skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd bet there are at least 50 legal differences in the 50 US states. For example, grocery stores in California can sell alcohol, but Amazon Fresh does not -- only Prime Now does, probably because Amazon is just a middleman -- they send a driver to a licensed liquor store to buy the product and deliver it to the customer's home.

I sympathize with anyone trying to sell alcohol in the United States. They have to deal with 50 different liquor law regimes in order to sell nationwide, and probably federal laws as well if the alcohol is imported.
> the French (rightly) laughed at it as an inferior version of what they already had

What they didn't see though was that Internet was a decentralized, truly democratic network unlike Minitel and the likes (e.g. CompuServe, AOL, Bitnet I think?). For its time Minitel was quite good aesthetically and in terms of UI, but as a centralized consumer-oriented network it had no chance to compete with the Internet.
> Most of them are quality wise a notch (or two) above what is shown in the article, but typically do not have as much range because of the more practical nature of their design

Then they are not doing "this".

I chose to use the word "hodgepodge" to show the recklessness of this design. Repurposing an assortment of used rechargeable lithium cells is not safe.
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I'm tired of market worship and holding the "rights" of business owners over the rights of everyone else. There are very few true markets, and that's not due to government intervention, it's because many goods and services become essential to modern life, or marketers artificially stratify in an effort to squeeze more money out of upper class consumers. Like what's the lightbulb market like these days? Toothbrushes? Sheets? It's all artificially stratified.

But let's say we allow businesses to not sell lightbulbs to White people. Hey it's their right, right? Then let's say that in practically all regions the majority of retailers would assert this right, making it pretty hard for Whites to buy lights ;). In what way is that good for society? What healthy, just society would allow that?

Libertarian ideas like this are all fatally reductive, and they fail entirely when evaluated on their effects on anyone who isn't the majority. Not everyone starts with the same advantages. Not everyone experiences the same setbacks and barriers throughout their lives. Unless we make policies to specifically correct these inequalities, we entrench them. Oh and hey look, that's exactly what we have in the US. It's not a coincidence.
Worked in Firefox for me. However, it was a bit slow to load.
Russia developed cyberweapon that can disrupt power grids, according to research
It's a terrific metric for founders who would like an exit. Statistically, a smaller exit works out much better for a founder than an IPO. Doesn't work for the VC so much. Maybe YC is anti founder?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
I have 20-30 hours of meetings a week and work about 50 hours.

My tools:

- Calendar

- Devonthink for Notes and meeting summaries

- adhoc notebooks made out of waste paper

- Due for routine deadlines (file your expenses, etc)

The key is to get your stuff as done as it needs to be and be able to shut off work when you leave. Don't fetishize capturing every task. Delegate tasks as soon as possible to others.
But it leaves room to make such conslusion

Not really, it's a conclusion you're making on the basis of... I'm not sure what. It's an article talking about Soviet children's literature and the fact that much of it had an element of propaganda. Not that all of it was propaganda. The article talks about multiple aspects of it, its evolution, includes this particular anecdote, etc.

As of ideological adequateness, such abstract story could be pulled in any way with its ears properly grabbed

I think you've misunderstood what I'm saying here. Take a look at 'чуковщина' in his Wikipedia bio, for instance.
I really hope people don't start doing this on their own.

While I disagree with your overall sentiment, I don't think you deserve to be downvoted. As a former firefighter, I definitely appreciate that you make a legitimate point about the safety aspects of this. Have a corrective upvote on me.

And FWIW, while my time as a firefighter was quite some time ago, at that time, my department had a whopping total of one Metal-X extinguisher which rode on our primary engine. But at the time, we considered a class D fire something pretty damn exotic and unlikely to be encountered. Given the ubiquity of exotic materials in modern batteries, I am guessing these fires are more common and I hope most departments are somewhat better equipped (and trained) for dealing with them than we were in 1995.
Yes, for sure. Especially with SS coming along which could dilute further. Maybe YC will shrink their class sizes and use SS as a feeder.

My worries about SS is how much it will be used as an idea repository for the real batches.
A degree course should last a year – after that, let them pay
Mostly, other victimless crimes. Drug imports, gambling, etc.
Beautifully written article with a rather sad and sympathetically handled ending.

On the Price Equation, I think this is rather telling - "In her own quest to crack its meaning":
* quite simple, really
* Another jumped up and started scribbling diagrams and equations on the whiteboard in his office
* None of us understands it really

... which leads to:

"For its supporters, the Price equation is the closest thing biology has to E=mc2"

No it isn't. E=mc^2 stands up to experiment after experiment and observation after observation. The Price Equation is at best a conjecture that looks right. Looking right is not generally considered rigorous.
Correct. And that despite not having anything to do with what we now call email, he copyrighted his program. So despite people using the term before his program, owning the copyright was more powerful.

