skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i really wanted to buy a ryzen, but it seams it is unstable under a heavy workload
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1061546-postdays-0-pos...
i will probably have to wait for intel -X chips or buy a e3 v6 xeon :/
This seems to have changed over the last several years. YC used to be very pro-founder in this regard, from an outsider perspective.

There's a pg essay that I can't find, but in essence states: Our rule is that it's up to the founder. If they want to aim small, that's fine. We ourselves aimed small with Viaweb. We didn't want to work on it the rest of our lives. It would be pretty lame to push founders into doing something that we didn't want to do. (EDIT: Found it: http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html#f1n)

Contrast that with the recent Paul B interview: https://blog.ycombinator.com/paul-buchheit-on-lessons-learne...

> Jasper: Sam Altman has said that the only criterion Y Combinator uses to evaluate applying companies is, “Can this be a $10 billion plus company?” like Airbnb and Dropbox. While this model works great for a fund, there is an Early Exits movement that suggests individual entrepreneurs have a much higher likelihood of success when they raise less capital and target exits in the $20 million range. What do you think this view?

> Paul: The math does not support this strategy but if other investors want to try it that’s fine. Also, it is not just returns we are looking for but really impactful companies. When you sell too early you don’t realize the full potential.

> For example, Facebook had an offer from Yahoo for a billion dollars, which everyone told Zuck to take. Fortunately, he said no. Had he said yes, it would have been another failed Yahoo acquisition and Facebook would not have nearly as much impact. The reason we have these big and influential companies is the founders believed in a long- term vision.

I think all YC companies have always aimed big, but some, like Zenter, were fine with being acquired by Google for a smaller amount. And YC was fine with that outcome in the sense that there weren't any institutional forces set up to discourage founders from pursuing it.

YC's signals now seem to say, "A small exit is equal to failure." And while that's true for YC as an investor, I'm not sure it was true for YC's institutional forces until the last few years. If you're in an environment where all of your peers consider you a failure if you sell for a few million, are you going to want to resist that peer pressure? Especially when they're your friends and mentors?

I want to be very clear that all of this is an outsider's perspective. Hopefully someone in YC will issue a smackdown if it's mistaken. I was just giving some supporting data for why people are feeling this way.
That's completely fine, negativity isn't inherently bad in the first place. I have done some work with a garbage collector for an interpreted language I had previously worked on before. It was very basic as far as garbage collectors go, it just had a simple mark-sweep algorithm, nothing too complex. I'm not denying that creating a garbage collector would be quite an ambitious process, my goal as a language developer is just to give enough control of the language to the user to make that possible.

That being said, by no means do I claim that all extensions will work together perfectly, or at all. For example, a garbage collector would be completely incompatible with a plugin that frees all variables once they go out of scope. Compatibility is left up to the plugin's author in the case of multiple plugins having conflicting goals.

I'm not sure where I stated I was opposed to making tradeoffs, I have done several (albeit mostly syntactic) already. I knew the project was ambitious when I first started it, that is part of the fun of working on it.
The startup founders you describe have the popular vision of startups. They overlook the 20 years to become an overnight sensation aspect. For example, few people know that Steve Jobs started with Apple in 1976 and he only became rich from it in 2001.
Rewarding in ways, but mostly just overwhelming and depressing. Seeing it IRL really puts things in perspective.
They probably are atypical systems for people using TensorFlow professionally though.
>4. Any profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third party

Some US securities experts have opined that a token where a holder can only earn a profit from holding the token in conjunction with their own efforts in utilizing the rights that the token provides them is not a security token.

It is more akin to a franchise or software license. The argument has also been made that the existence of a secondary market where these tokens are traded, and where these tokens can appreciate in value, does not make such a use-token a security token. A license or franchise right can also increase in value over time through secondary market trading, and neither are securities.
https://www.foodsafety.gov

As far as hand washing goes. Wash your hands at the start. Avoid cross contamination by washing your hands immediately after handling raw meat. You can wipe your hands on a (clean) apron or towel if you want to go from chopping veggies to handling raw chicken but not the other way around.

Always wash all fresh fruits and vegetables even ones you don't eat the outside of (oranges, grapefruits)

When I handle raw meat I always wear gloves and wash my hands after j take the gloves off. The gloves remind me that I'm "unsafe" when I am wearing them.

The health department required us to have separate cutting boards for meat and veggies when I worked in a kitchen. I think that's a good idea for home as well.
I often take a pessimistic view to such good-looking things too.

But taking a look at your first link, it appears to already not be in force anymore? For the same reasons that the new recommendation is being drafted- government surveillance violates fundamental rights to privacy.

