skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely fair; I wouldn't do anything less myself :)

If I may be somewhat mercenary and use the fact that I have you as a "testing the water" person hostage, what sort of stories/examples would be impactful to you? (Both as a MS employee and as a "I'd like to be better at understanding what moves the needle" in a general sense) I imagine "working, hardened proofs of concept and real e2e implementations" broadly, but if any scenarios/tech would stand out to you.
I am assuming the access to this list will be tightly guarded.

This seems to be the case so far (YC has kept track of "problem VCs" for a long time), but I don't see why it should be. One of the few things more powerful than "if you sexually harass a YC founder, you'll be shunned by all future YC founders" is "if you sexually harass a YC founder, you'll be shunned by everybody".
Laravel's routing and the entire framework makes it impossible to go back to CI.
Wasn't it fruit that killed Steve Jobs?
I am more curious what their criteria is for adding someone to the list would be. Is it simply number of reports?

Do they give a warning to a person if they received 1 single report, and then if they receive more over the years then they get added?

Bad behaviour usually continues in part because a person believes they're getting away with it. If there's an early signal that they're in fact not getting away with it, then that would be beneficial to everyone for them to hear about it - the person harassing and the community at large.
Viable long-term survival strategies on Earth have some pretty hard limits. Even if we master famine, disease, our own worst impulses, and asteroids, there's still the expansion of the Sun. Even if we don't expand beyond our own solar system, the technological advances gained in doing so could be invaluable for maintaining our home planet.
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The vast majority of issues will arise from software defects, not hardware defects.

So rather than switching to a 30 year old cpu, increasing the quality control and testing for the software would be the better aproach.

Also, as some peope in this thread have mentioned, a smart smoke detector should be designed in a way where if it fails it becomes a dumb smoke detector, but the actual smoke detection and warning should still work.
Hello, very interesting! I missed this, just commented on the issue. The Streams are not based on skiplists, but instead will be implemented using http://github.com/antirez/rax
Hey op here, good feedback,

Yes factors do interact. However it was not really part of the survey.

One thing they had was the difference between most important factors and important factors

In the summary, I reported only the most important factors. If you look at the important factors here are the results, which show a bit the factors interacting:

Team 96% for early, 93% for late

Business model 84% for early, 86% for late

Product 81% for early, 60% for late

Market 74% for early, 69% for late

Industry 30% for early, 37% for late

Valuation 47% for early, 74% for late

Ability to add value 44% for early, 54% for late

Fit with the fund 48% for early, 54% for late

There are also other factors that will impact the companies valuation such as anticipated exit, comparable companies, competitive pressure and desired ownership.

For more a deeper analysis I think it would be interesting to see the survey applied to a scenario planning model like the team at the OS Fund did [1].

[1] http://osfund.co/the-osf-playbook/
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A lot of people still seem to believe that fantasy. I find that a bit puzzling as many of those people would be more realistic about other engineering timelines. But there's nonetheless this belief in door-to-door automation that's relevant in a VC time horizon.
Wait. Is there no regulation around this? Any company or individual can cook up whatever specimen they want and simply release it into the environment en masse?

Am I missing something?
Current Latin learner here. I found the Great Courses Introduction to Latin by Hans-Friedrich Mueller to be helpful. 35 audio lectures, plus 35 chapters of exercises. It's a good introduction that covers all the basics, and has set me up quite well for working through selections from The Gallic Wars.
Software people designing hardware.
Because you get 90% of the public benefit by making a VC persona non grata with YC, but eliminate ~80% of the drama? This seems like an extraordinarily reasonable tradeoff.
All good. Yet I thought that was a responsibility of the gov... A big corp spending millions for free seems, you know, questionable
They should not have to tell you that there are risks to using online services, that should be a given...
Yeah, my general advice is do not go to law school unless (1) you get into a top 3 school; (2) you get a half-scholarship to a top 10 school; or (3) you get a full scholarship to a top 20 school. And even then — don't go unless you want to be a lawyer for at least 5 years.

Starting salaries are basically the same as they were a decade ago, but tuition, cost of living, and interest rates have kept growing. As a result, the payback period has gone from ~3 years to ~6 years.
I know a guy who makes money by training hawks to fetch drones who try to spy events featuring VIP ppl in Greece.

Isn't that something or what?

He said that the hawks figured that in order to avoid getting hurt, happened a few times, they need to attack the drones from under. A guy asked if the drones were moving too fast and he said that the ones he had to deal with, were considerably slower than eagles plus most of them are floating still not running around.
Unfortunately the ones that were immune to this employed Mercury switches, which I don't believe are sold any more. We had an older gas heating stove which had this and worked even when the electricity was out (particularly good in the winter when heating with electricity). Eventually that part failed and being an older model, that part was discontinued by the manufacturer. This forced us to get a "new" stove which now uses an electrical system to control it, and which doesn't have a battery backup integrated. Technically one could add a UPS, but since it also uses an electrical fan it would probably empty that ups within a few hours.
They're probably not going to tell you.
wrong. Don't confuse TAI and TAI-10. Don't confuse POSIX time [1] and seconds since epoch (time() value) in "right" timezones.

