skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applied for the last YC batch and got rejected. The interview was itself was completely outside of all the expectations that I had. I had done a bunch of preparation work doing practice interviews with YC alums as well as friends. Some of them asked the standard YC interview questions while others went off on tangents, but I felt I had really strong and clear answers to most of the questions they were likely to ask.

Unfortunately when I got into the interview, by the time they had asked the third question it was clear they had completely misinterpreted what I was doing. I knew in less than a minute into the interview that there was no chance I would be accepted. What I should have done was try to stop the interview and completely reframe what I was doing in a different context so they could more clearly understand. However, the 10 minutes goes by so quickly. The interview started and ended before I came to that realization (I did however try to interject at the last 30 seconds with some key points, but by that point it was too little too late).

I believe my situation was an exception to what normally happens given the nature of my company, but it was really disappointing to feel like I never got the chance to explain the unique insights I had into the space, how the company was managing such insane growth, and the vision for the future.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic.

But if that is the reason why you are reading or traveling, you might as well not.

Travel or read book to get new perspectives, experiences and learn new things. Not to tell others to make yourself feel superior over others.
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Good point. This has crossed my mind but I haven't run the numbers yet.

But I think renting a SUV is like $50+ a day.
It comes up all the time but I'm not qualified to speak to it off the top of my head.

Google comparisons with kqueue from BSD and iocp on Windows.
14,000-Year-Old Piece of Bread Rewrites the History of Baking and Farming
> Hygiene and cleanliness? What a joke. So many meat shops don't store meat in a cold and clean place.

There are legal statutes regulating this [1], and the enforcement agency (National Environment Agency) responds to all complaints about potential hygiene issues pretty fast.

I've reported some borderline cases where I felt that the places weren't storing cooked food properly, and I've always gotten a response including a statement that officers visited the place.

[1] https://sso.agc.gov.sg/SL/EPHA1987-RG16#pr15-
Isn't this just WineHQ but for games?
Weirdly difficult to find their website https://www.bynorth.com/

specs https://www.bynorth.com/tech Doesn't mention display resolution

Qualcomm APQ8009w https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon-wear-3100-platf... "Snapdragon Wear 3100": quad A7, 1.2GHz (max), Adreno 304, 640x480 (max...)
The problem I have with reddit is that they are manipulating public opinions through bolstering topics that further their agenda.
Yes, I want to work on that. I agree with you 100% that this is what the world needs. GNU succeeded by replacing commercial tools, not inventing new languages or paradigms. There is a ton of existing, legacy Verilog and VHDL code out there being used in current designs and nobody is going to switch to Free tools unless those tools support that legacy code.
I am neither young (57) or US based (Cape Town) and decided to delete my facebook account mainly because it made people I know behave badly and myself as well. I really dont miss it at all
Would be curious to know why the negative votes? I'm leaving there, so that's not just an impression from a western guy trying to save human rights. That's how it works there.
> why is there still no widely deployed end to end encryption for such a core protocol?

Perfectionism & cert vendors / CA mafia.
They can't be seen as a consumer product while marketing for enterprise dollars.
For sure - we're trying to be really thoughtful of maintaining the high quality community aspect. We're actually experimenting with student internships, and have a pilot with MIT for their January externship.
So it like twitter mixed with Google circles (from G+)?
One of the best implementations of adaptive webpages for reading-oriented sites.
Yup. Working thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18306921

(between you and me, incidentally.)
Apple should have dealt with Qualcomm when they first started to make a smart phone and wanted to base it on the Apple Newton:

https://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2013/01/qualcomm-newton-c...

Apple could then patent the Newton IP for Qualcomm to use and Qualcomm would pay Apple for it.
> Regarding disposable plates and utensils, I actually don't see much of them unless you ask for takeout. I suspect in the area you're in the cost of dish washing is more expensive than the cost of plates and refuse collection. A tax on disposables would be great.

Most hawker stalls charge an extra 20 cents or so for takeout, which helps them recover the cost of the container. I think that's a good compromise.
What your man in the street thinks about who has improved/affected their life and who actually has improved/affected their life are in most cases disjoint sets. Ask the man in the street who the most important computer innovators are and they'll say Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (who are/were business-men before anything else), you won't hear them mention John McCarthy or Dennis Ritchie (or likely even Alan Turing).
I have 2 daughters one teen other pre-teen, both don't login into Facebook anymore, though they are active in Instagram and WhatsApp to some extent.
Or the S3 protocol, if de facto standards count.
Interesting, let me know if we can get in on the beta too ;)
Non-competes aren't enforceable in California. I think that is something often overlooked but key to why California continues to overwhelmingly dominate for startups.
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I was trying to be sarcastic. :)
Some of my friends keep posting pics and status updates and sometimes I realize that all they think while traveling is... Letting their friends know where they are and what they are doing.
Honestly - I would actually require front-end developers to have some backend coding experience in our case, we have a very large monolithic app that we are attempting to break down to a more MSA type app but it still needs upgrading.
This means they will need to wade through code templated HTML / CSS / Javascript in order to re-skin the app.

