skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main thing we need to do is get back to real, darwinian consequences for stupid behavior. Banks would NOT have made all those "toxic" loans, nor would they have been able to bundle them into derivative products (because nobody would have bought them), if they had been exposed to the real risks they were taking on.
pg is a nerd who got rich without being any less of a nerd. He also helps other nerds get rich. Any clue why that would be popular?
How about this approach? http://blog.habnab.it/blog/2013/06/25/emacsclient-and-tramp/

He's using tramp to copy an auth key to the remote system, but then using that to allow the remote emacsclient to talk back to the host. Has some caveats, but it's essentially the single daemon, many remote clients approach?
> had a choice available to her in the marketplace

Well, that's not actually true, because she didn't apply to yc to begin with, so we don't know whether or not the choice would have been available.

Oddly enough, I think I met ericabiz (hello ;), she briefly stayed at my house through airbnb. I totally agree that she is talented, and that if people like her are not even applying because of such a perception, it is a problem. I feel it's a false perception, but not well-addressed by statistics trying to prove or disprove a lack of bias (as she had suggested).

But, really, it's a one page form and it was designed to be useful for founders whether or not you are accepted. The worst outcome (which 95%+ of applications receive) is not getting an interview. So apply! (erica and every other female, male, white, black, green, 40-something etc in this thread).

Fear of rejection (not just from YC) is simply a dumb fear if you think about it, particularly if your doing a startup. Because you are going to be rejected over and over anyway, and ultimately no one can save you from building something no-one wants (the only rejection that means anything in this context).
> If you're under 40, I'm largely uninterested in your take on the world.

pg isnt peddling his "take on the world". He talks about serious academic topics in a chronically under and misinformed way. My 50 year old plumber knows jack about Metaphysics, Quantum Field Theory or Abstract Expressionism despite - as in a Louis CK bit - his seeing a dead body "one time".

If you want to have a fire-side chat with him - be my guest. But I ain't fetching the scribe because he's had a few decades wandering around.
Haha! Nice one! Thanks for sharing! Happy New Year to all!
If you're going to have a script/extension checking that the code you download is the code you want, then just package everything as an extension and be done with it. If you're signing with your private key and verifying with your public, you're going to have to keep your private key on separate machines from your app servers (and hopefully on another network entirely) otherwise Hacky McMalware can just publish a version of crypto.js (using your private key) that sends data to a remote server in plaintext. With all this signing going on, you no longer have automatic deployment (you have to re-sign on every change) and the benefits of serving a webapp+extension (with complexity of signing/verifying) start to look similar to just having an extension that packages everything and you sign on each change anyway.

Best solution is not to try to build any kind of webapp that touches client-side crypto. If you have to, package everything in an extension since you'll need one to distribute your public key anyway.
Perhaps encrypt HDD and store boot loader, kernel and keys on USB?
pg started the seed funding movement? puh-leeeze.
Great idea/ideal, and I share it... but until I'm wearing a HUD that can tell me what materials and processes in which factories and ports were used at each step of production and distribution contributing to each lot of cereal in the store, I'm not really informed enough at the point of economic decision to accurately reflect my utility function through my purchases. And good luck getting the producers of goods to share details even approaching that. As a class, they routinely fight additional labeling of their products, getting access to their production and distribution databases will be a far worse fight.
I just say what the dictionary entry is for recursion:
see recursion.

No, that has not made me cooler.
It's more about "knowing" that your laptop was tampered with.

Nothing about "preventing" it from happening. Or knowing "who" was tampered with it.

Big difference.
For me the lesson here isn't as much about engineering as incentives and inclusion. If you engage people who are actually on the front lines in solving the problems, great ideas will emerge. These are the people who understand the problems best, and can be most motivated to fix them.

But in order to do that you have to effectively align incentives for them to solve the problems. If companies treat employees as disposable automatons, and do not allow them to share in the success of the business or benefit from improving workflows, they have no motivation for doing so.

So many companies shoot themselves in the foot by bringing in "experts" when the real experts are right there on their payrolls, but no one is asking them their opinions or creating a situation where they would be inclined to give them anyway.
Removing one edge at a time won't work if there is a second, redundant, optimal path (every edge can be removed without altering the cost). I don't remember how you get around this but it shouldnt be too complicated...
All the NCR machines I encountered post-ADA upgrades were running Windows XP and still had the standard admin backdoor passwords on them. There's only two different ones to try.
> As a founder, with due respect, why you don't do anything about it?

There's a difference between "good idea" and "marketable business." As founders, we have to make that distinction. I'd like to see YC do blind interviews because I think it's a good idea for them to do so. I am not working on that myself because I can't see that good idea, in and of itself, turning into a business--a product a company could replicate and sell to others.

