skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I think I didn't worded it properly.

I think encourage learning and reward learning are a very different things that need to coexists with each other. The company can encourage learning (e.g. buying books), but without giving an opportunity to try out what you learn, the learning part can be demotivating because it has no effect. It's even worse when company has neither.

For example, when you believe what you learn can solve the problem the company is having but you're not allowed to do it. Even when the reason is understandable (e.g. the change does not worth the cost, or need to prioritize something else), it can still be very demotivating.
Care to extrapolate?
Why do they buy such weird proportions of each type of harddrive? Do they just use anything they can get their hands on? If the purpose was actually to test drive failure rates wouldn't you want to buy similar amounts of every drive?
Also, don't call yourself an "entrepreneur" - it's a bit like being calling yourself "hilarious" or "handsome" - it's what other people call you, rather than a job title.
Unfortunately we see too much of managers worrying about figures and utilization rates. These numbers are not always the best to go by. We like to try and empower each other to implement ways to improve our culture and build a better workplace that can benefit us in many ways. I hope that your company can realize the benefit this can have on the whole companies morale and productivity. Empowering your people to learn and improve helps everyone.
It's an interesting idea, and one I've been thinking about for a while.

Issue is, I think that's kind of what social media is meant for. Anyone can contribute news as a primary source and share it with others online via sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.

So my worry is that any system like this would basically be just another social media service (albeit with a 'news slant' in the marketing material) and therefore be very difficult to promote.

User created news is an idea that seems obvious and logical in theory, just very hard to promote in a world where it's competing with thousands of other services offering (in your user's eyes) very similar functionality.
Agreed. Words like "hate", "bigot", and "racist" have become little more than modern-day Newspeak. They are labels applied to people, not terms descriptive of them.

Personally, when I read words like bigot/racist/etc., I instantly associate it with myself and my demographic, as a label that names us, not as a descriptor. I know that I personally meet none of the classical definitions of those words, but I also recognize that, in modern parlance, I "am" those things.

It's pretty messed up.
WTF are you talking about? People with valid visas could have entered immediately before this. Now they are banned! People coming back from vacations were being deported before the courts intervened.
Minimum Salary for H-1B doubled to 130K in new House bill
I did the life-ruining one as my previous startup. Then I did one that only turned out to be a nice business. The good project and the disaster both took about 3 years to build but the good project was always making money since week 1 cause it had to sustain me as I'd overextended myself in every way just trying to sustain the disaster.

After about 3 years trying and failing to make the good project earn a lot more money I wanted to do an exciting new startup. Having almost hit 6 digits that third year meant I couldn't just ignore the good project and let it atrophy but I didn't want to pursue an exciting new startup being anchored to the good project all the time. I decided to sell it.

With that decision all of the remaining work became about transitioning from 'code on my computer' to 'coherent and pleasant part time job for someone else to do well'. I replaced bash scripts and w/e other random crap with a web interface and gutted my code and dependencies so that the person they find on craigslist to add something in 2 years won't drown.

Now I'm completely free to work on my new startup and make something like a good salary while I do, someone else takes care of the nice business in 5 hours a week. Probably half of HN could pull that off with a side project or two. This is where patio11 and someone from feinternational.com described the difference between the good project and the nice business -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11347541
Personally I am paying for the experience of seeing a movie in the theater, and I don't like 3-D. Last weekend I wanted to see Resident Evil. The local theater has seven 3-D showings times, and only two 2-D showings. If a theater is only going to mostly offer 3-D showings, I might go of the price was the same. Since I'm not interested in paying a premium for 3-D, I simply won't see the film if there isn't a 2-D option. If it is reasonable to not offer the product I want to buy, then so be it.
>That's a good thing:

No; that essay might argue that inequality is a necessary side-effect or condition of startups, but that is not the same as arguing it is a "good thing".

For comparison: pollution might be a necessary result of the industrial revolution, and perhaps a cost we pay gladly; but that doesn't mean pollution is good. If we could get industry without pollution, we would.
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I guess? I mean, if that's your stance then isn't cooking any food at all is a waste of time because of waiting on things to get hot and the ensuing clean up?

I can tell you that getting the oil hot takes all of ~2 minutes and it's not like I'm standing over top of the stove waiting for it to happen. Cleaning up takes about 30 seconds to wash the pot, the lid, and whatever bowl I used to hold the popcorn. If I ever find myself thinking, "Geez, I really wish I had that 3 or 4 minutes back" then I'd be trying to find out what's really going on in my life that is making me feel that way. I can tell you with certainty that it sure wouldn't be the 3 or 4 minutes it takes to cook the popcorn and then clean up a pot, it's lid, and a bowl afterwords.

