skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What would you have to believe to think that Sam didn't make YC better?

Stage- and cycle-adjusted returns, average outcomes for founders and first employees and metrics of social impact pre, intra, and post tenure (internally and relative to industry). The neat thing, with YC as Altman’s built it, is we’re relatively able to compile such metrics. That’s tough with other VC firms.
Here is a prime example:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/8/15942238/web-drm-standard-...
Build Your Own Raspberry Pi “Clapper”
Argh! I just went through this with a friend's iPhone when he asked spur of the moment to have a video on his iPhone displayed on some monitors for a presentation. The monitors are driven by a Win10 computer. My first thought was to transfer the file from the iPhone with Bluetooth to the computer, but apparently an iPhone can't be paired in that manner. So lame. The video was too big to email, so I used send.firefox.com and uploaded the video to it, and then downloaded the video to the computer. Thanks to the iPhone's protective wall that little stunt cost my friend 200MB of cellular data. The computer didn't have iTunes, and there was no Lightning cable available so direct hardwired transfer wasn't an option either.
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/949/
Client side JavaScript that encrypts locally befor uploading and puts the encryption key in the url you share with someone that never gets sent to Mozilla. Also client side decryption on the person you shared the link with. It’s end to end.
what is the business case for this tho? Who pays for the bandwidth??
I just use iCloud Drive. Files on my desktop and in my documents folder get automatically synced to my phone and vice versa. It's extremely easy and painless. I often find myself on my phone, saving a file to my iCloud desktop, and finding the file on my desktop the next time I open the lid of my laptop.
I would hope someone could set me straight if I'm wrong, but I thought that the relationship between Canonical and Debian was mostly one of taking rather than giving back?

You're right about Red Hat though, they get a lot of negative feeling from people who may not understand just how much they give back to the community at large.
I complained about similar things at Google.

They had this internal newsletter where REWS would expound on new office buildings opening, or renovated buildings re-opening. They would always highlight the impressive public spaces, with baristas, games, living plant walls, old cars built into sculptures, whatever. But they NEVER, NOT ONCE, gave any coverage to the areas where people worked. I don't know about you, but I spend 80-90% of my time at work at my desk. I was in an older building that had actual 6' tall cube walls, with real desks. When visiting other teams, I was horrified to learn that these new spaces had cramped worktables with low or no partitions. At least there were still assigned space, and keyboards & monitors (and workstations for most engineers).

Thankfully I left Google before my group was moved to such a building.
Cable companies push '10G' at CES
Marketing Through Sideprojects
Reminded me of zerobin / privatebin. We used this internally at a previous company to share passwords and sensitive files.

Data is encrypted at client and a url with a key is generated.

Can be used 'burn after reading or with some specific lifetime.
> Why is it a necessity to store information for 90 days? Why not 10 or 30?

Is there something special about 10 or 30? (You wouldn't ask the same question about 10 or 30?)
> If you think that's paranoid, simply review the history of the railroad barons

The end of which was an extremely regulated market with partial nationalization -- exactly my point
You might want to implement a maximum post length. Right now there's a post which is just hundreds of pages of the alphabet repeated over and over.

Some people see a cool thing and just want to destroy it :(
Captain pedantic here, but it's a sign, not a symptom.
I'm a bit confused, in what sense is accessing an SSH server not going through the internet? Was the phone connected to the same LAN as the desktop via Wifi?
> they secretly ordered (with an almost classified order)

Most of the time I hear about secret FSB orders, it's from HackerNews.
That's what I thought, but messing up one's sense of taste is a known (if not widely known) side effect of Toradol, and the nerve had had plenty of time to get unpinched.

In the end it won't ever be certain. I'm just glad to taste things normally again.
The url effectively contains the decryption key, so the web server could be set to capture the urls and decrypt files.

If you want, you can also set a passphrase on the file to share via another channel
No offense, but your wife's opinion isn't really worth anything stated unqualified like that
I'm just an outsider, but I was lured to HN and the idea of YC by the cult of personality around PG long ago (we even applied for the first batch).

PG seemed like someone who didn't have all the answers, but was on a journey to find them and he was happy to take you with him.

By contrast, my first take on Sam was that he came across as more matter-of-fact and confident which was a slight turnoff for me. But, I think he was a fine choice to take the helm.

I do miss the cult-of-personality days :).
Do novelist never attend meetings by their publisher? Same with freelancers - can you just blow off your client and commit to nothing?
Aren't their mailing costs involved in buying directly from the website?

