skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The world has never really reconciled the biological and chemical atrocities that went on in Asia during WWII and since, like they have in Europe.

Correct, it hasn't reconciled because Japanese government never truly feel guilty for their war crimes and most of Japanese prime minister still goes to visit Yasukuni Shrine for war criminals (do you know of any shrine for Hitler that German prime ministers visit?) And then there are jerks like Toshio Motoya that openly claims Japanese WW2 war crimes and Nanking Massacre, comfort women were fabricated and selling his ridiculous book about his bullshit theories in every APA hotel room in Japan. In comparison, can you imagine any major hotel chain owner publicly claiming holocaust was fabricated?

> I doubt China has forgotten any of this, as they are expanding funding by several orders of magnitude into research on Japanese WWII atrocities.

Never forgotten never will, just like Jews will never holocaust and American will never forget Pearl Harbor and Japanese will never forget Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

But, what substantial evidence you can provide to support your concerns of China's biotech advancement for revenge atrocity? If none, then stop trolling and let go your cold war thinkings.

The Nature article is indeed a paid advertisement in Macmillan's 3rd party editorial section as it denoted on the top, but I don't see any problem using research funding and research freedom to lure more researchers working there on advancing bio-tech in China.
Google has a custom NIC ASIC derived from the Myri-10G family. Google has also designed the TPUv1, TPUv2, Visual Core, and Titan chips (that we know of).
Can we infer from this that at the end of Q3 they had ~25 million subscribers?

I am not planning to cancel Netflix but I am frustrated at how terrible most of the content is, and how hard it is to find anything with the current interface. I hope they're rethinking their UX and reconsidering their current approach of "License a bunch of really cheap awful content to make it seem like there's a lot of stuff to watch."
Yeah, but it's not Trump, so HN can't summon the energy to get worked up about it. Resist!
Anyone got trends or articles on how that affected solar adoption in Europe? I presume downward pressure but was EU-based manufacturing able to close some of the price gap or were there other forces that helped cushion the blow?
Baidu launches VisualDL, a visualization tool for Deep Leaning training
Check RaiBlocks: instant transactions, feeless, scalable.

Basically each adress has its own blockchain, and proof of share is done with directed acyclic graphs.
I think you are looking at it wrong; its like saying a bank teller or stockbroker or even a cash machine has no 'useful industrial application'. They are necessary for the currency to work, and they must be paid to do a job. I suspect paying a cryptocurrency miner their 'fee' is a lot cheaper (per transaction).
I don't mind breaking legitimate uses rebinding here. I'm not familiar w/ how OWA changes IPs from private-network to public-network, but I'd say using DNS is the wrong approach. And Chrome can probably detect DNS server change and then evict its known cache anyways. Yeah, a first step is probably just localhost/private-IP specific.
> has the moral indignity of telling its own investors that they better not be trading the assets they purchased.

The way I read this they are not "telling them" as much as reminding them that legally they are not allowed to do this.
Because it’s easier to incentivize Renewable Energy than it would be to battle the oil giants.

I see it as a win for both sides. Dems get to put on show that they care about the planet. Trump gets to put on a show he’s saving the planet and American manufacturing.
I've found flixable.co to be pretty good for finding targeted NF content.
Is this a stick rather than a carrot?

The carrot approach would have bene to prop up companies like Solyndra. We know how that was received.
This is an interesting move strategically. By making US-based solar panel manufacturers artificially more competitive, this tariff will allow them to develop in-house expertise and reduce dependency on China for the manufacturing stage of the supply chain.

If solar eventually becomes an important source of power, the US would not want to be wholly reliant on a geopolitical rival for manufacturing expertise. This could thus be construed as a vote for the long-term dominance of solar as an energy source.
Thanks, this is what I've been hearing from most people I've talked to.
Perhaps it might help to consider it equivalent to one converting the value of picks and buckets into value in gold. Just as the picks and buckets are worth what they’re worth, the gold is worth what someone else is willing to pay.
How long do you think it takes them to amortize them?
I thought there might be more depth into why this person decided to turn down the job offer. The reader can only try to infer the reason from the author's take on the space.
...did you intend to allow fbcdn.net (a Facebook-controlled domain)?
> Well, it seems logical that biotech would boom in a country with less regulation than the US.

Relevant excerpt: "Innovent is hunting for employees who have worked in countries such as the United States, where the drug industries are more mature and people have had greater experience of overseeing the development of innovative drugs (see ‘What recruiters want’). “Ten per cent of our team are from overseas,” says Yu. “Returnees have first-hand experience with how drugs are developed and regulated in the United States.” This type of foreign experience will become increasingly important. In July, China became a member of the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH), signalling its intentions to mould its regulatory system in the shape of the ICH’s founding members: the United States, the European Union and Japan."
I worked for a few financial institutions, and interacted with banks, and frankly, you CAN do better, and you can both find malice and stupidity, and they can do that because they're protected by regulation.

