skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't necessarily trust Assange to be in charge of it.

As long as published documents are verifiable by a third party, you don't need to trust him.

> If a diplomat sends a cable back to his superiors at the State Department and says ...

When a government does not listen, you get to a point where you need unconventional (read controversial) arguments to be heard. Like it or not, the more things you publish, the more impact you have: that's exactly what Wikileaks is.

For a more detailed exposition: https://youtu.be/TSR-b9yuTbM

> He's doling out punishment based on his own political biases.

It may be, but is it really relevant? If you have infos regarding Russian and/or Chinese activities that Wikileaks do not want to disclose, you can always publish them through another channel.
Keras definitely means you lose control, but it's a tradeoff that's worth making in many cases.
The way he's so gone about creating domains/websites to establish legitimacy strongly suggests he knows it not to be true IMO.

Aside: Interesting to reflect on how Google's past domain keyword preferences allow grandfathering in of domain authority.
As was mentioned earlier, we should probably wait to see the individual states interpretations of such laws. It sounds too good to be true IMO.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that article. He does sound horrible. And yet, I wonder why those women took so long to decide that they'd been raped. I have read that it's not uncommon. And I suppose that, being Wikileaks supporters, they didn't want to make a scene.

So yes, he does seem like a major asshole.
> “Can this be a $10 billion plus company?” like Airbnb and Dropbox

I have said it before and I will say it again: this nonsense is going to be the death[1] of YC. Airbnb/DropBox/Stripe/Twitch would not stand a chance getting funding from YC today.

They fell into the same trap that kills innovation like everyone else: as they grew bigger they started taking less risks.

[1] In the Yahoo/IBM sense
It's amusing that they talk about Boyer-Moore. They mean, I think, the string search algorithm, not the theorem prover. Their string search algorithm was just intended as something Boyer and Moore could use as a hard case for code proofs. Their real work was the original Boyer-Moore theorem prover, their constructive theory of mathematics, their book "A Computational Logic", and their later ACL prover.

(I used to know Boyer and Moore, and used their theorem prover. Recently I took the original sources from the final 1992 version, put them on Github, and got it working with the current GNU Common LISP.[1] So you can now run their prover from the 1980s several thousand times faster than in the VAX days. It's neat to see it prove the basic theorems of number theory in about a second.)

[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/nqthm
Right on! Great feedback! I was also thinking about using competing risks to introduce company foldings.

Also parametric modeling as you mention. Try out the Gamma and see which of the family it divines.
I realize the conversation in the thread pertains to exits and funded companies. But I keep thinking why is there a general negative perception or often a sense of ignorance/neglect towards successful, ongoing, revenue-generating businesses (that haven't taken any or very little funding before reaching profitability) whereas even a minor exit (acqui-hire) will often put you in the metaphorical league of 'successful' founders?
Wish the article would explain the context of her finding it. Why was she looking through neighbors trash? Who were the neighbors who happened to have all of this to throw away?
I suppose I'm asking why should we, in general sense, should care; i.e what is the philosophical argument. I agree human suffering is bad but if we are all to die "instantly" (relative to out overall time in existence as a species) I'm not sure I see the argument for why that would be bad. The other argument I suppose is that the universe itself would somehow suffer if we were not in it, but again I'm not sure I fully understand the rationale.
As eevee put it https://eev.ee/blog/2016/02/15/everyones-offended-these-days... :

>I love Stephen Fry, really I do, but this oft-repeated quote is bullshit and he is perfectly demonstrating why that is. What he’s really saying is this: everyone else’s feelings don’t matter, but his do, because he frames them as universal rules of discourse rather than feelings.

>Look at his post again — that’s exactly how he words his point of view. “Too many people have peed in the pool.” “Now the pool is stagnant, …frothy with scum.” Fry’s feelings aren’t feelings — they are a universal and objective standard of behavior, which everyone else is violating. All those angry people, yelling that Fry has violated a universal and objective standard of behavior? Ah, they’re just perpetually offended, you see. Totally different.
Photography is an art, but passport photographs are not, they are all the same. The whole point is that they are standard.
webpack on twitter.com
Surprising. I would have expected the success of YC startups to have increased with time -- more selective program, higher prestige value, bigger network of fellow YC startups to work with.
How many people got into the Guinness book of world records for putting a V8 into their Miata?

Your pessimism is really appreciated by gas car makers.
I'm missing the part of what Soviet propaganda has to do with Hacker News. What is it?
Or in Italy. As you start to go solo, expect to spend 30-50% of your time dealing with paperwork and kafkian bureaucracy
A passport agent can't have virtually infinite recall of your pictures in a miriad of other unrelated locations.
you sweet summer child
Agree, there seems to be a standard path that startups are "supposed" to follow. Though in this case, I imagine it is probably just because any other measure of success would be difficult to measure.
Flexport is hiring a senior product designer to simplify global trade
Would you rather share streets with people who bathe, or not? Would you rather share the streets with people who read books, or not?
Malta too. Not just Ireland.
And pizzagate

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/26/521545788/...
Meanwhile in Australia...

