skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You want to talk about good timing.

My Great Great Grandfather left czarist Russia around 1904 (today it is part of Belarus). He was dodging conscription into the Russo-Japanese war. He saved up and was then able to pay for my Great Grandfather to come over at age 13. My Great Grandfather barely missed out on the Bolshevik Revolution. A few years after that Hitler wiped the whole Shetl off the map.

I've been in the states long enough that when someone asks my ancestry "American" is the most reasonable answer. Yet you won't see me succumbing to the vulgar fashion of the nativist nationalists with their anti-refugee, anti-immigrant rhetoric. Unless you're native American, you're a boat person. If I can still see it despite several generations between me and the boat, then others must be purposefully obtuse.

As someone that arguably stands to gain from the redefining of American identity in terms of ancestry, I just got to say these blood and soil people are un-American.
I've often seen it as FAANG, putting the good Lord Bezos back in the mix.
I'm not a woman, but I'm single and middle age (36) and want to have healthy children eventually. Are sperm freezing services offered to men as part of work benefits anywhere?
SIGGRAPH 2018 – Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang – Reinventing Computer Graphics
Los Angeles has very pleasant summers by East Coast standards. Many even fairly well off homes do not have air conditioners.

It's not great, but it's a lot better than lots of more northern cities like Boston. I literally cannot sleep in Boston during the summer without air conditioning.
https://www.digikey.com/eewiki/display/Wireless/A+Basic+Intr...

(Heading: Pairing Methods for LE Secure Connections (4.2 devices only))
Someone told me that a webpage with the following would get your internet access cut off in China: June 4th Tiananmen Square Massacre. Can someone translate to Mandarin please.
Dismissing links out of hand as you are here doesn't serve to help discussion either.

So, real talk, why do you think concerns over YC working with a government with super shaky human-rights record are unimportant or unfounded?

A valid answer is totally "Because we're gonna make money and nobody complaining is in a position to actually do anything."

What do you think about it?
Please give us thoughtful critique rather than shallow, indignant dismissal. If you explain what you mean and why, readers can learn something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Day 16 Is UP #100daysofML #100daysofCode
Code review review is the manager’s job
We've added that bit above. Thanks!
> and you could still get access to the market you're targeting.

This is not true. Taiwanese investment in China is considered 'external'. And Taiwan's talent reserve is no way to be considered as on par against mainland China. But that is not the point either, I think YC just wants an entity in China, not for the talents, but for the market. Under the risk of being downvoted, I have to say China has created some world class startups in the past decade, only second to US.
iLol :)
My understandings are:

Unit test: tests single function/class, uses fake or mocked data to test for expectations. Test coverage can be used to find spots missed in testing.

Integration test: test two or more things in isolation - interaction between two classes, functions, etc. OR more than one system (say micro-service) communicating with another. The rest of the systems are fake/mock or fetch/replay golden data.

Unit test should take milliseconds to execute.

I'm not actually sure what acceptance test would be?
Extra hot humor miscellanea #58 – Channel FunnYCubemix (2018)
We've changed the title to language from the abstract at the top, which is hopefully more accurate.
Product Photo Editing showcase
I worked for one of these and really enjoyed the experience. I would have earned a lot more working in other places, it was bumpy at times, but I don't regret it in the slightest.

It was great to work for a company that you really wanted to see succeed. Not because of some overhyped mission, but just wanting to see this small group of people do well.

Also companies like this are not used to employees in "startup-mode" but yet most have 1 or 2 that are. For them, it can be a great learning experience and still small enough to feel your contributions. Just because your not in hyper-drive doesn't mean you cant be innovative and punch above your weight.
Taiwan was land that was forcibly colonized by the Han Chinese. The original inhabitants are Austronesian people [1]

I think a better move would be to move YC China to Vancouver, given the high density of rich Chinese expats in Vancouver, and its status of being in a liberal, western democracy. [2]

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Canada
Does the same apply to places like Bermuda, Guam and Trinidad which are in the North American +1 area?

I've wondered how that works. In other countries / continents, it's clear when I'm calling a foreign number as the prefix is different. It's also common that different costs are reflected in the local number, like British numbers beginning 07 being mobile phones; it costs more to call one from a basic landline.

Does calling Bermuda cost the same as calling New York?
Please don't take HN into generic political or national flamewars. It just leads to the same fights over and over.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, you will need exercise and sleep as so many threads suggest. But in your current state, just seeing the laundry list of things you need to do, yet knowing you just can't find the motivation to stick to any of this will just push you back further.

The number one thing you need to do is think of one person, just one person, who has supported you unconditionally in the past. They should be someone who can give you a positive outlook, someone who could buoy you up. Talk to him/her to vent out your feelings. If you can't find such a person or if this exercise does not help, meet a professional.

