skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to a YC angel investing workshop in March 2018. The lectures are all on YouTube. My takeaway was to try to independently consider deals, and not worry about herd mentality. Of course, there was a lot of material, ranging from YC partners, external angels, and VCs. There was conflicting information and advice about the decisionmaking process -- which is good, I think: the process is different for everyone.

Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aiJlRS2i_w&list=PLQ-uHSnFig...

My evaluation template for the recent YC batch:
https://alanglennon.com/2019/03/15/yc-w19-template/
It is a “subjective viewpoint” only in the trivial sense in which every description using human language (including terms whose uses include named legal offenses) relies on the subjectivity of interpretation of definitions in context, and in which there are no actual discussable concrete fact claims.

On any other level, “collusion” is a word with a clear meaning, and the Stone and Pappadopolous indictments (the latter of which is subject of a conviction with guilty plea and detailed statement of the offense confirming this) involve what is unambiguously actual collusion between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks (on a matter which the facts alleged in other indictments identify WikiLeaks as advancing a Russian propaganda operation) and attempted (from the Trump campaign side) collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia directly.

Everything that denied this is lies and sophistry to support lies.
Landlords sell property far less than people move. Remember, you are arguing home ownership as a strictly better deal for everyone “always a better deal” which would include people who move regularly.
Serious question: how often do you log into a box where it would be impossible or considered rude for you to install a proper editor? I feel like I must have been blessed by the sysadmins in my life (them often being me) but it's never happened in 25 years of logging into *nix boxes.
Do you mean larger or smaller? I thought the problem was amplification.
Simple. Using a hyphenation dictionary, automatically insert soft hyphens at the optimal position in every word before delivery to the client. I haven't seen this done in practice, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work.
This round of IPOs will for sure create a new class of Angels...already many early employees who have sold on secondary markets are as is.
Totally. Reminded me of that addictive flying game where you have to land airplanes when the first iPhone just came out.
Telegram: Taking Back Our Right to Privacy
Typing in a separate file defeats almost all the benefits of typing. Being able to read the code without also having to open a second source, the documentation. It's almost as bad as going back to stoneage c++ with header/source split up in separate files.

Reading and writing types should be fast, agile, easy and effortless. Only way to acheive that is having it as close the usage as possible
Or you know, he had $50M of his own that he "returned" (he was supposedly a businessman), while still being just a proxy to the other that actually stole the real stolen money.
>I just Googled how to get a job

It’s worse than that. It reads like something a LinkedIn “influencer” who hasn’t had to actively look for a job in 30 years would write.

Here’s some insights from my current job search:

>Meetups
I live 45 minutes away from Seattle. On a good day, it’s a 1.5 hour round trip commute. With Seattle traffic factored in, it can balloon to 3-4 hours round trip. The last two meetups I did go to were full of boot camp students and very few actual employed devs. (Side note, only one of the five boot camps that were there had the WA state technical school accdredidation.) The Meetup talks were glorified sales pitches for B2B AI analytics products (with one company admitting that its AI was actually third world upwork contractors in an news interview a week later).

>Remote work
Not in a position to negotiate that unless you mean 1099 freelance work. 1099 is a hardship since I’d have to basically set up my own business at that point. (I will never do a sole proprietorship since the personal risk is too high if the business fails or I get sued for something.)

>contact and freelance jobs
Did you read what I just said?

Anyways, I’m logging off HN again and working on my blog. I really need to block this site since all I see here anymore are innane comments like these.
You hope that’s true, but as I previously said you can’t replace exercise with a drug because of physics. So, it may in fact be a hard physical limitation that prevents drugs from working in this case.

I am not arguing it’s likely, only a very real possibility. Because in the end biology is physics, and therefore must deal with it.
Later levels validate against multiple exits and won't let you remove the original exit, so it seems intentional.
Awesome I'll check it out! Have you read The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal?
>>> Since employees write these in their spare time...

Oops.
I very highly recommend https://microcorruption.com/, which is a small-scope exploit development CTF.
This one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Control_(video_game) ?
Good, neutral and didn't care for? So, good neutral and neutral? Or is that millennial-speak for good, neutral and bad? Lol
Yeah, but you NEED TO KNOW THAT before use it.

With nano, all is straight in the UI. That is powerful, and so obvious.

Why Vim/Emacs not have that?
My limited understanding of MathJax is that it uses the browser to measure glyphs. KaTeX on the other hand includes metrics for many of its glyphs. Where things get a little tricky is i18n. There are many languages which our current fonts don't cover and thus we have no metrics for them (we make some educated guess about some unicode ranges). It would be really nice if browsers implemented a Font Metrics API, unfortunately efforts to do so appear stalled at the moment.
"downward titling keyboard tray"

Is it the front edge or the back edge of the keyboard that's supposed to be facing down?
The UW no longer wanted to support Pine but they were unable to release it under the existing license. It was mostly rewritten as Alpine ( https://www.washington.edu/alpine/overview/story.html ), and is now sort of maintained by other folks: http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/

I still use it regularly and it still works well, but I should probably be looking for something else.
That's a surprisingly strong data point in favour of pg's tweet. Not only was time wasted, it sounds like money was lost too.

