skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, that's my point, someone doesn't have a job, or prospects, is desperate for some relief on that front, and you seem to be chastising them for not caring about the president's bigotry enough to vote for someone they're convinced won't help them economically. Do you see why they might not feel like their livelihood is a "granular point", but rather "a much larger point" than whatever you care about most?
25k signups from just HN? That's a lot more than I expected. My startup was on HN frontpage for 22h last Friday and until now (3 days) it gave me ~9k unique visitors and ~1900 new signups. Since before I only had ~30 users the HN post was by far the best driver of signups so far. So I'm super happy and have been working a lot on it.
In years past, I frequently found that techie oriented sites tended to lean libertarian (or "classical liberal") more than "liberal" (in the modern sense). In the early days of HN there was a much more markedly libertarian bias here (IMO). Hardly surprising though, given that at one time there was such a close association between tech and libertarian thought that people coined the term Technolibertarianism[1].

But it seems to me that the zeitgeist here has drifted more towards the "liberal" camp over the past few years.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technolibertarianism
There isn't, and it's unlikely to ever be.

I like to use this comparison: a single cell you shed from your skin pollutes the Earth more than the Roadster pollutes the Solar System.
I genuinely enjoyed it, he's got more hustle than most people and willing to slum it in a nursing home, worth a chuckle
You mean the guy who did what Google wanted him to do -- wrote a reasonably thoughtful essay on a subject that Google had company-wide training on and requested feedback about; had his essay leaked to the outside world, received theats of physical violence (those people are still employed, I believe), and then had himself fired over something that wasn't even in his memo? That guy?

As for Google having a huge market cap, isn't it a a rather common liberal/left-wing trope that uch great wealth comes from being evil?
a delicate balance of avoiding work that will harm you and encouraging work that will help you

Yes this swings both ways. I worked at a startup where every feature improvement was shouted down as a waste of opportunity cost.

They found a decent local maxima but their growth stalled and they degraded into a consultingware company. The more ambitious devs bailed because there was no room for growth.
Not if regular programmers create extra work.
Not from scratch. It started as "OS/2 NT" in partnership with IBM. Microsoft renamed OS/2 NT to Windows NT. See here:
http://www.itprotoday.com/management-mobility/windows-nt-and...
It's hard to nail it down to anything specific, but I've gained a sense of community from interactions here, and have learned a lot from other posters comments, and from the many awesome links that have been shared here.

The HN community is such a big part of my life that when I had a heart attack a few years ago[1], one of the first things I did when I got to the recovery room was post to HN. Of the people I wanted to talk to in that moment, a bunch of strangers, most of whom I'll never meet IRL, were near the top of the list (to be fair, I did call my mom, my dad, and a few close friends first!)

I've also gotten a handful of emails from people commenting on or discussing comments I've left here. Those are always appreciated.

Also, as others have mentioned, I would say that PG's essays have been very influential to me. The famous "How To Not Die"[2] one is one of my favorites.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550315

[2]: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
Coming from an under-represented demographic in technology, Hackernews has really been my insight into the industry and helped me immensely with figuring out how to get into it. Reading this website has honestly made me a ton of money and steered my career. On the job, I think Hackernews also keeps me sane by stimulating continuous learning each and every day. I really like this little community.
I've used script to run shell aliases defined in .bashrc in a cronjob. Normally you would use bash -ic my_alias in crontab to run my_alias, but this gives a warning from bash:

bash: cannot set terminal process group (1661): Inappropriate ioctl for device
bash: no job control in this shell

With script -qc 'bash -ic my_alias' /dev/null, the warning goes away! (Of course, the real solution would be to turn my_alias into a proper shell script, but this works in a pinch when you have old habits to abide by.)
I've found mostly interesting things, very interesting things; and articles and readables to feed my thirst for knowledge.
Hey that’s not bad. I’m on a grandfathered plan that saves me a few bucks a month, but I keep thinking about switching.
> Take a women who is a talented programmer and enjoys programmer, but chooses not to work as a programmer because she is sick of constant sexual harassment. Should we respect her choices or design interventions?

Nice strawman you are doing here. You're implying women aren't choosing STEM careers because of sexual harassment which is a complete lie. Your assertion is backed only by your misandrist ideology who sees men as harassers. But facts don't care about ideology facts are facts and you chose to live in a lie.
First 2 sentences:

"The first thing that you should know is that learning a functional language is not so simple as just learn a new dialect, the way of thinking and solving problems going to change dramatically.
The imperative paradigm solves problems using a sequence of statements and commands which modify the state to reach a specific goal when the functional approach minimizes the “moving parts” through immutability, describing programs as expressions and transformations."

