skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I mean, you're so desperate to find counter-examples, you've even included an island nation (Iceland) that is nowhere near Europe, especially given your own definition that 'Europe' is specifically a continent. Iceland isn't even on the European continental shelf.

Plus Iceland is an EU candidate country and a member of the EEA (European Economic Area) so is a member of the EU's internal market.
This is how I feel when people give all of their email to LinkedIn. :(
Are Cloud IDEs taking over?
Elite colleges are overrated and overpriced for bachelors degrees. It's different if you're getting a masters degree but for the most part you learn the same basics in a bachelor degree at any accredited school. Maybe they are doing the smart thing by choosing schools with a better value per dollar.
So? One day and 9 upvotes later, still no answer to that question. Doesn't breed much confidence, tbh. ;).
Facebook and Instagram usage would say otherwise - they're still there. Yes, apps can get dropped, but how ingrained it is in their life is not to be understated.
This year's Burning Man is being livestreamed right now
You can't reliably process thousands of image files for key objects in the same way you can process text messages for keywords.
Snapchat will be a brand advertising play. Go ask any large brand advertiser whether teens are an important market.
i did. i posted this as a remainder for people to do their backups, especially under digitalocean
> "secrets exist to prevent other people from acting as they would if they had complete information"

And? I don't understand why the reader must assume it would be good for people to act with complete information. Privacy is required where trust is absent because people in the abstract are not responsible or empathetic enough to warrant the risk. Ask any celebrity if privacy is a barrier to equality. This isn't pessimism either; I could see privacy not be needed but only if the protection from harm is replaced by other protections embedded in the culture or environment.
> Medallions were created to ensure that cars were properly maintained, drivers could earn decent wages, and that there wouldn't be reoccurrences of the crime waves against taxis and customers that led to medallions in the first place.

Ha ha. In Sydney, at least, this is a joke.
Thanks a bunch! This made my day.
> "And having been transparent with his coreligionists about his loss of faith and with his ex-wife about his lost willingness to be monogamous, he gradually came to this life philosophy: Society would be better if no one had any secrets."

Spoken like someone blessed to have been born a white heterosexual male in 21st century America. I wonder if he'd feel the same way if he was a homosexual in an incredibly homophobic town.

He also seems to have reversed cause and effect here. Its not necessarily asymmetrical information that gives people power, but rather power that results in asymmetrical information. There's no magic switch to reveal all information in the universe, so its going to be government thats better at keeping secrets than you in a society that expects defacto transparency. Have fun trying to prosecute the government for keeping secrets when they have every detail on your life catalogued. You can't base a life philosophy around "if everyone magically did the right thing then..."
It's the cloud. You have backups and you can spin up a replacement server in a minute. If you don't have backups, you should probably rethink the way you use these services. Hardware fails, inevitably.
I thought the cancellations were for the purpose of looking statistically similar to the average rider. If that's the case, it's no difference to the drivers.
I'm not too clear on the details since I don't know the language, but I think that Rust's (http://www.rust-lang.org/) concept of "ownership" does something very similar to what you're suggesting.
Cool, thanks for the new link.

You're probably right though. It's the ad-heavy pages that always seem to cause problems.
In what way is Snapchat "off the grid"?
Where an accelerator provides value is in network.

Going through a program like YC one takes it as a matter of course that the software gets written. It's almost assumed to be a downhill process. The hard part that gets hammered into you is Growth - the program is by and large a merciless, insanely purpose driven, bootcamp-come-network for Growth. Prototypes in, hockey sticks out.

With hardware there is an incircuitable field of well documented terrors, known to be fatal, that stands between conceiving a product and releasing it. The added value of a hardware startup accelerator than is being your Westley when you need to get through the Trough of Fire Swamps. In many cases it's simply plugging you into the group of vendors that can scale parts, manufacturing, and fulfillment - for much of it, what you don't know will kill you and no one person or company knows it all – that's why it takes a network.

Simplified: Hardware accelerators are cool because they are providing value where no one else is (solving the trough of sorrow problem by creating fungible networks). Y Combinator is cool because it pioneered the same thing for growth.
But most of the time these numbers will be represented in fixed size integers (64 bit words for example); there is no easy way to represent the bit sequence 0110 without making it at least 00000110, but more likely 64 bits, which becomes ambiguous; is this the top left of the top left of the top left of the top right of the bottom right (or whatever those coordinated might represent)? Or do we only look at the last two pairs? how many bits are significant? When sequential integers are used as described, there's no ambiguity; you can always figure out what where a value's quad is positioned from its magnitude.
If you're poor, the most elite colleges are either free or nearly free. Some avoid using debt at all in financial aid.

