skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're getting downvoted for a few reasons.

1) The kind of startup you're espousing is generally not easy to implement and test, and also very hard to rapidly grow. As a result, it fails the typical "good startup idea" test that SV applies. It's also at odds with this lecture series so far.

2) "Stamina" in this case means being able to throw yourself into something and work stupid hours fueled by ramen and passion until it's built. It tends to be a lot easier to do this when you're younger than it is later in life. The flip-side is that the "35 year-old entrepreneurs" you refer to are often able to work more steadily toward goals, but again this isn't what SV looks for in hyper-growth startups eyeing a fast exit.

3) "Distraction-free" refers to being able to focus solely on your startup without having to split time with a family, or worry about making mortgage payments, or most importantly, being afraid of failing. When you're young it's easy to take a hit and start over. When you're older and have large responsibilities it's a lot more difficult.

Also to your earlier point, if your target market is HNIs, you're probably not in the startup business because that's a very small number of people to sell to. Please note that I don't disagree with you and think this is a valuable add to the discussion, but it's important to distinguish between the types of small businesses you're referring to and the types of startups that Ycom wants.
After the big bang and the expansion, and the condensation of energy into matter, the universe was almost entirely hydrogen and helium (i.e. extremely boring).
The heavier elements were fused together in the solar furnances (stars). The early stars were enormous, burnt through their fuel (walking up the Periodic Table to Iron) and then collapsed under the gravity pressure when the fuel ran out and exploded in a Supernovae. During these explosions a smattering of the heavier (than Iron) elements are fused together.
Our sun is a ~third generation star, made from the remains of other exploded stars.

So it's more that we are all star stuff; everything heavier than Iron (all the Lead, Tin, Iodine, radioactive elements, rare Earths etc.) are exploding star stuff.
The road to cloud UC
Putting legal issues aside, this is a perfectly rational approach to doing business. You do not need evil governments for cartelization to happen: It's a natural occurrence in constrained markets with established players.
The question then becomes what new applications will that enable, rather than how can we do what we already do in 3D. That's the problem I see with secondlife and as they're defining the metaverse...

If it's about simulation/training for doctors/firefighters/etc then I can see the uses because you're wanting to simulate a complex situation in the real world. But what purely virtual tasks will be better accomplished with VR than without? Is it more simulation of reality or something totally new? My guess is for whatever is new it mostly will be about navigating something inherently 3D such as DNA. If that's true, then do we really need a decentralized metaverse to populate it, or can whatever random DNA VR software be enough?
An age old debate and both are great! I used Emacs for a decade plus and on a whim spent a vacation re-programming my fingers for Vim and stuck with it as it felt slightly faster, not sure it really makes a difference :-)
I have many pupils like this, all over Israel -- two small business owners, and the rest hold high-paying design, tech and programming jobs.

I got to experience the joy of accepting my own student's invitation to join a startup where he has been employed as programming lead.
If it communicates over the network though, all of your traffic would still be recorded and decryptable. You'd have to exclusively use end-to-end encrypted services.
Keep in mind that almost no organization (outside alcohol sellers) can "recommend" alcohol consumption for the simple reason that alcohol is extremely negative for certain cohorts (i.e., alcoholics). Therefore, even if there are demonstrated benefits for the majority of the healthy population, no one wants to be seen as supporting the harms, which, in fairness, are often extremely bad. That said, even your quoted text admits that there may be potential health benefits to alcohol consumption in moderation.
Um not quite. Fission is where you break apart a heavy element like Uranium.

Fusion occurs in stars and the more massive the star the heavier the elements it can fuse in its core become. However fusing iron into heavy elements is ultimately a net loss in terms of outward pressure so the heaviest element you get from the fusion in the core of stars is iron. Heavier elements can only be synthesized in super nova.
Not sure if stupid or missing the point in a reasonable way. I'm just saying 10 mL is not a drink. 18 mL is a drink.
using llvm as the backend not hard to make a toy language which runs insanely fast with only integer operations.
Well, to be fair to him, in his entire 27 years of police work he has never busted a single criminal except through cell phone contents.
A mass, non-algorithmic, deep-dive approach is simply not economically feasible, so I don't agree that everyone should expect to come under scrutiny. The approach taken has to be targeted. That's not to say that there won't be completely innocent people who get scrutinized, but to me it seems that the average non-criminal person would be quite correct in assuming that the likelihood of ending up scrutinized by humans is minuscule.