> Contactless technology will remove the need for eligible travellers to present a passport to verify their identity in automated immigration clearance.

> The identity of a traveller will be confirmed on the basis of a unique biometric identifier, such as their facial image, instead of document based checks. The live facial image of the traveller at the SmartGate will be matched against an image previously verified as the unique identifier associated with that identity.

> This verified image and others collected during subsequent travel, become the images used by the Department to confirm identity on future travel.

http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w...
Wow, cool, you could totally make a Myst-like adventure with this.

One nitpick - on a touchscreen drag actions move the screen the exact opposite way that I'd expect (like "natural scroll" on a touchpad). The rotation detection using is cool though.
At last, the killer app for virtual reality.
As a Soviet kid, I can assure you that there was tons of propaganda in the books that I've read as a child.

Some was pretty blatant, like the various short stories about Lenin (all adding up to how awesome he was in various respects). Some was more subtle, like the Neznaika books (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunno) - the second one in the series was basically a communist utopia for kids, and the third one was a capitalist dystopia (that ends up with a communist revolution).

For another example, the Russian adaptation of the Wizard of Oz, which basically diverged entirely after the first book, ended the series with an invasion and occupation of Oz by mind-controlling slavery-practicing aliens (yep, the kind that come on spaceships), which ends up in a slave uprising with strong socialist overtones in the messaging.
Would you please post civilly and substantively on HN or not at all?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How much of their current revenue goes to social programs? If current spending was removed, or rather reapplied to UBI would the be coming out ahead?

Could the UBI as an entitlement program feasibly replace current programs?
I use bullet journal, basically, but I just write my points at night for the next day (I find it too hard to get started in the mornings if I have to make a list, by the end of the day I know everything I want to do the next).

It's just a damn mess of scribbles and dots, to be honest. But it works great.
It touched on it:

Botulinum toxin, a protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, could be “the most poisonous poison” there is, as writer Carl Lamanna called it in an article for Science, in 1959. First weaponized by Imperial Japan in the 1930s, and later, Nazi Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea, a single gram of toxin could theoretically kill more than a million people if dispersed into the air and inhaled.
To me it's pretty clear that the 'Internet points' we collect on HN or elsewhere are fluf. You are probably not going to get a job for having karma.

On the other hand tricky patches generally go into a git or some VCS, that you can point to and impress prospective employers with.

If there's any confusion regarding this it's the user's error.
Requesting feedback, improvement scope and feature requests.
Ask HN: Do you instal an upgrade the day it's out?
I have this itch, the moment a beta release is out -- I gota have it. A week ago was a really big day -- I spend few hours upgrading to (all still in beta) Mac OS 10.13, XCode 9, IOS 11, Watch OS 4. Not surprising, quite a few things break and everything is sloooooow to the point it's embarrassing and I have to explain to coworkers why I can't answer Skype calls reliably any more, and why can't I share my screen on gotomeeting.
I actually do not mind that I have to reboot my computer more often than usual because it freezes. But, there is this special feeling of beeing on the bleeding edge, touching the newest thing with my own hands -- how can one beat that argument?
I anticipate reactions, some may say -- stupid. And I'm just wondering, how common this "stupidity" is? Am I the only one who has this itch? How do others cope with embarrassing situations that arise because of beeing on the bleeding edge?
You realise that isn't anything more than what was posted above, right?

There's a link to some email and some art. No alleged victims, no evidence, nothing. Just some interpretation of an email.
Haha, people are leaving comments. Oh wait... damn it!
Building software in an excessively timeless way is not always a good idea. You build a major bridge once a century or more. You release software every couple of months, if not more often. You need speed and ease of change more.
The usual trouble with micropayments applies - all the interest is from people who want to collect micropayments, not those who want to pay them.
One issue with systems like Stack Overflow is the points systems rewards people joined the service early.

For example, somebody asking how does binary search work in 2009 has thousands of points from the post. While somebody asking the same question in 2017 gets flagged for asking a duplicate.
You're not welcome to post vacuous inflammation like this on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Some adversarial methods work on black-box networks - has any work been done on applying those to human vision? We know there are a wide range of simple inputs that produce unexpected results (eg. optical illusions​).
Elaborate? I know they deliver in Hong Kong, and New York to great success. Though they have human delivers.
Adobe cracks Fortune 500, hints at AI voice commands coming to PhotoShop
There are several types of things like patch karma, but they are known under different names. I have heard words like "literal dollars" or "actual power within large, wealthy organizations" used to describe these concepts. As far as I know you can't exchange internet points for these things, and that is why not too many people spend eight hours a day writing internet comments.
To be honest, porn has always been the killer app for any nascent medium.
>Anyway, these are different, right? I mean anybody can write an HN comment and it takes thirty seconds.