Congratulations on sticking it through!
Yeah this manager guy is an asshole.
I like this one, made by Google - it teaches XSS vulnerabilities: https://xss-game.appspot.com/

It's been discussed on HN twice:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13021869

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7815237
Never underestimate the.. Um... 'resourcefulness' of users.
Anyone know how a patent team might determine the value of a patent?
> With a neural network, the additional information is being stored within the network

I've seen a few people say this in the thread. It doesn't seem accurate to me. Information is being created/hallucinated/interpolated. Re-scanning filmstock gets new information. If not, it doesn't matter how sophisticated your algorithm is (naive upscaling or deep learning), you're still interpolating values.
"seeking in local companies first"

I find this too limiting. Many contracts are remote.

I don't have any special system. I just look for contracting gigs that might interest me and make my introduction. It's definitely a numbers game.

Before the new year (in December), I probably talked to 50 potential leads. Narrowed it down to about 10, and finally found two that I thought would be a good fit.

One of them ran out of money/changed their mind, and I'm still working with the other today. It's a multi-year contract and it keeps me busy.

"In job boards I tend to email blast a lot of applications."

It also depends on when you make the contact. The closer you can get to the time it was posted, the more likely you will get a response.

I then get their phone number and setup a phone call. You need to get good at selling yourself/services and not be afraid to talk to people.

Most business owners want to talk on the phone first before making any major decisions.
Chrome and Firefox could develop standardized system service which will deliver package to a proper application. NAT is not needed in a bright IPv6 world of the future.

Though I don't know what's wrong with UDP. 8 bytes of overhead for 1450 bytes IP payload is 0.5% bandwidth. Checksum overhead should be negligible.
Same in US. The transmission in my little car was a line item on the price... automatic was US $600 more.

But the car companies barely even make money on small cars, and this particular product line (Toyota Scion) was discontinued.

If the market shrinks to the point where something is a specialty item, then the price difference can invert itself, which is what I think happened in the US.
How is that compassion though? “Here’s $20, go kill yourself somewhere out of my sight. I don’t care.” Is the worst kind of indifference and apathy to drug addiction and mental illness I’ve ever seen. If it was your family member wouldn’t you want better? It just seems like someone has to look out for people who are just self-harming themselves openly in public. Giving them a couple bucks to go away so we can go on with our life and pat ourselves on the back like we helped them is just apathy. Cops need to arrest the meth and heroin dealers but they don’t do anything. It should be appalling but it’s become normalized.
> A car with a stick shift and clutch pedal requires the use of all four limbs, making it difficult to use a cellphone or eat while driving.

Hello from the UK.

Manual cars certainly do make using a phone difficult.

I'm not quite sure you want that. ;)
Yes, that’s the one!
I was used to pine and pico so I migrated to alpine and nano. Alpine works fine for me, alpine is very much like pine. I have spamassassin tagging mail as spam, and I have an alpine filter that moves those tagged messages to a possible spam folder.

I was used to pine when mutt came out, so I always used pine or alpine. You can check both out and see which you prefer.
In this context, it’s more of “you wouldn't talk about this at the watercooler”

Alternatively, getting caught watching soccer is one thing, getting caught watching porn is another. NSFW would be the latter kind of catch...
Woops, fixed, thanks :)
Actually made by David G Conroy while he was at Mark Williams, and open sourced. I kicked around to various folks and ended up in the gnu fold.
Great job!

I wonder if playing this kind of game could be used in an interview setting.
The point is that unlike in the Amazon deal, this was tax abatement plus revenue bonds held on the government books.
"We offered X dollars for patents, the engineer accepted that price. We now want the patents for X-Y dollars, the engineer doesn't accept this price. I have no idea how to negotiate and I would like to strongarm him instead. Help me!"
Easy to scp micro or nanorc over with one command.
Of the 500 or so pitches I have heard in the last six months in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, about ten proposed a no cap note--a few of these with a discount and a few with no discount. These were almost entirely Stanford students at a single Stanford event, so I think that was more about targeting rich alums who might wish to help new entrepreneurs at the Alma mater.
On the social class issue:

I'm wondering if that's actually an example of social signaling and countersignaling. When PCs were expensive, the only people who bought them were those who a.) had a lot of money and b.) derived significant benefit from them. As they get cheaper, constraint a.) gets relaxed, and everyone derived significant benefit from them. Now that they're a commodity and used by the masses, one way to distinguish yourself from the masses is to adopt behaviors that say "I don't need to be plugged in to maintain my place in society." Computers are still a significant advantage, but one way to demonstrate resources & status is to conspicuously go without the advantages that the majority of the population enjoys, showing that you don't need them after all.