He needs to lose badly and soon, before those people die and can't testify against him.
Not necessarily. Does grub hub as a platform mean that restaurants lose?
I honestly don't really comparison shop in a meaningful way beyond a generalized Whole Foods tends to have high prices. Market Basket tends to have cheaper prices. But I definitely shop at different stores based on what I'm buying and what's convenient as well as farm stands etc.
"The current constitution... incorporated and institutionalized racism to appease a certain local (regional) advocacy."

You do know that the anti-slavery advocates were the source of the 3/5ths compromise, right? Anti-slavery groups didn't want slaves to count at all for determining representation, while pro-slavery groups wanted slaves fully counted. If the 3/5ths compromise institutionalized racism in the Constitution, it was to 'appease' the anti-slavery advocates. Since you appear to misunderstand this, perhaps you should ask yourself what other facts you misunderstand.
Not just EP, but the Council and Commission as well, since they initiated the legislative process. That means the 27 governments are also behind it, at the moment. This is very surprising to me - no government is free of authoritarian elements, especially in centralistic States like France, Hungary, Italy or Spain. Their unilateral disarmament would be peculiar.

I don't see this proposal going all the way, to be honest, it seems too idealistic. I expect it will be perverted into its opposite, e.g. justification for "review methods" that states could apply to "check if your encryption is secure", which would result in compromising that very security. Remember that EU law is adapted at individual state level; for generic stuff like this, there is plenty of space for interpretation by national legislators.

As a supporter of the EU concept, I think this is dangerous territory for the Union, at a time when its popularity is pretty low. I hope I'll be proven wrong.
It certainly seems the EU is becoming an actual land of the free
Correct, and those systems were even referred to as "email" before this date. Just not in published specifications.
I used to play this game years ago (2010 or 2011). Glad to see that it's still there.
A security is a standardized and tradeable asset that derives its value from a contractual claim. From my layman's understanding of US securities law, for a token sale to be defined as a securities offering, the token issuers have to make representations of the token providing the holder with contractual rights to a share of an underlying enterprise, including all profits derived from it.

In my opinion, the vast majority of token sales haven't advertised their tokens as representing a legal claim on an enterprise and its profits.

Orocrypt is one that has gone the route of issuing an equity-token, and if offered to US residents, would fall under US securities laws:

https://orocrypt.com

Again, none of this is legal advice. Consult with a lawyer if you're going to do or participate in a token sale.
> it's nicer than C++

What do you mean by nicer? The tradeoff here seems to be exchanging useful functionality for a leaner, more limited interface. I'm not sure I agree that the right decision is to forsake the full power of the LLVM interface.

> can be interleaved with the application you want to compile with the extended compiler.

On this we can agree - abstractly, that would be a very powerful thing. Practically, though, what's the cost? How would developers expressively write useful extensions? How do these extensions interact? Answering the hard questions about how this would actually work is going to take some serious thought.

> I agree that a higher-level API would be useful, too. For high-level things, but not necessarily for adding goto.

I'm not sure goto is all that great of an example, except for the dimension of implementability in a README file.
Even if this were a good study, you couldn't conclude that from it. The conclusion would be that red meat consumption is somehow associated with longer telomere length.

Some have speculated that extending telomeres or preventing them from shortening over time can reduce some of the effects of aging, so a diet that preserves telomere length might be good for you, but that also remains to be seen.

I don't think the study is very useful because they were essentially just data mining a tiny sample for any kind of apparent correlation from 10+ variables and found one that's barely statistically significant (although the effect size looks substantial, if real).
What Is Code? (2015)
You can train the mnist handwritten digit dataset
As always, it worked much better on the kids than on the parents. My great grandparents didn't believe most of the propaganda. My grandparents are pretty sure Tito gave them a nice cushy life. My parents know for a fact that nice lives were had, but thought that maybe it's not cool that people who speak against the party go to jail and that all the really nice stuff can only be bought in Italy and Austria. They also think that maybe those hippies in the America were onto something.

Hence regime fell. Aided greatly by the overarching global political climate of the late 80's.

My generation is pretty sure modern capitalism is the savior and the only way to prosperity.

The cycle continues.

What will our kids believe? Who knows. But it's definitely going to involve the idea that overpriced organic artisanal foods are the only thing worth putting in your body.
By small exit, I believe the parent is referring to an acquihire with a multi-year earn out for the founders. The point of such exits is to return investor capital.
Reading Clojure Characters
I like the one called priority matrix -- it syncs between all my devices.
The mobile version is free
https://sync.appfluence.com/manage/downloads/
It has a high priority/low priority urgent/nonurgent split
If you want trustworthy cloud hosting look at EC2 and GCE. Avoid digital ocean, they have a long history of account hijackings due to "social engineering" attacks.

