http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html
The installation is very fast since it just copies package files which are read-only images mounted at boot.

1) download anyboot nighly image

2) dd to sacrifical flash drive

3) boot from it and install

Once installed you can use https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/daily-tasks/updating-system to upgrade the system
This is just Palantir's foot in the door. Other municipalities will want to follow in NYC's steps, as Palantir essentially expands the smart city market. When the market is big enough, then Palantir will start pricing in a manner that actually makes them money. At least in theory. The similarity to a typical startup (low price to build demand, growth drives high valuation) is uncanny.
I assume they called the HR contact. That's how it's generally done for background checks, etc.
After watching this, words fail. Considering that the man's wife is shouting that he has no gun, why do the police officers shoot him?
Visualization of Clinton email scandal
Do you agree that there's a difference between collecting information from spherically-broadcast radio waves, to which most building walls are nearly transparent, and collecting other electromagnetic waves by putting a detector in a place where most people wouldn't assume it would exist? I'd argue that using opaque building materials to block emission of radiation in directions that one might an observer to be located shows a clear intent to establish a degree of privacy, and that someone flying a quadcopter into unusual places to take advantage of holes in peoples' reasonable expectations should be counted as a violation.

The types of radiation that you're comparing have two very important differences that influence people's expectations: First, they're blocked by very different sets of substances. Second, we've got a detector for one of those ranges built into our heads. I don't think it's reasonable to treat the two segments of the spectrum in the same way.

I expect vehicles to drive by my home. I expect people in those vehicles to have wifi devices that can see the broadcasts from my AP. I expect their devices to capture that data, possibly store it, and possibly transmit it to another device. I think it's unreasonable to assume that someone won't do that. I don't have a strong argument for how capturing and publicly indexing that information is harmful to me.
Like Word did? :)
The founder profile - the same questions that you are asked (the ones you are asked here - https://apply.ycombinator.com/bio/edit)
I hope this isn't too off topic, but I recall when the BeBox was coming out, one of its cool features was the "Geekport"

I am going to Google it – but I'm curious if anyone on HN had experience with it and can explain what made it awesome (or not!)
I'd keep quiet about that if I were you! The tree of liberty might be looking a bit peaky...
It's possible, but it's certainly not easy. Here are some complications:

1. The DFA-regex engine's syntax must be a subset of PCRE's syntax. If it's not, then users will be very confused when regex features work fine in isolation, but cause errors when combined in the same query.

2. The DFA-regex's behavior must be the same as PCRE. If whitespace matching or unicode support is even slightly different, it will frustrate users.

3. Adding another dependency means yet another way in which compilation can fail or incompatibilities can arise.

Considering the marginal usefulness of backtracking and captures, I'd prefer to keep ag as simple as possible and ditch them.
This is a fair point, but don't underestimate the value of getting something to market sooner rather than later, even for something like this.

Look at it this way: would you rather wait for five 9s against getting in a collision of any kind, in a car you won't be able to buy for another 25 years ... or settle for four 9s, and take delivery by christmas?

I don't know enough about the odds or the effect vs speed to comment with any confidence about whether Cruise's autonomous driving system fits this pattern or not, but I too often see a knee-jerk "slower and safer is always better when LIVES are on the line!" reaction, and I think it's worth being careful about whether it actually does make for a safer world.
Here is data suggesting most poor people aren't looking for work - only 35% of poor adults were in the labor force: http://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/working-poor/archive/a-profi...

(To get that number, I took 10.5M in labor force / (45.3M poor people - 16M poor children).)

So yes, I think it's fair to characterize a group of people who don't work, and aren't even looking for work, as "less hard working" than a group that disproportionately is working.

What does "hard working" mean to you? And why do you believe poor people are comparably hard working to the non-poor?
As Microsoft have discovered in their binary patches through Windows update. If you've ever run sfc /scannow and then dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth then you are almost certainly seeing corrupted binary patches.
Could I suggest .ignorerc?

I would immediately intuit that such a file is a (r)untime (c)onfiguration for ignoring something.

.ignore isn't... bad, it just looks like something I can safely delete, like a file styled `such-and-such~`
If the data hasn't changed during the last interval, then it doesn't rewrite the file. The article mentions loading a couple of dozen pages that are probably all pinging a dozen ad servers every 15 seconds, updating their cookies and localstorage with the results, etc. It all adds up. If you really want to solve the problem, use an ad blocker, or push the pages you visit to remove the bloat.
goodbyeworld
FYI, article does get updated regularly.

But, last update:

04 August 2016: Added “Future” and “Conclusion”
There doesn't appear to be any mining, proof-of-work, anonymous consensus, or fault-tolerant consensus of any kind in this project. I think they just threw the phrase "Nakamoto blockchain" in there as inspiration, really they are just using hashchains from 1999.
In either case it was ultimately her decision. Following orders is not an excuse for unethical behavior.
The silencing of KrebsOnSecurity opens a troubling chapter for the ‘Net
I saw the tech they had in their office right before acquisition. It wasn't anything drastically different from the tech used in 2007 during the DARPA Urban challenge.
Those are just the first two links I found after 5 seconds of searching though. My points have been proven over and over and over by other studies.
That's fantastic! Please don't hesitate to file an issue if you run into problems.
>Some autonomous regions of Spain enjoy big degrees of autonomy, and might get more.