In this regard, it joins phenomena like eating organic; buying sports cars, or a Prius/Tesla; owning a big home (larger than the living space you actually need); and acting like an asshole. Most of these give neutral-to-negative benefits to the person in question, and cost more, but are frequently done by upper-middle-class or wealthy people because they can.

Ironically, reading the NYTimes is itself a class marker, one for upper-middle-class coastal elites. This happens to be exactly the group most likely to jump on the no-screen-time bandwagon and have leisure time available to spend on real human contact. So in some ways, this piece is telling their readership "You've arrived now. You can afford luxury goods."
This is a good question! In my mind, we are not so far for reaching stability. There is still stuff we rename here and there but consistency has improved a lot recently. That said we have been in "Alpha" for almost half a decade :)
KaTeX strives to match LaTeX's behavior so it may actual be an issue with the screen readability of LaTeX. We're currently discussing ways to improve this in https://github.com/KaTeX/KaTeX/issues/1848. If you're seeing other issues please file a bug report.
Right. It's hard to argue that new home buyers should subsidize people who bought properties decades ago and have made hundreds of thousands of dollars on the appreciation.

Why should taxes be disproportionally higher for new buyers and housing options more limited for everyone else? Not everyone in the world can live in California, and I'm not convinced that living there decades ago entitles you to live there forever if you can't afford the current prices. As a society we've decided to allocate scarce resources by price. If someone bought property in California decades ago and can't afford to pay their fair share of taxes on that property now, they can sell it at a huge increase in price and can afford to buy a luxury property in most other areas of the country.
Show HN: Computer Assisted Debugging
>Now that I live in a city, I often think about how much happier and freer I would've felt as a child growing up in one.

It's not like combining a suburb space / greenery etc with a city experience is impossible. We just don't do it, since we mostly build our cities and suburbs for cars.

Cities should have plenty of parks, easy access to dense areas tastefully built (for walking, shopping, restaurants, coffee), and have plenty of trees, small and larger squares, and public transport, with several public buildings and monuments thrown in. A river or large lake or sea wouldn't hurt either where possible.
Here is the arxiv version of the Science paper mentioned in the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09160.
It's still the case here, but for some models it's not an option.
Attribute Prediction
Wait, so the engineer came up with an idea in their spare time, demo'd it to the bosses then decided that it wasn't worth it to follow up on the idea in their spare time but now they want to somehow force them to turn it over after apparently deleting all evidence of it?

I don't actually know what to think about this (and I'm a big fan of absurdity) but suspect there's some hidden moral to this story...
All of these are features a rouge client simply can ignore.
> His employment agreement states that any and all intellectual property he generates while employed with us, even during weekends/free-time, is the property of the company.

If I had such a clause in a contract, I would turn down the opportunity. Maybe I am missing something obvious here, but I don't see the point of this.

Even worse, this:

> any and all intellectual property

sounds to me like one couldn't do anything creative in their spare time. Even a picture painted would belong to their employer.
The Blockchain Firehose: Streaming with the TokenAnalyst SDK
Upper management probably all patted themselves on the back after cutting the payouts. They'll tout that they "saved the company thousands, every year." In most industries innovation is key, cutting engineer pay for what is essentially voluntary work is setting themselves up for obsoletion in the near future. I don't blame the guy for "not remembering" what his boss was talking about.
So error out in your parser that uses those files.
On level 13 the maze was trivial(move down as much as possible then right as much as possible then down to the player). Might need to forbid that.

Good diversion, I'm on level 14.
No proper concurrent threads was of course what I meant. In that light the subinterpreter feature is also not very good, since all sib-interpreters share a GIL (but iirc there is a PEP out there that might make python properly multi-core through some kind of CSP-approach and independent subinterpreters).
I think idiot would be the better top level designation. So : Idiot asshole.
To be frank, you can use it to run a business outside of the Valley for double or quadruple the time. At that amount, you can't really afford to hire (doubly so in SF), so who cares if you have access to the "talent pool" (but we all can work remote now, so, hey).
Who in their right mind decided that it would be a good idea to put Yemenis into South Korea.

Part of me wonders who is pushing the globalist agenda. Koreans are some of the most genetically homogeneous countries. Even the Chinese and Japanese have trouble blending in.

The Yemenis will not eat spicy pork and I can’t imagine hijabs being in k-pop music videos. Also having darker skin won’t help.