Otherwise look at dedicated hosting, preferably colocation but just renting servers can be cheaper and isn't so bad. Encrypt your drives, either disable your IPMI thing completely or ensure that it's only accessible over a VPN by you only and not your host. OVH (and their other brands) might be a decent cheap choice for dedicated hosting that should be very competitive in Linodes price bracket.
Gave that a shot on the (Intel Graphics) Macbook Pro and wow, didn't even manage 10fps. Safari was worst of the lot.
Sell their startup for an outsized sum during a bubble to a failing giant only for it to be defunct within a short time? Just to go by viaweb's example.

That would put at least Mark Cuban in the contending since they both sold to the same failing giant.
Good catch - para 1.1 from RFC 822:

"This standard specifies a syntax for text messages that are
sent among computer users, within the framework of "electronic
mail"."
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14577888 and marked it off-topic.
That's better than nothing. I've looked at these numbers before in other places. It's pretty obvious the average quality of either YC advice or founder is declining. I suspect SS (as a feeder) is an answer to this problem.

Ok, point made below, possibility is that environment has got more startups in general and more competitive.
Here's a more detailed write-up on it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/61lg8g/the_robo...

You're right that there are no complete road maps written out. But proponents of this vision can hardly be blamed for not being able to create a detailed plan for things they believe will be invented. It will necessarily be impossible to predict exactly what form the future will take. Yet we can make reasonable extrapolations based on the nature of knowledge, and the role knowledge plays in investment.
As of a few years ago, Peabody seems to have had revenues of about $500 million which I think was about 10% of the total online delivery market. Is there room to grow this pie? Sure. But this is a business that's been around since Webvan days and is still really a niche.

For starters it's a good bet that your average Walmart customer will pay approximately zero premium for home delivery. More broadly it's just not something people have voted with their wallets for. The Silicon Valley developer who deeply resents and is stressed out by a trip to the supermarket is just not your average consumer.
Your own company? You can do it (2011)
I don't think we're that far off. I didn't say we didn't need WL. I said, I don't necessarily trust Assange to be in charge of it. He's a self-promoter. A hypocrite. Opinionated. These are things even some of his best friends might say about him. Not exactly the character traits for someone who has access to things that may be both secret and private.

If he has secret video of US forces firing on unarmed civilians, yes, of course, I consider it an obligation of WL to release it and expose who covered it up.

If a diplomat sends a cable back to his superiors at the State Department and says, "The prime minister is rumored to act irrationally under stress. I suggest that we do not snap react to any statements he makes without obtaining further clarifications from other contacts within the administration." what good does that information being in the public domain do? It embarrasses the prime minister. It ruins the relationship between the sender and the prime minister. But what public good does it do to have this information in the public domain?

Sometimes I think WL revels in knocking the powerful down a peg or two whether or not they've actually done anything other than share a private thought that was now exposed to the public.

And part of my point is that I think Assange already picks sides. He's doling out punishment based on his own political biases. That's why I don't trust him.
I don't think Amazon Prime Now delivery people drive to other stores to pick up goods. In San Francisco the map in the app always shows the delivery starting at the same place, presumably an Amazon warehouse, and everything comes packaged in bags with Amazon barcodes on them.

Fresh, on the other hand, explicitly offers products from local restaurants, bakeries, etc. If anything, I would expect Fresh to be the one that could deliver alcohol.
You could use Google to find articles published by conservative US think tanks, like the Hoover Institution or The Heritage Foundation. It actually turns out, though, that they haven't published much about libraries.

From 1997: "Of all the great American institutions that deserve the support and affection of conservatives, lending libraries are among the most essential. At their best, libraries are repositories of our national intellectual heritage. In the free market of ideas, libraries are like banks, where any American can borrow the accumulated capital of knowledge and where some will eventually deposit the dividends of discovery. The cause of conservatism has everything to gain from this egalitarian preservation of political philosophy, classical literature, moral fiction, historical fact—of "the best that has been thought and said," as Matthew Arnold had it." but also
"The nation’s libraries do a poor job of preserving conservative truths. We need to start our own." http://www.hoover.org/research/virtual-veritas

Also from 1997: "Public libraries are becoming de facto pipelines for pornography on the Internet. Ask the library whether it blocks pornography with filtering software; if not, establish family rules about using computers with Internet access at the library." http://www.hoover.org/research/home-front-1

The Heritage Foundation praises Andrew Carnegie's privately-funded public libraries here http://www.heritage.org/markets-and-finance/report/free-mark...
Tensorflow has a nice introduction tutorial using the MNIST dataset for recognition of handwritten digits.

Creating a small neural network and training it over the MNIST dataset is like the 'todo list' starter project of this kind of frameworks.
There are no official spec iirc for python and ruby.