Uh, both of those sentences are broken, in more than one way. I stopped there. Why should I bother, when the author didn't?
Ya, you might think that of middle America if you only see it from the major highways. Surprisingly, there is great history, culture, and sometimes industry that isn't close enough to the freeway to house a truck stop.
I think no one disagrees on "why" of the decentralization. Too big to fail is a problem.

The real question is "how to decentralize?". How will disputes be solved in a decentralized economy? Many of the answers hover around - well, the code and game theory will take care of it.

And that IMO, shows a weak understanding of human nature. Nature is unpredictable, people will find a way to overt a decentralized economy while playing within rules.

A good example is mining. The manipulation of Status ICO by F2Pool:

https://steemit.com/ethereum/@dhumphrey/f2pool-manipulates-u...

They had only 25% ie less than 51% of hashing power but were still able to avert network rules.
Of course he cannot back anything he is saying. He just deems women eternal victims of "toxic masculinity", the basis for intersectional ideology.
How is it only "semi lucky" that he was able to establish support for considerably lower or near zero cost for otherwise troublesome and expensive, possibly unattainable facilities?

Also if Harvard doesn't matter, why bring it up twice when discussing his value? Does it matter in your estimation, or not?
Everything. Got my current job by helping someone on HN, got the motivation to go abroad by reading HN, inspired weekly by HN articles and comments.

Seriously, internet without Hacker News would suck. The community, administration, and ranking of the articles are just great to keep up to date with the tech field.
Enjoy gluten, if you can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_gluten_(food)
I think objectivity is a red herring; there are useful subjectivities, good-enough heuristics. And I think your theoretical, "Gosh, what is tolerance anyway," waffle breaks down when you apply it to real examples.

Was early American society free for its time? Sure. Was it enormously intolerant? Yes. (Hint: black people were property because of their supposed inferiority. For similar reasons, white women were pretty close property themselves.) America has gotten somewhat better, but the Nadir [1], Jim Crow [2], redlining [3], white flight [4], and the Southern Strategy [5] make it clear that has only happened partially and with significant setbacks. The US right's recent hostility to GLBTQ rights and acceptance make it clear it's not just race.

Are some people going to argue that Nazis in favor of violent ethnic cleansing are good people and that one can't really say they're intolerant of the people they're willing to kill? Sure. Can we still come up with a useful-enough working definition of "tolerance" (and therefore the "paradox of tolerance") that will save lives? Definitely. Many countries have done this successfully, and suggesting they're totalitarian just doesn't fly.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
What does YC stand for?
I'm fairly new here, but I've already fallen in love with the fact that there's all sorts of interesting discussions going on here, allowing you to find other's perspectives presented in a well written and respectful manner.
Even though I'd previously read this article, I first expected from the title "weak men" was going to refer to "men who are weak". Nope, it's a technical term for a kind of bad argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Contemporary_work
95% of news media is poorly written, flowing and has little substance.

I found it interesting. I highly doubt that’s the case.
Inspiration...? I am quite new, have been learning to program less than a year. And posts, comments on HN, even on this post itself gives me the confidence to believe that I too make awesome things if I work hard, something that I crucially lacked in my life until now.
Be a programmer because you like to write code. The reward is the running software. The salary is the compensation for your time spent working for a company.

Time is much more valuable than money, but society needs you to want money, appreciation and things so you feel it's a reward. :)
- A sense of community
- Knowledge
- A little less boredom :)
I think this happens mostly because the site looks so boring on the outside to anyone but tech professionals and hobbyists and proper nerds. This discourages the majority of people who would otherwise bring immaturity to HN. Thankfully it's not yet had its Eternal September [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
I have high hopes for lab grown meat.
It’s interesting to me that the most successful general ecommerce sites have a visually utilitarian appearance, with emphasis on function over form (so to speak).

Brand websites have the extra burden of trying infuse their sites with a unique brand identity. Companies that sell directly on the internet, and have enough products that they have need for a “catalog” to present products, have an extra challenge.

Such brand websites carry a heavy load, as they serve marketing/brand identity, suppport, contact, communication, and ecommerce functions. Throw in the mind-f*ck of “responsive design” and it’s not surprising some websites fall short.

The OPs thesis seems dubious, as he proposes no alternative for anything that could possibly fulfill all these functions.
This so poorly matches both my understanding of what they request and what my GLBTQ friends say on the topic that you're going to have to be much more specific if you want to make your case.