My thing with air poppers is that the oil imparts a flavor that you obviously don't get otherwise and which I happen to prefer greatly to air popped popcorn.
The theory is that the cops would be the ones selecting the finger. This would be no different from LE trying to crack a password, and the system permanently locking them out. However, I am also Not A Lawyer.
Not sure if this was mentioned already but Kali Linux includes a patch for cryptsetup that essentially does this - provide a certain passphrase and it nukes the keyslots, effectively making the data irrecoverable.

https://www.kali.org/tutorials/emergency-self-destruction-lu... and tutorial for use at https://www.kali.org/tutorials/nuke-kali-linux-luks/

and the patch on github;

https://github.com/offensive-security/cryptsetup-nuke-keys
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You're right. Corporate republicanism would have probably been more accurate.
Does anyone has any experience on the reliability of the Seagate 8TB archive drives? They are incredibly cheap for cold storage, but a bit concerned by the Seagate numbers in the Backblaze stats...
How is publishing a Dockerfile even remotely reproducible? Almost every Dockerfile is a series of apt-get install, or yum install or pip install commands. How do I know what versions of packages I am downloading or whether they will even be available to download if I build from this Dockerfile, say two months from now?

IMHO, every Dockerfile has left-pad written all over it.
Yeah, I'm sure that played a significant role. It's getting harder and harder to run Flash these days. My understanding is that some browsers require a fairly complex, multi-window process to add a domain to the Flash whitelist, and that this is only going to get worse, culminating in Flash's complete removal over the next 1-2 years.

They likely decided that moving to mobile-only and abandoning the desktop market was better than trying to write a WebGL/HTML5 compliant client.
"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer", perhaps?
I was chief architect of Mozilla back in the 1998 October roadmap period and onward, when we created XUL. Indeed we wanted powerful extensions, and got them. Problem is they tied Mozilla down for too long, without anyone stepping up to find a way forward that didn't just seem to signal "XUL going away... <angry dev feedback>. Oh never mind; or maybe later".

Brave UX will evolve but slowly and without big changes that break too many users (Australis). Still, we need to be able to change our UX. So if we have powerful extension APIs into that UX, we can't promise never to break extensions that use those APIs in ways that become unsupportable.

All we can do is try to co-evolve nicely and cooperate better. I don't see a silver bullet here, but I do see how Mozilla has burned a lot of add-on developer good will -- and we won't make that mistake at Brave.
A gentle introduction to text classification and sentiment analysis
Even with the edit it's not right. First of all, immigration EO has nothing to do with religious freedom. 7 countries are targeted not because Muslims live there (though of course they do, but Muslims live in a lot more countries than that) but because they are either failed states or states actively supporting terrorism (of course, that doesn't mean they are only failed states or only ones supporting terrorism).

While a lot of people in US certainly think some aspects of current practices of some Muslims are problematic, there's no law in US that limits Muslim practices, exercise of their religion or any aspect of their life based on their religion. It's not even on the same planet with what ISIS does - where not only being a non-Muslim but even being a Muslim not devout enough by their standards means death sentence. You might compare it to Saudi Arabia maybe, which bans anybody who ever visited Israel from entering, it still would be way wrong and misguided, but at least it would be regular wrong, not insanely wrong.

In fact, I think this overblown rhetoric is exactly why immigration debate is getting so insane in the US - each time somebody says "ok, let's discuss how risky is to import people from Yemen or Syria and what precautions we may want to take so that good people get in and bad people stay out" people are screaming "you bigot, you hate Muslims, damn you, filthy Nazi!". So people start thinking "sigh, we can't really discuss it anymore in any sane way, so let's just elect Trump who would ban it altogether without discussing anything - at least it's more safe that way".

And the other side takes it as a confirmation that it's all plot to oppress Muslims. And so on. So the choice we get is between two insane extremums instead of a sensible policy in between. We need to get down from that tree and we need no more to see anti-Muslim bigot in each person that wants immigration to be more controlled than we need to see anti-Western terrorist in each Muslim. It just doesn't help anything.
> Uh, that's not the silver lining from my POV. The silver lining is that liberals will realize that maybe limited government is a good thing, because they can't always rely on their person being in power.

Conservatives are the ones that created this nightmare in the days after 9/11. "Liberals" simply did not remove it.

