skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, depending on your audience I think it would be a step backward for static display of code since in some cases it isn't clear what to actually type. Fine for experienced audiences but really frustrating for anyone learning.

For example, the 'x' in the hex value. Is it a regular 'x' or another character? How about those fat arrows? How are those typed?
GPG is FIPS 140-2 compliant (though pass itself might not be, depending on the specific way it's used). Most likely pass would have to use GPG in a specific FIPS-compliant mode to pursue validation.
It's not about you or a company, once the market tolerates non-competes, employers will use them for any sort of a knowledge-based position. People will shift jobs less, wages will lower, followed by other economic effects of slightly lower wages.
I think it makes quite a bit of sense if you're at all interested in having children and staying home with them for any amount of years to worry about the income of your partner. That description tends to apply more to females than males. Pick your poison.

Personally, I know I've prioritized dating men who are willing to stay home themselves since I don't like the idea of being a stay-at-home mom.

Anyway, just seems rational.
My guess is they will fund some Startup School founders with a small amount of money like they did with the Fellowship. Then again it's all up in the air. They raised 700M last year or so. They could also be piling up cash for bad times to keep YC companies private for as long as possible.
This is a big problem with these "top-down" systems in general. Look at educational systems and you'll see the same problem. Teachers generally hate their electronic record-keeping tools, but they generally have no voice in which tool is chosen. It's all up to someone up top (who has no idea how day-to-day operations work) that makes the call.

The same thing happens in finance, warehouse work, etc etc.
Not "nearly everyone", plenty of people in the technical community who have worked on Bitcoin for a long time have grave reservations about Segwit. Considering that it is active on litecoin and protects basically no value should raise some warning flags.
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In the original comment, the person speaks about being commuting to work or at work literally all their waking hours. That's the scenario, not 50-60 hours a week.
Many non-profits exist to make money too. Some people find doing a non-profit makes more money than a "for profit" company. I do think that money isn't always the main motivator, it's more complex than that. But generally, at the end of the day, money matters, even for non-profits.
"The simple fact is that if you own a Bay Area home, you will oppose increased supplies because it makes your home less valuable."

Yeah, this is a bit of "yimby" rhetoric that's pretty simple-minded. People don't oppose new construction because of abstract fears like "property value"...they oppose them because of concrete fears, like changing the character of the neighborhood, or increasing traffic.

I'm not saying I agree with those fears, but it's helpful not to make cartoon characterizations of the other side's arguments, when many of those arguments have merit. If you spent most of your life savings on a house in a cute suburban neighborhood, you'd (rightly) be pretty pissed if people suddenly wanted to surround it with high-rises.

Again, I don't agree with these arguments, but it's helpful to actually understand them.
The Psychology of a Unicorn Enterprise App: Why Is Slack So Habit-Forming?
Fremont here means a neighborhood in Seattle, not an East Bay town.
Look no further than:

'Security Now' w/ the impeccable Steve Gibson.
'The Ben Shapiro Show' (obviously)
'The President's Inbox'
'On The Media' w/ my good gal Brook Gladstone - Bob can take a seat
'The Church of What's Happening Now' for the skinny
'Containers' (still like globalization?)
'The Daily' (get informed at the start of the day)
'Exponent'
'The Global Politico'
'Nature Prodcast'
'The Joe Rogan Experience' (duh)
'Software Eng. Daily' (duh)
I cringed so hard when I read that line in the article. This is a "Cat's in the Cradle" situation in the making.
That is so accurate
Claude Shannon created the THROBAC I to do this.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/synesthete/2591624549
Yes. On the way to work I got mugged three times, before having acid thrown in my face. Oakland is a burning hellhole, stay the fuck away if you value your life and property.
For what it's worth, I do all my "scanning" with my phone camera these days. There are various apps that can even make it look like a traditionally scanned document in addition to converting it to PDF.
In block chain, 51% of the network can decide to modify the ledger to do things that aren't true. That's all it takes to completely change how much money is in my account in a "distributed" bank. I don't own it, and it's certainly not robust against demagogues.

Demagogues are by definition political opportunists who play on populism to advance their politics. If democratic elections have a vulnerability to them, so certainly do "distributed systems" where a simple majority has enough power to control "history"
No they were not. The quote, by David Blumenthal who designed the HITECH legistlation said this:

"Before you can create interoperability, you have to create operability"[1]

I'll leave it to you to decide whether this was a wise philosophy to underpin a major national IT project.