The guy who was doing on the spare time spec for ruby got frustrated and believe the official ruby team were trying to kill competition and left iirc. Rubinius or whatever was built to that spec and engineyard was funding them iirc.

Drama. There was drama between Jruby and Ruby for awhile. And then it was og ruby vs jruby dev.

If you have a language spec then it's easier to implement kinda like java and tcl (tck?). But at the same time Oracle and Sun system was really really into the fact that only they can control that language.

Otherwise the edge cases will beat you nasty.

R have an alternative because RRevolution made money and now Microsoft bought them and there's a huge company backing. I don't think the people behind R really care if there's a competitor. They just do their thang.
“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli
Faster. Discord is lighter and faster.

Simpler. I don't need comments and threads and snippets and posts at the expense of simple communications. These features are also inconsistent and incompatible across devices.

Search/Cost. Search doesn't search contents of snippets which was a gotcha. And with a 10000 message limit, anyone using it for free reaches a point where search breaks. I was deleting messages for a while because at the end of the day all the 50/mo would have gotten us is unbroken search. It's like 99% of the product is free and they ask to pay 50/mo for the last 1%.

Web Hooks. Integrating anything is as simple as a single line cUrl command. So for business use, if you already have a server doing a bunch of stuff with various APIs, adding notifications to discord is a one liner.

Also Discord has a more intuitive server list on the side bar. With slack you have to register with every team and "switch". In Discord it's just another tab.

A business on Slack is one that 1) can't see a superior chat program when they see one, 2) are willing to pay for an inferior product, and 3) can't look past the "gamer" origins of a platform.

But to Slack's credit, they built a business out of just chat, which is miraculous. And though I've arrived at Discord, they deserve all the credit and respect in the world for achieving what they have achieved through a mere chat subscription service. And I'm sure their philosophy and business direction is what got them to where they are, so standing up and challenging exactly that would admittedly be naive on my part. However I still do not believe any of the points that I have made are incorrect either, which just tells you more about this industry (chat industry?).

They just need a "Discord for Business". They would kill.
“from the co-founder of Mozilla”? <checks article> Yep, it’s Brendan Eich.
Now successful companies can provide "minor" liquidity events for founders and key employees. Depending on the level of success, the "minor" amount could still be larger than some exits.

If anyone could inform us more about these pre-exit liquidity events, such as conditions and amount for different roles, many people would be interested.
I wonder if you could wear the equivalent of a contact lens for your fingers with a printed fingerprint on the surface.

I don't know if this exists but I do remember an old James Bond where that trick was pulled...
Converting from Bitcoin to an ERC20 token. Bitcoin is going to die; Ethereum is the future.
Not sure that the conversion rate is the most important metric.

http://fortune.com/2014/05/05/each-new-y-combinator-class-wo...

>> Y Combinator... creates more than a billion dollars of value with each class it graduates...
Safeway does this in the US - pay for delivery, pay more for a one hour window, rather than 2 hours. If you do infrequent orders, as I used to (say once a month or less, for things I couldn't get at Trader Joes, or just for booze, which is heavy) then you can often get delivery for free, with some voucher code. More frequently then that, though, and you pay for it. Since we didn't have a car it was very helpful for us.
You might get something out of a Gretchen Rubin's 4 tendencies idea if you haven't already come across it. Disclaimer, I don't use this in my life, it's just something I've been meaning to look into http://gretchenrubin.com/happiness_project/2013/10/what-kind...
Have you ever looked into his claims or reasons why he believes that?
Lol. I like you.
UK is still in the EU, and hopefully won't leave
"copywrited" is pretty understandable and definitely a word, it may not be a mainstream dictionary word however.

A section of text produced by a copywriter has been "copywrited". It's ugly and unnecessary use of language IMO, I side with https://www.rensch.com/copywrite.html more.

It has nothing whatever to do with intellectual property _rights_ however.
Safeway uses Rosie in Sacramento and its a terrible experience. Often they show inventory that isn't in stock and as someone who cares about the way things look, the overall website looks like 1998 wants it's tables back.

Amazon started doing grocery delivery in the Sacramento area this year and I haven't touched Safeway again since.

With the Whole Foods purchase I cannot wait for them to completely change how I buy food.
Fun game! Just played a round - the ship that shoots a bunch of single letters is a cool mechanic. Can I see how I stack up against other users?
Totally escapes me too. I suspect deep-seated cultural differences. America is a more contentious, less cooperative society so we add layers of complexity to mediate between all these groups of people who can't agree on even basic things. In most European countries, for example, it's very difficult to block development projects through things like environmental review lawsuits. But there is also this basic level of trust that whoever is running the project won't build a chemical refinery next to an elementary school. Nobody has that trust in the U.S.