I think this is in part why you see these skills mixed in on job descriptions. There often cannot be a complete separation of concerns.
2015 was the year that Apple moved to NVMe SSDs, so they are bound to feel much more snappy than spinning rust disks, regardless of the file system involved.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/9136/the-2015-macbook-review/...
Replacing an HDD with an SSD really is a night-and-day kind of difference for any laptop I've ever seen, regardless of the OS or filesystem.

IMO, that's likely to be a much bigger factor than the filesystem.
Isn't it also racist to hear someone say "fathers need to be parents too" and jump to the conclusion that the speaker is singling out about black men? There are plenty of fathers of all racists who are skipping out on being parents.
IMHO, one of the biggest issue with social media is with the "micro" story. Tweets'140 characters limit encouraged people to post more because they didn't have to think much about what they had to say. Re-tweets was just a convenient way of copy pasting.

I don't see any of it disappear with micro.blog.

Why not making macro.blog which forces you to write at least 300 words?
As someone who has the advantages described but was born in a third world country—I have a perspective that is hard to mesh with other people's opinion of my advantages. Fascinatingly—I've had my own set of difficulties that led to depression and suicidal thoughts. Many of them are family issues. The spectrum of possibilities for feeling fulfilled among humans is just fantastic. Not sure if I have good advice for dealing with the resentment—but the people who helped me get out of the depression were people who could show me that money didn't mean everything. Pretty much all of them came from a lot less. One of them was an orphan from the same third-world country. Who had her brother die in her 20's. And who died from cancer in her 30's. All the best in your journey! Reach out if you'd like. This is something I'd love to understand ever more deeply because I want to teach people to see me for who I am and finding that one thing that really means "Equality of Opportunity" if we can really achieve that.
You have a fourth group, the trolls, who want nothing but to watch the site burn. Otherwise, you nailed it.
> but RMS is in a very special situation of being both the father of the Free Software movement, and the leader of the GNU project, so what he says has more gravitas

All the more reason to respect his wisdom on the matter.

> For you, but what you may find playful may be the thing that keeps someone feeling oppressed and keeps them away.

I think we can agree we don't want to oppress anyone. To me it's the difference between using fear of punishment to motivate, and working with human nature to inspire. I really enjoyed the book "Nonviolent Communication" by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Phd. It cuts to the core of this debate.
I was thinking more so an AI could interact directly.
Think code generators are the only way to type-safely connect your Java code to JSON, XML, SQL, Javascript, etc.? Think again. Manifold offers a radical new way to connect Java to structured data.

IntelliJ IDEA provides comprehensive support for Manifold via the Manifold Plugin. Connect directly to your data without wedging an expensive code gen step in your build. Make incremental changes to files and type-safely access the changes instantly. Plus usage searching, deterministic refactoring, navigation, template editing, hotswap debugging, etc.

Manifold is both an API to build powerful metaprogramming features AND a set of awesome prebuilt features such as:
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Manifold is just a JAR file you can drop into your existing project – you can begin using it incrementally without having to rewrite classes or conform to a new way of doing things.

Give it a go: http://manifold.systems/
Open Source is evolving not dying. It takes a lot of money to develop something from scratch in the corporate world, in the OSS world people do it as a hobby. Red Hat sells a server version and Fedora is free, but CentOS is the free version of Red Hat Server.

OSS companies are the new Bell Labs inventing the new software to be used by the masses. The thing about Linux is if you don't like one company you can easily switch to another Debian instead of Mint Linux or Ubuntu for example. IBM is only going to buy Red Hat but the source code is still open sourced and free to use and compile.

IBM got out of the PC and Server markets for hardware and had to find a new market, Linux, to get into in order to bring more money to shareholders.
More info here, mentions RSS, JSON, decentralisation and an open API: http://help.micro.blog/2015/why-i-created-this/
But nobody uses CDMA anymore except for some fringe, legacy operators.

Everyone else is on the GSM, UMTS and LTE bandwagon.
The most available job in my country for any programming language is C#, followed closely by JAVA. On third place is PHP. Fourth is Sharepoint and RPA. Around half the number of the C# jobs include some kind of JS requirements but almost every JS job uses a different backend than node.

