skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I need a solution that makes it easy for front line support people to support multiple server applications. A consistent way to start, stop, tail log file, run some commands and maybe deploy.

Ideally I'd like to hear that many big organizations already use Jupyter or some product to do this. Doesn't sound like its the case though.
Move fast and break things is childish culture for childish projects. Think of all the people who live life like that.
AI could save us from making poor decisions
I agree with TFA on the "making yourself sound bigger than life" thing. I always think I sound ridiculous when I do that so I prefer to focus on what I know.

Not that I've had much succeed either, though.
Yes; my wife was one of the first documented cases of this. Even Mayo clinic could not figure out what was going on.

She was on death's door when we figured it out.
First they came for the mosquitos, but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a mosquito. Next they came for the invasive fire ants and then we all cheered because mosquitos and fire ants were finally gone.
> I will not continue this conversation ... getting downvoted for merely asking questions

You didn't ask a question. You didn't include a single question mark.

What you said was a jumble of misleading and wrong words.
Why are the terms unfavorable? Financially the terms look very favorable in one of politically toughest marker outside US.
I don't know whether to believe you or not.
Would it not make more sense to compare the price of a 6 core and 12 thread intel chip with a 6 core and 12 thread ryzen like the 1600X?

EDIT: ah the 1600X only has duo channel for memory.
I claim you called me a "stupid do do head", prove you did not.

More on why this is very hard: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance

John of England on the subject: "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land."
I can chime in and say that memory bandwidth is our primary bottleneck on servers at my current company.
> That seems like an argument for not having the bar exam, which is (at least in my state of ignorance about the subject) a reasonable thing to argue. However, that does not seem to be the position of the sentence you quoted, immediately before the one I quoted

It is the position of the sentence I quoted, as you can see by following my quotation all the way through to:

>> If California wants to make sure their lawyers are smart, they should just require an LSAT score of 155+ to get barred.

It seems like there might be a confusion over the concepts "bar exam", meaning "any exam that allows or prohibits the practice of law by a testee", and "bar exam", meaning "the test given to law school graduates who wish to practice law, under the American legal education system".

A bar exam in the first sense makes the cut by definition -- it is the cut, and therefore the cut cannot be made at any other time. But the bar exam in the first sense does not occur at any particular time. rhino369 has made a perfectly coherent argument that the bar exam in the second sense, the real bar exam as it occurs in American practice, which is given at a particular time, is given at the wrong time, that it should be given before students go to law school and in fact should really just be replaced by the LSAT (already given at the appropriate time) because it isn't informative taken in addition to the LSAT anyway.
There's a political/ideological interest, heavily represented on Internet message boards, in trying to establish the notion that sexual harassment and gender inequality are overblown issues.

Therein lies the big disadvantage of the politics of outrage. Any movement that can't organize itself to make the tactical climb onto the moral high ground will continue to wallow in the lowland quagmires of outrage. The most unreasonable of one side will anger the most unreasonable of the other in an unending cycle of recruitment through the viral nature of outrage on social media. The "leaderless" movements of the 21st century are just this, and are just doing this.

(Yes, I am seemingly obliged to repost this. I will repost this as many times as I can manage! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc )

There's nothing that involves subtlety and sophistication to understand which is going to benefit from "discussion" in a state of outrage. Racism and sexism in the 21st century are two topics which fit this. For example my "lived experience" tells me that racist micro-aggressions exist, they often coexist with forms of sexually charged transgressive psychological warfare. However, my lived experience also informs me that going around in a militant, accusatory state to combat such things is like emotional carpet bombing -- in that there is an almost complete certainty of hurting your own cause in the long term in several ways. (By causing collateral damage to innocents, for one.)

So is there a point to getting upset about Y Combinator's list? No. Just about anyone has bigger fish to fry. It's also a good idea to steer clear of both such controversies and the broken individuals who might seek to exploit such controversies. If someone is upset about such a thing, it probably means there's some kind of magical thinking going on and there's a need for some introspection. (Y Combinator isn't an oracle, pg and everyone involved are just ordinary human beings, and your feelings of security about the world shouldn't depend on a world view that requires woo-woo thinking.)

(tptacek -- I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I think this is the right place to say these things.)

