skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels weird to me.

I mean, what would have happened if Apple Employees called for Jobs to step down for being to much of an arrogant hard ass? (I'm just trying to say it in very plain terms, without going into it to deep.)

I'm not sure the reaction would be the same. Jobs probably would have just fired them and nobody else would voice an opinion out of fear the same would happen to them.

It makes me wonder at what point should a persons personal views be carried over to their day to dat job. Given this guy is CEO, maybe more than a normal employee that had the same views? Because he more represents the public view of the company?

This makes me think that maybe I should look more at the views of those that run the companies I will work for present and future.
> There're any number of reasons why someone might visit those countries.

People were calling for a boycott of all things Russian, or did you forget that?

The irony of course being that Russia decriminalized same-sex relationships in 1993 long before the US, effectively, did the same in 2003 even though 14 states still ban sodomy.
Does anybody else agree that Tesla should be able to make direct sales?
So lets disrupt a bit:
1. Identify companies with liquidity, significant exposure to earthquake damage (down to the liquification zone offices)
2. short their stock
3. Wait for the 99.7% chance of earthquake by 2038 (more math to follow)
4. profit!
Warren Buffet might be interested, since he's taken up betting against idiots. YC application, here I come!
To me, there needs to be a step change in information input for the Office Suite to be something I'd use on an iPad. Word processing and speadsheet manipulation are so text intensive. Interested to try it out though.
I work for people all the time who have different political views than myself. They even are millionaires or billionaires who donate a lot to those causes. That does not make me ask the CEO to step down.
You just choose to draw the line in a different place. I bet you still draw the line.
Yale researchers reconstruct facial images locked in a viewer’s mind
Not so sure about that.

Plenty of gas stations have a CC price/gal and a lower Cash price.
I've been listening to a relevant audiobook lately: Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday.

In it, he speaks about his role in manipulating the smaller blogs with over-the-top stories (read: PR stunts), which are then "traded up the chain", used as sources for larger blogs, eventually making their way to the national media.
Well, I could easily beat Carlsen in an endgame with one bishop and one pawn up. So if I were to start a game against him with two bishops, I could develop my pieces normally and then sacrify a bishop for a pawn to throw an attack at his king (somewhere in f7 or h7 for example). Then I'll have the initiative and still a material advantage, so what could he do? I know I am not so good, but I am confident I am not gonna fall into cheap tricks.

Also, I think some part of the difference in strength between Carlsen and I lies in his massive knowledge of the openings, which will be gone if I start the game with a two bishops handicap.
Jesus. It's like the Rand club let out early around here.
If you're paranoid enough to think that anyone wearing Glass might be not only recording you but also painting over the active-camera light and lying to you about it, then I don't understand why you're not also worried about everyone on the street having buttonhole spycams in their lapels. Surely our hypothetical lying spy would prefer something less obtrusive.
I'm sure he means that half of all bitcoins that will ever exist have already been mined, meaning they belong to someone (obviously not one person). This is correct (unless you want to argue about lost coins etc).
No where in that recording mention about strengthening Erdogan's position before local elections. On the contrary they mention that Erdogan actually not acting on it all, one of the voice proposes that Head of Turkish Army and couple of other officials should get together while PM present and clarify on how to help rebel groups.
This has absolutely nothing to do with democracy. Not even a tiny little itty bitty bit. Zero. The only similarity is that they are both words in the English language.
They missed the competition for IE completely and were way too late with IE7. They missed the competition from the mobile world and dragged their feet a bit with WP7. They're not going to lose Office too, which is their biggest cash-cow. Without Office, entire corporations will no longer see Microsoft as a "must-have" company.

So yeah, iPad.
"Governments should not make it their job to protect individuals from every bad choice they could make."

Essentially, one role of government is to step in when there are harmful things being done to people. This author seems to argue that this is exactly why some things are regulated, and argues that their "competitors" (probably not the right term) should fall under the same rules: hotels, taxis, etc.

Personally I agree that the government's job isn't to protect people from their own stupid choices, but it's a big grey area of where to draw that line.
Using Google Drive, Zapier and Buffer to tweet Hemingway
For those who don't know, Yishan Wong is the CEO of Reddit.
I would. His personal beliefs, however off the wall they are, have no correlation to his competency and effectiveness as a CEO. Should the board have taken a closer look at how good of a fit he would be with the culture of the company? Possibly, but to judge him solely on his beliefs and not his business ability is ridiculous.
No they can't. Sure, they can make a decision, but it won't be a informed one. Most people are unaware that Uber drivers are questionably insured. They don't read HackerNews or ArsTechnica, or even WSJ, NYT. Moreover, Uber doesn't advertise that fact on their website or in their smartphone apps. So it is impossible for an uninformed customer to make such a decision in the first place.
Just How Speculative Is Tesla Motors Inc Stock?
>"the benefit users get from these products"

