skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Utilitarianism is primarily about maximizing utility of a wide spectrum of the population as it pertains to humans and societies and has nothing to do with animals, wild or domestic except for the utility they provide humanity with.

Actually, utilitarianism is about maximizing the welfare (i.e., happiness minus suffering) of all beings that can be said to have a "welfare". This goes back to the father of utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham, who argued that any being capable of suffering deserves moral consideration. (more extensive discussion can be found in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism) More recently, the most prominent living utilitarian philosopher is Peter Singer, who has argued extensively for the moral consideration of animals. Utilitarianism in the philosophical sense is distinct from the anthropocentric economic interpretation.
>It's just that the answer to the question posed in the headline is a definite 'no'. This type of silly inquiry into "is Azeri related to Sumerian", "is Georgian related to Chinese" etc. is very common in that part of the world, and is largely pseudo-scientific at its core.

I should have made this clearer, but the 'question' I had in mind was not whether Basque is related to Georgian, but the more general one of whether it's related to anything at all.
We got in on our second try with the same idea :). I think it's a good sign if you stuck with it and got some traction. We had even written this (embarrassing) medium post on how not getting in was a good thing: https://medium.com/@Open_Listings/what-we-learned-from-yc-su...
I think people get the wrong impression about things too, because your story is definitely the more common one than the article. Of course, no one goes around writing articles about the peaceful and uneventful transfer of property or rights, so there's a skewed perception of the risks.
The victim not taking the appropriate steps to avoid something harmful to them is never, ever a defense in assault cases. It's not as if we punish muggers less severely if they mugged someone in a bad neighborhood where the victim shouldn't have been walking.

Even if the person here hadn't known that Eichenwald had epilepsy, they could still be charged, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull. So the fact that they did know and intentionally caused an attack is certainly punishable.
Military lasers are getting close. The consensus has been that around 100KW, they start being effective weapons. This one is 60KW. The ship-mounted XN-1 LaWS, from 2014, is 30KW.

The US had a 2.2MW continuous laser, the MIRACL, in the 1980s, but it was a chemical laser that used large quantities of deuterium fluoride, was building-sized, and broke down frequently. The newer lasers are solid-state devices.
> 4) Did the founders have a personal or professional relationship before deciding to start the company together?

As I understand this is desirable, right? I wonder if there are any good successful stories of newly-acquainted, "JIT" founders? How about data that supports that being friends or colleagues equals success and greater valuations?

My instinct tells me that a previous relationship is probably a good predictor of success. But it's always good to rely on hard data to avoid any correlational fallacies.
This would be my primary worry too. When I moved to the Bay Area I took a massive quality-of-life hit. Went from a place where a big two-story 2000+ sq ft home cost $100K or so and a 15 minute commute to here, where a mud hut costs $500K and your commute is 2 hours. But I was willing to do it because it's less risky employment-wise. If things go bad at one employer here, you're looking at maybe a 1-3 month job search that you can limit to a 50 mile radius. If things go bad in Nowheresville, USA, you're looking at a 3-9 month job search that will likely involve moving out of state.
I was actually alive during the Cold War because I'm an older millennial, but since you're on some Boomer Archie Bunker rehash trip, I doubt that matters.

Anyway, here's a good breakdown on how we're worse off financially:
http://younginvincibles.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FHYA-...
No privacy rules needed: ISPs say Web browsing isn’t “sensitive” data
But bankrupting your govt because some people aren't paying their share is self-defeating. I'm all for oversight to limit the corruption of power, 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. In this case, those same Regular Joes are getting the short end of the stick because the govt cuts programs to benefit them because wealthy individuals and corporations have found ways to pay dramatically less in overall tax rate that those Joes are. (and those ways don't even have to be legal if the govt doesn't have the agents to enforce the rules)

And targeting "regular joes" is a terrible way to make money. The vast majority of govt income comes from the wealthy, in particular because wealth distribution is so unbalanced.
Maybe I'm missing it but what, precisely, is this guy charged with?
"Be our guest" is a song used in the Disney version of Beauty and the Beast; and I'm sure I've seen it used as a tagline. They know what they're doing.
It's hardly grammatically dubious. It's the dominant style in spoken English, and pretty common in written English too.

And you can create the ambiguity just as easily without including a preposition.
It doesn't matter what steps you take. If you leave all your doors unlocked and your windows open and tell the world you have $1 million in cash inside, it's still a crime to rob you.
To be clear: YC accepts non-profits each round.

www.ycombinator.com/nonprofits/

The question of whether open-source producing non-profits fit into YC is still a good one. I couldn't find an info on whether they have already accepted such non-profits, but the incubator Fast Forward has:

> Intelehealth built an open-source intelligence engine for assessing primary care conditions

https://qz.com/792685/silicon-valley-wants-to-save-the-world...
Thanks for the link! It's refreshing that the PDF wasn't behind a paywall.
Usually with the aim to maintain consistency with the intent of the law. If the intent is ambiguous, you can't easily do that (as this case demonstrates). A formally defined Controlled Natural Language[0] would be ideal for situations like this. Arguably "Legalese" already is it's own form of CNL, albeit not very well controlled.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language
I understood completely well, I simply legitimately don't think they're that different of things. I think you're underplaying triggering.

