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> so I'm wondering what you'd like to see more competition achieve

There's a lot that competition can help improve, for example in the areas of performance, robustness, and also in functionality, e.g. better NLP for better understanding of queries and translating them into results, image/audio search, etc. And competition can also come up with surprising new features that we can't even think of right now.

This, plus it is (imho) quite weird that we have only one source of code for one of the basic branches of Computer Science.
I'm really thrilled with WireGuard. It's small, easy to audit, easy to setup, and it is using the Noise protocol which uses trusted cryptography primitives by DJB. I hope it can be merged into the mainline Linux kernel once it stabilizes.
My favorite of these, because it's the simplest:

"As an aside, it's easy to test your understanding of regular expressions interactively: the program

$1 ~ $2

lets you type in a string and a regular expression; it echoes the line back if the string matches the regular expression."

From the classic book "The Awk Programming Language" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13451454).
I agree. I am dismayed when I see open source projects using Slack in lieu of IRC or a mailing list. It means I'd be forced to use their awful client (which is slow, buggy, and far too resource intensive for a chat application) or use their awful IRC integration. This is all in addition to the issue you raise of Slack being a black hole beholden to a profit motivated entity.

Just use IRC. It's practically impossible to avoid Slack at any startup now, but I'd love to be able to avoid it in FOSS.
I definitely agree. I think instead of spending so much time debating over pipeline vs. rail/truck we should be focusing on how to make our pipelines better and safer. I mean sensor failure detection is pretty common in all the embedded systems I have worked on.
Exactly, the C=64 begged you to create something when it booted up to a BASIC prompt. We've come 2 steps forward 1 step backward with current devices. More kids have these in their hands, but they are harder to create with than ever.
I don't think anyone would argue against the advantage of being there in person.

The question to me is this: can we make it better for people who can't be there? (I.e., raise the foundation, not debate the ceiling.)
I wonder if Intel considering it's third round of layouts in 18 months got as much coverage a couple months ago?

Probably indicative of how a lot of companies will operate. Lots of talk about new factories or what have you while really just continuing business as usual.

Gets me pretty worried about actually seeing wage growth during the Trump administration as a vague focus on building new factories and "keeping jobs here" won't drive wages up unless it's coupled with protections on labor groups and actual job creation leading to competition for labor...

http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2016/11/i...
Hey thanks for replying.

We noticed a couple of UI irregularities (for example when editing charts the contents or axis labels would disappear). Unfortunately I don't have anything more specific for you right now. I did notice when deleting users it seems that they (and their dependent db objects) actually deleted from the database (rather than flagged as deleted) - for traceability it would be great if they weren't removed altogether.

Though to balance things, let me tell you what we loved about Redash. The user/group/source model is really nice - I appreciated being able to give only our admin group users access to a data source configured with our database master user credentials. The Google OAUTH functionality (and really clear documentation around this) and pre-rolled AMI were a huge plus, allowing me to get our team up and running really quickly. The same goes for the Lets Encrypt instructions (we all use certbot regularly but no-one had to dig through Redash's config files blind - the docs were spot on). The ability to fork queries - superb. Data export was also fantastic.
The same ends could be achieved by stringent regulation without having to also punish ordinary people who are not to blame for what happened.
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I'm a little surprised at the number of people that are saying "paper" or "printer". I agree. The technology to read complex technical topics online just isn't there yet, remarkably. I do plenty of reading online as I'm working on stuff, and I read recreationally (fiction and non-fiction) almost entirely on a Kindle. But for some stuff, there's just no substitute yet for paper. High contrast, portable, annotatable, and persistent.
> benchmark comparison here [0], rust wins, the fastest boost program is c++ g++ #3 and takes 8.5 times as long

With PHP at #2? Doesn't seem credible, or the thing being tested isn't meaningfully language-dependent.
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Pay is such a variable thing though. I mean, just being able to move, dealing with everything and ending up liking it long term is such a statistical anomaly that it seems silly to generalize pay (even though there might not necessarily be a correlation between the two). I would at least look into things like working for a US company in Singapore or consulting/freelancing (since the taxes are low?). Often things look quite different on paper than in reality (especially on an individual level).
Yes. Meant Windows mobile.
More equivalent argument: company A makes a product. Consumer A who would not pay the asking price for the product downloads the trial then sets their system clock back 10 years and uses that product for free for personal non-commercial enjoyment a few times over the course of a few years. They technically violated the license agreement but did not profit from their circumvention. They would not have otherwise paid the asking price, so a sale is not realistically lost.
This is especially true for things like graphics cards, where the drivers are so highly custom you wouldn't want generics in the first place.
I'm not saying "don't go learn ML because it's garbage", I'm criticizing Cuban's argument, particularly that the singularity is coming and it's going to replace programmers tomorrow. I gave good reasons. I also _know_ some things about ML, and that gives me insight. Cuban's lack of knowledge affects his arguments on the topic as well - not understanding Calculus and Linear Algebra is tantamount to not understanding deep learning. Not understanding what we are doing today does not prime one for knowing what will happen tomorrow.