And those Amazon costs are much higher than I would have thought.
You didn't say whether you are on iOS or Android, but if you are on iOS airdrop works very well.
Fomantic UI
> Elastic loves open source so much they made proprietary features to hurt their competitors!

I don't think that's a fair interpretation. They're not going on the attack, after all. Amazon's capitalization on ElasticSearch constitutes an existential threat to Elastic, not the other way around. Elastic is very much defending its existence, which, by the way, is the primary sponsor for the open source project. Moreover, the interpretation ignores that the "proprietary features" in question (including their source code) are available for free to the public.

I'm open to the idea that there were better (i.e., friendlier to open source) recourses available, but I'm not pursuaded by purist arguments that don't address the existential threat to Elastic and the ElasticSearch project.
Yes, next to Apple's AirDrop, this is a welcome addition.
Polarsteps hits 1M users and raises €3M in funding
Are you able to successfully maintain your body weight in ZC OMAD?
In which programing language???

The example is not clear enough. Can you give one example as

Input: xxx

Output: yyy

[I'm not sure if this is the best kind of submission for HN. We will probably not give a complete solution, but at least someone may point to the correct function in the docs of your language.]
Sorted :) thanks.
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I'm onboard as a regular user of send.firefox.com. How does Mozilla have the money to offer this for free?
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Test of credibility for the FAA and China’s aviation authorities.

If the crash was due to pilot or maintenance error, the FAA’s prudent process is re-affirmed. If it was a certification mistake, Beijing will have a legitimate claim to being a new global aviation authority.
Since it was literally the first thing I said in my answer, I consider it pretty up-front. I'm happy to give you more details about it since you seem interested. The basic idea is this:

1. All clients download a database of offers locally (they are basically vouchers, we call them offers because they have the potential to make users save money).

2. While browsing with this feature enabled, URLs of pages as well as some other information accessible locally are processed by the extension which tries to detect the intent of buying something online.

3. When an intent corresponding to one of the items in the local database is found, an offer is shown with a coupon that can be used to save money.

What sets it apart from ads in my opinion is that everything happens client-side and that the offer is only shown when there is a clear intent to buy something (instead of all pages with traditional ads). This means that users will actually see very few of them, but that they should be very relevant and useful (you save money).
If you can see past your seething hatred for all things corporate and Google, you might be able to see that this is a good thing.
For us it came down to supporting various technologies we need for our application and a few extra that we are actively using.

1. mTLS
2. Websockets
3. Bot Mitigation (credential stuffing)
4. Workers

We need mTLS and Websocket support. Other providers in the space may support one but not the other which is a problem.
But the quip that "fusion is always 10 years away" is not an expression that no progress is being made. Rather, it's an expression that the most optimistic views for fusion are always for at least 10 years in future, and as we get more understanding of the difficulty, that horizon always stays 10 years away.

I've been following fusion from the sidelines since I first read about it in SciAm in the 1980s.

I think that understanding how the human body (or any complex biological system) works is a more complex project.
I wonder if they've fixed the issue where one can force reuse of a link by slowing down a download, and sharing the URL ? Hence turning it into a cheap file hosting service:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15450524

I haven't been able to upload a file to try.
How does E2EE work if the recipient can download the file directly? I'd expect some key or password needs to be exchanged too?
With the caveat about client side browser encryption in general, which I'm sure someone will pop in here and explain in detail. :)
Who is using gradual typing in a clojure codebase? I've never seen any usages of core.typed in the wild. Using schema is more common although its future seems uncertain in the wake of spec. In my experience schemas require just as much effort as specifying types without the benefit of automatic checking or the usual IDE integrations like navigation or autocompletion. As a result they're rarely used widely enough to be useful.
Persuade Your Way to a New (Better) Job
It's not really clear what you want to do, but here's some code I hacked out to see if it's the sort of thing you want:

#!/usr/bin/python

import random

choices = {
'[colour]' : [ 'red', 'green', 'blue', ],
'[element]': [ 'antimony', 'arsenic', 'aluminum', 'selenium', ],
}

to_substitute = choices.keys()

text_to_munge = 'Randomly, the colour of [element] is [colour].'

for key in to_substitute:

while key in text_to_munge:

index_of_key = text_to_munge.index(key)
head = text_to_munge[:index_of_key]
tail = text_to_munge[index_of_key+len(key):]
text_to_munge = head + random.choice(choices[key]) + tail

print text_to_munge

It's really, really not good code, and the purpose of writing this is simply to ask in what ways it fails to meet your requirement. Do not use this code, it is not fit for deployment. If you are using a halfway decent language it will probably have facilities for the sort of thing you need, and using such facilities will be more efficient and effective than a hack like this.

