skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good job Francisco!
It was Alan Kay, actually.
There's this same argument with recycling, reuse, etc. I.E how many times do I have to use my cloth bag before the resources it took is less than that of a normal paper bag. Recycling is the same way, IIRC, aluminum is the only thing that's cheaper to recycle, energy wise.

I really wish more studies would look into the Energy per Ton for creating our consumer products.
prediction markets are not well regarded academically , outside of the cristall ball economics.

the academic consensus is that as soon as you create a second incentive (the prediction market itself) you lose all the insight you could gain from external factors. At that point they are no better than simply looking at the stocks (the predicted market). hence prediction markets are by definition, useless.

the cristall ball people still trying to make it happen are now trying to see how much they can limit the prediction market itself for it to not affect itself (hence the limitations you don't like on the one you mention)
It's been a while, but my recollection is that forest fires can get started by exposed lava flows/pits or by lightning strikes. What's missing is variation in how easily fires are ignited and spread, ie. there's no biome-dependent dryness factor being applied to the fire mechanics.
I was also accepted and rejected. Very upset and frustrated.
> In the US, true HSR (by which I mean 220mph/350km/h service) is not viable outside of the Northeast (where Acela already exists), California, and maybe Texas

What is this based on? Certainly there have been many studies. Also, to be clear, Acela is not HSR by that definition.

I can imagine many other places: Florida, then north to Atlanta and west to New Orleans, and then connecting to Texas. DC down to NC, then Atlanta, then connecting to Florida. Vancouver (with some international cooperation) to Seattle to Portland to the Bay Area, connecting to the rest of California. A Midwest network of St Louis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Detroit, Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, Pittsburgh (connecting to the east coast via Philadelphia), and north from Detroit to Toronto and Montreal. Las Vegas and Phoenix might want a connect to the California network.
You realise this type of parroting only works for logical arguments right? It's pretty pointless to flip the meaning of everything in an anecdote, you can't refute an anecdote by disproving it logically.
So the reason I am looking for a DM feature is not so much that it becomes a chat, but often you do see requests to be DMed for furthering a conversation offline - say for jobs or projects etc. And often this results in hunting down the "target"'s email from their profile and firing up an email client etc. Yes a very first world problem but still was hoping for a slightly easier way to do this (short of writing a browser plugin).

I do like @remyp's app idea but it still requires me a few "redirects" mentally.
What sort of safety check are you referring to? I've never heard of such a thing.
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in and then out just like the other posters in this thread - very NOT HAPPY w/ YC today.
They are both from Tainan, Taiwan (a city in the south part of Taiwan) and both immigrated to the US at around the same time.
Idempotence: What is it and why should I care?
I got the same email. Accepted then apologies. I’m not sure what the audit school is? I’m so confused
wow same. ours was kind of a last minute effort so I was shocked and had pretty grounded expectations, but man my heart goes out to anyone that was already celebrating (quite a few on Twitter).
> At that point they are no better than simply looking at the stocks (the predicted market).

Are you assuming that prediction markets are only over stock prices? What about a market about the winner of the next US presidential election?
I feel this way about /all/ sources of smoke.

I would __really__ prefer if cannabis were only in edible forms since that would probably be a healthier way of using it.

I seem to have less of an issue with properly diffused natural gas / propane; though smoldering fats that fall on to grills get really annoying really fast.

Everything else should have a negative draw scrubbed exhaust (at least a percolating water type) to reduce the fine particles.
Is ray-tracing a very large improvement for rendering quality or do you have diminishing returns now that "conventional" rendering techniques already employ such good heuristics and approximations to make the scenes look good?

Just curious since I don't know much about the state of the art of rendering and the implication of ray-tracing (other than the fact that it's, somewhat trivially by how it works, the most accurate method).
Sounds like you should find someone to write you better software.
Headline: he's her uncle!

Article: he's actually not her uncle we just made that up!
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17804202.
Intel can't buy AMD, because they don't want to lose their hold on x86, and if AMD disappear regulators won't buy the pretend open competition anymore.

That's the reason they won't do it anyway, just like they refused to let nVidia make x86 chips (pushing them to ARM and making x86 lose another possible foothold, a bad long term choices)
> Neurons mostly produce actionable thoughts.

I suppose you think this is true.
>I just wanted an updated mac mini...not a "pro" model.

Yeah, and then you'd complain it's not spec'ed up enough.
This walled garden isn't working! Quick, let's get back to the last one!

Seriously though, blogs and RSS - communication on the internet has been solved. It just doesn't seem to be easily monetizable, so a big commercial entity isn't pushing it.

