skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my anecdotal experience using bootstrap correctly with enduser efficiency in mind is the exception, not the rule.

>Reflects poorly on those people then, not Bootstrap.

Yes.

>Of course, who wouldn't plan their project ahead of time?

Again, in my experience: MANY people using bootstrap

> The ones that don't need breadcrumbs?
> // @import "bootstrap/breadcrumbs";
> ...aaand we're done.

My comment was pointing out an inherent flaw to the popularity of bootstrap (which is no fault of their own): it's often used improperly and has lead to MASSIVE amounts of resources being wasted globally.

My comment was made with the hope that someone who hadn't previously thought about WHY they are using bootstrap to think about it a little more at the start of their next project.

You decided to respond by essentially fulfilling the stereotype of "condescending IT guy."

I'm happy that you know how to use bootstrap as intended, and I apologize if my comment upset you... but I don't see the need to be a dick about it.
Before the OPM data breach there was a hack of WikiLeaks itself. Pastebin had a dump of email addresses and password hashes associated with the accounts. I think it was in 2014, but am sure it was before the OPM data breach. Many government email addresses turned out to be registered on WikiLeaks, so various agencies had to take remediation steps for those email accounts. Anyone working at the time in federal IT space would probably know at least something about the incident.
Oh, but there are easier ways to do that. Offer to let him avoid being extradited to Sweden in exchange for not reporting on certain things, for instance.

Do you really think the Ecuadorean embassy, which had to install a shower so they could house him, is able to resist political pressure from basically all of NATO? Snowden had to flee to Russia, not even a Russian embassy, and he's not even leaking anything new. (I'm not necessarily claiming that anyone is actively manipulating WikiLeaks, just that there are a million easier ways to do it than secretly killing him and making a CGI double - and secretly killing him would require Ecuador's cooperation, anyway.)
> Who is having trouble getting a Visa exactly? Just curious, trying to separate fact from hysteria

Anyone, even US citizens, who does not want ICE/CBP snooping on his/her IT equipment, cellphones or social media accounts.

Certainly I (born German/Croatian, living in Germany) might be able to land myself a nice shiny job in the US IT industry but no way I'm ever crossing your border as long as such outrageous privacy violations are legal.
A little of both, but I'm mostly commenting on the "The thing I've noticed is that it actually is harder to sympathize with the white, rural poor" sentiment. Namely to say that the reasons listed for not sympathizing with the rural poor can and often are applied the same to the urban poor. Going further, urban poor have a stigma of being assisted by the government. It's an odd situation because at the same time that there is resentment for the urban poor receiving more government programs, there's more popular will to help the urban poor. I imagine it's largely a visibility problem.

Sweeping generalizations are sweeping. And general. I don't believe all poor people, regardless of residence, lack motivation or are just looking for handouts. If pressed, I'd probably guess no more than 10% of the poor population would fairly deserve those insults. But, you could probably say only 10% of the global population might deserve those insults.
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So why do so many Chinese students chose to come to the US for college? Do they not know that China is better?

To call the US a slightly less fascist regime than China is wrong. Go read up on human rights violations in China some time.

Other areas of concern include the lack of legal recognition of human rights and the lack of an independent judiciary, rule of law, and due process. Further issues raised in regard to human rights include the severe lack of worker's rights (in particular the hukou system which restricts migrant labourers' freedom of movement), the absence of independent labour unions (which have since been changing[3]), and allegations of discrimination against rural workers and ethnic minorities, as well as the lack of religious freedom – rights groups have highlighted repression of the Christian,[4][5][6][7][8][9] Tibetan Buddhist, and Falun Gong religious groups. Some Chinese activist groups are trying to expand these freedoms, including Human Rights in China, Chinese Human Rights Defenders, and the China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group. Chinese human rights attorneys who take on cases related to these issues, however, often face harassment, disbarment, and arrest.[10][11]

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

The gap between the US and China in most measures of freedom and business rights is absolutely massive and isn't going to shift because six Muslim countries have restricted immigration. Maybe see how China treats Muslims in the western part of the country?
"Nerd nurseries?"

What do you even mean by "startup culture" in an ad-tech company with thousands of employees that has been doing the same thing for years? Open office plans with skateboards? Free food? Making the world a better place?
Actually, "network" was the wrong term to use. It's a company that utilizes header bidding and machine learning to maximize revenue. (To keep my anonymity, I won't name the company.) There are many companies that do the same thing.

I would never work with a single ad network ever again. I wasted a lot of time testing different ones.
How would hosting it in Tijuana reduce their homicide rate?
> Huh yes, how about the current executive order ban on muslim countries, and the general eagerness of the current administration to purge the US of many kinds of immigrants who are there completely legally? Many of my Iranian coworkers - most with PhDs from US universities - are affected by this. Many academic conferences I participate in are experiencing problems because organizers or speakers didn't get visas. Several professors are telling me they had to pass on promising applicants due to visa concerns. Anyone in an academic/research environment right now will tell you these things.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. That's relevant, doesn't pander.