It's patently ridiculous to say that we are currently living in the singularity, though, it defies the very meaning of the term.
Well, Autodesk products are market leaders, probably Catia is the only alternative.
Wear 2 is a step in the right direction. With a keyboard and support for standalone features like calling and texting (using build in LTE) and Google Play.

Still it would be nice to completely remove the requirement to pair with a phone at all. Also, I would like it to come with Google's Chrome browser.
Do you disagree only with the term stealing? Do you believe there is anything wrong with the behavior?
Here's an example from the HL2:E1 commentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vr6n53jPR0&feature=youtu.be...
You work 40 hour weeks in Sweden? No wonder so many Swedes want to work in Norway. A lot of people's working days here are 8 hours including a half hour lunch break, 37.5 hours work a week. I generally start at 07:30 and finish at 15:30.

Of course as a salaried employee I have quite a lot of freedom to set my own hours so I sometimes work an extra half hour so that I can go home early on Friday or have some hours I can use to get things done without having to use a holiday day.
I am a developer, though not a ruby dev. Based on my experience, one hack to increase your chances is to have a targeted relevant project on Github. So, for e.g if you are applying to an e-commerce shop, have a simple e-commerce project on github. Then when you are applying to a similar shop, you can fork/mod it to make it more relevant. If you know their market, you can then share some ideas you may have that will have a positive impact on their website, performance, market penetration, SEO, whatever. Screenshots and videos will just make them melt.
Go 1.7.4 and rust 1.14. Interesting discrepancy in the relative speeds of the tools we are seeing.
I don't know for sure, but my assumption is that she is 'Alice'[0] which is a common name used when explaining cryptography

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
This is really cool. Question: right now, I have a [deep link to Keybase's encrypt page][1] on my website as "Create encrypted message." Will there be a way to do something similar, but using Keybase Chat(tm)? ("build it yourself" is an acceptable answer in this instance)

[1]: https://keybase.io/encrypt#oddevan
> Do you truly believe that specific DP book caused that effect?

Yes, definitely. People used to cite the GOF book left and right while over-engineering crappy CRUD apps.
second regex101. Been my goto for several years.
It all comes down to ROI of going further; if the ROI is small, people won't go much further than twiddling some knobs. I think there's a reason you see people throwing a lot of analysis at finance.

Understanding what models are doing and adding new features/data transformations is standard work for ML practitioners now. If you believe the deep learning hype, architecture engineering is the new feature engineering, and to the extent that that is true, industry will essentially resemble academia to some extent. Maybe not making anything groundbreaking, but mixing ideas together.
If people want to self-identify as rude and unable to understand the difference between creators and implementers of policy, I vote we let them.

I'd rather they were turned back at the border. It would be great if we could apply this to people currently in the nation as well.
I earn and use about one every month just working an extra half hour a day. I can see why that would that would be a concern.

It's a company wide thing, so that helps.
This is complete and utter hogwash.

> Clearly lisp procedures are not functions

Some are. Others are not.

The only thing a language needs to be legitimately called a functional language is for functions to be first-class data objects. It's helpful but not necessary for them to be lexically scoped. It is also helpful but not necessary to have a conditional expression. Common Lisp has all of these things. In fact, Common Lisp has all of the features commonly associated with modern functional languages except static type inference (and you can add that if you really want it).

Common Lisp is not a purely functional language, but that's true of pretty much every language except Haskell.
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Wow interesting.
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We didn't design Keybase's chat API to match any messaging standard, but the number of calls into it are very few and flexible, and we're open to change.

As it is right now, I imagine it would be very easy to write a library that acts as a bridge to other interfaces, if that's of interest.

There are calls to see into your "inbox" which is the set of conversations, read messages, even peek at unread messages. And of course send messages, too.
Damn socialism was pretty horrible for the environment back when we had it around here, pre-1989. Our capital was blanketed by the exhaust of a huge steelworks plant several sizes too big for our economy, and our friendly neighbors across the river (brothers in socialism of course) regularly gassed one of our cities with chlorine.
The author used, more or less, a mathematician's definition.
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>> Their CEO just said that the reason they decided to finally go ahead with it now is due to expectations on things like changes in tax policy.

