skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Just don't personally feel that sorry for a sex offender who can't get on Facebook.

How do you feel about other criminals who have been convicted of a crime, then let out? Sure, Facebook isn't really the issue here, but why are they facing impediment to being included in society? Are murderers OK to do it? How about people who steal things?

Facebook's policy is clear; the question is whether it's a just policy, especially with their aim of building a 'global community' and the almost necessity of having a social life that has some online component nowadays in order to lead a happy life.

Facebook on its own is no big issue, but if other providers follow suit, I can't help but think it is unjust or at lesat unfair.
Facebook Messenger's `Day' Becomes Third Clone of Snapchat Stories
Server returns: 403 Forbidden
Vancouver is one of those places where:

The future is already (t)here – it's just not evenly distributed.

-- William Gibson
Electrical. Updated my originally posting, thanks for pointing that out.
Then we'd have to group in rather standard, traditional Samsung-like companies though, which seem to be just as different work experiences from FB or Google as FB or Google is different from newer, smaller startups.
With Claims of C.I.A. Hacking, How to Protect Your Devices
If the US's new shiny fascist regime keeps progressing at this pace...the best thing countries like China could do right now is heavily fund things such as foreign PhD students.

Wait, so you're saying everyone is leaving fascist USA, but China will be the beneficiary of that?
A full screen of something from "demoscene 2017" with an HD filter then autoplay, muted with a mix on for audio, can work great for parties.
And a few other spots around the world?
That's an incredibly narrow view of history.

Islam was the religion of a pretty varied number of empires over centuries. Within those centuries you will find many examples of brutality as well as real triumphs for humanity. Islam in particular has strong views about supporting the poor in society.

You can look at every single culture or person and you are gonna find a mixed bag. It's hard to argue that Islam did not at some point contribute greatly to progress unless you are viewing the actions of people a millennium ago in light of modern morals and knowledge.

It's not an objective way of looking at history.
I'd introduce the kid to age appropriate logic puzzles maybe drop a couple "for everyone of these we'll do that" when dudes a bit older add some video game stuff
Midwestern Nice: A tribute to a sincere and suffocating way of life (2015)
The creation of housing is something that’s bothering me right now.
http://www.sfyimby.org

The people in the country consider us city-people to be wimps who can’t do anything to help ourselves. You need some shelter? Then build a shelter.

But in the city you can’t, because you need to get an architect’s sign-off and the unelected Planning Commission’s approval, and do endless studies about the environment and neighborhood character.

Some of the restrictions I feel are useful. Seismic regulations, because look at the difference between Christchurch, New Zealand and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Electrical and fire, because just a couple months ago a block away a house caught on fire and I had no fear.

Some of the restrictions I feel are harmful. Zoning laws rooted in racism. Neighborhood preservation laws that do more long-term harm than they were trying to prevent. “Local control” that takes away power from the people and gives it to unelected bureaucrats.
I like how HN will change any clickbait titles you post but regularly does clickbait titles of its own.

This entire article could, and should, be a single sentence title. "YCombinator holding Canada interviews for founders without US Visa".
In no way shape or form are Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark or even Italy considered Central Europe.

You could maybe consider them the Central Europe of Western Europe, if you want to stretch some definitions :)

Central Europe is basically Germany, Poland and the former Habsburg Empire.
What's wrong with that? They simply optimized for impact.

If they were to dump all the releases months before the election no one would have remembered them, no matter how significant.

They've done partial releases and released over time with many other leaks too. I don't see how that conflicts with transparency or impartiality.

Put yourself in their shoes - how would you have solved it differently?

> There were social security #'s in those releases.

When you're working with data in the volumes that they are and you have limited review staff, sometimes mistakes happen. If you'd like to help prevent it, I believe they do accept reviewers if you've got appropriate credentials.
Inside the Secretive World of Tax-Avoidance Experts (2015)
Yes, we should be more grateful Muslims attacked and conquered Spain, taking it from those evil colonialist Europeans.
On a per-plant basis, the level is all-but immaterial.

Even Fukushima levels of radiation, spread over the globe, aren't too horrible.

There are all kinds of reasons to reject coal-fired power. Radiation isn't one of them.

See the xkcd radiation chart for relative measures.

https://xkcd.com/radiation
> They're advocating for radical transparency of governments and corporations, not individuals

I can think of at least one instance where they targeted individuals: publishing the names and addresses of members of the extreme-right British National Party. Of course that is OTOH hard to square with the narrative that they're right-wing Trumpists.
Color me unsurprised. They marketed it as an action-sport-filming drone, but the top speed was utterly inadequate for essentially all actionsports where drone filming would be cool. It literally wouldn't keep up with Usain Bolt running the 100m, nevermind a regular person on a bicycle.

