skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm all for the people of California to do this!

If you've seen my previous posts, you'll know I'm anti Title II, because I think it's a terrible way to achieve the goal. I think state laws, relative to local context, are absolutely the way to go.
None of my extended friends around the world (late twenties so we are not that old) nor my family use Snapchat. So in my opinion Snapchat is so niche and has such narrow group of users it will never replace what Facebook used to be.
Reference to personal characteristics that go to the probity (honesty), memory or capacity for logical thought of the speaker are NOT an ad hominen fallacy. "He is a pathological liar, convicted of perjury, you can't trust his 'facts.'" is NOT an ad hominem fallacy. "He is a rapist/teenager/Republican, I wouldn't put any faith in his numbers." WOULD BE an ad hominem fallacy.

To quote Wikipedia, which you may not have read before typing, despite your advising others to "look it up":
"However, in some cases, ad hominem attacks can be non-fallacious; i.e., if the attack on the character of the person is directly tackling the argument itself." I.E. the personal characteristics cited do impune the argument.

A consistent history of blind rejection or enthusiasm is a characteristic that does impune the veracity of the argument, since the world isn't really like that. (Proof not necessary since relevance is what is in question.) That is, manic-depressive characteristics on the part of the speaker obviously do affect the probability that an statement or argument is true and raising them as relevant is thus not fallacious. False, quite possibly, but not fallacious or irrelevant.

Yours is a now very common misapprehension of "ad hominem", I've contradicted it here before. I am unsure where it comes from, except perhaps an exaggerated modern "amour propre," since this criticism can be used to deflect various forms of personal criticisms even when directly to the point. I may be wrong but I think this error is quite modern, I don't remember encountering it decades ago, ever. But then, this technical phrase may not have been in common parlance at that time.

I would give you this much: a false call of "ad hominem" is technically a red herring (via a false claim), rather than a straw man; since straw men arguments distort, then reject/disprove/falsify others claims; whereas you outright rejected their claim as irrelevant (rather than untrue) with no distortion of the meaning of the other's words (only distortion of the relevance of his words or the meaning of your own words - namely ad hominem) being necessary for that trick.
It'll be interesting to see what effect the seed stage investment drought has on innovation at a macro level.

It seems to imply devs that would be founding will instead find themselves at bigger startups, working as "intrapreneurs", or something like that.

Does this mean we're entering a (seed-stage) startup dark age now? I haven't heard anyone talk about it yet.
What is centralized about it? They only have a central coordinator for keeping things deterministic until a distributed version is release, which is soon.

The vulnerabilities have been dealt with imho, but there will also be more (like with everything).
I thought it was ironic that earlier today I read an article about China's (by way of private companies) "Social Ranking" score from Wired[1], part of it entails journalist Liu Hu being part of the "Supreme People's Court black list" and the fallout that it entailed.

It's convenient to be a tourist sometimes.

1. https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/
Can you share some insight into how you are counting mentions of coins on Reddit? For example, the coin Golem has the potential for overlap with the character Golem in Lord of the Rings. Are you browsing a pre-set number of subreddits?

Likewise would love some clarity on how you're collecting twitter stream data and properly tagging the data to a respective coin--are you using preset tags?

Would love to see an API endpoint for this type of thing. Kudos!
I think we will see and are already seeing a move away from using spreadsheets in Education, there are simply much better solutions out there now. Jupyter notebooks being one which allow reading and writing to Excel files. The interface of these is far superior for educational purposes than a spreadsheet. I've already dropped Excel for this reason.
You could also use it to wipe out humans. That’s the bad part (subjectively, based on your values system).
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I'm using vim with text files already, and Pandoc for converting markdown into other formats as needed. Hard to imagine paying $30 for a worse editing experience that only works on Mac. Maybe I'm not representative of the target market?
This cryptocurrency article misspells Bitcoin and Ethereum. o_O
Not every company has access to your sales numbers and revenue on those sales. They know very well how much revenue you're bringing in, it's child's play to them to price out your product and see that if their amazing supply chain network can undercut you while they still make a profit or break even just to increase market share.