They are both mental triggers. You literally "trigger" a seizure. I know a person who any mention of rape brings her to attempt self harm. It's genuinely not that different.
So you're happier with an even crappier pseudo-pc. Got it.
I've been in favor of up/down for years over x out of 5 or x out of 10. The core reasoning is: it captures your overall emotional response to something very succinctly. Sure you might hate X more than Y or like A more than you like B, but you'll return, revisit, recommend all the things you like and not do so for the things you don't like. When you can rate out of 5 or 10 you get thrown into a sort of tizzy trying to rationalize a system of what is 1 star, 2 stars, etc. Do you subtract a star because you think something is overpriced even though you like it? Do you subtract a star because it's hard to get it (say slow delivery) even though you like it? Basically you want to start to categorize every facet of a product/service which becomes complicated quickly. Thumbs up/down avoids all that and I think over many hundreds or thousands of reviews the ratio of up to down will provide a good probability indicator of liking something or not.
Probably one of my favorite black mirror episodes involves exploring the consequences of anonymity on the internet and the (deadly) consequences. Worth seeing that one I think, because after I watched, I wasn't sure if I'd be one to join in the fray in the crowd, and the only thing stopping me is the idea that I might be caught and punished, and so what does that say about me?
Their map is difficult to understand. I can't read the labels (weird font, too small) and I can't figure out what part of the world I'm looking at.

The following map gives me some context:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Silk_rou...

Red are land routes and blue are the sea/water routes. The OP's map appears to be the area above China and India where you see two parallel red lines.
What I'm saying is that 'common' tasks that generate flow states take much longer than video games to generate the same cognitive effect. For example, when I play guitar I _must_ deliberately practice. I play the same 30 second melody half as slow, then only a quarter slow, and then finally i try really hard to play it at the right rhythm, and after a little more practice I'm playing it mechanically. I now can enter a flow state much easier.

Looking at your link- I start out with low skill, but with something that has high difficulty. I wratchet my skill upwards until I enter flow state. Video games, on the other hand, use dynamic difficulty settings to change the difficulty to my skill. They generate the flow state programmatically.

Nice article though.
That's true, but it doesn't sound as fun to poke around in.

(Obviously, "collect a dataset that philh finds interesting" should not be a business goal of Netflix. I'm not suggesting this is a reason to keep the star ratings. It's just a thing that I like about having ratings more detailed than yes-no.)
I think this is the source you're looking for: https://blog.ycombinator.com/us-visas/
Just so applicants are aware, YC founders no longer have access to Pier 9.
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Also worth noting for the transatlantic paths is the direction of traffic. When it's morning in North America, traffic is predominately westbound. When it's night, traffic is predominately eastbound.

Right now, it's the middle of the day (12:50p Central). There's a bit of a mix[1], but it's still predominately westbound.

The consequence of this is that most traffic will be separated by at least 2000 feet. Eastbound traffic will (generally) be at odd Flight Levels (so 29000 feet, 31000 feet, etc.) while Westbound traffic will be at even FLs (30000 feet, etc)[2]. This assumes RVSM airspace.

[1] I'm just looking at the transatlantic traffic on https://flightaware.com/live/

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.179
If you can launch 20, I can add another laser. Just in terms of economics, you aren't going to win that fight.

A rail gun: If I shoot a laser at a missile, I can detonate the warhead, or the propellant, or destroy the guidance system. If I fire it at a railgun projectile, I can vaporize the whole thing, or I can vaporize part of it and hope that it changes the course due to either ablation forces or changing the aerodynamics. That's harder. On the other hand, a railgun isn't really a precision weapon, either.
Weird how mind works. I clicked the link ONLY to see if the gifs are there. Didn't read a single line in the article, closed and came to comments to see if it's here.
We've analysed product ratings in the past and found that the online ratings tend to have primarily bimodal distributions. People who rate online welf select and either love something​ and give very good ratings or they dislike and give poor ratings. Unlike surveys where people have to answer questions, only people with extreme reactions tend to answer these online rating questions and you don't get any meaningful distributions. So the only meaningful way to model say drivers from comments vs. ratings is to treat the ratings as binary and do a logistic type model.

