skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a government analyst for around 10 years, starting my career as an economist (after graduating with an economics degree). This meant I was working with numbers a lot, and I found that my strengths were mainly in statistics and working with complex datasets rather than e.g. macroeconomic analysis.

This meant I had started to build up examples of projects which were getting close to 'data science' (the term, I think, is vague). Custom interactive data vis in d3.js, forecasting and regression modelling etc.

I also started quite a large web scraping project in my own time, which led to me needing to develop a much stronger programming skillset, and gave me some more tangible examples of having done 'data sciency' stuff.

When data science took off in UK gvt a few years ago, that meant I was well positioned to make the switch. No-one had much experience at that point, so it wasn't too hard to get a first role. I think generally, there's such strong demand for data scientists that there's a mismatch between the job spec (which look scary), and the candidates (who aren't the data science unicorns the job ads ask for). So with a few projects under your belt, it worth having a crack at applying for stuff.

In terms of being satisfied: It helps working for government because we're trying to use data to make better decisions that help people. There's definitely too many buzz words and fluff, and it's difficult to help non-data scientists understand what's hard (all the data engineering and modelling leading up to delivery) and what's not (a flashy data vis) - so it's hard to convince non-data scientists to allocate resource to the best areas. The flip side is that it's really clear there is a great opportunity to change how we do analysis for the better. So overall it's pretty good.
> Where's the hard work in today's generation? Where's the personal responsibility? Where's the discipline? Where's the can-do attitude?

Look out your window it's everywhere.
The title isn't misleading, it's describing exactly what the parent was experiencing, "Chrome/macOS users in The Netherlands cannot visit google.com or google.nl". There was no assignment of blame to Google or anyone else.

> Google has not broken anything, Dutch providers have.

Based on what evidence, exactly? Aside from a grand scheme of evil world domination by Dutch ISPs, what exactly would their motive be for a coordinated action like this one which seems to only hurt Google properties and only over QUIC? Aside from a court order or responding to some kind of attack, I can't find a single compelling reason for ISPs to do this (and the fact that it's illegal by law and the fines are pretty big) unless they have a desire to flood their help desks.
Interesting idea, short googling lead me here:
"Computational Law is a branch of Legal Informatics concerned with the mechanization of legal reasoning (whether done by humans or by computers).[1] It emphasizes explicit behavioral constraints and eschews implicit rules of conduct. Importantly, there is a commitment to a level of rigor in specifying laws that is sufficient to support entirely mechanical processing."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_law
You know, if the man had fallen and died, this would be an open-and-shut case of 2nd degree murder via "depraved indifference".
Wawa's (mid-atlantic convenience store) sandwich / burrito / etc ordering process has been fully automated and customizable for a while. Order at a kiosk, go pickup whatever you want for a drink, go pay at the (human) cashier and your food is just about ready for you when you get back to the sandwich counter. It works pretty well.
It's midnight here in india and i just noticed this session.
I really want to know if there's any quick tip regarding international founders such as from india. I've been in touch with other Indian YC alums and have been getting feedback and suggestions for my YC application. I really am in doubt about how should i go with the application, i mean what exactly YC partners look for in the application the very first time, considering and international founder?
I mean, in a sane world, there simply wouldn't be a need for this discussion, because there wouldn't be exemptions for overtime pay.
It is not particularly important in and of itself. I would say though that if you have a product that people should buy (instead of using for free) the earlier you start charging the faster you will learn.
What is stereotypical and divorced from reality are the things you are missing.

The economy is structured as a ponzi scheme. The ponzi scheme will collapse and many unsympathetic boomers will go broke.

To take your interest rate example. Prices are inversely correlated to interest rates. If you buy when interest rates are high (low prices) and sell when interest rates are low (high prices) then you benefit enormously. Since interest rates are pretty much as low as they can go then there is no upside left for millennials. Only downside. I, like many millennials, wish for much much higher interest rates. Low interest rates are another wealth transfer from those with earnings (millennials) to those with capital (boomers).

I do not suggest that all millennial complaints are valid. I'm simply saying that they shouldn't be dismissed with technological handwaving. The hidden message in the complaints is that we're in this together. The ponzi scheme economy hurts all of us.
I have to say, I quit Netflix a few years ago after a long membership, due to security concerns (it was a nightmare at the time). Recently I started my membership up again, and I'm really disappointed with their library. Every movie I've wanted to watch has turned out to not be available for streaming. They've got some good shows, but I'm getting tired of super heroes and I don't always want to watch television, sometimes I want movies.