There are some startups here in Uruguay that have gone against banks and were winning (one started by a classmate that used to work for a financial institution), and they of course are getting hammered with regulatory oversight (some needed, some not). I'm frankly surprised they let them go as far as they did, they were true entrepreneurs, I wouldn't have started them, not because I didn't think they were needed or succeeded, but because of the risk.
That doesn't mean anything.

Bitcoin network bandwidth remains the same, and energy usage has continued to increase in a race to the bottom in terms of work and waste for bitcoin mining - this is by design of how Satoshi's difficulty algorithm reduces efficiency with increase in hash rates.
Or because Trump and his campaign take huge money from the oil companies? It is a win-win for Trump, he can boast himself about protecting US jobs and interests of his money donors.
There are over 27 million uninsured people in the U.S.
At least you can aggregate most of the streaming "channels" though Amazon so you don't have to use a bunch of different apps.
> Those are the most common pronunciations I hear, living in California.

They are also the most common in my experience, but I thought, and thought others thought, that they were nonetheless commonly judged wrong. (It is fair to argue what 'wrong' could possibly mean of pronunciation other than "what most people say", though.)
So much bitcoin was lost/stolen in the past because it simply wasn't worth very much. It's harder to forget you have 10btc on a laptop when it's worth $100,000 than when it's worth $10.
If these reports are true, that's really impressive growth in just a few years!

Congrats on hitting that milestone, Brian, keep it up!
I agree -- it's on the short list for improvements. Stay tuned
The difficulty rises with the total hashrate across all miners, not on the individual hashrate/efficiency of any particular miner - if you can eke out a temporary efficiency advantage over everybody else, you can profit nicely while they're trying to catch up.
I have this suspicion, though, that not all these streaming services will fare well. Sadly, yeah, there's going to be a handful and it'll feel similar to cable, but I think some will forego an independent streaming platform (or abandon ones later on) and license it out to the bigger players, especially because people aren't going to shell out money for each individual service. Though besides Hulu and Netflix, I don't know who else is a big streamer of third-party content. HBO does it with movies but nothing else AFAIK.

Maybe some other studios will copy the Hulu approach and create a group of networks all housed on one platform, but I do think it's going to be hard for anybody to push their way into the streaming market without a large backlog of media like Disney.
Interviews are planned for "late May", yet the program presumably starts on June 1. This seems to make for an awfully short interval between finding out one has been accepted and actually starting. Can someone from YC clarify?
What fundamental frequency? If your signal is a mixture of frequency you care about and some other random ones, the random ones will generate lot of discontinuity if you tune the period to the interesting one. Also, if you're slightly off with your estimation of the interesting frequency, your signal will not match up.

Using a window trades off sensitivity for low frequencies and a slight bit of frequency resolution against these problems.
They haven't completely stopped, but they've scaled back quite a bit. This has created a whole host of new problems. From the article:

> In the past five years, as prescriptions for opioids fell in response to the crisis, Americans didn’t shake the habit or seek rehab; they turned to heroin instead. Four out of five people in the US who try heroin today started with prescription painkillers, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Then street heroin started being secretly cut with the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl.

I appreciate Nan Goldin as an artist but I'm not sure what she can do here, as this is more powerful than even the Sacklers at this point. In a kind of irony, her work was an inspiration for the first wave of heroin chic in the 90's.
You're probably not wrong about "most people on the coasts" (I'm from WA and live in CA) but I think those of us on the west coast are far less inclined than east coasters to dismiss Western states like UT, MT, WY, NV, CO, etc, as "midwest". I think to the east coast it's often "somewhere over there in the middle" and not realizing how far west they really are, and how similar in many ways the culture is to the Pacific states, particularly the inland areas of said states. The same way I think all those east coast states are "little states somewhere way over there" :)
One man’s quest to create a bespoke suit from scratch
> It is just becoming the internet equivalent of an unlimited on-demand cable channel.

With no commercials. All in all, That's still an improvement over traditional cable.
I sense a resurrection of torrenting and ironically enough, DVD rentals.
BTW, Netflix still has a very rich library of streaming content, but in other world regions. A good global VPN service and some DNS tweaks will unlock a ton of streaming content.
> any art that looks ugly to someone

> Orwell, Hunter Thompson

Orwell looks ugly to someone. Hunter Thompson looks ugly to someone

Remember Room 101 in 1984? Have you read "Hells Angels"? These aren't uncontroversial works of "beauty".