When it comes to civil liberties, smaller government is always a good thing but literally no party supports that. :/
Good point. Also, wages are not disposable income - the government redistributes more wealth than it used to. The number on your payslip may not be bigger but you can afford more food and health care. Any graph should take this into consideration.
> I often feel like a lot of problems diagnosed as "psychosomatic" illnesses are caused by bad nutrition or even lack of sun.

Or lack of physical activity, or being overweight. Actually, a lot of people are likely overweight, but malnourished because they eat so many empty calories.
There are plenty of developers making 130k in Texas.
At Google my colleague developed a simple test that made vibration effects very obvious (this was in 2008). In a server with a bunch of disks, do random reads or writes on all but one disk. On the final disk, do sequential reads. Back then you could get on the order of 100MB/s sequential read speed on the outer edge of a hard drive in ideal conditions. Under this test performance would dive to something like 10MB/s or worse. All of the seeking would cause vibration, which caused misreads on the disk under test. When a bad read happens a hard drive has to wait until the next rotation to try again. We eventually fixed this with better damping.
Wha, what? vim and emacs aren't about typing speed, they're about action speed. 99% of the reason I love using vim is because I can do exactly what I can do with a combination of mouse and keyboard actions, but without leaving the keyboard. And many IDEs have, for example, vim extensions so you can get the best of vim without manually building up your vim environment and extensions (although learning e.g. PyCharm is no different than learning and building my own vim env -- I use both).
Being async-safe just means you can call it in a signal handler, and is unrelated to being thread safe.

_exit() will cause a similar race condition, but probably with less severe effects. _exit() closes all open file descriptors (not FILE*, like exit() does).

That means while exit() is executing, another thread could perform a file operation on a file descriptor that just was closed by the other thread running exit(). imo. glibc exit() implementation should halt/pause all the other threads before it goes on to mess with shared resources before it terminates the process.
The trouble is that both parties seem to view an overreaching executive branch as a feature of the game, not a bug. This is similar to how powerful market incumbents prefer a winner-takes-all economy.

After all if you have a 50% chance of taking the whole pot you, do you want to change the rules?
As a liberal, I have to admit to feeling stung by ingratitude for 2009. Rust-belt auto workers ain't ever getting bailed out again.
I guess it hinges on the scope of the "form and legality" review. There is an obvious conflict with the law that bans immigration rules based on country of origin. Did the OLC weigh that (or even constitutionality)? Or merely whether the preceding law that Trump's order cites, authorizes him to give the executive order?

I assumed the latter. We'll soon see how the legality of the order plays out in the courts anyway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/trumps-immigratio...

Edit: Either way, my original blanket assumption that it had just not been looked at by the DOJ at all is clearly false as the OLC is a part of the DOJ.
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Someone shooting a lot of 4K or even HD video, for example.
Is Uber technology or is it a Ponzi scheme? I admire their technology at the same time as I have absolutely no faith in their ability to ever turn a profit, and more particularly, ever be a net benefit.

No, the technology label is not sufficient. It isn't an immunity necklace. It doesn't mean inevitability. I say this as an engineer.
Refusal of service based race, sex, marital status or sexual orientation is not protected speech. It's discrimination. They gave up rights when they went into business.
We can start moving toward an education system that works once we agree on some core values.

Someone else said that the goal of education is to produce factory workers. I disagree. I think the goal of education is to allow one teacher to effectively babysit up to 30 children at once. With both parents working, it simply isn't possible for them to give kids the attention they need to keep them healty and sane, let alone educate them on how to be part of society. Schools are supposed to do this instead, but the primary goal is training the children to be manageable at a ratio of 30 to 1.

Before we can do anything else, we have to acknowledge that the first goal is getting the kids out of their parents hair. This is the fundamental truth that everyone knows but refuses to acknowledge when they're debating policy. After that, we can make other decisions that make more sense. The lecture-hall format really only makes sense when the number of students is unmanageable for a single adult. If was only 10 kids per teacher, they would actually have time for more useful activities, applying knowledge, giving guidance to students who are ready to strike out on their own.

