skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, like anything else you need to examine your needs.

I'm a transplant; I work on a tiny isolated team, in a sea of a much larger unrelated team. I know what I need to work on and can largely do it in isolation. But I'm constantly distracted by the people around me with discussions that could never possibly have anything to contribute to my work, nor I theirs. And that's when they're discussing work issues. The inane personal conversations are the worst.
I have in the past lived for years off of far less than the Federal minimum wage. It helped that I was healthy and didn't have any medical expenses- but the ridiculous cost of health care is a different debate...
Yikes. While I feel bad for the journalist, this has some serious implications
> If you were alive during the cold war, then you know that 2017 is obviously not the cold war.

As a Gen Xer, I was alive during a lot of the late Cold War, and I'm very much aware that after the brief hiatus with the fall of the Soviet Union, there's been wide talk of a growing new cold war between the US and Russia since the Balkans crises of the 1990s, and that that Cold War has included many of the hallmarks of the old one, including proxy wars, direct saber rattling, violent covert actions, attempts by each side to subvert the government of the other principal and/or allies, etc.
This is interesting. I think there's still a deeper question of how to fund open-source technologies. Patreon seems to put the burden on individuals rather than companies. Maybe the answer is non-profits.
Good context re: today's ClassPass news
It's customer obsession, one of the leadership principles of Amazon.
Towards a lip-reading computer
Why are YC companies having more difficulty raising Series A than they were a few years ago?
The problem is that everyone has a different idea of what the 1-5 scale means. My girlfriend never gives a 5 except for her favorite movie since nothing can match its greatness.

Meanwhile I rate everything 1-star vs 5-star.

So I'm not too convinced there's any nuance in star averages, much less a difference between "decent" and "fantastic". It might just be a more divisive movie that averages out to a 3-4.
If enforcing a law properly causes abuse, then the law must be rewritten. Not enforcing laws because they're bad is compounding the problem.
Martin Shkreli buying personal domain names of journalists who write about him
It seems strange to me that a government organization would grant a CC license for their content, especially restricting it's use to non-commercial stuff (not that I have any intention to use there stuff commercially). Glad that it's at least available under a CC license though, thank you for asking!
Because, depending on your usage, Google can know more about you than anyone else, and can use that knowledge for much more sinister means than "serving more relevant content".
This is a very clarifying way to put it thank you.
Can we say that companies such as Palantir are just IBM-wannabes?
> I'm not talking numbers on the internet.

I can respect that.

It sounds like you actually were promoted a couple of times since relocating and now you're in a leadership/director position. I'm not surprised your salary increased.

But honestly, I find it hard to believe you can match a senior level salary here in the Bay Area at a larger company.

A standard offer for someone that is not really "gifted" is $160-$190k base + $100-$150k/yr RSUs.

You're really able to pay people over $250k?

And I'm not even including 401k matching, ESPP, healthcare, discretionary bonuses and annual incentive bonuses.
Between this and the efforts by police to get Alexa recordings [1], having voice assistants in your home is looking risky.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/amazon-wont-disc...
It really doesn't. This is assault and battery, and will be punished like any other assault and battery case.
shameless plug for my JPEG 2000 codec: https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/grok . Performance currently around 1/3 Kakadu
Judge OKs warrant to reveal who searched a crime victim’s name on Google
its more efficient, many times
Right. If I can break into your house, I should get your stuff. You should have had better locks and thicker doors. /s
> expensive consultingware database

You're giving it more credit than necessary. It's just expensive consultingware. It's only incidentally a database.
> made the money spent

Transfer of wealth is not the same as consumption of resources
> the argument in favor of a small, weak federal government and robust, largely sovereign state governments

Pretty sure we tried that with the Articles of Confederation and it was a total failure.
The key here is intent to cause harm.
The social penalty is called opportunity cost in Economic terms. These men generally don't have big social networks that could have gotten them jobs in the first place, so there isn't much lost when they isolate themselves.

