skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is "possible homelessness" a required motivation to ensure you have motivated employees? Note that I don't suggest your entire company would be employed by YC, but that you might fill some roles with people who YC has worked with before and considers of high quality. I would argue in terms of trustworthiness, it is likely "someone YC provides" is more trustworthy than "someone you found on the street". Presumably YC would only retain such employees they found were good at getting fully involved in the companies they put them with, so you'd get the same.

Also, consider that not only could someone be contracted to you in a high availability/all hours arrangement, but that this would potentially also allow YC companies to benefit from roles they couldn't afford to full-time.
yes, but startups aren't really very good at optimizing for other things. The stressful nature of startups are usually bad for happiness.

Startups are really good at providing two things - a sense of being able to affect change and working on something novel/new (assuming you actually go with a startup that does something new)
I'm curious what you would consider valid evidence.
If they would have went with IHOd they could just flip their "p" into a "d" and save millions on rebranding those signs! Then if it fails they can add an "L" later and pivot into the crypto-currency space.
I find human trafficking to be a greater offense than fishing without a license, and that doesn't work as an analogy. Do you really want law enforcement looking the other way on this issue?

If you're smuggling children across the border should the children be in the same cell as the trafficker? Of course not. I'm all for making this process as fast as possible, though.
Have you never canceled a fraudulent charge or had the credit card company flag something that you didn't purchase?
Docs\gpu\debugging_gpu_related_code.md detected as malware by Windows Defender
Very few YC startups allow remote work and a large percentage are in expensive areas like the bay.
The freedom to contract is what I described. The prohibitions you bring up violate the freedom to contract.

You're making an appeal to legality to claim that freedom to contract doesn't exist, which is an intellectually weak argument.

>>Contracts are legal instruments defined and enforced by the government

A contract is defined by the parties that sign it. It is an agreement. Agreements between individuals are not defined by the government.

In other words, agreements do not exist only by virtue of the govermment willing them to exist. They are private arrangements that we have delegated the enforcement of to govermment.

>>Because you are stating that anything other than absolute freedom is central planning.

I asked you 'why' because I don't see what's hyperbolic about that. Any rule that supplants free choice with a rule imposed by a central authority is an expansion of the scope of central planning at the expense of personal freedom.

This is absolutely undeniable and I don't understand why you're trying to make it out to be a controversial statement.

>>Beyond all of this, you started off this thread by saying that you think this will bias the journalists and affect their integrity. You've moved the goalposts multiple times

How could you possibly accuse me of that, when I was only answering the questions posed to me?

You're not treating me reasonably at all.
There are still choices to be made with finite time. Do you spend extra time helping your son understand his algebra and let the laundry accumulate for a day? Do you spend the time to cook from scratch or spend the extra money to buy prepared food? Economics applies everywhere, including the running of a household and use of time.
That is a great idea! I agree the brand perception is a big issue for startups, and that is a clever and unique thing that YC could do to help.
> I am hoping for an eventual big pay-out

Please, please, make sure you have a plan for when this does not happen, your company evaporates overnight (because leadership didn't tell you) and you find yourself out of a job.
Illegal immigration is a big problem that directly affects citizens, unlike the foreign interventionism in the Middle East. Do you really think 12.5+ million illegal immigrants isn't a big deal? The system isn't adequate if that many can get in.

https://www.fairus.org/issue/illegal-immigration/how-many-il...

>that somehow necessitates things like building a giant border wall

Do you want to tear down the existing walls? San Diego's seems like a success: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxhhjfiSy2Y

Walls are relatively cheap, dumb tech. A wall is potentially an investment: https://cis.org/Can-Border-Wall-Pay-Itself

>and enabling ICE, etc

So you don't want illegal immigrants to be removed? I don't understand.
Have you tried setting syntax=sh and turning on syntax colouring in the terminal, yet?
Some of my most mediocre acquaintances have jobs at FAANG/Big N. You don't have to be exceptional to land a high comp job there, you just have to be exceptionally tolerant to BS and mindnumbingly boring work and be willing to grind interview prep.