The Basque separatist movement hasn't been entirely peaceful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_(separatist_group)
Have you looked into Proton Mail? I use the android app and have had no issues post-beta. I also haven't gotten any spam whatsoever.
This liberal McCarthyism is getting a little scary.

Can't we just make cool shit and check the politics at the door?
Actually I am comparing an Asian pear purchased in Japan to an Asian pear purchased in the US. I did a little dance of joy to discover Trader Joe's sometimes carried the Asian pear, despite the pear being so small.
Right because if you don't launch a product that reaches over 1/6th of the human population every 3 years your irrelevant.
May be .searchignore?
Can confirm closing chrome typically doubles my battery life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_overwrapped_pressure...
No, I thinko-d that. Twitter is.
and people like Elon Musk and Tim Cook are on Twitter. It's incredibly interesting to read what they do and say day-to-day. I'd call myself a passive user because I only read notification on my phone if few of these people tweet something.
>The reality is that even with fairly heavy use, most of them will far outlive the computers they're in.

I'm not sure what the lifetime of a computer is. In my family, we are still occasionally running machines from circa 1995. They work fine. When should I stop using my MacBook? The only reason I'd stop is if it died in a way that can't be cheaply fixed.
It fundamentally can't be interface compatible, sorry. I think I was pretty clear about this in the blog. :-)
You're confusing a hypothesis and a belief.
Every time I've looked at their reports, stock-based compensation is significantly greater than the total net loss. It seems like the classic tech bubble company where there's a solid large company which is at risk because they're spending like a profitable huge company.
To add perspective, the interim solution (driving yourself) is probably closer to three 9s. So it's a choice between a big improvement soon, or an even bigger improvement later.
Still can't stand that ridiculous buzzword. Fortunately with the moniker like that no professional will take that trend seriously..
Harambe's at the center of the zeitgeist. You wouldn't invest in Harambe.
I wish more people actually took steps to optimize disk io though; my current source tree may be in cache, but my logs certainly aren't. Nor are my /usr/share/docs/, /usr/includes/, or my old projects.

Chris Mason of btrfs fame did some proof of concept work for walking and reading trees in on-disk order, showing some pretty spectacular potential gains: https://oss.oracle.com/~mason/acp/

Tooling to do your own testing: https://oss.oracle.com/~mason/seekwatcher/
I still don't understand why Japan gives us a pass for nuking two of their cities.
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The warranty on your EVO is just 150 TBW. The older generations typically had better endurance, the newer generations are more dense (cheaper to produce) but less durable.

If you keep with 17 TB per one and half year your SSD should be OK for your for at least next 11 years.
I meant by hacking an android device
I've published a few crates in the home automation space, but they're both pretty terrible at this point. One of them is for controlling WeMo devices, and now that I know Rust better I'm going to rewrite it using the new blocking APIs rather than Mio. (And real SOAP support.)

What kind of home automation will you be doing? I'd absolutely love to collaborate on a gateway that interacts with Wemo, Z-wave, Zigbee, etc. and can do basic things like events, scenes, schedules, etc.

I haven't focused on home automation all summer long since I've been trying to get my Donald Trump TTS engine (also written in Rust) ready for the election. It's soooo close.
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Ways to determine polarity (DC) without a meter
Or just have each goroutine read from a shared channel. From what I understand they are thread safe (granted I'm not a go person) and then expose the channel ass the method for adding.

So all of the threads just read from the channel and rather then adding to a queue you write to the gochannel they are all reading from.
> However, I'd like to think that atmospherics has more to do with things than the article goes into

But, from the article:

> We know that this phenomenon is not a physical or atmospheric effect, as may be easily demonstrated by photographing the moon in the sky at various elevations and comparing its size on the negatives.
The government DID change.

How do you think HK got non-corrupt? Trust me, it wasn't because of a democracy.
For example, colonialism, which Picketty and Acemoglu base a lot of their work on, would be hard to reimplement for experimentation. Hence the debate. The data and conclusions are interesting and compelling, but not yet decisive.
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> Lastly, having left HK and seen the rest of the world, I want to ask "what culture?" Nearly all of HK culture is imported and cheap copies of other cultures such as China, UK, and Japan.

Regardless of whether I agree with you or not, this is a rather offensive thing to say no? If people think their culture is unique or at least different, who are we to say otherwise?
Because they started it and would have killed and estimated million of our own (millions of their own!!!) invading the home islands. Why does this happen every damn time it comes up on HN. We didn't just say "hey, fuck those nips". It was the best option for everyone involved.
Take a look at Unit 731 vs. the Nazi human experimentation program during WWII. In exchange for the data gathered through 731's history, the U.S. turned a blind eye. The Nazis however were tried by U.S. military courts for conducting such experiments. Hypocrisy at its finest.

Unit 731: "Instead of being tried for war crimes, the researchers involved in Unit 731 were secretly given immunity by the U.S. in exchange for the data they gathered through human experimentation."

