skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's authenticity in all of these comments.

BUT - if you're going to take $100K Angel from someone - who would you prefer it to be?

YC is still the top. You get 'some brand', 'access to a lot of investors' - and some residual benefits from network access.

That's more than you get with most entities.

So if you're not 'hooked up' into investor networks, or are from an area that does not have good 'startup zen' - then YC is still probably the top choice.

And FYI I have no specific love for YC, and not relationship to them. And yes - though I think they are pretty good, I also think they aren possibly a little 'over-hyped', but that's not their fault. (Please don't ban me :) )
I brought up this situation because it's an example of a "paid protesters" claim being falsely used in other contexts as a reason to ignore actual human interactions.

I think you are trying to invalidate the notion that there can be a reason for people to disagree other than media manipulation.

I disagree with that argument and I will not attempt to engage with you on the basis of fact until and unless you walk it back.
Previously covered 7 months ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11994265

The author answered questions there.

Also 4 days ago for its FOSDEM presentation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13569420
It's certainly possible to write procedural LISP. I'm currently debugging some from the 1980s. It's 1970s-80s style code - too many global variables and little structure larger than the function. At the time, only LISP had dynamic allocation and garbage collection. Today, you could write this code in anything from Javascript to Go.
So Long CoachUp, Hello???
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Recursion, self reference, emergent properties are important topics and there are many good resources for studying them, GEB just isn't one of them. Most people that embark on the journey of reading the book fail and are unable to complete it. I believe the author tried to make the book itself some kind of self referential repeating work of art, which might be appealing to some but doesn't end up giving a rigorous treatment of the topic.
Definitely there's been a reduction in trust between police departments & citizens, but I'm not sure I agree with you whose fault it is.
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Question for the author: how do you actually deploy your model? Do you have a dependency on Spark in your production system?
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Not too familiar with either - is MetalSL's compiler much more complicated than SPIR-V's, such that it being in the browser would be onerous?
I think that the issue is that there is a fundamental difference in the entire view of drugs between people in society, one that is so large that it is nearly impossible to see across. This is what he is referring to.

We permit, encourage or even glorify countless destructive, risky, or dangerous forms of behavior, including various legal mind altering substances. Alcoholism is known to be a serious issue, but alcohol and the vast ways that it is treated in our culture is widely accepted and encouraged. We allow extreme sports, or even "traditional" sports like gymnastics, most of us drive every day in conditions that should be objectively terrifying, we allow recreational firearm activities in most countries, smoking is legal, etc.

But when it comes to drug use we put this huge social stigma on somewhat arbitrary substances, we impose significant punishments, we potentially ruin people's lives in the legal system, and all of this is so ingrained in our culture that even considering alternative systems is so radical that it seems like a fantasy. It's bizarre that such normal behavior is so incredibly reviled, when almost all of the negative consequences of it are due to the culture and legal system surrounding it rather than any physiological facts.
Well it's still memory safe though, right? You'll just get a runtime error, not memory corruption.
There should be more ways to get help if you are at a pre-YC stage. I'd imagine there are a lot of startups that fail before they get to a YC stage.

Startup School is good but it's not ongoing. Most VC firms have been more helpful than YC in the early stages personally.

For example, I've had VC firms write me a letter of recommendation for a visa when that's not something YC would do.

I can see YC is trying to increase flow. Why not make it more organic?
I am not a developer. I use BlogSpot. I migrated from Word Press to BlogSpot because I was so frustrated with Word Press. It was taking too much of my time, not getting me the functionality or design I wanted and that meant the time I did have for blogging was not going into creating content nearly enough. After the migration, I began putting up a lot more content. I find BlogSpot to be very user-friendly.

But lots of people are fans of Word Press and I hear a lot of trash talk about BlogSpot. So, obviously, YMMV.
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Because the nature of the work was very 'hourly wage oriented' and there wasn't really room for 'productivity gains' ... what happened was:

Avg. hours per worker went down - but otherwise costs remains the same.

The state has to pay for 'x hours of work' to fill the demand, so why on earth did they think there would be any savings?

'Joe, you get every Friday off'

'Sue, you get to work every Friday'.

???

This might be better in a situation wherein people can simply 'get more done' in 'less time' and opt to spend less time at work.
Wow, this is awesome! A colleague and I were just recently discussing how badly we feel the need for "encryption-first" chat software is - not tools that sell it as a feature, but tools that make it _the_ feature.

