skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey it's John Biggs kind of sort of from TechCrunch. I think what you've seen here is a good assessment of why you want to go. It's great for connections - I try to walk the Alley daily to see what cool stuff is there - and I've met people who have signed deals in the side rooms. That said you make out of it what you put in and it all depends on your product or company.

Want to know what I think it's good for? It puts you in the show, so to speak. I've been over a hundred startup events and I think TC's is the best primarily because of the people you meet and the ability to interact with other startups. It helps you place yourself in the firmament of startups and figure out where to go next.

I'm a founder and I wouldn't want to launch anywhere else. I'm biased to a fault but that's the truth.
Understanding Russia
There are quite a few valid correlations that judging individuals on the basis of would be considered racist.
I hope this doesn't come across as trivializing what you say (if so that's not my intent), for the AoEII players here it's basically the difference between a Monk-rush (where you convert enemies one-by-one and let them turn on each other) and a direct attack. Both are valid strategies - the choice, which to choose is more related to the in-game economics, so not really applicable here. But one shouldn't underestimate the effect it has on the wider 'KKK brotherhood' (or whatever they call themselves) when even a Grand Dragon gives his rope to a black man.

One thing though, I recommend everyone interested in this topic to watch the documentary about D. Davis on Netflix: Accidental Courtesy. It shows other (AFAIK failed) dialogs with other extremist groups, particularly a Neo-Nazi as well as rather extremist members of the BLM movement. Other examples, particularly Jews befriending Neo-Nazis, seem to show a pattern: You really have to be a member of the centrally hated target to be able to convince members of such extremist groups. Almost like how antidotes work - a black person can be the antidote to KKK while Jews can be that for Neo-Nazis. Maybe BLM members need to talk with white policemen and vice versa?

I'm thinking, as long as it's not someone whose group you really hate, there's always a central pillar left that keeps your belief system up. "Oh well, I guess black people can be pretty smart, but still, those Jews are what's the real danger to society, so I'd better stick to the plan."
Salesforce is the Jira of CRMs..
You are arguing Weev, the Daily Stormer, and the people who call themselves Neo Nazis ... are not?

Do you have any proof their proclamation they are neo nazis is a lie?

You are aware it is literally named after a Nazi tabloid:

The Daily Stormer is named for the Nazi tabloid Der Stürmer, known for its antisemitic caricatures. This 1934 billboard for Der Stürmer reads "With Der Stürmer against Judea. The Jews are our misfortune".

Yes?
> Some people you can trust. Others you can't. This has no correlation with skin color.

That's the ideal, which I fully support, but tragically it is not at all the reality of people with black skin in the U.S.

> racist

In a small way, it's an interesting philosophical debate about semantics, but it has nothing to do with the very real, critical issue, which has caused centuries of suffering and oppression for millions of people. While we argue about words, they are in real pain.
Yes. It’s a false equivalency to worry about 0.5% crooked people and deny help to the 99.5% whom can use it now to meet immediate needs.
email me at john@techcrunch if you have any questions.
You're totally ignoring or forgetting context. Which is that the green book exists because of the Jim Crow laws at the time, along with the general racism.

It's not remotely racist to stay away from white businesses when there is a certain possibility of service refusal, and a possibility that you might be assulted and killed. Hence the necessity of this book.

To say that his family was racist for not trusting white people with the books info, is to be totally ignorant (Tulsa is one example).

You have an extremely weird idea of racism that is not grounded in reality.
So basically you prefer something more along the lines of Model View Controller. Me too. When React was first released it was advertised as “the ‘V’ in MVC”. Unfortunately the developer community took it in a different direction.
I agree with you on literally all points, but critically the PRC does not. As for ethnicity, I agree as well, but the North doesn’t really. I’d strongly recommend The Cleanest Race by Brian Reynolds-
Agree, I keep thinking back to Iraq and WMD's. Something all of our intelligence and even most of our allies all agreed was true.

We should be cautious of these narratives, especially when they can lead to hostility between nations.

We know some level of covert intervention is attempted all the time. Ironically, we are some of the leaders in doing this to other nations. If we put this microscope on all other nations I'm sure we would find incidents there as well.
More broadly, feeling inadequate compared to your peer group, or desired peer group is a profound stimulus for some. I like your analysis!
this further puts to bed the russia hacking the election narrative. you dont have to look far [1] to find the top 100 reasons why hillary lost the election.

