skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The overwhelming message here is nothing is free and if you aren't paying money for your VPN you are paying with your privacy. I'm currently using TunnelBear for phone and computer. It's a little slow to connect but after that is pretty solid. As far as I know, they have strict policy on logging. F-secure is mentioned in the article and I have a good 10 year history with a few of their services. Over all a great company.
The Data Science Behind AI
> I'm just amazed at how China is moving forward where other countries (looking at you, USA) simply cannot.

China has very little regard for civil liberties and human rights, whereas the US government has to at least pay lip service to it.
Depending on where you live, throwing a launch party is a plausible idea that would raise awareness. If you live somewhere such as Boston or California, then start going out to start-up events.

Or you can focus on SEO. I would do both if it were me, let me know how it goes!
I think this comment "In most cases, rejection is so hurtful enough, that even strong teams fall apart." may hint at the success of the vetting process. If your team can't withstand not getting into YC, I'd suggest it may not be able to stand the rigors of the start-up process.

I'm in a similar boat as you having applied a few times, and never been accepted, but that never remotely affected progress on the projects.
Fun fact: "gerrymander" is a portmanteau of the name "Gerry" and "salamander." Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signed the state's initial electoral districts into law (which his party had drawn in their favor), and one of the districts looked like a salamander.
Monitoring Memcached in Cloud-Native Applications with Netsil AOC
Unpopular opinion time: I am sure that 90% of people with ADHD do not have an actual neurological disorder that prevents them from focusing. They simply lack the skills to do so.

Focusing is a difficult skill, if you do not have it, it takes a degree of awareness to learn it again.

I went though a serious period of stress when I was 15-18, cancer, unstable home life, near homelessness. And I asked a psychologist for ADHD drugs because I was a seriously smart kid who had troubles focusing. Ironically I lacked the focus to chase a psychologist into ticking the various ADHD boxes and just started buying plain old street speed of the Silk Road, which I responded very well to, and was able to study again.

Eventually those problems in my life began to dissipate, and I started to focus again on sleep, eating, exercise and importantly controlling anxiety. I run about 35 miles a week right now (50 minutes to work a day, plus ten minutes to stretch off) and my focus is very good.

Personally, I do not know anyone who takes ADHD drugs and takes care of their sleep, diet and anxiety. Those that try to address their anxiety take benzodiazepines.

I do not think that ADHD as diagnosed in most people is a real disorder. You are an outlier if you do not focus better on controlled dosages of stimulants. You are not special if you focus better on stimulants. Doctors just do not have the time to find out what is actually causing a child to have issues focusing. So they just prescribe stimulant drugs.
If a drug causes a person loose their reasoning capacities and self-control, as many do, they do damage society.

The effects of most drugs are fairly short-lived. I can drink whiskey until I'm incoherent tonight and be perfectly lucid and productive tomorrow. Maybe there's something more pro-social I could do than get drunk and there's an opportunity cost argument to be made, but there are a great many other socially neutral things I could do, like play video games.

It's not good for a society if too many people are too disengaged, incoherent or intoxicated to participate constructively, but I'm not convinced that prohibiting access to drugs is an effective means of causing people to participate constructively. I think it's more likely people who would withdraw from reality by taking drugs will withdraw by some other means if the only change made is to deny access to the drugs.

In short, I think the focus must be on the carrot, not the stick.
There are many third-party libs which make using Vulkan much easier, all the way up to Game Engines which abstract everything. That isn't a argument against Vulkan.

A good graphics API, even a web one, is one that provides good control over the GPU.. and to have sane standards which limit future implementation fragmentation (like shader byte-code instead of a specific shader language), and to have good debugging tools, etc.. That's what Vulkan is, regardless of how verbose it is in comparison to OpenGL.

I'm not saying you can just make Vulkan run on the web, but I'm certainly in favor of a Vulkan-subset (using SPIR-V as a shader base) becoming the successor to WebGL over one inspired by Metal and MSL.
How Mint.com Uses Messages (Email, SMS, Push, Etc) to Improve Retention
Don't forget the per-process heap size bar that you had to adjust. If you were used to any 386 version of Windows, it was like going back to a very well-manicured version of the dark ages.

I'll freely admit that it was, in the main, not worse than MS-DOS, most of the time.
The GPP said 'genitalia forced upon them'. Read charitably, it should probably still actually invoice genitalia.
Out of curiosity, what languages are you using when you do this?

As a primarily Python and Haskell writer, I have no idea what you're talking about with this "unchain your mind from syntax" stuff- though I guess that in Python the syntax may be so expressive as to be no cognitive restraint, and in Haskell binding your thoughts with syntactical structure is the point.
Museums have security, yet they share their contents. Security does not exist solely to protect privacy, unless you expand privacy to mean something much broader than what people generally mean when discussing privacy.