Great work KB team!
Techstars is one of the best accelerators and they still have about 10 companies per batch. They have expanded beyond the original location in Boulder which is how they have chosen to scale rather than having 100s of companies in one location.

http://www.techstars.com/companies/
What if you just noticed that there are already tunnels under all the roads?

Is it then immoral to walk under the road when some people interpret that as technically jay walking even though you're not directly effecting anyone in the way that the law assumes you will?
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If the pipeline makes the end-to-end cost more effective (which is the only reason pipelines get built; they aren't gratuitous or altruistic ventures by the forms building them), it decreases the minimum market price at which oil will even be extracted from the field it serves.

So it is absolutely not the case, that "if oil doesn't move by pipeline it will move by rail", since, depending on market conditions, if oil doesn't move by pipeline it will sit in the ground.
Announcing Project Rome Android SDK
https://regex101.com/r/G23xYd/2
A feature of certain types of regular expression engines. It allows for certain types of regular expressions but at the cost of possibly going exponential if you aren't careful about your expression. [1]

1: http://www.regular-expressions.info/catastrophic.html
In my experience, the exponential time thing isn't really a big deal. I've used Perl regular expressions on a very regular basis for about 16 years now. Exponential time has been an issue only once. Obviously if I were accepting regular expressions from random people, I'd use RE2. But for my day to day purposes, it's pretty much a complete non issue.
The main person behind Microsoft's award winning ResNet, Kaiming He, left for Facebook AI research last year. This work looks like it builds upon the previous work done on Residual Networks (ResNet).
True, but many of those hurdles are easy to overcome when one is curious about history of computing, specially since many libraries have been scanning old books and papers.

For example, I have collected the majority of Xerox and DEC research papers that I could get hold of.
What type of visa would you apply for if you are self employed.
For example if I want to move to Russia what type of visa would I need to be there 1 year working remotely for American companies.
This is a great reference and, I hope, a great way to make some money being an affiliate. Good job.
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Honest question : once the technics will settle a bit, and libraries are created, what will be needed, apart from knowing that machine learning algorithm are based on some kind of stasticial inference, with a few settings here and there ?

I mean, we don't need a phd in image compression to create a service that streams videos. We just use libraries. Same for everything in computer science, it always end up packaged in some kind of reusable code or service, and only some specialists remain working in the field to work on marginal improvements.

Why would ML be any different ?
the disconnect is yours... "we" = YC + The money you want from them.

if "you" and "we" are to be entwined with "invest", there are terms. take them or leave.

you're all idiots.

funding is for losers.
Trump effect - awesome!
Right, I completely forgot about the gaming industry.
Best of luck getting much of the world to apply in the next couple months with so much visa uncertainty for the next 4 years.

What is your plan for founders who get turned back at the airport if they chose you? PHD-in-progress wasn't good enough reason to enter the US last week and you want the smart people to apply for something in months.

What happened to YC's remote etc stuff? That would have been helpful about now.
Add a button to quickly do a 180 so you don't have to crane your neck.
HTML5 best practices; section/header/aside/article elements
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Thoughts from skimming the post:

Using all of the associated accounts across services to do user lookup is really quite cool, and the CLI integration and public broadcasts look very fun. Nice work there.

Multi-device key management is one of the hardest tasks for end-to-end, but that's been taken seriously from the beginning by keybase, and I'm leaning toward optimism. The UX decisions for forward secrecy seem pretty reasonable as well.
Author here - I made this collection as part of my PhD research. I'll be adding some references to the studies to this awesome project:
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Compiler stuff: what is a tokenizer?
Likely my best course of action.
Framed in that way, it is likely that running some sort of optimization algorithm is going to be tricky...

Framed the way solitons are usually framed, as a waveform that doesn't change shape when propagated, it seems one could frame a genetic algorithm with such a fitness function (how much the wavefunction changes).

