skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not much substance to this; just aimless complaining.

There's a better write-up, which escapes me at the moment, which clarifies the smoking gun of Java's painful slow performance under certain circumstances as rooted in L2 cache churn, due to the deadly combination of the java.lang.String class' immutability in memory, and all java.lang.Object instance references (literally everything, including the references themselves) being passed around as messages which are... you guessed it, Strings.

This is why a GUI on a Desktop java runtime environment feels slow (no one cares about your Swing app, and go out and buy four times more RAM (64GB maybe? oh, why not?) just for your IDE), but server processes, while also memory-hungry, are capable of reasonable performance in exchange for marginal code readability (even if verbose), when processing mostly primitives, threaded in parallel (yay, stateless protocols!), and packed into highly normalized formats serialized as JSON data structures, or XML/HTML DOMs, handled by proven libraries with good API's.
invite?
Lead Filter Water Bottles
Out if interest I googled YC rejected companies that succeeded. Here's a thread from a year back;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11229700
So, I work in obsolescence trying to support systems that operate for upwards of 20-30 years. It has been a real learning experience, as I have a much longer product lifecycle to support, and yet, we burn through material for repairs. There is very little actual board repair or similar, more pull out a entire assembly, toss it and put it an entire new assembly. Wasteful, just like Apple or similar saying to just throw out the entire device (or recycle it).

I don't like it, but ultimately I can see our disposable consumer culture really manifested through this situation. Most commercial-off-the-shelf components are not made to last for time to market, material and cost reasons. If they were, the pace of technological development might decrease and cost would probably increase.

Sometimes I wonder if we have progressed "enough" technologically to step back and use the power we have to build some long term support/sustainable technology infrastructure. Yet I fear unless our hand is forced, we will persist in the current trends of using a lot of energy and raw material to produce something that doesn't last long enough, and then sell "recycling" as the solution.

Can the recycling chain really make up for all the energy, and activity consumed and pollution/byproducts produced throughout the process?

Sometimes I wonder if we spent more time on modular, upgradeable designs, long term support components, etc. we might fair better. Easier said than done? Sustainable engineering/manufacturing is a complex, emerging science.

Still, obsolescence is a many headed hydra, whether you do long term support or planned obsolescence. I don't see any easy answers but I'm looking!
Copyright is not, and never was, for creators. It's for publishers.
Thanks IEEE. While we're at it, we'd also like it if you opened your standards process, and included the general public and especially security researchers in all your drafts.
You can make a shopping list in Excel, and you can also run a $100M+ company with it. It's probably the most important and powerful product Microsoft has made, right next to Windows itself. Anything taking on Excel would have to be able to do all that, while also offering so much more to overcome the friction of switching.

Otherwise it's just a niche product, which is still valid, but not really a next-gen spreadsheet. Coda seems like it would be great project management/CRM tool rather than a spreadsheet app.

See also:

https://airtable.com/

https://fieldbook.com/

https://quip.com/
I want to remark that its not inflation, its just regular demand shock to the market. Specially housing takes time to match the supply to demand.

Inflation is generalized increased of nominal costs, not particular to an asset, nor in 'real terms' which is what is happening here.
Dunno man... what if they acquire flight? We will all be hosed then\
depending on where you live, you might have some luck via meetups. i'm a long-time rpg player, but I lost my group when I moved to esseph. Meetup started the networking process - there's a lot of D&D and other RPG meetup groups.
No updates yet...
Hurricanes don't strike the same place every time. Savannah hasn't had a devastating hurricane in nearly 40 years.
In Python 3.6, dicts are now ordered.
depending on the age of the kids, you might be interested in facilitating No Thank You, Evil. It's designed to be run by an older kid, but parents can GM as well. I've not played, but I have heard good reviews.

http://www.nothankyouevil.com/
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This is absolutely the best comment on HN in years. OMM turned game reviewing into a SCIENCE with TTC ratings.
We go to the interviews. Were rejected three times in the past.

Also, open to add a new team member in a COO-type role prior to the interviews.
I almost didn't read this because the submitted title spelled "meh" to me.

But I'm glad I looked. This is hilarious!

(And it has nothing to do with YC or YC applicants. The actual title is much better: "Honoring Those We Missed: The Anti-Portfolio")

It also makes me feel not quite so bad about some of my own personal mistakes...
1. small

2. powerful

3. with options

4. easy to work on without special (possibly custom) equipment

choose two
All of Terry Tao's writing is really good and approachable. Highly recommended.
Why haven't I receive my rejection email?
How to Create an Exceptional Omnichannel Retail Experience
From the programming and functionality perspective that's fantastic. From the data security perspective that's a nightmare.
What Happened to eBay?
What about the right to use our electronics? Google has been silently pushing their "SafetyNet" APIs into Android, including an "attestation" API[1] that dynamically fetches and runs an opaque binary program[2] served and signed by Google that collects whatever data they deem necessary to verify the "integrity" of a device.