Once you are a little bit on the road to recovery, incorporate exercise. That will automatically regulate your sleep and push you towards healthy eating without much effort on your part. Exercise regulates your hunger and craving for sugar. The positive cycle will build on itself. Just take it slow.

First, just talk to a trusted person, hopefully a friend who has seen you at your best. They can help bring out that person in you.
China has startups, they are definitely many high in quality, but they aren’t really world class in terms of talent used (almost completely Chinese) and markets targeted (ditto). China will have trouble getting its tech companies to compete abroad when they have closed off their own market so much. Likewise, until China embraces immigration rather than emigration, talent is unlikely to flock to China in any significant numbers.
In a recent vulnerability assessment that I performed, I was surprised to find out that Cisco is using Dropbear on products such as UCS Managed C240M servers.
> Resource Limit Is Reached :\
Decentralization Will Create a Better Sharing Economy
As @aaachilless point's out, question 2 is quite precisely formulated. But anyway, what is wrong with fishing for definitions?

Right now, no one can come up with a really satisfactory definition of either "intelligence" and "information". By trying to do so we can learn more about what we would want from such a definition. Better yet we might learn that definition can't exist for some reason: i.e. that those concepts are ill-posed.
I suppose it is also possible that I would be good at office politics if I wanted to be; it's not that I've tried and failed, but that I regard it as unworthy of attention. Perhaps my anecdote is therefore not even a counterexample.
It could be that Linus, the people he chose to be his "captains", the design and code review process, and the sheer amount of linux usage anywhere maybe enough. The linux kernel might be the most analyzed (by people and machines) piece of software there was.

But then a lot of business-logic software is out there just to support client-A able to do rpc calls to your service, and usually one or two engineers implement it, few more look at it, gets deployed, and it's expected to run flawlessly for long time.

Then someone else modifies it later, and the original "developers" are gone (another project, company, retired, etc.)... Definitely not the case with Linux.

So my take is that such software needs TDD to hold on it's own, such that it could be developed further by complete strangers.
Are they alive? No news in the last six months…
Also my experience! For some reason, most of the climbers (and for that matters, jugglers) I know have some kind of technical / high education related job. Most of the people I climb with are Phd, engineers or something.

Not something I am actively searching for, but a pattern I have found. Having climbed in 4 countries, this pattern seems pretty consistent across Europe, interestingly.
Crazy, egotistical, lying, power mad, popularist, bully has a tantrum and blames external events for internal problems, trying to deflect critisism.
Despite how inappropriate this comment is its cynicism is appreciated. I like my iPhone but I miss Android for things like this.

That said, I think it might be possible but I think you might have to shim it and wouldn’t have direct access to the file system under the photos.
Write clean code and get rid of code smells
So why does the US have a harsh embargo on DPRK?
Definitely agree. Bouldering is not about upper body strength until you reach a certain level. It's mostly about technique and placement
Same here. We've been using Ubertooth One and it was not a pleasant experience. Certainly cheap and easy to set up, but with very mixed results. Not only does it miss connections due to the channel hopping, it also frequently loses connections, which is even more frustrating.

We've had the privilege to know someone with a professional wide-band solution (Ellisys Bluetooth Explorer), and it was miles ahead, including the analysis software.

Disclaimer: I am not in any way affiliated with Ellisys.
Talking about running things behind the scenes, mainframes with pre-SQL NoSQL DBs (ADABAS, IBM IMS) and even with no DBMS in a modern sense at all (running on TPF, working directly with Direct Access Storage Device records) are still doing very well.
I think that is mostly the case for BIOS and platform firmware. CPU microcode can be loaded by the OS (if the OS allows you to, as Linux does - https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/install-update-intel-microcode...).
You are only thinking of just an application. No offense, but this is a classic case of app devs not realizing that databases exist for more than just storing data.

Ever thought that databases are so used to generate reports, dashboards? What about a data warehouse? OLAP? Cubes? Aggregates? What about feeding other systems (e.g. A third party downstream system)?
You:

> If it’s a timesliced core, then it’s not what they say they’re selling (a hyperthread).

vs.

_msw_:

> A core can be sequentially time sliced between customer instances when you use a fractional (m3.medium) or burst (T2 instances) CPU instance type.