So to repeat - don't use this code, but by all means, let us know the ways in which it fails to meet your requirement.
Upside is that this is another reason to get a Mozilla account.
It has been done. It can be done.

“We’re asking our customers to ground the airplane as a precautionary measure. We have the utmost confidence in our engineers, processes, blah blah blah, and are confident that the 787 Max will be flying again as soon as the investigation is completed.”

Advil did this, and their brand was just fine, possibly better because they were aggressive about putting lives ahead of this quarter’s cash flow.
> Imagine if we had done the same with email or the web itself.

Give it time, we've certainly been trying.

See: chrome, amp, gmail, etc.
I feel bad for whoever employed them. People manage to get into jobs they are unqualified for all the time.

Music and Computer Science/Mathematics are two very different qualifications. Why would someone who spent their time in college partying, because that’s what Art/Music majors do, and avoiding STEM like the plague be employed as a Data Scientist or any scientist position? They don’t have the background or diligence required. They obviously went “no, I don’t like math or science, I’ll study music instead”.

I really wish people who went through bootcamps or read a tutorial or ten, would stop feeling qualified to do something they are most certainly not qualified to do.
As opposed to many companies that actually provide added values to lives of their customers. It might not look like that, but the world outside Silicon Valley is huge. But of course if you are mainly after money, your options are limited and mostly amoral
Yes, but that then adds a communication barrier. There are more universal ways to describe what happened.
https://jitsi.org/
https://jami.net/
https://signal.org/
https://tox.chat/
https://linphone.org/
Chemtrails are a conspiracy theory. Go get your tinfoil hats!
You're thinking about this incorrectly; don't worry when Google does propose new standards, worry when others don't.
No, he's saying Magic Wormhole doesn't exactly need the needs of a non-technical person.
"It" in the first sentence does refer to the solution they mention, not Firefox Send.
So is this a commemorative essentially non-circulating coin or do things like this get spent normally in the UK? I'm not familiar with Royal Mint commemoratives.

In the US, the mint releases a lot of commemorative coins that ostensibly and legally have a face value, but in fact will never be used as money. Contrasting with that are the state and national park quarters, which mostly circulate normally.
ehh... it's been known for awhile that protonmail is in the pockets of the US government so it's not really a loss for the russian people.

What they should be using is either Streisand[0] email with a server in a country that respects their privacy(neitherlands, panama, etc) or lavabit email[1].

[0]: https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
[1]: https://lavabit.com/

EDIT --

Sorry streisand doesn't in fact have an e-mail server. I thought it did at one point. I guess you can use mail-in-a-box(https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox).
I have a 5 years of experience in tinkering with After Effects (which doesn't mean that much but I can get around doing stuff)

I tackled various realm of creative production, namely motion graphics and electronic music. This all started when I was using Windows and pirated program of famous tools like AE, but I was able to get around in Linux with FOSS tools. I use LMMS like a pro. I even used GIMP on Windows.

This was NOT the case with video production. I was making a simple lyrics video on kdenlive, but I had to scrap the project because every time I tried to add a little bit of effect, it was half-baked or simply impossible. I cannot change size of the video without having a major headache on anchor points. I cannot "crop" a content right on kdenlive. The problem? Kdenlive is actually the most feature-rich video editor I ever tried on Linux.

If you only do light editing it may work for you, but ONLY light editing. You can't have custom stuff going on as video creation tool is basically not there. I also use it as a subtitle tool... which basically sums up what your expectation should be.
That's also the current meaning of "third world." A lot of people use it to mean "country I think is backwards."

Ah: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367437
I use syncthing for all my personal file syncing. It is so useful and secure to boot!
Yeah I meant diverse without any kind of value judgement
I'm hoping for Mary Anning, personally. Local hero.
Last I heard, electric fields and magnetic fields were inextricably related.

https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2014/01/29/how_tes...

>The power of the Tesla coil lies in a process called electromagnetic induction, i.e., a changing magnetic field creates an electric potential that compels current to flow. Conversely, flowing electric current generates a magnetic field. When electricity flows through a wound up coil of wire, it generates a magnetic field that fills the area around the coil in a particular pattern, shown with lines below: [...]

>Eventually so much charge has accumulated that it breaks down the electrical neutrality of the air in the middle of the spark gap. The circuit closes for a fleeting second and a huge amount of current blasts out of the capacitor and through the coils. This produces a very strong magnetic field in the primary coil.