The most elite colleges can be a better deal than a state school.
You mean the two numbers that are at the bottom of your checks? The ones you freely give out to complete strangers?
I'd love a full c64 emulator on a Pi :D
I find it very telling that prisoners are specifically excepted from the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution.

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
I definitely remember seeing that in one of Feynman's autobiographies like 'Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman'

Einstein to Feynman: "Please explain things slowly"
The title makes it sound like you are accusing Digital Ocean of destroying your droplet on purpose for no reason.
We look for great founders and great ideas, regardless of geography. BUT...if you get accepted, your company will have to convert into a US domestic corporation (preferably Delaware). So forming your entity now in Europe or North America may end up being a waste of time and effort.
This is what happens when you mix coke and milk
There are lots of lessons the US could take from other countries, recently the issue about phone + internet bills.
I think we can go as far as saying that the IP addresses' geolocation data are irrelevant. On top of what you mentioned, a lot of companies are already using IP addresses where they shouldn't be, because of the limited quantities of IPv4 addresses.
From what I understand, a significant part of the fight (in general, not just California) has been about wanting to legally use the word "marriage", with all the social/religious connotations it's picked up over the years, rather than about just getting equal legal rights thru the law and then sorting out social perception thru social means.

This also comes at the expense of other non-traditional relationships, by making the argument about making a narrow change to what's called "marriage" rather than about handling the associated legal rights more flexibly.

So yes, bikeshedding.
For anyone who's curious what a world in which everyone is forced to throw away their privacy and embrace complete transparency might look like, Dave Eggers wrote a fantastic book called The Circle (http://www.amazon.com/The-Circle-Dave-Eggers/dp/0385351399) that explores that very concept. Highly recommended.
My friends who used Snapchat have all moved on to Secret. Gossip always wins. No messaging app I've used yet does much better than group MMS.
I wouldn't quite call it spaghetti code... You can still structure things into models, views, controllers, and view controllers (event handlers that pass data to controllers basically). Having a component API isn't really a deal breaker.
Really looking forward to this post! It's fascinating just how simple this system is; maybe I'll make a simple Haskell library implementing it.
Looks like a cool little app. However, I noticed that when I input my twitter handle (it's a private one), it returns Heroku's "We're sorry, but something went wrong" error.
The State of Innovation in the Trends from YC S14
Are you fairly young? I'm 20 and using it more than ever, use it to communicate with most of my friends. Including the text functions.
> The biggest problem with both statistics and machine learning education, I would say, is their lack of emphasis on mathematical foundations.

Any recommendations for someone who'd like to pick up sound (if modest) foundations?
Agreed. I think this is less about practicality than it is about creating art with an unconventional set of tools or materials. In that regard I would say the artist pulled off something pretty impressive.
We don't have aristocrats in the US. The term refers to people with wealthy backgrounds.
I agree with your points so much.

I am a applied Maths student (currently) and when looking for internships I noticed 80% of them are for CS related stuff. Imagine being me ( 19 years old ), offered a 15K/year job in my first year in university. My best job up until then was cleaning the floor at a mall. I have studied insane amount of mathematics all my life ( proofs after proofs ), how much longer do I need to wait until I am able to something of value in society ?

Compared that to the amazing 14 weeks internship I did at a startup churning out frontend javascript. Those 14 weeks were the best weeks of my life, I never felt more confident and of value. My depression vanished overnight, I found a new aim in life, I treated coding the same way nations treat nuclear weapons.

I learnt more things of value in those 14 weeks then I did in the previous 19 years, I didn't need to set up an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. There was no hand holding, because I was getting paid. I spent the rest of my waking hour churing code with no need for external motivation.

I got really angry at society for misleading me for such a long time because of how easy it was for me to do something useful, finally. I see my friends struggling with the same problems and feel so much of young ppl's time is wasted, In my mind its a crime.

I think as always mathematicians fail to grasp the human side of the argument, why are they complaining about lack of interest in statistics ? its their own fault this problem exists. There is no Neil Degrasse Tyson for statistics, there is no mark zuckerberg for stats, you don't need to hire a PR department. Just show us the wonderful magic that you speak of and we are smart enough to figure out why we should dedicate our lives to your cause.

This is why if some statistical axiom/theory doesn't have a CS applied part I became really skeptical of doing that course.
This piece and the [EM Briefcase](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8228755) made me realize how much IEEE Spectrum appears to be PR. Is this normal, are we being duped?
It's optional on a per txn basis.
Why my $15 T-shirt is worth more than your $15 T-Shirt
Even large Japanese companies already started to think the overly standardized screening process didn't fit the current world of internationalization. So it unlikely happen that just wading a blue shirt or carrying a nylon bag cause your interview failure.
I used to feel this way but I've come to the opposite conclusion. Most homes have a rarely updated, always on computer connected to the public internet with increasing numbers of known vulnerabilities.
The drivers' experience carries far more weight than any policy on paper, though.