>If you are curious to hear more about this, you can read the following articles, for a start:http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/23/movies/european-minds-who-....

This is great, it also can be blamed on the government then.. because it's hindsight.. you've seen the lasting effects of what happened.
Many companies have periods of time where you get an opportunity to cash out a percentage of your equity. It gives confidence to early employees that the company has their back and they aren't really disincentivized to leave because they still have a majority of their equity "locked".
> Fortunately for Trump his henchpeople were smart enough not to get phished.

While there was no similar mass disclosure (most likely because of the political goals of those conducting the operation), Republican groups, not just Democrats, were compromised by the same actors behind the DNC attack.
Okay. So for Chernobyl, you are talking about direct deaths. For coal, the important figure are the indirect deaths. I think I said enough.
I can't believe I have to say this given everything I've written on the subject (here is the first thing: http://blog.samaltman.com/trump) , but I don't support Trump in any way.

My point in the parent-linked article is just that Trump beat us using our own playbook, and shame on us if we don't notice that and adjust for next time.
Ontarians say "Eh" unironically.
See my response to kirchhoff.
They did. They preserved authorship in all their works.
Their additions were in the form of footnotes, comments and original works.

They translated works of Ptolomy, Euclid, Archimedes, Aristotle, Galen for us.

They also produced very important works in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, etc.

I challenge you to find translators for those languages in Medieval Europe when literacy rate was less than 1%. Their contributions were objectively important and critical.
Agreed. Finding valuable minerals in a village is one sure way of ending the peaceful existence. Everything changes!
>there isn't a straightforward answer.

We have to acknowledge the biological component of addiction, that some people are predisposed to certain addictions. There is a physical, chemical component that comes into play.

I, for example, smoked my first cigarette at 12 y/o. I continued to smoke cigarettes socially for the better part of the next decade, often buying my own packs of smokes. I never understood the "need" to smoke that many of my fellows expressed. I enjoyed the nicotine high, but never once felt it necessary to smoke tobacco to live a "normal" life. I stopped smoking one day after college and never felt the urge to smoke again. Even after long-term repeated exposure to nicotine I never developed a physical dependancy.

The "William Shatner seat" article posted yesterday sent me down a rabbit hole of Shatner talk shows (in "Aftermath" he interviews Bernie Goetz and it is amazing) ending on his "Raw Nerve" interview with Rush Limbaugh where Rush goes into great detail regarding his own painkiller habit. Contrasting how he speaks about opiates about how his body told him he needed pills like he needs food or water to my own personal experiences with opiates and nicotine only reinforces this belief that some people just have the right brain chemistry to get addicted.

My next thought is that the chemistry of the brain changes over time, under stress or when exposed to other chemicals.
Ergo, at some point, people may be more prone to particular addictions than at other times.
Not to mention he doesn't really know WTF his product is, or outright lied about it ("our health care thing will cover everyone" to paraphrase).

Silicon Valley has a lot of really competent people.
This is anecdotal but in my experience a better signal is whether the candidate codes with best practices in mind. Give a moderate complexity design problem and watch for use of best practices/design patterns (good commenting, SRP, DRY, DI, IOC, etc). That tells me the code that person will write can be understood and maintained by someone else. After all the person who wrote the code is not necessarily the person who's going to maintain and enhance it for the lifetime of the application.
I'd guess about 5 founders emailed me, and I always assume that indicates there are a lot more who don't.
Can you share some details around numbers and volume? "Very large" does not really convey why going down this route makes sense.
Inflammatory drive-bys are trolling. If you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't post.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830706 and marked it off-topic.
Look at the visa policy for unmarried women under 30 for Dubai.
It's not SA yes, but is still restrictive

update: It seems the restriction on women traveling who don't have husbands/fathers has been relaxed/ended. Looking more into it.

Update 2: On UAE Embassy for US no mention of restrictions
But not the case for other countries.

For Indian women one provider states: For female applicants and students who are above 18 years and travelling alone require NOC from parents / husband, Photo ID of parents/ husband. Coloured copy of the host passport / residence visa
Happiness is more closely linked to status (relative position and wealth) than absolute benefits[1][2]. In that respect, I imagine someone taken from the environment they understand and are accustomed to and put into a foreign one where they are likely a curiosity, and at best an outsider, would result in them longing for what they understood.

For the same reason, I imagine the poor in Benjamin Franklin's time might find a Native American lifestyle (if accepted by the group) to have some draw if exposed to it. I would by the same measure expect the middle and upper classes to find it less appealing.