Perhaps other founders have the necessary domain expertise to turn something like what I suggested into a replicable, marketable business. If so, I support them in doing so.

> So if you care about this, why you don't take action?

I did. I took time away from my business to write this comment and make a suggestion. I hope YC takes it into account. I think it would make an awesome experiment for them.

> The "frat house" is working very well and there is no reason to change what works.

I suspect this might have been your real point. Sure, YC has worked well...but could it work better? Those are the questions we as hackers ask all the time. I think it's worth a shot to try something different and unique that could work even better than the status quo. Given the popularity of my comment here, I'm not the only one who thinks so. We'll see if YC (or any other accelerator) runs with this suggestion!
After reading his tweets, my opinion of Jacob Kaplan Moss is more unmixed. I would never want to work with him on anything, even something as small as a lemonade stand. Keep that SJW BS out of tech and in English departments on the East Coast, where it belongs.
This is simple, you can turn in your letter of resignation. While you do that, explain that the situation has just gotten out of hand. Thing is, a company can't just fire someone unless they have a reason to, if they feel they are losing employees they get that reason.
It is a gamble though, so stay cool and think it through.
Hah! I just composed my reply above and included this as well.

Stephenson's acknowledgements also serve as something of an indirect bibliography to some of his sources -- his books in general are fantastically well researched, and often better as learning tools than nominally nonfiction texts (though you do have to keep in mind that they are works of fiction). They're generally much more engaging, for starters (after the first 100-300 pages or so...).
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My own suspicion is that the laws may be adequate to the task of regulation, but the will to investigate and prosecute bad actors in the financial sector is not. Until the latter issue is fixed there doesn't seem to be much point in addressing the former.
sure, if the server is compromised there's really not much that will save anyone. but the user must necessarily trust the server at least with the data they intend to encrypt. for authentication they can trust some third party like oauth or persona/browser-id.
Indeed they are but every plane needs to avoid bad weather as much as possible. Of course the bigger the plane the higher its limits.

Now on pilots, this really depends which pilots you are talking about. North American pilots, and here I am pointing at Canadian pilots more because I am in Canada and I am in the process of getting my PPL (for pleasure),however, I am sure this also applies to US pilots, very well trained. To get a job at a big airline you need experience, and where do you get the best experience, far up north where harsh weather, huge winds and tiny landing strips are located. I don't think that 3 years college will do, unless you are lucky.

I also talk to a lot of commercial pilots as my girlfriend is a flight attendant, so during the travels we go out and chat about everything.

As far as safety, over exaggerated, really. No one cares, well, people do but they shouldn't, because if someone wants to hijack I am sure they will find a way to do it. This is the big boys game on a government level. Tax payers are paying for scanners etc, whoever wins the bid makes them and they are sponsoring the next election. (I will not get into this here but you get the point). Scanners are useless.

This is an older video from 2010, scanners give better pictures nowdays but are still as useless as before. I got scanned at Schiphol 3 months ago, the scanner was not much different from the one shown this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idICUSiGcqo

It is great to fly small planes, no security, quick, and more fun to fly than a big airliner.

Opinions are personal.
Python is another offender!
Or use exceptions to write cleaner code: http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2013/02/06/write-cleaner-pytho.... That post is specific to Python, which actually implements a lot of internal features using try-except, but it suffices as an argument against the idea that catching exceptions is itself a bad practice.
You are dealing in really generic platitudes that do not have any basis in fact.

> In 2005, 75% of the 10,100 homicides committed using firearms in the United States were committed using handguns, compared to 4% with rifles, 5% with shotguns, and the rest with unspecified firearms.[48] The likelihood that a death will result is significantly increased when either the victim or the attacker has a firearm.[49] For example, the mortality rate for gunshot wounds to the heart is 84%, compared to 30% for people who sustain stab wounds to the heart.[50]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Stat...

The statistics on this issue are stacked pretty highly in favor of gun control. If part of the social contract for living in the United States means that we have to contend with the threat of gun violence, then so be it. However, we should not pretend that the number of guns currently in our society somehow makes us safer or more advanced or anything like that.
That's not cultish

I am disinclined to acquiesce to your assertion.

Listing accomplishments is okay. Listing accomplishments paired with fawning and idolatry is cultish.
"We reviewed the transcript again and shared it with Paul. We stand behind our excerpting and editing for clarity. We continue to believe that the quote is in its proper context. Thanks for checking in." http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-be...

I wouldn't hold my breath for a retraction/apology. It sounds like they have dug in their heals.
Nathan lives in Idaho, IIRC.
What's with the almost cult-like relevance for this largely pseudo-intellectual entrepreneur?