Devices that are rooted will not fail to attest via the API. Devices where the user has chosen to install a custom ROM will fail to attest (even with a locked bootloader and no root). Apps from Google Play can use these APIs to decide whether to work on a user's device.

This is macOS SIP taken to a different level. You can't watch Netflix and whatever other app decides to use these APIs unless Google has complete control over your device, including the ability to remotely collect and transmit opaque and arbitrary data at any time. This is a dishonest attempt to disguise a draconian DRM scheme as pro-user, pro-safety, anti-virus/rootkit. We're at the point where you don't even own your own filesystem anymore on a Linux device. I think this is a step beyond traditional DRM, including traditional hardware content protection.

[1] https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet/attestation...
[2] https://koz.io/inside-safetynet/
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Copy the whole thing as curl, then go to postman and import the raw text of the curl command... Edit and replay all you want
well uh.. I mean.. I beg to differ. I guess my opinion is "if what we call machine learning is really an old dream, then what was called control theory (and still is called control theory) was actually the grandchild of the idea of machine learning itself -- and that present-day machine learning is maybe only becoming real 100 or so years after when it was first dreamable, and actually dreamed of"

That said, there are many problems that troubled the earliest philosophers that still trouble the latest philosophers.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .. but computers do pose themselves as a fundamentally-new tool.
There are a couple of ways to make money from OSS. My fav is having a paid managed version. Ghost[1] and Discourse[2] are good examples of this. (I am using the same model for a personal project [3]). See https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand for more ways.

[1] http://ghost.org
[2] http://discourse.org
[3] http://suet.co
We've got this amazing supply of great and interesting RPG engines out now, which I think the broad internet community (just people getting together to DIY stuff) and crowdfunding (lots of these systems are kickstarted) sort of came together to support.

That said, I think that most systems authors need to start with a paragraph or two about "why this RPG engine is necessary, instead of making it work as a plugin to GURPS / Fate / d20 / Apocalypse world." There's a lot of good reasons to do this, but there's also a lot of cruddy systems with half-baked rules that are ripe for rules-lawyering and just bad implementation details (looking at you, FFG Star Wars). Writing a well-crafted, minimal-bug RPG engine is similar to writing a front end framework or something along those lines.
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This issue is one of the things Perl 6 addresses well in my opinion.

Regular ranges include their endpoints, and you can think of ^ as "not including" or "up to (exclusive)"

1..5 is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

1..^5 is 1, 2, 3, 4

1^..5 is 2, 3, 4, 5

1^..^5 is 2, 3, 4

There's also convenient shorthand for 0..^n (useful if you want to do something n times): ^n
Could work for media as well:

DRM? Then you have to provide clients, including bugfixes and security upgrades for all paying customers on all platforms.

No DRM: Oh, you just sold a file? The customer can then run it in whatever SW they want.
Disclosure: Spolsky worked on Excel for several years as a product manager, and is biased.

The other reason that Microsoft Office tools succeeded is that Microsoft was very good at all of the extra-technical stuff – business deals, marketing, software bundling, legal fights, etc., some of it quite underhanded/anticompetitive.

Lotus made Improv for NeXTSTEP originally, so there was a niche platform problem for the first 2 years, and after it had been ported to Windows Improv was competing against Lotus’s own previous spreadsheet program 1-2-3, creating consumer confusion and confusion within other parts of the Lotus organization.

But the main reason is probably just inertia. Once people have learned one tool that seems to work well enough for their needs, getting them to adopt something else (especially if it isn’t conceptually identical) is twice as hard.
I learned it as part of speech processing, first for Dynamic Time Warping and then as the Viterbi and Baum Welch algorithms. Together with Hidden Markov Models it's a thing of beauty how it is used to model speech.

All of this is explained very intuitively in speech.zone

In the wikipedia entry there is a fun (really) explanation of why its creator called it like this.
What do you call shortages in this context?

Simple shock to demand can create shortages if supply is inelastic(which it is on RE in general due to the length to put a unit on the market, and it is so in San Francisco with its constrained supply)
They send both. Seems like the invites for interview are sent first.
Revolutionary in what way? What could you do in Chrome Dev Tools when it first came out that you couldn't do in Firebug at the same time?
> it just means they don't think you're a good investment for them.

It only means they chose someone else, for any number of reasons. Like all investment funds, they're choosing from a pool of applicants. Pitches are graded on a curve, they're all relative. YC is high profile and gets a lot of applications, I'm certain they're turning down some companies that they think are good investments, sometimes in favor of better investments, and sometimes for other reasons.
Completely raw chicken..service was fast tho :X
"a judge always had the choice to decide whether or not cops get to invade your privacy."