Tripling the number of teachers is going to cost some money, and application-type lessons costs more than lecture-type lessons. Some ways to deal with this - as a society, acknowledge that creating educated, well informed citizens is not a fuzzy, feel-good liberal goal, but a necessary factor for everyone's safety, including the permanently child-free. I think most people agree with that already, but since many people voting are full grown adults who still aren't properly educated, not everyone will come to the same conclusion, and therefore a massive infusion of public money for this idea isn't likely to happen. So I think a successful, disruptive idea will be one that gets around the cost problem of a much lower student-to-teacher ratio. I don't think remote teaching is going to be the answer here.
This hits home for me. Having the attitude and atmosphere like this is very important! It makes such a difference to feel that the company and community has your back. It also takes so much stress out of work and adds to excitement. Well said.
> given @sama's statements I don't think there will a culture fit

Could you summarise those differences?
It saddens me that we are still reacting to 9/11
This Friday, Stand with Bandcamp in Support of Immigrants/Basic Human Values
That's probably of Graham's worst essays. Nobody is talking about removing all rewards. The question is how much reward is needed. Did CEOs do a worse job when they made 20 times the average worker income or would Zuckerberg do anything differently if he had made $500 million instead of 20 billion? What was his risk? Wasting a few years of his life? Plenty of small business owners go under after years of work and have nothing left. Silicon Valley founders don't take an extraordinary risk.
Yup, Norway is on the top of 2016's democracy index
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#Democracy_in...
HN is reflecting that in YC's movement.

I think it's uncontroversial that there are likely a large number of HN members who have favorable opinions of Y Combinator. That said, I don't see evidence of Y Combinator exercising any kind of persuasion or manipulation of the members where one can reasonably say that HN members are following Y Combinator's lead. And there's enough vociferous, contentious, argumentative political discussion on HN that it's clear to me that HN doesn't represent a single bloc of anything other than all participating in the HN forums.

As for YC becoming the liberal version of the Koch brothers, I think it's hard to underestimate the difference in scale. In January 2015, the Koch brothers budge for the 2016 campaign was nearly $900 million.[0] Along with Rupert Murdoch, the Koch brothers largely bankrolled the Tea Party into national government[1] in 2010.

Another significant difference, in my opinion, is that the Koch brothers themselves are not very vocal or public. They operate largely behind the scenes. Y Combinator has been much more vocal about what they're doing.

And it bears keeping in mind that YC has kept Peter Thiel on as a part-time partner: if YC's motivations were purely political, I think it's fair to say they'd have cut ties with Thiel just as so many have been clamoring for them to do.

All said, I don't think the comparison has much merit.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/kochs-plan-to...

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html
> The brakes are the easiest [major] thing of all to to fix on a car. Your caution was completely unnecessary.

Yeah but when the brakes fail (or the steering, or the engine seizes) you usually end up injured or dead.

If you have had a licensed mechanic dealing with the life-critical stuff and it turns out that it was the fault of the mechanic then you can at least sue his insurance for damages after the fact (or, if you die, your dependants can sue, e.g. for widowers' benefit). It also protects you from being sued by others in case your screw-up causes an accident.
Ideally we would see a LOT of these. Many studies to date have been men only, and marketed as generalizable conclusions, when in fact no research about women was done. We need to fill out that missing data.
Study tallies extra calories Americans consume in their coffee, tea
Yes, but why is it making things cheaper where it touches? Usually it's because it allows production with fewer people or by people with lower wages than before. Thus things get cheaper because some subset of people lose jobs or wages. That's fine as long as those people are able to find new jobs or supplemental income sources (many do), but I think the point here is that it's not a universal benefit. I have to agree with the parent post here - for some portion of people, technology has led to lower wages while cost of living decreases (food, products, etc.) are offset by increases in things you need to lift yourself up (healthcare, education, housing).
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Wow solid goals. I like how reactionary YC is to everything that is going on.
One person cannot pervert the system. One person, 63 million voters, lots of members of congress, lots of federal employees, etc. can. Not that the system doesn't have problems, but the people that make up the system are voluntarily giving Trump power. It's not possible to design a system that the participants themselves can't destroy if they decide to.
> I'm seeing more and more of these anti-Chinese comments popping up on reddit /r/vancouver and frankly annoyed to see similar fear mongering and FUD spreading fake comments outside of that cesspool of bitter and shut in crowd.

It's not really an 'anti-Chinese' sentiment I'm seeing. It's more that British Columbians aren't happy with the effects of the influx of global capital and high net worth individuals on Vancouver. An additional factor into the negative attitudes around the influx of high net worth foreigners there is a sense (coupled with a fair bit of evidence) that many of these real estate speculators and high net worth individuals aren't playing by the rules and are avoiding taxes and other rules.
When did we become so craven?
> Apple has a complete monopoly on the iPhone / iPad market

?!? Of course they do, just like Nintendo has a monopoly on the 3DS market, and Porsche has a monopoly on the 911 market, but that's just tautological.

If you meant "Apple has a complete monopoly on the smartphone/tablet market" then a 3 second Google search will show you that this is completely false.
Here's a question: What secret sauce do [you think that] we, as software people, bring to this table?