And regardless, my point was to provide a clearer example: that the secrecy of the password is accidental: the privacy it's protecting is the account.
It's the same kinda game in some way. Objective functions are often easily reused though.
Yay, more browser fingerprinting data points!
> or one of the thirteen javascript requests timed ou

There's the root cause. Why do I need to download executables just to read static content?
It's a profoundly bad hack. How can anyone justify this?

Fix your driver negotiation mechanism. This is like a "Hm, well, I do like weekends and it's 4pm on a Friday..." solution.
I would imagine that as investors YC would like to invest in the founders that look at users and revenue as validation of their ideas rather than acceptance into YC as validation. Not only does that show the startup is more viable but shows the dedication of the founders.

I agree with you on feedback. I would LOVE specific reasons why I was not accepted as it would give me very clear goals to shoot for. I also understand that the time to provide that feedback would be crippling to their own productivity.

(As an aside, I wonder if we are past the stage of another Facebook or Google. In a macro sense it seems as if we might be at a bit of a pullback from globalization and a result of that might be less new large global companies. I wonder if the next global companies of that size come from India or Brazil but for that to be the case the company would really need to come at the same time of massive economic growth and reduced corruption.)
Yup, I'm amazed I had to scroll this down before seeing some advocacy for less working hours.
You might consider converting the pdf files to rtf, there are command line tools that do that. Once it is converted to an rtf, you can programmatically read and parse through the text. I am assuming that your pdf files contain tables, but even if they don't this will still probably work.
anyone knows why it was done?
Microsoft opens up Windows bug tracker as it calls for devs to build UWP apps
> then replacing the internal 18G SCSI

Was that in the original? Most machines were around 100-200MB at the time, if that. I was still on an amiga with no hard drive.
See also: "Why does Windows have so many different system directories?" and "Why are companies still shipping 32-bit-only software?"
I feel a good solution to this problem, or at least covers a fair amount of users is having your website work well with safari reader. Anytime even on fast connections, I often find myself loading up a page with reader instead.
The common English word "foreign" has that meaning and is perfectly well available in American English. But it seems like Americans think it's rude or insensitive to say "foreign" and say "international" (whose primary meaning is different) instead. I am interested, what's going on?
Thanks for trying out these test pages.

Version B has two different font weights from the same family: Regular and Medium/Semi-bold. Version A relies on the fonts already installed on the user's computer.

Dropping the semi-bold font weight would save approx 23k, but having a regular and bold font weight felt like the minimal styles needed to support the page.

Dropping the header image would save 40k. (Note: the header image hasn't been optimised using something like the HTML srcset attribute which can load different picture sizes for different devices).
Because China is an export-oriented country. Now we can go into who provided credit for whom to build this railway track, I would assume (I can be wrong) it all involved a dizzying array of Chinese creditors and companies, from the steel, construction to the trains themselves.

They are not building out of charity but the benefit their own companies. Lot of LatAm countries like Ecuador have taken Chinese credit when Commodity markets are hot, are now regretting their mistake.

[edit]: From Wikipedia --
The new line was built between 2011 and 2016 by the China Railway Group and the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation. Financing for the new line was provided by the Exim Bank of China, the China Development Bank, and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.[5] A total of US$4 billion was invested into the railway.[6]
I've often thought about coding with a touchscreen and stylus- could be the best of both worlds. But though applicable hardware exists, such an IDE still doesn't, as far as I know.
In Mountain View (off Castro St), yep, all the time. In SF, no.
My intel box may have been a 166Mhz machine. Either way this assumed you weren't trying to do anything else. The PPC mac was definitely 100mhz though - maybe Apple marketing wasn't a lying about perf/clock back in those days.
Solomid React Boilerplate
It's the same output as if you were sitting in an office 8 hours a day for 3 days.
I think MS Office 2016 can convert PDF to RTF also.
Interesting thoughts. I'll just weigh in on the ones I feel confident answering:

> I have absolutely no idea why they've invented a custom p2p network/addressing system.

Part of what Urbit does is make it easy to identify people and exchange messages with them, so it has to have a built-in idea of what identity means and how to tell who someone is. If it didn't have its own identities, each application would have to do that itself, which is where we are today.

> I have absolutely no idea how this has anything to do with social media.

It's just a use case that everyone's familiar with which illustrates something that urbit makes easy to do. But I think the hope is that "Hosting continuously available cryptographically identified server apps is easy now, what shall we do with that?" would spawn genuinely new niches, in the same way that mobile phones have.

> Even if we assume that all of Urbit's ideas pan out: interacting with Twitter seems to completely undermine all of it!