I probably should have mentioned in my original comment that looking at it this way is purely self-interested. In reality, perhaps there are non-average attributes (eg. particular religions) which might see clusters of innocent people scrutinized. People outside those clusters may or may not take issue with that. It depends on their values. I don't mean to suggest that one opinion or the other on this is "correct", just that there might be rational (albeit self-interested) views on both sides of the argument.
The reason more companies don't do that is liability. Saying the wrong thing is 10x worse than saying nothing at all.
I just tested, and I can now confirm that there is no domain switching penalty for using vshufps versus vpshufd on integer data for XMM and YMM on Haswell, nor for XMM on Sandy Bridge (no YMM comparison possible there because vpshufd requires AVX2).
Easy, realtime, system-wide Shellshock monitoring
I know nothing about s2, but PostGIS uses two external libraries for its calculations: Proj4 [1] and GEOS [2].

Proj4 is for working with projections. It comes with a handy command line tool that lets you easily perform chores like converting between coordinate systems/projects.

GEOS is a C++ library (with a C API on top) that's actually a port of a Java library called JTS. It's used for expressing structured geometry/geography primitives and performing calculations on them, as well as encoding/decoding them in the WKT/WKB (text and binary respectively) formats (the PostGIS "geometry" data type). All the geometry testing and manipulation functions, eg. ST_Intersects(), use GEOS.

GEOS actually comes with support for a spatial index called STR, or STRtree, but I believe it's not used by PostGIS. Instead, PostGIS uses Postgres' own GiST, which is a generalization of R-trees that perform better in a relational environment.

[1] http://www.remotesensing.org/proj

[2] http://geos.osgeo.org/
I work on Bing at Microsoft. What you have stated is correct. We have already done away with our test and operation teams. Moreover, a number of PMs were let go last week. Developers are now expected to wear many more hats. We are also reducing the number of middle managers in the name of agility. All good things in my eyes.

Another interesting thing to note is that we are trying to reduce the size of projects and break apart the notion of "cores" within an org. The idea is to allow features that span several different areas to be implemented with greater ease. I like the idea but I am concerned with how these features will be maintained after they are completed.
yeah my bad I was looking through the wrong source. Do you do anything special for point queries, e.g. what town is this point in, which geohashes tend not to be that great for (in my experience)
Well, then do be clear that "If you are a Linux admin that runs a Web server that invokes code via old style CGI interface, then go and update". Please stop spreading panic among uninformed people.

If you are running stuff via CGI or allow random people to invoke shell on your servers, then you have bigger problems than a bug in bash. A shell was never meant to be secure.

Yes, I am a systems engineer too.
Network manager depends on "the dhclient-script."

> A variety of other system services are used by NetworkManager
> to provide network functionality wpasupplicant for wireless
> connections and 8021x wired connections pppd for PPP and
> mobile broadband connections DHCP clients for dynamic IP
> addressing

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tr...
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Stripe is really killing it this year with getting Apple and now Facebook on board with their service
I am all for reasonable regulation my Uber and it's kind and severe punishment for straying outside that regulation.

The thing is that unlike my own fine city of Minneapolis, many other metropolitan areas seem incapable or unwilling to respond reasonably to try to work with these companies to come to a mutually agreeable set of regulations.

The city governments are incompetent to do their jobs instead they throw around legal threats and the companies openly flaunt the law. Neither seem to be doing what's right.
All names are already taken, that's why Wikipedia has the disambiguation pages.
The problem with alcohol (and a lot of drugs) is that being intoxicated also impacts your judgement. Ever had a few drinks and thought "I can barely feel this", then after you sober up your like "wow, I was actually drunk".

That's why it's hard for an alcoholic to control their drinking. Having only a drink or two is easy to say when you're sober, but easy to excuse after the alcohol has kicked in.
To an extent, yes. We wrote our time-partitioned columnar storage from scratch: it has row-based storage for more recent data and column-based storage for historical data, and the data is merged from row-based to column-based periodically for performance. We realized from day one that much of "big data" is log/timestamped data, so our query execution engined are optimized for time-windowed queries.
Say I have a Perl CGI script that interfaces with ffmpeg and imagemagick with backtick operators. Am I vulnerable by default? Is there anything I can do to protect myself other than take them offline?
I don't think DHCP in Mac OS X is affected. I am yet to see a proof that any Linux client is affected either. I am pretty sure that a few dozen servers that happily serve Web content within my reach are not affected either.

If idiots could stop spreading panic and clearly state the conditions and risks, we'd all be served better.
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Big Bang and Inflation are't alternatives, they're part of the same theory. Inflation followed the Big Bang. In fact, recent studies of the CMB provide evidence for both the Big Bang and inflation.
Your original claim was that you were being asked the equivalent of leaving your house unlocked for their convenience, which is a wild exaggeration.
1. I enjoy performing the motions to a satisfactory result. I enjoy sharing that result with others. I enjoy (sometimes) creating new things.