This is quite interesting though:

"Everyone I knew aged out of it, lost interest in chronicling their personal lives <b> or got jobs writing the kinds of blogs they used to write for free." </b>

So does this mean there is money out there for the kind of tumblr/blog weirdness people like to read?
> You've been using HN primarily for ideological battle.

Not really. It's an ongoing discussion sparked by the number of articles that appear on the front page that are deeply related to the economics of the tech industry. It interests me. If genuine comments responding to articles from a particular and consistent point of view are unwanted I can stop.

Everytime I log in something like this is at the top of the front page. Even now this is there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17804202

I understand your concerns and as it's not my platform fair enough. Will do better.

> If you'd review the rules

Will do

> please don't be uncivil in comments here

Fair and noted.
Article is about the whistleblower/commenter above.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-09/he-blew-t...
Do you have citations for this? The academic papers I've read on prediction markets are (broadly) positive.
> If you can run software on the host there will always be a way to compromise the host. It is not even 100% safe to run software in a vm because exploits have been found to break out.

That's... inaccurate. More valid statements would be:

- In a sufficiently complex OS, it is unlikely you will be perfectly safe running untrusted executables even with reduced permissions.

- Popular modern OS desktop distributions are very complex out of the box.

- Sandboxing prevents certain classes of attacks effectively, but should not be relied upon as a sole line of defense.

- Vulnerabilities have been found in VMs and containers, but they afford greater protection and isolation than running a process directly on a host system.

IOW, don't go No-True-Scotsman on security. A vulnerability does not invalidate all benefits of an architecture.
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Great idea! It's nice to see an easy way to support open-source software.

Regarding funding open-source software: Companies I've worked for have all been OK with purchasing licenses for software that saves development time. They've also been careful to abide by software license terms. I'm surprised that more open-source libraries/frameworks don't require the purchase of a commercial license in order to use them commercially.
nobody said it's totally innefective (or random), just that it is vastly less effective (and you're exposed to terminal risk more often) than throwing lots of money on an index.
They already did that with the "can" pro design and they said this will be different and more upgradable.
I wouldn't describe those as "slavish". Unless we're in a negative feedback loop, we should probably follow established principles and improve them constructively. I have seen some conspiracy videos where authors refer to psychiatry as an educated guess. I have never seen a lucid individual diminish science like that. Can you elaborate on what you see as "dogma" in this respect?

Disclosure: I smoke more than most.
But this doesn't mean having the vendor control publication is going to get you any benchmarks that are better. We can predict pretty easily that the benchmarks they publish will be skewed in their favour.

On the other hand, we can't predict what solutions society comes up with for dealing with incompetent benchmarks. For example, you say professional bloggers would do lousy jobs, but this is exaclty the kind of things that neckbeard hobbyist bloggers would take upon themselves and do excellent jobs at.

That or other solutions could emerge, but the whole point of censorship is to prevent that.
Simple. Raise the tax to a point that glass bottles, perhaps with deposit-return schemes, or cotton clothing is cheaper for the consumer than the synthetic equivalents.

Consumers will buy far more of the now cheaper and more sustainable products and producers who continue using plastic will declare profit warnings and some will become insolvent.

Isn't that's how it's supposed to work?

Governments survived losing income from cigarette taxation thanks to e-cigarettes.
Dwindling oil reserves might actually cause us to switch to plant based plastics (hopefully engineering (slowly) bio degradable ones) or the above mentioned 100% recyclable streams sooner.
There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17804063, which has a bit more background info.
So much love for everyone who received an "accepted" email in error. Don't let it get you down.

I just got rejected with https://dependabot.com despite $6k MRR and 2,000 active users. I'm sure there are lots of other great companies in the same situation - let's keep building great things.
Organic isn't always better for the environment. I can sort of accept people's motivations for organic produce when it's a food product, but for textiles it really doesn't make much sense. Organic cotton requires more water, more land, and more energy than conventional or GMO cotton: https://qz.com/990178/your-organic-cotton-t-shirt-might-be-w...

A better answer in any case is to buy less stuff.
At risk of shamelessly promoting, we built Parabola (https://parabola.io) with many of these same best practices in mind.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17147272
you are probably reading crystal ball economists. do they also write about other means to pick stock besides analyzing the company?
Checkout organic cotton and hemp. Much lower environmental footprint.

You can get some really durable, long lasting, organic cotton and hemp blended clothing which is way more durable, breathable and comfortable than you might imagine.

