skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/goals_are_for_losers_passion_i...

> Many desired outcomes are out of your hands.

As a recovering Fatalist, I completely understand this. However, you'll never find out which outcomes are outside your control and which ones are within your control without trying to control them.

And you're not somehow poorer for not achieving a goal that is truly outside your control. If absolutely nothing else, you now know the parameters of that goal's space, and can create a new, achievable goal.
It is nice of YC to host Hacker News at all (I mean, it makes sense for business reasons and all), but I don't think it's fair to expect them to pay for a hefty domain name purchase on top of already providing a free service.
I setup my vim according to plugins described here[1] and go development has been a breeze ever since.

1. http://0value.com/my-Go-centric-Vim-setup
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Animate digital creatures with this pliable modular doll
Where did I say the company faked the messages? They were clearly sent to her.
It means that they have irrefutable evidence, as I said before.

What does it mean to you?
A focus group critiquing Apple's "1984" TV ad
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I agree with you. What I really dislike though is how this kind of hate begets more hate. I was surprised to see so many downvoted-into-oblivion comments so soon after submission. There's already foul name calling, and hints of intolerance.

So on top of "there's no reason to defend this guy", I don't think it is constructive to attack each other here in such negative ways.

Edit for clarification: Now that there are 80+ more comments it seems more constructive. There were quite a few in the first ~20 that were pretty sour.
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I think there are several different axes one can split programmer culture down (which may or may not be orthogonal).

Brian Beckman explained one such axis, as an aside, in "Don't fear the Monad" [1], about two differing views that born in the '70s and split two programmers into two camps:

The bottom-up people, and the top-down people:

- The bottom-up people start with the hardware and only add abstractions and trade performance where necessary (fortran, c, java)

- The top-down people started with perfect abstraction/logic and reduced/removed abstraction to get access to the hardware and performance where necessary (lisp, ml, haskell)

What is interesting these days, is that these two camps are trying to steal more and more ideas from each other [2]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhuHCtR3xq8

[2] http://i.imgur.com/ugnuti0.png

(previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7024483 )
PayPal may not explain things clearly, however if we imagine we were the risk management team in PayPal, here is the picture:

An account gets a lot of money from different funding sources (credit cards, ACH, etc.), the velocity is high, and most of the sources didn't have prior transaction records with this said account. To the RM team, they cannot tell if this is a legitimate transfer, or a massive transfer of booty by hackers.

Nevermind how famous this startup maybe, if your credit card were stolen, and PayPal shows you an HN article "well, I thought you wanted to donate to this startup X", how impress would you be? On top of that, the chance of CC customers with hefty chargeback is something that no sane business entity can take lightly.

PayPal may suck, but I don't see how a company with similar scale and footprint will do better. Doing differently very likely will mean losing so much money that it has to go out of business, or, have to partner with some foreign company that sells products of questionable quality.
> “Mortgage fraud ruins lives, destroys families, and devastates whole communities,” Attorney General Eric Holder said this morning at a press conference to announce the results of “Operation Stolen Dreams.” Launched on March 1, 2010, the multi-agency initiative has led to a total of 485 arrests. More than 330 convictions have been obtained, and nearly $11 million has been recovered. Losses from a variety of fraud schemes are estimated to exceed $2 billion.

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I would certainly say that Rx has a superset of the operators in standard CEP which largely deals with buffers and windows, yes. In addition, we have time-based join and group join behavior, join calculus eg:
Rx.Observable.when(
stream1.and(stream2).then(...),
stream3.and(stream4).then(...)
);
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But if the citizenry, like you said, doesn't care, how can it be a force that the citizenry desires to project?
This depends on your definition of "control." (specifically, the fact that you can only have one of these recipes active.)
Yeah I like it. Good entertainment that doesn't require too much of the reader.
Off hand I'd say native candies/foods (for example, I saw Kinder Surprise on a podcast the other day but I've never seen them in America) and Doctor Who stuff. Some merchandise makes its way to the US but it can be pricy and I'm sure just scratches the surface of what's seen over there. Similarly I'd pick out other things which have niche interest here (soccer clubs for example) but which are hugely popular in the UK.
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Many of the YC partners are themselves independently wealthy. Regardless, the domain seems like good branding for YC. Removing the "ycombinator.com" from the address would lessen the connection for new users.
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anything specifically 'tech' related

Two possibilities come to mind.

One, the nerd/geek stereotype where those of us more interested in high tech are supposed to have worse social skills; this would lead to more defective attempts at starting relationships, and to more of the relationships that do happen going bad.