If anything, landing a job at an unicorn is much harder cause they care about things like culture fit, enthusiasm, esoteric FotM frameworks, and entrepreneurial spirit.
They are spending their own money the same way you would be if you bought a tv.
Fascinating! I tried to see how the Alps form but it's quite a complex process
This is my understanding as well. Highly advanced knock and temperature sensors, high pressure gasoline direct injection, turbochargers, and high compression ratios in gasoline engines are a relatively new combination. Gasoline engines have seen huge leaps in efficiency in the past decade.
His email starts off with this claim:

> In a browser, there are 2 main security components you want: The main
security advantage is privsep. The other is W^X jit. Other security
effects will follow from those design choices, especially if you have
privsep. For instance, the chrome privsep is nicely refined and pledge
enforcements could be added.

EDIT: Just to be clear I'm not arguing against DEP/W^X but simply appears he is contradicting himself.
Presumably they list the purchase as "misc retail" or something equally nonspecific, and the bank can't tell whether that's gas, groceries, lottery tickets, or all of the above. (Hint: it's probably all of the above.)
India: WhatsApp 'child kidnap' rumours lead to lynchings
Personally I find it much easier to drive Diesels in a fuel-economic fashion. With gasoline cars you really have to watch it.
Well yes, but is it any worse than people who use credit cards to fund "retail therapy"?
When people say to use a credit card to buy everything they typically mean using it in pace of your debit card: only spending money you actually have right now and could pay off instantly and never carrying a balance. You're in it to rake in fraud protection, rewards, and a higher credit score for if/when you want to buy a house or car.

You don't even think about the idea that there's a line of credit attached to the card that extends longer than 30 days.
Ask HN: How do you manage a remote team?
Plenty of us don't want to work for them regardless of pay.
American and Euro standards both. And yeah, Mazda's really been pushing the limits of high compression ratios and alternate cycle engines.
That's just expectations which will adapt quickly enough. I doubt you'll make the same mistake again. It's not just type C either I bought a USB 3.0 thumbdrive once and it turned out to be the same speed as a normal one, so even though it was 3.0 as advertised, there was absolutely no advantage in that. Nobody complains that their bedside lamp doesn't deliver the full 2400 W that the wall outlet advertises or that it doesn't allow bulbs more than 40 W even though the same socket can take 100 W bulbs in other lamps.
When you use a credit card to buy something, you are borrowing money.

It is entirely reasonable that your would-be creditors can refuse to lend you money for certain kinds of purchases.
> Child Pornography

I wonder how they manage this. Is there a database of known child pornography vendors who accept credit cards? Seems like an odd thing to specifically call out.
Maximize for learning and personal growth. Startups provide the best place for this. If you have any dreams of being a founder your self, you need to spend time in trenches.

If you are a "career" man or woman, I still say spend 4-10 years at startups, then go grind with the usual suspects. By spending time at a startup you acquire a diverse/well rounded set of skills that make you an exceptional team member at big companies down the road. Forget an MBA at anything but a top tier university, do startup(s).
Well it’s their risk though as they need to arbitrate disputes.

They won’t stop you from paying with YOUR money, but if you use a credit card, you are paying with your bank’s money. They will then charge you for it. If many peope can’t pay the money back, the bank looses.
Your website only appears in the archive if someone else has requested it via their search. So most of the time only your main page is included and most of the subpages are not. (Had that issue with my blog)

The tool scrapes your whole site for all of it's pages and than submits them individual to the archive. So in the end your whole page is saved.