For women, losing their social network is losing a large chunk of their safety net (if they aren't receiving welfare otherwise), so it's almost unfathomable for them to do so of their own accord.
I guess that's something WebAssembly could in principle handle efficiently, but not for a while.
To expand on your point on Palantir just being a database, it's a good lesson to startup founders: solve the problem your user had.

The biggest problem that Palantir solves is: we (CIA, FBI, whatever) have to pull together data from 500 software systems that don't share a common taxonomy, hold petabytes of data in totally different ways, live in agencies across the world, and have all sorts of nuanced permissions models (e.g. "Five Eyes" or "this data was shared to New Zealand by a country that doesn't share data directly with the US, but New Zealand does share data to the US. I'm a US agent looking at NZ data, do I see this?").

They basically clean and centralize information. It's super unsexy (probably my least favorite thing to do as an engineer.) But that is the problem that these organizations have.
I think offering subsidies to spur private deployment of broadband is a terrible idea. If the market doesn't want to build it, we should think hard about whether we should build it, and if we conclude we should, the government should just build it.[2]

That said, the "huge tax cuts" are fictional. Teletruth's idea of a "tax cut" is a company being able to charge any more money than they would have under regulated rates.[1]

The "billions" in "tax breaks" are from the companies charging higher rates to their own customers, alleged cross-subsidizing between various services that were previously regulated at different rates, and accelerated depreciation of infrastructure (which came at a time when major parts of the network infrastructure were upgraded to fiber, even if the last mile remained copper).

It wasn't the government writing anyone a check, or even giving any company a special tax credit.

Also, this bit of conspiracy theorism exactly inspire confidence in the calculation methodology:

> Recently, (April 2015) a TV media company decided to not run an investigation we had worked on together about Verizon’s failure to properly upgrade the networks by 2015. After an interview with Verizon by the company, the word ‘liabilities’ entered their vocabulary and they doubted that there was a tax break that came with the Chapter 30 Pennsylvania broadband plan.

[1] That is, of course, one of the purposes of deregulation. Governments chronically set regulated rates too low. For example, environmental groups estimate that water/sewer rates nationally are about half of what they should be in order to account for the scarcity of water and the need to maintain and upgrade aging infrastructure. But no elected PUC official wants to raise grandma's water or telephone rates.

[2] And if the government does build it, we should ditch the emotional appeals for FTTH and rely heavily on sensible, cost-effect point-to-point wireless.
Microsoft bought Linkedin for building reputation in the Valley?
With Graham, taking a break (or 'hammock time' as Hickey might phrase it) appears to be a pattern if one can draw a pattern from two data points. After selling Viaweb and working a Yahoo for a bit, Graham wrote and painted and created a new dialect of Lisp for several years before the experiment that led to YCombinator (there may have been consulting and investing in there too, it wouldn't surprise me but since I've never seen anything directly stating there was, it would not surprise me if there wasn't)...and Graham's descriptions of why he did a startup includes not having to get 'a real job' so to speak.

When Graham turned over the public face of YC to Altman, I was like, huh? Since then, I've come to think that 'I'm going to take my money and learn to paint' is one diffs between Altman's and Graham's personalities...though in fairness Graham was well into his thirties when he made his first millions and Altman was just 29 when he became president of YC.
Thanks- that's what I thought, but I wasn't sure.
In no particular order here is a small subset of YC companies from 2-3 years ago that I bet will become household names in the next 2-3 years: Theorem, Algolia, Bellabeat, Flexport, Cruise (I guess a lot of people know about these guys already), Gobble, Front, Ginko Bioworks, Rigetti, Checkr, RazorPay, WayUp, Gitlab, Lob, Remix, TripleByte, Lugg, Jopwell, Gigster, and GiveCampus.
I didn't work on it at all because I was doing better with my other, boring business.
Tsimané of the Bolivian Amazon have world's healthiest hearts, says study
It's someone else's code as much as "once upon a time" is someone else's writing.

