skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone has their own priorities, but ValueTypes are huge.

Also, I don't think this falls under Valhalla (and I'm not sure if it's been committed yet), but the possibility of reasonable type inference in Java 10 would make me rather happy.
OSSing certain parts is certainly an issue, but what do you mean with "potential coupling" being an issue? That's exactly the advantage, right?
A one page (server!) app. Congratulations on getting it going !
Yeah I'm not even sure I understand what FB's monorepository is so it is probably unfair critique.

I can definitely see an "app" (Firefox) as a monorepo but not giant web companies (particularly with the surge of microservices).

BTW Cargo is fantastic (and I'm fairly picky on package management / build tools).
The Technical Interview Rift
I have had good experiences with PdfiumViewer and PdfSharp. Admittedly I used them in very simple ways.

https://github.com/pvginkel/PdfiumViewer

http://www.pdfsharp.net/MainPage.ashx
Anyone who is old enough to remember the pain of VCSes like CVS and RCS will note that the number one feature touted to move to any other VCS is invariably "atomic changesets"--all the necessary changes to files are listed in a single changeset. Monorepos are nothing less than remembering the value of those atomic changesets.

An example of utility of monorepos is things like automation--if you change, for example, how you publish packages, and you need to maintain multiple stable branches, it is immensely useful to keep the automation steps in the same repository as code. If you don't, your automation repository then looks like

if version < 31:
step_a()
step_b()
step_c()
elif version < 35:
step_a()
step_bv2()
step_d()
else:
...

which quickly grows unmaintainable at scale.
wasn't my parent comment

but in any case I am genuinely curious. I can see the conflict of getting data only from AirBnB.

But perhaps prices simply reached an equilibrium. For example, there was a time when I could count on AirBnB being MUCH cheaper than hotels. Now they are about the same in most areas I look in. I can also see some hotels having less variance in their prices during certain time periods.
I can't really see how this improves anything. It gets really messy when you try to simulate patterns that aren't there/supported.
Except, you know, they were wrong. It's absolutely fine to talk about these things, but it is also absolutely pertinent that we take a measured approach. There was a lot of down voting of people that took the measured response in that thread and that is NOT healthy for this or any online community.
IMHO Sam's is a pretty good post, and I also feel Sam is basically saying Peter Thiel gets a pass because he's Peter Thiel and because Trump is a major party nominee, but if anyone else were publicly supporting a basically anti-free speech, anti-immigrant, anti-women, democracy-undermining extremist organization or politician, no reasonable person would want them as an investor or adviser.

Which I think Marco sums up well saying, someone who says what Trump is saying could not be associated with YC, and donating over $1m is saying you strongly support what Trump is saying.

IMO saying you shouldn't fire someone over politics, shouldn't be a free pass to support ANYTHING, including things antithetical to basic human values or YC values/interests, if it happens to be from a presidential candidate.
apt-get -f install is hardly non-trivial.
Not my point. The idea is that you can obtain a cheaply checkable proof that you computed a memory bound function, such as a scrypt hash.
How is it baseless and anti-intellectual? If Trump were elected, he would be able to push through an agenda by exercising a significant aggressive minority of the population. This power to summon millions (who call legislators, picket, rally, etc.), who are compelled to participate if only for the spectacle, would be unique among American presidents.
I think you must mean Unassailable Proof. There's certainly plenty of Bayesian evidence.
You think Wikileaks is a 1-person operation?
> U.S. workers not only put in more hours than workers do almost anywhere else.

I understand that they're intending to compare us to other Western nations, but there's simply no way this is true globally.
Have you ever fought with your loved one? do you tell them everything? do you tell everyone everything all the time?
If so we have a name for that, but you can't really hold a relationship if you act like that.
We don't go and broadcast everything that was said to us in confidence, we don't share every thought we have.

If say there was an email from hilary saying that "The US would back X amount of billions in guaranteed loans to provide funding for infrastructure informer FARC controlled zones" one party now knows exactly how much to ask for, one party now knows a limit, one party now has more power...
Or here is another example say on day 2 of the negotiations there would be some preliminary agreement on how many and what type of sentences would be commuted that's just one small point of the negotiation it hasn't been finalized but if leaked it can blow up the entire deal.
FARC can say it's too little, the Colombian government/people can say it's too much, and all over something that haven't been finalized or agreed upon, on something that is likely to change 50 times over during the negotiations.
You seem to think for some reason that leaking things prematurely isn't using you as pieces, it is you are a puppet of your emotions and feeding you specifically tuned information is effectively playing you like a string.
Quantum field theory: a quantum-information view
There is a huge distinction between an official language and a language that is in common use by an immigrant community. Within the UK there are far more than five commonly used immigrant languages, and many are not European - Health and Safety documents come in 18 languages - mostly not EU languages.