My comments on HN usually take many minutes to formulate, thread reading not included. I am slow thinker actually, but quick chatting in general is possible only in teacher-scholar conversations, not in deep discussions, which are my favorite part of HN. In fact, this is the only group I visit actively.
AWS GLUE Developer Guide [pdf]
Apple's apps have nothing to do with an open or closed Internet.
I suspect it's just random, based on what was convenient when we first found out about electric charges and current.
The author is from the Netherlands. Is the bureaucracy really that much worse in Germany than it is there?
I feel like this, more than any other AWS product will push the ML/AI stuff into warp speed.

Discuss any cool findings here.

Why does this make or does not make sense for your analytics stack?
I don't believe that distinction is possible. Advocates of "race realism" often make the following argument:

> Race X has lower intelligence and higher aggression
> Therefore, we must take measures against X to prevent them from committing crimes or making bad decision.

Consider the case of the mentally disabled. They have custodians that can make decisions for them, such as what they must do, where they must live, and what they must avoid.

The line that race realists typically cross, is that they extrapolate supposed IQ differences and start treating people of other races as if they are mentally disabled (i.e. not giving them rights).
Small business is a fist pumping cheer word for even our left here in the US - I remember being really surprised when I found out that it wasn't the same everywhere.
Like blizkreeg said in another parent post, minor/small exit likely means acquihire. Which is technically better than nothing but sometimes the founders get nothing out of it except maybe a pay bump compared to peers if they remain at the acquiring company long enough. That's a potential negative along with the positive.
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If they are the only 40k people interested in seeing this game and absolutely no one is watching the live transmission then it's hardly a major sporting event.

A spike of retweets from 0,05% of the users is hardly a spike. If so, you would have to call every link to a funny cat gif on twitter a "Twitter Storm".
This sounds astonishingly similar to how I got into the business. Great story. You can go a very long way as a scrapper with little to lose and a bit of talent.
"When I was 17 and a high school drop-out I went to work for a bank."
Last time this was possible it was the early 90's maybe.
No doubt, the food in McDonalds is bad. But it's very distinctive. You can buy a burger and fries at any number of joints, but you can only buy a McDonalds Big Mac and McDonalds fries at McDonalds.

You could call it Hershey Syndrome. Hershey's chocolate is not very good. In fact, it tastes like vomit. Yet the entire US has grown up eating Hershey bars.

Hershey don't compete on quality, they compete on "Hersheyness".

Likewise, McDonalds can't simply improve quality, because they would be losing their very essence in the process.
Even that prostitutes and cocaine part might be not be so enticing anymore if you have those every day. Additionally, keeping up a healthy cocaine habit isn't, well, very healthy in the long run. Then again, living a long and healthy life might not exactly be your top priority in that case ...

This is one of the funnier paragraphs that I have ever read. You have a great voice for satire!
Ah okay. I tried searching around a bit for more details but skimming only got me the same info from main outlets. Do you know where you read that?
Increasing Observability - my experiences and demo of fullstory
> I almost never see any of this pointed out, much less questioned in the US media. It's like they're either not even aware of it or don't care.

It should be pointed out by people first. I'm from Argentina but I was in US earlier this year. Someone was complaining about how the Russians influenced the election. I asked if he considered that in the last 50 years USA is well known for interfering in other countries politics. That his complaint was like a bully crying of having been bullied. He told me that it was a good point and didn't considered before. He is an smart and informed person but for some reason didn't saw earlier how his country affects other countries. Just the other way around.
Don't go solo. There's a reason why most people recommend having a co-founder.
>A stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self-righteous who love to second-guess, to leap to conclusions and be offended – worse, to be offended on behalf of others they do not even know.

That's been the majority of comments / forums since at least 2001. It also sounds a whole lot like the modern "tabloid" news.
It is probably not that exits are more secret and more that since YC has scaled up the number of entrants, so the number of exits that people care to publisize becomes a smaller and smaller percent of the total number of members in a batch.
Haha good points. Thankfully savvier viewers and/or just people in general know House of Cards is all show and not realistic even though it acts like it is with its seriousness.
Those dolls go beyond being just porn. People (some anyhow) treat them as their companion --there is attachment to those things.

