skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better question is why America became a super-power in the first place?

I think many of the assumptions of American exceptionalism are not root causes, as the majority of the reasons for why America, and the west in general, have risen to global domination are embedded in, how should I put it, conflict creation, and not conflict resolution. The west has benefited tremendously from the deliberate, and sometimes accidental ability to create conflict around the world, and gain profits from it including in China. This isn't some controversial claim, this is pure, and simple Nationalism, and enlightenment ideas of State.

However as the industrial dregs settle down, and as Imperial might whimpers, we're seeing the rise of countries that were left destitute in the past 150-200 years, regaining a sense of internal stability. The result of this new founded stability around the world unfortunately, or fortunately, creates a new world where the center is other than the west. Already India, and China are talking about a polycentric world that activity eschews the hegemony of the west, in favor for a more equal world, because let's face it the west is the 1%.

Even if we deny all that it would be very difficult to refute that America has in the past 100 years been an incredibly stable nation compared to the entire world, and coupled with an active participation in global economies. It was perhaps the only nation on the planet that was internally stable, and had a strong external presence. All other nations eventually declined, had internal struggles, or were just emerging as global economies. This alone gave America an unprecedented advantage over the last 100 years, and that advantage is slowly becoming meaningless as the entire globe is stabilizing.
Genius is a YC company and would probably work pretty well for this
I have never gotten that impression, and given that 1/3rd of the Chinese population are still in small farming communities, several of which do not have access to things the average American considers basic and fundamental to life, I don't see how anyone would have that impression.
Seems like a good job for genius.com
Amazon Giveaway: Unboxing Amazon's New Service
Should be noted that most people outside of the crypto community blur together SSL + TLS.

More generally this post could be titled "SSL v3" is now not considered safe enough to transmit credit card data over.
ESA experimental spaceplane completes research flight
You are talking about binary compatibility and immutable dependencies. That's nice, but it's a different topic to the conversation that jerf and I are having about the semantics of shared code. I'm sure maven is good at what it does, but it's not completely relevant.
Not to mention that most young ex-pats do eventually come back to the country and contribute. I'd rather they came back alive and well, even if it is me footing the bill for them in the meantime.

That's one of the big missing parts of the US healthcare debate. It's not just about immediate cost, it's about potential future tax revenue and economic value that you're losing when you let people die before their time.
Di you know git? Use jekyll
There is no reason to believe that these rules will lead to price regulation. As Wheeler pointed out, they are almost identical to the regulations for cellular voice, which have been in place for ~20 years, and there has been no price regulation there.
Pistachio – type-safe model adapters in Swift
This +1 There is s huge need for open source documents and ease of collaboration.
legal.genius.com? Yes please. Only problem is finding lawyers who will read more legal documents just for fun.
A bit off topic, it looks like Sam Altman is ramping up his blogging activity due to YC's S15 open sign-ups.
That was apparently added after I made my comment.
Avoiding Massive Fraud: A Good Reason to Teach Children Software Development
There are also many other differences: differences in resource/energy availability, differences in the global environment, differences in policy options available to the government, differences in internal structure and diversity, etc. The Japan-China comparison is popular these days but it misses a lot of the things that distinguish China from the old Japan.
The US is unequal largely because the US exported millions of blue collar jobs to Asia but did not proportionally increase incentives to create jobs for those displaced. This only affected the middle class as the highest earners benefited or were untouched by the job exports. The US then created huge incentives for "investment" in home purchases and other real-estate, creating a spectacular bubble that worsened inequality all the more when it burst. That did impact higher earners. Everyone is worse off. So, it must be the case that now Congress and the President are working together to make job creation, manufacturing and competitiveness a priority, right? Not so much. New manufacturing innovation centers appear to be patronage boondoggles. While billions went to bank bailouts, the Small Business Administration saw no significant increase. Taxes actually increased for employment, and the US healthcare law has made health insurance more (not less) expensive for many employers.
I'm using postal.js for pubsub in a webapp where I have components that I'd like to reuse but are sometimes used in varying contexts, such that zero, one, or more other components will be interested in that component's actions. This way, any given component doesn't need to know how many / which other components are interested in its events -- it can simply publish them.
I am a little confused by the post. You walk us through a way to create an account, and then you go on to advocate basically not using the platform, and opting out for comparable compartmentalized solutions for photos, messages, etc...

My question is, at the end of the day what value is facebook bringing to us? Does it become a glorified contact list at that point, or is there something I am missing?
>we can focus on examining React’s true strengths: composition, unidirectional data flow, freedom from DSLs, explicit mutation and static mental model.