Judges could not, and cannot, force anyone to reveal information, which is different from providing access to physical places and objects.

Strong encryption just gives leverage for what you can store in the domain of your own mind, by allowing you to unlock lots of physical data with some small piece of memorized information.

Essentially, little has changed, except perhaps the ever increasing hunger of the state to control people's lives.
I buy into the increased supply by the fed, but i falter to understand what the prediction on that model is.

As someone that worked in RE, housing has been sensibly overpriced based on wages since at least a few years ago and globally. But its also not clear it would crash, because housing has met genuine demand.
I think your information is incomplete or out of date. Do you have a source other than the Jepsen blog? That seems to make clear that the two issues that were found in the tested beta release were quickly resolved. [0]

[0]: https://jepsen.io/analyses/cockroachdb-beta-20160829
The games press has always had one central problem: their main source of revenue is advertisers of games. When a bad game gets a bad review, the advertisers pull their ads, and the outlet goes down. I was fired for exactly this type of bullshit back in 2001.

It's not even kickbacks. It's free games. It's sustaining paychecks. It's free food, booze and t-shirts. It's free steam keys, and trips to LA to meet developers.

It's not kickbacks. It would have amazed me to have even had that option of money bribes on the table: all I ever got were chocolates, plush dolls, a miniature plastic trebuchet. In the end, I never changed a rating because of any of that junk. But smaller outlets where they can't afford to be honest are swayed by this stuff. Most osf these folks you suspect are probably cheap fucking dates: bought with a game branded bottle or scotch.

There's a lot of money to be made by being a "Cheerleader for the Industry," and not as much in being the bastion of good content, honestly.

That's because the first option requires no real readers or followers, just sponsors. The second requires your content to be somehow better than everyone else's, and today that means competing with like, 10,000 other people one URL away.
More specifically, it's for copyright holders, who rarely might be creators, but are more often than not publishers.
When I was doing PbP a while back the best site, hands down, was https://www.myth-weavers.com .

I suggest you give it a try
The two situations are not analogous, there is a crucial difference.

Like tekromancr was getting at, you get a logical contradiction if you assume the existence of 1/0, if you also assume the ring axioms. To elaborate, if 0x = 1, then 0 = 1. It is also an axiom that 0 != 1, and even if you abandon this axiom you only get one extra ring that only has one element. Boring!

You also get a logical contradiction if you add a square root of -1, if you are assuming, say, the ordered ring axioms. But you can lose the order structure and then there is no more contradiction.

If you want to add a new number x with 0x = 1, then you also need to propose how one might alter the notion of a ring so that you don't get a logical contradiction, and you are still left with something interesting. Just like how we altered the notion of an ordered ring, by removing the ordering, so that you don't get a contradiction when adding a square root of -1.

So the crucial difference is, as far as I know, nobody has succeeded in doing this when it comes to division by zero.
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I think teaching children to interrogate their own reasoning is the most useful thing you can teach them. I've met a fair number of adults who ask the same kind of nonsensical questions as children do because they don't know how to analyze their own thinking.
It's more like "If logic doesn't exist".
Best wishes to all and let's change the world and give people what they want:P
i thought about this at some point (i enjoy game mastering and have a lot of campaigns i've written up in notebooks and so on), but I can't see any way to make this actually work. Assume you can run one session a night, for five players each session. It's unlikely you'd be able to run more than one per day, just because your players only are really able to play in the evening. This puts your effective work week at around 20-25 hours.

You would need to have a really high hourly rate to make this a primary source of income, and I'm not sure you can ask players to pay more than 20-30 bucks each per session. You could use this to supplement income from writing or whatever, but I just doubt the market would support an hourly rate that actually paid a GM a wage they could live on.

In some real way, this is just like hand-knit socks. If you knit socks, you know how much time and effort goes into them, but you still give them as gifts. But if someone wanted to buy a pair, would they be willing to pay $150 for them? Probably not, despite the socks often taking five or six hours to make (if they're intricate or interesting).

Similarly, I game master because I enjoy it. I get to play my favorite part of the game (storytelling). I will say: I'd pay to have someone else deal with the (rare, but still nonzero frequency) drama that happens when you bring six people together on the regular. As GM, it somehow ends up being me who has to referee.
Why do you say that they don't hold, exactly? We take our consistency guarantees, and correctness more generally, deadly serious. I think it's fair to say that we did quite well on Aphyr's review; he's found some quite obscure issues that were quickly fixed. More details here: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-beta-passes-j...
Man, I was subscribed to EGM for years, from my childhood to the end of their publishing it on paper. Since then, I haven't really seen any publications online that I really trust or like a whole lot. It's a sad state of affairs really.