Got a source? I didnt see that in the article. I did see "There will be no incentives from the federal government for the Intel project, the White House said."
In which way would that help? It's access what is wanted, not the password. If you have 2FA, other ways will be found.

I don't believe that there is a technical solution. This is a purely political thing. If this becomes policy the US becomes entirely off-limits for me although I don't have any social media account.
The framework does not handle authentication and authorization
Before going to the US change your keyboard to Tibetan, change the password and give them your password in dzongkha notation written on a paper form.
Make sure it is at least 16 symbols long.
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Well, half of the talks are actually released.

Still don't understand why it takes so much time to cut a video and add a banner in the first 10 seconds.
Is this docker for BSD or is there more going on here?
Two crazy ideas:

1. Dark matter is the "gravity echo" from the past. Gravity is the structural bending of spacetime by mass. The effect of the bending is supposed to travel at the speed of light. What if the effect has been delayed and is added to the present effect?

2. When a mass is moving through spacetime, the bending of spacetime is asymmetric in the leading and trailing directions, where the leading direction forms a leading crust and trailing forms a flatter tail, just like the blue-shift and red-shift effects on light. The leading gravity wave crust adds to the strength of the gravity.
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If that's the case, then it really wasn't 3 days of work.
This is because you probably can't be prosecuted for being a Nazi, but you can for falsifying a government document.
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This isn't modern c++, but whatever.
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Doesn't make it any less idiotic.
YC is failing in the same way that so many once-great startups fail. They're not innovating or reinventing themselves, at all.

And YC really does need to change with the times. Paul Graham was the big reason people wanted so badly to get into YC and he's essentially gone now

It's now obvious to everyone that YC can't grant success to founders, it can "only" grant opportunity.

So why not admit that YC needs good founders more than good founders need YC? It's always been true but now it should be obvious to all.

So, drop all the fake eliteness, secret panels of "experts", and insider-club mentality. Just straight up tell founders what the requirements are for YC funding and then fund them!

For example say that all YC startups need:

1. One competent programmer willing to dedicate years.
2. At least one other person willing to dedicate years.
3. A Launched and usable prototype software.

What else do you need to know, whether they went to the right school? Whether they're attractive??? How good their spoken English is???
Please comment civilly and substantively or not at all. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13601038 and marked it off-topic.
So that's why they teach Organic Chemistry to aspirant medical students. It's not about the chemistry itself, which the kids won't ever need in the course of their professional life, it's all about pattern recognition skills. If you can't hack orgo because you can't spot a pattern you won't be able to do well in medical school.
It is time for everyone to start building fictional aliases of themselves to hand over.
He he, good one. That reminds me of a joke I once made, in some relevant context, referencing Heisenberg and Pauli, but I'm uncertain what it was now, so I'll exclude it from here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Pauli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg
Maybe more easily but ultimately 100% someone else's decision. Whereas spending is 100% in company's control.
Since its just a dot product between the learned weights and the feature vector, we do this in the application layer as lacksconfidence surmised.
There's one more separate issue.

Piracy: You have a ship. I climbed aboard, murdered some of your crew, and took control of your ship or stole some of your belongings.
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I'm posting these notes because I thought that the class did a great job of interpreting the text. Additionally, I couldn't find any comprehensive notes on this text on the internet anywhere. Hopefully someone finds them interesting!
The funny thing is that, after dismissing criticism based on the creator and his politics, you just made a technical criticism that is basically reaches the exact same co conclusions about its intent and effects as are frequently made by those reasoning from the author's publicly stated political views (including those directly attached to Urbit docs before those were cleansed to make the product more commercially viable.)

Which is not to say you are wrong to prefer technical criticism, only that in this case the telegraphed political intent seems to match precisely the technical criticism.
Even better would be an open protocol. Keybase would sit as the trusted key database (go figure), verifier of identities.
Second that, because it supports different flavors of regex (pcre, javascript, python).

I use regexhero.net for .NET regex support.
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You were made "redundant" 2 years ago.

You don't owe your past employer anything and you sure as hell don't owe anything to a company trying to minimize their headache in the future if something with their deal with your past employer has a hole in it.

I'd just wash your hands of the whole thing and ignore it. If they come back with some $$ then perhaps revisit. Life is to short to be wasted being a 3rd wheel.
I don't mean to flamebait or troll or anything, but lots of the "misconceptions" seem grounded in data, based on the very data that you're putting forward:

https://blog.ycombinator.com/common-misconceptions-about-app...