[1] http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com
Let’s hope you never end up poor.
I feel like this points to a bigger problem. Why do drivers feel the need to drive faster than the speed limit? Why do drivers and pedestrians hate each other so much? This really feels like a band-aid on a much larger problem. And it also seems like the type of thing that will make people react even worse once they realize the situation. Like those signs that say, "Drive like your kids live here." Fuck you! I don't have any kids and I don't like kids. (Not really, but I know people who think like that.) I've seen people drive way worse between speed bumps to "show the man" that they can't be controlled. It's ridiculous, but solutions like this engender anger while maybe slightly reducing accidents (if at all). THere's a bigger problem we need to understand and all the games we're starting to play with parking between traffic and bike lanes, and cross walks that are farther back from the intersection, and other such remedies are papering over it.
> It was a horrible time in the country for blacks.

It still is, it's just better than it was when this book was published. However, we are back to people openly espousing racism and white supremacy.
It's not racist to assume that you can more safely trust other people that look like you, because most people are racist and are therefore less likely to betray the trust of someone who looks like them. There are sociology / anthropology / psychology experiments and studies and stuff if you look.
Huh, I have no problem believing Russia, say, bought ads of various sorts to try to sway the election, and I'm a little surprised at the skepticism here that it happened. That said, I don't totally understand what the problem is. It's good to know they did, but I wish the outcome were more along the lines of a cultural meme spreading that anyone could buy ads so be considerate about what you believe online. Instead I fear we're going down the road of this being some grave offence, and "how could the tech giants have allowed this?!", and Congressional hearings and yet more laws about what you can do online.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but any network changed you can do on windows, I'm pretty sure you can replicate on Linux. (TTL fixes included)
> The author of this article found a point of leverage that was effective in achieving his goals. I don't think I'd call what he was doing "dialogue," even though talking was part of it.

Exactly. It's like using the feather as a replacement to the sword, figuratively speaking. It's essentially brainwashing people, but in a positive sense of the word, i.e. washing out tribal thoughts that are cancerous to a wider open society.
"In our work at PingThings, we have seen the original, deterministic models of the electric power industry not getting replaced, but subsumed by a stochastic world filled with increasing uncertainty. Many such industries built by engineering are undergo‐ing this fundamental change—evolving from a deterministic machine to a larger, more unpredictable entity that exists in a world filled with randomness—a probabilistic system."

My interpretation of his main point is that we now have the tools to account for system variability in real-time, as opposed to previous times when some variability had to be accounted for beforehand.
Filecoin is another proof of work that doesn't involve burning cpu cycles.
It's funny how racist apologetics sound the same no matter what race is being targeted.
This. Plus psychological investment in identity as a scholar. Makes it very hard for some people to hear “it’s not a good idea” and harder to see when it’s time to cut losses.
Fictionalized: Possible Future of Machine Learning?
> Fortunately, there's no more systematic oppression

Ahh, thank god you declared it and it became so. At best you're sheltered and ignorant, and at worse you're being purposefully obtuse.
The real link: http://www.hnclone.win/

Fantastic resource! The key point of this is it provides working example code to start a project from. Everything is MIT Licensed so that means you get to download it and just start hacking.

I would love to see some accompanying video tutorials!

Of course people are also free to post their own examples using their own favorite technologies. I would love for 'HN Clone' to become a benchmarking standard for comparing stacks. It seems like a bit too much work for such a purpose, but that's the point! :-)

I don't think authentication is actually working in the demo, by the way. Don't be tempted to actually log in to your own account! But I tried creating a new account and it failed.
>Why do you feel like other people hate you or your "kind"?

In the aggregate, stereotypes, negative towards me and positive towards themselves. Essentially what you say in your next sentence, although I'd argue there are unfairly positive stereotypes for themselves too that place them in a better place than others. Might be like the "positive self-illusions" most healthy people have on a personal level[0].

>Do you not feel like giving up on these "haters" is because you've got a pre-existing assumption about them? Specifically that more-or-less they are the type of people who will always hate?

The difference here is I don't condemn a particular group of people or adherents to an ideology or set of nationals, all people are sticky in their pre-conceived notions. This has been demonstrated by psychological research, and I've run into this issue with all people I've met in my life, and surprise, not just over politics, but over all issues: choice of editor, choice of psuedocolor colormap, choice of programming language, etc. The sooner in life in general you stop trying to "save" people, the happier you become.