"On 8 April 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union declared the Directive 2006/24/EC invalid for violating fundamental rights. The Council's Legal Services have been reported to have stated in closed session that paragraph 59 of the European Court of Justice's ruling "suggests that general and blanket data retention is no longer possible".[15] A legal opinion funded by the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament finds that the blanket retention data of unsuspicious persons generally violates the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, both in regard to national telecommunications data retention laws and to similar EU data retention schemes (PNR, TFTP, TFTS, LEA access to EES, Eurodac, VIS)."
Why is it so important to spread humanity far and wide? And why would it be bad if humans went extinct sometime in the distant future?
Mobile phones actually have a surprisingly high pixel count compared to desktops. FHD displays are common, and QHD and even near 4K displays are pretty common.
Ask HN: Do people really find job agencies helpful?
The number of potential jobs I get in email every day from various agencies is mindboggling. The sad thing is that 99.99% of them are complete miss and totally irrelevant. The remaining 0.01% is usually awarded to a friend or a friend of a friend. In the past, all my jobs I found were also through the connections -- never through an agency (though I always tried to use few agencies when I was looking). As such, I'm really questioning, how do these agencies survive these days? Are they any useful? If yes, are there any big players that really should be avoided (for whatever reason). Perhaps there are some small boutiques which deliver personalized approach and should be considered?
It matters how similar to reality the picture printed on ID looks because it determines the usefulness of this picture.

The process how that picture was obtained doesn't necessarily change the usefulness - a really good pencil drawing may be more accurate and useful than an unlucky photography.
virtualenvs? can you please elaborate
Explore Frank Lloyd Wright's Curvaceous Unbuilt House Design for Marilyn Monroe
Who would run a browser specifically designed to track and show ads? I can't imagine it ever being enough to support the ecosystem.

Edit: And how is the locally gathered "attention" monitoring not exploitable by the people who get paid for the attention? Running a bunch of VMs that "pay attention" to the ad seems like a cheap thing to rig up.
The individual that is the subject of the article is mixing terms, which is curious for one with ready access to counsel. A "copyright" registration does not indicate that one is an "inventor." One way to look at his omission to try to enjoin all from using the term "e-mail," is as an admission that the word was incidental to the registration, is and was not protected, and that it never mattered for the registration whether his use of the word was original.

Brings to mind mismarking of products as being subject to patent protection, which, of course, is against the law. Would be just charmed to see an extension of those principles to improper assertions of copyright protection.
At least one issue is that since the survival curves are different for each batch (as established by your final 'Y Combinator conversion rates by vintage' section), your data is not i.i.d, the K-m curves are changing over time, and so the overall survival curve and its accompany CIs isn't really meaningful: it's sort of the weighted average of the nonparametric K-M curves of each batch further weighted by right-censoring of more recent batches... or something like that.

You could try instead showing stratified curves by year, or directly modeling how the hazard rates change over real time. 'survival' claims to support the latter by the 'crazy clock' method (but when I tried doing that in https://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns I never could figure out how it worked).

One thing I wonder is whether YC is scraping the bottom of the barrel and this is why the conversion rates get so much worse, or if it has become more difficult in general to be acquired; if the former, perhaps including the size of the batch as a covariate would be a meaningful test? Data quality might also be an issue from the other comments, and you could try auditing it by picking a few supposed non-exits and researching them intensively to estimate how much measurement error you have.

It might also be interesting to see if the survival curves look more like type I, II, or III curves or what parametric distribution might fit best - looks like it could just be exponential/memoryless which is interesting.
Ha ha, I was thinking it's good he had a flame suit on with a mish mash of lithium batteries.
Ask HN: My manager is a dark triad. What to do?
My manager lies, cheats and just passes situation every time I bring up the career development. What can I do to conquer the situation?

I have been told I am narcissistic too. What are dark ways to get ahead in the career?
We should also make a distinction between science as it pertains to things like physics and chemistry, and the "science" of things like IQ tests which, though they may technically follow a scientific method, are heavily skewed by social factors and are far less likely to represent any kind of universal truth.
Show HN: bash.rocks – A bash interpreter in the browser
No, but one thing that has helped tremendously: at the start of every day I figure out the total hours that I will work. Then I make a list of tasks I want to get done and put a guesstimate of how long each should take me. I start with the most important task and use timer-tab.com on stopwatch mode to see if my guesstimate was right. Sometimes things take longer than I've guessed, but it's consoling to know I'm making progress on the most important thing that day, even if it's the only one. When I finish a task a bit quicker than I've estimated, it's a great feeling. Whatever is undone just goes on the following day's list.
(Frank?! Congratulations!) Yeah, that's a black hole, at least as of some time ago. But, in your honor, I'll try it again.
Good read until I got to the spot about $1200 Google vision and nothing to solve this issue.

