skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If they want to collect emails they need to offer something in addition.

whether i agree with the decision or not, i am confused by this sentiment. aren’t they offering docker, for free?
>"I always find Jenkins to be an absolute nightmare."

Nothing you go on to detail after that opening sentence has anything to do with Jenkins itself but rather your company and it's organization.
Again-- what are some links to investigative reports of these atrocities that were happening in prisons of the South around the early 2000s (or 1990s) in the U.S. which are "exactly the same sort of thing" as Abu Graib?
ok. If python2 is deprecated, why write a tutorial in python2 and say "python3 people can work it out"
Do you think using this over zmq in my thingy would really bring much improvement?

I use it everyday for some of my home baked apps, and would love if this really made a difference.
We've changed the URL to take the amp bit out.
Fine I'll delete my poor attempt at humor.

To respond seriously, I don't see the point in competing against Reddit for Redditors. What are you trying to achieve?
Perhaps the details of the Arab slave trade are just too brutal. For example, virtually every African male child Arab slavers captured was castrated.
Why does the reason matter? If Cisco isn’t competitive, they die. How do you propose they stay in business when Huawei is selling the same thing for half the price?
YC - you made the right move
A true successor is the only element missing to fulfill the prophecy. The requirements of shooting themselves in the feet and alienating a portion of their userbase have already been met.

HN is already a much better place for certain topics, for example, but we need a more general platform.
"Earning" citizenship has nothing to do with your own choices. It depends on your country of origin and the American public's openly racist opinions about the relative merit of people from your country. It's a given that any immigrant wants to become a US citizen, but quotas deny them that chance.

This is just like the NIMBYs. Work to deny people the opportunity to become "stakeholders," then use your success in doing so to claim their needs don't matter.

The birth lottery is a poor indicator of deservingness. This behavior, on the other hand, is bright-as-day proof of its absence.
I'm familiar with the various attempts to remove the GIL over the years.

The thing is, in the 90s the choices the produced the GIL as it exists were not bad ones; that's why I went to the trouble of explaining how it affects threaded code and why those effects can be considered reasonable tradeoffs for what was known at the time, in implementing threading (without completely breaking the ecosystem of Python + Python extensions, which was already significant even back then).

Of course, knowing what's known today about the directions computing and the use of Python went in, different decisions might end up being made, but at this point it's very difficult (more difficult than people typically expect) to undo them or make different choices.
Is this the graphical version of Markov chains?
I agree — the typical path is the abusive H1 system, which is dangled as a carrot by outsourceds in India to retain talent in hopes of getting an assignment here.

It’s a form of indentured labor that should be forbidden.

My grandparents were all skilled blue collar workers who needed a sponsor and a medical exam to enter and eventually get citizenship in the 1940s. There’s no reason that skilled labor from anywhere should not be able to immigrate here on the same terms.
Add one order of hopefully serendipitous magnitude. =)

YC has always admirably stretched the scale of vc. This will be an interesting experiment now at this scale--and I'm especially curious how you'll measure progress along the way.
For the people saying that this would have unintended consequences, that may well be the case. Somehow, the rest of the world seems to get by without the same tipping culture.

Thats basically my point: we import many things, but not all things in other parts of the world (from the USA) and tipping culture is something we're pushing back on, preferring to see a realistic minimum wage fight instead (it is a fight: overall I think minimum wage is nothing like high enough, but it is usually higher than in the USA in relative purchasing power)

The tax thing totally amazed me. in Australia it is mandatory to quote price inclusive of GST which is our version of VAT, and this horrid practice of pretending there is no tax consequence and then applying it at the check out in US stores really upsets me. I kind of get it: this is the libertarian push back, saying "see how cheap things would be if only those nasty governments state and federal didn't levy taxes" but really, its a trick. Its not what I am going to pay, which is pretty much what I care about.
This isn't a dark pattern, it isn't shady af, and the author should not be called to the rug to answer for it.

It's just someone trying to build an email distribution list for their (side?) gig. Feel free to enjoy the content without opting in.
Agree- it's up to us to make the most of this opportunity now. I hope YCom get some good data and learning for next years course off the back of it too.
It’s not the color of their skin, it’s their contribution as citizens (mostly; some immigrants don’t want to assimilate into their host country culture, which again is not a racial issue, it’s a cultural issue). Point me to a country that takes in unskilled immigrants on a visa for anything other than farm labor (in limited quantities).

If you have nothing to offer a country, why would that country accept you except under extenuating circumstances (ie political asylum)? You must be able to contribute in a meaningful way.
The more the merrier!

I got accepted last year, and I remember they have a group chat or something, but pretty quiet.

Running your own startup can be lonely, and joining a graveyard group chat doesn't help much. I hope this time is different!