AWS instance types page ( https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ ):

> Each vCPU is a hyperthread of an Intel Xeon core except for T2 and m3.medium.
And replacing all existing houses is not an easy task, compare with the potato paradox posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17750480
This sort of drive-by personal attack isn't a good fit for this site, even in the best-case scenario where what you're posting is basically right. And there are a whole lot of worse-case scenarios in the internet smear genre.
I think the point is that “falling 1 percent” has no real information content since it’s consistent with daily volatility. You can take such random volatility and try to form a narrative around it but it’s intellectually dishonest.
Using PageRank to prove people message 25% more desirable potential mates
Because the function is the stateless easy part. To make any non trivial system, in a serverless way, you have to use their proprietary stateful systems. IN my case, google pubsub, google data flow, google datastore, Spanner, etc. that’s where the lock in happens.
Worldclass valuation maybe? Might be more controversial to say, but when it comes to internet, there is China and the rest of world, those are 2 disconnected system, quite literally. So I don't think YC China is priortized to create companies for the whole world, probably just companies that would operate mainly in China, built and run by the locals.
What about analytics, hosting dimensional data outside your DB sounds terrible.
Usually not needed, since your router will usually try to assign a fixed address for already known devices.
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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-08/msg00...

>To replace an interpreter by a JIT compiler means more oomplexity and
> also more possible problems. (For example, if there are platforms
> someday that libjit does not support.) Reading a Lisp interpreter is
> very useful for learning.

> If the plan is to add a jit and keep the Lisp interpreter as well,
> we don't lose its advantages for study, and we can still support all
> the platforms -- but we add complexity even more.

> I don't think a 3% speedup is worth those drawbacks. Or even a 10%
> speedup. A really big speedup would justify the costs.

Why do they still let RMS allows to say something about technical today?

No wonder Emacs is losing the users.
> Mainly, I'm just pissed that they axed EPUB, but still do iBook and Kindle. That is implicitly supporting closed, proprietary formats (or embraced and extended formats) rather than open standards. We have already been there once.

Yes, exactly, that was my reason for asking to begin with.

But I can buy into their explanation that amazon/iapples are much more downloaded as the number of devices are probably a couple of magnitudes larger.

But still sad a project with "open" in it's name mainly seem to support proprietary formats.
This point doesn't support your first sentence then because this policy of the Open Handset Alliance existed before Google was in a position to bully, before Android had any market share at all. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance?wprov=...
It's not some universal concept that has applied throughout the world for our existence so it's quite rude to pretend like China has to bow to these systems of human rights we developed without china's input.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights[1] was signed by China and Dr. Peng-chun Chang (who was Chinese) took part in its drafting[2].

Which part of it do you think China doesn't officially agree with?

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

[2] http://www.un.org/en/sections/universal-declaration/drafters...
That's not 100% true. Amazon and (previously) ebay operate in china without problem but don't get a chance facing alibaba. Microsoft also do things fine. Uber was also there. The market that's really closed off are mostly limited to companies that don't support censorship.

Also speaking of world class, have you heard of DJI?
> I've seen MySQL do a lot of fairly dumb stuff with temp tables and order by.

I too have seen front end of an application do a lot of dumb stuff with state of my requests.

The point is, don't confuse PEBKAC with an issue with a tool.
What has always bothered me about "sin taxes" is that it's been a way to divide and conquer the populace.

Most of the people in my city and state I've called home for a couple decades have been vocal about and voted consistently to not enact new taxes and higher taxes, even when people say "its for the children" (eg we need money for schools, need to raise property taxes)

However politicians can cut that group being vocal into pieces by coming out with alternatives like liqour taxes.

We recently enacted a new stripper tax, adding to the door fees of establishments that provide "adult entertainment".

People can debate if it's trying to reduce consumption for public health and all that, they say the money it going towards trafficking victims. I had never known there was a shortage of money there.

I don't think there is a shortage of money there, in fact our state has had a surplus of money for some time. But it makes for a nice boogey man to drum up emotions and try to make someone look like a golden knight fighting for what's right.

Sadly, the extra few bucks you take from someone at the door of these places is just reducing the discretionary spending of the patrons and therefor most likely just taking money away from the strippers (those extra few dollars would of likely ended up as tips on the stage).

Of course who is going to stand up and be vocal about not extra taxing strippers, or those self medicating with nicotine or alcohol? NOt enough of a crowd, they are easily divided and conquered.

It's often the minority that bears the burden of things like this from what I have seen, and not enough of the majority thinks about it.

Let the tourists suffer the outrageous hotel tax,
let the gamblers pay for the colleges,
the drinkers pay for whatever.

Divide and conquer.
It's minority bashing usually.
The arrows are duplicates of control P, N, B, F and the home and end keys control A and E.

Control is more common than Alt, and with the usual swap with caps lock (as on old keyboards) it is still on the home row for the left hand.
A response to the press is not legalese.
Unrelated to the topic, but if there is a frontend developer with reuters.com reading: please consider fixing that replacement of the url in the address bar once the user scrolls to the end of the current article (not the start of the new one strangely) ... with fixing being removing the "feature".
Isn't Canada also land that was forcibly colonized, by the French and British?
For streaming links you can't really find anything with Google anymore. Ddg works really well.
> that represent the domain or range of possible values that may participate in a relation

Like a foreign key constraint?
>The internet is just if not more free than it ever has been.