So wannabe functional programming in JS ? I always wondered why Facebook didn't just go all-in on clojurescript when they did React, they have the resources to deal with any compiler/technical issues, heck they could reimplement the compiler themselves they already maintain a bunch of PHP VM/language stuff. It does everything react tries to do but better and by default.
I'm old enough to believe that meeting on an online forum doesn't qualify 'met'. "I met the President on twitter" doesn't count.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Launch
Of course not. Because it is not secret any more.

Now they only eavesdropping.
This is a great start. I'm actually in the middle of a writing a Golang service, and this list checks off everything I've been dealing with.

A lot of these things aren't golang-specific, though. Ideally it would be easy to swap in services written in different languages, and the conventions stay the same.
This is really disappointing. I've been psyching myself up for the landing for weeks now. :(
Nah. Top will be the way we treat animals. The material is already out there, we turn a blind eye. They'll be utterly horrified, and the school essays will be comparisons between death camps and the supposedly sophisticated meat-eaters who lived for the century after. How did we get stuck into the Japanese over whaling, yet happily chow down on all those factory-produced chickens.
I'm not going to respond to you other than to call you out as a reactionary and a racist.
> Your source proves me right.

Are you sure you understand the concept of functional literacy?
Having experienced it firsthand, I wonder if those numbers don't tell the full story. There are whole families basically going in and out of jail running the drug trade. I never got the sense that violent criminals had quite the "revolving door" effect.

Edit: then again, it's likely that drug offenders would be much more open about what they're doing time for. Now that I think about it there could definitely be positive selection bias (or whatever) affecting my perception.
Yes, wine was weaker, but that only explains willingness to drink so much, not the actual practice. Romans and greeks generally watered their wine down to about half/half if I remember right, and considered anything higher to be barbaric (and a waste of good wine). That's part of why greeks could go all night drinking from bowls in large groups without turning into frat boys, the reduced alcohol content may everything quite a bit tamer than it could have been.
Note that .DOC is the industry standard for contract negotiation, whether you like it or not (I don't!). A template sales contract that is going to be redlined is going to be a DOC file, because it more or less has to be.

People suggesting that this instead be released on Genius or Github should also remember that there are corner cases in contracts where formatting actually matters. Not only is .DOC the most pragmatic choice for a high-profile template contract, but it's also the safest.
A 99.9% SLA by default? That seems overly ambitious for a startup. :p
Heap? Isn't it a stack because you only really remember what went on near the top? :)
You mean Go needs libraries for the "enterprise" world, because devs actually need languages that integrate well with their client's infrastructure.And you're totally right.
OK, I'm fed up. China is really dangerous and way too aggressive. Obviously, its political system is on an imperialist ego-superpower course.

It's spending on its military like crazy. The navy strives to reach a size and power never seen since the demobilisations after the Second World War. Its navy patrols aggressively in foreign waters, often provoking fights and shooting up foreign boats even though China didn't declare war. It's only a matter of time till the aggressive behaviour hits some wrong ships, boats - or maybe an airliner mistaken for a fighter.
Plenty invasions of sovereign countries in the last 35 years alone prove it's unfit for lasting peace, an imperialist hyper-aggressive power. This aggressiveness is underpinned by intense propaganda and myth-building at home, with entire service industries inflaming the population against countries they cannot even point at on a map. Racism plays into this as well, with lots of derogatory names for foreigners of exotic looks.

China's gunboat and cruise missile diplomacy with occasional and nowadays frequent bombing of neutral countries is out of control, but a United Nations Security Council veto power protects them against formal repercussions. They even bombed an American embassy 15 years ago and nothing happened!
I'm especially concerned about how they now discuss how to wage a future war against the United States. All the public discussions are solely about how to defeat American land-based defences so Chinese naval battlegroups can close with the American coasts and bomb military and strategic targets at will. Unmanned combat drones are an especially favoured tool for this; many Chinese appear to have high hopes for these. The range and stealthiness is apparently at the centre of their hopes.

We shouldn't stand by this and pretend we aren't involved.
China's aggressiveness needs to be contained now!

Oh, wait.

Borrowed from: http://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.ca/2014/11/its-about-tim...
Ghost (https://ghost.org/)
Windows Substitutes Helvetica for Arial
Oh, geez, the headline says "Big Band" while the article says "Big Bang". I was really hoping that somehow, "In the Mood" was merely a figment of the collective imagination, that Tommy Dorsey, Cab Calloway, Ish Kabibble and Glenn Miller were just products of some particularly contorted and perverted conspiracy. Imagine my disappointment!
I haven't found any definition for Lidar that isn't a speed of light based measurement. Under this definition the Kinect 2 camera is Lidar but the real sense camera isn't because uses parallax.
> What evidence is there to suggest that meaningfulness is a concept that exists outside of our own minds and experience?