The biggest issues I've seen are just not getting discriminated against. For example, the biggest fight I've seen in my time in California was Prop 8, which was very clearly about equal protection under the law. The next-biggest was marriage equality, which is just removing needless heterosexual privilege from marriage law.
If you just want An Answer, then use Heroku. Throw it up there and see if there's traction before you worry about hosting. Once you find traction, there's a lot more to consider, but for now you're talking about minimal traffic and you can deal with this later.

At that point, you start getting into breakdowns of the various providers out there, and--most importantly--what they offer you in terms of failure resilience. If you know nothing else about software deployment, know that everything can fail (whether in a data center or in AWS or whatever) and that correctly and quickly responding to those failure cases is the core of a modern operations/platform effort.

At the point where a product works and has traction, I'll usually evaluate AWS or GCE (and tend to go with AWS because the tooling, publicly available knowledge, and my personal experience lean that way), because I like having easy answers for "but what if it breaks?" and "how do I protect myself?" in a way that neither less featureful/lower-quality services like either DigitalOcean or a bare-metal provider like OVH can offer. But people with different budgets and risk tolerances can reasonably disagree.
You might want to check the URL of the page you're on :)
It gave me a spectacular job (CTO of a 150-person YC company) and several job offers. I also hired quite a few engineers through HN. HN jobs (both the YC job postings and the monthly threads) really work! It's no exaggeration to say the site has shaped my life.
> Consumers should be the ones building chatbots to talk to brands not vice versa.

I agree with your general feeling, because they should act like invisible friends, looking at us and doing everything we need, best of before we even ask.

Unfortunately it looks as feasible as "consumers should be the ones building a search engine to index the internet". Impossible unless some company offers it to them as a service, best if at no (apparent) cost.

My dream in the 90s before the web was to get an assistant running on my hardware at home, somehow getting info about the world and talking to me. After the web it become clear that the assistant would have to interface the web and after the mobile phone (think old Nokias) its interface would be that. After the smartphone there would be a camera, a microphone, GPS, other sensors that I could trust because they would be sending data to my hardware and my software, not to some company that wants to exploit me. Unfortunately I worked on something else (web development) which was more profitable to me and everybody else did the same. We have things like Own Cloud but no Own Alexa.

What we'll get in the next year are better versions of centralized services like Google Now, Alexa and Siri. Centralized services that we can't trust to behave in our best interest.
HN job postings, at least those on the first of the month, are open to anyone, not just YC companies.
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Try buying a pair of pants that you like through a "conversational interface," and then get back to me when you figure out what the problem is.
TL;DR
Buffett's Dirty Secret = "America’s favorite investor loves monopoly, not free markets."

That's not so different from another "Dirty Secret" I was already familiar with, "America loves monopoly, not free markets." (I didn't get much further than the subtitle. For me the interesting thing about Buffett is how fascinated people apparently are in reading endlessly about the guy.)
Faninating story, I first heard of it while listening to the latter part of linked 99% Invisible podcast episode.

There’s some information on Jorge Matute Remus the engineer who designed and ran the building move on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Matute_Remus
Nowhere near as high quality as it used to be though. I stopped my email digest there a year ago.
Perspective: You are complaining about a job that somehow let you play 4 hours of WoW while at work.
“Y Combinator”, which is the name of the company that runs this website.
It could still happen. Mobile phones have been riding the CPU speed improvement gravy train for a decade or so, but there are signs that this is coming to an end like it did for desktop CPUs.

There will be increased demand for faster software when the hardware stops getting faster.

Optimization is vertical integration. Guess which mobile phone manufacturer is best placed to pull that off!
Rashomon Effect (in building software)
In Fritz Leiber's A Pail of Air, the Earth has been ejected from the solar system by a passing "dark star". Maybe black hole? Anyway, the atmosphere has frozen out. Survivors collect oxygen snow.
I said the difference isn't necessarily artificial like the OP claimed

How do you connect any things/people preference to performance or disparity thereof in a generic programming job? It explains the disparity only if you make a substantial assumption not in evidence.
The idea that startups are not for the few with the richest connections but anyone with the will and drive.

Thanks HN!
A belief that good choices matter is a great start. People who feel frustrated or defeated or hopeless probably don't make good choices.

A continuous drumbeat about luck does nothing to help that belief.
I think OCaml fits your description. ReasonML is an alternative syntax, and it is in fact implemented as simply a parser that generates the same AST as the OCaml parser, plugged into the rest of the OCaml compiler. This is particularly easy in OCaml because syntax extensions are implemented as functions of type AST -> AST, so that type is well documented and fairly stable.