The subtext here I feel is that you are arguing racial stereotypes are in the same category as research approved by psychologists, but this is such a category error; it's like saying a page and a book are the same because they both have words. A racial stereotype is much lazier than one that is born through statistics, for example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_illusions#Benefits_an...
Promotion of any political issue is obviously going to be divisive. If everyone already agrees on something then it's not really a political issue.
It is frequently quite popular to violate people's rights. Holding polls are not the final word in a free society, they are only one leg of the stool.
wow, lot's of skeptical post all turning up around the same time all using similar talking points. did a link to this get posted on some red site?
I think the key fact you’re forgetting is that when it is dark in most places it is night time, which time is famous for having the fewest people driving. By contrast in the range of the polar night you could have rush-hour during what amounts to midnight in terms of ambient light. It’s really that simple.
As you say, the threat of invasion was the only reason people banded together physically. Now the the threat is gone, we should see more (as small as possible) city-states because everyone loves freedom and more control over their lives. There would not be a world government. Instead multilateralism is how the world would coordinate/cooperate.
the lack of empathy and casual disregard i often see from educated liberal white folk when it comes this stuff makes my stomach turn.
> Bill Clinton's not in power, last time I checked

And neither is his wife.

One does wonder though if the same standards of foreign nations interfering in a U.S. election would have applied to Hillary if she'd been elected.

If memory serves me correctly however, anyone mentioning such things before the election was told that the U.S. election can't be rigged/influenced and to suggest so was an attempt to undermine democracy.
> All because people want to vote.

No, they voted the very same referendum, but non-binding, in 2014 without problems. But this time they wanted to make it binding despite warnings from the gov that it's illegal as per the Spanish constitution.
In some jurisdictions (like mine - Los Angeles), traffic cameras have been deemed illegal because the law stipulates that a person must witness the infraction, and a camera doesn't count.
I'm fairly certain the facebook presence of the same account is parody, so presumably this one is too.
And why shouldn't I be offended? You're bald-faced admitting to not trusting me due to my skin color, based on traumatic experiences you had decades before I was born, hundreds of miles away from the place of my birth. I hope for your sake you don't make other life choices with that kind of logic.

And you're teaching these obsolete lessons to your children and grandchildren, hampering the massive progress society has already made since 1956.

That's not to say discrimination doesn't exist today, and maybe "Never Trust Whitey" was a survival mechanism in the Jim Crow south, but I was taught the whole purpose of the civil rights movement was to move past mentalities like yours.
Your post history indicates that you're not only Russian [1][2], but that you've also been dismissive of the "Russia narrative" since details first surfaced [3][4], and you have a very vibrant history of being vehemently anti-Clinton [5].

You're free to believe whatever you want, but please drop charade. You have a very obvious agenda and you're doing a disservice to the rest of HN with your bullshit implication that you "stopped buying the Russia narrative".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797023

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12793971

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12973995

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12200173

[5] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
We use Pipedrive at Faraday and love it — it's the Trello of CRM
IMO industry leaders have pressure to reinvest their profits in R&D and put it in their new products, regardless of whether they can get patent protection for them or not.

I'm not an expert in codecs or wireless protocols, but afaik most wireless telephony standards are practically trade secrets, requiring payment of tens of thousands of dollars to even read the spec.

And I can't say I'm really a fan of the situation where people are forced to buy Qualcomm chips because they hold key LTE patents which they're managed to get people worldwide to agree to use.

But one thing I do know about standards is that they often trademark their name, and then require certification and payment for use; it should be relatively straight forward to setup industry bodies like this where you cannot use the trademark Bluetooth without paying into the body, which pays for R&D.

Sure, you have to get creative and you can't just sneak something you patented into a standard and land in a billion dollar monopoly, but frankly, I'm not really crying for Qualcomm and co.

[EDIT]: By way of analogy: we don't let newspapers patent facts, even if they are the first to report them. This makes it hard for news orgs to protect their content, and while it was easier for news orgs pre-internet, Reuters, AP, NYT, BuzzFeed are all doing well. There's no need to prop up every industry.
This too. IME, the phd students who do well are those who had a life pre-academia, and hence didn’t get super-invested in aforesaid greasy pole, didn’t get weird parental issues with their advisors, etc.
I actually stumbled upon Oberon in high school. My computer teacher was the lone Oberon developer I've met.
I can't help but see those two accidents as completely different. I wasn't suggesting that an uncontained engine explosion is no big deal, but that there is vastly less danger to critical flight controls and therefore vastly less danger to passengers.

Let's compare: Qantas 32 lost throttle on one engine, lost one engine completely (obviously), flaps, and ABS. United 232 lost its tail engine, elevator, rudder, aileron, flaps, and had no ABS to begin with.

Qantas 32 was able to maintain a holding pattern for an hour while diagnosing the aircraft, and was given enough time to calmly calculate a glide path and put the airplane down safely. United 232 landed at twice the safe speed, with 6x the safe sink rate, on its wing.