To compare your five supported languages with a country that has four official languages, and significant cultural diversity within those - and then the immigrant communities from many more equally varied nations - which is just one part of the 28 nation polity that was originally mentioned (which combined have 24 official languages at the EU level, and many more at the national level) - is just really quite silly.
The national outlets should team up with local newspapers to syndicate articles and provide a cut of the ad/subscription revenue.

e.g. NYT would team up with SmallTown, Ohio newspaper so that a user can subscribe to both his local newspaper and NYT and see articles on the same page.
> I guess the fact that he's a billionaire means he can be bullied

Poor billionaires, being bullied and called names by random plebs on the internet. Let's start a feel-good charity for billionaires.
Well this study is obviously wrong. Myself and many others use Airbnb strictly in place of hotels.
Much of the land in America that's not owned by the indigenous population has been obtained by dubious means.

Generally, might makes right.
> What incentives do companies/governments have to make their products more expensive?

Policy is one. A few weeks ago there were a few posts about the Swedes giving tax breaks on repair labor, the idea being to create an incentive that encourages reuse over waste:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/waste-not-want...

And HN discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12579879
The problem is that the conspiracy theories are becoming more and more believable. As more and more have come true (Snowden, Iraq WMD, ...), people have less and less reason to doubt them.
Zenefits Touts New Software in Turnaround Effort
Yup, and it's been interesting to see the approach the different churches have taken. My town is a land grant town, so the Unitarians, Congregationalists, and Episcopalians own large tracts of land that are tied up in 999-year leases. The Episcopalians view this as a bother and they'll basically give up the freehold if you pay all the lawyer's fees. The UU's, on the other hand, are taking the long view and won't sell the leasehold; at least the offer I made (granted, at a cocktail party) was politely refused.
Whether or not it's a "fundamental principle of democracy" , the hyperbole and moral policing sets an extremely dangerous precedent. Yes, trump would be a terrible president but he's not Hitler (I know you didn't compare him to Hitler but it was a very common comparison in the media for a while).
The people trying to save programming from itself
A Windows Home to Windows Pro upgrade is available in the Windows Store or elsewhere.
> for aggregates with variable-length per-group state, we don't have a good size estimate

Can you say a bit more why?
Was somebody under the impression that there are no conservatives involved in funding and creating startups?

If you live in a world where you think you only have to deal with people who follow your political ideology, I feel sorry for you.
> To some extent, this is a choice many Americans
> intentionally make.

Uhm, to what extent do they have a choice? Be super poor or work hard. Hmm..yes those are delightful "options" to get to "select".

But seriously, I don't see a realistic choice for most people. To have any decent level of security and stability in our lives, most of us have to work our asses off!
Assange is so untrustworthy.
The law is not a contract. It's a EULA. Shut up and click I AGREE already. :-)
While I think you make valid points in general, they don't apply here for two reasons:

1) Russ has continued to do relevant and interesting work in the decade since those papers with Hinton. Here's his arXiv feed. The latest was in June 2016 I think.

https://arxiv.org/find/cs/1/au:+Salakhutdinov_R/0/1/0/all/0/...

2) Russ will keep his position at CMU, which means that he will continue to engage in interesting work that can be shared. I'm not sure how Apple's position on open-ness is evolving, and I'm not incredibly optimistic that they'll let people share their work, but Russ will keep one foot in the open community.
Why would you give them 18 months to do whatever they wanted? A loophole you can use to park a container ship seems to miss the point.
I don't have a background in this area, so I'm likely easily impressed, but this seems really impressive. And the acknowledgement that there's a lot of work to be done, such as discriminating between speakers and recognition in adverse environments. Yeah, it's Microsoft writing on their own technology, but they addressed in the text the questions I had already in mind from just reading the title. It didn't leave me with feeling that it's just a marketing piece.

> Still, he cautioned, true artificial intelligence is still on the distant horizon

It's frustrating when technologies like image and speech recognition and robotics are conflated with AI.
> the tech-heavy Web strategy pursued by most papers has been a bust

This can be true, without implying that continuing to focus on print over digital was the correct strategy.
I am an easterner who spent a few years in USA. In the beginning, I sort of liked how people seemed in control of their emotions in situations which would make me visibly angry. No one displayed their anger/frustration to the extent I am used to. This may be anecdotal but with time I observed that deep inside they lingered these emotions more than I would do, which as you implied, is unhealthy.
Readable on my iPhone 6s in landscape mode.
I actually hate the style of this post and the way that it detracts from the substance of his argument, but the underlying critique on startup culture is real.

That said drinking Soylent (Coffiest) in the shower every morning is actually a pretty great start to the day.

