skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, before he even asks for my 'intention' he accusing me of 'slandering Jews'.

Would I have got someone harassing me about my 'intention' if I posted about Christian or Muslim fundamentalists who don't want other peoples suffering to be mentioned? If I say Christians killed thousands during the Spanish Inquisition, will I get someone stalking and harassing me and accusing me of slandering all Christians? What is the standard here?
Say I'm 47, planning for retirement but haven't yet given my things to my relatively young kids. I am worth a few million. I am shot and killed in a random accident but I have not given my estate to my kids. I am a widow.

Because I didn't "experience that loss," all of my wealth is now transferred to the state because I was randomly killed?
Because our society is stuck on a finite planet, using a debt-based monetary system in which counter-party obligations expand exponentially. Without an alternative monetary system, the disruptions which occur when the exponential growth stops may be of a scale on par with an extinction level event, in the most extreme scenarios.

All of the transparent block chains create another problem, however: Pervasive surveillance, and chilling effects. For that reason, I like the singular cryptocurrency which offers the anonymity and fungibility of cash, without a pre-mine scam or a graft tax, Monero. I think it is the only exemplar which offers all of the features required to serve as both a store of wealth and a medium of exchange. (Privacy being a requirement for fungibility.)
An extra-uterine system to physiologically support the extreme premature lamb
I also think that the scientific method and debugging have a lot in common. One coul say scientists debug what god coded a few thousand years ago.
As with anything, it can be over come at a cost, and the only thing anyone can hope for is to keep the cost of defrauding a system higher than the expected return of successfully defrauding it.
Right, and if drivers read ALL of the fine print of Tesla Autopilot, they would have been informed of the limitations of that system as well.

The problem comes when the Large Print promises things that the system does not do.

Another problem came from the implementation of the system where Tesla did not verify that the driver maintains hands on the wheel.
Me too. It's constructing some polynomial, but the rest is lost on me.
Less parking space though, the self-driving car can drive off after dropping you off.
Do any smart thermostats have the ability to detect weather and open a window?
Great comment, thanks for the information. I suspected that the deep ocean wouldn't be good for oil, but only because it would be logistically difficult.

Why isn't there sediment cover in these areas? I would naively think that you'd get some raining down as plants and animals die in the shallower depths. Clearly that must not be the case, but why not?
Envoy is an extremely exciting project. I've been following it closely since OSS inception and am thrilled to see the upcoming deep integration with the Kubernetes project. Such a natural and complimentary fit!

With flexibility as both a side car and host proxy network call fabric for polyglot distributed services, I see Envoy as a kind of modern ESB for the reincarnation of SOA we are seeing in the microservices movement. Congrats to the awesome contributors from Lyft/IBM/Google and others!
I don't know how it is USA, but in Poland the police and insurance companies actually do have real data on who causes the most accidents / the most severe accidents. And the facts are brutal: young inexperienced drivers < 25 years old are responsible for higher number of severe accidents than blue hairs, and this phenomenon is reflected in the insurance price they have to pay.
Flexport: Building Accurate Shipment Timelines: A Sorted Affair
>Low carb. Protein, some veggies and lots of fat. Mostly good fat like olive oil. 1 tablespoon of MCT oil a day. Nuts.

This is an odd one to me. I'm usually skeptical about claims like those made by the low-carb people...

...but I've tried it, and have excellent results. Anecdata is abundant. I know the science is ambiguous, but I'm a believer.

Grats on the new you.
Plaid and Dwolla launch a fully tokenized ACH payments integration
> The person who commented on the "fake testimonial" did change his statement (check it out).

It doesn't matter. That person almost certainly isn't a potential customer. I'm not either. Changing our minds is a waste of your time. You won't get a chance to debate the people who come to your site and turn away because it looks fake.

> I still think its a stock response. YC should do what it should. I don't expect everyone to agree with me (hope this is not attitudish, i am simply narrating my stand on it without being influenced by anyone)

The attitude is that it seems like it's very important for you to be right about things that doesn't matter (or you have very poor judgment in seeing what matters). That's a very unpleasant trait, and if the YC interviewers caught even a little bit of that, I suspect they'd fail you flat out on that alone.

> Whats wrong in praising a better service? Isnt that the freedom of such forums that people can express their opinions?

What's wrong is that it's off-topic (and also has a bit of the "important to be right" thing above). People came to your thread to help you find out why you didn't get accepted, not to debate whether YC is stupid.

