skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[pre-apologies for the CAPS, but they seemed warranted.]

I definitely appreciate the analysis, since analyses of any kind of stressful interaction are helpful. But I did want to comment on a small thing:

YC is a very special kind of interview.

I assume that this is referencing the previous bits of TFA, so I'd suggest that possibly YC is a COMPLETELY TYPICAL INTERVIEW FOR THIS KIND OF SITUATION.

HN is a wonderful resource, but the idea that a YC interview is of "a special kind" is naive. [I'm sure the down-votes are heading my way...] YC is a type of VC-ish firm. Getting to pitch to any VC is rare and the kinds of questions mentioned in TFA are pretty standard. YC is going to invest their time in you and that is quite expensive for them to do, so it makes sense for them to push you in lots of directions to see how broadly you've thought about the problem.

Random: I was in a board meeting yesterday getting peppered with questions about AWS AMI setups, framework choices and API load resiliency... And I'm just an advisor. Investors care a lot about a lot of things.
This is true in Australia too though you can take the test(s) with either transmission. e.g., you can pass your test in an automatic and then drive a manual.
Being the worlds largest didn't make the USA's social problems go away. Why would China be any different?
New Android Malware Worm catches by ESET
I didn't think that it would change magically either, which is why I asked the question I mentioned in another comment.
This article is such a collection of misrepresentations and misunderstandings of Rand's philosophy that it comes across as a caricature. If Rand's philosophy was as obviously stupid as this guy portrays it then I doubt it would still be popular 30 years after her death. The only error that I will address is that Rand presented her ideas in her fiction. She did do this, of course, but these were necessarily a consequences of her complete philosophic system which she fully explained in numerous non-fiction works. I'd recommend starting with The Virtue of Selfishness to see for you self.
I actually see it as being rather simplistic to assume it's a symbiotic relationship instead of a parasitic one. Parasites can often implement methods to make themselves attractive or initiate the parasitic relationship, precisely, because it is mostly in their own main interest.

We just recently saw the owner of the Klippers expose that same relationship, just because something is on a far larger scale, does not mean that it is any less the same thing underlying it. Yes, _some_ founders get insanely wealthy, but the VCs get even wealthier because they have fine-tuned a formula of exploitation and manipulation. Yes, a lot of investments they make go bust, but that's why they take an arm and a leg and a pound of flesh while they're at it. They are essentially diversifying their investments, but they are also profiteering from a huge arbitrage opportunity. They are essentially trading in the inefficiencies of the market because that is risk they don't want to burden and don't really actually want to do any work to do due diligence to find the good investments. They are in the business of statistical investment..... the more money you throw at it, the higher the likelihood of hitting the bulls eye....simply based on statistical probability.

That is of course offset by various other revenue streams because the scale is not frequent enough to base it purely on statistical probability, but that is the core.
That's certainly a step up from the olden days, when hackers could turn your computer into a bomb and blow your family to smithereens.
Ah, didn't realize. Any new name suggestions?
It looks like they really mean first game like that on the Internet.
You need to be "concise" if the target is pressed for time or likely to be.

This is always the case at YC like places.
I imagine that many accidents aren't due to poor training but poor discipline and lack of appreciation for the seriousness of the task at hand.

The fines for using your phone while driving are high and there are frequently advertising campaigns about it, but I still routinely see people (especially 16-45yo women) texting or calling in traffic.
I don't think you know what the rat-race is. The rat race is arbitrage... it is the profiteering from the value you can provide, but don't realize. It is selling yourself for less than the person you work for is selling you net.
Am I the only one who feels a real mental disconnect with the people complaining about Facebook? I read interviews by developers there, where it's pretty evident that they have reasonable perspectives (i.e. they aren't evil), then I see a barrage of ridiculous vitriol. I then go to all the sites where people list "why Facebook is evil", and all I can find is misinformation, opinion, and minor understandable things blown out of proportion.
10 minute time limit, scheduled into an entire day of interviews against other teams, sounds pretty untypical to me. Plus how often do you get interviewed by the likes of Paul Buccheit?
Every example of "Ayn Rand philosophy" you present it's exactly the opposite of what it should be.

"for the greater good"? "stealing is ok"? These are the arguments of the villains in Ayn Rand novels.