Shameless plug: a friend of mine is one of the founders of a competing startup making a self-filming drone that has more than twice the top speed, so is actually usable. They've been shooting on location with top athletes using pre-production models for the past year, first production models are going to final assembly these days.

https://www.staaker.com

Edit: s/full disclosure/shameless plug/ as per discussion below.
Clef is Joining Twilio
I am only learning Erlang now (through the futurelearn course[1], posted here, about a month ago now). One of the reasons it interests me is that it was designed from the start to support high-availability concurrent, distributed processes. It's a functional, dynamic language meaning that you can reprogram a system at runtime if you want (see: gen_server).

Like I said, I'm only starting and I don't know how real Erlang systems are built. However, I suspect that they tend to eschew the orthodoxy of treating a relational database as a single source of truth, with stateless app servers (these two features are the core of all the systems in the OP's thing) and embrace distributed, redundant statefulness. If this can be done (without becoming impossible to reason about) I suspect it represents an optimal server system, in terms of resource usage, availability, and probably even in performance in a world where most organizations' datasets can fit entirely in RAM, from when they are a twinkle in someone's eye to their eventual dissolution.

I should stress that "questioning orthodoxy" is something of a hobby, which probably biases me.

[1] https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/functional-programming-e...
[2] http://learnyousomeerlang.com keeps coming up as a good learning resource.
Since there was a big thread about that yesterday I think we're going to mark this subthread as offtopic and invite those of you who are interested to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13824680.
Yes, this is an important comment. While it's a virtue for Silicon Valley organizations like YC to adapt quickly, adapting in this case means clearing the way for the administration to solidify its haphazard immigration policy. Hopefully the YC staff is using its connections to Peter Thiel and others who have the president's attention to lobby hard against a policy that will directly and indirectly hurt many people and businesses in Silicon Valley.
Wikileaks stopped being about 'radical transparency' when Julian Assange felt personally threatened by Hillary Clinton and Google. Since then the Wikileaks agenda appears to be more about attacking and undermining US policy and standing wherever it can.
https://betapage.co
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The radiation levels near Chernobyl probably aren't that bad anyway; if you lived there, you could probably expect to die of cancer 2-3 decades earlier than normal, I'm guessing. So expect to die at 40-55 maybe. For modern humans, that doesn't sound all that appealing, so we stay away.

But animals don't live that long in the wild typically anyway, and tend to reproduce fairly quickly. So dying of cancer in middle-age probably isn't all that noticeable to them, because they're probably going to die by then anyway, or either accident or predation or (non-radiation-related) disease.
Wow, that's pretty far out of context. Far enough to imply the opposite of the statement's sentiment. For reference, the full quote by Altman is,

> “Trump is the Silicon Valley candidate in every way except that the ideology is flipped,” said Sam Altman, a prominent technology leader, chief executive of Y Combinator and a major Hillary Clinton donor. “He’s an outsider. He took on a system he thought was broken and then disregarded the rules, he got to know his users well and tested his product early and iterated rapidly. That’s the start-up playbook. That’s exactly what we tell our start-ups to do.”

Cherry-picking the words in the quote to paint the picture that Altman supports Trump somehow is quite deceitful.
The thing is, Europe is has a lot of countries. Except for the Eastern part, where Russia covers 1/3 of the continent. Geographically it would make sense to consider Romania as a part of Central Europe, however culturally or geopolitically few Romanians would disagree that Romania is part of Eastern Europe. Even our manuals say that Romania is part of South-Eastern Europe ;)
>My biggest take away is that Hacker News is typically not my target market. I don't think I have ever converted HN user into a paying customer.

While "Capture full-size or full-height screenshots" is likely a large selling point for less-technical users, I would initially close the tab right after thinking it was yet-another-make-screenshotting-fullpage-websites-easier-tool for less technical users. The thinking for Firefox users probably goes
"Why would I pay for `screenshot --fullpage`" or for many others, "Why would I pay for what is essentially Sharex?"

They likely ignore the automation parts of the service, because they aren't making it that far into your marketing:

>store them, serve them, and make sure they stay fresh and updated.

Just my $0.02 for why you probably don't get any HN users. I think your marketing is better as-is catering to either the less-technical crowds or the technical-crowds that make it far enough in your marketing than if you changed it to market towards technical people who make assumptions after reading one feature. :)
Kudos for a great article. I don't remember reading this blog before, but it is bookmarked now.
And a second one. Dick drawings. sigh

I'll watch later.
Are there any stats on how many prior YC founders were from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen?
No, not publish. Assange has repeatedly criticized Clinton and yet there's not a peep about Trump.