Ultimately the key reasons to have these ratings in the first place is not to let people express their feelings, it is to get data for the recommendation modeling to predict better. Perhaps showing a simple like/don't like increases the number of people rating something which gives you more training data and thus better business outcome from your model without compromising on midel quality since you had to anyway model it bi-modally before.
AFAIK there's no rule saying you need to repeat the preposition before each item in a list; if there were, the sentence with the serial comma but no appositive would need to be "To my mother, to Ayn Rand, and to God."
Frankly I don't see the point of these meaningless articles. You have a financial system which is akin to a police force whose commanders are chosen by the drug dealers, and the police employ former drug dealers on the grounds that haven been drug dealers, they know more about the drug business and they can turn their knowledge to fighting the drug war.

After a few years in drug enforcement the ex drug dealers return to work for their gangs, taking all the knowledge from working in drug enforcement with them, not to mention that they were still receiving dividends and profits from the the drug dealers who previously employed them during their stint in drug enforcement.

I really can't comprehend why any intelligent people can expect this depraved, corrupt farcical system to work. Now you have Trump, unashamedly pro-business (ie leaving the inmates in control of the asylum) and people seriously expect things to get better.

Here are your brave American presidents who can bravely and patriotically authorize the executions (ie murder) of alleged terrorists in Yemen and Afghanistan who have done diddly squat to Americans, but can't/won't a lift a finger against corrupt predatory malign financiers whose actions leave Americans indebted, dying prematurely because they can't afford good housing and good health care. Compare the deaths of Americans due to terrorism by Yemenis or Somalis, and the premature deaths of Americans due to poverty and ill-health which these banksters frauds have worsened, and tell me who Trump should be executing without any meaningful evidence or even a trial.

I am sorry but due to their corrupt financial system the politicians of the Western world are becoming more and more of a joke.
hes implying that you arent convinced of your startup. there are no "good" answers at that point.
That's sort of too bad, because it looks like Signal was one of the only implementations they audited that had no issues.

I hope these authors will eventually look at the new thing too.
Hi Michael, I am a UC berkeley student and along with a few friends we have made a daily newsletter service (www.wokenews.co).

As a bipartisan political newsletter whose primary user base right now are college students in Berkeley, would you have any recommendation on how to expand beyond this bubble of student subscribers? Maybe on how to reach out to influencers who may be willing to help?
> My friend Chris Rohlf has a snarky dismissal of a lot of "hardware hacking" and "IOT" security conference talks: "look at this debugger debugging!

> Stories like this call that snark to mind. "Look at this database databasing!"

This isn't a technical story, it's a social and governmental one.

> if you're angry at Palantir for assisting mass deportation, you should be equally angry at Oracle and Cisco. I am --- in fact, a little more so.

Isn't Palantir's assistance clearer and more direct? Aren't they building applications with a lot of knowledge of what they'll be used to do? As far as I know, Cisco doesn't sell products like "gigabit mass-deporation cloud router 2239." Any assistance they give is much more indirect.
Sounds like you bottomed out. At that point ordinary vehicles no longer get traction from the wheels because they don't have enough weight on them, in addition to the fact that being caught in the snow means you need more traction to move.

Treaded vehicles don't have this problem if the snow is reasonably compact or they have wide enough tracks to avoid sinking in, as do snowcats or snowmobiles.
Analyzing this announcement critically, I work through the following:

1. Why would Zapier publicize a new policy for existing employees? Cynically, that appears to be a PR opportunity.

2. The new policy is an "experiment" that pays existing employees $10,000 to cover relocation costs to move outside the Bay Area.

3. I assume that the employees' salaries are then adjusted for COL (this is the crux). This presents an arbitrage between the $10k and salary adjustment.

4. Zapier is facilitating a process that, in effect, acquires employees from one location for a cheaper price than competitors, as long as those employees are willing to move outside of the Bay Area.

I don't have a comment on whether I agree or disagree; I guess it's good to support employees living where they want to. But I'd be interested in knowing 1) if employees do have their salaries adjusted for cost of living when they move and 2) where many employees ultimately end up moving to.

There is a face value lens that I can read this announcement through, but there is another lens related to the price of talent in the Bay Area. If I don't take this at face value, it's interesting to me if this carries any signal about real estate or tech salary outlook.

EDIT - Nevermind, salaries aren't adjusted for cost of living.
Except for the part where it's completely different, and you decided to play the, "doesn't understand what you mean" game first.