Two, the inherent necessary hubris of startup culture and the noise around "10x" or "rock-star" or "A-player" etc programmers, the apparent canonization of people like Jobs and Zuckerberg; the resulting pervasive sense of entitlement and superiority would also not make for healthy relationships.
There have been some invite-only success stories to be sure. (You could almost count Facebook, too.) The usual way of handling it these days seems to be allowing people to add themselves to a waiting list as an alternative to being invited.
Pretty sure it's not a matter of letting him keep at. I don't think selling would be consistent with L0pht's ethos.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+food+do+you+miss+from+england
While much of YouTube is a desert wasteland in terms of community, there are definitely areas (like music and fitness) where it has a great deal of social / community activity. Just given how huge YT is, it wouldn't suprise me if just those niches outgrew Orkut a long time ago. Plus the growth trajectory is probably much better - if you were going to invest in YT community or Orkut, the former probably makes more sense.
When will people learn to stop using PayPal for these things?
I'm sorry if you read any snark into my tone, none was intended.

This paragraph made me think you saw a conflict with the two approaches: "Reading between the lines, devectorize.jl and the vectorization framework will make for a heady mix. I am glad that Julia is challenging the traditional mantra of "vectorize (as in the R/Numpy/Matlab sense) the loops". It is heart warming to see that the language designers get it that this style has inherent speed limitations (time is spent filling and copying temporary vectors)."

The difficulty, I think, is what you identified. I was thinking of the classic compiler optimization called "vectorizing".
Considering that I didn't say what I think it means, it seems you may be under the very same illusion of understanding I was criticizing, in which one thinks one's explanation, metaphor, or heuristic has caused a specific model in the other's mind, when it has not.

In the same way, about half of the people who have offered that advice, operationalize it oppositely from how you just did, because they (mistakenly) think that the correct behaviors do result from doing what feels natural or easy.

Furthermore, for many people, "being honest and open about who they are and what they want" means directly conveying things that are socially inappropriately to convey, which leads them (including you, probably) to immediately update the advice in unpredictable ways, revealing it to have the same lack of content or understanding that I claimed.
what for? nobody types it in, and it's probably in the hundreds of thousands. And keeping it on a subdomain probably keeps away a lot of idiots.
I did some more research. I think because BNP had offices in NY they came under US jurisdiction. I don't think I'm correct in saying that a bank that trades in US dollars comes under US jurisdiction. However if you do decide to set up offices in the US, expect your world banking practices to come under US scrutiny.
Exactly! Just because aml183 thinks of this site as "hacker news", that doesn't mean everyone on the internet should.
That actually makes sense. Paypal is subject to U.S. embargoes of Cuba, Iran, Syria, etc. Yeah, it's kind of stupid to just do a pattern match, but until we invent A.I. strong enough to figure out when "Buena Vista Social Club" means London and not Havana, it's probably smarter to dedicate scarce resources to handling exceptions to the pattern match.
L0pht was always for-profit :)
An aside on the women and cars thing: I recently read a story about a car repair shop in France run by women and for women customers, their aim being to prevent women from being ripped off.

Those women found a reason to get into car repair. So I guess the question is: what reason can we give women to get into programming? Don't legislate it of course, but give women a way to find it on their own.
> While I am firmly in the "ProtonMail is snake oil" camp

Could you point to some analysis of that? I can see many people shouting "javascript crypto!" which I agree seems to be the only way they can do what they claim in a cross-platform manner, but I see no such detail of what they are doing (or planning to do) in that regard. All the funding advert page stats if "end to end" not "end to end using technology X".

> why are people even still using [PayPal]?

Momentum due to critical user mass, and lack of alternatives in many places, most likely. Other payment processors are not as available globally, charge more, or are even less trusted then PayPal. Bitcoin is too unstable for my tastes, and not something I see Joe Public using en-mass in the near future.

Using Bitcoin for this would make sense though: I would guess that most (if not all) those paying in are users of the currency already or would be willing and technically informed enough to join in for just this purpose.

> Are they even US citizens?

While that probably should be relevant, I doubt it is something that PayPal really consider. They have concerns in the US and are not going to risk having them frozen by going up against US law over this any more than I am going to sue PayPal over a few tens of $ - it would cost too much in time, legal fees, and so forth. Where something might contravene US law in any way they'll block now and ask questions later mainly because they don't want those enforcing US law to do similar (slap PayPal now, ask questions later).
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That's great for you. But (if he wrote it) he didn't write that in a bubble. He wrote it in an environment where an overwhelming proportion of startups are founded by young white men. Put another way, a man in a rural southern town calling Obama the n-word is just a solitary act, but one cannot discount the racism of that man's peers in promoting the use of that word to describe black people.
As one of your customers, I've already committed $X to my instance. I would be delighted to get 2x resources compared to .5x cost.
When someone tells me they're in Mensa (which thankfully never happens, except on the Internet), I wonder what they're trying to compensate for. It's a completely meaningless society, and presumably if you have such a high IQ, you should have applied it by now and have some results to show for it.
I doubt it's for sale.
The "have you government approval to encrypt emails" [1] question was not necessary through. They did not even specified which government they mean.