Note: I have joined a couple accelerators, online and offline. By far, Founder Institute has the best comradeship. I think it's bcoz you're still working fulltime, while learning startup with tough weekly assignments that can get you kicked out anytime from the program, creating strong group bonding.
Planned Features list seems to omit the opportunity to integrate climate change deniers as a gameplay element...
Even Wacom tablet drivers phone home now: https://www.reddit.com/r/wacom/comments/7zzq8p/you_should_kn...
"Is this form complete?" "Do you X, Y, Z?" when it is known that those things are what are required, etc.
Well if Postgres is already in your stack, it's no extra maintenance.
Sounds like you would be more interested in LXD then.
It's not an unfair criticism, but OP's comment wasn't exactly substantive. But I take your point.
When I was running both at the same time about five years ago, yeah, I personally found Jenkins to be more operationally expensive than a small postgresql instance. It required more memory, more CPU, and more time to set up and keep running as desired. Maybe things have improved or maybe it's just a YMMV thing, but yeah, I would have said the same thing as your parent without thinking twice.

Edit to add: oh yeah, I just read another comment that reminded me that it also ate up lots of disk space as well.
Ugh. It just struck me how the tragedy of the commons could apply to a human population.
This is great! I may honestly be even more motivated now to prove YC wrong for initially declining me :-)
I think @Animats was being sarcastic.
A breakdown of a GIF decoder (2012)
I don't buy this argument. I understand he (and I guess you) believe it, but I think this argument doesn't reflect real world experience from non-tipping culture (I mean about net loss of high end staff)

If you don't pay your wait staff above-award and want to keep the best, I think you need to think about their value to your business.

The tax cost part, I recognize. I am not blind to unintended consequences, but this one? Not big enough to make me feel like reversing course.

I'm reminded of a great "bill tidy" cartoon from the 1970s of a porter in a USSR hotel holding his tip-hand out to the guy he's just carried bags into the room while speaking into a not very hidden microphone tipping is evil and diminishes the dignity of labour
The first email I received was

Thank you for applying to Startup School Online. We're sorry to say that your startup was not selected for the upcoming Advisor track.

I then received a second email

We are deeply sorry, but an error occurred in the software that triggers acceptance emails and you were actually supposed to receive the email below accepting you into the Startup School Advisor Track.

It seems like this is the opposite of what most other have experienced according to the comments. I guess regardless, everyone is still in?
Remember that in the US you have to factor in the upcoming 25% import tariff.
Just to be clear, you believe you would starve if immigration policy was changed in such a way that farmers received less subsidies and had to pay a fair wage to get work done?
Man, credit where credit is due, this showed a lot of integrity. There was one good solution, it was just a painful one, yet they still did it. Well done YCombinator!

P.S. They make the point that this is an experiment, and I think all of us who join should prove that it is a good one. Nobody rails against applications and qualifying scores like HN peeps (check the comments of any article, ever, about SAT/GMAT/GRE scores for evidence). And since YC choose to go the universal route, standing strong to the HN ethos, I think we can prove that decisions like this do work for the best by being focused, engaged, and building some kickass tech companies.
If money is an issue, perhaps docker should make container authors host their own stuff and just make them searchable/discoverable in dockerhub.
Likewise... I have also heard that others ONLY got the acceptance email. Seems like something went wildly wrong.
If you make below minimum wage as a tipped employee, your employer must make up the difference. Saying that they make $2.13/hr is misleading.
Creationism and conspiracism share a common teleological bias
Doesn't Ender continue to attack Stilson and Bonzo after they are down?

Stilson, yes. Bonzo, no. Bonzo was effectively dead but still standing when Ender kicked him in the groin.

Are we to assume that he doesn't know that doing such a thing could be lethal?

Ender was 6 when he killed Stilson. I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that a 6 year old, even one of the smartest on the planet, might not have a full appreciation that kicking someone who had just attacked him might kill him or a full appreciation of what death is.

Maybe the scenarios are contrived but I still maintain that Ender is an innocent in both cases because his use of force was intended to prevent serious injury to himself. He was facing superior numbers of physically stronger adversaries.

If I remember correctly, isn't the military surprised that Ender uses the super-bomb against the bugger's planet?

I think they intended for him to use the MDD but none of them wanted to take the moral responsibility for telling him to destroy an entire species. They wanted Xenocide without being responsible for it.
Team 2nd chance has a lot to prove

Hah! "Team 2nd chance"... love it! We should get t-shirts made with that on them and everything.

