skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s an extremely narrow, extremely small ideology with little diversity. It doesn’t have much history or historical importance and the specific views I’ve encountered were firstly nearly always the same or similar and secondly not very convincing or just blatant untruths. As such to me many proponents of MRM views often felt like a tight knit group with a very specific worldview without much subtlety in their argument.

I.e. if feminism were the concept of atheism, the MRM would be the Westboro Baptist Church and not Christianity or belief in some deity as a whole. (That’s a slightly shitty metaphor since the frequent conflict MRM activists dream up between them and feminism is pretty absurd. Men getting harsher prison sentences? Men being disadvantaged during divorces? That’s often based on strict and old-fashioned gender roles, something many feminists abhor.)
Words oh so great: 2048 meets Scrabble
Now, the next challenge is to build a 2048 4D solver.
This is a JOKE. Let Y Combinator? Oh yeah, bro? Wow. If the US were to give ONE company this right, that would be complete bllsht. I like YC, but think before you speak.
If you're code is still locked to 2.7, what your OS ships with doesn't matter.
If those drugs were legal those bastards would never be able to compete with Merck or Bayer, and would go away forthwith.
Uncertainty Persists As The Nokia-Microsoft Deal Races Towards Deadline
Exactly what I was thinking. I sit in a chair I purchased with a check, typing on a computer I purchased online with a credit card, inside a house I purchased on a mortgage...
I agree. Banking login options are far from the most secure. My phpBB login passwords are much, much more secure than my banking.

I just went to send a web-form email to my bank about it, and got this error:

> Input contains invalid characters. e.g. angle bracket, quotes, slashes, semicolon.

If a web form doesn't allow basic punctuation, I don't hold out much hope for a two-factor authentication system.
So, what do you say about McDonalds?
"Rust- the racer's friend"

- me
I disagree. The performance on Mono is admittedly not as good as on Windows, but it's improving steadily and certainly fast enough for many use cases.
I did some research on this, expecting to find a breaker labeled "CVR" on the diagram of 777 cockpit circuit breakers. Instead I found this: "the practicalities of isolating the power from the CVR fitted to the B777 are not
straightforward since the CVR circuit breaker is located
in the electronics bay of the arcraft instead of on the
flight deck. Access to the electronics bay from within
the aircraft is via a hatch in the cabin floor adjacent to the	front left door of the aircraft"

http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/Boeing%20777-...
How It's Implemented: Objective-C Associated Objects
If a company as large as IBM systematically discriminates, I sure hope they end up in legal trouble.
Seems obvious enough that a plane that's visibly on fire isn't going to fly very far.
read about: SHA1 HMAC
The Philosophers' Guide to Calm, Part 1
Why only YCombinator? You're not proposing a solution to the problem here. You're proposing what YCombinator wants.

There are legitimate, promising founders and startups outside of YC too, you know. Sorry about the snark..it's just aggravating when piecemeal, self-serving solutions like this one are proposed.
>> In statistics, σ refers to an area under the normal distribution defined in terms of standard deviations (1σ = 1 standard deviation).

> No.

Yes. The reason the various sigma values have the numerical values they have is because they represent integrals under the normal distribution, either one-tailed or two-tailed. Therefore in the present context sigma values represent definite integrals of the normal distribution.

> Then 5σ is just 5 times the standard deviation.

Yes, correct, except that the present conversation is about p-values and the meaning of sigma in this specific context. Five sigma has the value it does because it represents one minus the area between 0 and five sigma of the normal distribution, i.e. the one-tailed meaning of five sigma.

Link: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/17/...

Quote: "A graph of the normal distribution, showing 3 standard deviations on either side of the mean µ. A five-sigma observation corresponds to data even further from the mean."

Quote: "For particle physics, the sigma used is the standard deviation arising from a normal distribution of data, familiar to us as a bell curve. In a perfect bell curve, 68% of the data is within one standard deviation of the mean, 95% is within two, and so on."

Picture http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/files/2012/...
Perhaps a better word here is 'bonus'
Justin Hartfield, weed entrepreneur
Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to be more careful how I state things.
The word sexism is rather unfortunately overloaded. It can connote intent, but a lot of the social justice-y types use it in a way that specifically does not require any intent. It's specific language about the maintenance of power structures. Something sexist is something that maintains male power. This could be seen as sexist because it's a set of interactions that systematically disempowers women from participating.
I agree with most things you have posted in this thoughtful comment, specifically to do with the lack of need for a bill of rights in a Westminster democracy (which most people do not understand).

However, characterizing having Greens party members in parliament as some sort of measure of liberalism made me do a double-take. The Greens are many things, but small-l liberal they most definitely are not. While they include policies on populist measures such as internet filters which appeal to their young voter base, they also include many, many policies which are an anathema to people interested in freedom. They were a large backer of government regulation of the press, they have many policies which bring in serious regulation of many industries and frequently talk of population caps. They even have an ex-soviet for a Federal Senator. There is no true liberal party in Australia, especially not the Greens.