Side note: This was also posted a few times recently [1][2][3][4].

(It looks like Medium's hash at the end is breaking HN's de-duplicator.)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682944

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12686634

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691230

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690531
I would never ever use such language in work email. You are always one wrong click away from everything being sent to your clients or to the whole wide world. There's a "New York Times principle" applicable to work emails - don't write anything you couldn't deal with if it were on the front page of the New York Times.

Now, if I were talking one on one with peers over beers, that's a different matter. There is much more freedom and it would allow some things said which are not meant to be heard by anybody not in the audience.

> People everywhere bitch about the outsiders they have to deal with in language that would never be used in business proper.

This is not exactly business - those are people that pretend to be champions of those "needy latinos" and represent them. It's a higher bar than just business transaction - I would have no problem doing business with a person I disagree with on everything and who maybe secretly hates me, as long as the business end is fine I'm fine. But I probably prefer to choose somebody else to represent me and speak for me.
Back in 2005-2006 I was working on Wall St., studying for my CFA exam, working to get a place in our equities group, all while half-diverting my attention to the other coast, watching in awe as a whole bunch of upstarts were following in the footsteps of Robert Noyce and crew, building a new future. This new future didn't seem to look like the old way of doing business, like on Wall St., where it was where you went to school, who your neighbors were, who's ass you kissed at work. It was like the wild west, where the fit survived and prospered, where anyone could go and make a new life, and build something that would improve everyone's life.

Fast forward 5 years or so and my delusions of "this time it will be different" were all but shattered. Watching Facebook put up walls around the commons, watching Apple fence off their garden, watching Google get into bed with the government and our military. Watching payroll head-counts become more and more dominated by sales teams. Watching founders head for the exit that is Wall St., which is exactly where Noyce and Crew had fled from back in the day.

My guess is that it's all about the systemic qualities of our economic system. How could Silicon Valley had become anything else. I mean, if we're honest about it, Silicon Valley's first big customer was the military. And where there is money to be made Wall St. and the Ivy League will soon follow, stamping out cookie cutter companies implementinng their tried and true methodology for extracting the maximum value for shareholders.

So sad.
> All in all, would do again, except not more than 1 a month because flying across a continent and back for 1.5 days is gruelling.

This is part of the problem. Aside from college graduates, who has time to fly around the country burning vacation time to maybe get an offer?
I'd refrain from letting my infant kid (I don't have one) use a computer. I've first seen one when I was 11 (about 2000) and I'm just fine with computers now. Plus, I've been able to play outside, run around, climb trees etc. It is a question of predisposition, not how early you've started with computers.
I find it ironic that Thiel, who claims that democracy and capitalism are no longer compatible (and it appears if he were forced to choose he'd ditch democracy) is being defended by calling someone else "despotic".
You're misunderstanding, the claim is that it was 'during', not 'because'. Kerry was there as part of the negotiations, and supposedly had a private meeting where he made the request. Not that I particularly believe this, just clarifying for you!
Another way to look at this is to apply a version of Jeff Bezos's Regret Minimization Framework: project yourself decades into the future and read about yourself in a history book.

If you truly believe Trump is an unprecedented threat to democracy in the league of Stalin, how would you feel telling your children that "it was just business" when you kept on a partner who was part of his campaign apparatus?

I don't think IBM is particularly proud of their management during the 1930's. No one knows or cares about the personal views of the people behind those decisions, just what they led IBM to do.
Thiel, YC and How to Live with Trump Supporters
Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition is a lovely piece of self-contained 80s nostalgia
It is a real word though.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc...
Is it actually true that more are correct now than in the past?
What? Where are these 8:30-4:30-with-a-nice-long-lunch jobs?

In my experience, smaller (non bigcorp) companies have to fight to survive and don't have these luxuries..
I suppose you could make the argument the other way but my thoughts are that by having the code all together it maybe confusing what is public API (ie interfaces / contracts) and what is not.

I know personally that I have had to move components into separate projects (not necessarily repositories but compile units) to avoid developers from accessing things they shouldn't (e.g. access the database directly instead of going through a different layer).

Separate repositories would be enforcing it to a greater extent. But like I said earlier I suppose I could see it the other way (ie visibility and thus prevention).
Start with understanding \JS... then understand ES6 and CommonJS style modules. From there, understand that babel is just a tool to let you use new syntax, which has stabilized a tot since ES6, there's a few bits for async still baking, but that's to be expected. Beyond this is the node-style callback, and more about Promises and async.

These are the core of it all... from there, it's a matter of picking the lego pieces you want to use. What I described above is no more complex than the JVM or extended .Net APIs, especially when you pick all the target options there... in fact the footprint is a lot smaller. Yes, it's a little harder to build something with the 2000 piece lego generic pack than it is with the guided here's a pirate ship with all the parts laid out. But that's what engineering is all about.