You do make a good point though. This is a great chance for a lot of us to show the doubters that they were wrong, and to prove that we do belong.
Manually accept (or reject) the tracking once, and then pass the relevant cookie as part of your crawler's request.
I tried using the same phrase several different times and got different results, so it appears the system is not deterministic.
Was a bit disheartening getting that second mail. I mean, I'd already shared the news with Anita, the cofounder. When I woke up to the third mail, I wasn't sure what to think. 'Getting in' is okay, right? But knowing you 'got in' on merit is easier than knowing you got pushed in because of a system malfunction. Was almost not going to participate, but reading comments here, maybe I will. Hopefully, we get to learn and make something really worthwhile from this.
That’s the thing about integrity, the lack of it in others doesn’t change your own response.

Interviewer: “What were you making before?”
Interviewee: “Why would that be relevant?”
Interviewer: “I just want to make sure we’re in the same ballpark.”
Interviewee: “Ah, no problem. Tell me the you’re range and I’ll tell you if it’s worth going forward.” (Big smile)
It's not just the dishonesty, but the way the github issue was closed just like that after just providing an improper, half-assed solution that still doesn't address the core problem.
Why high-performers don’t use to-do lists
Oh please. It’s a clickbait at best from my angry engineer tone. It’s shady because the person lure people in to read it and then at the end just day “btw, if you want to see them? Send me your email!”

How is that not shady marketing? This is bad press. Bad article. This is killing reader morale. We should not encourage people like this to build their gigs. I felt I wasted my time reading this in the first place.
How about the US our ancestors immigrated to?

EDIT: Shifting from a biological to a cultural explanation for why certain racial groups have inferior/unacceptable behaviors doesn't diminish the level of racism. Country of origin dominates any measure of individual assimilation w.r.t your chances in the immigration system, so it's not clear that shifting the rhetorical justification changes anything either.
I thought Cloudflare's "under attack" mode can prevent scraping bots. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Update - I hopefully made the language a little better?

https://github.com/pycampers/zproc/blob/master/README.md
On the bright side, because it doesn't easily biodegrade, it is a form of carbon capture. If you ignore all of its other bad effects.
> I mean... that's at the point where just the graphics card is more than one of the 4K consoles Microsoft or Sony is putting out.

The console might output 4K but that doesn't mean the GPU inside can handle higher settings than a 1060. The $600 GPU is irrelevant to that comparison.
I tend to feel the opposite about things you can use for pretty much anything. I much prefer tools that are good for a single thing. I really disliked maintaining a Jenkins instance awhile back; maybe this "jack of all trades" ethos is part of the reason I felt that way.
IMO docker is a dead end, it essentially ended up being a glorified ZIP file, the real solution what docker was trying to do (reproducibility) is what Nix does, and if Nix is not a solution then something in that direction.

In nix, you're basically describing the whole dependency tree of your application all the way to libc. When you build your application it builds everything necessary to run it.

The great thing about it is that your CDE essentially is identical to your build system, and the builds are fully reproducible, it takes over being a build system, package manager and as mentioned CDE.

They went even further with that (I have not explored that myself yet) and used the language to describe the entire system (called NixOS) which looks like CMS is no longer necessary and also nix is used for deployment (NixOps, also did not tried it)

If you are into containers you can still deploy into systemd lxc containers, or even create a minimalistic docker image.

The disadvantage is that there is a significant learning curve, it's a new language, and it is a functional, lazily evaluated language. The language is not really that hard, but many people are not used to functional programming. It is especially popular for deployment of Haskell code, since the language is also functional and lazily evaluated.
Excited to chat with you there as a fellow peer!
so in the description of responsibilities and achievements under the job title, won't it look bad if they aren't related to software engineering in any way whatsoever?

I thought that would be a huge red flag. Am I mistaken?
That country and time no longer exist, and it’s disingenuous to make such a comparison.
NMS engineer at an enterprise telecom here. At my company, we've been switching over to Jenkins for job scheduling. Most of what used to be cronjobs have been fully Dockerized, and now we have Jenkins run periodic "builds" via pipelines. The pipelines themselves just run a docker image.

The single biggest advantage this has gotten us is centralized logging. I can check on the console output of any cronjob just by going to Jenkins and clicking on the job.

Moving to Jenkins to cron wasn't my idea, but the implementation is mine. I've built a few base Docker images as bases. One is just the standard Python 3.6 docker image. Another is the CentOS image equipped with Python 3.6 and Oracle RPMs for jobs that need database access. Another is the aforementioned image plus a number of Perl dependencies for jobs that need to call into our legacy Perl scripts.

For many scripts, I can use identical Dockerfiles. I just copy the directory containing the script, requirements.txt, Dockerfile, and Jenkinsfile, then I change out the script, edit the Jenkinsfile to reference the new script's name, and make any needed changes to the requirements.txt.
You’re being downvoted but your idea has merit. Getting our kids outside in the world will be much better for their understanding it than sitting behind a screen in an air conditioned room playing a video game.
While the crews of slave ships surely tended to be somewhat self-selecting, it seems highly unlikely that they were all or mostly sociopaths. The reality is that it's quite easy for a perfectly normal person to convince themselves that bad things that happen to a group of people of radically different physical appearance, culture, language and religion don't really count. When their society already has a cultural consensus to that effect, and when their job depends on it, it's ridiculously easy. The two universal and constant features of human nature are stupidity and evil. Radical evil is more or less always here now, but people always and everywhere choose to believe that it is only in the past or in the village over the next hill. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445240
To OO or not
Have you tried filing a spam report with Google?

