skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A histogram would have been nice.
I wonder how many other potential medical treatments fall into this category. If a treatment was found that cured a large percentage of cancers, but was 'too cheap' to develop, would the same thing happen?
I think the v1 could be even simpler -- listing of candidates/choices, things that would indicate preference towards and away from those options, and then questions that reveal those things
I'm pretty sure my little section of SOMA was called the Cloud Corridor before you guys were being called Cloud City, Joe ;).
The main selling point of YC is its network. I've always wondered how effective it is. We're always reading blog posts about the need for warm intros and getting help with press. With such a large number of hours spent on external e-mails, presumably you're exploiting that network? But you say in the post that is not the main benefit. Can you elaborate because I'm confused.
Tangentially related. I'm using rocket chat - it's open source (MIT) alternative to slack.

And i think it would be easier/safe for companies to adopt self hosted solution or use already trusted company like Microsoft.

Slack had great UX - but one cannot compete only with that because it could be copied. Maybe Slack have some comparative advantage that could not be copied.
Half a Million Dollars for Icons (FontAwesome)
I got the same Dell XPS 15 as you have, and no problems. Wifi works great, nothing is broke, everything is blazing fast, standby is no problem. Maybe you were just unlucky with your specific device, or didn't update the drivers and BIOS.
The only thing that's not good is their Thunderbolt 3 dock.
We call that Santa Cruz.
I like my websites with a standard haircut because they load so fast.
Did Chinese Rumors Crash the Bitcoin Price? How Accurate Are They?
Some people, like me, really don't want kids

One thing I've learned as I've collected laps-around-the-sun is that Present Me is a poor judge of what Future Me wants.
I enjoy that your newly created account uses the handle farright.
> This is also why, in my mind, Go gets it wrong.

Considering the amount of places I see c# code catch errors and continue as though nothing happened I have to wonder how many wild go and c programmers simply ignore error codes?
For all those wondering about Priceline (CEO Ownership 47%, VC Ownership 74%), where the total ownership exceeds 100%: Walker Digital Corp, one of the VCs, was founded by Jay Walker, the CEO of Priceline.

Also, Zuckerberg exceptionalism strikes again: he was the highest ownership-retaining CEO on the list, at 57% (closely followed by others at 55 and 53).
Ask HN: What important truth do very few (informed) people agree with you on?
Designers don't typically design for people who change their default fonts because most people don't know how and on some platforms it's not even possible.
Looks like a fantastic use of Jinja templates. This is cool.
- Mubarak was a much stronger ally to the US than Erdogan ever was. So by your logic they would've had to support him even more.

- Erdogan – terrible as he may be – was until recently legitimately elected. I say until recently because (even some time before the coup) he started undermining democratic institutions, mostly the press. Mubarak was never elected in anything but a sham election.

These governments are not donating "hundreds of millions" to politicians. If you can find evidence for that, make it public. Because it's illegal to take money from foreign governments/nationals. Yes – the Clinton foundation did (because it's not a politician, and in turn spends the money on its causes). But it's nowhere near "hundreds of millions", and it had started years before HC became important. And there's no indication that Clinton's behavior vis-a-vis these government was any different than it had been the 40 years before or the three years since her tenure.

Assad is indeed worse than Erdogan, considering he's killed hundreds of thousands, some with chemical weapons.

Everyone is talking about Turkey. There'll be sanctions, their membership in NATO may be frozen. But the problem is simply that there isn't that much that can be done. If you sweep in and bomb Ankara – well, take a look at Iraq. You'll also create incentives for similar countries to acquire nuclear weapons. And there's a principle of non-involvement: Start bombing people (again), you'll make it even easier for Russia to claim legitimacy when they invade something they'd like to have.
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Traffic is a lifestyle choice. There is indeed a small minority of people that have decided to sit in traffic 3 to 5 hours per day in order to live in a large and/or cheap house in the boonies somewhere. But that's crazy, and most people don't do this. You can also choose to not drive, and walk/bike/bus/train everywhere. LA is a real city and all that.
"Elitism" is a way to rebrand not countenancing idiots.
A Day in the Life of a Data Engineer
> To make it as a bodybuilder, you have to use steroids.

What does it even mean to "make it" in something you do as a hobby? If you're willing to risk your health to play competitive games, go ahead, but to say you "have to" sounds like you're rationalizing a bit.
It's a play on the phrase "The king is dead, long live the king!", which means long live the successor, who is flv.js in this case.
I understand it can be for more than race, but what do you mean by money?
Web fonts are a part of the web, so it kind of sounds like you're the one refusing to accept the properties of the medium.
It's not actually 57% of facebook's value (since that would make him by far the richest person).. It's voting rights. Facebook stock is split into 2 classes.. I think monetary value wise, he holds a much smaller chunk of FB. Same for Larry Page/Sergey Brin for Google.