And funnily enough, those who called for death warrants against Assange have literally apologized (Palin) and done a complete 180 (Trump, Hannity) and praise him.
Baahubali Rajamouli Next Movie Mahabharatha
You and your friends are probably earning (a lot) more than the US median income ;)
Globalism is just another form of slavery, to corporations and global government. There might not be iron chains, but it's still all about control and power. Unaccountable bureaucrats pulling strings on everything from what your money is worth to restricting information from you about where your food is grown.
That's cool. Good for folks in that situation.

What about people with families or dependents that can't afford to uproot their life and relocate to SV?

Don't get me wrong, this is great, but it would be even better if it expanded to include additional circumstances.
People don't always act rationally, and some people perceive the US to be worse than China.
This is a fantastic idea, and I love the approach it takes to merge the real world with creative storytelling. While it's easy to get excited about things like VR to relive past events, it's very cool to see folks utilizing simple, existing tech in a clever way to create a more visceral understanding of the past.
I've filed a couple of patents and can tell you need a good parent lawyer. I don't have anyone in CO that I can recommend, but there is a rather time consuming/expensive process where they go through a patent search (of other existing patents) and then you file a bunch of paperwork, and wait for the patent to come through (typically a multi year process).

If it's a good idea, most definitely file a patent, but I would personally make sure it's unique/novel and worth the time/effort before you do so.

Most of all, have fun and good luck!
Scientists want to borrow power from your phone to cure cancer
That's probably got more to do with the prevalence of streaming services. Very few people keep all their music on their portable devices anymore.
1Password raises top bounty reward to $100,000
The entire quote is very insightful, and the tweet entirely takes it out of context. It's negated in the very same sentence.
As a Mexican I agree. Tijuana is not particularly one of the star cities of Mexico.
Being fined by your state for not meeting emissions is one thing, being fined by the EPA for disabling emissions equipment is another, much larger thing.
I think it's pretty clear that they're opportunists, rather than hardcore ideologues.

Assange probably has no love for Trump, but certainly hates Hillary and was willing to get in bed with whoever was necessary to hurt her.
Dualism is the technobabble of philosophy.
Just because a few people from outside the US are worried about visa issues before applying to an incubator doesn't spell the end of Silicon Valley. The money, talent, and infrastructure to support startups (and large tech companies for that matter) aren't going away anytime soon and likely wouldn't go away even if we completely completely halted green card holders. Not that I would ever advocate something like that.
> Reduced-risk tobacco >platforms

Is this like "clean coal"

I am sure a majority of their profits will come from regular cigarettes for decades to come.
> some people perceive the US to be worse than China.

Those people are dangerously ignorant.
Trader Joe Has a Brother. He’s Even Better. (2013)
That's the intent of my comment, I can't believe I'm being downvoted for a rational question presented in a neutral manner.
The irony of choosing Dubai because of America's supposed intolerance.. hope you don't want not only women, gays, non-married couples, or all the other BS a muslim state enforces.
For virtual DOM I don't go full React, I just use Maquette with Jade templates.

http://maquettejs.org
https://github.com/nextorigin/gulp-pug-hyperscript

For a small framework, I've been using SpineJS for years.
https://github.com/spine/spine/

Example with Maquette:

https://github.com/nextorigin/maquette-mapper

Using focused, quality components has let me upgrade my stack piece by piece over the years while retaining backwards compatibility.
Maybe YC going there could pump money into the area to improve it.
I think it's very debatable whether people having online lives is beneficial to them or society.

People lived for tens of thousands of years without the Internet and were happy doing so. I don't see why it is unfair that someone who has taken someone's innocence (and perhaps their ability to have a happy life) has certain privileges taken away.
yeah, I'm always amazed at the people who claim they looked at code they wrote 6 months ago and think it's horrible.

I've looked at code I wrote 2-3 years ago, and upon examination thought to myself "that's fairly reasonable code, I got most of it right".

I see people claim that means you're not growing as a developer, but my growth is about being able to build larger and more complex systems rather than perfecting small snippets of code. In other words, I've stopped caring about the specifics of code (within reason), and I get better at building systems.
This will be a tough sell. Org-mode is a fairly fast moving target, due to how easy it is to extend anything in emacs. For lots, you will actually be battling against all of the other extensions in emacs. (For me, as an example, you will have to replace flyspell, beacon, tramp, ace-jump, ido, and ggtags.)

All of this is doable, of course. But it will be a tough sell.

That said, I'd say go for it. Worst case, nobody uses it and you just learn some of the difficulties of implementing. Hard to see that as a failure.
The Math genealogy project makes it very evident. Start following the tree:

https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=204293

Students of his students include: Copernicus, Leibniz, many of the Bernoullis, Euler, Lagrange, Fourier, Poisson, Dirichlet.. and the list goes on and on...
Really cool idea (though .. no Apollo 13?), but MY GOD does the typography on the webpage suck. I couldn't even read the whole page. I hope the app has better-considered design!
They had a factory line and were manufacturing devices, but they weren't able to reach their claimed production quality and never shipped.