"selfishness" (as defined by Rand) means to preserve what you value most and do not sacrifice a higher value for a lesser value.
http://blog.archive.today/post/82775187091/curious-why-the-m...
Look's promising, can't wait
That is if your tech is commoditized. For instance, you could argue surgeon just needs to execute a series of well understood steps and be prepared for various situations along with having the right technique. But there are also surgeons who pioneer new breakthroughs and research new procedures. It seems like a lot of apps aren't really breakthroughs technologically, so your point is valid there, but that's not true for all apps or programmers... off the top of my head... Shazam is an app that I think is tech-driven. One click to recognize a song is a great design, but it didn't take a great designer to make it (just great programmers).
PLATO was a network of systems, not just one. By 1978 there were PLATO systems in Illinois, Minnesota, Delaware, Florida, Belgium, and other locales, all internetworked using what was called "the link", a high-bandwidth connection between these various CYBER mainframes. PLATO had collectively many more users than ARPANET during this time; ARPANET's population wouldn't exceed PLATO's until probably around 1981, though it might even be later.
If the goal is to manage capital costs, I don't see how funding the development of an entirely new data storage hardware ecosystem is a reasonable answer. You control capital costs with commodity hardware, not cutting edge.

Yet that is what the author thinks Amazon is doing with BDXL.

So who's funding high-capacity optical storage? Hmm, can we think of a customer who ingests huge amounts of data, wants to keep it for a long time, and has no fear if funding cutting-edge product development? Yes: defense departments.
This is awesome! I'm loving all the new services/software that allow programmatic handling of email, I feel like that's one place where abstraction really helps.
It really seems to help focus attention. It would be interesting to do some research on this and see if reading retention improves (as well as speed).
I've found that sometimes its hard to figure out what to test when you are seeking user-centered validation, and then, as a byproduct of having a hard time figuring out what to test, the tendency is to simply put your head down, avoid testing, irrationally fear user feedback, and then focus on pushing to production.

The plan then turns into "I'll test once it's live, once I have actual usage data". But, testing never occurs, and instead, your product team is faced with scope creep. You (or your stakeholders) think that a product is failing because you haven't jammed enough into it already, so go ahead and jam more features into it. Build all the things!

The cycle then repeats until the product is pronounced dead. sometimes on arrival, sometimes many months or years later.

So, the sooner product creators, designers, and developers let go of the fear of testing, the sooner a team can arrive at a product market fit.
I will be interested to see how sexual mores develop this century. I think the "sexual revolution" will turn out to have been a flash in the pan. Resistant clap and syphilis are a growing occurrence. I expect the old order of arresting people for promiscuity to return and the new idea of privacy in the bedroom to die.
Paypal rips Spotify's design
that doesn't surprise me. one of the hardest problems of any business is explaining what you actually do. on a sales call, you have about 90 seconds to present this concept to the client.
Sewol Ferry Accident
The Antifragile person both appreciates being called out and aren’t afraid to do it to others. They aren’t so insecure

On twitter, I've watched Taleb seemingly track textual mentions of his name or book (not @ mentions or hashtags) and then castigate and isnult the ones saying anything critical. These aren't people addressing him personally or that he follows, they're randoms microblogging to their handful of followers that he feels the need to push back against and blast.
A McDonald's franchise looks a steady state because that's the entire point. McDonalds is basically a holding company with a portfolio of some of the most valuable real estate in the world that uses the burger flipping as a way to constantly grow. However, no McDonalds franchise is a steady state unless its in a tiny town immune to inflation where no one wants to open a competitor (and there's very few of those). If a restaurant's profit falls behind inflation it's no longer as valuable a holding in their portfolio.
URX Blog – Omnilinks, app links and the state of mobile deeplinking
While I generally agree with the direction of this article, I think the author is not rigorous enough.

I think the author conflates multiple types of design with each other (product design, industrial design, systems/solution design, service design, visual design, interaction design, user experience design) and then proceeds to conflate the success of each one with the other while mostly focusing on interaction and visual design throughout the article. Second I think the author conflates the success of "design" with the success of Square which is a big mistake because if you really study Square's success it is a fantastic case study for the success of design. AFAIK Intuit launched a similar product and service with a single UX designer on a large dedicated staff well before Square launched. Square's intense focus on design trounced Intuit with a product and service based at least partially on superior design and UX. I think the author also slips his assumptions past the audience at the beginning of the article stating that design has won it's “a seat at the table” which is highly contextual and in general may still be less true than the author makes the case for. While design may not be batting last anymore it most certainly almost never bats first.

In my opinion Daniel Rosenberg offers a more scathing and valuable critique of today's design scene in his IXDA 2014 talk "The De-intellectualization of Design" [1]. I highly suggest that if you are interested in this topic that you pay attention to what he states in that talk.