Why would you need or want to?

I exist. My mind exists. My consciousness exists. My experience exists.

I mean that in the perfectly ordinary, uncontroversial sense that we use every day. There is no particular mystery or problem when I say, "My cat exists" or "My socks exist". I can provide evidence for them, in the same way I can provide evidence for my own existence and the existence of my experiences. If you can read and understand this post you have evidence for my existence and the existence of my experience.

Furthermore, because we are beings of a particular kind, the things we find meaningful--like the things we find nutritious--fall into a relatively small number of categories. Particulars won't be the same for everyone, but so what? It would be very strange to say that because I like meat and you like fruit there's no objective or universal standard of nutrition, and anyone can eat anything--rocks, trees, nothing--and get along equally well.

Simply because our nature does not determine what we find meaningful or nutritious does not mean it does not constrain it. This is again a perfectly ordinary phenomenon that for some reason people get all confused about when it applies to the contents of our minds rather than the contents of our stomachs.
They've actually done some good journalistic stuff in the last year or so. They're trying to expand to cover the whole range of "shitty clickbait" to intellectual journalism. Similar to the magazine Vice creating Vice News.
Labour force participation rates by sex:
USA: 70.2% for men, 57.7% for women.
Europe (OECD countries): 79.7% for men, 62.6% for women.
So it's more common in EU for women to work than their sisters in the US, but the gender difference in participation rates is also higher in Europe.

Sources:
http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_303.htm and http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=LFS_SEXAGE_I_R
These lazy orientals built the largest high speed rail network in the world in less time than it'd take a US rail bill to even get through Congress. They launched their first space station in 2011 (albeit a minimal one) and are planning a manned moon mission, following their first successful lunar lander in 2013 Starting from a space program that was basically nothing 15 years before. Corruption and fraud are rampant in the BIC (Russia is out of the picture, let's face it) nations but I think it's part of nascent country's development. And let's not forget, Steve Jobs was a huge fan of "great artists steal" quote by Picasso.

P.S. Your characterization of 1 billion people as all knockoff makers is dangerously close to the idea that Chinese are mere "culture bearers," while Westerners are the "culture creators," as said by a great mid 20th century ethnologist. Please don't let HN decay into right wing moonbattery, as most anonymous communities do.
I was really looking forward to watching the landing attempt. At this point, I'm hoping for another launch delay pushing the attempt back to the 20th.
"Molyneux insists 22Cans is in rude health"
Neal Stephenson goes into this a great deal in Anathem. it's worth a read.
Wonder when they plan their next attempt, I think they seek support from their customers before attempting recoveries, so maybe they couldn't turn around and try again next launch. Hopefully I'm wrong.
My bad, it's sometimes easy to overlook the sidebar.
How about India? They will soon be the most populated country in the world? Indonesia has about 250m people? Brazil, Pakistan, and Nigeria? All these countries have large populations. They probably have a lot of "growing room" too.

In short, this claim is meaningless:

"China has 3 times the population of the US. As soon as they started growing a middle class, it was inevitable that this would happen."
.doc files also allow one to make edits and make comments and email back and forth between lawyers & stake holders during the negotiation phase.
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Sheesh people, this is the second time this week that this topic has come up and no one mentioned the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge! It was on 60 minutes this weekend for crying out loud. tl;dr DARPA is challenging companies to develop and improve upon the core ideas proven in SAGE.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9012051

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/darpa-dan-kaufman-internet-secur...

Dylan, seeing that you're in NY, I'd be happy to talk this over with you over a few beers at the next NYSEC: https://twitter.com/nysecsec
hmm so at the nexus of the money system, there is a marketplace run by banks with very little oversight from regulators. Sounds reasonable.
Their door revolves too, but because their sentences are longer and parole harder to achieve, it revolves more slowly.
So someone stole your design and you cry out? WTF? Is it a kind of PR campaign? Get back to work and do something fucking unique that other can't easily steal. Invent. Cool inventions even in UI are hard to steal. You have NOTHING FUCKING SPECIAL in this design to cry about it.
DHH: Are we making it better?
How is relative power measured? I am curious, because it reminds me of the Civ III Histographs which had some underlying formula.

Ex: http://www.civ3.com/previewwin.cfm?mode=screenshot&img=image...
Alan Partridge Interviews Child Prodigy Simon Fisher

Taken from the BBC Radio 4 Series "Knowing me, Knowing You."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdZtM3_Lcy4
I'm guessing it's in Word format because most procurement departments use (and expect a Word document) for terms. But I very much agree, that it'd be great to have it on GitHub for collaboration. I'd even suggest this tool (http://ben.balter.com/2015/02/06/word-diff/) my colleague (@benbalter) made to collaborate on Word docs using GitHub.
GDP per capita doesn't matter. PPP per capita is what truly matters when comparing countries.

