skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one that thinks that we should almost certainly treat scientific research entirely differently than entertainment? Frankly, when I think about it objectively, I could care less if a novel is under copyright for a very long time - it's not like there's a lack of entertainment options for people, and that they will suffer because they have to pay something to read a book or see a movie. But scientific research seems like an entirely different animal: if we as a society are so into technological progress, why wouldn't we act to make all scientific research as widely available as possible? It would seem that in the Internet age the best and easiest way to achieve that as a matter of policy is simply modifying copyright rules - and if Aaron Swartz is any indication, there will be many people more than happy to store and disseminate the information as a public service. (Although I personally believe that it would be entirely reasonable for the USG to spend a modest sum hosting the data, sort of like a federal online library. Perhaps this could even be started by generous endowment from an Internet titan, just as The Smithsonian was started by such an endowment.)
There are some cancers driven by things like mismatch-repair defects, so that the amount of DNA damage grows very quickly over time, but these don't cause the majority of cancers. In liquid (blood) tumors, especially, these are very rare - The predominant mechanism is just the accumulation of random defects due to cellular division.

On the other end of the scale are things like automobile accidents, where incidence peaks in teenage years and decreases thereafter (with a possible second peak as vision and reflexes deteriorate in the elderly). My point is that neither of these fit the neat curve drawn by the author. When everything is lumped together, the curve fits, but trying to draw broad conclusions about mechanisms from that kind of aggregate data is foolish.
Incredible! This is great.
You could argue that, YouTube has maintained their safe harbour, and hence they're a reasonable entity. It wasn't apparent to them that copyright was being breached so the "red flag" is not apparent to a reasonable entity, i.e. if the embeder is liable so is YouTube. This makes sense but I don't if it would be convincing elsewhere.
The potential of Bitcoin is that volume can grow to be so high that the spreads are negligible. Meanwhile, bank interchange fees remain stubbornly high.
So what could he / YC do? And what can they do right now?

The main thing that comes to mind is to do some marketing outreach to diverse pools of potential techie founders (Ada Initiative, PyLadies, etc).

Beyond activities like this, can pg or YC be held responsible for the preceding stages of the pipeline?
Chris, are you looking into non-currency uses for BTC, a la Albert Wenger [0]? My own feeling is that the protocol (secure ledger) is more generally valuable and can likely be put to work in a lot of uses. Is that your feeling as well or are you primarily excited in its use as cash?

[0] http://www.usv.com/posts/bitcoin-as-protocol
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That is the approach that Haskell takes. If the repl responds to ^C by aborting whatever line it was evaluating then infinite results are little more than annoying, and you quickly learn to restrict what it prints to the first few elements (in python this would just involve appending [:n]). Ultimatly this is a question of which uses you want to optimize. Personally, I find Haskell's approach more useful as a calculator.

A middle ground that I have not seen is automatically evaluating the first few elements and showing those as part of the <object> output.
I think you are missing the sarcasm; he's pointing out that HN votes up sensationalism and not the follow up stories.
> possibly because of the high concentration of bloggers

Or the fact that it has much better weather than those other places you named. It's not mysterious: there are a lot of people who like to spend time outdoors and prioritize weather.
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I own all 3 and they're great. Thanks Luke!
Well, Nevada is buying bus tickets.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/san-francisco-sues-nevada-over...
Like there’s a $3 million prize that some of the Facebook and Google billionaires have put up for medical breakthroughs. They seem to misunderstand how medical research takes place.

This lady is out of her gourd. She appears to be talking about this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/science/new-3-million-priz...

This alone makes it obvious what her real problem is. She wants people to give their money to causes that she supports. She does that by stating that they aren't civicly minded but she's just belittling what civic-minded tasks they're doing because she thinks other ones are important.

Entire article was a waste of time to read.
Chicagoian here. It's currently 11F, with a low under ~5F over the next few days [http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;q=60661].

Come see Chicago in the spring, summer, fall, but live somewhere warm.

Disclaimer: Attempting to move somewhere warmer soon.
As a NYer, just wondering where you heard this? If true, my opinion of Bloomberg just went up even more.
So far, I've found the one by James Molloy quite good: http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/

If you have a Raspberry Pi, you might consider reading http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/
Note though that the one for the Pi only scratches the surface. Topics like memory management or task scheduling are not included.
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I'll be honest. I'm waiting until Guido says it's time.

The phrase that I have stored at the moment is "Python 3 is the future of Python." Fine. Great. But that's not good enough.