Animista is an awesome resource. Well presented and nicely done.

But if you think anyone can own the rights to specific transform values within the @keyframes rule, then you are mistaken.
All Musk's businesses need Government support. Tesla depends on tax credits for electric cars. Space-X's biggest customer is the U.S. Government. Solar City needs tax credits to be profitable.

"This is the logic of crony capitalism: if you want to survive, you have to stay on the ruler’s good side."
Plenty of businesses require non-entrepreneurs to be on call too.
> I think Peter Thiel is a monster

Why, pray tell, is he a monster? It can't be his libertarian philosophy that supports individual self-determination. It can't be that's he's a proudly gay, christian role model. I hope its not Palantir, which technology is most often applied in analyzing complex financial crimes and criminal networks. Its tragically ironic that Thiel viewed more for fears about what Palantir might be used for, than for what he's actually accomplished, what he seems to stand for, and how Palantir's software is actually used. Its kafkaesque.
Of course it existed already. But there were forces at work who didn't want to enforce immigration laws - cheap labour benefits quite a few industries.
>>The whole time I'm looking on at this and thinking, if he was drinking, we would call this alcoholism. But what do we call it when it's video games?

The same forces that destroy a person, also make a person great.

Replace video games with 'work'. And with 10 years of doing it day and night, you would quite literally be a successful guy in any profession.
I am on your same boat. We been working for the past year to get the HW prototype build and at a stage where we can demo it. We are still around 6 months on finishing but lack of funding and advice would definitely accelerate our progress.
(Paying for assembled boards instead of hand building each as a example of how it would make it faster.)
Ask HN: Jobs without Managers for Programmers?
I have worked as an average programmer for about 15 years. I am approaching 40 and I've come to realize that I am too arrogant to work under managers, although I don't deny the importance of someone for tracking tasks. <rant> Task/status forwarding, artificial deadlines, self serving HR policies, information hiding are some of the behaviors I find hard to work with.</rant> I have explored freelancing as a career option for about a year on upwork but, with a limited skillset, never made enough. My current job ends this month and I wonder if there are avenues other than freelancing which I haven't explored yet. Also open to suggestions for subordinating myself.
I don't believe up/down should replace written reviews, but neither does an x out of 5 or 10 system. Written reviews are the place for that in depth analysis. That said I'm not familiar with Google Play and don't know if they have written reviews or not.
Key point
Try that same experiment with a snow bank in late May from both places and you'll likely find it's equally compact once the snow pack is at 32F throughout and starting to form what is known in the trade as firn. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firn
". . . but trying NOT to give power to anyone will just accept that power falls to those that are ruthless and abusive to take it regardless."

This is the crux, and I've never seen a good Libertarian defense against this. Someone will always fill the power void.
It's not illegal for me to serve people food with peanuts. It is illegal for me to serve peanuts to someone that is allergic with the intent to cause them harm. There is no "slippery slope" that serving peanuts to anyone will become illegal.
Yes, it has been covered extensively, to the tune of nearly a hundred reviews, averaging to a score of 97 on a 100-point scale: http://www.metacritic.com/game/switch/the-legend-of-zelda-br...

If you're going to pretend to make authoritative statements on the basis of "it's been discussed to death", then you should say, "Breath of the Wild, whatever its issues, is one of the best games ever made".

See how unconvincing this approach is to someone who disagrees?
a) Lots of people bring that argument up. I hear it all the time.

b) There's a difference between "the US pays" and "the US government pays".
Oh god. It might be a better outcome for the actual vessel, but...

You know, I think you'd just see a radical re-design in that case, you'd have to; like the Zumwalt, only more armored.
Slippery slope. If I tell someone on the internet to kill themselves and it turns out they're actually suicidally depressed, should I be charged with a crime?