Having said that, the new LDP senator will be worth watching to see what is said and what is voted for.
Why the source code of classic games matters, even to non-coders
looks like the sync is off on Safari - playback header is ahead of the notes, and the gap increases over time.
Hey, sam, great idea... how about you ask the US to give these 100 visas to ANOTHER firm first, if you really believe it. Otherwise, you sound like a selfish douche.
I doubt that is financially sustainable in any sense for YC, though.
>> I'd be really worried that you're losing quality candidates due to them being offended by having instructions pasted into a text file without any chance for a conversation.
If a developer gets offended over something as simple as that AND goes offline without much word of an explanation as to why, I'd be relieved because I've just dodged a bullet.
I have a counter-proposal: Paul Graham and others have described Y Combinator as large; many US-based entrepreneurs described San Francisco as far and a handful of comments here point out how concentration in one city is hurting everyone.

Why not start a Y Combinator in Europe and in Asia?

Yes, that would require flight tickets to visit from organisations, but that would also allow a better access to incredible initiatives (that keep yelling in unheard comments that Silicon Vally is neglecting them) such as London’s Start-up Roundabout, Paris’ The Family and certainly far more in Berlin, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. I can’t imagine Singapour, Beijing and Hong-Kong and GuandDong have any less merits, certainly with hardware, or less things to learn from Y Combinator.

What both need is access to capital and access to expertise on how to make that kind of deals; what Y Combinator provides is a needed discipline about testing and scaling, and that. Both travel far better than the founders, who are best because of their network of skilled friends, understanding of local markets and more. Yes, it might require a standard contract to make European or Chinese company have a finance subsidiary in the US to reassure US investors… but dealing with that kind of complication is what YC is good at, much better than any local equivalent.

I would hate to see YC come and unify how to make start-ups. Diversity is key, certainly in something as creative as making companies happen. I was kind of relieved when I noticed no one wrote that idea. But also disappointed: it would be in YC spectacular interest to try.
The Obama administration has said that something like a founder visa will happen, but only as part of comprehensive immigration reform.
You're correct. Here's a short article that makes the point that what's being discussed are areas of the normal distribution:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/17/...
It's called an 'expiration date' for a reason: that's the date you're supposed to have paid for continued service by. The grace period (and the redemption period) are leeway. It's in no way an extortion fee: you're given plenty of notice before the domain expires, and if it ends up in redemption, you only have your own incompetence to blame.

Also, you don't own the domain, it's a lease. If you let a domain expire and a competitor snaps it up, that's on you, not the registrar. You can initiate UDRP actions to recover it, but it's your fault.
It's a bit rich to call them "Australia's top 50" when apparently the only metric is "these are the people who were nominated". I'd be happier with it if they'd been honest and called it "50 top Australian female programmers".
I don't have any particular suggestions for open source Ada projects to examine (other than, obviously, the GNAT Ada compiler). My experience with Ada was on decidedly not open source projects, and Ada suffered in this respect in that there wasn't a good open source Ada compiler until long after interest in Ada outside of the defense industry faded. Googling for "ada open source" shows a good number of interesting (if dated) possibilities (these might be a good place to start: http://www.pegasoft.ca/resources/boblap/book.html and http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html), but not to put to fine a point on it, the cool kids pretty much decided Ada was the US DoD equivalent of COBOL 20 years ago and ignored it.

As an aside, Ada was intended for large numbers of programmers of varying, often mediocre skill to cooperate on large programs while minimizing errors and preventing localized programming errors from propagating too far. That's something a lot of OSS projects could use.

I also think it's important to understand that Ada was one branch of a family of languages descended from ALGOL that looked at the problem through a similar lens (a very not-C/C++ lens). Pascal is the direct ancestor, of course, but in a addition to Ada, Pascal evolved into a number of other systems programming languages like Modula-2 & -3 and the various Oberons. Close cousins Mesa & Cedar were Xerox PARC systems programming languages. There's not a lot left of the Modula's or Mesa/Cedar (regrettably...Modula-2 was much better than Pascal for non-academic programming and Modula-3 was a really comfortable all-around language), but there's a reasonable amount of OSS Oberon laying about.

EDIT: How could I forget...if systems programming is your kink, be sure to check out UCSD p-code and ETH m-code. These are Pascal/Modula virtual machine environments and the direct ancestor of the Java VM and M$ CLR.
> So, what do you say about McDonalds?

Come on...

Same answer: _Abuse_ of food kills people.