BR
Sometimes the cost of misinformation is tangible, this is sadly one of those cases. I launched https://www.quod.us as a way for people to track and catalog misinformation, and I've been following this story for the last week.
Surprised to see no mention whatsoever of sleeping position. My experience is that very few people snore when sleeping on their side, but that back-sleepers are highly overrepresented among snorers. My father suffered, unknowingly, from sleep apnea. I recommended that he teach himself to sleep on his side instead, by propping himself uo with pillows or sewing a ball into the back of his pajamas. He taught himself without tricks like that, and he no longer has sleep apnea. To end a bad habit of mouth breathing, another simple trick is to simply tape ones mouth shut with surgical tape in the evening. I’ve done this myself to get back to nose-breathing after bouts of rhinitis. Simple behavioral modifications often trump overpriced hitech solutions and invasive procedures
I've seen people accept notes held together with scotch tape.
Unrelated aside: 1L Smartwater bottles are rather light and durable for reuse in backpacking.
Yes, before there were government-funded social programs and we were largely agrarian.
So much truth in here... Specially for the "just funded" startups : they loose their souls fast when the investors start to get impatient. It's a trap in so many cases.
This is such a massive point right here ... there is so much talent, either already in "far flung" parts of the country; or currently in a place like SF, but who long to move "back home" for any number of reasons.

Having startups be more remote-friendly by default would be a huge boon for everyone involved.
Or a few less trips to the writer's thesaurus.
Some explanation of what's going on in NA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentia
They maxed out the number of cores they can ship in a single CPU for now but that doesn't seem like a problem.

AMD will already launch their 7nm EPYC processor based on Zen 2 in 2019 (skipping Zen+ used by the new Threadripper and Ryzen 2xxx) which is expected to have 48 cores (some rumors even suggest 64 cores but that seems more likely for 7nm EUV instead of the first 7nm processes). So they will have no problem releasing more cores with Threadripper 3 next year (if they keep the yearly releases).

On top of that, in my layman eyes AMDs aproach of using infinity fabric to connect dies seems better suited to react to changes compared to Intels monolithic design.
Best tool is the browser, just disallow cookies and JavaScript by default and enable them on what you want. You can even use addons to fine tune this. Since there is no GDPR compliant lists and no way to insure a site is 100% compliant or stays compliant this may need to be manually managed.

I block all 3rd party cookies by default and force block certain cookies and JavaScript code from running, especially on sites that look really bad or I need to modify to my liking. I would recommend looking into GreaseMonkey and TamperMonkey for full customization.
Pros:

- More autonomy

- Less administrative overhead

- More executive interaction

- Higher percentage of superstar colleagues

- Work is more fun

- More breadth of opportunity and interaction

Cons that YC can help with:

- Less formal training

- Less formal mentoring

- When things go South, the cuts are worse and you have less notice

(The above can be mitigated by offering training and mentoring for the entire community, and proactive in-community job placement when companies fold)

Cons that YC can’t help with:

- Higher volatility in financial outcomes

- Less predictable schedule and work-life balance

- Less brand awareness for your parents to brag about
Not when the transaction is happening. The bank will charge you later. If many people can’t actually pay at that point, the bank will loose.
I see your point, and I agree. I'd also say that even though people are "deeper" at larger places, there are so many different "deep" people that you tend to get "wide" if you need to. Just ask a different person.
> She does have a point that men as a group have too many members who have taken actions that tarnish the reputation of the whole group.

Stop grouping people then. I am not responsible for what some psychopath I have never met does.
Some discussion from the author's twitter post: https://twitter.com/spudowiar/status/1005551128233299968
>At the same time, disallowing vegetarian companies from using the words 'milk' or 'meat' seems like complete overreach. Vegetarians / vegans think of these products in terms of what they are an imitation of, and they want to understand what the product is going for. It's incredibly useful to be able to use these terms. Not to mention they are already the way people colloquially refer to them. I don't think the 'real' versions should have a monopoly on those words at all.

Well let's take it back to my chicken example. I'm raising antibiotic-loaded chickens in tiny cages. I want consumers to think of my meat and egg products in terms of what they are an imitation of - free range organic chicken products. I think this would be really useful to the consumer. It also seems unfair to me that only chicken which is actually free range or organic should have a monopoly on those terms. Should I be able to include 'free range' or 'organic' in my advertising?