- Founded a successful web apps company back in the 1990s when that wasn't common, and sold it to Yahoo

- Founded Y Combinator to advise and invest in startups

- Smart investor with substantial success and track record (Dropbox, AirBnB, etc)

In other words, he's earned a reputation for doing some very smart things, and documenting them in clear, easily understood language, over the past 20 years.

I'm not being a mirer or a nuthugger here. I participate in HN because it benefits me and I learn useful things amidst the noise. (And of course pg started this site too.)
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How long 1 kilowatt hour would last is a difficult question - depends on how efficient the home is and what tasks need to use that energy (for example, AC is very expensive but tends to be needed most when solar energy is available). Heating and cooling are most expensive.

Our energy usage in a not particularly well insulated home but in a subtropical Spring averaged about 9kWh/day - so 1kWh (3.6MJ) wouldn't get us far - it probably barely powers the fridge! However, you'd only need the storage overnight, and use solar energy the rest of the time. In sunny climes, at least.

Again, how much water depends on how much vertical drop, but it would likely be a lot of water (if you sat one cubic tank with 4.4m sides on top of another then emptying the top into the bottom would theoretically generate 1kWh)
Giving a whole new meaning to "robust tradecraft is such a drag" ...
Then use Docky or Cairo dock. I personally don't know why having it to one side is a problem, I don't have a problem adapting to UI changes. A dock on the left or bottom is hardly worth thinking about.
Historically sure, but (at least in the US) that ship sailed long ago.
I'd like to start delegating more. Any suggestions of things to try? What have you found most useful?
Great work and love the simplicity of it! It looks like you already have a ton of downloads. Would you mind sharing how you marketed the app?
This is a case where "disruption" is bad, because "disruption" usually involves overhaul of older ethical principles that emerged after decades of missteps.

Journalism is being disrupted (and has been for over 30 years) and the result is that reliable, just-the-facts is getting overrun by this nonsense.

People are comparing this to Valleywag. Actually, I like Valleywag. I think it's great. It is exactly what it says it is, and it's helping to break down VC-istan's image and prestige, which is exactly what it will take to save Real Technology. Valleywag is, perhaps unintentionally, tech's best friend right now.

This, on the other hand, is a five-alarm fuckup. You do not alter peoples' quotes like that, or lie to them in the way that PG was lied to, and keep your reputation. The old newspapers and journalists (with very rare, if high-profile, exceptions) knew that; but a lot of these post-disruption actors seem not to.
Dave, love your productivity. I'd love to give you a few free pointers on the marketing front. Shoot me a tweet @bksenior and lets talk.
I meant seed accelerator.
This has been an interesting lil' experiment :-)

Looking forward to sharing a bit more in the new year.

I wish we would have launched the promo sooner, but getting that first annual signup felt so great!
It is a desktop OS that does not try to be another UNIX clone.
To understand the call for equal representation in tech, you have to understand cultural marxism. My previous thoughts on the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509118
> What's with the almost cult-like relevance for this largely pseudo-intellectual entrepreneur?

People worship and idolize their heroes all the time.
Not sure what you mean by repro but this is a simple command that would cause issues if you were to run it. Not issues with your tool, but BASH will background the command up to the ampersand and then set the variable other to 3

curl http://example.com/foo/123?stuff=1&other=3
I've tried dozens of shave creams and IMHO Taylor's of Old Bond Street is excellent and one of the best when used with a badger hair brush. Unlike aerosol foam shave cream, you can take all the leftover cream on left on the brush and "squeegee" it off back into the pot to reuse again. Only the shave cream that goes on your face and comes off with your razor (preferably a double edge safety razor (with Feather razors) or straight razor for the closest shave).

If you ever get razor bumps, a DE safety razor is the best way to shave. You'll rarely get them again.

Besides Taylors of Old Bond Street, Proraso is also really good stuff and on the cheap end of the options out there.
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." Honoré de Balzac
> I hope this doesn't come off as criticism.

No. Just as one-upmanship.
> Every time I look at Rust, it still feels incredibly different from the last time I looked into it.

It feels that way to me, too, although in fairness, the amount of changes (i.e. the number of different kinds of edits, as opposed to the number of any one change) has actually been fairly small as I've been updating code to go with the "official" releases.

On the other hand, I would like to see some reasonable period of time with a "feature freeze" before 1.0.
To be fair, Stroustrup made the wrong call on void* implicit casting. At least IME, it's the primary source of breakage when trying to incorporate C code into a C++ program --- but then again, we have extern linkage for a reason.
I built a site for super simple video chat originally to demo our company's product to clients. Its made to be easily accessible and used with ease. The more we used the app, the more we've come to appreciate its simplicity and our company now uses it to communicate with each other and between our offices around the world. Hope you will find this useful: https://opentokrtc.com
> It's not what you make, it's what you spend.