Nazis: "After the war, these crimes were tried at what became known as the Doctors' Trial, and revulsion at the abuses perpetrated led to the development of the Nuremberg Code of medical ethics."
True, but `ag` and `ack` don't.

This is a really interesting point. If we're going to be typing commands frequently, it would make sense for them to be optimally efficient to type using QWERTY (and maybe other common keyboard layouts).

`ls` and `cd` are super easy to type.
They don't, in fact as time goes on they're more and more convinced that it was an act of aggression without provocation.

I kid you not. There has always been some denial on that end about the role of starting that war, and even more denial about their behavior in China and elsewhere.

They probably "give a pass", because to do more on the international stage would draw attention to their many, many, inexcusable war crimes. Dropping plague fleas on China for instance, or the general activities of Unit 731, which would be bound to come up again and again... and they weren't trying to end a war.

That said, I think even in the US there's a lot of debate over the fact that Nagasaki probably didn't need to happen, but hindsight is 20/20.
if you were the police, would you do it?

"she says he doesn't have a gun, so there's no way he has one..."

do you believe this?
Careful. Start talking about the US defeating Germany and the Russians will have something to say. There is good reason why in the US it is called WWII and in Russia "The Great Patriotic War". The walk from Moscow to Berlin was much longer than from France.
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I agree. Malware has been known to install vulnerable signed drivers to get unsigned kernelmode code execution.
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A temperature difference of 63 °C is still an awful lot easier to deal with than a temperature difference of 280 °C
It's not as clear cut as you make it out to be in my opinion. Please think twice and look at the aftermath and devastation that resulted from using nuclear bombs on a civilian population.

Both sides were at fault, but to say that the U.S. was objectively right is an oversimplification.
"Do you browse to html files on your attachment server?"

No, I don't.
> Why is that "sad"?

It may be sad for security researchers.

Or for end-users who got their data breached, and aren't compensated fairly.
I think we'll be OK. :)
Probably something to do with the resources and lives already sacrified to an ultimately futile war effort by the Japanese government of the time, and the huge American effort put into rebuilding the country into a democratic and prosperous place afterwards.

Of course, not everybody thinks that way.
We did that with plenty of Nazis too... hence NASA.

'I Aim For The Stars'..."(But Sometimes I Hit London)"
Some of them seemed relieved the war was going to be over. It was also interesting they weren't that interested in winning.

HEISENBERG: One can't say that. One could equally well say "That's the quickest way of
ending the war.”
HAHN: That's what consoles me

WEIZSÄCKER: I believe the reason we didn't do it was because all the physicists didn't want
to do it, on principle. If we had all wanted Germany to win the war we would have
succeeded.
>GERLACH: If Germany had had a weapon which would have won the war, then Germany would have been in the right and the others in the wrong, and whether conditions in Germany are better now than they would have been after a HITLER victory –

>HEISENBERG: I don't think so. On the other hand, the days of small countries are over. Suppose HITLER had succeeded in producing his EUROPE and there had been no uranium in EUROPE.

This is now my favourite political quote.
I'm not sure how "mandatory liability insurance" gets translated into "have to design systems which are impervious."
What a strange reaction to reading this document.
True, but one was secret (Unit 731) and the other wasn't if I recall correctly.
As opposed to what, a pass for killing hundreds of thousands more of their citizens in an invasion? The death toll from Okinawa alone outstrips that of both bombs, doesn't it?
How many US civilians were killed by Japanese troops total vs. how many innocent women, kids, elderly, artists were firebombed and nuked by the US in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki?

This comic book version of history present in the US is disgusting.

The US could have nuked a 100% military installation.
The US could have detonated the nukes in Tokyo harbor to scare the shit out of the population.

No.

The US decided to nuke TWO, not one, TWO cities full of civilian human beings.
The destruction brought by the two nukes actually pales in comparison to the firebombing. Some have argued that, given the energies required to build the bombs, far more death would have occurred had those resources been put towards greater firebombing. In that context it is difficult to give special legal treatment to the nukes.
Just pointing out that there is hate on both sides, and while Hillary and her supporters are quick to condemn 25% of the country as "deplorable white-supremacists", she has nothing to say about things like this:

> Keith Lamont Scott’s Brother Calls All White People ‘Devils’

http://heavy.com/news/2016/09/keith-lamont-scotts-brother-wh...

Or this:

http://heavy.com/news/2016/09/charlotte-riots-video-white-ma...
'Technology company' is becoming a meaningless phrase
The aesthetic would be awesome if it weren't for those giant ads on the side. It throws off my days-till-Halloween vibe.
That too. The Japanese did a much better job of destroying evidence of such crimes, while the Germans mostly meticulously documented them, and they were too busy running like hell from the Soviets to destroy them all, once they saw what was in store for them.
how will https://oldgeekjobs.com become a billion dollar company?
I like it. I need this (~35 yo here). Beside, the design is really cool. I would love to know who sponsor visas but maybe that's not relevant to your most immediate customers. Good luck.
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They don't all. There's a more contemporary movement (I believe) that is rejecting the idea that their country "had it coming" or are apologetic about Japan's role during the war.