Rather than percentages, the median/mode of absolute monetary value would be more useful, since that gives you a directly number you can compare to non-VC startup (lifestyle startup). If you own 2% of a 100M VC startup, maybe it's the same to fully own a 2M fully owned lifestyle startup.
What does "but these are healthy men" have to do with it? That paragraph is just poorly worded.
Yes, hence why I mentioned poor souls, trying to bend a document platform into something that is natural in native code.
In your hosts file or with PrivacyBadger, kill (iirc) fonts.gstatic.com
I never, ever copy paste code, unless it's really long. I always end up rewriting everything myself, so I have the time to think about what's happening.
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Yeah with trains and a bike you can get just about anywhere.
Wasn't this solved by the vacuum weight set shown on smarter every day? They use a piston in a vacuum with an adjustable pivoting arm to produce consistent resistance (a spring will provide more resistance as it is compressed or stretched than in its rest state). I thought they were saying it was the first time some astronauts were returning home with higher muscle/bone density than when they went up.
The collapsing math genius gender gap
Ask HN: App shops all telling me frameworks not worthwhile; only use native code
I've been shopping around to outsource the initial development of iOS and Android apps for AutoTempest.com to a dedicated app development shop, since we don't have any mobile app experience in house. Haven't decided whether to go that route yet, but wanted to get an idea of the process and costs. I've been surprised to find that every shop I discuss with is adamant that straight native code (Swift for iOS and Java for Android) is the only way to go. Opinions range from, "Hybrid frameworks are useless, and will give you a noticeably inferior app," to the slightly less extreme, "You might save a bit of time using a hybrid framework initially, but you'll pay for it over time as you have difficulty adapting to changes in the platforms and adding features."

Coming from a web develop background, this obviously sounds a bit backwards to me. But all of the teams I've talked to have great portfolios, and have build beautiful apps for major companies, so I have to think they have some idea what they're doing. Is it possible they all have this position just because of inertia? I could see there being significant tradeoffs with a hybrid framework like PhoneGap, but what about something like React Native that (at least, as far as I understand) allows you to use native code wherever necessary? It seems like that should save time, especially if 1) you're developing for iOS and Android, and/or 2) you already have a web app that uses React. Or do they know what they're talking about, and even RN would only be good for a quick & dirty throwaway app?
Does anyboday have any recommendation for a self hosted licencing system?
How exactly do you think it has helped you? What tangible benefits have you noticed?
Youre right. And you forgot parking...I gave up driving here when I had to Uber from my parking spot to my destination.

I just take the trains and bike it and its actually really nice.
The trouble with "go foo()" is that it's fire-and-forget; foo's return value is literally discarded. When you need to know what happened (which should be nearly always), foo and every caller all have to opt-in to passing any result and/or error and/or panic value over a channel or something. It's one of many places where Go gives you tiny pieces of the right thing and makes you assemble them yourself.
A vasectomy would've accomplished exactly the same thing with the benefit of being reversible.

So I'm guessing they're not too happy with permanent infertility.
Best Designed Mobile Apps
How much would it cost to make a game like Pokémon GO?
Zuckerberg was given a gift. Sean Parker was kicked out of his startup Plaxo by the VC's. He didn't get mad, he educated himself and by helping Zuckerberg structure Facebook stock into two classes before VC investment he not only got even, but made quite a bit for himself.
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> awesome free roaming 2G

So instead of fixing the real problem - which is obviously connectivity - we need to break the web and add another layer of Javascript complexity to something that works perfectly fine without.

It's 2016. 2G is 25 years old (started in 1991!). Stop being cheap. Stop working with 2G.
Well the tech salary a decade ago was slightly greater than government employees. Today, it is again slightly greater than government employees. According to your logic there should have been great disparity between salaries over a decade. It is not so.

In that period of 10 years, the government employees had 3 payscale revisions with each revision bringing them almost on par with the average salary of private employees. I don't see that trend stopping anytime soon. 10 years from now, government employee salary will again be almost on par with average salary of private employees.

So whatever you try to say it won't change the fact. Government jobs are stable (You can't be fired as easily. You will be transferred instead), you get freebies that you would never get as a private employee and not to mention post-retirement support from the government. You get subsidized land rates, cheaper home loans through your own co-operative society (for example: google "ISRO Layout" which was formed only for ISRO employees). All those employees got the land at very cheap rates. Today it is prime land worth close to half a million dollars (See: http://www.99acres.com/residential-land-plot-for-sale-in-isr...). When they bought the land, they just had to pay a few thousand dollars. Try buying land in India as a private employee and you'll see your hard earned savings vaporizing in thin air.
When it comes to 1.), a better way to state things is may be that you shouldn't ignore errors unless you were able to completely handle them.