Plus, if you're doing "fulfilled by Amazon" they know you're paying an extra 30% on your cost of goods for fulfillment. They can price all that in and figure out if they can sell it for cheaper, also fulfilled by Amazon.
It's content addressable storage - as used by git and plan9's fossil/venti.

https://perkeep.org/doc/prior-art

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_(file_system)
Short answer: NO !

Slightly longer response: Your experiences are par for the course. Everybody has a stack of bad of interview experiences. In your case, you are also subject to vacuous discrimination. It really sucks when you are looking for a good job where you can work with intelligent, emotionally aware human beings. If the interview experience is aggravating, you can't expect the work environment to be any better.
I really want to agree with you. And in times past I absolutely would have. But I think something that's become clear over time, worldwide, is that getting incorruptible, good, and objective people into office is not really possible - certainly not on a regular basis. Really it's unclear if such people even actually exist. I think most of us believe our decisions are driven by objective merit, yet we all view most of everybody else as subjectively driven. The latter view is probably the correct one.

What we need is systems themselves that take human nature into mind. The founding fathers of the US set out to create this exact sort of system. And they really did. Lacking a super majority, literally a single senator can prevent a political appointment. So on this issue, if the senate really did not want to put into appointee into the FCC who was in favor of dismantling net neutrality - they had that power. When Pai was appointed by Obama in 2012 his views were no secret. The senate could have said no. McConnell could have proposed a new person, Obama formally nominates him, and again the senate could reject. They are under 0 obligation to approve any nominee - ever.

Yes, this would be incredibly dysfunctional - but that is precisely how the US government was envisioned. The whole checks and balances thing we learn about in elementary social studies is specifically about preventing something from happening unless there is mass consensus. The founding fathers did not want a huge, powerful democratic government - they wanted a small accountable republic driven to progress only on issues where there was minimal to no opposition.

You can even see this in things like the bill of rights. The bill of rights does not, for instance, guarantee you the right to free speech. It says you already inherently have that right - it is inalienable. The bill of rights does not grant you a right - it prevents the government from infringing on your natural rights. In other words the view is that governments cannot grant rights, but they can take them away. A dysfunctional government maximizes the freedom of the people by preventing the infringement of such freedom except in cases such that there is a mass consensus of its merit.

The problem is that the doomsday scenario of all of congress falling into one clique happened. Politicians all need money to get elected and stay in office. Corporate donors (and influence) is where that money comes from. And this is where I think the problem is. But I also don't think there's any solution to it. Imagine you take all money out of political campaigns. That don't stop already famous individuals from running for office and their advantage in these cases would be monumental. There are radical ideas like treating political duty the same as jury duty, but I'm unsure how well that would be publicly received.

The point here is that I don't think 'just get better politicians' is something that's necessarily workable in the longrun. We need to create systems that readily accept the realities of corruption, cronyism, and general pettiness -- but then operate in a publicly desirable way regardless of this.
While I'm not trying to pick apart small pieces of the essay, I agree with some of the high-level points. Culturally in SV, we are increasingly afraid of discussing anything that is controversial. Ad hominems are increasingly popular for any dissenting opinion or difference of view.

It wasn't always like this, and it has definitely gotten worse IMO. Based on conversations I've had with some friends, they also agree. We've all been living in the bay area for over 6 years and we're now entertaining the idea of moving away. I also know some smart people who have left naming this as one of the reasons.
Not sure how this is different from the million similar "clean minimalistic live Markdown focus mode" apps.
i can buy an amd laptop and run my code. where you gonna run your aws architected code if aws changes their policies to something you don't like? hint: it's called vendor lock-in.
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IIRC it was called Jupiter? I remember using it in 2006.

Nifty little tool. Felt like the future.
There's probably a bias here around bootstrapped founders exiting at lower valuations because the take home of 100% of 10M is easier to get than 5% of 200M.

I made up the numbers here but I think many founders are happy to get that first or second base hit of change your life but not quite FU money safety net vs VC money forcing the bipolar choice between home run or strike out.
Empathy, buddy. The USA is a great experiment because it constantly tries to improve. These issues of corruption and blatant self-interest are not new or uncommon. But we can do better.
Most of drug, abortion policy is due to values, not science.