I think the idea is that you'd have some app on urbit that sits between you and your social media. So, when you take a picture of your kid and want to share it, you'd use an app within urbit that would (say) post it to twitter, put it on facebook but only for "family", and store a copy in the "backed up monthly by the hosting provider" folder. As social media apps come and go, you could use them while they're useful and abandon them when you tire of them, without having to export or import things.
Your "team sports" caricature isn't completely inaccurate, if only because my perception of D-vs-R is that of two ants contending furiously over a postage stamp, while a whole continent of political possibility languishes unnoticed. Sure, if we look close enough, there's probably a difference between one SecEd and another. She'll open a few more charter schools, so a few hundred kids will get a slightly better education and a few dozen teachers will be replaced by their essentially indistinguishable equivalents. That's probably an improvement, on balance, but not one to celebrate in the context of all the rest of the crap that rolls downhill from our rulers.
I should have been clear that I'm not making a distinction between energy and matter.

Come on. Is it so hard to say "Oops I mixed them up"?
At SoloMid, we decided to open source a simple, most up to date, beginner-friendly React boilerplate. There are more comprehensive boilerplates out there (e.g. gh/react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate), however this is the boilerplate that worked for us and includes the most basic needs for a scalable web app.
Given all the crazy corner cases I know they have covered I cannot imagine they don't deal well with emergency vehicles. For example, I know Waymo has put a ton of work into just covering the cases when motorcycles are lane-splitting and overtaking them at high speed [0]. I'm sure they deal with ambulances just fine.

0 - http://extremepowersportssa.com/google-self-driving-car-proj...
"Live and let live" is a rule that works except when a minority is kept from pursuing opportunity. The job of the EEOC is to point out when businesses systematically prevent a particular group (sometimes white men!) from an equal opportunity to succeed.

"Live and let live" is not a universal maxim. It was the primary argument in opposition of federal government enforcement against segregation.
The poster is referring to the direct comments Hillary Clinton made against private prisons during her Presidential election, IIRC it was in August.

When she made these comments, prison stocks fell nearly 40%.
Indigenous tribes can absolutely put their hands on some wicked strong psychedelics. Ever heard of peyote?
anything sucks if you have a sucky anything.
Should We Be Able to Reclaim a Racist Insult – As a Registered Trademark?
I totally agree. I don't agree, however, think that this is the only future of programming. The statistical UI morphing may work for UX, but when it comes to algorithms writing novel algorithms to solve mathematical equations without external stimuli... That's just another story entirely, one seemingly far beyond the reach of Super Excel.
What is the significance of June 21, 2006? Why was this date chosen specifically?
You can negotiate all sorts of things when you join a company.

Previously I've worked every 4th week off.

These days I do contracts which provides some nice gaps if you don't try and line something up before the current one finished.

It's been possible to take a year off - I was using that to work on my own projects, so that went on my c.v.
My strong opinion on this. Their secret is trade, China manufactures, they build, they create, they need more raw material than ever and Africa has that. That's why they are in Africa, they are making these deals so they can get their raw materials. That's one.

Second, China was "poor" not too long, it's fresh in their mind, they know how a poor place can just transform, and they see that possibility in Africa. Plenty of those that didn't make it in China figure they can in Africa by leveraging their connection to China. So it's not just rich Chinese in Africa, there are just average Chinese folks who move to Africa and do trade import/export and build small businesses too. They see the possibility and potential. Americans don't see that in Africa, most people alive in America today didn't witness when the majority of America was "materialistic poor" like Africa is today. Which was about 100+yrs ago.
How did you find out what you could tell it? After the first ten useless Google searches that popped up, I was looking for a vocab list. And then I gave up.
I can't paint or draw worth beans - but I like it!
I would suspect that if drugs were legalized, you would find a lot more forms with a lot less power.

As an anecdote, I once had the opportunity to sample coca tea - not the kind with the cocaine removed that's legal to sell in the US, but the real stuff. The magnitude of the effect was similar to a strong cup of coffee or energy drink, but the feeling was a little different. It was pleasant, and I would do it again if it was readily available.

I don't know how I'd obtain it in the US or Europe, but I'm quite certain I could obtain refined cocaine if I wanted that.
The DoE collects a huge amount of nationwide data. If any policy, rule, or idea that was based on evidence and is related to education affected you, there's a good chance it's thanks to the DoE.

Education in the US is pretty decentralized but there's plenty of work the federal DoE does that's very important, here's a good place to start looking:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_for_Civil_Rights

The DoE enforces many of these laws which prevent abuse, bullying (teacher tolerance of it), discrimination, etc in education, which is pretty important. It's almost certainly the case that the DoE has seriously impacted the education of you or someone you care about through lawsuits, intervention, investigation which all change policy at the local level in a big way.

There's plenty of more things that it does. Take some time to look at what the DoE does and answer the question for yourself, it isn't hard.