You are mistaking your personal aesthetic judgement for objective standards.
The fact that 85% on all new jobs are temporary contracts is nothing surprising, given that somebody with a permanent job (CDI) will usually stay much longer at her job. So for each permanent contract there will always be many more temporary ones.

A better metric is the percentage of people working on temporary (CDD) or permanent (CDI) contract. In France, 85% of all jobs are permanent and about 10% are temporary contracts.

Source: https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2850098
On Rumors of the iPhone X Only Being Produced for One Year
"Really work" in this case meaning probable addiction and potential death in exchange for a month or two of pain relief. If it "really worked" as advertised (maximum of one dose needed per 12 hours) we wouldn't have this problem at all. OxyContin's much-marketed delayed release mechanism is BS and it's costing thousands of lives and livelihoods.
From what I understand Netflix is pretty smart about where/what they film to take advantage of tax credits and other incentives countries provide. So that $8B really stretches.

Seems like they are at the point where they need to keep their head above water long enough to let other content providers try/decide if it's worth trying to compete in the streaming business.
>"The main thing they appear to look for is viable business, future vision, then team. I highly recommend applying."

It seems to me — based on YC's resources I've read — the passion, personality, and relationships of the company founders come first— including how willing they are to be flexible with their idea.

Jessica Livingston on what they look for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPd5vgXJ-R4

They also often say how ideas are a dime a dozen, mentioning time and again that most businesses who join YC end up changing their idea completely. They even went as far as to accept founders without an idea at all one year:

http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html

"In a sense, it's not a problem if you don't have a good idea, because most startups change their idea anyway. In the average Y Combinator startup, I'd guess 70% of the idea is new at the end of the first three months. Sometimes it's 100%. In fact, we're so sure the founders are more important than the initial idea that we're going to try something new this funding cycle. We're going to let people apply with no idea at all. If you want, you can answer the question on the application form that asks what you're going to do with "We have no idea." If you seem really good we'll accept you anyway. We're confident we can sit down with you and cook up some promising project."

more related articles from the Paul Graham:

http://paulgraham.com/start.html

http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html

http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

On the other hand, Sam Altman discusses, in the Stanford YC Startup School videos, how the overall idea certainly does matter and that thinking "the idea doesn't matter" has become a myth in silicon valley. He says the most successful companies have been an idea first, and a startup second.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoqgAy3h4OM#t=22m52s

I think the answer is somewhere in the middle, leaning in one direction depending on the founders' mindsets and knowledge. I wish they would be a bit more clear about this since both opposing arguments are being advised through their resources.

Either way, I look forward to start applying to batches when I feel ready. Perhaps I'll apply without being ready to help gain some clarity as you suggested.
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You should consider using a production build of react for your front-end!
Most people would not equate "serially monogamous" with "semi-polygamous".

I don't know that many people who are having sex with multiple partners simultaneously in spite of Tinder and the hookup culture.
I think China is wise here. If the US had shared a common language with Great Britain, they never would have separated.

What's that? Oh. Never mind, carry on...
Good point. Although I think the design was chosen because of the complexity of infrastructure behind your TLS server. Adding more things for the client to do so that you don't need to trust any intermediaries inside AWS data centers. (I'm not complaining, just an observation from my POV).

(For the record in BeyondCorp all backend components are mutually authenticated but they still use sessions and U2F tokens so there are no trusted points).
It's just that OWA is a web app that is often configured to be accessible on the internal network via an internal IP, and on the external network via an external IP (so you can get webmail even if you're not in the office), but it's the same app.

I certainly don't think it's worth supporting this from first principles - i.e., had the web been designed the way you suggest from day one, that would have been great - but it's got a very large deployment, and "Chrome silently loses your Outlook emails because of a security issue in video games and a BitTorrent client" is a good way to get Chrome removed from enterprises, and other browsers to decide not to ship the same fix....
The 2 founders of the company I work for applied twice and were rejected 2 times. The first time was mainly because they did not have a well laid plan for a company (only had an idea). The second time was mainly because investors feared an investment in a FinTech company on another country (this was not in USA) was too risky.

Of course their experience was very good (I am very close to both founders). They do say that they learned a lot just with the application process.

Fast forward several years, and the company is very healthy and running smoothly. It is somehow a "poster child" of startup in the country and has raised good amounts of capital.

The point is, do not get afraid to apply and do not get down if you are not accepted. The process of applying will on itself be very useful. Even if you are not from the USA.
There's not much balance - there are tons of people working to install solar panels, and very few producing them. He's harming the former and probably won't do much for the latter, long term. Not to mention people purchasing the things, and, while we're at it, the environment, because solar is by and large a lot better than many alternatives.