Patagonia (brand) is an easy place to buy organic cotton Tshirts and pants.
I visited the Cahokia museum in East St. Louis and although there’s still not much to see since most of it has not been excavated yet, it’s still fascinating there was such a vast Native American city in the Midwest. For centuries, no one had any idea it was even there, and if you’d told Americans a century ago, they probably wouldn’t have believed it was possible. Now this new discovery is a city almost as big with over 20,000 people, which contradicts how we thought the plains had only nomadic tribes chasing the buffalo. For perspective on how advanced some of these Native American cities were, I recommend you visit the ruins of Teotihuacan since half of it has been excavated.

*edit typo
I guess this is more motivation to work on my actual YC application :)
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Yeah, this was totally not cool. I much like most of you was not expecting to get accepted, I basically applied for the hell of it. None the less, it was quite a let down to receive that second email. Especially after telling a few family and friends. Kind of sucks, but hey it was an accident all we can do is move past it.
Ah, yes, I too use Bing to search for images of a specific nature with some frequency. It's quite likely the best search engine available for the... higher arts.

I do not know if they have done it on purpose, but kudos to the Bing team either way.
I got the same and this is not cool
> That doesn't mean to say its "perfect" or "solves" multithreading, just that its easy to write and understand

Try saying that out loud?
if you have a market where I can make tons of money of it, at which point do you expect me to start contributing to PACs just to win the bet?

see the problem?
Simple P&L plan modeller from your unit economics model
Automatic P&L plan making from unit-economics in cohorts. Converting cohort unit-economics representation to month by month in P&L.
> yeah I've pretty much given up on the justice system.

I just hate this mentality. Listen, I know things have been rough and defeatism is a natural way to feel in that context. But "giving up" is one of the ways things end up like this. Don't give up. Fight for justice.
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It hasn't been updated in 4 years. Any update will be spec'd enough.
This article misses what I really wanted to hear - how did they unlock the device?
WTF? A rollercoaster for sure. You're in! You're out! Boooo!
Read The Chickenshit Club. Basically, after Enron and Arthur Anderson, Congress and the Courts worked to neuter the ability of the SEC and the DoJ to really punish these guys. Combine that with people in those offices not wanting to go too hard, lest they not be able to get jobs with the very law firms they're going against after, and you have a recipe for government not really caring about what business is doing.
RLY? Here's an example of a AMD powered server: https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/povw/poweredge-r7425 there are quite a few more examples.

There's this as well: https://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/19/campaigns/enabling-today... (I found that with "dell amd")
Definitely interested in security and also the why behind when/where networks are setup. How is good too, but the why is bypassed in a lot of materials I've read of late.
The "downsides" are still much better than those of alcoholism. I just hope (and believe this may happen this way) more people are going to give up booze and drugs and switch to the weed. As soon as I've tried (for a number of times, the first experiences may be confusing and even scary) the weed I've forgotten vodka as a nightmare, now I just smoke some weed about 2 evenings a month in average.

I still highly recommend to stay away from the weed if it's not legal at your location however - messing with criminals and cops can really ruin your life. If it's legal for medical use only - don't hesitate to ask the doctor (but don't be pushy or play an expert, doctors hate this), some progressive doctors at some locations may actually prescribe it for addictions, depressions and eating disorders treatment, not only for cancer/aids.
Only if tumblr promises to close down account/blogs promoting pedophilia/zoofilia/similar degenerate stuff.
The moderation after the Yahoo buyout got quite stale, they don't even block nazi, or anti-zionist stuff which is a red flag in liberal media.
Startup school's valuable first lesson in customer communication and PR is right here. Well, software screwed up the experience and crushed the expectations of so many, including me. Moving on :)...
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You’d expect this from other accelerators, everyone holds YC to higher standards.

I don’t think it’s wrong to expect better in this instance. In the age of social media news travels fast. I’d received congratulatory messages from several YC alum within 10 minutes of the first email.

That’s life.
I wonder why hemp fiber didn't get compared independently. From a quick internet search: it is one fiber used in Tencel blend. I think hemp scores better on land usage, but not necessarily in the other categories. Is that your take?
BDS is, and I mean this descriptively and not as an endorsement, a big deal. It has been a focal point of left grassroots politics in the West for the last several years and is one of the major pain points for campus politics. I would say a simple majority of all communication from Jewish advocacy groups the last few years has been around the BDS issue. The US Congress has considered legislation around BDS. I don't really know anyone on any side of the politics divide that doesn't take the issue seriously (whether on a symbolic or on a policy level).

I suspect when you made your comment you thought you were saying "the Emperor has no clothes", but it was actually more like "I don't know anybody who voted for Nixon". Surely the better strategy in a case like this is at least to bother Googling to see if it seems like an active thing or an irrelevant fringe thing.
Not cool at all ...
"Audit school" is just watching the lectures online.
Thank you for that. The worst part though is the part where they say "You got accepted to audit the course" .... doesn't everyone get accepted to audit it?
It's possible to unlock an iPhone's passcode protection with its iCloud account, if the iPhone user has allowed that.