I'm on the brink of cancelling my membership as it is, this certainly won't help, though it's obviously the proverbial straw rather than a big deal in its own right.
What happens when you dump thermal energy into bulk matter at a rate exceeding that at which that matter can dissipate heat?
It also feels more natural and, well, realistic, than having XP bars and attribute stats, which really are just a vestige from the paper based DnD games of yore.
Are there any physicists here who might be able to explain whether or not laser weapons would be effective underwater, e.g., mounted on a submarine for point defense against torpedos?

What about from LEO or from space? Would the atmospheric layers or other factors affect the operation of a laser weapon possibly fired from space to Earth?

(Most of us are curious about the possibility of sharks with lasers on their heads, but would be strongly discouraged from asking directly.)
Obligatory _Snow Crash_ reference along with the increasingly redundant observation that we really are living in a cyberpunk dystopia.
> An interesting recent example of this phenomenon is the religion Rastafarianism where the notion of paradise is a state of affairs where whites are slaves to blacks.

Are you sure about that? Sounds like you might be stating the position of an extremist subset of Rastafarians.
I think you should distribute your TMDB shilling across a few more accounts, mate. I actually recognized your username from one of your shills I found so bad that I linked it to a buddy of mine.

Just some of your recent posts on HN:

> why would i participate on dumb backup of database,
> done without my consent (OP stole 14 years of my posts),
> when I can go to proper movie database with discussions,
> imported ratings and watchlist from IMDb, called TMDb (themoviedb.org)

Shill Tip: don't link to your shill target when it's googleable like "TMDb" is. It makes it look like you are just dropping a name everyone should know.

Love the fake outrage about having your comments "stolen", as if anybody really cares.

> he doesn't and he illegally copied 14 years of my posts which
> i don't like especially since I moved to TMDb which is proper
> movie database where you can also import your IMDb ratings
> and watchlist and each movie there has own discussions

Another:

> i would recommend checking TMDb which launched discussions
> for each listed title just yesterday, so don't expect there
> will be much content, but at least each movie or TV show had
> its own page and own forum, much more neat than reddit

Consider leveling the load across more accounts though, and mix in some different strategies.

ctrl-f for "TMDb" on each page of your comment history and you'll see the problem.
Last i checked they had increased the minimum wage beyond what trained heavy equipment operators were making. That is absurd, no matter how you slice it.
Big and small networks can keep a CEO from fleeing, say researchers
Prevention, especially successful prevention, always has a terrible PR problem in that people forget the ills that motivated the original prevention framework. One can argue that the framework specifics need to be updated, but I doubt that many soldiers or officers want a reinstatement of dangers and effects chemical warfare for example.
Based on the S17 batch, what %age were People of color, women and LGBT?
I wonder if your head would actually hit the cabin ceiling though because of the centrifugal force. The plane might have flipped too quickly for that to happen
Does this terminology make sense to anyone else? So far as I can see, the article suggests that one should "escape the cloud database trap" by using a "serverless cloud database". "Cloud", so far as I've ever been aware, just means "somebody else's server"; so in what way can it be meaningful to say that such an architecture could ever be "serverless"?
And thermal energy is mostly kinetic energy.
Just curious - I wonder why this hasn't been updated since 2015.
You don't need to wear it tight (like you do with a car seat belt), we're not talking about tens of G accelerations like in a car crash. All you need is for it to prevent you from flying up out of your seat.
Luke is actually in the current YC batch. There will be a YC alum working with hardware companies in the next batch - announcement coming in the next month or so.
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What's next?

Sending pictures of hamburgers, porn, candy and alcohol will be illegal because it can cause people to become obese, suffer stroke, and disease, and an erection.

In other news, the proprietors of hundreds of optical illusion sites have had their homes raided and being kept in prison cells for inciting physical distress on the public.

Soon there will be takedown requests to remove search results for sites that discuss optical illusions or link to sites that link to sites that -may- cause some physical distress
People who have memorized the "marketmaking is essential" arguments for HFT may disagree with you. People who dislike arguments from "does this serve its stated purpose for society" may reject your argumentation style. I think you've got a hell of a point on both sides.

If a teeny-tiny fraction of a percentage or a penny flat tax would cause a trade to not be profitable in expectation, then that trade probably never had anything to do with the real economy in the first place.
Ashu fellow Indian Founder here. I think it's mostly about dedication, domain expertise(if applicable), progress and traction. They list it out here http://www.ycombinator.com/howtoapply/
Bad games detract from the experience.

I (and many other people) want to play Mario, Zelda, Mario Kart, etc., not silky smooth PC games.
"on call"? Plenty of businesses require the entrepreneur to be 'on call'.
Squeezing Deep Learning into Mobile Phones – A Practitioner's Guide
I think on the face of it these types of things sound ridiculous. For example everyone knows that murder is murder. And everyone knows that an accident is an accident. But what might seem like an accident, but was actually perpetrated on purpose because of knowledge of a condition, that's murder.