[1]http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/blumenthal-look-stage-1...
Yes, but if you are taking Amtrak from Philly to Manhattan every day roundtrip you already have a pretty hefty commuting bill--probably $100/day fairly easily. This is admittedly less than a Manhattan hotel but there is a fairly significant financial cost associated with these extreme commuting situations.
(not a designer here) What is wrong with having lots of content on the screen? Isn't it better to not make users scroll or navigate to see the content they came for?
Well, given the doctors in the article flat out stated that:

There was a chance that his immune system would go into overdrive, and there was a chance that the edited T-cells wouldn’t be as potent as they expected. The medical team just really couldn’t be sure what would happen.

That article goes on to note all manner of side effects with this style of therapy: fever, tremors, convulsions, encephalitis... and right at the end we have this quote:

He had an atypical skin growth, a chronic cough, a sinus infection, a puddle of fluid at the bottom of his lungs, a virus in his right eye, and bad heartburn.

Of course, as far as side effects go, this is pretty minor. But there's no understanding of why these types of things happen in the first place because our understanding of the immune system in vivo is just not very good.
Sure, great question.

It's important to note that 3 years doesn't mean 3 data points. It really depends on the funds average trade horizon. Which is, I think, exactly what you were referring to.

An HFT firm trades at such small scales that it can use its daily returns such that each year actually provides 252 data points.

On the other side of the coin, Berkshire Hathaway would need benchmark times longer than a single year.

I'm assuming the fund has holding times of around a week based on intuition and prior knowledge of alto of different fund investment structures.

The thing to understand about hedge funds is that most of them change investment strategies at some point in their lifetime such that historical records no longer really apply. This can happen for a number of reasons:

1) markets get crowded and force people to search for alpha somewhere else

2) funds get larger and existing strategies don't have the capacity to manage the new money.

3) traders leave and new traders have new ideas.

3 year is an industry goldilocks mark for comparing hedge funds. Not too long to take into account old strategies that are no longer employed and not too short that it doesn't allow the strategies to play out.

I cant' remember the exact number but Victor Haghani of LTCM fame talked about this and said it would be something like 143 years of data to know if a biased coin that comes up heads 60% of the time is biased to a 95% confidence level.

Obviously this isn't workable and as such we have to use smaller time frames.

See:

http://labs.elmfunds.com/pastreturns

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2856963
Wait a second. The average hedge funds is underperforming the SP500 index every year and by important returns? How are they still in business?
There are over a dozen new buildings, five story, 100s of units built over the last few years. Large and small units all over the place. And they are full!
Unless you believe in the consistency of inconsistency prime bases would be annoying to work with.
I'm amazed at how YC has successfully executed the ultimate startup by funding startups.

Going from investing 15 in 6 companies to have a one billion dollar fund.

I wonder how this will alter the market considering they'll have first option from the very first check. Will other VC firms look at how they can go down the pipeline?

Kudos to them!
My guess is that this is just an experiment for the sake of experimenting... But still, many things come out of this kind of experimenting.
The one thing that really helped me with loneliness was when I started chanting and practicing Buddhism. It was in fact the sole reason why I started practicing in the first place. It's been a long journey and although I would still consider myself an introvert, it has broadened my social network significantly. I do spend time alone occasionally but I have a family and a network of friends.

I believe human relationships and social interaction are the key to happiness and the lack of it is a major source of suffering. However, at the same time, we also have our individual characteristics that define us. Balancing both our need to be an individual and our need to be social relates to being in harmony with life.

I try to help as many people as I can feel less lonely so I'm happy to have a chat if you'd like.
Nationwide yes - The program is commonly referred to as Meaningful Use. There were a number of requirements related to data exchange, and it moved the needle slightly.

All the requirements are written as a numerator/denominator format. For example, 25% of all lab orders placed by a provider need to be resulted electronically. So there's an incentive to integrate some things, but not all.

Edit: here are the 2015 rules and accompanying underlying standards:
https://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/201...
I've seen pass mentioned like a million times but I didn't realize there were so many third party extensions for it, the comments here are pretty helpful. Thanks for the submission!
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Photo Viewer: must open quickly. If I want to manage a zillion photos I can download something else, but when I just open a file I want to see it right away.
Stripe's new issue of Increment: Cloud
Arabic numeral: Cardinal number name | Ordinal number name, with conjugation information