[1] http://interaction14.ixda.org/program/friday/517-the-de-inte...
Because a black screen and a generic phrase are original?
It looks great. I find it intriguing that it's a 2D platformer done in a 3d environment. Were you ever tempted to move the camera?
Being small, lightweight and silent actually makes a good case for their use in many situations. Impact against aircraft becomes less probable and a lot less dangerous; silence undermines the case against disruption and noise pollution.

Drone seem like a very simple matter to me, it seems americans are ignoring a long of history with model aircraft and simply common sense, specially when it comes to privacy concerns. Simply making drones unregulated wouldn't mean the city would be dominated by them overnight. Common sense snooping regulations should apply. Do you frequently see people snooping their neighbors intrusively? Why would they use a drone for that? Common sense should dictate the operator is responsible for it's misuse and any accident.

In Brazil you are essentially free to use drones however you wish; there's no relevant regulation so you'd have to do something really bad to have someone come after you. Yet there's no drone abuse, and plenty of cool applications. I've been to a bike race some time ago and the finishing line was filmed by a drone, it was pretty cool. People are using drones for mapping, agriculture, media, etc. I haven't heard of a single problem with aviation or privacy.
I used Julia's in-built profiler to look at your code. Almost all the work is done, as you'd hope, on lines 20, 22, 33, and 35. I added @inbounds to lines 20 and 35, figuring that line 22 is mostly just the effort of calculating tanh. This dropped the running time on my computer from 10.7 seconds to 6.4 seconds, so about 60% of original running time. If I compile with gcc (gcc rnn_perf.c -O2 -o rnn_perf -lm) and run that, I get 6.2 (O3 is worse). That might not be how you compiled the C version, but regardless it looks like your C time was about 46% of the original Julia time, so its getting close. Three-fifths of the work now is in the tanh line. I'll submit a PR.
Yep! I completely agree, there is nothing object oriented about the example. So why use constructs meant for describing objected oriented code? Though, the fact that someone defined a pattern for designing state machines on top of object oriented constructs is interesting, thanks for bringing that up.

The other option is build a model for talking about state machines on top of Python's features (like decorators, meta classes, even coroutines!) than strict OOP to feel more like idiomatic Python, than say Java. And when someone has written the code already, I say why reinvent the wheel! :)
It's not "skipping all the details", it's starting with the key parts first, then expanding. And every sentence should make the reader/listener want to continue to the next.
Great write up on the psychology of starting. I think this feeling is easy to conceptualize, but hard to truly understand unless you're an actual founder. Most people want you to be successful even if they don't show it though.
Your analysis is possibly flawed, right at the beginning.

30+ is not "old". You don't start hitting your stride until your 28/29 plus. Lumping together everyone over the age of 30 is wrong.

Another point, people in 30+ have the income that younger people lack. Why are 15-20 year olds using mainly mobile? Because that's what they can afford or what their parents get them. Desktops, laptops, and tablets are expensive in comparison.

Why do more "old" people use tablets? Because a lot of us have found a tablet is useful in many circumstances where a phone or laptop is not. We also have more spare money, so I can splurge on an iPad every couple years. If I had kids, they wouldn't be getting the newest thing for sure. There's work we can do that doesn't require a full laptop.
Venture Capital Does Not Scale (Sort Of)
so you have in fact heard of all of them. I think that pretty much proves my point, but I could also throw Pele in there for a non american that is far far more well known than Mr. Bradman.
Box is also tied up in a big patent lawsuit from OpenText.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230488690...
10 minute time limit

As TFA said, it's not a 10 minute time limit... 10 minutes is the pressure relief valve. But let's say "10 minutes". That, plus some time for questions, is a fairly standard angel round setup.

how often do you get interviewed by the likes of Paul Buccheit

Pretty much every time you do a serious VC pitch. There are certainly crappy firms, but my experience has been that good firms select an excellent set of folks and you will be grilled once you get through the initial screens.

The differentiator of YC is the stage of investment and the shepherding of the teams, not the "very special kind of interview". [And I don't want to discount that YC might do a superlative job with their interviews, but I've not heard anything to suggest that the concerns/questions are atypical.]
I wonder if I'll be able to see it legally in my country.
I am super excited to learn more about him and the case.
Facebook to developers: You do better, we do better
Yep. If your cryptosystem is designed properly, none of that should be possible.
Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany
IMO their real competition is Sharepoint.
From playing a bit with the Julia REPL (http://forio.com/julia/repl/), it seems that the dispatch of the method is dynamic, as opposed to the dispatch of overloaded functions in C++:

julia> function foo(s::String) "$(s)!!!" end
foo (generic function with 1 method)
julia> function foo(n::Int) n + 1 end
foo (generic function with 2 methods)
julia> foo(rand() < 0.5 ? "Hello" : 41)
42

I'm not used to this kind of dispatch for bare functions, but it seems to me that it could offer similar capabilities to what subtype polymorphism provides in OO†, without having to define new types for this methods to live in or polluting the existing types.