I was expecting a portion to be like, "But we can do better!" and then go into using serverless with opencv to reduce the cost.
He didn't win against Gawker. Gawker settled because they were going under and being sold.
I dont know how the reporter kept her professionalism during the video. For me it looks like the iPhone moment in this "technology" is a long way off.
My kids love McDs, but I would almost never go there for them until all day breakfast started. In my case, the presence of all day breakfast doesn't just increase my breakfast buying from then, it also increases the amount of burgers, fries, and McNuggets that I buy. If my local franchise gets rid of all day breakfast, they will lose virtually all of my business.
Is inpactjs.
Check out Managing Humans by Michael Lopp. Or, as @jennyp mentioned, check out his blog - rands in repose. His book is basically a collection of blog posts.

Another book that was recommended for new managers is https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118911954/ -

Your First Leadership Job: How Catalyst Leaders Bring Out the Best in Others by Byham and Wellins

Radical Candor by Kim Scott

Not books, but other resources that might be useful:

https://www.tombartel.de/#blog

http://softwareleadweekly.com/ - also comes as a weekly email with links to different articles

https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass
"A stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self-righteous" - clearly Mr Fry doesn't spend a lot of time looking in the mirror!
I feel the same way. It's the exact same issue sports arena has ... if 40,000 people show up for a game, that still can't be reasonably counted as an "audience".

/s
Hey HN,
bash.rock is my latest side project, a bash interpreter in cloud, it comes with many utilities like curl, Python, ImageMagick, jq, etc.

Below are some snippet I created:

Generate random corporate bullshit: https://bash.rocks/w3nEB9

Compress png to webp: https://bash.rocks/YBbaJG

Generate gif with curl, jq and ImageMagick: https://bash.rocks/NBXQ3w

Any suggestions / feedback welcome! :)

---

A more interesting feature I haven't fully finished is to turn your random bash snippet into an HTTP web service, like https://bash.rocks/Gxlg31/3/api?url=i.imgur.com/1uYroRF.gif

which makes an obvious premium feature in future :p
Sure, but that error rate is probably relatively consistent. Probably exits aren't listed for earlier years either. Unless everyone is getting more secretive about exits, which is interesting in itself.

Anyways, maybe someone from YC will comment. They know the truth and it's a worthwhile figure to publish.
One is something you can do, the other is something you have to prevent everyone from doing...
Nothing to wait for. They're already extremely popular in China.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/2-People-Seats-New-Mi...
It ensures the proper amount of salt in the proper pattern is dispensed. Are there generic ones available?

The idea behind tools like this is uniform product preparation. Fries in one McDonalds are almost identical to fries in another.
I got:

> Oops, sorry for the tech trouble. For the best experience, view in Chrome browser.

But then, I block some stuff: ads, WebGL, WebRTC, and tracking.
Well, a person can care about dozens of separate things. It does not take much of a commitment to a thing to have conversations with others interested in the thing or to write about it on the internet. (And over the years, a small commitment to something can grow.)

If you meant to ask, "why should I care . . .," then I hope you will excuse me if I leave that one unanswered.
I know but I still think it's wrong; a city is a city and food is food, so at least people should have the decency of using the adjective form (like Frankfurter) or a made-up name like baloney, not the capitalized city name. So I'm taking it back (https://youtu.be/dWdVwt2deY4 ).
I dislike how both sides take an issue... cherry pick 3 tweets out of thousands and act like their side is DESTROYING the other side MERCILESSLY!!!

You don't need something to go VIRAL! to be blown out of proportion...
I have been hoping for a long time that browsers could use cryptocurrency to monetize publishers through methods other than advertising.

Was very glad to see Brave pairing a browser with cryptocurrency (though I don't know how they will handle the scalability issues), and then very disappointed to see that it's not actually replacing ads, but instead encouraging users to watch them.
Everytime I read anything made from recycled parts, it reminds me of Frankenstein. Why bother with such creations?
I ran into this when writing a Docker API client in Nim via its Unix socket! Was very confused until I remembered that.
What about Marc Andreesen? He quit Twitter but I see him lurking around liking things and stuff. Not sure why he went into a read-only mode.
I think your deprecating comment should be directed at the engineer who designed the shifter.
Very cool! The image integration is especially neat.

What does the backend look like?
I hear this complaint about all manner of modified cars, but nobody wants to put their money where their mouth is. Those cars get built for the same reason you haven't bought one... It's expensive to own a classic car in good stock condition.
Worth reading about the early exits movement: https://capitalandgrowth.org/page/unicorns
It's a Cloud Function running in Cloud, with customized node package dependencies (so I could pull stuff like jq, webp in).

Thanks to a fully managed container environment, I don't have to worry too much about security stuff.
Debian 9.0 (Stretch) will be released today
http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2017/video/s7682-tian-m...

