skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a big move in that direction then.

To me, the biggest thing this announcement signaled is that YC is getting serious about inclusion. As someone from the "wrong" part of the country for technology, I struggle immensely to not feel resentful towards founders and VCs who give preference candidates from their social class, their university, their geographical region.

The whole culture of "founding" and "connections" in general is like nothing I ever had experienced growing up. My parents didn't just "know" lawyers, investors, doctors, researchers, technical experts, we knew teachers and mechanics and middle managers. They barely knew what startups were. How could I have competitively prepared myself for this path when it was essentially invisible to me until I was an adult?

Now I have a CS degree and have proven myself at one of the most intense technical corporations, but I'll still never be as convincing as the person who had parents that encouraged them to apply to Stanford and got admitted, or the person who's family "connections" landed them the opportunity for an investment at a younger age. Or the person who could actually afford to not work part-time or over summers and could do their own projects then and build a portfolio.

The Startup School was supposedly a chance for YC to expand their reach to include people all over the world, but I wonder if the same exact biases around social-class, university, and geographic area were key to the selection of the preferred class.

Regardless, this is indeed huge step forward and on that improves my perspective on YC and tech investment culture in general.
I love them. I use ad blocker to remove the notices. This way I have not agreed with anything they want me to.

If they will track me, they’ll be breaking the law, and we both know it. And I can access the sites just fine.
I was a conscript in the German army and there the emphasis is definitely not put on creating soldiers that follow orders mindlessly. The way the German army is organized allows (and to some extent demands) that soldiers get a degree of freedom about how to arrived at their set goals (in contrast to micromanagement by commanding officers). Attached to that is a responsibility for every soldier to recognize unlawful orders and disobey them.
most utilities are monopolies

That's interesting. In Norway and UK, etc., You can buy your electricity from any operator you like. The only monopoly is the power cable. So I get two bills, one for energy and the other for the transport of it.
Most of the research in static types occurs in the FP community. Even most of the research about OO static types is not about C++, heck, you won’t find much research on C++’s type system at all. Java would dominate from the late 90s, before that it’s a box, but I’m sure there is much more research on even BETA (a language most people have never heard of) than C++.

C++ has and always will be a pariah in the research community.
US President Says Windmills Are Bird Killers as He Tries to Revive Coal Industry
As per the link, parts of the Act apply to the dead.
Would plant die if the CO2 level is deprived to a very low level that plant could no longer photosynthesize?
> It was the industrial scale treatment of millions of human beings as cattle for over 300 years.

Actually, in pretty much every developing society cattle are considered prized ownership and are treated well and cared for. Farmers with thousands of sheep or cows still try to avoid the loss of even one.

Slaves were treated far worse than that. Perhaps like some used trash you were selling to a junkyard.
I was referring to this part of the post:

> his character never having been charged and convicted of any crime.

Or is the idea that if you are charged for shoplifting it is okay to spread the idea that you are a murderer?
>"Human activities released nearly 37 billion tons of CO2 in 2017. That would yield about 84 billion tons of limestone if it were captured as pure calcium carbonate."

Assuming there is a goal is zero net CO2 added to the atmosphere, that 37 Gt emitted is an upper bound of what needs to be sequestered.

Apparently the total amount of construction material used is around 50 Gt per year.
https://www.concreteconstruction.net/business/global-demand-...

So, that doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
Even in tiny Pacific nations such as Samoa, where the incompetent and corrupt government officials welcome such easy loans which the country can never pay back. Samoa is now on the hook for $US1b, for loans that cannot be traced to anything anywhere. The government has refused to publish accounts for almost a decade now so no one knows where the money has gone.

So Samoa will use their vote to support any Chinese motion no matter what.
Can anyone who works inside PR for software-developer facing companies like Docker explain how a decision like this could make it past vetting?

Any software developer (who isn't drunk on the kool aid?) could tell you that this would result in loss of good will.
Would love to hear this very long story!
So easy to fix. If you believe in free market, you also need the labor pool to be free. Let H1Bs be able to change jobs like anyone else, and wages will rise. Pretty simple. Indentured servitude is anti free market.
Hell, if you do it right, I bet you could work with a local shelter to get it for just about free, if you're a big enough business.

Get them to bring the pets on site (maybe you'd have to pay for transit costs?) for an adoption drive where employees could play with the animals and start the adoption process if they found the right one.
Bootlegging, by definition, is illegal.
Unfortunately there is a huge self selection bias: the majority of applicants would know it is hard to get accepted, so they will have tried really hard to get in.