1: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3315638...

2: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?um=1&ie=UTF-8&lr&cites=37...
The times are changing, hence why Java 10 has better support for some form of value types, improved generics, JNI replacement and AOT compilation on its roadmap.
Yet every time there's a significant release, politics-as-team-sport morons conclude that since their team has been shown in a bad light, it's all a pack of lies. This is how the media can lead us around by the noses: our memories rarely span the last week.
> Russia and its agents absolutely DID hack the US political parties
How exactly did Russian agents hacked the parties? Can you give real examples and sources of your claim?
There was a very "insider baseball" moment in 2011 with regards to AirBNB and a well known investor "discussing" taking money off the table. Note, the investor was basically saying that if the founders get some liquidity, you should offer the same to employees. I will never forget how much that raise my esteem him. [0]

So yes, if they were willing to do it in 2011, I am sure that they are doing it in this round too.

[0] - https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/01/chamath-palihapitiya-airbn...
This is somewhat like my personal view of time. All points in time exist already, but because causality only flows in one direction (the Arrow of Time), the illusion of the passage of time is created. At any one point in time, your brain can only have stored memories about things that previously happened.

This kind of ties into my more general hypothesis that the universe is a single mathematical structure. And that all possible mathematical structures are as real as ours. But only some structures have conscious components within them (e.g. us) who can observe.

This does run into a wall with the Hard Problem of Consciousness. It's hard to imagine how a mathematical structure can produce self-awareness. But any alternate explanation is just as magical.
Great intent.

I'd like to know the reasoning behind choosing Canada as an alternative interview location because from experience, it easier to get a US visitor visa than that of Canada.

Nigerians cannot even transit the Canadian airport without a visa which takes upward of 8 weeks to get AFTER approval vs days for the US. Requirements for Canada are more onerous.

2 suggestions.

1. A country of interview per continent. For instance, Dubai will cover Africans + Middle East + Europe

2. Shortlist some countries and let people select 2 options to interview at.

On paper, the passport index [1] looks like a good way to do it but doesn't take into account spread of countries that can visit

[1] www.passportindex.org/byWelcomingRank.php
To me microservices work when you split out things that the core app doesn't always need. So "promocodes" becomes its own microservice because not all purchases need a promo code. And now the main app isn't cluttered with promo code admin logic and UI.
Guilty as charged, I always thought that the Newtonian impact
theory explained in Figure 4 was how it worked.
I worry about that. It would be a devastating blow to the country if the next wave of technology doesn't happen here.
Disclaimer: the OP appears to work for one of the companies/tools listed, Nanobox.io.
I would ask the same in the opposite direction. Please make a list of companies that have positively confirmed they're receiving help from Assange. So far, there is no public evidence beyond a tweet from Wikileaks.
With EU, U.S. Distracted, Central and Eastern Europe Crack Down on Civil Society
Meh.. what about NeXT/BlackBox/SteveJobs? There was actually none of it exists and he did awesome PR and made it work.
Unicode Strings in Ada 2012
In light of recent events [0], there's a non-zero chance that some founders out there would rather avoid going to the US at all - if only to protest with their wallet.

It might be more sensible to open a second incubator in the EU. Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, Barcelona, there are plenty of options. (London is a good choice on paper too but pray tell what'll happen after Brexit.)

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/26...
You can be profitable but still be burning cash in a few different ways. Profitable looks only at profit, not at cash flow, so it only means that "booked revenue in a year > booked costs in a year". Keep in mind that capital expenses are not costs, but are cash expenses. Also, some revenue in a given year might not be a cash transaction, because even if you booked it in that year, it might take much longer for you to actually get paid.

Some of the ways to burn cash:

(1) Expand operations: hiring people, hiring external services, leasing offices, leasing capacity, etc. All that happens far before any additional revenue comes in.

(2) Capex: capital expenses (buying servers, equipment, etc.) require cold, hard cash (or debt, which "costs" more than equity for a startup, so it is better to do equity funding).

(3) Working capital (current assets - current liabilities): some companies have positive (they receive the revenue cash before dispensing the costs cash) working capital, using their customers' money to expand the operations, others have negative working capital, requiring external funding to expand their operations.

My guess is that (2) and (3) don't apply for AirBnB, they are not a capital-intensive business, and as they get paid when the booking is done but pay out when the guest arrives, their working capital might actually be positive. So they probably need it to expand operations.
This is the business equivalent of a code smell.
I think that Swift as a language has a lot of promise and if it can be proven to work well on the server, it's something that one of the thousands of iOS developers can easily migrate into.
I actually went into the CSS to try to turn off uppercase (seriously stop using it) and it turns out all the text is an image

:|
I really don't like when people use "full disclosure" as an excuse to advertise.
Please don't provide comment ratings or dismiss comments out of hand as "Just another political post". The startup community does not live in isolation, it is part of a system which includes political factors as well.