> Misconception: Only US companies get into YC.

> S16: 29% were from outside the US.

So it's mostly true.

> Misconception: I need to raise a seed round before I apply to YC.

> S16: False. 14.2% of accepted companies weren’t even incorporated when they applied.

So it's mostly true.

The list goes on and on. Not that it removes the merit of YC or anything, but, hey, mind neutering the PR/marketing BS a bit to give the actual picture without trying to paint lipstick all over the pig? ;-)

The way that FAQ or whatever it is reads atm is: "Our deal flow is not as big as we'd like, so please send more applications in so we can show we've tons of demand to those we raised funds from and ensure they'll invest again because we get to be picky since we're hugely popular!" Which is PR/marketing at the end of the day, but just don't be misleading to would-be founders.
What particular drugs should stigmatized is another discussion and there are no doubt many inconsistencies in our legal system. However, that some drugs should be stigmatized is reasonable and what I was suggesting.

>> but if you criminalise behavior that does not really harm anyone else but yourself (at most), you're inventing a victimless crime

This is where I would push back a bit and say that line of reasoning is too individualistic. Again, I'm not drawing lines between substances (that is another discussion) but I suggest that substances which significantly diminish your reasoning capacities and self-control do harm society. The entire project of democracy requires self-governing citizens. It only makes sense that if we want to have the freedom to live as we see fit we must be able to control ourselves. If a drug causes a person loose their reasoning capacities and self-control, as many do, they do damage society. Individuals who take such drugs are not respectable citizens because they are forfeiting a primary civic duty of self-control.

Again, because I'm staking out a narrow piece of ground here, I am not saying at this point which drugs ought to fall into the criminal category. Nor am I denying there are inconsistencies and perverse incentives in our existing system. I'm simply arguing that its reasonable for some drugs to be outlawed.
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Well posting on HN is a good start.

You have a chicken and egg problem. I visited your site, sat in as a listener for minutes and no one showed up.
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How is that "all there is to it?" As a content creator, don't you want data on how users are choosing to interact with your content? It's like saying "Where users click on your ecommerce site depends on the contents of the page. That's all there is to it (why use analytics?)."
Looks like they did in fact fix it, just forgot to report back. (Just saw a new comment on that issue)
At which point they may just ask you to type in your password yourself.
Indeed, it is the regex implementation that is being tested (and so the language of that implementation is relevant), which is exactly what this discussion is about and also why that comment is careful to be specific about which programs are using which regex implementation.
"Sobriety and self-control are essential to a functioning society"

Are you saying you think sobriety and self-control at all times by everyone is essential to a functioning society?

If so, that's clearly false for virtually every functioning society. The widespread use of alcohol in many functioning societies is the most obvious counterexample.

On the other hand, if you are saying that you think sobriety and self-control sometimes and by some people is essential to a functioning society, then I don't think you'd find many people disagree.

Most societies where drug use is rampant (and that's pretty much every society) consists of some people who are sober some of the time, some who use drugs some of the time, and some (usually sick or dying) who use drugs all of the time, though the proportion varies widely depending on your definition of "drug" (ie. is chocolate, tea, and coffee to be drugs? do you consider legal, prescription or over the counter medications as drugs?)

On the issue of self-control: though widely considered to be essential in many western societies, in some other societies the loss of control is highly valued. I'm thinking primarily of some religious contexts. For example, glossalalia in some Christian sects, possession in Voodoo, etc. In all of these cases, self-control is deliberately relinquished to another -- usually to a god. This loss of self-control is not seen to be negative, but rather to be highly positive and desirable.

Drug use also has very deep roots in religion, from the role of alcohol in Judeo-Christian religions and the various "pagan cults" that preceded them, to an enormous variety of other drugs in various indigenous cultures around the world. Once again, the societies in which these drugs are used in religious contexts consider such drug use to be very positive, and the societies of which they're part tend to do quite well -- well, if you discount the destruction brought on to them by military, economic, and cultural invasion from other, more technologically advanced societies.
Can you not monitor networking and make sure nothing is being sent back?
Pretty much. I found their billboards to be rather infuriating when Google was planting fiber all over my city, but being blocked almost everywhere by AT&T/Comcast near refusal to allow them to use the utility poles.
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It's testing each language's implementation of regexes. A lot of the languages are probably linking in a regex library written in C or C++ anyways. It's evidence that if you're writing something that's heavy on regexes, any slowdown probably isn't due to the language itself but its library implementation.