In the next round if they said they would accept anyone, then presumably there would be a lot of low quality applicants (100's of Facebook clones etc).
The last time that I smoked, almost 4 years ago, I had a single hit from a pot ecig. What would've been a non-issue, made me completely unable to function socially. Even trying to watch a relatively tame episode of Law and Order: SVU had me worried that my friends were going to hurt me and anxious about the episode content. I honestly felt mentally unwell and like I was going crazy.

I've smoked on and off since 14. I used to just feel kind of out of it and relaxed. It's not something I can do anymore, and not something that I miss.
The History of Greco-Roman Vegetarianism (2010)
Not deadbeats, sharps, an entirely different thing.
Hi I have sent an email and would really appreciate your feedback on my application.I thought startup school was for people just starting out and need the most help but it doesn't seem like that.Thanks
Then visit fortune.com, it’s one of those sites.
OP and writer of the article here. Happy to provide more info on this topic if anyone is interested.
I’m not sure why you were downvoted, but it is true and certainly would have factored into the situation.
A ton! But they just don’t usually call it that.

90% of changes just make things better for the user. 10% make things worse, but they’re obvious and honest and we’re okay with it.

And then 1% is the stuff like this. The Netflix/Qwikster you’re paying less but more debacle. The EA “sense of pride and accomplishment”. The Netflix (wait, why are they here twice?) show recommendations that aren’t ads that’s happening right now.
Additional links: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=TxFS-Tex... ; https://github.com/ut-osa/txfs ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17544605
Vaporized CBD (isolated by itself) is apparently quite effective for many people who have trouble getting to sleep because they can't stop worrying about every possible outcome of an upcoming meeting or date, or replaying stressful conversations or situations that happened days, weeks, or even 5 years ago.

The "broad spectrum" products that have multiple active components are far more variable, clearly.
Maybe so, but I think it looks better than the regular page on desktop. Instead of header and sidebar clutter, you have whitespace, and it has fewer ads.
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Restricting what the client can do isn't idempotency. Allowing the user to perform the same action (make the same api-call) multiple times, Nd your API coalesce them as if it were 1, is. The point and benefit of idempotency on this scenario is that you silently support "bad" behavior.
Given that we're going to have internet regardless of what documents we use, due to the overwhelming advantage of instant long-distance communication, the amount of energy used by electronic documents is negligible.
Probably an attempt to avoid spam-filtering. It is common to see similar "odd" word-choices and euphemisms in spam-mail.

For example a mail I received today was promising some magic pills to make my "my snake grow like an anaconda"!
When did China become classified as "upper middle income"? What other countries are in the same category? And why should Mahathir get to call his country "poor" relative to China when Malaysia still has GDP per capita higher than China?
Not saying there was anything wrong with it. The people who came in during their off hours to update whiteboards for however many hours are the real heroes of this operation.

That said it was probably very expensive :P

Theres a lot of fawning over the humble whiteboard here, just wanted to emphasize that they were part of a larger scheme
China's status as a developing country is why the Trump administration can't play by WTO rules when it imposes tariffs on China. That's the reason he is outspoken against it. It's pretty astonishing that the United States, which created the multilateral trading institutions have now lost control over them and must resort to unilateral actions.
You could just serve the videos via S3/CloudFront and use browser's built-in HTML5 video players with a plain <video> tag.
> then did some ANOVA magic in SPSS and decided that they were related because people score similarly on a quiz

Ahh flashbacks to undergrad biology
Have you considered that it really is just another truthful anecdote?
Is China in the middle income trap?
But if the experiment was flawed we might learn the wrong things from it.
The point is that it is how many people use it (and alcohol, and other drugs).
One thing to note about this - idempotency is a very simple concept, but the implementation is actually quite hard. Case-in-point: the kafka producer API recently gained support for "idempotent/transactional capabilities": https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#upgrade_11_exactly_o... . That is to say exactly-once persistence by using an idempotency key.

Everything looks bulletproof unless you take a step back. To connect with the example you gave: just having the kafka producer guarantee that one call to send() is idempotent is not enough. Your application needs to be able to be idempotent - e.g. if the same RPC/web request has to be retried on a different server. You need to be able to pass an idempotency key TO the kafka API - which you currently cannot do. The API currently allows for either a global(ish) lock or duplicated messages - so it's not quite idempotent.

Idempotency needs to be end-to-end, otherwise it doesn't work. Unfortunately that's very rarely the case - almost nobody tries to idempotently make XHR requests to their servers. In effect it's almost always easier to de-duplicate idempotently on read rather than attempt to write idempotently. It's a really hard simple problem with lots of corner cases.
> So where is the scarcity?