By being exposed to risk by uninsured operators? The operators (drivers or hosts) undercut current offerings (taxis and hotels) by not being insured.
C# and F# are great languages, but there are a lot of utterly terrible things in the .NET framework that need to be maintained... I don't envy Miguel in supporting all Microsoft's various false-start libraries.
"Gutted" seems strong to me: the military has lost its influence over the judiciary, but they are a very strong, well-funded and influential arm of the state, and they seem to be gaining some measure of public respect that they lost. I could be wrong, but I think the ethos of being guardians of the constitution is still there. (And, for its own reasons, the AKP has been stressing the possibility of a coup as a reason for weakening the army).

How realistic a scenario a coup is depends on just how messy the months ahead get, I think.
No, you shouldn't. That's spoken like someone who has never worked in graphic design.

For one, professional graphic design is still an art. An applied art, but an art nonetheless. And as in all art, experimentation and happy accidents are essential. (And of course Photoshop/GIMP are also used by digital artists, not just graphic designers).

Second, (and I feel like I'm stating something beyond obvious), people make mistakes and people change their minds, even if they are professionals. Here, non-desctructive saves many hours.

Third, you obviously forgot that clients also change their minds, and can demand this or that change. Again, here, non-desctructive saves many hours.

Fourth, it's not different than say, the ability to revert a repo to a known state, that a SCM system gives, something that professional programmers consider essential.

What you say basically amounts to: who needs SCM and good prototyping features like a REPL. A professional should just start coding and already know his goal and how to achieve it (rolls eyes).
Thanks! I do my best to put the "news" at the top of posts and the "rambling thoughts" later in case people aren't interested in my opinions.
It probably does not save on the device, besides in some sort of caching mechanism.
Apple is very political. Look at where Tim Cook gives his support and money. It is very liberal and very Democrat.

Some of these things are semi-related to business, like "green" environmentally friendly business practices. But not all of them are, like support for Gay Marriage, the very thing this article is referring to (but for the opposite side).

Do all the heterosexuals, conservatives, or Republicans who work for Apple resign or ask Tim Cook to resign? No!

And I would protest more to a company like Apple supporting causes than to an individual supporting causes in the past. Before he was even Mozilla CEO, right? Prop 8 is old news and his appointment is new. Crazy people.
I agree that there is a very strong risk for DDOS, but I don't see how it would make botnets possible.
ZFS is licensed under the CDDL, while the Linux Kernel is licensed under the GPLv2.
Probably "sharing information" economy. I think if they wanted to they could make any company a part of the sharing economy.
Just because you don't agree with the author's conclusion, doesn't mean his argument does not have a factual basis.
Yeah, would have liked to see specific examples of features he picked apart, revisions that were made, etc. That would make this article much more valuable.
"official" there's nothing official about the web or web browsers. mozilla or google could release a socket implementation specific to their browser without waiting for the consent of w3c or rfc or else.

There's a risk for DDOS though, which have a high cost. But XSS is a risk too, so I don't see why js sockets would be so dangerous.
>> You expect employees to keep working for a CEO who doesn't consider them equal human beings?

Not to be cheeky, but in my experience, many CEOs don't consider their workers to be equal beings (and I find this to be more true with very large organizations), and it has less to do with demographics/politics/religion than it does with the status that comes with the position of power.

--edited a word for clarity
"The community wants Airbnb and Uber, that's why the pay for them."

Really? A specific community wants Airbnb and Uber. Other specific communities do NOT want them. Most rental companies and condo associations probably do NOT want Airbnb. Cities may or may not want Uber (at least not outside of their control & tax claws).

Airbnb & Uber are able to be cheaper than their "competitors" (hotels & cabs) at least partially because they don't have to live by the same rules: taxation & regulation. People that I know that like these services use them because they're generally cheaper than the alternative (also the cool app, certainly). They pay for them because the alternative is to pay more elsewhere. That's the friction caused by taxation and regulation, at least partly.
The buildings in Seattle are also not prepared for a quake of the magnitude expected to hit it soon. California building codes are much stricter.