You're corrupting the notion of science to say otherwise.
>Excel as a front-end to Python is just a bad idea

I think a lot of people would like this because you can look at more data on your screen at once with excel compared to jupyter notebooks. What's the downside?
"Society" does no such thing. As proof note that Dan Cathy is still CEO of Chick-Fil-A. As further proof look at who is running Washington these days.

What does that are liberals who are trying to assert their power. Now I would bet that most of the liberals who helped bring about that result wouldn't support a legal right for polygamy, polyandry, or marriage between close relatives.

Why not? While being sexually attracted to close relatives is very rare, the portion of the population that is preferentially polyamorous is larger than the proportion that is preferentially gay. Why should people who wish to make multiple commitments not have the rights that gay people have?

I submit that their reasons for not supporting those causes are no better or worse than Brendan Eich's for not supporting gay marriage. I further submit that when people are punished for publicly supporting statements that half of the nation supports, you're creating chilling effects for free speech that fly in the face of how this democracy is supposed to work.

In the sake of disclosure, my white mother was married to a Chinese man before that was legal in much of the country. Furthermore my sister performed a gay marriage before THAT was legal most places, and I have another close relative who was openly polyandrous for over a decade. As a libertarian, my only issue with gay marriage is why the government involves itself in people's private affairs.

But that is a lot less important to me than concern over political correctness making people feel scared about expressing unpopular opinions. When am I going to have an unpopular opinion that I get penalized for?
The reason Python is a popular choice is because it's a very polyvalent language (not specialized for any task but quite good at a lot of them) BUT the data analysis tookit in the Python ecosystem rocks (numpy, pandas, etc). Lua doesn't have a good data anaylisis story. C# is not made for scripting. VBA is not great outside of Office.

Now given that cPython 3.6 has f-string, and that you probably will use string formatting a lot if you script a MS product, I would implement this version specifically. It's the most recent stable version of the standard implementation anyway.

Actually no, I would not implement anything. I would embed the cPython 3.6 interpreter and stdlib, and just provide a binding to it. This limit the problem of bad / inconsistent implementations that crippled MS products in the past.

Then I would say "we guaranty to provide a 3.6 compatible cPython + stdlib for the next x years" so that people can be confident to write Python stuff. Otherwise, a bad implementation would be worst than no implementation at all.
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The first intellectual property fight was over the ability to copy a bible. It lead to a multiyear war where many were killed and later to the schism in the church.
People grow in age. The audience that is using Snapchat now (I talk to a dozen friends on Snapchat) are going to keep using Snapchat (I haven’t seen any age based dropoff), and younger people start using Snapchat.

I don’t even have some fairly close friends on FB!
HBO? I went to kubecon last week and one of the keynotes was from the HBO team which detailed how they transitioned from ec2 to k8s on aws the past two years...
Thanks for the mention. One of the devs here, if anyone has questions on getting started on Solidity ask here
> The voters elected a Republican government

Not the majority though, as far as I understand, they won even though they don't have a majority of the voters, just a majority of the districts. Or something along those lines which simply confuses (and amazes) us non-US residents.

I'm also a bit impressed / curious about how much power the President has; he appoints FCC the chairman, and that chairman ends up taking these sort of decisions? Sounds a lot like something that the legislative branch should pick up, not [transitively] the executive one.

Or am I missing something?
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So you write to an abstraction layer rather than directly to vendor APIs.
Cheap money from central banks to stoke the economy causes capital to scrounge for returns, leading dollars into venture funds.

As interest rates climb once the economy is growing (we are here), capital no longer needs such risk to obtain returns, hence the flight to safer financial instruments (and the seed/A squeeze currently occurring).
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Great point, and I think the question we should all be asking ourselves is how do we know we're not the ones pointing at rocks and shouting wolf at a myriad of issues we don't really understand - but believe we do.

As soon as it comes to anything political, we're all suddenly experts predicting gloom, doom or salvation over every single policy issue. Logic says every person is probably wrong on average half of the time, yet every person believes they are correct in their political team playing 100% of the time. That can't be healthy.
Steve Wozniak makes it sound like Jobs barely knew how to program, so I'd be very surprised if he knew anything about designing logic boards.
Look at "R" programming language, or look at "JavaScript" (-> TypeScript).