EDIT:

Finally: we should all recognize that no matter how much we might want a transparent process that gives each and every one of us all the information we need to judge YC's actions, in the real business world we virtually never get anything like that, and this won't be any different.

tl;dr -- If one doesn't think YC has their head in the right place, one shouldn't be doing business with them.
I used to like this style of naming software with a allusive dictionary noun, but the sheer volume of new code is driving me to wish there was a canonical clearing house for naming, with agreed conventions for the "given name" even. e.g. Quilt, which in documentation and prose reference is the most natural choice, and a real use handle with a context qualifier, especially e.g. Quilt_Data and the use of a clearing house website for reference and proposals, including short forms which may need to be tested by popularity in use. Quilt_DM might be a alias to my preference, but I think it's worth the effort to get the time and confusion out of accidental conflicts like this.
Maybe they keep bats too busy to eat a more nutritious prey animal, and keep the population from expanding though malnourishment? Similar to the diet of a panda bear, though they unfortunately have no higher-caloric alternative.
Ignoring the fact doesn't change it.
> I completely agree, but are the small, local competitors not subsidized by investors like Uber? I don't understand how a competitor without backing could compete against an established super corp.

You are 100% correct. The moment Uber and Lyft left Austin, competitors sprang up. The moment Uber and Lyft came back, the competitors are getting crunched.

Once the VC subsidies dry up, however, Uber and Lyft have no barrier to entry.
Math is a subset of logical thinking. There are deconstructions of thought that math cannot handle, for example in domains where the axioms are too complex, or perhaps even unknown.
It takes longer to get the code to compile, but once it does the integration pains and debugging needed will be significantly less. I'd absolutely argue that productivity can be higher in Rust, especially the larger the project is, or the longer you expect to support it for.

A lot of what people miss when approaching Rust is that writing libraries is really hard and time consuming, but writing applications using libraries is often as easy as Python. Libraries need to provide abstractions, and thus use really complex features like code generation macros, trait extension, generics, type conversion, and the annoying lifetimes that most people beat their heads on when first learning Rust. Rust for an application developer feels almost entirely OOP, like Java, and much nicer than C++ because simple data structures don't hit undefined behavior every other line with the other half being full of memory leaks.
I've never thought of YC as being particularly averse to drama. And given that much of the drama would be news stories about how YC is trying to protect women from being sexually harassed, I really don't see the downside for them.
you're not lying. Upstate New York and it's deer tick population seem to be breeding some terrifying diseases.
I just can't stand this guys mannerisms, and constantly goofing of words. Every single word, is some kooky variant. I respect that he's clearly an intelligent guy, and knows what he's talking about. It's just like listening to your annoying uncle, trying to constantly make a stupid joke.
Daryl Bem proved ESP is real. Which means science is broken
I see clearly how reasonable people can disagree about how important access to YC deals are to a tech VC firm, and that it's useful to have the counterpoint here on the thread.
Van Helsing would have been better..
Both good questions.
Not getting into "guilty until proven innocent"; all this is going to accomplish is attach a huge risk factor to women who are seeking investors making their life harder than it already is. Hell is paved with good intentions.
Well, but these are the public keys. All you can is just to install it to your system and wait for someone to login using the private part...
A lot of people would like to see the working way to get the private key out of public key :)
As you can clearly see from this thread, that's not what most of the drama will be about.
The best article I have read in a long time.
Not the parent, but I will probably be writing up mine soon. My choice of hardware is heavily inspired by the notion that devices function independently of the computer, and the computer functions independently of the Internet.

...My home automation software has bugs, and I've had plenty of problems with it. But I've yet to have a problem with my thermostat, lights, or smoke detectors. Despite all of them being linked to it.
From my experience, Clang 5 on O2 will beat ICC with its libraries on its most aggressive optimization setting in real world large applications.
Employment and consumer law tends to frown upon changing the body of law by contract. I'm referring to business formation, contracting, merging, fundraising, et cetera. If you sign under California law for many of these agreements, you will often find at least 3 pages listing out specific sections of California civil procedure and commercial code that both parties will, almost every time, find it beneficial to exempt themselves from. You can't do it in a single, blanket paragraph. You have to write out custom paragraphs for each and every section.

California may have a good body of law, but taking three to 4 times longer to litigate means it costs, cetris paribus, three to 4 times more to defend your contracts. That greatly benefits deep-pocketed litigants (and contract breachers).
> If I wanted to share my data, wouldn't I rather use something more accessible?

Still, it's good inspiration. Maybe I'll make a github repo with my city's open datasets loaded into python.
Governments hire companies (contractors) to do work that is well outside the standard city services (well, sometimes they even hire companies to do the normal city services). This is just Google paying for a trial for the city. I'm sure they will later charge other cities so it looks like most hired contractors that a city uses.
Of course we know gettext. But gettext is less portable and less user-friendly, especially for users who use PHP only casually. That's also the reason why some of the largest PHP frameworks don't primarily use gettext for translations.