Catching exceptions to throw exceptions with better messages is something I would stronly suggest, since almost no exceptions are useful without contextual information. I.e. which file was not found? The config, not the input or output. Things like this. This is especially useful in C++, where you don't get stack traces, but also in other languages you'll want to present non-technical (i.e. non-dev) users with meaningful messages. Stack traces will just frighten them off.

Your comment on sensitive information also plays into this.

I'll agree that just swallowing errors and going on is a recipe for disaster. This is something that regularly bugged me in most of the C code I've encountered so far.
What better alternatives do you know? I don't know any programming language for real world projects that would make error handling trivial.
But would you take a 90 day shot if it meant experiencing depression, serious cramps, and genital bleeding for long periods of time?

I don't know a single woman who has been happy on a single form of BC for a long time. My fiancee was on the implant until she started bleeding and didn't stop for five months.
My wife wears a fitbit and is currently on her second one. I Both items are physically failing and falling apart. Both items show breakages after about 10months. When the second item finally breaks, I'm pretty sure my wife won't be replacing it with another one from fitbit.

Must say that their customer service is pretty, too bad their product is not so robust.
Good point. However after using the gopro app on my phone I usually want to throw both the phone and gopro into a fire rather than my backpack.

Truly one of the worst apps I've ever used.
And meditation is? Sitting in a public place in yoga pants holding fingers in a mudra? Vacation defined as? Does vacation include visiting Buddhist countries and Indian meditation retreats? How long a vacation should be?

Hint: meditation requires a profound changes in ones assumptions about his own nature and conditioning. That's why the teaching of the Buddha has been a philosophy, not a book of asanas. Meditation is the tool to realize accuracy and correctness of Buddha's insights. To test and validate his hypothesis by yourself.

there is a good place to start:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/science-of-meditation
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Except... other than Slack, nobody has a sane API just yet (I work at sameroom.io).
Foreign branding
Based on reading his posts here (site doesn't work), his product seems to be something you'd run on the server rather than on the customers side. Sounds like it does licensing for web applications, not for software that you download to your computer.

Doesn't sound very useful.
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> Using Chrome for the time between the announcement and a fix would mitigate the attack.

This example you gave supports my claim, not yours: "they can use Chrome" is exactly something for what the public doesn't need to know exactly which API in which system DLL contains the bug when invoked under which circumstances, knowledge of which can be used to develop new attacks.
A few things make the data slightly misleading. In cases of multiple founders (so most of the data points), only one founder seems to be represented by the "Founder Ownership" percentage. Additionally, in some cases the percentages are representative of voting rights not actual monetary value of said "ownership".

This causes some founder/ceo/early teams to appear over represented: Sergey Brin, Larry Page & Zuck, while others appear under represented.

I can't help but feel that these flaws make the final assessments tilted toward the point of the article which appears to be something along the line of `owning 11% at IPO is totally normal, don't sweat it`. This is VC content marketing through and through. Additional note: "That means smaller investors and employees owned 27% of these businesses at IPO." The idea that employee pools make up a sizable chunk of most of these companies is completely laughable.
I'm not sure that 1/320 probability of success is good for that either..
Let's hope you're right. I could use your crystal ball sometimes.
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Trivial? No. But you can at least make it better than the horrible nightmare described in the OP. Monadic error handling in a strongly typed language gives you a huge leg up on safely and sanely managing the complexity of error handling, because it provides simple value-level error semantics and clear type-level indications of exactly what kinds of errors you have to deal with and how you have to deal with them.
It's not necessarily true--Mattermost has a Slack-compatible API, and Sameroom can be used to mirror channels in both systems during the transition.
I found a niche in a ASIC startup environment back in 2005 (5 years post CS degree and work experience to that date mostly being C/C++) as being "the guy that didn't want to work on the CPU" and where verilog engineers were thin on the ground (also I had an awesome boss who encouraged me to jump into the fray).

A littler bartering and I ended up owning display controllers, camera input peripherals, interrupt controllers and other such fun for 65nm and 40nm ASICs - mostly verilog (and, sigh.. TCL for test benches).

I found a singular insight got me all the way from zero to tapeout for all sorts of peripherals and infrastructure without any real support from other RTL peers in the team - design everything around a single clock (inc crossing all async signals into this singular domain as fast as possible) and then explicit pipelining of the peripherals functionality using a judgement of the process/clock speed to guesstimate how much complexity/gate density each pipeline stage could support before starting a new stage.