At this pace, Jeju island will become an Islamic center and give or take 25 yrs Seoul will have to deal with Islamic extremists similar to Europe.
> In driving tests they will mark you down if you use the mirrors for switching lanes

wait, how are you supposed to safely change lanes without looking at mirrors?
Also, I'm not sure why he's expecting a bigger drop in accidents when he knows that there are still a lot of cars on the road (such as the one he is sitting in) don't have this feature.
> IT has searched his OneDrive, laptop, etc., and we can't find a single shred of code/documentation on these ideas.

A smart engineer is not stupid. Who knew?
Pretty sure nano was changing your code to

echo 'this is a test' > test\n

and then echo was adding the newline because you didn't specify -n.
Hands down my favorite and (very) security oriented game is https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/ --- It's actually a series of games but this is the first one. I learned so much playing these.
And on how many platforms the software is used. E.g. when people try to compile things on HP-UX, perhaps even an older version, things often get interesting.
Long way from Yemen to South Korea - how many safe countries can a refugee pass before becoming a migrant? As for

> many feminists reinforce myths that Muslim refugees are potential rapists, drawing from a mixture of real and fake news from Europe.

I am shocked - shocked - that despite the many polls and statistics in the article, none of them address this myth.

So lets give it a shot, with the famous Sweden: 58% of those convicted of rape are foreign-born [1] (which make-up 17% of the Swedish population [2]). One could argue they are over-prosecuted, but there is evidence of the exact opposite [3]. Of course Sweden decided it's wrong to keep statistics based on ethnicity [4], so we must remember that Finns and Poles are also among those foreign-born. If someone can find more granular statistics, perhaps we can dispel this myth entirely.

Of course it's not fair to blame all immigrants for the actions of a few - it's racist, xenophobic, prejudiced. But will you dismiss positive stories with the same arguments? Next time someone brings up that 44 of the US Fortune 100 companies were founded by immigrants, or there's a story of a refugee child winning a chess championship, will you refute those as irrelevant, racist, xenophilic, prejudiced?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45269764

[2] https://nordic.businessinsider.com/swedens-foreign-born-popu...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/13/sex-as...

[4] https://www.thelocal.se/20180508/why-sweden-doesnt-keep-stat...
The good IDE is key for me (I am dyslexic too). I find Jetbrains' products to be a saviour with all the autocomplete and intellisense.

I don't have to worry if I've spelled the variable incorrectly or (more frequently) used a synonym instead of the word I first used; autocomplete catches it.
Sorry/Thanks... apparently one should not quote URLs on HN.
Just another reason why corporations should be broken up. The idea that they can so easily transfer that kind of money in a small number of transactions is dangerous.
Of course not, but it's not what he was charged with and it has nothing to do with the Russiagate narrative. Presumably that's why he wasn't charged with that.
Just in line with the zen of python: There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
If they tried to do this with a spacecraft, wouldn't it need constant line of sight from earth with this technique? Seems interesting but pretty impractical for that application, unless I'm reading the text incorrectly.
The point is that if Airbnb is petty enough to ban people over off-site reviews, they're probably petty enough to ban people over off-site evidence of review manipulation.
Translating problems across domains alert (!).

This article got me thinking. Oncology research sounds like live-debugging the race conditions of a millions-year-old, self-mutating program with billions (trillions) of lines of source code... And to top it all off, it's written in a language whose syntax is elusive.

If you're lucky, you can sometimes observe some aspects of its execution, but always at the cost of context-depriving tunnel vision, and only with a really expensive and proprietary IDE.

If that analogy's anywhere close to the mark, I can't imagine the patience of the people doing this research; bravo, sincerely.

With that analogy, this article suggests that researchers have attached an information-theory-backed meaning to a previously-observed pattern in the observed life cycle of our cells. The black box is revealing itself, with deliberate observation, to be an increasingly intricate and beautifully-designed grey box. Every lumen of that box is hard-fought, and must be super rewarding!

Nature's one heck of an engineer :)
I'm a GUI dev/UX/education designer. Nano/pico to me are the only cli editors remotely suitable for ordinary human cognition. I have faint interest in the Emacs ecosystem, but wish it took basic ergonomics into account more seriously. I do understand I could get used to the lack of affordances but life's too short, perhaps. I understand keyboard usage wins you speed but not sure it's worth the general unpleasantness. I suppose I'm in the minority here though.
Nevada didn’t help, but the homeless they sent are a drop in the bucket. 50 extra homeless isn’t super noticeable since there are lready 8000+. The real problem is decades of lack of enforcement of trespassing laws, letting people go to the bathroom in the street, and openly use drugs in public places. This has all led to a downward spiral.
I up-voted you but I suspect that the manager has little say over the aspects of the situation that would help retain the engineer.

Some bean counter has determined that they can save money by not paying for something they used to pay for - and its working. They are paying less (which is all the bean counter cares about). They fact that they are getting less or costing the company is not his problem.
Ah shoot - the wording made me think it was not going to work for me.

I love the idea, have bookmarked