Occasionally eating McDonalds on road trips isn't good for you, sure, but it's not going to meaningfully harm you in the long run unless you do it frequently.

I've read articles pointing to physically addictive effects of fast food, but comparing that to nicotine is silly.
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The H1B is a nonimmigrant visa. All dual intent means is that it doesn't violate the terms of entry if you also intend to pursue permanent residence at the same time -- but the H1B itself does not lead to permanent residence.
I think a lot of the problems regarding the gray zone come from not being clear, not understanding boundaries, and not knowing when to move on. These, of course, are things I've learnt the hard way ...

And anyway, is the gray zone itself really such a problem? Being close to someone and sometimes wondering whether there's something "else" there seems pretty normal. Maybe we should just be OK with a bit of ambiguity in some of our friendships. It won't kill you ...

I think a few principles, once applied, make navigating the gray zone almost trivial:

-First, if you think you might be interested, engage in light harmless flirting and gauge the response. If there is no/negative response, then move on. The flirting should truly be harmless. If you friend feels uncomfortable, unsafe, or demeaned, then you have flirted wrongly. Apologize and move on.

-If you've determined you're interested, decide whether it is worth acting on. Sometimes it isn't - for instance, if you're married, or you're just too busy or whatever. Just move on.

-If you're interested and it's worth acting on, promptly express interest in a way that is clear and firm, but not embarrassing or intimidating to your friend. Do not express interest if you are not ready to take "no" for an answer. If you can't take "no" for an answer, just move on and try to figure out why. Where a lot of people go wrong here is instead of actually asking, they half-ask and half-demand. That is going to frighten your friend, and you probably won't be friends any longer.

-If you're rejected, accept it and don't lash out. If you goofed and made things super-awkward and uncomfortable, then lighten the air with a silly joke or something (ie make it clear that you're not going to flip, and that you're cool). Lashing out is going to create a toxic environment for everyone, and it's going to suck. Instead, deal with your feelings on your own, and continue to treat your friend with respect. And, of course, move on.

It's maybe a little awkward to continue working next to stop who rejected you--or who you rejected--but in my experience, it really isn't that bad at all, and it goes away quickly. What's much worse is to ignore one of these steps, and then have things end in a massive immature blow-out. Just take responsibility and be clear, and don't have undue expectations.

And it's often not too late to save yourself. In one case I was a massive douche, but I owned up to my behavior, apologized, and said I hoped we could eventually put this behind us. We did eventually, and it was fun.

Basically, you just have to be considerate and know when to move the hell on.
This is hardly stated "tacitly":

"I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it," he says, dismissing all further queries with a swat of his left hand. "It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection."
"specify it twice (as a list of strings, and then a list of arguments)" is going to result in localized errors, in your own code, not spread through all 7 levels of dante's museum of abstractions.

Doing it at build time is also preferable to trying to do it at runtime, like it does now.

I would agree with your assessment, otherwise. I just think that this specific technique was railing against JS a bit too much, and was ultimately a dead end.

Interestingly, the new DI framework also uses ES6 and traceur.
Useful side effects for sure, but even if you took away the direct non-financial costs of the military (non-zero chance of nuclear armageddon...), I think there are things we as a species could work on which would produce the same kind of competitive, focused effort. The "space race" accomplished a lot, and consumer IT tech (say, mobile phones) has progressed even faster than military tech (outside maybe an existential war like WW2).
Is there any way to use the existing EB-5 Immigrant Investor visa?

http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-workers...

As far as I know, to qualify for an EB-5 you need to invest at least US$1M and create 10 jobs within 2 years.

It might be a dumb idea, but could investors invest in an entity owned by a foreign founder, who would turn around and repatriate the investment in a US "new commercial entity", and qualify for an EB-5?
It has very little to do with intent. Subconsciously thinking someone with a name usually thought to indicate blackness—like Tyrone—is different is racist. Subconsciously disbelieving that a woman can answer technical questions or is a fighter pilot is sexist. It may not necessarily be your fault, because society and your peers have taught you this, but that doesn't really matter. Especially because you have a responsibility to actively work against stereotypes and treat people as people.

Having intent behind it just makes it worse, really. And "intent" is difficult to define.
How to ensure your server’s software stays secure
Also from the HN guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Asking people to explain downvotes is really a form of complaining about downvoting. People routinely downvote when they disagree.
> While I am confident in the good intentions of YCombinator

I'm not. YC is already operating in a club of privilege, surrounded by a bubble of questionable intentions and inflated valuations that externalize the costs onto the wider economy.

Now we should grant YC (and maybe "other investment firms") a privilege that bootstrapped companies like our own can never get? We've lost the H1-B lottery multiple years running.

I can guarantee that the high wages we pay for decades will go a lot farther than the flash-in-pan founder visas and the occasional success that puts more money in the pockets of a few.