Which leads us to ask: Fucking magnets: How do they work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
Then it wasn't well enough understood...
While I agree to some extend with the author, he too is making large leaps without truly backing them up. He's fighting over semantics. While Warren may be wrong in her history, she's not truly wrong in the results. Amazon does exactly what she says, Amazon sees a Marketplace item is selling really well, so they start to sell it too at or slightly cheaper.

The reason people tend to use Google over Yelp as in his example isn't really choice, but a lot of times because people don't know. My mother as an example has no idea of the difference between Google and the internet, they are the same thing to her if Google promoted Yelp and other restaurant review sites over their own, she might use them, but she only knows what google shows her. This is a lot more common than people with an understanding of tech realize for the average consumer.

Google's business should be that, advertising and showing accurate search results. But they need people to stay on their pages longer, so that they get more ad dollars, so they start duplicating other popular sites to maintain the user's attention. They are in a position of power that no other company has, and when they decide they are going to compete with your idea, they have a completely unfair advantage, strictly because they have become, to many, the Gatekeepers of the Web. They also provide the most popular Web Browser, which defaults to Google. Think that's fair? Think the average consumer knows any better.

His discussion of the Microsoft Antitrust is also a little dumb, while a computer coming bundled with a Web browser does make it more useful, it was the way that Microsoft did it, to ensure their only competition had no real way of competing by using their dominance to make the web a IE only land. Proprietary Web API that only worked in IE that didn't follow the standard meant a lot of early developers only targeted IE because it was too hard or expensive to target Netscape too. This was the heart of the antitrust, and while Google may have emerged non-the-less, we would not have Firefox or probably even chrome and they Web would definitely not be what it is today, because Microsoft didn't foster innovation on the Web, that was thanks to Mozilla and other open-source browsers. The web might have eventually become what it is today, but most experts agree Microsoft is a large part of the reason we aren't farther ahead because they killed competition at the drop of a hat. The author seems to forget how bleak and shitty the web was when IE was the only choice and Microsoft didn't update IE from version 6 for almost 5 years, when they finally released the garbage that was IE 7.

Tech is a much different beast and while Warren could certainly use some help to clarify her reasons for wanting to break up these tech giants, she's not completely wrong either. However, big tech isn't where her focus should be completely. Comcast, ATT, Version. These companies essentially control the internet backbone and are monopolies in many areas. Consumers have little to no competition for how they get internet access and that's one of the biggest issues.
Yeah. Ok. It’s just a dude with a voice changer. Give me female Australian accents any day. Pure sunshine even when Siri can’t get it right
Besides AirDrop there is "Copy and Paste across devices" https://support.apple.com/kb/ph25168?locale=en_US
It's actually not technology for a noiseless receiver. It's technology for detecting megahertz photons at quantum resolution. You'll still have noise!

Bloody clever experiment; thanks very much for the link! When I get all grouchy for how terrible current year is, that paper saves 2019 for me.
People in the thread have been citing HTML and SQL as examples of DSLs. Those are examples of universal languages but not of domain-specific languages as envisaged by the proponents of DSLs.

The DSL "philosophy" as presented in for example The Pragmatic Programmer from 2000 was that every programmer should write his or her own domain language as the situation requires. That every project should come equipped with its own language, codifying that business problems business rules.

That philosophy, and the surrounding hype, has completely died down. Put simply, it wasn't a good idea. More languages makes it harder to communicate, not easier. Plus, writing a good DSL that someone other than the creator of said DSL can understand is tons of work. Instead, what one aims for is generality.
YC doesn't seem to invest in higher risk startups anymore (except exciting moonshots). They used to invest like an accelerator but recently they are more like a VC (More traction required before they even consider you) AND also has to be billion dollar target market.

If you want bootstrap money you are better off applying to local accelerators or incubators.

That said, with their signalling , 7% for $150k is a generous offer and not at all un-favourable.
I hear this often. Are there any studies/articles that would help me understand the global recycling industry?

Background: I would like to start or buy a recycling business because I want to be part of the solution instead of the problem (and if it can make a profit, I'm not independently wealthy). Yes, I know we need to reduce and reuse first, but we're now also sitting in a mountain of plastic and given inertia, it's not going to go away anytime soon.

I did read this one already [1], which I recommend to get a basic understanding of the various forms of recycling and the profitability.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1569906769/ref=ppx_yo_dt...
Isn’t it way too early to say? You’ll probably be proven right but isn’t almost all of the value of YC from a handful of startups funded before Sam’s tenure? They could have wasted every single investment dollar for the five years and still be worth billions thanks to Dropbox, Stripe, Airbnb, etc.
> it's been known for awhile that protonmail is in the pockets of the US government

Source? I thought ProtonMail were Swiss and E2E encrypted.