> I don't have all the answers. I still need to find out the answer to my original question - why did YC reject me twice. Some folks have helped me by telling me that its combination of team/domain expertise and traction. But would have been nice if YC could have told me that themselves

"Having all the answers" is a figure of speech. It means "not listening when people are trying to answer your questions". Nobody here can tell you why you were rejected, but they can offer ideas. And it looks a lot like you're not listening to any ideas that doesn't fit your preconceived notion of why you were rejected. How do you know that the people telling you it's because of "team/domain expertise and traction", are right and not the ones that think your website looks fake? Hence, having all the answers.

> I am not sure if I understand.

Your style of commenting is all over the place, and suggests that you have not spend some time acquainting yourself with the way comments are done here. That's a bit impolite, but obviously can't be the reason you were rejected. On the other hand, if it's indicative of poor communication skills, then that could be a big problem.
Microsoft starts integrating Dynamics 365 with LinkedIn
I don't do a lot of algo problems; my stuff tends to be a bit more practical, but it depends what I'm hiring for.

I much prefer something like a mini-product/-app as well, and try to focus on stuff that applies to whatever I'm hiring for. High-level whiteboards are great as well. I tend towards paper for coding (as opposed to whiteboard, but it's essentially the same thing, just a little less "I'm giving a presentation").

My interviews tend to be chatty sessions with some code interstitials. I'm more interested in their thought process than their actual code, but I also need to understand how they think about code, so meta-programming, OOP options, weird languages and why.

I'm rarely interested in specific technologies, although familiarity is important for rapid on-boarding. I care more about their enthusiasm, willingness and excitement to learn, how they think at a high level, and so on. A more casual conversation around a whiteboard or paper has really worked well for me, and I accept that it may not always be someone's cup of tea.

Being a shy introvert myself I get that it can be nerve-wracking (and I've occasionally bombed whiteboard interviews) and I take this into account as best as I can.
I find a good logging library will help me narrow down the issue before I enter the debugger to watch what the system is doing.

If I'm 90% sure I know what the bug is and it's a system where it's easier to add a print than to enter the debugger (yes, those types of systems exist), I'll do that first.
A better solution is to reevaluate your evaluation scheme. If homework solutions become available then homework answers can't be trusted as a measure of understanding. You need exams, essays, and projects. Homework should be left as a tool to develop understanding and measure progress, but not for final grades.
Early Rider Program
as a math professor once said to me just before he gave an exam to his students at a highly regarded, nationally-known, top-25 university: "they cheat like crazy."
I never got military education, but I have to say I admire how well military personal can respond to problems. Anybody have insights how they get educated and if that could be applied to programming/debugging as well?
Would also be nice to measure the typical battery percentage consumption based on a standard usage pattern.
> Will car ownership be killed with self-driving cars?

I hope so.
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0. If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

1. It might be useful to add some examples so that people without websites built on frameworks or with confidentiality concerns are able to better understand the tool.

2. I do not understand what a framework validator is.

Good luck.
I believe that auto-generation of homework/assessment elements (or the maintenance of a large corpus of previously developed assessment elements that can be curated at will) should be ubiquitous in all subject areas. Mathematics is clearly the easiest and should be available now to everyone.

I suspect, however, that academic publishers would attempt to sue the pants off anyone that built such a service if it relied on user submissions of content (e.g. a professor uploads their homework assignments to the library of content and that content can be utilized by anyone else on the system).
I don't know why we keep calling these young companies start ups. At some point, we need to divorce that label form these organizations when they reach a certain size.

I believe when we can make a reasonable guess about a org's software being on a randomly selected person's personal hardware, they're probably no longer a start up.

Just because someone or a team of people carry that "hustle" ethos, doesn't make them a start up, it makes them hustlers.
Dear Vice: Fuck your pointless necessity of bringing gender politics into something which is a non-gendered issue.
That makes it especially impressive that he used React and other recent Web technologies to build the site.

(It's been around a while but this is a rewrite and looks like a pretty massive update)
"I think that if you want to give something to someone, you should have to actually give it to them. You should experience that loss."
There is actually a tax on gifts over a certain amount/yr.
Firefox for Android has an option to disable images when using data.

Opera has an even more powerful data saving tool, with the caveat that the data goes through their servers (no privacy). I can spend 20 minutes browsing the news, and end up with just 3-4 MB used.
Russian telcos also offer a ton of services like mobile wallets and such.
What is your disagreement based on?
Are envoy and linkerd comparable? They look like they fill similar niches, but I'm not familiar enough to know what I don't know.
Start jailing people.
By all accounts, autonomous vehicles will be much safer than human drivers. Companies will be sued up the ass if they program their vehicles to take risks and end up killing people.
If you had to eat the same menu each week, which one?
I'm thinking is it possible to create a meal plan that incorporates the latest on science thinking and satisfies all your nutritional needs.