It's already here if you're a person of interest.

Soon your passport photo will be a 3D scan of your face. Increases ability to recognize under different lighting conditions.
An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard
>Gawker paid Ayyadurai $750,000 to settle all claims //

Why? It says they were already battered from another lawsuit, I don't see why that means you should make a pay out to someone else who's lying; what specific claims had Gawker made that were supposedly false?

It keeps saying in the article this charlatan demands recognition. He appears to think having a copyright in a 40 y.o. program listing gives him a current patent?? Supposing he had invented email there seems no legal basis to give him any credit at all.

Ars were hella careful to give the false claims the last word.
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Slightly off topic:
I want to take a moment to point out something else that is completely unnecessary: Flambé. If anything I think that adding alcohol and immediately burning it off will only remove the subtle flavors the food already has.
So you are saying it is linked to climate change anyway (but this is impossible to get evidence for) or what? There is a very curious social phenomenon going on regarding this event.
Ask HN: Tools for reversing?
Hello I would like to learning reverse engineering, and I would like to know what kind of tools would you recommend a beginner to use, I know there is IDA pro but the license is way too expensive for me right now, and there is GDB, is is there any plugins that can be helpful and any other tools you recommend?
As Uber Leaders Step Aside, Arianna Huffington’s Influence Grows
Basically they don't take any working capital on their books this way it's all held by the franchisee.

Also, liability for the fast food workers would be with the franchisee and not the corporation. I don't know in the US but in my country, if you have more than around 50 employees or you are a public listed company, you are held to much higher labor standards than of you are a small company.
As opposed to right now where they will happily take even completely lost cases as long as they get paid? I'll take that risk, thanks.

First, I'm not talking about criminal cases. I'm a firm believer that someone defending against a criminal conviction needs every single advantage they can get. The government is a well-funded, implacable enemy and you need every bit of help to fight it if you are innocent.

However, I have been part of several civil cases where the judge has basically said "I have rarely seen such horrific behavior from both client and lawyer--I have no real penalty sufficient that I can impose." And this was after the lawyer was blowing off court imposed deadlines and fines.

The American civil legal system is set up for "the truth is somewhere in the middle even if it skews to one side or another." When you have genuinely bad actors on one side, it can be abused very badly, and it doesn't have very good self-correction.
Of you live in germany: don't do it, the bourecraty will kill you with a 360 no-scope.
Try this:

Go to Google and ask it "who invented email".

Interestingly, Bing gives a different answer.
Maybe it is my personal delusion, but the article structure does pretty quick climbing from spreading ideology to escaping to exile, then to purges, and then to something lingering in minds today with the help of the story that non-native folks can't check thoroughly. Good for you not noticing that amazing curve, but most of us know the golden rules of innocent rhetoric delivery. That said, it is probably a false positive (so no accusation), which should be made clear both ways, as you did it for me. Hope this explains what my basis is.

>чуковщина

I suspect I'll miss this part of your point until it is written without vague references.
Page 30:

> When the processing of electronic
communications data by providers of
electronic communications services falls
within its scope, this Regulation
is without
prejudice to
the possibility for the Union or
Member States under specific conditions to
restrict by law certain obligations and
rights
set
out in
this Regulation
when such
a restriction
is targeted
at
persons
suspected of having committed a criminal
offence
and
constitutes a necessary and
proportionate measure in a democratic
society to safeguard specific public
interests, including national security,
defence, public security and the prevention,
investigation, detection or prosecution of
criminal offences or the execution of
criminal penalties, including
the
safeguarding against and the prevention of
threats to public security. Therefore, this
Regulation should not affect the ability of
Member States to carry out lawful
interception of electronic communications
or take other measures, if necessary and
proportionate to safeguard the public
interests mentioned above, in accordance
with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European
Convention for the Protection of Human
Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as
interpreted by the Court of
Justice of the
European Union and of the European Court
of Human Rights.

This is not about preventing state surveillance, this is about regulating non-state actors' ability e.g. to track users without their consent.

Edit: However, on page 74

> The providers of electronic
communications services shall ensure that
there is sufficient protection in place
against unauthorised access or
alterations
to the electronic communications data,
and that the confidentiality and safety of
the transmission are
also guaranteed by
the nature of the means of transmission
used or by state-of-the-art end-to-end
encryption of the electronic
communications data. Furthermore, when
encryption of electronic communications
data is used, decryption, reverse
engineering or monitoring of such
communications shall be prohibited.
Member States shall not impose any
obligations on electronic communications
service providers that would result in the
weakening of the security and encryption
of their networks and services.

It seems to me that this requires end-to-end encryption, but the regulation is scoped in such a way that the requirement may be lifted when it inconveniences law enforcement.