What if I post something that's just really offensive? I feel like we've entered a time where people would gladly see the First Amendment trodden over if it means seeing "justice" doled out to nasty people.
You want to join YC because you want the money and investors, but your product isn't ready yet so what's the money for? If you only need to pay your own living costs and small development costs for R&D, maybe you should look for an angel investor and a pre-seed round.

Speaking of, there's a void in the VC market for funds that invest in the R&D stage like this.
Not really. Message board nerds may not care much about intent, but intent is most of what the law cares about. If it's really the GIF this person is being charged for, then the prosecution will simply present evidence to prove to a jury that the accused deliberately attempted to trigger a Eichenwald's seizure.

The mechanics of how they tried to do that will be of secondary importance, except to the extent that the law will likely care that whatever mechanism was used did in fact stand a good chance of causing a seizure.
If the mirroring is perfect, the photon transfers a bit of momentum as it reflects. If the mirroring isn't perfect, it has some probability of being absorbed, transferring half the momentum that it would if reflected, but transferring all its energy...
I read it as applying to new hires, not necessarily existing employees, so it makes sense that they'd publicize it.

If it only applies to new hires then that may make salary adjustment easier (if that's part of this).
Soft contact lenses existed in the 60's and disposable contacts existed since the early 70's.

Just a minor nitpick.
Why do you keep banning DHH from the hacker news?
Major organizations' style guides disagree with you. At least in the USA, the Oxford comma is under real and constant assault by the defenders of imprecise and ambiguous grammar. Whenever someone inevitably takes the side of these atrocious style guides, I inevitably pull out my Oxford comma insult, "I listened to [Complaining person], a serial killer and a hapless fool. However, no one could tell if I was speaking to one person or three."
>> plenty of countries that get good quality health care at a much lower cost for the country

"Plenty", as in effectively every other comparable developed country, and "good quality" as in consistently better than the US on virtually every metric. Dan Carlin, the podcaster, devoted his most recent show (http://www.dancarlin.com/product/common-sense-314-unhealthy-...) to this topic; it felt like an impassioned plea directed at his reportedly strong libertarian base of followers.
आज ही शरीर पर यहाँ बांधे काला  धागा  और हर चीज़ अपनी मुठी में पाए
Arrests occur previous to judges being involved and determinations of guilt.

Your sarcastic and aggressive tone in this thread isn't helping you get your point across.
Typically, you would only repeat the preposition for emphasis/effect or if it varies for at least one element—e.g., for the latter, "I wrote to my mother, to Ayn Rand, and for God."
In a world where every router has the capability to do things which are illegal in various countries, do you think that Netherlands ISPs always obey the law? In the US, convention center operators keep on getting busted for sending deauth packets to "rogue" WiFi access points, i.e. those brought in by conference attendees and exhibitors.
We do not adjust salaries when employees move. We try to pay similarly regardless of location.
Just something blinking doesn't cause a seizure, the blinking has to be a certain frequency to induce it.

Also important in this case is that the seizure gif in question was personalized with the message “You deserve a seizure for your postings.” That make the case similar to force feeding peanuts to a guy you know have a severe peanut allergy.
Glad to see MUBI mentioned here. I spent 9 years of my life building it as co-founder and tech lead.

My biased view is that if you are sick of bland streaming selections then you should really support MUBI. The more subscribers we can get the more we are able to fund great unique content. Our approach is fundamentally different from the data-driven, mass-appeal approach that tends to sand all the corners off of Netflix/Amazon content. Currently most MUBI content is licensed with a few exclusive releases sprinkled in, and the US selection is not as good as the UK, but as the subscriber base grows it will get better and better. Netflix et al are a volume game and the unit economics don't work out for them to purchase great indie films. If you care about great film as opposed to episodic content, MUBI is the streaming service that is pushing the envelope there.
It's not just canning, but basically the packing and distribution of food from producers to consumers. It's possible that, during past time of higher inflation, the government wanted to avoid higher costs in this area.
How are those two even remotely similar?
This is the stupidest thing I have ever read on HN.
It's pretty unrealistic to expect a job without a manger. I also hate being managed.