2. Sometimes I will go shopping having a specific meal in mind, other than that -- no.

3. Something fast, so I won't be eating fastfood or prepared meals. Something elaborate, so that I can make an event feel more celebratory. Something nostalgic, so that I get to remember how things used to be. Mostly it's something fast though.

4. I try to minimize processed foods and maximize fish consumption. Really that's about it.

5. Don't over-do it. It's a bit like sculpture, where you take away from the base; only you add to the base. Don't be afraid to mess it up, but plan accordingly.
This was written almost 10 years ago by someone who was pretty polarizing inside the company (and ultimately left after spearheading the original vision for Windows 8), so take it with a grain of salt. Many of the recent MS layoffs have been in the PM organizations because the company is redefining the role.
of course it's not absolutely true. you're not wise to something everyone else is blind to - some people are totally able to cut down. the people who say it's impossible are AA people, and that's basically a religion.

but look at you - 2-3 occasions in your life - the people who have problems cutting down are doing that 2-3 times a week and are completely functional. it's a completely different personality type.

the bottom line is, for a lot of people, it's a LOT easier to stop than to 'cut down'. this isn't a magical premise. in fact i think it makes a lot of sense. similarly, for a lot of people, stopping is impossible. and that's how you get numbers like 74 drinks a week which sounds fucking ludicrous at first blush, but is in fact quite doable.
This is great, too bad the demo was too intensive for my laptop.
SoundCloud, valued at over $700M, is down. Page loads, no audio
The problem with Ello's promise not to sell your info
I would say that over-engineered goods are the ones that last just long enough (and not any more) so that most customers don't feel like they were ripped off when they need to replace the product. The products that you are refering to were under-engineered (they were engineered on the safe side).
A lot of research disagrees with that claim as a general assertion. This site summarizes that research:
http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/AlcoholAndHealth.html#.VCS34...
> The internet poses one of the greatest threats to our existence

This is true, where "our" refers to domestic spy agencies and the governments that consume their output.

Hence these laws.
Done: http://markdownshare.com/view/ce6982fb-87f3-489e-af93-ec448f...
Have you tried using the PayPal API? It's no wonder, Stripe is heaven in comparison.
That's sound statistics, but consider that that average value figures to over 10 drinks a day every day, and there's probably an upper limit on how much alcohol you can drink, even with an alcoholic's level of tolerance.

Salaries at Facebook are probably exponentially distributed, but if drinks per week were distributed that way, then the top 5%/1%/0.1% would become very dead, very quickly.
I'm thinking more & more about decentralised p2p bitcoin based uber which cannot be ever shut down or controlled. Now it's becoming apparent that it's what world will soon need.
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It's not a flippant response, but I would certainly consider yours to be. You have never suffered from addiction, therefore your frame of reference is skewed, but forgivable.

Having never suffered addiction you physically and psychologically cannot understand the affliction. It controls your thoughts, your body, your actions and decisions. It has costs well beyond every night drinking- costs paid in broken marriages, lost friendships and worse.

Pointing out that you have never suffered from addiction is not flippant. It is in response to a lot of what you have already written. You don't know the pain of which you are so dismissive, far apart from the 'coldness' of text. You express yourself and your understanding very well, and your words are sharp.
I've been using MacVim for close to 3 years now w/o any slowness, CtrlP (plugin) sometimes gets buggy with large projects but aside from that buffer navigation is always good, but then again I'm running on SSD and maxed out ram on my mbp.

I also use Janus https://github.com/carlhuda/janus so i might be a victim of improvements made by them.

Speed is the #1 reason I switched to Vim
'Many warrants are served peacefully...'
I think he meant "only elements down to iron" :p
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Unfortunately, people who have experienced addition are going to have a hard time understanding your position.

I too do not suffer from these kinds of habits directly or even through close family or friends, so other readers forgive me if I'm falling short of level-headed understanding here.

The question you seem to be asking is "Why isn't moderation an option" and addiction is, in part, the inability to moderate. Maybe you can't relate to that, but for somebody that has that inability, participating in any amount of the activity they have difficulty moderating is flirting with ruin. They use all of their ability to form and practice moderation habits on just avoiding taking the first step.

Their reality is very much different from yours or mine, the risks and rewards are entirely changed. Like airgapping an unpatched OS that's gone out of support and which hosts business-critical data, only an absolute countermeasure will suffice.
The bit about Uber saying it screened drivers thoroughly, and then the DA (or the office) finding examples where that was clearly not true is interesting and (IMHO) not unreasonable.