Going back to reality: Someone severely allergic to peanuts is killed with peanuts in their food by a mistake: accident. Someone severely allergic to peanuts is killed with peanuts in their food because someone added them on purpose with knowledge of the condition? Murder.

Luckily, seizures don't always result in death.

Now to confound the issue here? The internet is already filled with blinking gifs, so this case is much more complicated.
that is not how they make money. They make money by showing people ads. All they allow you as a user to do is specify attributes you're targeting and the people that view these ads ... match those attributes as best as possible
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Yes! Many companies get in on their second or third YC application. There is no penalty for applying more than once and in some cases it actually gives you an advantage.
You're basically asking YC to bet on you before you bet on yourself. If you aren't willing to go all in, what does that say?

Startups are really fucking hard. You have to have a serious belief and commitment to build a billion dollar business (which is what YC is investing in.) If you're unsure, that's totally fine, but you need to be the first to believe in your company and get used to being the only ones who believe in your company, in order to make it through the hard times.
Give every homeless person a $20 thing of nicotine each month.

Stop the ponzi scheme of housing costs.

Teach them skills general enough to plug into a variety of jobs and specific enough to survive alongside automation.

Giving a chronically homeless person a "home" doesn't make up for the completely shattered social network they have. And the shattered sense of civil conduct in a society which literally tossed them to the trash.

My melancholy tells me the above will never happen. Homelessness is a shadow industry where nobody gets punished for letting relapses happen. Therefore, nobody "owns" performance in getting the homeless into a housed state. In the industry, talking points are more valuable than actual "performance".
Ooooh, that Silk Road.

I was thinking of a different Silk Road that was less grass-routes movement and more movement of grass and 'roots'.
Thanks that makes a lot of sense.
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Short answer: yes. Longer answer: what business model do other products in your space use and why isn't that a good business model for you?
It can be both. The fact that we say "it's cheaper" doesn't preclude "it's more ethical" especially when everybody agrees already that the presented alternative isn't ethical.

Burning coal to generate electricity is both cheaper and more ethical than burning live toddlers. You don't say "we use coal for electricity instead of toddlers because it's more ethical" because that's self-evident to anybody but a true psychopath.
Particularly not when "society" is a sparsely populated county with a low-six-figures budget for the entire sheriff's department. The dude died when he landed at the base of the cliff and his body was found a year later by a hobbyist. That means everything the county spent looking for him was completely wasted. I wonder if the family, entitled as they seemed in their grief, used any of the money they raised from donors to reimburse the county's expenses? I wonder, as well, if the hobbyist actually received the advertised $50k reward? He seems like someone who knows what's going on, so I wouldn't be surprised to find that he had split the reward with the county.

I fell while downclimbing a cliff off-trail in remote federal lands in Colorado, but landed mostly on my backpack. That fall, the night I spent finding the trail again, and walking out the next morning are some of my best memories. This wasn't a tragic death.
Hi Michael, I'm wondering if you can comment on how you think the current political comment will affect the startup scene?

For example, I remember reading (sorry, no source) that YC is starting to hold events in Canada in order to welcome those who may not be able to come to the U.S. due to the current administration's executive orders. It looks like this may push startups out of the United States.

I'm hoping you can comment on this action, and other actions that might affect the startups in America and around the world, including, but not limited to actions involving education, public funding, military spending.

Thanks!
It depends on the implementation. If you have a replication system that generates a monotonic sequence ID for each update, and you have all writes block on a majority of replicas acking an update, then you can just read from a majority and pick the result with the highest monotonic identifier. This will not be consistent unless the leadership mechanism demands that leadership is chosen based on the same criteria.
Keyboard Maestro is indeed the best tool in its class, but I think the motto should actually be:

"The only limit to Keyboard Maestro is your ability to tolerate the disastrous user interface"
Brain Theory in AI – Inspiration or Direction?
Since we are sneakernetting it, which has great information density: This new drive or a similar sized vessel filled with MicroSD cards?
I'm extremely interested in this, as the current funding model for startups restricts new technology to companies that are fiduciarily compelled to monopolize their market, siphoning user data and (potentially) damaging civic society in the process. Startups are still a very good vehicle for most problems, but for certain classes of problems, sometimes make things worse, and I'm curious if YCombinator is interested in helping out with those types of initiatives.
Code is very often ambiguous with respect to the coder's intent. I've seen plenty of bugs because the coder inadvertently used `=` instead of `==` (or `==` instead of `===`) or left out parentheses in conditionals (`!w || x && y || z`).