I'm not sure how many failed devices they made which could easily eat millions in material, manufacturing, and design costs.

Hardware is hard!
Difficult languages and easy languages
Have you ever lived in the "inner city"?
Lego Mindstorms might be good. It's pretty powerful, but its a lego set, so you don't need to put too much work into it to make something.
Can Amazon Echo help solve a murder? Police will soon find out
Some of the resentment is because cities are no longer aspirational. In the old days, if you are unhappy with your life, then you move to the city and make a new life. These days, you can’t even imagine moving to the city, because one month of rent will wipe out years of savings.

http://idiosyncraticwhisk.blogspot.com/2015/11/housing-serie...

https://medium.com/@laurafooteclark/how-do-we-avoid-another-...
Comment Rating: 1/10: Just another Political post

> The lead the US has had in science/engineering/technology over the past 70+ years is in no small part due to the massive brain drain from Europe, and the rest of the world, due to fascist regimes.

Awesome! I was curious about hearing more about this.

> If the US's new shiny fascist regime keeps progressing at this pace,

You're making a claim that is fairly recent and that is intentionally inflammatory. Then you're making a comparison to someone and the party that is new to older established negatively impacting politics.

If something is going on at the moment that is relevant, name the specific thing. Trying to blame the whole group now is just silly pandering.

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Why did you feel that it was necessary to inject political commentary into this? I'm really tired of hearing armchair politicians or regurgitation of political pundits. This is hacker news not r/Politics.
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Clinton held public office for years, she's a career politician so it only makes sense he'd scrutinize and criticize her considering how corrupt she is. As for Trump, Assange has stated many times that if anyone has anything to provide that Wikileaks would share it. Maybe wait a few months or years ?
This is a great paper. Almost all sailors I've met still believe the Bernoulli effect misconception, even some sailmakers designing carbon fiber sails costing $100k+.
I'd guess the number of tech startup founders in Vancouver is higher than in Tijuana. Also, no need for bullet proof vests.
Leap Year: (Example 1)C program to check if a given year is leap year or
There is a minority of people who are interested in e-ink monitors because it's felt this type of screen does not trigger migraines. My experience with e-ink is with the Kindle, and it seems that I am not tensing up my forehead as much.
My second point is going to sound a bit silly, but I'll put it out there anyway with the chance that someone relates. I think I have an Internet addiction problem, and I like the idea of making it a bit harder/slower to peruse the Internet. If it takes a site longer to load, I'm going to be more judicious in what I click on. Ok. Go ahead and laugh now.
$35 millions for doing nothing is quite impressive. I was watching the South Park episode "Go Fund Yourself" [0] just last night, and as often they are pretty much spot on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Fund_Yourself
Are you familiar with the Middle East?
Brailleplot – a simple program that prints x,y coords in braille to stdout
I'm just curious, how do you evaluate stress during an interview? It's usually a 1-1 situation between 2 developers. How do you describe stress during a 1-1 chat? If the candidate has a shaky voice? Or shaky hands? How do you put this on paper as a valid rejection point?

Most of the people would actually mix a few things all together. If I have troubles answering your questions you might think i'm stressed? If I miss something obvious while writing code on a whiteboard, is this due to stress?

I think it's total BS... Being stressed in a professional environment is triggered by a thousand things, the people, colleagues, personal life events, traffic on the way to work, etc.

People are really coming with all sort of fancy evaluation techniques... I think we really need a standard evaluation like GMAT for software engineers. It's getting a little crazy.
Whatever it ist or whatever effect it might have, it doesn't matter. We are living longer than ever.

Why bothering?

Life a normal life, do a little bit of sports, try to reduce stress etc.

Will not change my diet or eating habbits.
I didn't read the story because of addblock but I've seen headlines like this before. As someone with type 2 they always annoy me. I've been eating low carb for a long time (sometimes more successfully than others) and while I can keep my blood sugars under control with the diet, and hopefully keep my body from further damage, I have not "cured" my diabetes.
If I eat a high carb meal, my blood sugar will shoot up way higher than that of a normal person. I still have diabetes. Eating low carb is not curing me, but it is helping me keep things under reasonable control.
I think Appalachian malaise predates the opiate problem. I think it would be worthwhile investigating the cultural aspects which allow an extremely poor population in a poor country fare better than a merely poor population in a developed country where some aspects of lives are subsidized by commonwealth.
Very interesting considering the post even discusses participating remotely. Politically incorrect theory: enabling people with families just isn't as sexy as helping immigrant founders.