So for example.

Mon - Breakfast - Muesli
Mon - Lunch - Tuna salad sandwich
Mon - Evening - Chili con carni.
...
Etc
Tell HN: Discord is violating open source licenses
As you might understand, having your own private open source library used by Discord is something big. Something that makes your effort worth while. So you download the distribution and look for your own, hard earned, copyright notice. Well it's not there because fuck you.

What I found by downloading the (Linux) Discord client from discordapp.com was that they clearly were distributing source copies of my project, but it had no license or copyright mentioning me (which is required). I also found that they are distributing ffmpeg binaries but I couldn't find any matching LGPL license or source code in the distribution.

So of course I contacted them. First via GitHub where I have reached them before, and then two times via their support people on their home page. I get about the same response as any one else: "I'm sorry but we cannot help you. Were you satisfied with the support response?".

It's not okay for companies to pull their pants down and take a big dump on your personal work. Not when they clearly do not even bother with complying with basic open source exchanges. If I write something I want to be properly mentioned as is required in my very license.

Discord, is this so fucking hard to understand?
And so we go down the slippery slope. Next it'll be worldwide.

And what happens to your laptop in your checked baggage? Why essentially security will have console access... some might even forget to shut off instead of sleep their device.

The whole notion that laptops are safer in the hold as opposed to the cabin is backwards.
Sounds good to me.

The use of the adjective powerful stood out to me. If Microsoft does the same thing with Bing, would a different adjective be chosen? Would it even be news?
GP writes:

> * Limited to Phoenix metro area for the time being.
This is very cool. I've been thinking about something similar, but only about mushrooms. Some people in my country pick wild mushrooms and sometimes it's very difficult to distinguish between the edible and the poisonous types. Such application, if existed could save many lives. The same concept could be used for other plants that people gather, like herbs and wild berries.
> a data set is not completely worthless if it showed a null result.

Why is a null result worthless? I don't understand. It goes against my common sense that paying more for food doesn't make you eat more. The fact that this is not the case is valuable knowledge to me. I understand that it's not as glamorous as "paying more makes you eat less!", but it's still valuable knowledge that should be published.
Autopilot won't stop at stop signs or stop lights, so it is not as useful when not on highways.

Just to clarify the downvotes.

Highway driving is safer.
Yes, the term refers to congress not passing laws just to benefit a few people.
The thesis of this article explores the idea:

"After studying how people shared 1.25 million stories during the campaign, a team of researchers at M.I.T. and Harvard implicated Facebook and Twitter in the larger failure of media in 2016."

This is one problem, but according to Nicholas Carr the problem might be deeper and more fundamental : "free-flowing information makes personal and cultural differences more salient, turning people against one another instead of bringing them together."

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/04/21/how-technology-c...
One Word Growth Hack to Quadruple Your Reply Rate?
Will they let fake news providers buy ads still?
Calling an STM32F407 absurdly over-specced is hyperbole. It's just a 6$ micro controller, not a smartphone class SoC like a Snapdragon.
They probably need it to do the QR code scanning and IoT DRM thingies.
Linux Shishiga malware using LUA scripts
First couple minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ1XLqc5IUg
Every time someone shares something from some source, I block the source. It improves the experience indeed, but people never cease finding different sources.
What free texts are used instead of, say, Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, et al or Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation? There are some really good non-free texts, I'm genuinely curious what the free alternatives are and how they compare.
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Privacy Analysis of Ambient Light Sensors
I have noticed this effect as well. Always thought about it, but never did anything to find out more about it.

It is noticeable when lying down and looking at a white ceiling and alternatively closing and opening each eye.

I wondered if it is inherent to the eye, or the conditioning of the eyes at that moment in time. For example, will my right eye always see more bluish and the left eye more reddish? Or does this depend on the fact that I am laying down in my bedroom where the light enters from the window that is to the right of me, and desensitized one of my eyes to some wavelengths.
Not the OP, but commission-based recruiting seems to incentivise the wrong kind of recruiting, i.e. "find someone we can shove down their throat". I would personally rather pay an experienced recruiter by the hour, even if it meant fewer (hopefully higher quality) leads.
Bernard Stiegler and a bunch of French philosophers have been writing about this idea of 'Algorithmic Governmentality' which I think is a useful way of discerning Mark Zuckerberg's intentions, press releases, denials etc aside.

"I would like to show that with algorithmic governmentality, what we
face is precisely a crisis of the regimes of truth. To my mind, we are less facing the
emergence of a new regime of truth than a crisis of regimes of truth. A whole range of
notions are in crisis: the notions of person, authority, testimony."