The weights and measures complaint I am curious about and wonder if it's to do with surge pricing. For the record I'm against surge pricing as I feel it amounts to usury in the Aquinian sense.
The heart disease benefits are far from being proven, and besides alcohol consumption is directly linked to cancer risk. There is no safe amount of alcohol to drink, and the cancer risk certainly makes all benefit/risk ratio close to nil. Net, if you care about your health in the long term, just don't drink.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/824237
Per rayiner's response:

Your attempt to create equivalencies between poor blacks and poor whites misses one crucial fact: our government did not systematically oppress and deny opportunity to the ancestors of poor whites. If the government burns down my house, then my neighborhood suffers flooding because of a hurricane, I am not made whole by the government addressing the flood damage. I am not satisfied with the government's attempts to "forget the past" and treat my case as no more important than that of every other person affected by the flooding. That makes no sense.
> Alcohol's also very good at preventing dementia later in life.

Source?
I still don't understand comparing Javascript to Clojurescript in terms of closeness to Common Lisp. Could someone explain what makes CL and Clojure so radically different?
No, but you see, the document about the extremely successful trial that was produced internally at NBN Co and validated the old management's announced design improvements resulting in cost savings wasn't signed off by the new board.

So, of course, no trial must have happened!
Unless you want to come back.
>Posting this as an anonymous coward because who knows - I may need to raise venture money myself, though I'm pretty sure we wouldn't qualify with "5x being the new 2x" I don't think anyone is interested in mere 100% growth, even if it comes with the advantages of sustainability built on the back of a real business.

OT, but I wonder if this is actually a problem.
Have these programs been responsible for actually stopping any large scale terrorist attacks?
Oops, yeah.
You might be right, but I have seen this trend before without mention that people tend to handle these things badly because of the environments they live in. Most people seem to have pretty poor training when it comes to probability, but the reason for this is presented as an evolutionary trait. I'm sure evolution plays a part, but I think it's mostly in terms of initial, untrained states. When people talk about how people do things because they evolved to do them that way, it sounds like something insurmountable. Humans have been bad at probability for hundreds of thousands of years, so of course they are now. But people are constantly the victim of marketers trying to confuse them with numbers. The lottery is just one of many ways this happens. It's no wonder that people are bad with numbers when there's so much obvious manipulation to try to get people to make irrational purchases. This isn't avoided by the article, but I feel like any mention of a trait people have inherited by evolution needs to be accompanied by an analysis of just how immutable it is. For example, desire for sex or food are pretty difficult to train out of, though not impossible. Poor aptitude with probability is pretty easily remedied. The fact is, not many organizations are motivated to fix it, and lots are more than willing to exploit it.
Reminds me of a Deus Ex datacube entry:

> Universal Constructor: Theory, Principles, and Practice
by Wayne Yin

> ...and thus arose the need for a more generalized theory encompassing a
"Universal Constructor" (UC) that would be able to handle such arbitrarily
complex nanoscale design problems. Unlike the simple atom by atom nanotech
constructors common today, a UC would combine millions upon millions of atoms in
a parallel process that could produce materials or mechanisms of unmatched
intricacy on a scale currently not possible even with the best nanoscale
foundry.

> One of the most obvious applications of a UC -- if its construction were ever
practical -- would be the genetic manipulation of lifeforms at the atomic level
to cure disease, correct congenial defects, or expand their capabilities in
beneficial ways. Theoretically, if an "intelligent," real-time control program
were developed for the UC, then autonomous, artificial nanoscale organisms could
be assembled. Careful design could create organisms that might actually exist in
"symbiosis" with other life.

> However, a UC also creates the tangible threat of a "gray goo" scenario: the
design of an organism that is so evolutionarily advanced as to overwhelm the
current ecosystem...
Think the series A crunch is bad now, imagine if a fund did this clearing out its entire capital with no ability to follow-on...
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Uber, et al are not going away so the governments need to figure out the proper amount of oversight and stop this ridiculous volley of shutdown threats.
The way you described it looked like trolling, hence the downvotes, I think. But your thinking is sound. People most commonly count their alcohol in shots and shot-equivalents.

1.5oz = 44ml. Most liquor is 40% ABV. That's ~18mL of pure alcohol.

The average beer bottle size is 330mL - 500mL, at 4-6% ABV. Again, that's in the 16-25mL of pure alcohol range.

Maybe rounding to 20mL might be a better definition of a "unit" of alcohol. It's still easy enough to do math with, and more representative of what people consider one drink.