I like to think that if you had a good point, you'd be making it, and that it wouldn't involve a really desperate attempt to equivocate between "trigger words" and photosensitive epilepsy.
As an avid board game player to a board game designer:

Please make sure that the chance to win isn't determined purely by random chance (die rolls), or at the very least enough rolls to average out for the players, or, in the worst case, some way to optimize for the most probable die rolls (like Catan)

Losing a game from a critical success or critical failure from a die roll makes me never want to play the game again.
If I read your charts right, your app's single core performance was much better than pbzip2's, which is quite surprising. I thought these apps were severely optimized... Any comment?
Well, that superheated cloud would probably disperse some, making it more susceptible to air resistance than the slug is. On the other hand, if you only liquefy it, and so you get hit with the same mass of liquid metal...
My favorite (even more insane) extrapolation of this is the Dene-Caucasian language family, which proposes a common origin for Basque, Caucasian languages, Yeniseian languages, Chinese, Sumerian, and Navajo!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den%C3%A9%E2%80%93Caucasian_la...
In as much as the FBI just arrested a dude for this... I wont post a link. But do a search for "you deserve a seizure" and you'll see.
It is worth the risk for the persons next to you or the row over when you get thrown through the plane and hit them in the head?
The question was whether people should expect to be paid less if they de-locate than they would if they stayed in/near SF.
Well, 'The Martian' made the money spent on it and more. It is up for debate how much the rocket sent to Mars has given back on the investment. And by this I mean that it's an apples to oranges comparison.
How important is founder/product fit for successfully applying for YC? If a founder is doing something totally outside of his domain expertise/experience, how can he still pursue it?
1. Snooping on their internet banking is ILLEGAL for you to do and puts YOU in hot water. You realize you could be put out of business by lawsuits right?
Actually surprised that this doesn't exist already! Don't think there is anything wrong with making it easier/faster to find the information that other government systems may already have
I imagine GA follows something like a Pareto distribution, with 10% of the pilots involved in 90% of the incidents. That 10% would get retrained or weeded out in the airlines, and the rest get much more consistency on all the rest of the stuff you mention.

So yeah, there really isn't any one "the safety of general aviation." It's a huge spectrum.

Another challenge is reporting. The FAA knows exactly how many flights and how many hours the airlines did last year, but GA activity is much harder to gauge. It's hard to figure out what safety looks like when you don't have a good figure for the denominator.
> "Falisifiability" is not something that can be empirically tested because it is a concept that does not talk about things in the real, physical world. Full stop.

No, that's wrong, quite wrong. Falsifiability (the thing itself as well as its usefulness to science) can both be tested -- are tested. Disciplines that require falsifability, objectively produce better representations of reality. This is so because the elements of such a system must all pass muster with reality. All falsifiability means is that reality-testing decides what's excluded from consideration.

> There is a lot of philosophy out there, and I think you'd find much of it just as useful as the ideas you've inherited from Karl Popper.

Karl Popper didn't invent falsifiability, he discovered it. The idea exists independent of any individual. Were this not so, if it really was the product of a particular person and with no independent existence, it would have a vanishingly small value. The reason? Ideas exist apart from those who express them (this goes back to Plato, if not farther).

There are an infinity of primes. Who said it first? Did the idea exist before it was articulated?

Psychologists talk about schizophrenia as though it's a mental illness (it's not, it's a physical illness with mental symptoms). Does this mean schizophrenia is owned by the field of psychology, or a particular psychologist? Not remotely -- it's an idea, not a property.

Same with falsifiability.
Actually, the reason I didn't show distributed was in fact the naive original implementation of the TCP stack support. The platform minimizes data movement over network pipes, however due to time constraints on me finishing a PhD I chose to get the more interesting mathematical modeling aspects worked out rather than focus on engineering something that is pretty well understood (especially using techniques directly developed for HPC with MPI). Will push better support soon.

On the multi-process..yes, that's easy. I've removed it for the current main-line branch given the lack of demand. IfDef'ing the code made it much easier to proceed with getting it ready for alpha. The FIFO mechanisms are well tested using SHM and the forking code will be added back in soon. Another thing I commented out to get it working on multiple platforms is the NUMA placement code, now that I think hwloc will work on all platforms I'll get it added back in. Helps out on cross-socket communication quite a bit, as well as placing buffers closest to PCIe root for data transfer to accelerators.

In reality the data movement is no worse than any OpenMP or other parallel program. In as many places as we can, the data is left in place vs. pushed. Between nodes, it gets more fun...however it's still a rather well understood problem. Thanks again for the interest! I'll see if I can do a ShowHN before CPPNow 2017 for the beta release.
This benefits those that want to data mine such data, not those that want to meticulously catalog their interests. This is one of my biggest gripes with music services such as Google Play. Thumbs up/down ratings are great for Google, but suck for me, the listener, as I wish to construct a detailed, per-song breakdown of my musical tastes.
Sam Altman wrote about the current make up of YC founders based on their gender and ethnicity. If I recruit two co-founders of color and one woman primarily for the purpose of getting into YC is that shunned upon?
If random gifs can trigger your seizures then maybe you need to browse the internet with gifs disabled.