[1] https://protonmail.ch/blog/paypal-freezes-protonmail-campaig...
Not according to Scott Adams. In fact, check out the title of the book.
It's nice as it is.
Also I believe YC people see it as some sort of brand (and even ad).
You thought of it from "won't this let its competitors catch-up and beat Tesla?" point of view, and yes the correct answer for that would be that Tesla is already ahead of everyone else.

But there's another point of view, that the release of patents will accelerate both the supply and demand of electric cars in general, which means Tesla will also gain, especially if they remain the leader. The market leader always wins the most when "all boats rise", because the leader will rise the highest.

Then there's the fact that Tesla is trying to get other car manufacturers to license its Supercharger Network. This has 3 effects, all beneficial to Tesla:

1) lowers costs for Tesla, while it allows them to expand faster the network faster globally

2) as the network grows, Tesla will become more entrenched as an electric car market leader, since it will be harder and harder to create "competing" networks

3) a standard network will be beneficial for everyone, it's hard enough to promote electric cars without solid infrastructure, so why have competing networks, when all manufacturers can build just one, and Tesla's network also happens to charge the fastest, plus it offers its customers the ability to have "free charging for life" thanks to the solar power.
If you're using EBS volumes, they have to be "warmed up" before you see their true performance. Even then they're variable. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-prewa... for more details.
Did Microsoft just admit Windows 8 is its worst operating system ever?
> It's not impossible, but it would be really really stupid to forge messages that could conceivably be reconstructed in your motion to the court.

True, but apparently even with a court order you can only get text message records from so far back. Two years would definitely be stretching it.

The reason I'm skeptical here is because the complaint is very much focused on her being recognized (now) as a cofounder, and the sexual harassment stuff is a convenient bludgeon.
And now you're making posts, too. Down the rabbit hole you go!
That's consistent with what we've been hearing from Matt, but I believe contrary to how Rob answered a similar question at I/O.

Do you guys have a timeline for this, e.g. "try it for production-quality apps that are scheduled to ship Fall 2014"?
5pm is pretty late to stop caffeine. Try stopping it at 2 or 3.
Combating resistance to change: how to get other people on board with new ideas
It should be noted that Yo's 15 minutes of fame are up: it's tanking in ranking in both App Stores.

http://i.imgur.com/IEjkirh.png
Speculators get a bad rap, but actually play a pretty important role in futures markets by aiding price discovery and providing a more efficient transfer of risk between hedgers. To make money they need to try and accurately forecast where prices will move, and to do so will incorporate any and all available information - it is literally their job to try and know everything there is to know about what will effect commodity prices.

There has also been quite a bit of academic research on the effect of speculation in futures markets, and by and large the conclusion seems to be that they help, rather than hurt these markets and rises in commodity prices have been driven mostly by external factors [1].

[1] http://www.forbes.com/2011/05/24/oil-speculators-are-your-fr...
I also had issues with it crashing safari on an ipad
Agree, Designer tool looks kinda nice.

BUT, it is slow in FF30, Safari and failed a lot in IE11.

IMO, Big G is trying very hard to push web technologies that tightly couple to Chrome - same as what MS/IE did a few years back trying hard to force ActiveX, Silverlight down the developers' throat.

I'm betting < 20% chance Polymer will still be in IO talk 3 years from now. (remember GWT, Dart, Angular?)
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I type it in. Though usually (sad, maybe) just typing "n" is enough.
The second scenario leave 999,900 acres completely untouched while the first scenario probably impacts at least 5,000 acres.
Polymer is used to build very complex applications.

Not only do Polymer templates have bind, if, repeat, and ref, which are enough to cover the _vast_ majority of cases, by they work by binding to an expression which can drive more complex behavior.

I'm curious what you think you can't do with Polymer templates?
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We have a hackspace here that I've (shamefully) never actually gone to.

You could try contacting them and ask how they did it:

http://nottinghack.org.uk/
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Ironic, given the number of YCombinator startups with "Get", "Try", "The", "App", etc prefixes and suffixes in their domain name, to say nothing of the various TLDs like .io, .ly, .co, .es, etc.
Really? Why can you only have one active?
Having money doesn't necessarily mean you frivolously spend money.
The reason that I downvote most (not all!) of those comments is:

1. They emphasize a culture of doubt about these accusations, which may discourage people in a situation like Ms. Wolfe's from stepping forward. On the other hand, the accused people in power really don't need our help to defend themselves.

2. They're formulaic, repetitive, and uninteresting. Most could probably have been written by a misandry chatbot. They don't bring any new ideas to the table.

And while I try hard to be diplomatic when I write critical replies to those comments...I can empathize with those who are a little harsher.