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713
As a sysadmin I'm so glad I skipped the docker craze and just dug into kvm/qemu/proxmox/lxc more.
Is there a way for companies to tell if they are on the Advisory Track, besides the emails?

That's totally OK, mistakes happen, but I'm not sure what the emails say. If startupschool.org perhaps had the final status (advisory track or not), that would be super helpful.
New Russian Hacking Targeted Republican Groups, Microsoft Says
Thanks! Date changed above.
Microsoft says it has found a Russian op targeting U.S. political institutions
I wish I could just toggle an option in Safari to automatically reject tracking and begone with it. (Then again, my understanding is that some websites refuse to honor "Do not track" so what hope is there for this to get implemented let alone honored?)
I don't believe that the dilemma faced by Ender is akin to the traditional trolley problem. It's not a straight utilitarian choice of 1 innocent or 5 innocents die based on your decision to act or not.

Namely, the people on the trolley have intentionally run down innocents in the past and to the best of your knowledge, they are doing so again.

You have the choice to do nothing and allow those innocents to be killed or to throw the switch and kill those whom are trying to kill the innocents.
Do you remember whether or not he had an accent? Or any details about the event? I'll ask him tomorrow, he's my coworker.
That’s how GANs work: trying to make sense of random noise (with maybe a hint)
We've been moving all our cronjobs into Jenkins lately. It works wonderfully, and I really recommend it.
If you think the primary value of acceptance is some social signal rather than access to the system, wow. This is not the first comment of this sort I have seen suggesting this will be a lousy deal. And I am resisting the temptation to say "I'll be happy to take your slot if you don't want it" only because I have other plans, basically.
yep, transformative justice seems natural to me. taking 'anti-social' people and isolating them in a situation where there's little semblance of the life they're supposed to start living does not.
I guess I kinda implied it was a reactism, but that wasn't my intent.

I was just noting how someone else new really doesn't find React as big a hill to climb as the article. The componentisms are just something that make it easy for me.
Somehow this comment is still at the top of the page (with showdead=yes).
I don’t get your logic?

I assumed protestant ethic came from all the non-anal families literally dying in an unforgiving and unfamiliar land.
Interesting geographic pricing discrimination. They're like £6 to swap in Sweden. I used to do it at my local supermarket. Maybe because there are compatible third-party gas canisters on the market they have to compete with e.g. https://www.xn--ob-eka.se/hushall/koksmaskiner/kolsyremaskin...
The CPU comparison are kinda funny to see. At first glance the low CPU usage looks good but to me that’s wasted resources. Good to see a more efficient system though. Hopefully those instances get allocated to different problem sets.
I got the rejection email first then acceptance email. Regardless of those emails, I am actually happier now cause everyone is getting in so that this startup community is bigger.

I think it's hard to decide which companies can be in, but I know everyone is working so hard for their startup. So, everyone being accepted is the best outcome I want to see. Good job YC! Looking forward to exchanging ideas and getting advice from everyone!
That's exciting to hear! I filled out the class attendance application attached to the mistaken acceptance email before the correction was sent -- is that the form you are referring to or will there be a new one?
Also in Australia, but spent a decent amount of time in California and travelling to other parts of the US.

So many payment terminals (bank issued as well as square etc) now have the tipping option turned on, but most people here just seem to ignore them. I can understand why restaurants etc would have the option turned on - it's free money! and some people want to tip - but it's a little bit of extra friction where there used to be none.

With respect to GST, some quotes I see have it broken out as a second line item and 'advertise' the non-inclusive figure, but that seems very rare. Something even better than just including the full price on the sticker is something that came in a few years ago in all the supermarkets, the price is listed per unit in addition to total price. So a block of cheese that costs $5.20 also lists the price per kg or 100g, say $26.00/kg
I've personally moved all my Python scripts I run as cronjobs (for my company, not personal scripts) into Jenkins, and that's never been a problem.

Everything is fully Dockerized, and Jenkins is set to just run the docker image with a specified entry point.
Maybe crypto dApps are worth a closer look
It really depends on how complex/simple the page is. If its small site with little context you can usually traverse from parent body ignoring classes/ids. However, for more complex sites changing class/id values on each build can certainly help make this a lot more challenging.

Ideally changing the children counts to prevent things like $(body).children().children()[3].html().