On the "difference of 37": the current TAI-UTC == 37s [2] (10s from 1972 + 27 leap seconds).

On "the same physical second": look at the value of TAI-UTC in the period before 1972 (if you plug the numbers then TAI-UTC is around 8 seconds at 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC, not 10s. The epochs are not the same. They are "slightly different"). The same physical second corresponds to 1972 (by definition), not 1970:

1972-01-01 00:00:00 (UTC scale) == 1972-01-01 00:00:10 (TAI scale)

Note: :10, not :00, note: TAI, not TAI-10.

To reiterate:

POSIX time 1.5e9 corresponds to 2017-07-14T02:40:00 (UTC scale) exactly.

1.5e9 "seconds since epoch" (not the Epoch) for "right" timezones corresponds to
2017-07-14T02:40:10 (TAI scale) == 2017-07-14 02:39:33 (UTC scale).

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_...

[2] http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/index.php?index=TAI-UTC_tab&la...

(the authoritative source on leap seconds. It publishes Bulletin C ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/BULLETINC.GUIDE )
It used to be a thing in rural areas for a photographer to fly around and take pictures of farms and then sell them to the owners. I saw several aerial house photos on people's walls in the 80s.
Expanding this to the tor case that the GGP outlined, even if the server isn't compromised the use of the same key in two very different contexts (for git and for your silkroad command console) reveals that the client is one and the same. I believe just packet sniffing can ascertain this.
Reduce() 10% faster with no start value
Somewhere down the line this will makes a mockery of customs agricultural inspections when you can just download the plan for a foreign organism and materialize it in your neighborhood.
Benchmark is trying to cut their losses and limit their exposure to a complete Uber meltdown. If possible, they would probably offload the bulk of their shares to SoftBank at a loss just to wash their hands of the situation.

- Uber cannot support its operational business without massive VC subsidies (without drastically raising prices and losing their primary competitive advantage)

- It's too easy for small, local competitors to enter the market

- Uber has been trounced in two of the largest non-US markets

- Waymo legal mess

- The sheer volume/scale of scandal engulfing the company may be impossible to recover from

- Current valuation makes an IPO under less than perfect conditions very challenging.

If this was a well organized, planned round of funding, Benchmark wouldn't have gone behind the backs of the other board members & major shareholders to try and strike some shady deal.
How is the performance of Rocket?

So far all the Rust web frameworks I've seen have pretty disappointing performances.

I was expecting C++/Java/Go level of performance. Instead, Tokio & Iron turn out to be slower than many frameworks in Ruby, Python, PHP, JS:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r14&hw=...

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r14&hw=...

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r14&hw=...
Ask HN: Is there anything that can be done about politics on HN?
Can HN make a new section or not?

Why isn't ycombinator interested in investing in their own board? The benefits outweigh the negatives by a million times.

Plus it probably costs them close to nothing to do it if money really is the issue here.

No the real issue here is that we are all content with PR campaigns disguised as protests. Net Neutrality is much bigger than a blackout/ slowdown protest. While it's still nice and very welcome it isn't what we all so desperately need right now which is a backbone. A techno political revolution so big it will change history forever and cement us as the winners in an unwinnable war.

It can all simply start just by making a new section where us politically motivated HN users can talk freely without being flagged within the first 30 seconds of posting anything slightly sometimes extremely relevant material.

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Fair enough. Consider me educated. It was a quick jab with only an outsider's superficial perspective.

s/Las Vegas/Phoenix
Example 1. ISPs voluntarily assigning themselves as a public utility without any help from the federal government, essentially nullifying and voiding any further net neutrality argument forever.

It sounds absolutely insane right? Well good, that is the point. As insane as they are for fighting literally everything about making the internet an enjoyable experience or a beneficial one. As insane as they are for welcoming and warming to the idea of throttling and controlling our internet we need to hit them harder than ever before and constantly non stop until we get what we want.

Which means doing things kinda the old fashioned way. Talking about it. With other people. Not flagged or downvoted into oblivion.