Downtown Seattle is also built on a mudflat that caused countless problems in early Seattle history. Areas built on mudflats will be hit especially hard in an earthquake.
Ask HN: Do any alumni think YC was not worth it?
I worked on one of a flotilla of related projects at Lab 126 - none of which has seen the light of day in toto, but parts of which have escaped into shipping projects. There's a reason he's reticent - amazon (in the personage of lab 126), more than any other company I worked with, is insane about internal security and rumor control.
Marriage equality is important, but a society in which we're able to go to work, do ours jobs and bracket our concerns about the personal lives of our coworkers and bosses is more important than any immediate social issue in the present. It's the foundational principle of living in a pluralistic society.
Link sharing?
As to the usefulness and worthwhileness of YC there cannot be two opinions. The affection and praise of the alumni alone would prove the point even before you consider the companies that have built out of it. And at the heart of that is what Walker points to quite clearly: candor and the clear support that can only spring from it.
One of my worst mistakes at my day job
ASIC cost ~ memory * time = (time_software * bandwidth_software) * (time_software * (bandwidth_software/bandwidth_hardware)) = (time_software)^2 * (bandwidth_software)^2 / bandwidth_hardware.
"when there is no documented instance of him ever disparaging or otherwise harming LGBTQ employees or community members."

Other than financially supporting and lobbying for the passage of Proposition 8, you mean?
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No matter how you slice it, ~$14k for 6% is a terrible deal.
Steve Jobs wasn't even okay with Google hiring former Apple engineers
Having a difference of opinion is not the same as helping fund a campaign and then refusing to explain your reasons. And I would not work for a company if I knew that the CEO was funding certain causes.

Is basically the issue raised in Clerks about Death Star politics :) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGOVbXF7Iog
Netflix Wants The Internet's Benefits Without Its Costs
So you'd vote for a Barack Obama who professed support for racial segregation as long as the other major party candidate did, too?

I'm not arguing against voting pragmatically, I'm arguing that calling opposition to same sex marriage akin to racism today is a nonsensical comparison. Maybe it will look that way in hindsight, but it's not fair to hold anybody to hypothetical future standards.
Yes, Microsoft put out the first tablet computers (with Toshiba's help, I believe) in the early 2000s. The problem was that they got it very wrong.
Facebook's behavior reminds me more of AOL scooping up Time Warner to survive the inevitable mainstream enlightenment and migration to the open web.
"2. Caltrain is linked to Muni metro at 4th/King as well as many bus lines. It isn't that hard to get in"

I've never heard anyone defend Bay Area public transportation before. I'd say the amount of busses going from SF to silicon valley/the peninsula are evidence that going in and out of san francisco is NOT easy. I've lived in both the peninsula and SF for years and the consensus is that you're better off living in SF if you work in SF and living in the peninsula if you work in the peninsula (unless you work for a company that busses their employees). I myself drive from SF to the Peninsula. I don't recommend it. Public transportation is not an option for most people purely because of the lack of geographical coverage they offer. For instance, I can't use caltrain or bart because I don't live downtown and it takes 40-50 minutes to get to the train by bus. The fact that caltrain is situated at the most southern point of the city doesn't make it any better when a 2-3 mile muni metro line goes along the most western point of the city where few people live.
I've got working asp.net ecommerce solutions, but for my last project went back to Java/Dropwizard/IntelliJ - it is just way better dev exp. + perf is much better on Linux.
MS will be not interested in supporting competing (Windows Server/MS SQL vs Linux / PostgreSQL) server platform - it's sad but true.
"Worth it" meaning worth the equity you give up?
Are there downsides other than giving up 2-10% of your company?
result := array_append(result, ('num=>' || i)::HSTORE);

Yeah, I've never read a line of PLPGSQL before this, but I can tell by the assignment operator := that this is obviously creating a copy of the array every time you add an element to the array. This would also cause a quadratic blowup and/or a memory blowup in any other language I've heard of, not just PLPGSQL. Anyone who has taken an introductory algorithms & data structures class really should know better than to write code like this.
Shyp wants you to trust them to box and ship your stuff
I got an "eye pillow" - it's just a little bag with beans in it. I place it over my eyes when I sleep. The pressure and complete light blocking helps me reach REM sleep MUCH better and I feel much more refreshed.

Also, check this out: https://www.lowbluelights.com/index.asp?

"blue lights block melatonin creation". They sell lights designed to keep the room lit but not interrupt with your melatonin production thus allowing you to turn off the computer & reach sleep.
Industrial Machine Learning with Feature Forge
The benefit is getting a car, or a place to stay, far more easily.

My point isn't that these services are net good (though I do think so). It's that any "net bad" argument that doesn't consider these benefits isn't serious and so discredits its own side.
• Does YC fund "lifestyle businesses"?

• Even a lifestyle business needs growth — just enough to support the owner's lifestyle — but growth nonetheless (unless one customer is all you ever need)
I just clicked "no thanks"
386 - not a round number but a pretty recognisable one nonetheless.
The latest Humble Weekly Bundle is supporting open source software
There "cannot be two opinions?" Actually, there can be as many opinions as there are people (not just companies, but individual people) who have gone through the process. And they can reasonably vary, because not everyone and not every company needs YC or something like it, or can necessarily even benefit from it.