> US to lose its superpower status

It already lost it. Not only to China, but also to the European Union. Both now equal or surpass the US in terms of PPP per capita.

> Quite frankly China's rise is overrated!

Perhaps you don't realize that an ~8% yearly economic growth means China's GDP/PPP per capita is DOUBLING(!) every 9 years. And it has been doubling every ~9 years for the last... 35 years.
Building the MacPaint for hardware
Just like to add, I was at the Angular 2 todo app talk last night at Google, where the Angular team unleashed a bevy of information about the internal workings and philosophy on application development. Some relevant details are that they too are embracing unidirectional flow, and the concept of immutable data. Frontend development keeps getting refined, it is very promising.
Key to Cloud Migrations for Businesses
James Riley works at Goodwin Procter (sp)[1] and kudos to him -- this is a big contribution to the startup ecosystem.

Also, many thanks for not including an arbitration clause and class action waiver as a default term. Not only is it incredibly sleazy (in my opinion) but also many companies will have significant push-back on such a term. Usually requires their own in-house counsel to look at it, and that's the last thing you want.

[1] http://www.ycombinator.com/documents/#sales
at 60+ pages it's something that will take me a bit of time to go through. But on a first glance it looks good, i.e. similar quality to their blog. The ebook takes you through the whole process of thinking about your product, what it needs to do and what you should think about so that it will actually do it.

I'm sure a few people might complain about the fact that you have to invite 2 other people to get the book. But I'm also sure that people here are smart enough to get around that if they really want the book.
If you by type B means something akin to Nihilist or Relativist then I think you are missing the point many of them are trying to make. Otherwise there is people of type C.

It's not that everything is the same But that you can't claim something to be objectively better just because you think it's subjectively better. That does not mean type B do not believe there are somethings that are better, just that they are subjective.

Or put another way. You cannot not have values.

Needing to pee means you will prioritize something over others. And so type B people have plenty of meaning in life they can even discuss why they think a is better than b but they don't take whatever claim to be conclusive.
The problem is in enterprise Go is really hard to push currently due to management no having proper understanding of it. I believe Go is the future and I recently tried to push Go in using it to write a new semi-real time system to handle many little messages with complex business logic but nope CTO went with node.js and have a callback hell.

Sorry didn't mean to rant... Love Go its the future, use it.
Any efforts towards a version-numbering standard for dependencies? Godeps is ok as a workaround, but published versions of things like logging packages, etc, would make me feel a lot safer when depending on them.

And no, I'd rather not 'vendor' source-snapshots of a logging package into every project I ever work on.
I've had to spend money at various points getting documents drafted which, like this, are pretty much cut & paste anyway. I would just like to see MORE of this. Recently came across lawbite https://www.lawbite.co.uk/ which looks useful at least for UK based companies. Haven't used the service so cannot endorse. Basic employment contracts, vesting schedules, t&cs, keep them coming!
Do you have a favorite citation for that factoid?

Some similar claims I have looked at have used the "Selling, General, Administrative" off of an income statement as the marketing expense, but that category includes salaries and buildings and lots of other things, not just marketing expenses.
Sorry, but I'm not certain how you make a business model off that idea. To win, you need to ensure that people can build and use these tools to secure the world AND make money off it.

Second, investing in security R&D is not that risky if you know who to partner with. There are many organizations whose sole purpose for existence is to fund foundational->applied R&D across a variety of fields. You seem to have mentioned none of these opportunities in your blog post?

Third, if you're a software developer and you really care, the tools already exist to write secure code. However, there are few to no incentives to use them! I actually disagree somewhat that more R&D is needed on the security side. It's an inaccurate characterization of the state of the art in security and the degree to which people take advantage of it.

For exampleeeee, Mayhem has found and reported hundreds of bugs in Debian and did the work to submit bug reports with reproducible crashes and POCs. I think < 10 of the bugs they reported were fixed. I can't find the link right now, but the exact systems you referenced are being used out in the open to help people and no one is listening.
We create simple tool for designers and web developers for showing heat map of web users’ viewing time distribution across websites to help arrange elements on page better. Heatmap based on data from Nielsen Norman Group researches: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention/ http://www.nngroup.com/articles/horizontal-attention-leans-l...
There was a time when the United States had loose labor and environmental protections. Combine loose labor and environmental protections with an almost complete lack of respect for personal liberty and property rights and it sure is easy to get things done.

P.S. The population of China was 1.357 billion as of 2013.