This page needs to be updated: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3

It should be shortened to read, in its entirety, "Python 3."
Fwiw, it's also possible for any third party to check if you've complied with that particular formality, since the U.S. Copyright Office provides a directory of all companies that have registered a DMCA agent: http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/a_agents.html
To me Stack Overflow is the new "Experts Exchange"

I love Java and I love the Java ecosystem. Stack Exchange serves the Java ecosystem very poorly however.

A lot of the frustration people have with Java is that they try to learn it from a task-oriented perspective, and that really gets you in trouble if you work with Spring or Maven, particularly on a big team. If your first experience is with a 40-module Maven project that is all SNAPSHOT releases, it takes two hours to do a complete build, and there are just two people who understand maven vs 23 developers who get their answers a problem at a time from StackOverflow and who copy each others' bad solutions while adding more problems, of course you hate Maven.

In the case of Maven the documentation sux and you need to read the source code and not be afraid to write plug-ins, but Spring is not so mysterious if you take your tablet to the gym and read the manual cover to cover a few times.

There is no language that favors holistic thinking and punishes "task-oriented" thinking more than Java. For instance, when most developers have to deal with logging it's because things have gotten horribly tangled up with slf4j and commons-logging. Once more, the situation is pretty simple if you understand the big picture, but from a task oriented perspective you're just stumbling in the dark.
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I wonder how she feels about hispanic immigrants to the USA? Does she think we should keep them out because they're "ruining" American culture? This whole thing smacks of this weird anti-immigration mentality that I wouldn't have expected from the left-leaning groups leading the protests. I'm going to make a side-by-side of Texans upset about Latinos and San Franciscan hipsters upset about techies.
It always cracks me up that people feel like they NEED to live in SF when they come there. I lived in the SF Bay Area for most of my life and NEVER felt the need or desire to live in SF.....at all! There is so much to do in other parts of the Bay Area that are much more affordable, less filthy, and just overall better for your sanity.

If you move to the Bay Area and move to SF without looking at other areas then you have no reason to complain. BART may not be the best thing ever but it is everywhere. People move to SF for the same reason they buy an iPhone. They want to fit in. Go to the East Bay, buy an Android phone, and be different.
Yes, you are correct. https://www.google.com/search?q=ckeditor+textarea+value
For a city that in theory has everything in the world going for it and an endless supply of rich people to tax, it must have one of the worst city governments (albeit most highly paid) in the country.
I suspect that the quantity of homeless folks in the bay area is due in part to the weather. It is pretty difficult to die of exposure here given the relative narrow temperature band we stay in (30 - 95 degrees F with rare excursions outside that) A warm coat and blanket in the winter, a place of shade and fresh water in the summer, and you're pretty much protected from dying of exposure.

I found the comment about the dirt and the street repair interesting because I've heard the complaint in reverse, which is that the peninsula / south bay cities are 'too clean and neat, almost like plastic.' For those people they were looking for the 'gritty urban appeal' of San Francisco which, as the author points out, it has in some places.

It is interesting the competing memes about what a high tech utopia should look like, Blade Runner or Logan's Run? Or somewhere in the middle? I sometimes wish I could get Californians to have the same courage as the Swiss do when zoning towns which require only walking. I would love to see one of the Peninsula cities commit to that, create people mover transport to the edges and then ban cars in the interior. Imagine that your kids can ride their bike anywhere in the neighborhood or city and not be threatened by a car on its way to work? Don't have the stones for it though.
Why would anyone make such a "determination" on hearsay that the clearly #1, gold-standard program is a "frat-house", promulgated at that by founders who were never part of that program?

The acceptance rate is now ~1%, so according to you nearly all those applying are irrational (the vast majority of even high quality applications will have a less than 80% chance).

The order just doesn't make any sense. Even the best students don't assume they are going to get into a particular dream school (MIT, Stanford etc), unless they are nuts. And those have about 5-10 times the accept rate of YC.
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The first couple of years in industry you (generally) know you are a newb. It is that awkward 2-6 years of experience range where you a fair bit of experience but really you don't. You just aren't a newb.

People with high confidence in themselves often over estimate their experience around this time and look silly to anyone with actual experience.