It's ridiculous to suggest that YC is a universally positive experience, just like it's ridiculous to suggest it's completely without value (based on the significant praise you refer to).
The point is that a lot of the time immigrants who received Anglicized names did so not because they chose to, but because they happened to get an immigration officer who gave them an Anglicized spelling on Ellis island.
What Seems to be the Problem Here?
Face is not the Future
While you are right, you might want to check this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GxLS7PqEbM

Gates has attacked the iPad on every interview claiming that it's useless.
Government benefits should only be tied to civil unions. The government should get the hell out of marriage and couples can determine if they want to consider themselves married.

I would never say that changing the definition of marriage is blatantly unconstitutional. The constitution says nothing about the right of two people of the same sex getting married nor does it say anything about traditional marriage. You could argue equal protection under the law, but as it stands a heterosexual man and a homosexual are both legally not permitted to marry a man. Blatantly is absolutely the wrong word to use.

Also, your insinuation that religious people should not use their deeply held beliefs to influence the societies in which they live is disturbing. You have a vote and they have a vote.
So my question is how do you view the software you created from a customer's point of view? As someone who creates the software there must be a certain creative blindness we experience.

I mean I'd love to create a software, revert my brain back to the idea state and look at the software again.

What is the process of Jeff Bezo's? How does he "rip apart feature by feature"?
Credit cards generally verify in seconds, so this is a significant difference, even if the time is hours (I'd read somewhere it could be days for 7 confirmations, but thanks for the correction if that is never true and it is hours) - that confirmation time varies wildly and is not predictable is also an issue. A lot of merchants ship almost immediately after orders are completed (e.g. digital goods), so introducing another delay is not great and a significant downside for both merchants and consumers.

These and other technical challenges like blockchain size are probably soluble though, esp. if it hit scale and people were working on it, what worries me more in terms of mass adoption is the attitude to other risks like security, volatility and lack of insurance in the Bitcoin community, the insane requirements for sending in copies of passports etc that exchanges still have for purchasing bitcoins, and the fundamental problems caused by giving individual cryptographic keys perpetual value.

It would certainly be nice to have a payment system not controlled by Visa/Mastercard, and I imagine one is coming, but I'm not convinced Bitcoin is that alternative because of the assumptions baked into its design that we need to exchange tokens in order to exchange value.
Thanks Walker!

I love telling people the story of how some investors scoffed at Teespring on demoday -- I remember one person asking why they were even there. It shows why it's still possible to make a lot of money in this business, and that startups shouldn't be put off by a weak reception from investors.
Staff at Mozilla call for new CEO Brendan Eich to ‘step down’
"In fact, to this day I’m not sure what the product will be used for—but we dropped everything else we were working on and scrambled to get the demo done in time"

I wanted to know how other developers deal with this phenomenon when you effectively don't know what your end product is or what it will be used for ?
Things are "expensive" because they cost a lot of money, not that because there are cheaper alternatives.
"Governments should be entitled to a reward" -> what??? They're entitled to a reward for a business becoming successful? You're mixing up corporate taxes and individual taxes. I find your comment somewhat ridiculous - "entitled to a reward for schooling these people to wealth, for likely funding their growth (as people) and health" - even if you believe that to be the case, which is debatable, they've already paid individual taxes their entire lives to receive those things - it's not like the government waived their taxes and took a stake in their company. If you've paid taxes your entire life for the services you've already received, why would the government be entitled to your business's taxes in the future if you've created a business outside their tax scope. Take Uber - they claim they aren't a taxi service, so the government is rewriting the laws to get make them a taxi company and get their money from Uber. I highly doubt the government is doing this to try fund a happy future.
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Just as you can do with Office Online, mentioned in this thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7482708
Threatened how?
I would make the argument that contributing the Catholic church is far worse for homosexuals, children, women, and the planet than Prop 8 ever could be. But then again, that's why I don't go around making check lists of appropriate contributions for everyone in my company around me...
And if $14k is all you got, you would be correct. I feel like this is a test that screens out founders who don't understand value.
The relationship between MS and apple is complicated, but old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applesoft_BASIC
So true. It's fairly common for people to spend most of their lives expecting others to give them value. "If I get into Stanford/YC, then I'll be successful"

It's weird people don't think about the other way around:

• Strive for success — period — and then Stanford/YC will want YOU.

At the end of the day it's about creating value. It's not made out of thin air. It's not made from a diploma. It's not made from an acceptance letter.

It's made by You.

(hopefully)
You're giving up 6% of basically nothing at the moment most companies enter YC.

If all YC did was write a check for $20K and walk away, I agree, it's too much. They do more than that, and I believe they increase your chances of meaningful success by way more than the 6.4% hurdle rate, so much so that if I were to do a startup, I'd apply to YC, even though the very last thing that I need from them is the $20K check.
Microsoft launches office for ipad