I've heard this as "It's not what you make, it's what you save" which puts the emphasis on building wealth.
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Note it took two steps for PG to be mischaracterized: TheInformation's editing and then Valleywag's selective excerpting and misleading headlining. (Too bad there's no Valleywag subscriptions to be cancelled.)

I thought even without the word 'these', the conversational context suggested the topic was relative rates of an activity, or within an implied reference class (potential "but for this one factor" founders/YC-applicants).

It's often possible to clip phrases out of a discussion so that standing alone, they sound unqualified and extreme... when in fact the establishing context, perhaps paragraphs or pages earlier, set limits on what was meant and renders the words reasonable.

Yet, in the modern link/referral/social-news economy there are big rewards for removing context, adding new spin, and sending the result out for amplification (and further modification) by those already primed to express outrage.
If neither is concerned with how Jerry treats his co-workers it might be time to update the resume.

Both are aware, and I've already spoken with them about it.

The response was, from my boss, that nothing can be done as if he leaves, it would set the, now struggling, company back months at least, and from my boss's boss (company is small, so they are both C level), that the problem will go away with the reduction of stress once there is eventually someone hired to help with Jerry's responsibilities.

I do not disagree with my boss, Jerry's position is critical and he's already doing the work meant for three. However, we've been hiring for that position for 8 months now, and we've had a net loss of employees there of 2. I also don't feel that an additional employee or more would solve the problem, as the position will always require some level of stress on Jerry.

You're right in that I should prepare for a job change, and I've already started, I'm just hoping there's something I can do or try, since it used to be an amazing company to work for, and with the exception of this major issue, otherwise still is.
disinclined to acquiesce

Oh dear.

But anyway, given that I actually pointed out I disagree with him in some aspects, how is that fawning?

The guy's got a history that reads better than any of us here could probably hope for and he writes some amazingly well thought out and well reasoned essays.

I'm don't idolize him, I think he's more intelligent than me.

Which I say about very, very few people.

I think it's absurd to call him a pseudo-intellectual.
As an American living abroad, I still show up hours too early for flights. Old habits are hard to break! But seriously, it's just not like that in many other places round the world. Sure, we have security, but showing up more than an hour before your flight? I've been laughed at many times. Security theatre is a huge, huge waste of time and resources all around.
It's almost as if you've never heard of hobbyist OS development.
When people complain about the TSA, I'm reminded of this Louis CK bit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3dYS7PcAG4
In 2003 the state of the art with startup talking was Guy Kawasaki, a guy who did some marketing in the 80s and has ridden that wave since. Nothing actionable.

In 2003, there wasn't a way, as an "outsider," to get into the funding scene. The system felt more closed than now. You still need to "know someone who knows someone," but before, everybody who knew anybody was probably out of reach.

In 2003, Google was still a mystery. Nobody knew they were making billions of dollars a year.

In 2003, a startup wasn't something you just did. Startups were for serious people doing serious things who would give 60% of their company to a VC for a $3M A round. Seed rounds were $20k friends and family or $100k "I know a rich guy" rounds.

...and if you were in elementary school in 2003, I feel tragically old and unsuccessful.
I seem to have been down-voted, maybe some dont see the problem.

Here's a randomly picked example: http://paulgraham.com/inequality.html

Randomish quote from end of article,

"The problem here is not wealth, but corruption. So why not go after corruption? We don't need to prevent people from being rich if we can prevent wealth from translating into power."

Umm... how about in a capitalist society money is the vehicle of positive freedom... to increase ones ability to do something on has to have more money. Therefore under capitalism there is always a fundamental tie between money and power.

That's a small off-hand point.

But if you have any serious reading on the last two hundred years of economic, political and sociological critiques of capitalism, wealth and power that whole article will just seem silly.

I'm sure he means well. But it takes a certain kind of "pseudo"-something to think that this kinda hackney "thought-lite" material should be delivered at a major conference (Defcon 2005). If i were asked, on the back of my reputation, to speak on this, I would at least spend a week watching/reading/etc. as much as I can in the area.
I don't get this at all. Even with just names discrimination has been shown to occur at places like universities, so it wouldn't be revealing a problem, it would be being proactive in case there is one. Trust but verify.

Second, a perfect excuse was provided: for science! Its not that they think they are sexist, but an untested hypothesis is less strong then a tested one.
With Bitrated, I'm trying to resolve the main issue he's raising by creating a browser extension that verifies all the content served from the webserver is properly digitally signed and that it matches the source code repository on GitHub.

("Browser extension" at https://www.bitrated.com/security.html)

This two-factor verification helps protect against attacks, both by a third party attacker and by the service operator itself.