There is one fullstack JS job. Three JBOSS jobs and six DJANGO jobs.

This isn’t unique in Europe.
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I disagree, there is a real and significant difference between places with a few outliers that spew hateful awful rhetoric and places that primarily serve allow people to do that. And what does "leave the reservation" actually mean? Pick twitter or reddit - they have lots of people who just want to express ideas, share their views with similar people, but there are also some on there who want to threaten and express a desire to kill those they don't like. On reddit and twitter that will (eventually) get you banned.

I'm free to disagree with the govt, with the political views of any politician, to wish embarrassment for a celebrity, or financial ruin of a business person I don't like. But saying I was xyz to die, or someone to be attacked, or all people like whatever to perish, that's a different thing.
A game where the smart players lose
Yikes! I'm in Australia, so did not know this. Ultimately I think we should aim for lighter personal ownership rather than heavy, rugged sharing. And in those cases, use docks, and not dockless.
Not a CEO, but the Borussia Dortmund bus attack with a bomb on the way to a Champions League game was made by a shorter. Certainly killing a few players would have made the stock fall a whole lot.
Why not Federation (diaspora, friendica, hubzilla) or Fediverse (mastodon, pleroma)?
This seems like an rss feed subscription rather than social network attempt.

Personally I love diaspora as it's designed around discoverability - following tags, people define themselves with tags etc.

While Fediverse, activity pub etc. are great they are full of holes when it comes to discovery an actual social content. Comments are difficult and non native and navigating tags is nigh on impossible.
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It is stark how the older demographic is hit as hard as the younger demographic.
That actually makes the whole situation far creepier. You go from an unwanted person along her path to literally stalking her until your paths part.

stalk
gerund or present participle: stalking:
pursue or approach stealthily.

synonyms:creep up on, trail, follow, shadow, track down, go after, be after, course, hunt;More
The centre of mass point is a really good one. I had not considered what a difference that makes.
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Do you have any cited evidence to support your assertions about rising violence? And are you sure that "violence against minorities" is not just a general trend? Everything I've read by the way shows that overall violence is way down but it certainly seems like mass shootings are up (but that started with Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 and has been on the rise since). I can't name a single demographic that hasn't been targeted by psychos in the past few years, including white people (like the Vegas shooter who killed 57 country music fans or the Sutherland Springs Baptist Church shooting last year (26 mostly white Christians dead). Psychos are fucking psychos and they get triggered by anything. There's little rhyme or reason to it.

By and large gays have equal rights under the law. The fear of lynching is greatly exaggerated. There's ignorant people in the world...but what can be done to prevent these people from being radicalized? I think that's not a political thing but a community thing.
> There's a better way: a network of independent microblogs. Short posts like tweets but on your own web site that you control.

I have this. I have a website and domain that I control and that I can post anything to I like. Could be long posts too.

If independent, why need a fee not a protocol?

> Includes a free 10-day trial. Cross-posting to Twitter, a custom domain name, themes, pages, an iOS app, Mac app, and more. Just $5/month. (You can also use Micro.blog for free with an existing blog.)

There's Mastodon. There's also email. I like email for social networking too.

$5 is also the cost of my hosting my own site, VPN, Wiki, and anything I'd care to add. My app is Firefox.

As a, at this point not very but potentially still a potential user, I'm concerned in particular that there is no Terms of Service on registration, none at all. While XX.X% of people may click through a ToS, there simply isn't one there and you propose hosting, or linking, or providing a social identity, or receiving funds, not clear, with no contract of service?
Sorry, I did not make it clear. I was talking about dynamics, IF government of Singapore for some reason in the future decides to do crazy shit - citizens will have harder time stopping it. That's all. I am not referring to situation right now, only in an unlikely future.
> try Afrihost mobile

But this would mean I have a data-only mobile contract, right?
No, it's more like rss based twitter. Any blog can become micro.blog compatible, and technically anyone could build a competitor to micro.blog that allows users to register their feeds.
Zzzz. This is politics that doesn't belong on HN.
Makes me feel old. Any game that even requires internet access makes me cringe. But it is nice to know that SA is keeping with trends.

I attribute my slightly better English vocabulary to Diablo 2 and other games of that time.
Most people who constantly post political posts don't do it to convince anyone. They're shouting tribal affiliation to each other.