You see those chicken strips in my previous comment? What if instead of saying 'REAL MEAT' in big text and then below in smaller text '100% plant protein' - it said 'REAL ORGANIC' in big text and then below in smaller text it said 'cage raised'? It would obviously be wrong to attempt to confuse the consumer in that way. I think people here are confusing whether realistic meat substitutes are a good development (they are) and whether they're meat (they're not.) If we just flip this scenario and pretend it's Tyson using the same advertising practices as Beyond Meat it becomes obvious how wrong this really is.

>Not to mention they are already the way people colloquially refer to them.

I have never heard anyone refer to a patty of soy and pea protein (or beets or heme or what have you) as 'beef' or 'meat.' In my experience they call it a 'veggie burger.'
I guess a lot of startups would shutter
Chromium is an open source project, and we should treat it like one. Google paid for most of its development, but were able to pay many open source developers less because they were excited about working on an open source project (see the thread about compensation on today's Ask HN post about working for startups). Ditto for Android. Nobody should be shy about forking these projects. We don't owe Google for them, beyond what the license says. Fair is fair.

If we can treat Chromium like an open source project, maybe we can retire Firefox.
As with most questions like this, the answer is "Yes, of course, sometimes."

I work on IBM Streams, which is a distributed stream processing system [1,2]. When the cost of communicating between hosts is greater than the cost of your computation, distributed processing is not going to help. When your computation is basically a form of word count, then, yes, using multiple hosts may not help. But if your computation is, say, online speech to text for a large call center [3], then the application will eat just about as much compute resources as you can throw at it. That's going to mean using multiple machines, even if each machine is quite large.

As a plug for our system: we scale down as well as up. If you only have a single host, we will run the entire application in a single process, using threads as needed to achieve parallelism using either dedicate threads or a lightweight operator scheduler [4]. Users can configure which without changing application logic. If you have multiple machines, we will automatically partition your application across those machines for you [5]. By default, we do this all for you, without needing any input. But if you want to explicitly control what executes where, and using how many host machines, that's easy to configure, also without changing application logic.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/cloud/streaming-analytics

[2] http://ibmstreams.github.io/

[3] https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/verizon

[4] Low-Synchronization, Mostly Lock-Free, Elastic Scheduling for Streaming Runtimes. Scott Schneider and Kun-Lung Wu. PLDI 2017. http://www.scott-a-s.com/files/pldi2017_lf_elastic_schedulin...

[5] Automatic Fusion and Threading. https://developer.ibm.com/streamsdev/docs/automatic-fusion-a...
Dispelling common arguments against HTTPS
I have just experienced a massive boost of understanding in the design area, as a result of reading code instead of a book before bedtime. I wish I was doing this sooner. I can’t speak for the “in lots of different languages” part because I really only know Python and C#.
European cars are considered unreliable in the US because they're generally high-end models with newer tech (and more of it), and that kind of stuff tends to break and be expensive to fix.

From a mechanical standpoint, they're not particularly unreliable, but again, parts can be pricier (particularly in the US).

The way I view it is that Japanese cars are built with extreme precision in high volume to exactly the right tolerances. They tend to be very consistent and reliable and parts are cheap due to volume. However, if things DO fail, it's generally because they're just slightly underbuilt and built to a pricepoint. German cars tend to be overbuilt from a mechanical standpoint (heavier/sturdier parts) but that doesn't mean they're more reliable as a finished product.
You're changing the test format here from multiple choice.

If your point is that "multiple choice is bad/written answer good", that's a very general hypothesis in the realm of education; it's not fair to be imposing that on this particular test designer in this particular situation who has chosen to deploy the multiple choice method.

I don't see trendy concepts in the original question. Perhaps the mention of scalability qualifies as trendy in distractor A?