I don't think 40 is some magical number. In fact many experiences that happened over 10 years ago in high tech starts to "fade" and become less relevant.
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From the article you link to:

"In 1993, the European Union added 20 years to the term of European copyrights. Under European law, American authors would only enjoy longer copyright terms in Europe if the United States followed Europe's lead and adopted "life plus 70" copyright terms."
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You're using the fact that he had two accounts as an excuse, but it really doesn't hold up. This was an edit with inarguable merit. Yet users rejected it because they were using the heuristic "changes to code is bad" as a substitute for understanding the edit. That's bad moderation. If you don't understand a change, you shouldn't vote on its worthiness.
Definitely interested in lots of other uses for the ledger. If you or someone you know is working on something, we (a16z) would love to talk. I'm hoping next year we'll see a lot more startups building on top of the Bitcoin protocol.
"Taxes are very high."
"Want to clean up areas of the city? Put a cop on every block!"

Someone elect this guy to city government, he seems to have a unbelievably solid grasp on the complexities of running a city like San Francisco.
While OP makes some valid points (i.e. community receptivity), this is something that caught my attention:

> StackOverflow is filled to the brim with people giving fishes.

Perhaps. But those get only a few points. Joel Spolsky wrote about not only answering a specific domain question, but rather writing a comprehensive answer about some topic in a away that it becomes the default answer everyone reverts to when the question comes up again (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/reputation-not-rep/)

I tried that. Guess what happened:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/7745635/570191

Not saying my answer is awesome, but I just tried to be comprehensive on a very recurring SQL topic and the community responded very positively to it.

I get it, SO feels like a game. But I use it to hone my skills and learn new things. When I want to learn, I don't ask on SO: I stick to a tag and keep trying to answer something on it. Learned a lot that way.

Just my 2c.
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Firstly, the Indian corporation which contacted him, apparently was asking for something totally different. If they were asking about 3 or 4 features that could be added, I don't think that it would be a problem. But the author didn't do anything wrong there. They were looking for a developer probably not a product or not his product whatsoever.

If you accept his argument as true, that he should switch and follow the tide, then you might as well start looking for freelancer developer job.

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Awesome quote:

> The result of this was that in the end we had to hire a full-time (and paid) developer. So we had zero revenue, 4 co-founders and a paid employee (which was effectively the only one doing real work).

I laughed really hard reading this line. My girlfriend came from next room to make sure I was okay!!! That's awesome, like 4 guys watching a movie, say the 'Social Network', and deciding to do a startup!!!
</ J/K>

Jokes apart, I think the author has got it all wrong. There are ten million reasons why a small startup failed. Most of the time is hard to tell exactly why.

But seriously, only people who have proved time and again their ability to deliver a product to the market and are famous for turning ideas into money, are able to struck deals before having a product. And we probably all know them (Jobs, Musk, etc). For the rest of us that's not how things work, I'm sorry to say that he is still getting it all wrong.

In the real world, you can't sell something that doesn't exist, these things happen only on Wall Street.
I grew up in Chicago. It was so cold. Never again.
I don't think we live in the same City. But it's good that you came here to follow your dream. Life is a buffet -- try a little of everything, and everywhere, and then move on.
I'm not entirely sure what point you're making?
Speaking as a contributor and reviewer on Super User and Stack Overflow, your opinion of what should happen is shared by more or less everyone who is an established member of the community. The trouble is that there are a lot of newbies, many of whom don't take time either to read the "about" and "how to ask good questions" advice which the sites make prominently available for new users, or to characterize their problem in sufficient detail to make it solvable, or to search for the trivially obvious answer to whatever question they're asking.

Once you've seen enough of this sort of thing -- and, again, especially on the highly popular sites there is a lot of it -- there's a certain fatigue which sets in; you get jaded, I suppose, and that seems from what I've seen to be the proximate cause for newbie questions getting downvoted to oblivion or flagged for closure without anyone taking a moment to advise the asker on what he should've done differently.

Is this ideal? Of course not; in fact, it's not even close, and I say that as someone who has considerable experience with the phenomenon so described. But Stack Exchange sites are moderated by volunteers, and you can't issue ukazes to volunteers without a significant risk of losing them -- after all, if you make them not want to do what they do, they'll just stop doing it.

In any case, just as a community can be judged by its attitude toward newbies, so can those newbies be judged by their attitude toward the community in which they attempt to participate. As in any other such case, it is entirely reasonable for those who have invested time and effort into Stack Exchange sites to expect that new users will deport themselves with respect for the rules and mores of the community.