With all the people on Hacker news and how much reach this relatively small site gets I can guarantee it's only a matter of time until we all become a target. (I don't remember a single flagged political discussion on HN before the last election happened)

And besides if the techno political revolution doesn't start on HN where will it start? How much longer are we going to wait until the billionaires decide they don't want a free internet? How much longer are we going to wait until corporations decide five eyes actually isn't enough for them?
Thanks, I completely missed that "Basic/Unconstrained genericity" was a subsection of "Genericity in Eiffel" when I first saw that page.
I'd definitely be interested in looking into this but I'm on an R team. Didn't see anything on how to contribute in another language or an API to hit. Will be there be information soon?
There are even ticks now which will make you allergic to meat![1]

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/tick-bite-meat-al...
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A strong background in fundamentals is sufficient for a very small number of programming tasks. Do not mistake my top-level comment as an endorsement of the status quo focus on CS minutiae that reigns in this industry.

Your comment is tantamount to claiming an engineer ought to have a strong understanding of theoretical physics fundamentals in order to adapt his career over the span of decades. The reality is substantially different.
That is irritating, but ticks can pretty much end your life if you get rougher version of boreliosis or brain damaging infection (I forgot its name).
>Source?

It's actually closer to 70%, and is an oft-quoted stat. While it is occasionally disputed by an economist here or there, it is generally accepted.

Sources are abundant. Here's one:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=hh3
It's not just about finding market-clearing rates, it's also about the regulatory environment. If you directly employ people to work in your home, then your home is a workplace with all that entails.

This is the reason that even people who can hire full-time service staff, such as nannies, often don't, and instead rely on part time contract service. It's an arrangement that better suits employers than employees.

I'm trying to think of ways we can offer people who aren't economically competitive in the workplace the ability to find stable employment. The current job market is just getting more and more hostile to the less-advantaged.
Google is releasing 20M bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno... wearing small cameras and a projector that can display text advertisements
Throwaway acc, but maybe there's the case of Andrew Torba? He was obviously fed up with the culture at YC and posted this facebook comment remarking his distaste.

"All of you: fuck off. Take your morally superior, elitist, virtue signaling bullshit and shove it.

I call it like I see it, and I helped meme a President into office, cucks."

https://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/trump-supporting-startu...

Torba was kicked out of YC "for speaking in a threatening, harassing way toward other YC founders". His reply:

You cucks will be happy to know that YC has blacklisted me and removed me from the network to not trigger more founders. This is why I do what I do. This is why am loud and proud with my free speech and will continue to be. John Levy called me and said that because said "build the wall" I am now removed from the network. I guess YC has to build a wall to keep out people who want national borders. Sad!

I don't know if this is considered "disquieting" but it is an example of someone being removed for their speech.
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Posted just earlier, 21+ points, 15+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14772676
I came up with this idea last year! I didn't know someone was already building it.
Yep, you're right...this is a witch hunt against poor vulnerable VCs. All they wanted to do is get laid! Gosh.

LOL fuck off
The downside of a full blown OS is a lifetime of security updates and maintenance.
Clickbait false title.
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There's no shortage of cash to invest now in the US, they are instead most likely to use the cash for stock buybacks and dividends.
Part of my (now deleted, due to heavily downvoted) argument was with the issue that if we rely on corporations to take on more and more responsibilities of governments, we’re also giving away a major part of power.

Governments are supposed to be controlled democratically, but if we rely on corporations – especially ones like Google, where the two founders retain absolute control over the company – we’re replacing them piece by piece with autocratic entities.

Google is currently doing a lot of good stuff, and so are many other companies, but this is a question that may become an issue in the long term; often once the founders are out, their less idealistic children run the company far worse, and try to gain as much profit as possible.

You wouldn’t want a Google that’s run like Comcast with the power Google has.
It's easy to notice with others, especially since they often use filler words we don't use. But I know when I try to speak in complete sentences without bloat to a friend (not that I ever spoke at ceremonies, but I assume it would be easier in more somber contexts), just for kicks, it takes enormous concentration. It's enjoyable, but it made me realize just how sloppy I talk 99% of the time compared to what is possible and grammatically correct. For example, "very impressive" isn't even a sentence, even if you end it with a smiley. So. :P

I hate having nothing to good to contribute on the actual topic, since I don't know anything about funding and frankly don't care enough to sit through this, so I guess this is kinda white knighting; I just think it's counterproductive to smirk at someones slightest whiff of insecurity. It might mean they don't believe in what they say, it might mean something else or nothing other than bad habits (which, as I said, I think we all have, most of us don't speak or even write very well).