Some people will find that distressful but you know, if it's not harming anyone outside that "relationship" why not?
When I view alcohol on Prime Now, it shows me the name and address of the liquor store that sells it, just like when I order food from a restaurant.
I freelance part-time and actually enjoy life. It's not difficult, with remote work, to make Silicon Valley wages and pay cheap housing.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11104006
I'm still paying taxes on money I didn't even earned.
Them falling for the marketing makes sense.
The thing to realize is that you are planning, you're just keeping it all in your head instead of writing it down. That can often work, but one of the things I found when I started formal planning is that getting all those tasks out of your head onto paper actually relieves stress and increases efficiency. At least for me, I found that it causes a lot of unconscious anxiety to have that stuff in your head. I realized that when I was relaxing I was actually unsettled, going through in my mind whether I was forgetting something. And when switching tasks, it takes a lot of time to sort through your mental task list to figure out what to work on next.

What made it "stick" for me was getting an Apple Watch. On one hand I can add a reminder trivially with Siri. On the other hand, I can put my tasks on my watch face so I'm constantly reminded to actually check and maintain my list. Obviously, YMMV, but for someone who has struggled with organization since I was a kid, that was a game changer.

As for the point about minor tasks: little tasks will often go away, but that doesn't meant here are no consequences. One of the things that made me get a formal task management system was my wife getting sick of me blowing off household todos. Not because I wasn't doing my fair share of the actual grunt work like cooking, etc., but because by blowing off all the little things I was by default making her do all the task management and planning.
Even if Ethereum becomes wildly successful and attains the majority of the market share, it could very well result in Bitcoin's absolute value and usage increasing.
There's a lot of survival bias, self-marketing and old economy steve in this post.

Statistically, you can't do it, and you'll waste a lot of time, money and prime earning years figuring that out. That's not to say you shouldn't try, but only to say you should be realistic about what you are likely sacrificing for that small chance of success.
Where do you see that? I don't see that anywhere! Obviously, the higher the exit the more successful you are. However, exiting once and getting fyou money (e.g., PG and viaweb) makes a lot of sense. Once you have bank then you can spend the rest of your life working for an IPO. It's really up to you.
But.... an hour with the car at redline? They joked about it for months afterward. I think even they wouldn't have placed the blame on the aging shifter.
My trash mobile apps got me a cool $0
I am pretty conflicted with someone asking other people to work for free. It dilutes the value of the craft.

Having said that, there is a lot of really great free software out there. I suspect the majority of the people who wrote the stuff that is really used got paid for their work through corporate sponsorships and whatnot.
No, this isn't true at all. Founders usually do ok, a million or so, employees not so well.
Yeah, you could do competing risks. I see yclist.com does distinguish between 'dead' and 'exit', although your CSV doesn't. You can use 'comprsk', I remember it as being no harder to use than 'survival' when I tried it out briefly for https://www.gwern.net/DNM%20survival . Any competing-risks model going to be very imprecise, though, since if you can't estimate the overall survival curve very precisely, you definitely can't estimate it split into multiple outcomes.
For computer science, I find most useful papers are from before 1990. Looking forward to that being included.
There are bacteria that are poisonous, and there are bacteria that aren't. Clearly, both strategies are viable. So I think any explanation has to explain not just that poison is an advantage, but explain when it is and when it isn't.
Happy meals are a big thing. Huge. Also the new menu helps with the guac/dijon additions. Egg McMuffin has always been huge and the new coffee is way better than before.

But they could make a better burger. I heard the McAngus was great. They should bring that back.
Worth noting that the guy backed up all his passion with hard work. Just telling someone to "go for it" isn't worth much if they don't have the fire (or the potential for one) already within.
have no way of telling if that's a compliment or complaint...
Ask HN: What's your best perk?
For employees: what makes you the happiest?

For employers: what has created the best effect?
(either through happiness, efficiency, drawing talent, etc)
I have had good success with recruiters and agencies. However, most of your observations are also very much correct. Agency timing is usually very far off. I rarely get an email from an agency when I'm actually looking (because, by percentage of time, I am rarely ever looking). The jobs they send me in these cold emails are often not what I am looking for (because recruiters often just don't have my latest information so they don't know what I'd like to see). But when I want a new job or contract and I give agencies the right information, they often help me very well.

This became such a big problem for me that I actually wrote a little app for myself. When I get an unsolicited email, linked in message, or even a text, from an agency or recruiter I forward it to the app and the app responds for me to the sender that I am currently not looking but will keep them in mind for the future. When I am looking I now have a mailing list of all recruiters that have ever contacted me. I create an email with a template that has my current information and work interests and send it back to all of them. I then see who sends me the best jobs.

I've thought about turning the app into a product and putting it out there for people to use. Maybe I will.
Isn't the end-user the party collecting micropayments in this case?
Link to published paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14578659
How do jams/jellies stay unspoiled for so long?