The message is "I AM A DEVOTED MEMBER OF THIS TRIBE, AND I'M READY TO FIGHT FOR IT! DON'T ABANDON ME!"
Very interesting! What scanner, resolution and tools for OCR did you use?
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Thank you! I still remember when news sources always quoted him as a "patent expert" during the Oracle vs Android/Google battle and it was so obvious he was as far from a nonpartisan expert as one can be.
Jeez. This type of false narrative creation (especially impacting financial markets) seems like it should be illegal. With journalistic integrity out the window for the sake of attracting an audience, I could imagine why some group of traders would want to intentionally feed Bloomberg false information or "nudge" them to publish a story knowing they could significantly profit from the resulting reaction.
You repeatedly accuse F-droid users as people wanting to do sysadmin on their phone, instead of just users with a different threat profile than you. Why can't we just be people that want better day to day security and privacy assurances than we get with stock devices?

I have F-droid installed as a system app and the only method for installing apps on my device. It is an AOSP device without Google play services or anything proprietary save for the minimum blobs required to allow the device to boot and communicate with the cell networks.

I don't enable root, as normally assumed of users that don't run stock. Doing so on Android is a well known terrible security idea. This is a hardened personal device where I choose to opt out of Google tracking, and backdoors like SprintDM.apk that Google bundles with their stock OS.

In order to install signal without Google Play I would need to turn on unverified sources on my phone and open myself up to Man In The Disk style attacks, and other security issues.

This is ridiculuous that a company that champions itself an advocate for security and privacy refuses to support users like me that opt out of proprietary software and the tracking systems that come with them.

Moxie not only said he will never support third party signed installation methods like F-Droid but has been actively hostile to those trying to do this for him.

Example: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

Moxie suggesting people fork and make their own private network that simply want a secure installation method of third party signed/verified binaries on security optimized Android devices is irresponsible and does not inspire trust.
>>They bring the C/D players to do the actual work.

That is probably true for any company ever. Unless of course you are full of cash, overflowing to a point, where you have ginormous amounts of time and money to waste interviewing people, reject them and offer whom ever you want top of the market salaries.

Any company can probably do this at their prime. Other people have to hire on average competence if they want to scale. And that works fine most of the time.
On the fibre topic: That's interesting, I know the regulations are backward thinking in relation to the EU, but I would have thought fibre would be more widespread.

How have you found the move, work wise? My impression in JHB is that core economic activity is suffering (e.g., contruction) but people with mathsy or programming qualifications get jobs easily. Case in point: I have a Mathematics MSc and can get a job very easily; however, a Biology MSc looking for an environmental job simply does not. Any area that requires govt input of course will be less focused on quality and integrity of work.
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Brood parasite
.Net with Blazor.net is pretty neat.

C# doesn’t get a lot of love on HN, but we’re launching our first Blazor app in production this week and it’s been pretty easy to use.
I completely agree. But I think that small amount of knowlegde does wonders.

A designer does not need to know how to code, but to think in terms of elements and components.

Otoh. a developer does not need to know how to design, but basic typography and whitespace should be taught on the job. We are design implementors.
FYI: After you set up a profile it lets you customize your footer with arbitrary HTML/CSS/JS. It's definitely not secure.

See: http://xss.micro.blog
Any Language -> LLVM -> FPGA / ASIC

This is much closer than you think. I am aware of quite a few parties embarking on this. LLVM is the common denominator.
erm...Osama was rich. His target was Wall St.
There's very little information on the site at all, about any aspects of the service, and yet they want you to pay to use it.

Nothing about how it works, who runs it, privacy policy, where the data is stored... nothing.
Because of promoted spam. Teens hate to be spammed with irrelevant bullshit.
IMO the key factor is that so many investors are in California and investors prefer to have a founding team locally accessible.

What else? Talent? Yes, but at a cost that is becoming unbearable for early-stage startups. Customers? Maybe if you are B2B technology, but most startups are not.
As a native speaker I have no problems with the name.

For those who don’t understand it may sound like “(you) see penis”. But to be honest I didn’t even make the connection when I read it the first time.
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I believe the base account where you can choose a username and add your rss feed is free. I've never paid, but it shows up that there are options to pay $2 for cross posting, $5 for a hosted micro blog, or $10 for a hosted microblog + microcast(podcast?) hosting.

I think the whole premise is that if you a have a blog with an RSS feed, you can add it and it'll show up in micro.blog as concatenated posts, or you can take extra steps to make sure your blog supports the small post formats or whatever. There's a little guide to setting up wordpress here - http://help.micro.blog/2018/setting-up-wordpress/

The hard part for me is motivating myself to actually get my blog up and running because I have VPS's for so many other things that it seems silly for me to also pay for micro.blog hosting when I could just get my blog together.