Sending YC more grist for their mill isn't to the benefit of the American people, just YC.
Looks great. In the demo, the sound seems a bit weird and off-putting when the speed is set to slowest. Not sure if that is unique to that song or otherwise fixed.
I remember paying Network Solutions $99/year back in 1997.

$8 a domain? It's cheap...
My skin color and gender both connote a number of invalid assumptions. This probably applies to most people at some point in their lives. It just doesn't bother me. I'm sorry if it bothers you and I sympathize with others who are annoyed. I just don't relate.
On my 720p display, I'm unable to glimpse into the second line when I'm at the last bar. This makes everything unplayable to me.

Two lines should be visible at all times, possibly even with a continuous vertical scroll. (And in case I'm missing something and two lines are visible on larger displays: Make it zoom.)
I'm fairly certain you can just apply for a new F1 visa?
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From the HN guidelines:

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Government is worse and it enables a lot of the ills of banking, not a popular opinion on largely state-apologist HN though.
To me, a necessary (but not sufficient) condition would be a powerful "sunshine" clause. Companies and individuals who are empowered to bestow US residency can't operate in secret.
Not infrequent enough in SEA that you are surprised at <1% of your pax using them.
Except for the huge number of people who had zero problems with it or its reception, myself included.
fun!

wish it told me what words i made a little more clearly - in the end i was just mashing keys and somehow making tiles disappear.

thanks, tons of fun.
I have organised mine by colour in the past also. It does impair discovery, but I tend to glance at my bookshelves more often than I hunt through them for a particular book.
We should support him, who cares who the founder is

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ztjmg/andreas_im_f...
Why is the Patent Office So Bad At Reviewing Software Patents
> Does that mean I've formed 4D intuition? I think this just happens to be in a class of 4D mechanics that's isomorphic to 2D variants, so the answer would be no.

Yeah, when I first went to the page, I expected the numbers to start changing on their own, but I do like this version very much.
love it.
reminds me of that guitar player pro program.
Any synesthesiatics care to chime in here?
I bet I can force a tie no matter what. :)
Oh my, you got me, I just keep it in a display case.

Such anger. Wow.
what saddens me is that aliceml [https://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/] seems to have died. i've kept it vaguely in the back of my mind as "this looks like a very pleasant language, and as soon as i have a problem in its sweet spot i'll give it a good look", but the last time i went to look at it i realised the last mailing list post was in 2012, and the last home page update in 2007.
> This always drove me insane - people seem to confuse value equality/congruence and strict identicality. The latter seems to either try to create a female default and punish men for not living up to it, or create some weird fuzzy default that nobody really fits comfortably.

It creates a female default and punishes men for not living up to it in some areas (like public school in the US), but it creates a male default and punishes women for not living up to it in other areas (academic careers in life sciences, the job market, etc).

> The answer isn't to change the (currently relatively male-normative) norm, it's to defenstrate the idea that having a norm in the first place is a remotely good idea.

Agreed.

> What we want is to say that women are as valuable as men, and then let individuals figure out who they want to be.

Agreed here too. The question then is, how we address this.
If the issue really is that SV specifically needs more people to start companies, and having them do so elsewhere isn't possible or desirable, it seems like a first cut at solving the problem could be made without even changing visa regimes: just institute a program to convince more people from elsewhere in the U.S. to move to SV and start companies. With >300m people, most of whom don't yet live in the SF Bay Area, that's already a pretty large supply to draw from.
2048 in l^2 Hilbert space.

Still countable. [/troll]
The post is addressed to the US government. The US government by definition has the interests of America first and foremost in mind, not the interests of other countries. It is in America's interest to have all the world beating companies started in America.
Because until this legislation passed it was technically illegal for them to pick up passengers at all. (I think they were supposed to have for-hire licenses, like drivers for Uber Black, which is unaffected by this vote).
It's also a MASSIVE pain, and some schools (like mine) only allow OPT for internships (as opposed to CPT). As a result, I need to choose if I want to intern for my four years of college, or if I want to start a startup.
Yes, but you include TOTP sites in the Authy app and have them all in one place.
I'm not sure where you got that. Treat people professionally and there's no "minefield."
This is a great idea, can I do this too?? The government can give me 100 visas to allocate, and I'll give them to international entrepreneurs whom I consider to be deserving and who incidentally and in a totally non quid-pro-quo fashion agree to sell me a 7% stake in their companies for a nominal fee.

I'll also buy them pizza once a week, if that sweetens the pot.
Sorry for saying "douche", but depending on the tone in which he presented this idea to me, I might honestly say that. It's one thing to ask for 100 visas for YC, it's another thing to ask for 10 VCs spread across 10 different firms, and suggesting hat YC would take most of the burden of setting it up / distributing resources.