Actual implementation of policies can be completely different (imagine a ratings drop triggering an automated email saying "turn in your kit before 6pm today or a security detail will come get it" vs. triggering a non-confrontational call from someone trained to help you improve your ratings). Even the tone with which a policy is generally enforced (even if the end result is exactly the same) matters.

I don't have direct experience with either Lyft or Uber, but I wouldn't discredit drivers' impressions.
The Internet of Overhyped Things
There's a huge difference in that fraudulent debit card txns may immediately deplete your bank account while credit card issues can usually be resolved before your bill is due.
According to [1], 69 graduates of Harvard have won a Nobel prize -- more than any other institution.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_univ...
I don't perceive Snapchat as the next great thing but I'd love to hear why you do. Really and truly -- I thought they were bonkers for not taking FB's offer, but I'm open to hearing why they aren't.

Would you do me the favor of explicating? How can I make your explaining this to me worth your while?
I actually wouldn't mind if certain conspicuous, extravagant (and conspicuously wealthy) celebrities opted for an Uber taxi. Nope, wouldn't mind it one bit.
Before WW2 the French had invested more in fortifications than the Germans did in tanks. Unfortunately, tanks were what mattered. The US may have the best fighter planes and the best destroyers, but maybe what is going to really matter is the quality and quantity of missiles and drones.

Not that anyone really knows..
Some user re-keyable locks are supposedly resistant to bump attacks, like Schage's SecureKey. (What I use.)

Re-keyable locks are more expensive, but worth it.

If you do a patent search about rekeyable locks, you see that they are fairly recent. In 1967, a patent was granted on a lock that flips permanently from one combination to another. During construction, a builder uses the builder's key to access the property. This key stops working as soon as the owner uses the owner key to open the lock for the first time.

There is patent activity in this area as recently as 2009.

This site has some discussion of the Schlage SecureKey internals: http://www.lockwiki.com/index.php/Schlage_SecureKey

SecureKey is programmed by inserting the original Reset Key into the lock and turning into a special position (a 45 degree angle, IIRC). You can then remove the Reset Key, and insert the new key, which can have an arbitrary code. You turn that to the original position, and the lock is programmed. Internally, it looks like the lock "quantizes" the height of each cut to one of ten positions to memorize the new pattern; but it's all mechanical. Quite neat!
Don't be obtuse. "Hyperlapse" is an established and accepted industry term. "Yosemite" is not.

This is more comparable to if Apple made an application called "Camera" and then Google did the same.
They knew man
Eh... I don't get it? Why is privacy required where there is no trust? I see how the two are related but I see it kind of differently... it's hard not to trust someone when you know they're not hiding anything.

In a totally utopian sense I believe that privacy is bad. Practically it's probably impossible to implement society without privacy. I wouldn't share my email password because we're not living in a utopia and that information asymmetry would hurt me. However, if privacy went away social norms would have to change -- there would be a lot less hypocrisy -- and the things I'm keeping private right now wouldn't need to be private any longer.

Really privacy just facilitates lying.
I'm interested in hearing a few of these stories.
This is entirely dependent on what type of project it is. At most companies, tastes change over time so you end up with a hybrid of application layers built on different languages and technologies. I guess in an ideal world the stack would be as non-diverse as possible, but it never seems to end up that way.
Hi Josh,

You might want to check out this LTU thread:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4733

You can find much old work on code typography linked there, like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG0lyGekGDs

http://www.othmanismail.com/classes/GPH352/ReadingArticles/D...

http://books.google.ca/books/about/Human_factors_and_typogra...

I'm kind of disappointed (but not surprised) that you didn't try a proportional font for code...it is my mission in life to banish fixed-width fonts from the earth.
Useful Bash shortcuts
Sure... but it's specifically using CSS to add extra elements. So it makes the "just one div" thing feel a little silly. Surely you could do "just no divs" and do the same trick on the <body> tag?
The problem you cited before is supposed to be easy, but in practice, software development that uses 3rd-party software is destined to run into conflicts. You found portability issues, platform-dependent issues, environment/configuration issues, and multi-layer software dependency issues.

These all happen regularly when OS maintainers have to package software for release. They spend thousands of hours to resolve [by hand] each one in order to support the various use-cases of their end users. If you are imagining some automated process just magically makes all your software come together to build you a custom development environment, you are mistaken. It's all put together by humans, and only for the use cases that have been necessary so far.

So yes, all these things exist. In small, bespoke, use-case-specific solutions. What you're asking for - universal software management standardization - can't practically be achieved in more than one use case. This is why we are all constantly stuck in dependency hell, until a bug is filed, and the system is once again massaged into a working state by a human. Frustrating, sure. But it works most of the time.
In another New Yorker piece, Steven Milhauser explores aged genius in his short story, "In the Reign of Harad IV"

Excert:
he understood that he had travelled a long way from the early days, that he still had far to go, and that, from now on, his life would be difficult and without forgiveness.