Qantas 32 had 0 fatalities or injuries, United 232 had 111 fatalities and 172 injuries.
The national government being wrong does not mean that the regional government is right.
Cheap energy sources like hydro are usually connected to a grid, so that electricity could be used to reduce fossil fuel demand elsewhere if it wasn’t being used for mining.
Question: I see that redux is advertised for state management but I don’t see any calls to dispatch or import statements for redux. Is redux actually used in this project?
When the music stops, and hope of striking it rich dies...people are greedy and shortsighted in the aggregate.
I saw this very eye-opening video of a presentation on the Green Book, which I hadn't heard of before. The stories some of the participants tell transformed how I look at the experiences of black Americans.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?404885-1/travel-guides-african...

Per the link above, the presenter Calvin Ramsey is making a documentary, "The Green Book Chronicles", in progress (and looking for funding):

https://greenbookchronicles.com/
Yeah, going through life using sociology / anthropology / psychology experiments as a moral compass sounds like something a well adjusted person would do.
Interesting I had not considered that either. Thanks for the information. After years of being a programmer I'm convinced that digital evidence is really hard to take seriously considering the inability of most of it being tamper proof.
At least in STEM, tuition is practically free and PhD students are paid for their research work and teaching. There are even PhD student labor unions in most public and some private universities. (Whether the pay is good and whether unionizing makes sense are separate topics).

You will not get paid well as a PhD student, but there is no massive amount of debt involved either (and again, whether there are opportunity costs is a separate topic).
> Everything is MIT Licensed

Besides GraphQL you mean
The "whole purpose of the civil rights movement" was to secure rights for people who didn't have them, not to placate the sensibilities of the oppressors.

In the US, to this day, we have terribly segregated and unequal communities where "never trust whitey" is a survival strategy, especially when it comes to police.
Every group of people prefers to affiliate with their own, but blacks are some of the most racist human beings on this planet. I do not know if any of you have actual real-world experience or just have these discussion threads to attempt showcasing moral "values", but the drivel that comes out of the average hood-kid is astonishing: "cracker" this "cracker" that, and the recent "kill all white cops" my most favorite. South Africa shall have served as a warning sign but people choose to remain ignorant.

Blacks are oppressed not by our white ancestors but by their own biology.
I had a similar reaction because the tech savvy investors who are already looking at U/L know that they're a proxy for self-driving cars.

Which makes me suspect that it's not for a them or even us.

I suspect this is for the completely tech-unsavvy investors who need prodding to remember "oh yeah, I can get in on that." If that drives interest and demand for the stock, more power to them.
Is that what this sign means? [0] As an American, I couldn't figure out its meaning.

[0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcardani/3321935026/
Honestly, with the level of scrutiny Trump is receiving by the types of people who would be willing to edit Wikipedia pages and who are prominent in tech and the media in general, it's completely unsurprising to see such a large "Legal & Ethical Controversies" section. The left is drowning in their own data because criticizing Trump is such a cheap way to get clicks these days. It's what leads to so many duds in terms of scandals, like this Russia nonsense.
Your link seems to argue that the simple fact that it's common convention makes it explicit, which doesn't really seem to hold water.
Not everything is a Web App. Git flow is more appropriate for libraries and things that do have versions and branches.

Not everything must be one size fits all. There are many different ways to code.
No such thing as an “illegal vote.” Natural law and all that.
I was talking about the systematic oppression of black people. If you're talking about affirmative action then I agree that whites and Asians are systematically discriminated against.
Anyone else think it's particularly gross when people voyeuristically root through people's comments history to try to discredit them?
Everyone who disagrees with me is a shill ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The military has been suppressing advanced energy tech for 70+ years in order to maintain the stability of the global financial (slavery) system.

Decentralized energy production means loss of control.
https://xkcd.com/1095/

This isn't limited to wine drinking preference, people can pontificate about anything.

I'm sure a sea of articles in the same vein wouldn't begin to compare to the number of person-hours wasted on alcohols.
I think this is less a correlation with skin color than culture, tradition, inertia and education (or lack thereof). It's demonstrably real, and why it takes decades or centuries to undo. The lasting inertia of institutional racism in the United States is pretty hard to ignore, though I've encountered my share of people who think it's all in the past.

"Trust" assumes a fair, even starting point.
Facebook switched it over to MIT last week (along with React): https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/blob/master/LICENSE
>the massive progress society has already made

not very clear in the current political climate.

>a survival mechanism

it is. the rest of us are trying to survive out here with secret trump supporters in our workplaces, schools, universities, restaurants, grocery stores, and every aspect of our day to day lives.
The fact of the matter is that Manafort met with Russian officials before the election. What was that meeting about do you think?