Here is the list of externally referencing noun phrases from the question:

"idempotence", "API design", "rise of distributed systems", "large-scale application", "unreliability of networks", "developers", "robust API", "retry attempt", "designing database schemas", "clients", "multiple, duplicate API requests".

Which of these load the question with trendy concepts? API design, distributed systems, large-scale applications, developers, and duplicate requests existed three decades ago or more.
This is a fascinating article about how much of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment was a sham.

> The appeal of the Stanford prison experiment seems to go deeper than its scientific validity, perhaps because it tells us a story about ourselves that we desperately want to believe: that we, as individuals, cannot really be held accountable for the sometimes reprehensible things we do. As troubling as it might seem to accept Zimbardo’s fallen vision of human nature, it is also profoundly liberating. It means we’re off the hook. Our actions are determined by circumstance. Our fallibility is situational. Just as the Gospel promised to absolve us of our sins if we would only believe, the SPE offered a form of redemption tailor-made for a scientific era, and we embraced it.

It seems that we fell for the narrative fallacy every time this "research" was used as an explanation for behavior in the real world.
credit cards charge a fee, which you get some back as rewards. which exchanges allowed for feeless credit card purchases?
Palemoon at least right now. I stopped being a fan of Firefox when they stopped allowing unsigned plugins. Before that I used Firefox pretty much since it was first released.

I like palemoon because it offers most of the things Firefox used to. In the end I don't really care that much though. It's just a web browser at this point they're all pretty much the same. I've just never really been a fan of chrome's minimalist setup, or unconfigurable minimalist Uis in general.
I see what you're doing, and it doesn't make any sense. I just said I didn't like a pointless display of emotion, and so you do a "satirical" emotional appeal?
Show HN: List all GitHub repos a user has pushed to since the beginning of time
So can your cell phone? That one is significantly worse.
FAANG + Microsoft + Uber + Airbnb hire thousands and thousands of engineers in the Valley and Seattle every year. 400K is L5-L6 salary (senior engineer, first level manager). There are a TON of engineers making that money. They are not really outliers, and FAANGMUA is also not really outlier considering Google itself has 80K employees and Amazon and MSFT have over 200K employees.
> Protecting lazy and inattentive shoppers from accidentally buying a plant based product is sufficient reason for heavy handed regulation?

Where do you draw the line for what deceptive labeling is allowed and what isn't? How many of the other existing food labeling regulations should we throw out?

What if I label my package to look _very_ similar to a meat product, but put the words "not real meat" in size 8 font on the bottom of the package, is that acceptable?
>Suppose I had $100 million to spend on literal lottery tickets[...] Now: if my bank where I'm keeping the $100 million, which is stable and conservative, gives me an offer to purchase a 1-year bond from them that pays 12%

In your hypothetical... if "lottery tickets" are the metaphorical stand in for "unproven startups", what does the bond paying 12% realistically stand for?

There isn't a AAA-rated bond that pays 12%. Or, to generalize further, there isn't an investment vehicle <X> that guarantees to pay VC_hoped_for_returns plus +2%. (In any case, if we're talking about AAA bonds, the LPs can just invest in that themselves without involving VCs as middlemen. E.g. you don't need VCs to buy US Treasuries on your behalf.)

To get higher interest rates that compete with good VC returns, you're getting into junk bond territory. Junk bonds have higher risk for defaults. Junk bonds require more research to assess returns. One could also try to sell the bonds on the bond market before the maturity but either way, you're now back in "lottery ticket" territory for bonds.

You're creating fictitious scenarios that don't have realistic choices.
They certainly would have a lot of influence within the OSM US org, and amoung US companies who do OSM stuff. But the OSM community isn't as big in the US (per capita, or in raw numbers) compared to other countries.
Roughly what Neil Postman thought around 30 years ago then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
It's really great to play with the million years selector and the up/down arrow.
Too bad they don't have ihob.com…