The solution here is pragmatic and works. You can measure performance, if you think this is really an issue.
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist
Maybe the mythical 20% time is back. Or they want Zika to stay out of their self-insurance pool. Googly Googs gonna goog.
> With that amount of lost effort not lost we could build hundreds of ecosystems.

That's...not really how ecosystems work.

I agree that the benefit to humanity is probably worth the consequences, especially if they're minor, as seems likely. We still need to learn as much about those consequences as possible, if only so we can prepare for them in advance. We aren't currently capable of wiping out all mosquitoes, so it's not like we're holding back a sure-fire treatment.

And it's pretty silly to assume that only unimportant ecosystems are vulnerable to the loss of a single family. You know how screwed we'd be if bees vanished? Mosquitoes are pollinators too. As it happens, they're not primary pollinators, so it's probably okay, but that's the kind of thing we need to know about.
Nothing is so small that Hacker News cannot overthink it, not even a cheese sandwich.
I think you're referring to Lyme disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease
they don't owe more taxes (profits already taxed in countries where they were earned) unless they choose to repatriate.
> HN sort of presents as being a "safe" place to post anonymously but it's an illusion.

I don't think I've seen that represented anywhere, and I don't think a news site really should be
True. But I feel like some of the rhetoric I see in these comments touches on the idea of eliminating all mosquitos.
> That's not a failure of public key cryptography, that's a failure of the SSH protocol.

But Github is using public key cryptography as implemented in SSH - if that has a failure, Github should take some blame for not working around it, especially when they are going out of their way to expose data that has little benefit IMO.

Anyway, SSH is orthogonal to one of my points, which, phrased another way, is that publishing the link between two identities (the key itself, and the key-owner's Github profile) without consent or need is unethical because it violates the privacy of the owner. I believe there is precedent in the PGP world (e.g., "I believe it's poor etiquette to upload someone else's key to a keyserver as you deny them that choice."[0])

I sort of get the "detrimental to other protocols" and "lazy security for the SSH protocol" points, but when you talk about publishing public keys, do you acknowledge a difference between "key XYZ is in use on Github" and "key XYZ identifies user ABC on Github"? I'm saying the latter is unwise and unkind, and it would be even if the SSH protocol didn't have this particular failure.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/27254303
> many places declare only one of the variants to be legally binding and the others only for convenience

Variants of what?
Ticks are terrble. Also lice. A parent yesterday told me her kid got them and she had some lice expert spend three hours removing them with a brush. haha
It's easy to be bitter when management squanders a good thing.
So you know founders that went through YC and don't feel like they got much out of it? I wouldn't want you to break any confidences, but I'd be interested in hearing more such folks and what they think of YC.
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I'll just pick two of these many points:

> completely agree, but are the small, local competitors not subsidized by investors like Uber? I don't understand how a competitor without backing could compete against an established super corp.

The small local competitors were doing this long before Uber came along. They're called taxis. Sure, they did a good job increasing competition in this market. But by and large, all they've done is transferred money from poor drivers and rich investors to middle-class customers.

All they do is collect payments, coordinate dots on a map, and provide driver rating. And any competitor starting now has the advantage of not being $8 billion below water.

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

? I think this is magnified by the Valley -- peers and friends outside of California seem to either not know, or not care deeply. I honestly don't think Uber's bottom line has been harmed.

Uber has many stakeholder that are more important than customers: they need their drivers' motivation, they need employees (valley!), the need politicians and judges, and they need investors. All of these groups differ from their customers that they're much better informed, and engaging with Uber is a much bigger risk for them than just using their service.
Mosquitoes, I think. These are an intrusive species, new to the area, so probably not a primary food source.
What you're describing is a modern form of mercantilism, not autarky.

True autarky is neither imports nor exports and aims for complete independence from external economic events. Even if all you're importing is raw materials, a spike in the price can throw your economy into a tailspin, e.g. the oil crisis of the 70s in the West.
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Not really.

As you say, they're lending you what would've been the upfront payment for the software. They receive your subscription, and have to pay (in interest, to their bank) very low rates. So, on the (fixed) notional they currently pay low rates, while receiving high-ish subscription.
This really worries me when they start writing critical applications. I did have to reboot an old school program at work today. Very dated piece of software, pretty sure it predates Windows 7.

It had been running, over a (fairly complicated) network connection for 303 days. I can't think of many modern pieces of software that do their job 24/7 for 303 days straight.

And I'm pretty sure the reason it was 303 days, was because I had to move that machine last year.
And we know how accurate polling is.. the VA is terrible; ask a vet.

While the actual care at the VA could be good, the horrid mismanagement and all around bureaucratic incompetence is legendary.
I'm a little confused by your argument, so I'll go through it one clause at a time.