† Probably more, as the dispatch can be resolved based on many arguments.
The Bell Curve: What happens when patients find out how good their doctors are?
True, but I suspect the other three are more well known by far more people. If we want to go international, I'd put Pele out there before Mr. Bradman
I backed this movie & I am very excited about this movie! The trailer looks amazing as well.

Also- I would strongly encourage people to also look at Aaron's writing on making Wikipedia better (which has profound consequences for the internet)
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia

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So did the Gang of 500 actually write Wikipedia? Wales decided to run a simple study to find out: he counted who made the most edits to the site. “I expected to find something like an 80-20 rule: 80% of the work being done by 20% of the users, just because that seems to come up a lot. But it’s actually much, much tighter than that: it turns out over 50% of all the edits are done by just .7% of the users … 524 people. … And in fact the most active 2%, which is 1400 people, have done 73.4% of all the edits.” The remaining 25% of edits, he said, were from “people who [are] contributing … a minor change of a fact or a minor spelling fix … or something like that.”

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Curious and skeptical, I decided to investigate.
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I purchased some time on a computer cluster and downloaded a copy of the Wikipedia archives. I wrote a little program to go through each edit and count how much of it remained in the latest version.† Instead of counting edits, as Wales did, I counted the number of letters a user actually contributed to the present article.

If you just count edits, it appears the biggest contributors to the Alan Alda article (7 of the top 10) are registered users who (all but 2) have made thousands of edits to the site. Indeed, #4 has made over 7,000 edits while #7 has over 25,000. In other words, if you use Wales’s methods, you get Wales’s results: most of the content seems to be written by heavy editors.

But when you count letters, the picture dramatically changes: few of the contributors (2 out of the top 10) are even registered and most (6 out of the top 10) have made less than 25 edits to the entire site. In fact, #9 has made exactly one edit — this one! With the more reasonable metric — indeed, the one Wales himself said he planned to use in the next revision of his study — the result completely reverses.

I don’t have the resources to run this calculation across all of Wikipedia (there are over 60 million edits!), but I ran it on several more randomly-selected articles and the results were much the same. For example, the largest portion of the Anaconda article was written by a user who only made 2 edits to it (and only 100 on the entire site). By contrast, the largest number of edits were made by a user who appears to have contributed no text to the final article (the edits were all deleting things and moving things around).
This has shades of Lemmings! I love it. And I just had an Amiga flashback.
If you click the chip, it reveals the URL, too.

May not be great, but it's not completely gone (which the article seems to indicate).
Do I have to relinquish my PC password to my boss?
Show HN: audio-type: Detect the audio type of a Buffer/Uint8Array
Your dichotomy is as silly as Arrington's; narrative arcs based on what turns out to not even be based on real life events, but actually the absence of knowledge of events because you weren't paying attention.

As far as I can tell they both still require at least pseudo real names, the absence of which will get you flagged. Facebook just had a thing in the news like 6 months ago where they were demanding government IDs from people to unfreeze their accounts.

Here's the help page:

> We require everyone using Facebook to use their real name and birthday. This way, you always know who you're connecting with. When we discover accounts that look fake or like they’re using fake information, we ask the owner to confirm that they are who they say they are.

https://www.facebook.com/help/385569904840341

I avoid ever using Facebook login, but I think this new anonymous login is great, will be a boon to users (though not offering those users privacy from facebook itself, as others are focusing on) and I'd like to see a lot more of that in Android itself (especially those per-function permissions).
The problem is we are dismantling our land line network. So if you don't have cell phone there might not by any phone in the building that works. Next what about emergency workers? They need to be able to be contacted. Or what about people on call for their jobs? All of these things could be blocked by jammers and the idea that we survived once without it unconvincing we survived once without vacancies and antibiotics too.
Read the book during a comparative politics class, so yes I have read a fair number of critical articles. That being said I have also read a fair number of scholarly articles in support of the angle that Jared Diamond was getting at. No one is right always, that is why you must be objective and read critical peer reviewed articles.
I read somewhere that people are calling this TCPBleed.
Sad. Taleb has turned another person into a douche like him.
Maybe a play on sendmail? Sendmuchmail?
I wouldn't mind this if it had breadcrumbs. For example, http://example.com/path/to/file.html would be four buttons (chips?) [example.com][path][to][file.html]