The thing that I find most troubling is publishers of video game review and news sites buying up publishers and distribution platforms, the latest being j2 Global, which owns Ziff Davis, IGN, PC Mag, Geek.com, and many more buying up Humble bundle on October 13.
Is there a solution that doesn't require you to type out the tedious URL http://asxmi4q6i7pajg2b.onion/egg-cain [1] for example, on your computer or your phone (when doing the reverse -- computer to phone) ?

Sometimes its not even a file but a block of text that you want quickly transferred from your computer to your phone or vice-versa that shouldnt
require the use of a third party service.

I'm stunned to learn that there's really no such tool that lets you push URLs / Links / Text / GIFs / Screenshots between devices that you own & have on you.

There's QPush which has a Chrome extension and an app but really nothing else close to what I describe. [2]

[1] Onionshare - How to Use

https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/wiki

[2] QPush

http://qpush.me/en/
Superior in what way? I suspect it's more a case of what you're familiar with rather than something which is clearly superior.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-smartphone-killswitch/s...
The US's corralling of the Cherokee into camps predates the First Boer War by 40-odd years (1830s).

Still, I find it hard to believe that the 'concentration camp' is that recent an invention.
Totally love the font!
Kirkus Reviews and the Plight of the 'Problematic' Book Review
Most likely a drone mounted stingray device with find/follow capabilities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
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I talked about the use of counting to illustrate a point - not as "proof." What I think you're not understanding is that the set of integers without 6 is not Z. It is something else, and you can't just replace Z with this new set and reason about it using our mathematics. That's what I was trying to say when I said that Z exists independently of this universe or any universe: it is a "unique" (up to bijection) set generated by axioms that we could just as well define in a different universe or any universe, unless we are allowing universes that don't follow our laws of logic, in which case anything goes.
SF Bay Area
Sure :) We're a dev tools/services company. We applied back in 2011 and 2012, got one straight rejection and one interview rejection (not my first either, I got an interview rejection with my first startup ever two years before that!).

We got really close but it wasn't in the cards. Ended up bootstrapping after that, and went to TechStars instead based on a recommendation from a friend (I really felt a need to do one of these programs, insecurity in hindsight). Came back from that and kind of fell into what became Ionic (http://ionicframework.com/) which was a side project for us, found some good traction with it and it consumed us and we ended up doing some VC rounds over the last few years (and continuing to grow nicely, millions of devs, etc.).

There's a long ways to go still but if you believe in the team you have, then you should do whatever you can to make it work. That combination of the right people at the right time is one of the most precious things and something that only you can assess. Not everyone will see the potential, but you realize quickly that they aren't the gate keepers: customers are.
I find it amusing your argument is YC doesn’t scale.
UberEats was always a hit or miss for me (in Mountain View). Doordash has been great, it's usually 45 mins from ordering to delivery for most restaurants in mountain view (roughly 10-12 mins with the driver).
sharedrop.io works great for devices on the same wifi network.

There is also pushbullet - I generally take screenshots and like to transfer to desktop. I can 'share' a screenshot I took using pushbullet and it will appear in a new browser tab in my desktop, and then I can save it.
Activation Lock was introduced in September 2013.

The bill (not law) you reference was first referred to the House five months later, but as far as I can tell was never passed in the Senate.

Unless you’re arguing the mere existence of a bill caused phone theft to drop precipitously, I think the argument stands that credit is due to Activation Lock (or whatever the equivalent is for Android, about which I am ignorant).
I'm sure you and few others experienced it. But I'd say it's not that common. Just look at the make up of study body at the top 5 schools.
Anyone rejected willing to tell us what your idea was?
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There are also many RPGs don't have much mechanics and are more about playing the characters, if you're not hung up on dungeons.
This looks really interesting — the only reason I don't run more games more often is the time burden. At a glance it appears to be focused on the various D&D editions + Pathfinder, and was published pre-5th (though I can't find a publication date on the site).

Is it generalised/generalisable enough for use with other source material and RPGs? In other words, is it D&D specific?
Do iPhones still have the water sensitivity marker?
anyone gotten their decisions yet?
Great summaries. To round out my examples:

In "My life with Master" the party play the henchmen of an evil master. It explores ideas of culpability, fear, self-loathing, humanity and, possibly, redemption. It is the only role-playing game to give me heart ache. Literally, pathos I felt as a physical reaction.

"The Clay that Woke", another by Paul Czege, concerns a race of Minotaurs, more physically powerful but utterly subjugated by humans. It explores themes of racism, power, imperialism, and ethics. Not quite as good MLWM, but very much worth playing.

I added "The Beast" to go all in on a game totally unlike D&D. It is a single player game, using cards and a diary, with an erotic theme, and dark overtones. I haven't finished my play through, and I'm not sure I recommend it, quite, but it has got under my skin.

"Hillfolk" is Robin D Law's 'Drama system', essentially game mechanics built around generating interesting interpersonal conflict. The setting is Iron Age subsistence, but it includes several other settings, from horror to modern life.