1: Unus -a -um | primus -a -um
2: duo, duae, duo | secundus -a -um
3: tres, tria | tertius -a -um
4: quattuor | quartus -a -um
5: quinque | quintus -a -um
6: sex | sextus -a -um
7: septem | septimus -a -um
8: octo | octavus -a -um
9: novem | nonus -a -um
10: decem | decimus -a -um
11: undecim | undecimus -a -um
12: duodecim | duodecimus -a -um
13: tredecim | tertius decimus -a -um
14: quattuordecim | quartus decimus -a -um
15: quindecim | quintus decimus -a -um
16: sedecim | sextus decimus -a -um
17: septendecim | septimus decimus -a -um
18: duodeviginti | duodevice(n)simus -a -um
19: undeviginti | undevice(n)simus -a -um
20: viginti | vice(n)simus -a -um
30: triginta | trice(n)simus -a -um
40: quadraginta | quadrage(n)simus -a -um
50: quinquaginta | quinquage(n)simus -a -um
60: sexaginta | sexage(n)simus -a -um
70: septuaginta | septuage(n)simus -a -um
80: octoginta | octoge(n)simus -a -um
90: nonaginta | nonage(n)simus -a -um
100: centum | cente(n)simus -a -um
500: quingenti | quingente(n)simus -a -um
1000: mille | mille(n)simus -a -um

From Cassell's Latin English Dictionary, second edition.
I can't even read the text. I'm guessing it's something about "over-complicating web development" or something similar?
In my experience, some would just never come to Terms and just 'ghost'.
Simple buffer overflow example impossible on a modern Linux?
You're right, I had incorrectly said halted earlier, but attempted to correct for that, not quite enough perhaps. In terms of progress per-capita, how does it really compare though? To my knowledge at least, it was still very low for a long time. I could be wrong about that though.

I hear the "stand on the shoulders of giants" argument and everything though - but I think there's definitely at least some effect from the system that should be acknowledged.
Isn't it risky to selectively back particular YC companies? There's always a negative signal when your lead investor doesn't participate in future rounds - if they start doing that more regularly with this new fund, then it might become a negative signal for a YC company NOT to have Continuity/YC as a follow-on investor (which sucks b/c the firms are so early stage).

Anyone know how VC firms that invest in all early-growth-late firms deal with this dilemma (realizing there are only a few cases)?
Do you remember when the majority hard-forked, changed history, and restored millions of ether to DAO?

Is that not blatantly a majority imposing themselves on the economy through majority dictate?
Crowdsourcing at its worst.

Get with a modern Product Management philosophy, and quit begging the community for ideas.

Crossposting to Reddit, Slashdot and HN on the same day smacks of utter desperation.
The question is still valid though.
Ask HN: What tools do you use for cleaning data?
Just wondering if any other data analysts/scientists have the same trouble cleaning and prepping data as I am.
The thing i never understand is the people who act like the ability to have "code as law" is new.
The reason code hasn't been law since the time of hammurabi isn't because of lack of capability to precisely and logically express conditions, or even executing them reliably.
It's because society didn't want it.
I haven't seen much that says this changed today.

Even today, the reason contracts today haven't been written in symbolic logic and enforced rigidly isn't because we lack the capability or some legal hurdle. It's because, often, the result of negotiation on a specific point is very deliberately "let's worry about this later" (IE in court). It allows agreement on the major things while putting off the improbable events to a time when they actually happen, and gives a resolution mechanism when that occurs.
How to start a sidehustle: Make thing. Add Buy button. Tell people
I just ended a job that involved a 1:45 minute drive each direction... interesting to know that doesn't count as "Extreme" commuting since it wasn't 2:00+.

It's not something I would do forever... but the experience was worth it and the pay was/is better than I get nearby. Nearby being the 140 acres of family farm land I'm lucky enough to live on.
I'm pretty sure anything I'd suggest would already be included in other people's lists so I'm going to request something different. Personally, I'd like a well maintained set of applications that integrates nicely into the default desktop. So things like global shortcuts (ideally having them be the same for common actions), panel and notification integrations, nicely setup default launcher icons, works well with the search bar, looks great with the default icon set, etc.

Example: whatever calendar app you include should work with the calendar in GNOME's panel.

I'd also like to emphasize on the well maintained part since I personally prefer that my core set of applications to not become stale over time or even worse, just have tons of quality of life/paper cut bugs that remain unpatched for years. Whatever is chosen as default should get continued support and help from Ubuntu itself.

If you can do that, I would definitely come back and give Ubuntu another chance.
Just tested android-x86 7.1 rc on Dell XPS 13, it's impressive. Everything was working properly.
> Governments in the west are quite accountable, voted for and with a system of checks and balances that has evolved over time, through wars and revolutions.

I think this is where you're losing people. For the most part, it isn't true, and the trend seems to be shaped as a downward slope.

The "government" of the US still imprisons 2 million people, mostly because it has a list of plants and chemicals it doesn't like and won't negotiate on. That's just one example of its ongoing dysfunction.