In another sense, a saddle point is a minimum on one axis and a maximum on another... maybe optimization could be done in that way... though I'm not sure that is practical.
I wonder if hospitals are not pushing for more residency slots due to sufficient labor. Residents generally make barely minimum wage for the number of hours they work (often 60-80 hours per week). They aren't allowed to work more than 80 per week, but apparently for many positions that's done anyway because they don't have time to do all their patient notes at work.
This. Great idea. I love the idea of being able to be connected to an actual scammer via website and have a little pop-up window with others suggesting fun things to do to the scammer. The recordings can then be made into loops to autodial them.
Android Wear 2.0 is an evolutionary update to Google’s smartwatch OS
Regex seems to be one of the big strengths of Rust, performance wise: https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.ph... (C++ g++ #4 uses Boost)
Look out for something new from YC very soon: https://twitter.com/sama/status/821538708943880193
Currently there is no support for this in MTA software. If it were supported, you could imagine having somewhat better privacy properties for e-mail with other people who also used this particular setup. However, if you simply re-decentralize your e-mail using today's e-mail technology, you won't get those benefits in the short term.
I didn't get a lot out of GEB, but I pored over Metamagical Themas [0]. It was perfect for a teenager just learning programming. The bite-sized nature of it makes it extremely approachable - perhaps a case of constraints (periodic column of N words) leading to more creative output.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Metamagical-Themas-Questing-Essence-P...
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Ask HN: My site is better than that of competitors, how do I make my site known?
I don't know how many of you use chat sites when you feel like venting or talking for a while. There are websites like blahtherapy, 7 cups of tea, omegle(using tags) and others that fulfill this role, letting you connect with a random person to talk about whatever you want. It could be to talk about your new dog, or ask for advice about your struggling relationship, or to vent about your daily struggle with depression, or anything you want - you get the point.

Thing is, most of these sites are pretty bad, and fail in one way or another. Some spam ads everywhere, or allow trolls to flood in, or have poor programming (backspace exits the chat suddenly, no reconnection features, poor design), require creating an account - or a mix of these.

Because of all this, and because I myself am a user of these sites, I created my own "worthy" alternative, rainychat.com

However, even though I KNOW my site is better in most ways, I have no idea how to make people realize it exists.

Is advertisement on google neccesary? Do I repost my site on facebook and twitter over and over again? How do you promote your sites?

Honestly, I'm lost. I don't have lists or followers to spread the word, and if things keep this way my site will die eventually.

What would you do, HN?
I'm not. Are you testing with go 1.8 btw?
Any SystemVerilog support at all? For better or worse, at least some SV constructs are leaking into a lot of RTL code.
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Honestly, I think it's more than that, I think it's an economic problem. Our economic model no longer matches reality. We used to bake the costs of production into the cost of a unit, which makes sense for physical goods. That makes no sense with digital goods. 15 years ago things like Napster were supposed to be the wake-up call for that.

Instead we chose to ignore that lesson, and now we're collectively suffering for it today.
Is it technically possible for Signal/Whatsapp to use Keybase keys in lieu of phone numbers? If so, how practical would it be to add this as an option?
Amazing how "bad hack" got labeled as "profound"
Depends on the lisp. CL is not so functional, it is multi-paradigm. Clojure, however, is mostly functional.

The complexities surrounding state in CL are not unlike any other non-functional language. I find it hard to call a language functional if it doesn't strongly encourage immutability (or require it) and, preferably, have persistent data structures.

It's for these two reasons that I don't think Swift is functional, and I don't consider CL to be functional.
While I don't have a link, someone making that point is where I got this idea in the first place. "work units per resource" is a tempting measure because it is mathematically tractable for asking other sorts of questions ("how long will it take me to do 500 work units?", "how much gas to get to Cleveland?"), but for raw benchmarking and understanding purposes "resources per work unit" is often more intuitive as the resource tends towards 0.
> You'd prefer people being thrown in prison

> your preference for authoritarian violence

We've banned this account for egregious ideological flamewar and repeated incivility. Indeed, you've been using HN for almost nothing else. That's a serious abuse which destroys the culture we're hoping to build—thoughtful discussion—and stokes the flames the rest of us are working hard to damp down.

It's not a matter of the politics you espouse, much as it doesn't matter what brand of matches arsonists use. The patterns of flamewar are invariant across ideological flavor.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow HN's rules in the future.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13595551 and marked it off-topic.
Curious what the difference is between Scope and using something like Waffle.io.
Just a note that I did not downvote you, I am thankful to you for explaining you position politely.
I spent three years making the other choice and working remotely from various beaches.