Link:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/04/10/in-the-reign-of...
Reading between the lines I wonder if he's just using the backslash operator when he says 'inverse'.
You actually don't need to carry a balance with Venmo to send funds to a friend. If you have a balance of $0, you can send funds and Venmo will pull the funds from your bank account.
Credentials? They would just need a username, unless I'm mistaken?

> the risks of using customer's credentials in such a careless and ridiculous way many magnitudes higher than the potential rewards

Are you sure? What are the risks of parking a username? I doubt it's illegal and I bet they could obfuscate the traffic well enough to make it very difficult to prove to a court that they were the ones doing it. The only downside seems to be a bit of slightly negative PR (i.e. the assumptions of those who jump to conclusions) when Lyft detects the widespread parking.

Meanwhile, the upside is the expected value of their most profitable customers times the probability that they will switch to Uber+Lyft or 100%Lyft.

Low risk, large upside... I don't think this is as bad a business proposition as you make it sound like.
By Bob Bemer, later the "father of ASCII"
Oh totally agreed! I was bothered that the essay emphasized doing this without "changing the interface"! At least not the types.
A college-level textbook in linear algebra, another in calculus (must include vector calculus), and one in probability?

For linear algebra and calculus, at least, Coursera also offers courses.
I'm suggesting that you can't always abstract away things the way you'd like. The idea of how to send an email is highly abstractable, the idea of some other entity doing it leaks and rightly should.
In Japan, Uber Isn't a Taxi Service – It's a Travel Agent
> I happen to be neutral on the issue of whether or not same sex unions should be recognized by the government but I too supported Proposition 8. Not because I want to deny anyone anything but because the way to go about doing it should be legislative and not by having a judicial activist issue a fiat.

My friends are generally liberal, so I don't know many people who would vote for Prop 8 for religious reasons. That said, of the people who did support Prop 8, all of them had the same reason as you, and without fail, all of them wanted to see same-sex marriage become the law of the land.

Which ended for me the notion that supporting Prop 8 meant you hated gays and deserved to be silenced, run out of a job, and alienated by all right thinking people.

Thanks for sharing.
If you email me at jordan at birnholtz dot com, I will get right back to you.

Hell, if you email me right now with your phone number, I'll even call you.

I think these stories are worth telling, but I'm not going to compromise the privacy of my very close friends in the public forum without their consent.
Just because you don't think it should matter, doesn't mean nobody else thinks it matters. At the very least, it matters when trying to recruit somebody away from an existing job, doesn't it? If you want to hire someone, and he's getting X salary, you're generally going to have to offer more than X.
Two different tactics are being conflated here: Canceling rides on purpose and scheduling rides in order to recruit drivers. The former shouldn't be done, but the latter sounds fine since everyone is getting paid.
Tisk, tisk Norman. A good statistician shouldn't use anecdotal evidence with a sample size of one to support his/her points. If I picked up a random stat pub, I bet I could find some missing citations as well.
I agree, sublime could have been made open source. But compared to the elephant in the room ( VS ), Sublime is mostly open source ( all its plugins are ). Their core could have been made open source. but I think its an act of self-preservation by the creator which I do not have a problem with.
If I were Kramer, I would dub thee Anti-Statite.
Children in wars
How do you remember which one you created an account with?
Yes, as someone who's interested in this, I'd love to read any links or papers about this aspect of it.
Might also want to ask if they want their ads on top of nude teenagers...
My friends, roommates, and I use it all the time to settle minor debts, pay rent, and split bills. It's simple enough that we can make quick payments, and because it's built on top of email it inherently keeps transaction histories.

I haven't seen Square Cash 2.0, but I don't really see myself or my friends branching out from the dead simple email usage.
What Wellesley learned when it stopped giving out so many A's
"Discrimination" means the use of the brain to tell one thing from another. There is nothing morally wrong with using this power. I think hcho is plainly trying to offer the benefit of his knowledge here. The morally problematic "discrimination" is that which systematically give different treatment in such a way that innocent people are being shut out of opportunities. It is not wrong to say that Culture X is like Y, what's wrong is to then say you'll automatically disqualify individuals of Culture X for opportunity Z (C?)

EDIT: By the way, it's pretty interesting that your comment seems to justify differential treatment if based on that particularly modern folly called "statistical correlation". Are you saying that discriminating against Arabs or women, for example, is only wrong because the stereotypes are false? For that statement is absurd. There are stereotypes because certain things are true, on average, about those groups. Averages are not individual people. Prejudice is a moral problem, not a statistical error.