Up one meta-level. The artwork isn't the sonata, or the portrait, or the sculpture. The artwork is the algorithm and input data.
This is how i dream to do!
Open Source Contribution Etiquette (2010)
Hi! Please see https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-every-company-th... - I think you will be happy with the result!
We really should have locked up every single banker on Wall Street after 2007. The meme of private property has caused so much harm in the world. We have messes like this house sitting, rotting, festering, on society. We should excise the cancer of capitalism before it has fully matastisized and killed us all.
What are the civic virtues or moral precepts that you believe would have been infringed by such a society?
The readme used to say that ansible-container was no longer in active development (https://github.com/ansible/ansible-container/commit/2fa778a7...), but it appears to not be the case now.
This is literally the function of most human entertainment.
Their lifespans would probably be shorter because breathing in that much smoke causes cancer at significantly high rates.
I have heard this story before, with a twist that initially it was checked for, but the telcos changed it back some years down the road. I wonder what's a good way to audit this.
Blekko's CTO builds new, decentralized search engine
Well HN I'd say is a pretty good place to raise social awareness
> Is advertising cannabis legal in anywhere in the US?

I see cannabis dispensery ads pretty much everywhere here in San Francisco, on Buses, bus stands, billboards, even on the taxi cab top cone thingys....
"I didn't stop worrying about money until my salary was twice that, and my wife works too."

Good for you. But I really wasn't trying to say how much people have the right to earn, just pointing out that likely there is some upper limit where money alone does not bring much additional happiness. Obviously people have different priorities, life situations and preferences. I just wanted to point out that money can't be used as an objective measure of happiness or professional success in the most generic philosophical sense.

I can totally see how a metropolitan location would increase life satisfaction by providing a rich selection of entertainment, cultural venues and restaurants (i.e. experiences).
Factors to Be Considered Before Outsourcing Data Entry Online
One of the easiest ways to get the data fed into the system is to outsource data entry online to India and is cost-effective and easy for any businesses. For more info - https://www.sastabpo.com/outsource-to-india/factors-to-be-considered-before-outsourcing-data-entry-online/
How does that make any sense? Now instead of competing with 3000 applicants, you're competing with 15000 for the $10,000. Your chances of winning the prize just decreased 5 fold.
oh man, that's exactly my experience - I get shit done but I'm perfectly aware that what I'm doing is not near my real capabilities. And tech life allows you to smoke every day without consequences - good money, no strict working hours, no one watching you work etc.
Startup School Battle Royale. Love it.

Way to handle a really messy, potentially embarrassing situation. I feel for all of the founders that broke good news and then had to break bad. 10x more painful than just saying 'oh well' and moving on. I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes one of the best mistakes YC has ever made.
https://github.com/jenkinsci/calendar-view-plugin
I think it has something to do with the classification of malignant pathological behavior as “illness” or “disease” which innures people to certain mindsets.

The idea that behavioral qualities can be represented as either “sick” or “healthy” provides for belief that individuals who commit atrocities might be identified by externalized qualities.

So we say: Mental Illness, but to ascribe that label is to claim that there is a recognizable state required, with externally verifiable traits exhibited, before a terrible act may be performed, and that really isn’t the case at all.

People really want to apply the full weight of psychological diagnostics to every misbehavior and deviation from healthy, wherever such misbehavior is willful, and that’s simply an incorrect notion.

A person might get up one day, having never abused an animal, and suddenly decide today’s the day that a bad thing happens, and then never repeat that episode. So, how do we rationalize the universe, if such a thing is possible? Well... as unpleasant as it may be, we find that the universe is quite happily irrational, and so too, human behavior.
Really cool idea!

Would you consider making a Minetest version?
The World Bank stopped using a binary categorization of countries in 2016: https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/opendata/2016-edition-w...

> Therefore, In WDI 2016, there is no longer a distinction between developing countries (defined in previous editions as low- and middle-income countries) and developed countries (previously high-income countries). Regional groupings (such as “East Asia”) are now based on geographical coverage rather than a sub-set of countries that were previously referred to as developing. In some occasional cases, where data availability or context have dictated it, we’ve excluded high income from some charts or tables, and we’ve indicated that in the footnotes.

That's when it defined China as "upper middle income." That's based on Gross National Income per capita, as the World Bank calculated it. The thresholds are updated every year and adjusted for inflation.

By the World Bank's definition, China was:

low-income from 87-98 (except 97, when it was lower-middle)

lower-middle from 99-09

upper-middle thereafter

There are 56 upper-middle-income countries right now, out of 218 countries. Brazil, Kazakhstan, Libya, Malaysia, Cuba, Mexico are all upper-middle-income countries by the World Bank's latest definition.
Jenkins is probably 100 times easier to deploy, configure, operate, and scale than Postgres+whatever, which is a horrifying statement, but still true. If what you have to do is schedule and run arbitrary jobs on any kind of machine, it's no contest. They aren't even related. Postgres is a relational database, and Jenkins is a single Java process that stores flat files on local disk, connects to remote nodes with SSH, and has a thousand plugins.