I had to stop because of how lonely and isolating it was and how I couldn't maintain any relationships with my girlfriends and the 99% of my peers that were back home working 60h a week.
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number 1: Bordeaux, France"
This is a joke!
I use Regexbuddy as well. It's awesome. I couldn't however figure out how to use Regexmagic.
Only you had nothing to buy with 200 lei aside from vinegar and bean jars or maybe save for a Dacia for which you'd have no gas because it was rationalized.
> YC is just not the same anymore

This is probably a good thing given that the original value proposition (accelerating web startups) makes zero sense today.

Twelve years ago there were an enormous number of people connected to the web but not much good content. The network was primed for hyper virality, so the only viable strategies were to raise huge amounts of money on a deck or an MVP, or else take on five cofounders (and later fire three of them). Any other strategy and you'd get completely destroyed.

These days this is no longer the case. The web is already saturated with content, so there is zero risk of having a competitor's site go super viral overnight. And the fact that consumer expectations are much higher and you need to design for 3+ screen sizes means it takes much longer to reach product market fit.

Being bootstrapped is no longer a huge disadvantage. Neither is not being a genius, the tools are all easy now. There are still going to be new startups that reach the size of Facebook, but they're going to get there by grinding, not overnight by using some party trick.

The new YC makes a lot more sense in this new landscape. Most other investors are still looking for startups that fit the pattern of Facebook and Twitter, and these are the ones who are going to lose all their money.
I kind of read it "learn it and you'll be a dinasaur for 3 years". It made me quite excited at the prospect. I started to practice growling and running at a curious forward angle , but on second reading I find myself disappointed.
Sure, it'll benefit executives at Energy Transfer Partners, Phillips 66, etc. since they'll have an easy way to transfer oil to be shipped overseas. The states as a whole? Please. The number of permanent jobs this pipeline will create are pathetically low, a couple of people to man an oil field and a couple dozen to deal with the pipeline itself.

Eventually there's going to be less reliance on the USA for refined petrol as more nations move towards renewable energy sources, so the market will eventually correct itself I suppose - but I don't see any reason to help the oil companies make one last push to milk it for all they can before the money dries up.
> In fact it can be argued that lisp is one of the least functional languages ever created

Come on. Returning a value from an (if ...) already makes it more functional than a lot of languages. Sure, it's not functional in the sense Haskell is functional, but you could certainly write all your code in a functional manner using it, abstracting out any side effects via macros. I would say it's fairly well-geared towards functional programming if one was determined to use it for such a thing.

That said, I wouldn't call lisp a "functional" language. I'd call it multi-purpose. It CAN be functional, it CAN be imperative, it CAN be object-oriented.

It's certainly not the least functional language ever created though.
Firstly, thank you so much!

Secondly, I think this is incredibly important moving forward with the proliferation of messaging channels. I want to be able to use one program for all of my different chat sessions. Whether that be adium or pidgin or mIRC or even weechat/bitlebee in a docker container. It would be great if there would be common plugins for common chat clients provided off the shelf. :D
>>>> Why is nearly every culture against it

>> Sobriety and self-control are essential to a functioning society and especially a liberal democracy. Freedom, to the extent we have it, requires that we can govern ourselves.

Yes, but we tolerate alcohol. We tolerate getting high - but we are selective about which drugs you can get high on. If we tolerate alcohol, so why don't we tolerate cannabis, psychedelics and other "soft drugs"? It's because of misinformation, fear, taboo and stigma.

>>>> People are always going to take drugs, and by and large, they are harmless

>> This is an argument that has never made much sense to me. People are always going to commit every crime. Laws exist because people will break them. And laws are effective deterents if the penalties are appropriately harsh. Consider that alcohol consumption took almost a generation to return to its pre-prohibition levels (around the 60's-70s').

But if you criminalise behavior that does not really harm anyone else but yourself (at most), you're inventing a victimless crime. Victimless crimes do nothing to help society - in fact, it degrades society, marginalizes and criminalizes otherwise respectable citizens, and in case of drug prohibition, guarantees that drug money goes to black market, which in turn potentially increase violent, real crime.
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You might enjoy Stephen Baxter's "Xeelee" books. I started with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_Diagrams and enjoyed it, but could see its various stories coming across as too jumbled up and disconnected for some.
A serial killer who strangles women is probably a "Lust Killer" and not a psychopath.

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

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