With regard to giving the ability to comment to new and unregistered users, there's a problem similar to that of low-quality newbie questions; so to broaden the provision of commenting privilege would produce an instant and enduring deluge of spam. You really can't expect volunteers to handle sewage disposal, especially when the sewage is deep enough to require hip waders. Again, this is not ideal, but it is a consequence of the Stack Exchange model's basic assumptions, and I'd have to say that model has acquitted itself well enough in practice to vindicate the claims made on its behalf.
One thing that really stands out is how many people don't appear to comply with that. The big sites seem to, but not too many others.
yuk. i can't even read this article cuz it's chopped up into like 10 pieces.
Because you consider shoveling those who are not as lucky in life to someone else's doorstep a solution?
Hah OK. I'm only repeating what I learned in a video class, but that was 10+ years ago so maybe the laws have changed since then? But even then, how many people (in public) would go out of their way to engage the person with the camera when that more likely makes a bad situation worse?
Yes.

He's a world class expert in compilers and high performance, low level programming on modern hardware.

This addresses the core point of the article, being that the SO "meritocracy" is badly implemented, and conflates heavy site usage with maturity and technical ability.

Edit: If not a mod status, a VIP status. SO would gain a lot if its staff were to individually recruit people as talented as he is.
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I love coming into the city, but I choose to live in Moraga because of some of the reasons you list here. Rent prices out here are actually down a bit from 6 months ago - you can rent a 3br house in Concord for around $2.5K a month. While that's exceedingly expensive compared to the rest of the US, it puts you within an hour and some change's striking distance of most Bay destinations, which can be valuable depending on your skill sets.

Also, it's stunningly gorgeous out here: https://plus.google.com/100735767683148801066/posts/Y2ugoKdp...
No one is claiming anything other than the fact that the captcha is really horrible.

That being said, your defense of the site makes it sound even worse. Not only is the captcha horrible, but it took them almost all the way until 2014 to even implement one.

It is quite possible to have exceptionally good engineering chops and still be completely clueless when it comes to security.

I hope that the rest of the code powering this $100 million annual eCommerce traffic isn't as fundamentally flawed from a security aspect.
Linux is not the only open source kernel. The main thing that makes Linux special is that it is the open source kernel that got popular. If Linux had never existed, there is no reason to believe that another kernel would not be filling the same niche today.
Meh, compare that to Bret Victor's version which is way better IMO

http://worrydream.com/#!/ScientificCommunicationAsSequential...
It's a win for everyone when a seminal tech company responds to Snowden material with a serious response. It compels the public to take the outlet seriously (Der Spiegel), the material seriously (Snowden), and it contributes to the general tightening in the security field.

In a word ... validation.
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Kickstarter isn't designed for business, but rather it is designed for art in the general sense (which sometimes has business applications), so I don't think Kickstarter is a good example.
> Am I being a douchebag gentrification-sympathizer?

Maybe. Do you interact with poorer and long-time residents, or only other wealthy people? Do you support longstanding shops, or just the new expensive ones?
http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page

http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDevIndex.html

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
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This reminds me. Bitcoin is so complicated and controversial these days. I miss the days before 2013 when bitcoins were used almost exclusively on the deep web among nerds.
How else you suppose data BACKUP be done if not over network or on a external device. RAID is not backup.
Thanks again! By the way, I wish I could find breakfast or lunch meetups. The last thing I want to do after work is head out to the city, deal with parking, etc.
It's way way way higher than 50%, if my sample is accurate.

I've been teaching Python in China, Europe, Israel, and the US for years. In the last four years alone, I've taught about 2-3 Python courses (usually intro, but sometimes advanced or on specific topics) each month, at companies like Apple, Cisco, Intel, and SANDisk.

In only one case did a company ask me to teach them Python 3. The rest of them ask specifically for Python 2. In some, more advanced and unusual cases, they ask me to describe the changes that will happen in Python 3. They all have legacy code in Python 2 that they cannot imagine upgrading, mostly because there are libraries (internal or external) holding them back -- and the benefits aren't obvious.

(I should note that almost none of my courses are at startups. So it's quite possible that I'm seeing a sample of large companies, which are inherently more conservative than smaller ones.)

I thought that the survey was fine. But really, there's a problem in the whole Python 2/3 split, and while I've convinced myself over the years that people are switching, I've rarely met any of them. Which is really too bad.
The only thing lacking here is the ability to navigate multiple inbox sections with the keyboard.

I use a very similar system (in fact the same, just with different stars) and hitting g + s then using j/k to navigate messages is so much faster than using a mouse/trackpad. It feels sort of barbaric.

I suppose this view gives me a nice overview, I just wish there were a hotkey to move from box to box.
She skipped high school altogether, enrolling in an alternative junior high in the public school system that took her through tenth grade, when she passed the GED.

This is from Rebecca Solnit's Wikipedia page. This is the longest way of saying, "Dropped Out of High School" I have ever heard.

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