It's like comparing a missile with an airplane. One gets where it needs to go faster and more efficiently, and the other one transports people.
Almost nobody test thread-safety of their classes, according to this poll
It’s weird that he works in San Francisco yet apparently makes less than $30 per hour. I mean the story didn’t say, but he’s spending roughly 70 hours per month (1) to save only about $2300 a month (2). Methinks mega commuters typically don’t do the math.

1) assuming if he lived SF commute would be about 30 minutes each way
2) average SF housing cost minus his Daly City home and commuting costs
When I first joined Twitter one my my first tweets was to the Annenberg Foundation, lamenting why TMU series weren't online for free, only to have them reply that yes, in fact, they are online, for free. Apparently now they have moved from the AF site to YouTube. Regardless, I still watch them every few years just to keep it fresh... over 30 years since undergrad, still exciting to "learn" this all again. And see that blond woman with the big red earrings and poofy yellow 80's shirt in the front row... that shirt...
IMAP4 Extension for Returning MYRIGHTS Information in Extended List
Yea I was thinking a "hellban" type tactic might wreak more havoc. Just subtle enough to de-rank them.
I don't really have a dog in the fight, but in reading about this issue I've seen several articles about how some restaurants have tried out getting rid of tips – and then reverted to tips fairly quickly because it didn't go well [1-2].

I'm not aware of cases where restaurants got rid of tipping and then things went awesome — and I assume that if this had happened then it would be covered in the media just like the failed attempts were.

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/05/why-res...

2: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-l...
"The perpetual menacings of danger oblige the government to be always prepared to repel it; its armies must be numerous enough for instant defense. The continual necessity for their services enhances the importance of the soldier, and proportionably degrades the condition of the citizen. The military state becomes elevated above the civil. The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subjected to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken their sense of those rights; and by degrees the people are brought to consider the soldiery not only as their protectors, but as their superiors. The transition from this disposition to that of considering them masters, is neither remote nor difficult; but it is very difficult to prevail upon a people under such impressions, to make a bold or effectual resistance to usurpations supported by the military power."

When Hamilton wrote this 230 years ago, he was talking of the standing army (of which he was not an opponent, recognizing its necessity - but also recognizing the dangers). An argument could be made - indeed, has been made by many - that modern law enforcement agencies are, in many ways, like a standing army, or at least would be recognized as such by the founders. And if so, it would seem that the above is equally applicable to them.
>Slaves were treated far worse than that. Perhaps like some used trash you were selling to a junkyard.

How can you know that? Do you have book references or something?
Fun story; when the financial disclosures came out for the new administration, I wrote a quick script to compare Trump's LLCs to property records in NYC's ACRIS and then looked over the results by hand to see outliers. It took literally 30 minutes of my time and I found the Trumps trying to evade like $500k in taxes.

Eric Trump had used two anonymous LLCs to buy properties from his father's LLC for far below market rate. He was going to combine the units with another he already owned which actually made them more valuable than simple comps suggested. There were several opportunities to disclose the related party / family transaction but they both affirmed that it was at arm's length in the paperwork that they signed.

Propublica & The WaPo both published articles but I wasn't sure at the time so I remained anonymous publicly. Turns out that corruption doesn't matter and nobody cares that our president constantly commits financial crimes, so meh?

The propublica article: https://www.propublica.org/article/heres-how-trump-transferr...
The most interesting thing about this article is how Amazon has moved into this space, and how their current offering diverges from the article's suggestions. Amazon does offer services as products that you can buy, with all the trimmings, including reviews. The part about one-click, normalized sales is pretty close to what Amazon does too. The interesting difference, though, is how Amazon treats the service providers as commodities. Although the Amazon services have ratings, the providers do not. This is different from the author's predictions, and a little strange to me, because it seems like different providers have so much variance and nuance that they really aren't interchangeable. I wouldn't ever use "Amazon Home & Business Services"[0] because I have no idea what I'm really buying, but this must be an intentional choice on Amazon's part. It'll be interesting to see where this goes; commoditizing a huge swath of the working population might not be so great.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=8098158011
Concur, I found it can be sometimes an extremely frustrating, if not impossible experience trying to understand new technical concepts, however, when working over well trodden ground, it can show new subtle, mostly positive twists of creativity.
the hard won wisdom and honest self asessment here are inspiring, and im not sure why. but i think its very good you wrote this, and im almost positive the guy you are responding to is going to benefit from what you are saying, not to mention all the other readers
Buildah seems to be becoming a replacement for Docker on the desktop:

https://github.com/projectatomic/buildah

Pure CLI tool that does not run a daemon, from Red Hat, recently hit version 1. Unfortunately, I don't think that macOS is supported yet.