> Awesome! I was curious about hearing more about this.

Albert Einstein is only the most famous immigrant. Enrico Fermi is yet another. These were people who emigrated willingly. And then you have operation paperclip [0]

A lot of the current lead of American Science and Technology has its basis in the contribution of European scientists, mathematicians and engineers. And once Immigration opened up to the rest of the world, you've had smart people from all corners come to US universities, part of what makes them "great"

> You're making a claim that is fairly recent and that is intentionally inflammatory

He most certainly is not. The simple fact is that the Trump administration has shown alarming tendencies towards fascism, and the republican dominated Congress and Senate have been unwilling to stand their ground. The "Resistance" in encouraging and shows that Americans still care about their civil liberties, but this administration, the people that hold actual power, can be described as fascists.

The only real check seems to be the US judiciary... and that too cannot single handedly stop a determined WH and Congress + Senate.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Why do you think that is? Dedicated staff for the early funnel compared to "not my real job" specialization further down?
Weird choice of country for this purpose. I wonder who needs visa to the US and doesn't need one to Canada, and I'm pretty sure the number is small.
Spanner, TrueTime and the CAP Theorem [pdf]
Why not Waterloo?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/kitchener-waterloo...
Private property "rights" can only exist if the state violently enforces it.

Not just that, but all property claims are backed by threats of force, state or not. The universe doesn't anoint anyone Legitimate Property Owner, and if you can't convince others to leave you with your object of claim, then your claim has to be backed by force. Otherwise, it's just hot air.
There are lies, damn lies, and commercials.
Submissions of articles from YC/by YC people always have the least descriptive titles. :(

Edit: Thanks!
People Can Match Names to Faces of Strangers with Surprising Accuracy
I am attending Google Cloud NEXT[1] right now, and there are a lot of breakout sessions on kubernetes and Container Engine. Google Cloud and Container Engine (GKE) makes creating a kube cluster super painless. It honestly just works and only takes a few minutes to spin up a kube cluster. GKE also has baked in awesomeness that is not available in the open source version such as automatic master and node version upgrades and automatic repair.

I'd recommend just using GKE instead of trying to run kubernetes on your own or using a lesser platform such as Flynn or Hyper. Google Cloud also has their own container registry which is nice since it is tightly integrated with GKE.

[1] - https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/
And Paris ?
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What is a criteria in which China is "better" ethically or "better" by some criteria you select?

I can think of none.
Actually, the coal thing in Germany is interesting. As a consequence of the end of nuclear energy they did construct new coal plants, against the protests of the very people that wanted the Atomausstieg. But the funny thing is that those new coal plants can't be properly used today, because they are just too expensive. Energy prices fell that low, thanks to green energy sources, that those new coal plants are not profitable anymore.

Sucks for the cities and energy companies that backed them, but is a win for society as a whole.
It's even true in city outskirts (e.g. the homeless encampments around San Francisco, Skid Row in LA).
Slow drones can be great for filming parkour runs, where the runner doesn't make a lot of forward progress but instead has a lot of vertical motion through interesting environments. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS1itQxzAc4 had bits that were filmed with a DJI phantom, which isn't a terribly fast drone. Something slow with great obstacle evasion and auto-following would be perfect for parkour (not sure if Lily was supposed to have either feature, though).

Still, I'm sure that you're right about the vast majority of action sports.
So basically the video was just of some guy controlling a drone? There was no actual following ? The wrist device didn't actually do anything ?

Is this true ? Or did the prototype atleast work ?
I haven't looked too deeply, but it appears to be an API interaction layer. So if React is your V in MVC, this is the M.
>> Wikileaks maintained a neutral position

>> I'm just saying he's not impartial

Assange != Wikileaks

Having documents on both sides and releasing one and not the other would be a break with impartiality. Having personal political opinions has nothing to do with Wikileaks impartiality.
Django/Jinja/Stencil should be the de facto standard for all templating systems so developers can port their work to any platform without sweat.

Kudos for porting Jinja to Rust.
I believe the tone-deafness is because she answered "Yes". She knew what they were. The interviewee then laughed and lectured her on something she said she knew about. That's being tone deaf. There's nothing wrong with asking the question, except the question wasn't genuine. It was merely tossed out as an intro into what the individual wanted to talk about... which was themselves (and in doing so also insulted the intelligence and knowledge of the person they were talking to).
I don't think it's "a few people." It is everyone holding or desiring a US visa that is worried. I would contend that it is only the extent of that fear that is variable.

Maybe I am wrong and there are visa holders feeling absolute confidence at the moment, but I would like to hear why from even one before considering your "a few people" categorization as anything but spin.