It's completely reasonable, in a mature and thoughtful society, to try doing things in a completely different way. I'm not sure that cryptocurrencies are a good answer, but they're at least a good question.
Yeah, for sure, but the people in these articles were buying $350k homes so they are already pretty well off. I don't think any of these people chose the commute option because they couldn't afford a place in the city (just not as big/nice of a place as they have where they live).
Would you say the same is true for Feynman diagrams in QED?
Good point. Copying and pasting should still work ok, but it would be confusing to read for someone who didn't recognize the ligature glyphs.
PDF reader: lightweight greenfield project that just puts pdf.js in a GTK3 webview

My answer to all of the other questions, though, is "nothing that's suitable for noobs". To this end, please make it easy to clean out the gunk and bring in power user tools.
So housing prices aren't that big a deal?
This plagued me for a couple of years! Yes!

Either make it higher or learn which ones we actually click.
In my experience using Fira Code with VS, VS Code, and Konsole, the monospacing isn't a problem. The ligatures are designed so that they fill up the same width as the original characters.

My opinion might be biased by a heavy math background, but I like that e.g. "less than or equal" now looks the same as the way I write it on paper, and I don't find myself spending any time thinking about what that symbol means.

I'll concede that it totally messes up command line help text in the console, though. You get lots of stuff like --parameter=<value> turned into —parameter≤value> but it hasn't annoyed me enough to switch back yet.
Yes. Before the 2008-2009 financial crisis, ~100 new banks were founded every year.

From 2010-2015 there were 4 new banks total.
When my wife and I visited Japan, her Tokyo-based friend came with us on the Shinkansen for the first part of our trip. If I remember right, it cost her something like $200 to ride the train to Nagoya and back. Now, that was something like 200 miles, but still, commuting via Shinkansen would not be cheap.

Edit: it was cheaper for us because we paid $250 for a 7-day Japan Rail Pass which let us ride almost every Shinkansen and almost every local train as much as we wanted. Highly recommended if you're planning a trip to Japan and want to get out of Tokyo.
The UK is notorious for building homes with tiny rooms in my experience. I've often felt personally that the housing market there is too obsessed with bedroom count as a metric for comparison rather than actual usable square footage.

My father's house in the UK was built in last 10 years and promises 5 bedrooms, I've often thought that knocking this down to 3 and making reasonable sized rooms would have made for a much nicer home. I imagine it also would have knocked however many thousands off the seller's asking price as well though...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/10909403/British...
Not really, but there are some standards, like HL7[1]. But HL7 has some shortcomings. Lately there is an effort afoot to create a new standard called FHIR[2]. The problem is, even if the standard is finished and is GREAT, there's no way of knowing if the various vendors will actually implement it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Level_7

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Healthcare_Interoperabili...
Honestly, another thing that could be done is that VCs could start funding things outside of Silicon Valley. There is precisely zero reason why they all need all of their companies to be right there.
Judge Rules Milwaukee Flouted U.S. Constitution in Response to Pokemon Go Craze
> I've seen records that span more than 1500 pages

That must be someone who goes to doctors as a hobby.
No, no, one thousand times no.

History is not a linear progression, as far as societal and political developments are concerned. Our current government system is not the pinnacle of development so far, let alone the ultimate, final system.

And even by that view, as you say yourself the current system, if satisfactory, took hundreds of years to develop. Crypto currencies were invented 7 years ago.
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Beats me, man. My economics teacher in HS was telling us to invest in index funds years ago. It boggles the mind that hedge funds are so popular.
I really like the giant, triple-line === ligature for JS in Fira Code. Makes it super-obvious when you are doing strict vs sloppy equality checks.
Stability maybe?
Or it's a community project asking for input from the community...
Also the selection effect of us just being aware of it.
If you don't use one of those fonts that support ligatures, you'll see the plain ascii characters. You shouldn't use these fonts if you don't know what kinds of ligatures it supports or how it converts plain ascii characters into a higher form.
What is this you say about audio delay, I have had no such problem with Pulseaudio or Alsa
The earliest mention of this problem I can recall is in the 1948 movie Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Blandings_Builds_His_Dream...

Admittedly, that wasn't the extreme form. Rather, they had misread the train schedule, and available trains ran at very inconvenient times.
Also, it was a big deal when I visited Tokyo in 1979.
To grandparent comment: great point. Didn't think of that.

To parent: You too!
So if a majority of participants (50% + 1 of the network) wanted to say, "rob" the wealthy top 1% of wallets and redistribute wealth by rewriting the history of the blockchain, nothing could stop them?
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I second this. I've noticed that when you solicit contributions, they never come. They need to come of their own accord. I created a "contribute" repo [1] for Standard Notes because a lot of people were asking "how can I contribute?" But it's been collecting dust. Instead, people contribute when they want to, from different sources.

[1] https://github.com/standardnotes/contribute