As I recall, my peripherals were marginally bigger than they needed to be but were extremely easy to push through the back end as the constraints were simple to define and synthesize.

I miss those days - the pressure to tape out a singular piece of art was a great way to focus the brain and the chip bring-up was exhilarating.
Excel or Word will randomly fail if the file is old enough. But ok, so Word/Excel can upconvert files if needed. Fair. But does a new document opened in the current Office program look the same? And I mean precisely the same, with fonts and sizes and indentation saved? And what about UI? Don't features appear/disappear?

As for Java - it's mostly compatibile in source and in bytecode:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/compatibility-...

like with org-mode, the compatibility is broken in some weird cases.

Consider also the file formats. Both Office formats and Java bytecode are binary formats not meant to be read by humans[0]. They can afford backward-compatibility measures. Nobody will bat an eye when new updated version of an opcode will get called CALL2, CALL3, CALL_FIXED, etc. Nor will they care if version flags start showing up in document formatting tags.

Org-mode, on the other hand, is a thin layer of visual formatting over a plain text file. Except in few cases (links, folding), it doesn't change the visible contents of the file compared to opening it as unformatted text! In org-mode, your text file is your UI. It is meant to be edited by hand. So you can't clutter the file with backward-compatibility measures.

Now org-mode provides some elisp scripts to upconvert older documents. They probably don't cover every case, but that's kind of normal - you can't cover everything, and e.g. the cases discussed here today are some pretty advanced / rare ones. Still, it's cheap to manually fix org-mode files - you can just open it and take a look! Try that with Java bytecode or Office formats. You can't - hence the additional effort in ensuring compatibility between versions.

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[0] - Yes, I know new Office format is zipped XML; it's still not meant to be read or modified manually.
Interesting, I guess this particular incident falls under

> 3.2.4.4. Jettisoning of a U.S. nuclear weapon or component

and possibly

> 3.2.4.5. Public hazard, actual or implied, from a U.S. nuclear weapon or component

with the emphasis being on "or component." I wonder how "component" is defined.
> understand how upset someone would be if they signed up for one and got the other.

Is it somehow hard to understand the statement that some men (not all men) would be OK with the outcome? I for one am never going to have biological children, so I don't particularly care whether I'm sterile or not.
A Bad Carver
> If the FBI was controlled by Republicans they would have indicted Hillary Clinton

No, they wouldn't have, because the FBI can't indict anyone; indictments are sought by Justice Department prosecutors (who don'the work for the FBI) and issued by grand juries (who also don't work for the FBI.) All the FBI can do is investigate, conduct lawful arrests, and provide information to prosecutors who decide whether and when to prosecute (including seeking indictments.)

Well, and conduct politically motivated information releases, though that isn't a legal option, as it violates the Hatch Act.

And the FBI is, in fact, controlled by a Republican. This is a matter of simple, undisputable fact.

And that's a Republican whose naked political manipulation has been criticized not only by Democrats, but by numerous Republicans, including, among other notables, former Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales, and by others with no love of Democrats, like conservative icon, Fox News legal anlayst, and Libertarian Party member Judge Andrew Napolitano.

> And they would have let General Petraeus (who was a potential Republican primary candidate) off instead of bringing charges against him

Again, that's Justice Department prosecutors, not the FBI. Plus, that kind of blatant political manipulation that is likely to get you fired or forced to resign is a one-time-only thing that only works well if you do it right before the election. If a partisan Republican -- especially working in a Democratic Administration -- was going to do it, they do just what Comey did, do it close enough to the general election that it would have an effect, but not so close that it wouldn't have time to get plenty of play in the media and magnification through partisan propaganda outlets.
I can't point to such a study.

But - based on life experience - I believe the meme.
Exactly, because gasoline never catches fire in a crash... I bet if you look at vehicle fires per 1000 vehicles, you'll find Teslas are involved in fewer fires than gasoline vehicles.

Not sure about diesel because it's a lot less flammable.
Modern teams at Microsoft usually use Git. Also Microsoft has acquired most of their version control systems. But yes I agree with you.
I wonder if drinking does the same?
The conventional explosives (TNT and RDX) in the bomb are used to start a chain reaction in the plutonium. Specifically,

Physicist Seth Neddermeyer at Los Alamos constructed a design for the plutonium bomb that used conventional explosives around a central plutonium mass to quickly squeeze and consolidate the plutonium, increasing the pressure and density of the substance. An increased density allowed the plutonium to reach its critical mass, firing neutrons and allowing the fission chain reaction to proceed. To detonate the bomb, the explosives were ignited, releasing a shock wave that compressed the inner plutonium and led to its explosion.[1]

[1] http://www.atomicheritage.org/history/science-behind-atom-bo...