Edit: I think I'm wrong and misremembering.
Weight is also a major consideration in many applications.
Eliminate the growth effect of bonemeal on trees. It would require more land to have a tree farm. When you plant a large tree farm you eliminate the need for bonemeal anyway. The probability of one sapling growing each second approaches 1.
Do you install updates regularly? Do you use iMessage, Handoff, etc.? I've noticed that people who gave up their Hackintoshes often mention problems with those things. It seems like people who have had good experiences rarely mention them at all.
I think it's easy to judge people for their mistakes. There's only so much time and energy an individual can do with 120 hours a week. Seth Bannon just had to juggle too much at one time. I think this is why most investors, including YC, frown on single founders vs startups with multiple founders.

This problem is also probably why YC funded companies like Gusto, so founders can outsource that part of running a startup.
And who maintains that when something inevitably goes wrong?
Not really, newspapers made most of their money from advertising. You still see people handing out free newspapers in cities, but the advertising is worth more when someone pays for the paper as it’s assumed someone is going to read it vs using it as a free stack of paper.

EX: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_(Washington,_D.C._ne...
Oh you guys, what a painful fuckup. I'm so sorry. More apologies coming. (Edit: and hopefully a fix, as well.)
But it's not more cars, that's my point.

Say public transport covers 95% of my needs. If I have cheap taxis, I'll use public transport most of the time, and cars only 5%.

If I have to buy a car because I can't afford those taxi rides, I might use it for 30% or 40% or more of the trips, since it just costs me a bit of gas (or electricity) - the fixed costs are sunk.
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Speaking for myself. If smoking regularly yes, there's a decline, even 12 hours after the high has gone. The more I spread things out however, the greater the benefits seem to be, both during and after. Every couple of weeks would likely be most ideal.
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Does it really have a smaller footprint? I'd love to see numbers
Doesn't everyone who applied get to audit the course .... ?
I appreciate that.

Startup School Lesson One: How not to treat your users.
I guess its subjective/individual what is considered fast-paced. I would consider it normal web-development in agile environment. There is time for design and planning but you also have to be practical and get work done. Good design is preferred but change will happen, otherwise you can end up shoehorning yourself.

We already have practices about keeping PRs small so one could argue having to focus on crafting good individual commits is not that important in the grand scope of things. Especially if those carefully crafted messages will go lost after a merge. Some PRs require heavy reviews, while others just require a quick look through. From my experience people usually look at the changes and not the commit messages (myself including).

> Another feature of multi-commit development is when you notice that e.g. a particular feature won't fit in the next release, and you take only these changes to a different branch.

If your PRs are small you could also just move the changes yourself manually. Or you could do as you say and move each 'WIP' commit if necessary.
Second this - I had this happen to me, although the founder was lying to me saying he was paying them - after we discovered he was a shithead, I reported him to the DA and 4 years later (last friday) he plead guilty to 2 felonies and has to pay us all back.

I wish i had been more careful to start with.
actually I'm a java guy or to say it differently, a scala guy and i mostly use mvc to create my normal web stuff. however with razor pages I'm so much faster to do stuff. because it's a little bit simpler to setup. Your model is actually just "code behind" and you could still have a good structure. and as a bonus, razor view engine is like twirl (scala project) minus some quirks.
also you can still easily add typescript, etc. Or even make a SPA with the WebApi and SpaServices (heck I even use the Webpack Middleware). It's just amazing how integrated .Net Core 2 feels.
And the easy stuff is already integrated into the Framework, like Authentication/Authorization.
I've never had a secure cookie authentication running that quickly.

actually when I looked at .net core 1.0 I basically already tought it is abadonware, because of the new build system, because i wasn't a huge fan of c# and lot's of stuff just didn't worked, but since we needed to migrate our old WebForms application I somehow tought that before rewriting everything, it might be a good idea to look into it and it somehow clicked.
c# is really moving fast and the recent additions even makes myself as a scala programmer feel more at home.
We should be taxing cryptocurrency mining as well.
(You might want to add that you're not OP i.e. asteli, the person AdamN directly asked. you have the same writing style, I was almost confused.

If you do edit I'll delete this comment.)
It seems like it would be difficult to clone their terrible GPS usage and mapping. Most drivers use Google maps in my experience.

And now with Uber express pool it is pretty much guaranteed it will tell you the wrong location. If it says northeast corner, just go to the south west corner.