The nice thing about code is that we can reveal bugs by executing the code and comparing the results with our expectations. Ideally, we do this with lots of testing. But even then, there's a hole in coverage and bugs make it into prod and cost someone lots of money. Which is basically what happened here.
It's the greater problem of the anti-science sentiment of the general public.

Even some of my brighter & more successful friends lack the self-awareness to have a constructive dialogue with the other side without "feelz" getting in the way of "realz". It doesn't help that none of them are policy experts or economists, but there it is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13895686
Agree that security is an important topic.

Note there has not been a default password for about 5 years, and will update the FAQ.

Regarding the other FAQ links you posted, what specific security issues are there with those?

To get an idea of OpenEMR's security, recommend checking out the following section on the wiki(1 of those links has several 3rd party security audits): http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Wiki_Home_Pag...
Would you really characterize this as a fulfilling and meaningful ten years? Do you think he was happy?
Honestly, this is not how I think about YC. We don't spend a lot of time thinking about what is going to be "the rage". We are excited about funding great founders and some subset of what early stage founders are interested in today will become the rage 10 years from now.
The other two replies covered your questions well, so I'll just add that wakes don't descend particularly fast. According to the FAA's Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge[1] (page 14-28), "Tests have also shown that the vortices sink at a rate of several hundred feet per minute, slowing their descent and diminishing in strength with time and distance behind the generating aircraft."

Considering the Challenger's encounter with the A380's wake, it took 1-2 minutes for the Challenger to hit the wake, so the wake probably had 1-3 minutes to make the 1000-foot descent. That very roughly fits the expected "several hundred feet per minute" descent rate.

Considering the case of refueling, the wake's motion downward is much slower than the aircrafts' horizontal motion, so it wouldn't have descended much by the time it's left behind entirely.

[1] Available for free at https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/a...
This was done on purpose - the individual specifically said he was doing it to cause a seizure. It's not comparable to hypotheticals you described.
Bill Clinton raised taxes early in his first term, 24 years ago in 1993. "He raised taxes on higher income taxpayers"[0]. Did you mean that no Democratic president raised taxes on your family in your lifetime?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Bill_Cl...
Here's a short question: how do I decide between grad school and startup land?
Any tax code that, should you be capable of lifting it, requires both hands and a top 5 player to develop, is suspect
There's always a better option if you like metrics: instantwatcher.com sorts Netflix/Amazon content with a variety of external metrics like IMDB score etc. It's pretty great if you are just browsing (rather than seeking recommendations).
That's not what happened in this case. The statute was written in accordance with the style guide, which made it ambiguous, which is why it went to court in the first place.
Rehab is worthless beyond worthless. I liked Audrey Murphy's strategy, of locking himself in a room for a week, far better.

Rehab doesn't address the part where you come back to normal life. And all the old aches and pains start up and nothing seems worthwhile and there's little work...

Teaching the homeless to be COMPETENT nomads is a better strategy. Otherwise they're at the mercy of public officials and contractors who only see them as a flesh to money machine.
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You'll have to pay up to get that answer, bitch.

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=M3PrHdnj1UclPkUsMMZgfvH...
> You should read some philosophy of science.

1. What, again?

2. You should address the topic.
Hi Michael. You've done YC twice, why?

It sounds like if you do it once, you already get a solid network, and you probably don't need the cash. So I don't really understand what made you go back there.
Contentful is nice and since it's been around longer, it's a bit more baked. However, there's an amazing feature of static sites that are based off of local content (markdown and yaml files, for example): every aspect of your site can live in git.

Treating the content like code offers the advantage of being able to easily roll back a website to any one point in time, and I think it generally makes collaboration between designers, coders, and content editors easier.

When developing, it's really nice to just create a new branch and work on the content and design all at the same time.

The aim of this CMS is to hopefully offer the content editing experience of Contentful without requiring an external dependency, while also keeping all aspects of your site tightly integrated with your git workflow.
So you redefined homelessness and end up counting less people in order to call it success.
Does not work for Clear Air Turbulence, which can be severe enough to make people fly out of their seats, too. I've been in planes where the CAT was severe enough to have lifted me out of my seat if I hadn't been buckled in, and it happened with no warning.
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Well said...
Could you give me a reason why to use macros instead of typed static inline functions?

If it's performance, where can I find something like a rationale documentation or empirical measurements of this list implementation?
The tone of your comments makes it sound like you are really focusing on international investment. Did the recent elections lead to you making that your focus, or was it a focus beforehand?
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Oh, so Big Food, Pharma, Alcohol are not intentionally making you crave the shitty addictive foods that we know cause those symptoms?