Have you ever see a video of pg talking in public? Oh boy, and I don't mean this as a dig at him or anyone. That's because when someone has something to say, whether I find it valuable or not, if they genuinely mean it and find it interesting, it's not just basic courtesy, but also basic self-preservation to not get hung up too much on these small things that are orthogonal. Make fun of them for that if they're your friend, or after having dealt with their main point on its own terms and refuted it resoundingly or something, but not as the first and only thing. (please don't take this as me berating you, it's not meant that way. I'm just thinking aloud if you will, I should heed this advice myself more)

I remember being on a forum where there was this kind of wild person who used to write huge walls of text without any punctuation. Most people liked them, they had a huge heart, but I'm pretty sure I was one of the few or even the only one to really make an effort to read their posts in full and parse them, and then reply in earnest. The posts were worth it and I cherished our conversations a lot, they teached me a lot, and not about "having patience" or anything like that either, they had genuine treasures buried in those walls of text. And because I took them seriously, I could also playfully practice writing better with them, and while I doubt that helped a lot, it felt right and I'm glad I didn't overlook them. Sorry for the tangent, and I know it doesn't really apply here, but generally, make sure to decipher first before dismissing. If someone is talking nonsense even in their own language as they mean it, I don't want to weaken my own case with trivial things.
In these kind of checks nobody cares what your password is. Only if it is the same as you are using somewhere else.

So hash, unless properly salted, works works very fine.

Many people actually use a single password everywhere. Or at least for similar things.
Medicare, on the other hand, is extremely popular, and has been forever. And, wouldn't you know it, folks who have health care covered by the military/VA seem to think the health care system is working well for them, too.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/186527/americans-government-healt...

RAND agrees that VA provides generally good health care. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Health_Administration...
I read the Facebook thread that spurred Torba's removal from YC and I can't imagine any business in the world that would have retained someone who spoke to colleagues the way Torba did, so that's definitely not what disquiets me about YC.
Repeating the argument does not make it more correct. If you're trying to contradict the idea that government regulations are not a large barrier to entry you might show some evidence, preferably in the form of a peer-reviewed study. Your study should also compare the externalized costs of not having said regulations. Even better would be to admit that you've been drawn into a ridiculous position and exit the conversation with as much grace as you can muster.
* iron isn't using async io which is very important for Techempower

* Tokio-minihttp is #4 overall on the plaintext benchmark there, which is sort of the "what is the max performance" benchmark

I don't know of anyone who is really actively looking at Techempower and optimizing based on it, which is how you win benchmarks.
This feature does make it seem like they're dangling that they have a price tag to the big boys.
Is it a perfect team, with a complete working product, massive user base and sales and no risk and lots of other investors wanting in? We're in!

Else, "Your company is not a fit for us right now but keep us in the loop."
If you'd rather have less time to yourself, then that's a perfectly acceptable choice. As an introvert myself, I'd rather have more people to share household and child-care activities with, because that would increase the amount of time I have for other pursuits. I don't have kids myself, but I know people who do and the amount of time they spend dealing with them is incredible. I do have a house though, and even there the amount of time I spend on upkeep, repairs, cleaning, and cooking is significant. Having roommates I have little emotional connection to has pluses and minuses: you can share some of the expenses and household duties (if they're good roommates), but the minus of having less privacy kinda sucks. But if you're closer friends than that, it's not such a problem and is actually a benefit by having more emotional support nearby. Also, with more incomes you can afford a bigger house (since house size does not scale linearly with bedrooms; bathrooms and kitchens are the most expensive rooms by far), and this gives you more space than you can afford on your own.
You still have time to return your HN to place of purchase for a full refund.
I'm just glad AMD are still competitive.

Seemed like for a few years there they might almost gone out of business. I think consoles have helped keep them afloat in the bad years too.

Obviously Intel will respond to this (either via hardware or pricing) but the fact they even need to respond to something is a good thing. The only thing that has been eating Intel's lunch in recent years was mobile.
The article links to the project's announcement, https://blog.verily.com/2017/07/debug-fresno-our-first-us-fi... , which says

> "Debug Fresno will target the invasive Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can transmit diseases like Zika, dengue, and chikungunya. Aedes aegypti first appeared in the central valley of California in 2013, and since then has become pervasive in Fresno County. This study will be the largest U.S. release to-date of sterile male mosquitoes treated with Wolbachia, a naturally occurring bacterium, and will take place over a 20 week period in two neighborhoods each approximately 300 acres in size. When these sterile males mate with wild females the resulting eggs will not hatch."

So it's targeting the mosquitoes themselves, not just the viruses they carry.
> I can't buy something that just has a $5 microprocessor with just enough intelligence to connect to the internet and send me an email or a push notification if the buzzer on the washer goes off.

1000000 x this.

The only thing I'd ever want a smart device to do is have a way to configure a mqtt or such endpoint that it should connect to to send/receive simple messages.

Just no consumer actually wants this. They want to be sold a box that connects to someone elses mqtt broker so it can work with an app that connects to someone elses server.

It's just another front on the war on general purpose computing.
Show HN: A workout logger for the gym written using React/Redux
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Being pedantic can have it's merits but yes, it can get old.