Maybe for you - not so for most [1].

But I get your point. There is indeed much more amazing content out there now than there was 15 years ago. If you can squint your eyes just right and focus in between the billboards..

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_survei...
Electrical engineer here: and I also read the title, wondering who would 'put BLE into a literal multi tool!' :-)
>to ensure that the benefits of that are fairly spread throughout humanity.

What about Uighur internment camps YC money will finance through taxes?
>the fact that they are wealthy and free are more likely explained by..

I'd add to this the exploitation of resources throughout the world
As English speaker you will benefit from learning a foreign language, something few (fewer than in other demographics) English speakers do.

Take your pick, but Spanish is a good alternative. There is lots of excellent literature in Spanish, not only Borges. And being in the US (I assume) you will benefit by improving contact with your fellow mexicans.
Modi announcing big plans and Modi implementating big plans are two very different things.

He still hasnt done hardly any of his original and badly needed economic reforms.
I seem to remember Cocoon was using continuations, and there was a framework for ruby inspired by seaside but I don't know what happened to it.

To add to what you wrote, the elevator pitch of Seaside and the likes is that we basically write web pages as a sea of GOTO statements and global state, the use of continuations allows us to get to the "structured programming and function calls" level.
Mini museum
Seems like maybe you're doing it in the wrong order. Why don't you just apply to YC, get accepted, and then move to SF?
Portmanteau.
Quantum computing school and hackathon with Scott Aaronson. Zurich 11-14 Sep
It's been on my todo-list over neat ideas for a while. I just assumed someone would've beaten me to it by now :)

I suspect it might have to do with resources - dedicating multiple cores to benchmarking isn't going to be easy to do for free. Might be feasible for low cost, though.
It’s arcane only if you don’t know C. If you’re on a UNIX-like or a true UNIX system, not knowing C will come to haunt you with a vengeance sooner or later.
It’s troubling that this statement is so overtly unserious. Has YC and its surrounding culture become so insulated that they cannot see the obviously self-defeating through-line in this statement?

“Our mission at YC is to enable more innovation than any other company in the world, and to ensure that the benefits of that are fairly spread throughout humanity.”

Do you really think it’s possible to ensure that the benefits of innovation are spread fairly while simultaneously partnering with an oppressive, cruel government in order to create vast pools of wealth controlled by a tiny subset of individuals allied with that government?

I can understand why someone would try to get as rich as possible and would turn a blind eye toward obvious moral compromise. I can also understand the utilitarian impulse to “ensure that the benefits of [innovation] are fairly spread throughout humanity.” But I can’t understand ignorance of the wild contradictions between those two “missions.”

If you want to spread innovation equally, you should be working to support dissident voices in China and you should be putting 95% of you and your associates’ vast personal wealth behind the political project of reversing Republican-engineered inequality here at home.

Helping people in China who you deem most likely to succeed (working in harmony with the government, of course) to become even more successful is not, in fact, helping to make the distribution of benefits among humanity more fair.

TL:DR — Choose only one: fairness among humans or the accumulation of vast personal wealth by collaborating with governments that brutally oppress their own citizens.
On HN, please don't do ideological flamewar to begin with and please don't get personally nasty as you did here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Did you try what I mentioned or something else? The first stack, for example, took effect quickly and continued to work.
Please don't do this kind of flamewar on HN.
> "Why not base it in Taiwan?" It's still "China" (for some definition of China), you can still get access to the talent that you want (you just have to try a little harder), and you could still get access to the market you're targeting.

Native Chinese here. I don't think this is the case. It's not even close to ideal to base in Taiwan given the political environment between the straits nowadays. The policies are very unfriendly. Recruitment and market delivery is even more complicated than between foreign countries actually.
This is just another way to get you to prioritize work (them) over family (you).

Putting things off for later tends to mean putting them off forever. You aren't getting any healthier. Running after little ones isn't easier when you are old. Maybe you freeze a few... but is that enough? Maybe you will really like having kids.

Also, freezers fail. I think it was just a few months back that a large facility had a huge failure that wiped things out for a huge number of couples. Oopsie, so sorry! Getting a refund is unsatisfying when you were expecting a child born of your own flesh and blood.
Can we get automobiles to stop driving in our public spaces too?

Those are orders of magnitude worse than second-hand “chemicals” (VOCs?) from someone vaping.

While we are at it, let’s get rid of perfumes, deodorants, and body sprays. Also air fresheners and scented candles, pesticides, furniture flame retardants, dry-cleaned suits, many cleaning products, white-board markers, permanent markers, and everything else that off-gasses “chemicals”.