In particular there are a lot of states that would love to let private religious schools torture gay children to try to turn them straight. The DoE is the only reason they can't do that.
Interface doesn't seem to work on an ipad ( maybe because of event handling though)
Yes, it seems like something like Naked Objects[0] combined with domain-specific plugins / components could do quite nicely.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_objects
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This administration will likely render the federal Dept. of Ed useless anyway, even if it sticks around. Getting rid of it is a way to make the removal of its policies, and the increased state control that follows, more permanent.
Since the GM Cruise car was at the stop sign first, no.
Just out of curiosity: Have you ever considered just buying a new controller? Spending your time on troubleshooting drivers doesn't seem like a sensible decision from the time=money point of view.
Well this is far more applicable to my point, and the thread in general: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156806516721/the-social-media-h...

If this originated inside Scott Adams' head, then it has manifested itself elsewhere. Unless, of course, he may have a point. Blind squirrel, etc.

He's not implying that 9/11 was an inside job, Kennedy was killed by the CIA, or that there's merit to the Pizzagate allegations. He's just saying that perhaps a private company has a political axe to grind, and they're implementing a means of censorship. Which is what the poster in the link in question is doing.
On mobile cache sizes are very limited, and with the size of modern web pages it has to get reclaimed regularly. You can't rely on caching to solve poor performance.
That's proving my point: the CO2 measurements were 400% besides the mark and shouldn't be categorised as scientific given the time-period. My comment tries to place Arrhenius into perspective.
TensorFlow Image Recognition on a Raspberry Pi
Very impressive, I'm wondering how it was able to get around the white truck that was double-parked? Does it have sensors on the mirrors and point straight out? I imagine it would have no information as to oncoming cars, with the truck blocking almost everything, so I wonder what the algorithm is for that.
This is a non-sequitur.
That China has decided to talk with them rather than squashing all Bitcoin traffic outright is best sign I've seen for Bitcoin in awhile.
It's not related to fuzzing but this article is definitely an interesting one that involved a lot of regex in rust http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/.
Sounds as if you are proposing that they put a lot more time and work into nurturing the top and middle of their funnel. Do you believe that this incremental (but not small) investment of their limited resources would yield them better outcomes for themselves?
Well, to be fair, as the spec notes, you can already fingerprint on speed by timing how long an AJAX call takes.

Also, "on a shit home DSL connection" doesn't really distinguish me from millions of other UK residents.
VR Visualization of Gun Violence in the U.S.
I don't care as I even run Windows most of the time, but it is indeed a reason why BSD is behind GNU/Linux and the community does care.

"The Trouble with FreeBSD" @ 43:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib7tFvw34DM
Looks great! Can you talk a little about the stack? Doing everything in JavaScript? Thanks
I have done that many times and it's doable for most things that don't have hard-coded subs.
The Economist explains: Why the pope has taken control of the Knights of Malta
Not by a long shot! Put in there by the friend who threw together a working system for me from the ones he had lying around.

A lot of those original sub-gigabyte drives in the slabs eventually went out with bad bearings (oh my the screeching sounds...)

We had a few Turbo Color slabs at an ISP that I worked for in the late 90s that had been acquired from a surplus place; they had "PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY" stickers on them and had been stripped of RAM and HDs of course.
>Some people still believe in paying for value.

I get value from the sun, but I don't cut a check to it every month. Economics shows that on any large scale, people aren't going to pay more for something equivalent to something they get for free.
I'd like YC to maybe do a blog-post or give some insight into what they are doing here, what they are planning to accomplish, etc. Though that may spoil the data they are trying to collect??
After Slowloris and other attacks, this is pretty much a solved problem. Minimise per connection memory, limit connections per IP, drop connections which don't finish the request in X seconds, and separate your app server from your front proxy. And for the front proxy, don't block on reads - do minimal event loop until you can dispatch the full request.
The dissonance in your comment is quite strong.

On the one hand we're to believe that applying and being rejected resulting in a team falling apart is proof the system works, on the other, applying and being rejected caused you to keep going.

Doesn't that second case prove that the evaluation doesn't work?

Personally I feel that if you're going to do a startup not getting accepted into an accelerator is the same as not winning the lottery so assume you won't get in and try anyway if you can do so without spending a lot of time (which is a finite resource).

On the other hand I can see how people from various countries with an environment less geared towards start-ups would benefit from being in YC to the point that if they can't get in the whole thing is lost for them.

I wouldn't take that as proof that the vetting process works.
One way to plan for the next 100 years when building roads but not cause people to buy cars is to have a 10-lane wide verge on one side of the road. Have a row of 30-storey buildings on one side of a 5 lanes each way road, but on the other side the buildings are all set back at least a 10-lane width which is used for car parking, 1-storey buildings, public spaces, etc.

If there's ever a need to widen the road, it can be done without demolishing any tall buildings. I see this in new road layouts in China all the time. Of course, under the road will be a new subway system -- another disincentive for people to buy cars.