If you could pay $50 for a bucket of goop you can slather
on your roof that would capture 1% of the incident light
energy hitting it forever, would everyone do so?

Sure? If you postulate a PV system that has much lower cost per KWh installed than has ever been achieved, then of course it'll make economic sense.

by your standard "hell yeah" as that means the equivalent
of $2.5k per roof (I multiplied the $50 for 1% by 50 to
conpare apples to apples) to capture 50% of the energy
which is far better $ per KWh than offered by anyone else!

Sure? You made the fictional system way, way better, so it's an even better deal now.

The issue is that for many people they would prefer to
capture more than 1% and they are willing to pay more
per kwh in exchange for getting more kilowatt hrs. So
they would prefer to pay a large premium, thereby
showing that it really doesn't just come down to cost
per KW-hr installed.

You are now talking about something completely different. Homeowners demonstrably don't care about the power conversion efficiency of their roof-- the penetration rate of rooftop solar is pathetic. People care about how much their electricity costs, and only install rooftop solar if gives them cheaper electricity. If grid power costs $0.10/KWh, and solar costs $0.50/KWh, then they won't buy it. Look out the window! Look at all the solar panels you don't see.

That's the argument from economics. The argument from product availability: regular planar unconcentrated multijunction cells for terrestrial use don't exist. You can't buy them, because there's no market for a $10,000 500 watt cell when $200 300 watt cells are sold. https://www.wholesalesolar.com/solar-panels

You can get them for space applications, presumably at incredible expense: http://www.spectrolab.com/DataSheets/Panel/panels.pdf

Concentrated multijunction panels for terrestrial use exist, but are only used in utility-scale installations, since you don't do two-axis tracking with rooftop solar. (Dual tracked solar panels cast shadows on each other, so they have to be spaced much farther apart, and consequently have bad space utilization)

The only figure of merit in a PV system is cost per kilowatt-hour installed. Right now, all rooftop solar installations are single-junction. If multijunction cells resulted in a lower cost per kilowatt-hour installed, then they would be used, but they don't, so they aren't.
Not if rents dynamics (economic rent) extract all that wealth into the hands of rentiers.

Unless you increase land taxes, that's what you end up with.
I always use the "best practice" way in a project to generate translations. Most programming languages or frameworks have a translation practice or library that is widely used.

I always build my apps first in English. Often you can create an export of all strings that need to be translated. I translate them myself or send the file to a translation agency.
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Or the possible transference of non-harmful or beneficial bacteria?
> Wouldn't lists like this lead to lawsuits?

Yes, yes they will: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/06/23/maaj...

I don't think Maajid Nawaz is going to win because he'll have to prove real damages from the SPLC (horribly erroneously, in my opinion) labeling him an "anti-Muslim extremist". Being put on a blacklist by YC might result in damages that are easier to prove, though.
With all due respect: bullshit

When a SV startup goes belly-up, the first to get fucked are the employees. Even employee #1 and even if you started a week after incorporation, your equity is the first to disappear. And add to that, the fact that many startups have allowed founders and key executives (but not rank and file) to sell options and take money out pre-exit.

In my experience, startup employees are largely not aware of the drastic difference in equity distribution and protections. They know, of course, that founders and investors have a bigger share than they do, but they don't realize how lopsided it is, and that founders can walk away with multimillions as they drop to zero themselves.

In fact, in cases where large numbers of employees got rich (>$1M... Google, FB, etc) from an exit, the founders did not become just "rich", but rather became multibillionaires, and the wealthiest people on the planet.
Guilty until proven innocent? This is disgusting, it will get abused

If YC has their head in the right place, then such abuses will be figured out, and will effectively flag the abusers. If YC doesn't have their head in the right place, you really didn't want to do business with them in the first place.

Hell is paved with good intentions.

In some ways, the beginning of the 21st century really isn't all that different from the beginning of the 20th or the 19th!
GP meant that companies aren't going to supply updates and maintenance, and that users would suffer for it. He wasn't ignoring any facts.
Another resource - https://sigopt.com/, in the vein of Whetlab.

e.g. For NLP:

*
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/fast-cnn-tuning-with-aws-gpu...

Disclaimer: they did share free trials with some of our students.
Discounts are a huge part of it. That said, I typically try to box legal bills in advance for everything except litigation. For the avoidance of doubt, I give both coasts the same budget. Guess which side's lawyers love running right through it (or approaching it to within 5¢).
Quite the peeve of mine, though it hadn't occurred to me until the 3rd or 4th sighting of that headline.

Bravo.
Funny, it seems increasingly apt to me.
We're at the point where a microcontroller is simpler to manufacture and cheaper than a bunch of popcorn logic.