More here if you're interested:
https://iainmait.land/pdf/Rouvroy-Stiegler.pdf
I wonder what else it will be burying, going by its recent fiasco of demonetizing legitimate YouTube channels that weren't "brand-friendly" (quite different than "extremist").
Was already posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14192644
I Got Hacked So You Don't Have To
Yeah, it's a sloppy way of saying "market-dominating", ultimately an unnecessary puff-piece worthy adjective.
Whether it's legal is certainly up to the state, but whether it's an ethical right just as certainly isn't. All rights aren't legal rights.
Good art != popular art != art that makes money

Art that makes money == art the art-market/world likes and can sell OR art you can sell to people (aka ikea-aesthetics)

I love art, I love making art, but the art-world is horrible.

Another problem is taste: When you are a professional you have a different taste for things than most people. Hence a good ammount of good art can't be popular.

(Of course there are exceptions, it's just like in music: there are a few pop-bands that also make good music (or some good bands that happen to make music in a popular style))
The tech race is unavoidable. Focusing on a web app buys you some more longevity. I'd say you got ripped off by your devs; it's not like nobody knew when Win8 was dropping, or how to write it in such a way that it wouldn't be obsoleted in a month. That's irresponsible on their part.

You'll always be putting your trust in someone if you're not doing it yourself. There's no way to absolutely guarantee what's being done is an effective path, but you can always have development plans vetted by a third party, and it may be worth it.

In the JS world there's always a "flavor of the week". There are several standouts, e.g., React, AngJS, EmberJS, whatever. The back-end isn't as relevant if all it's doing is shipping data to the client (browser), but infrastructure costs and maintenance always matter. It also depends on what the back-end actually needs to do (batch jobs, timed jobs, etc.) but you have a lot of flexibility in this regard.

Feel free to reach out if you have additional questions; I'm reasonably easy to get ahold of.

http://stackoverflow.com/users/438992/dave-newton
If driverless cars work at all, they'll be substantially safer than human-driven ones. There's a strong moral case for banning human-driven cars on public roads if it'll save tens of thousands of lives. There's also a strong possibility of media-driven moral panics. Think of poor little Billy, hit by one of those irresponsible human drivers!

Insurance companies will charge steep premiums to the risk takers who want to drive their own car. Alphabet etc. will have a well-oiled team of lobbyists in every state and country to pass laws to make driving safer for everybody (i.e. more optimized for Waymo cars).

There will be a lot of people who join the NRA (National Retrovehicle Association), who'll make a stink about things. And they'll fight a rearguard action and probably win some guarantees in the more rural states. But where 90% of Americans live, the economics and legalities will work out to push everyone to self-driving cars.

And then economies of scale will be lost, and even in the remaining areas human car driving will become a luxury for people who own their own private roads.
Who the hell puts explosives in electronics? Even more so, who puts explosives in electronics that will have no other option if laptops are forbidden?!
The algorithm might not be a trite as it seems at first.

In particular, I find the first step to be extremely valuable:

Write down the problem.

Part of my bag of problem-solving tricks is to start by writing a question for StackOverflow. The point is not to post the question for someone else to answer, but for me to frame the problem in such a way that it can be written about clearly enough for someone else to understand it.

I find that about 50% of the time I have the answer to my own question before even hitting the post button.
The technical critique is not unreasonable. The tone of the comment is not consistent with the published guidelines for "Show HN."

Authors and makers take a risk publishing their work. The 'Show HN' guidelines make the outcome of the risk constructive.
Meanwhile, whatever companies provides in-flight movie rentals are dancing a happy little jig.
"Yes, the U.S. economy rebounded quickly from the slump of 1979-82. But was that the result of the Reagan tax cuts, or was it, as most economists think, the result of interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve? Bill Clinton provided a clear test, by raising taxes on the rich. Republicans predicted disaster, but instead the economy boomed, creating more jobs than under Reagan."

I don't know why I read Krugman columns. Yeah, Clinton raising taxes caused the boom. Not the proliferation of the Internet, drawdowns of the military, and relative global peace (as far as the US is concerned).

Solid single-input machines. Krugman's columns are nothing more than political hackery, with all due respect to his very good work otherwise.
Thank you for posting this. I almost went to the gym!
Looks like what you would get if you wrote out all the operations for matrix multiplication? It must be related to expressing the coordinates of the nodes as matrices.

I would guess the factors of 3 and 6 arise from derivatives of the cubics: x^3 derives to 3x^2 derives to 6x.
I think you slept through an ethics class
Google acts against fake news on search engine