The correct response when someone who is sort of a competitor is selling you stuff below cost is probably to buy lots and lots of it.
The problem is that the US's comparative advantage over China will surely be solar services (installation, maintenance, support) rather than raw hardware manufacturing. And the solar service industry is hurt by tariffs on Chinese panels.
Keep in mind that the project at its current state does not aim at consumers, it's looking for fellow hackers who want to join the effort to create a sustainable alternative OS that can be used on phones that would otherwise be thrown away, and simply to have fun while doing that [0].

Regarding the walled-garden services like YouTube or WhatsApp: From a privacy and security point of view it would be better to avoid these altogether and switch to open source and decentralized services like Matrix[1] instead (for instant messaging/VoIP).

I know, for most people it is not feasible to convert all your friends to such services, but even in that situation it is possible to use open implementations that work on Linux. Check out this list [2] ("Apps that only work with proprietary services" table at the bottom).

Going further, when there's enough interest by one or more individuals to package anbox[3] for postmarketOS, it is possible in theory to run regular Android apps (NewPipe[4] is just one example of a great open YouTube client, that you can use on Android today).

[0]: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2017/09/03/100-days-of-postmar...

[1]: https://matrix.org

[2]: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Potential_apps

[3]: https://anbox.io/

[4]: https://newpipe.schabi.org/
Do you have the link by any chance? This doesn't surprise me at all since there's a vicious cycle of China-bashing-gets-eyeballs leads to random-trolls-enjoy-China-bashing.

Some of the worst trolls just love harassing founders (esp. female founders) with 10-things-I-hate-about-China to derail conversations about their startup or their product or their journey to product-market-fit.
My point is that - as described - it is a dumb comparison.

> open source serverless platform which is faster than bare-metal code

does't make sense. It eventually has to run on top of bare metal (via hypervisor or directly), so claiming that something that eventually runs on top of bare metal is "faster than bare metal" doesn't make sense at all.
I do this for manual buys when I'm doing large purchases/sells. However something I am willing to pay this .25-1% fee on is monthly automated purchases of cryptos for speculative holding.
TPUs are digital ICs. I was talking about analog ICs.

That Myri IC seems interesting though.
$8B could add a lot of good movies that are currently absent from the collection. Original content is probably a better financial move, but my impression of the quality of shows on Netflix is not high.
Trump imposes 30% tarriff on solar panel imports
And it was a very stupid thing to do, and I say that as an European. If the Chinese Government and its citizens want to subsidize clean energy production in Europe by selling us subsidized solar panels why should we say no? A similar question was posed by Jean-Baptiste Say about 200 years ago end since then no protectionist politicians were able to come up with a valid answer, they just go "by their instinct" or "it's best for our home industry that we behave this way", both answers that don't stand on any solid rational grounds.
There is a gazillion other imports that can be targeted with a tax. The most important thing for solar is to expand adoption by keeping costs low. Solar is such a small industry that it will have zero impact on American manufacturing overall. This tax will only raise costs of solar without doing anything for domestic manufacturing
I regularly use https://www.justwatch.com for looking up movies. But its scraping abilities leave a lot to be desired; they are often wrong. And the data is not very transparent (e.g. historical data).

I have considered creating an alternative. And have the client choose the streaming services they have like JustWatch. However, for unavailable movies, have a "I'd watch this if it were streaming for me" button. Then I'd record the cross-section of that user's streaming services and their request and keep public counters. I'd remove all users votes if that movie became available for any of their streaming options. I'd show votes for movie per streaming subscription service. Also, in the interest of transparency, I'd keep a running history of when movies came and went from providers. I'd also scrape TV guide to see when they are on TNT or whatever. This is the type of data people deserve.

Aside: JustWatch people, I know you browse HN...you can steal this idea and monetize it by, instead of being nice like me and making the votes transparent, just keep the counters internal and sell them as data points. You can couple it into a "I'd watch this! Notify me when this movie is available" feature.
Acting as if it’s only Trump or even republicans taking oil money is short sighted.

Obama could’ve done the same? Actually he decided to lift a ban on Crude Oil exports. The oil from shale and fracking that flooded the markets in the past years.
> Caffe2 to onnx is facebook's use case so I could see that being supported fine. It's hard to go much beyond that though.

ONNX to Caffe2*. Though it's possible to go from Caffe2 to ONNX to some custom hardware accelerator (TensorRT?)
China Has Already Gene-Edited 86 People with CRISPR
Also, it's arguably good for the long-term health of renewable energy as a whole, since China would presumably want to turn a nice big profit on their investment once they'd driven all the other manufacturers out of business and the expertise to actually do so had been lost elsewhere.