If you're really stuck, start with a boilerplate or starter generator tool, there's a few of them for whatever direction you are leaning. Don't worry about picking "the right one"... there is no true path. No matter what you pick, you're going to hit a wall that conflicts with your sensibilities. Angular has the biggest adoption of any web framework ever and only has a 44% approval rating for reuse. That means a LOT of people pick wrong. Adapt, learn, grow...
Local news isn't going to be pushed at you front and center, at least not until Google knows most people's home town (or most relevant town). However, when I google $hometown+news, I get a pretty decent listing.

Not sure if this works well for cities that are large enough to cause world news themselves. And, if you did this for San Francisco, I imagine that you would simply be directed back to HN ;)
I'm not American. I live far away from the country and have zero influence on its politics.

However, America has a deep influence on the whole world, and, of course, it's president is very relevant for all nations in this planet. So I follow the political scenario closely.

As (hopefully) many, I'm completely against Trump. He's irresponsible, most of the ideals he spread are harmful to (my understanding of the) development of mankind, etc. I really hope that he isn't elected under any circumstances.

Still, it seems to me that Marco doesn't understand democracy, freedom of speech, belief, and a number of other values that are as important to mankind as those Trump poses a risk to. As a person should (has to) be free to vote to whomever they wish, also they are free to support that same individual.

Punishing such support is about the same as threating The Republic for supporting Clinton.
It seems you just accused sama of taking payment from Clinton's campaign for his blog post yesterday. I know you said you are not, but you did.

This is why politics should be banned from HN until the election is over.
The price was always one of the most compelling factors in the Nexus line (at least around Nexus 4/5).
If you want to test out this behavior before it rolls out, you can set security.pki.sha1_enforcement_level (per Gervase Markham).

A value of 1 means "entirely forbidden", a value of 3 means "forbidden for public roots".

I can't speak for the behavior when using any other value.
> Have anything beyond hyperbole?

Out of all of the countries you listed as expensive, only the U.S. has a system where you can pay thousands a year in premiums and yet still get zero coverage for your first 10k in medical expenses.

It's not hyperbole. It's simply just a fact. Other countries might also have high healthcare costs per capita, but at least they get what they pay for, and at least you don't end up bankrupt due to unforeseen medical emergencies.
Many would argue that the events as they unfolded have actually vindicated their conspiracy theories by suggesting that Clinton has coerced Ecuador through treats or bribery. Personally, I think this is absurd but this is a common position.

edit: %s/treats/threats
I find it hard to conclusively read the sentence as you do. Yes, there could be snark meant, but I cannot say positively that the author intends one to understand a French tradition of canonized fossils.
> Racism is not just racism, sexism is not just sexism.

Yes, yes they are.
Profits doubled under Ballmer...
It appears you've implemented the push-based model for reacting to events. How would I read all of the events back from the event store in order of how they happened if I wanted to use a pull-based model for reacting to events?
Watch New York City Chess Hustlers Get Pwned by Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen
Why would that be a nasty surprise? The real value is unchanged. Unless you're saying the adjustment only happens at renewal, and not annually?
Analysis of a decentralized internet worm for IoT devices [pdf]
It's too easy to see the opposition as "uniquely dangerous." As I recall, the left actually believed that George W was going to start World War 3 and declare himself dictator. And Obama was going to permanently take over major corporations and institute communism.
What's the UBEC for?

Edit: does it just convert the 24v to 5v, and why is that better than just doing 5v to begin with? Is this so you can get more current?
This is such absurd mental gymnastics, I think this amounts to trolling.

1. Hillary never voted against marriage equality as a senator. You blame her for what her husband did in 1996, which he has since said was a mistake. Do you hold any of the over 300 Republicans who voted in favor of DOMA accountable? Do you hold any of the Republicans to this day who disagree with the Obergefell ruling, including Donald Trump, and want to unwind it at a local level?

Saying Hillary is a bigot is demonstrably wrong, at least she is completely committed to the Obergefell ruling at the national and local level. Unlike Trump who has clearly said he does not favor gay marriage.

And yes, Trump is a blatant racist. You have to be exceptionally oblivious to ignore even the recent examples of birtherism, and the Central Park 5 - who by the way are innocent and Trump still said last week nope, nope, they were guilty. He's a loon or he's a con, take your pick.

3. Wrong, something was done. Counties across the country got conned into buying fancy electronic voting machines, which are now sufficiently obsolete the companies that sold them do not exist, do not support that hardware anymore, and we're at a net higher risk than we were before. We had a bunch of high tech nut cases who sold governments across the country a bill of goods. Next time, try pen and paper.
Wikileaks data dump