My solution? I started my own company 10 years ago and have been running it ever since.
My knee jerk reaction was to respond "Well hold on now, that doesn't sound right..." but I'm now guessing you're trying to point out some absurdity in OPs comment?
Doesn't Home cost money though? Radio stations are essentially free
In fact they were essentially the first and the reason it has become a near monolopoly
If they captured and displayed to the user how many users watched it vs how many ups and downs it might give users a better indication.
> We aggressively advertise harmful substances to people, KNOWING full well that MILLIONS of people will be imprinted at a young age and result in disastrous consequences for their health (Seizures! And more).

You are stating here that "we" are aggressively advertising harmful substances to people that will cause them to have seizures?
Both depend on placing arbitrary limits on the victim of a crime, to excuse the perpetrator's behavior. It's not a crime to fail to take adequate precautions; it's a crime to try to rob someone, or harm them.
I don't think it's important at all. PG has a saying that good founders become more formidable during their time at YC. Also, demo day prep and fundraising is pretty intense at YC so most founders get much better at talking about their startups after going through the program. That might explain the signal you are seeing.
Why startups aren't guaranteed to own the future
ANA Calls for Audits at Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Pinterest
> Arrests occur previous to judges being involved and determinations of guilt.

Well, quite often after judges are involved, but before determinations of guilt. Arrest warrants are, after all, a thing.
$100 says it is Eric Migicovsky
Beats me, English grammar isn't my strong suit.
Why do you think that the future will similarly not have jobs that you can't conceive of now?

As far as I can tell the only special thing about automation in today's world is that the jobs being created are more often being created abroad than they are in the US (e.g. the million or so people employed by Foxconn in China) and predictions of automation destroying jobs are very blatantly being used politically as a way to draw flak away from job destroying trade agreements and austerian measures.
Because then we can't treat the Internet like the wild west and do a bunch of stuff that the law would have prevented us from doing before... /s
There are some in between towns that offer a better balance. I've lived in Seattle and Boston and I think the job mobility still high but with a reduced cost of living. Not cheap by any national standard but 20-30% is a big difference in cost of living.
> but it looks like finance has become mostly independent

It's not. The fact that when we take a little bit of human demand away, everything falls apart is evidence of that.

Governments are a kind of AI that demands stuff by itself. We've been good at keeping it at check up to now. I'm not concerned about anything else being a more effective consumer until we get into superhuman AI, as desiring stuff is not something we engineer very well.

I agree much more with your concerns about wealth distribution. Automation's endgame is pushing the price of everything into zero, and the salary of everybody also into zero. Buying power on that scenario is too loosely defined to let anybody stay calm.
I would recruit founders you have had either a personal or professional relationship with and who you think you would want to work with for 10 years.
"These Scientists Sent a Rocket to Mars"

These and other scientists who worked on the mission to be more precise.
I am not an expert, but AFAIK JPEG is a lossy format. The comparison is purely based on the size, and I couldn't find anything in the paper about data loss compared to other encoders. Can someone please explain why is this a fair comparison?
System complexity is not what I am talking about. As soon as your talking several agency's it becomes a ridiculous mess. If you get buy in and it's a priory then everything can go really smoothly, but thinking in terms of just technical problems is a tiny park of cross agency systems.
Have you ever driven by the streets next to Pioneer park downtown? On a certain street by the homeless shelter it's basically Tent City
No, it doesn't. The idea of Basque being related to Finno-Ugric is widely discredited.
That may well be the case, but if you purposefully present a flashing GIF to someone you know to have epilepsy for the purpose of attempting to induce a seizure, the laws of pretty much every state will say you've committed at least simple assault, and probably felony assault.