They still do the EEE strategy. Fool me once...
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You know this is Apple culture. Pay for crap you get elsewhere for free.
Actually, you can even have the Messenger app with no Facebook account. Just sign in with your phone number, and it'll pick up acquaintances from your contact book (much like WhatsApp). You can still search for other people, but don't need an FB account.
You don't need inside access to numbers to do your own math and see if you can undercut someone else
Rolling their own crypto should be a huge red flag by itself. Watching others defend that decision screams vested interest to me.
>>> The voters elected a Republican government.

Not precisely. The proportion of people who voted in a gerrymandered electoral system with potentially widespread voter suppression produced a preponderance of Republican legislators and an outcome of the electoral college that produced a Republican president. I'm not sure that this qualifies as an "elected" government.
Sorry, I'm calling bullshit on this vote.
No genuine scientific conclusion confirms this. It's a hypothesis and one we have no way of testing, but people think it sounds awesome so they spread it without a good understating.
> Is Comcast not a private company too?

An utterly different KIND of private company! A fundamentally different situation which does need regulation due to the differences that exist.

How the heck can we be this deep into the discussion and that's somehow unclear?
Long time follower of the project here... So far it's been aimed at geeks who want to archive their content from the cloud, eg tweets, but it also stores files. Because of the way it is designed I've always thought there is a compelling use case for its use as a file and object store for organizations where auditing of data records is expected and sharing of data is a requirement.
Please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ok, so then I spend 5 minutes changing some boilerplate and upload it to Azure/Google Cloud/a server I bought on craigslist? Even if that did happen, I probably would still have saved time overall, because I didn't have to maintain physical infrastructure between now and whenever that distasteful policy change takes place.
I believe they already bought MLBAM - major league advanced media - to help solve some of the backend issues they would face.
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This is exactly backwards.

Whether you're discussing the Jacobian of a function, or change of basis matrices, learning the matrix formula is a lot less useful than seeing how it falls out of the linear function definition.

The formula is hard to memorize and gives no intuition for why anything is true. But from the linear function definition it is easy to reconstruct the formula.

In fact this is so true that I would say that anyone who only knows the matrix definition does not actually understand linear algebra.
Most publicly avowed communist countries actually adopted State Socialism. And in practice, these systems of state-owned industry ended up under consolidated control of oligarchic regimes. Some communistic critics of these Marxist–Leninists regimes even called them State Capitalist. It is not uncommon to refer to "Communism" and mean some form of despotic, top-down state control of industry.

Given that revised definition of "Communism," a greatly consolidated, monopolistic Capitalism, with increased favoritism by the state for leading firms, does start to seem similar in some interesting ways.
Hey Ali,

I totally understand where you are coming from but a similar dismissive comment was made when I first suggested YC would eventually do follow on investments and tada, that is now the case.

Long term plans or long term reality and short term strategy do not necessarily overlap. No malice is inferred or intended, just a change of perspective over time.

As for

> "Secondly, it's highly unlikely that companies who do not participate in our Growth Stage program will find it more difficult to raise money because they will be labeled “damaged goods.”"

I meant that to be related to the combination of funding and growth stage program, not to be related to the growth stage program by itself.
FoldingText isn't really a "minimalistic live Markdown focus mode" app, it's a productivity app, closer to something like Emacs' org-mode. I have no doubt that org-mode is more powerful, if you're already living in Emacs. (I can use Emacs, but I just can't get into it as a way of life.)

But FT isn't really being actively developed anymore, AFAICT. The developer switched from working on TaskPaper to FoldingText and then switched back to TaskPaper. Before TaskPaper he was working on WriteRoom, which was a minimal Markdown app, and sometimes it comes back and sometimes it doesn't. TaskPaper is pretty neat, but when push comes to shove it could be implemented as an extension/package for nearly any competent text editor. (And in fact has for several, including Atom. Folding Text also existed as a plugin for Atom at one point.)
My feed is always on some dozen of posts constantly show up. Maybe my friends are not posting many, or maybe FB decided that's how many I could view.
I just don't see the issue here. They disclose that his law firm represents broadband providers. That, the fact that it's an Op-Ed, and the content of the article ought to be enough for readers to understand that it's an opinion piece and likely to be biased.
I wonder if Amazon realized that Google and Apple can block their app?