I don't know of any way to translate between the two seamlessly; the translation itself would be pretty easy but preserving whitespace would be tricky.
outstanding signal to noise ratio and insightful comments. I read HN every day
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at the price of significant inconvenience

On the contrary, it's an extremely convenient way for fad-dieters to get the attention they crave.
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Reading that made me wish you'd written an article on the efficacy of toothpaste. So what do you think about its utility, and what are your thoughts on fluoride?
You probably live in one of the less corrupt countries in the world, where the public record the ownership you hold over your house won’t disappear over night.

More than 4 billion people don’t, and even those of us who do, should probably use our non-corrupt climate to implement these anti-corruption use cases while our political leadership isn’t corrupt. I mean, even if we never turn to corruption it’s infinitely easier to implement when you don’t need it.

Aside from that private sectors like container shipping desperately need a secure and global way to authenticate container ownership. Shipping the piece of paper that will let you pick up a container at a dock is currently more expensive than shipping the container itself, because anyone with that paper can steal your stuff.

Or what about making sure consumers know that they are actually buying your brand and not a copy?

That being said, most of those use cases won’t be decentralized. Maersk isn’t going to utilize public nodes, they’ll run their own.
In such a purchase flow model, where are customers placing their orders? Meaning, are they driving traffic to a general ecommerce site like Amazon?
As evidenced by your previous comments in this thread, had he put it so succinctly, you would have asked for more clarification.

I'll put it in one sentence: "9/11 truthers are just as purposefully ignorant and ill-informed as climate change deniers and no longer deserve the time and effort of the mentally capable to rehash a conspiracy theory that is so thoroughly and completely debunked."
Yes. The name "atom" literally meant "indivisible" in its original greek form. It's fitting for computations that go on undisturbed until completion.
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I appreciate the article didn't invent this ratio -- though this doesn't excuse the behaviour. Everyone, whenever they communicate, has the opportunity to improve things.

I'd argue it would be better described as 1 gram protein to 500gm (half a kilo) of body mass. That's actually a ratio, in the sense it can then be written simply as 1:500.

You could translate that to US imperial as the ratio 0.032:16 -- assuming ounces all the way down, of course. Convenient!

Microbloits to the parsec, football fields to the ocean, grams to the pound -- these are all just whacky to most people.
Coupled with the occasional burn of people who don't realise they're talking with the actual developer/person behind the product
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I get modded down for the oddest reasons these days. I can't even fathom why anyone might disagree with this post.
Yeah I agree with this. I've tried to use Quora before (about 2 years ago) but couldn't get my signal/noise ratio nearly as good as I wanted it to be
The Harvard doctor part actually makes it much more impressive because it means that he had in his back pocket the option to just go be a doctor and make $300k+. I would have quit a lot earlier.
Just setting that up will cost at least 2-4gb of ram, and we are streched thin as it is, 2gb of ram would mean we have to get one more node for our kubernetes cluster in gcloud.

Me and my team understands the 300 lines of code that go into rochefort and can twist and modify it for our needs.

Performance will make or break our startup, which deals with real time user behaviour analytics, and doing high performant java for a while, I know very well how much time I will have to spend looking at G1 logs to fine tune it.

I am sure we wont use rochefort after we scale up, but for now I think gives us greather velocity than kafka (just because if we want to modify kafka we have to spend a week on a simple change).

I want to be able to add more meta information in the header, or read the files from another process, rsync and read them to my laptop, add custom reducers etc, all those things will take me minutes with rochefort and days with kafka.
The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM
This is actually interesting because Kakfka’s is great and the protocol makes sense but I want a binary to run so I don’t have to deal with the java ecosystem.
Open source connections!
And automatic sharing suggestions based on the people that was at an event.
Yeah that's about it. The refractive index of ant material can be described by a real and complex component. The real component takes into account the opacity, permissivity etc. whereas the complex component is dependent on the electromagnetic properties of the medium, such as the polarisarisability, and in a sense the interaction with quantum effects. (Have a look at the Kramers-Krönig relations)

Now the interesting part is the temperature at which the experiment was performed. I anticipate that the decreased temperature would impact the gas clouds electromagnetic field, meaning less polirisation. Perhaps the gasses electrons occupy a lower quantum state, allowing the photons to occupy the, now un-occupied valence shells, en hence the lensing effect.

Remarkable, if I'm right that is