skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The think is that while most of us will agree with your point of view, in the end it's just a point if view. These opinions are based on our frameworks --they aren't either natural or universal. So someone else can have completely different framework not based on traditional western thinking and come up with a logical framework which contradicts yours. We're fortunate in that most people have agreement on some principles and that we don't have to figure out why it's undesirable to make theft perfectly legal or make assault perfectly legal foe everyone, bug all of this just happens to be convention. We don't arrive at that because 2+2=4.
I like imperfect stuff. It has more character.

I can't really see how finding a flaw in a person could change my attraction to them (particularly sexually, though I know you said that wasn't exactly what you meant). Especially this flaw--it's not a moral failing. Moral failings are, indeed, distasteful.

If it's 3 hours per year, I can certainly handle that to be in love.
Hotness trumps madness.
I drove past this accident Saturday morning on my way home from a friends house. It was fresh... maybe ten minutes since the accident happened. It was absolutely awful.

And now it looks like we've lost a brilliant co-worker. Absolutely awful. My thoughts are with his family and loved ones.
Hey, gang! I'm on the Dart team and am one of the people who worked on getting this squared away. Holler if you have any questions. I'm super pumped to have a process that's easier for people to get involved with.
Payment gateway suggestion to support Russia and global audience
I am looking for payment gateways for a B2C service, which can help me collect money from customers in Russia which also have good coverage across rest of the globe.

What are the options we have? Paypal seems like not a popular option in Russia?
3 Traits of a Great Candle Label
How so? Genuinely trying to understand, as DID was formerly characterized as multiple personality disorder, and the way you describe your friends seem like it would fit (i.e. a dissolved idea of identity).

I know 3-4 people with schizophrenia, and none of them displayed the kind of wild delusions you're describing (though I am not discounting them! Don't get me wrong). In my experience schizophrenia manifests itself more like a worse form of anxiety, paranoia and depression mixed together (all my friends are under treatment and medicated).
Hey

Regarding .gitignore not for now but we are building this concept of content zones into the app that would allow you to do that.

With regards to landing page yeah i realize that I should probably just have a video in the beginning. A lot of people think it's just another notes app.
Culture is one of those factors that is very difficult to quantify, yet incredibly important for success.

At companies with great cultures, employees are eager to show up and get things done because they genuinely care about the team and mission. That was very much my experience at early Google.

Companies with bad cultures try to motivate employees with fear and intimidation, or simply fail to motivate them at all, and everyone wastes their time playing video games or whatever. Not surprisingly, those rarely do well.

In my estimation, most startups have weak to poor culture, which is one reason why you read so many startup horror stories. My advice to anyone looking to join a startup it to pick a place where you are excited about showing up and contributing every day. I think that's a much better predictor of happiness and success than trying to follow the social media hype or hotness signals.
Templates as first-class citizens in C++11
>one of the primary uses of Bitcoin is to engage in illegal transactions.

Do you have a source for that statement?
Two Anti-Aging Scientists Make Million Dollar Bet on Who Will Die Last
Fuck. I feel shocked ... sick. I don't know what to say.

I went to RIT with Mike. He was a seriously passionate developer and very clearly destined for great things. Finding out about this here makes me wish I had stayed in touch. This is unreal, and makes zero sense.

Too many emotions that I don't know what to do with, so I'll end my comment there. Just hope the rest of his family and friends are doing okay. RIP, Mike. :(

Edit:

I just want to say a little more about Mike. We were fairly close, but only my first year or two at RIT when we shared a dorm building and met through mutual friends.

Mike and I didn't stay in touch when our housing situations changed, but whenever we ran into each other on campus, we'd catch up, usually talking about what sort of stuff we'd been working on.

He was a bit like Sherlock Holmes. Socially, he seemed to be operating on another plane, and was at most in his element when talking about our craft, or really anything he was passionate about. He was keen to become a master at everything he tried his hand in, and he was deservedly proud of that.

In hindsight, Mike really was more than a peer or an acquaintance -- I looked up to him.
For three hours a year?

I bet I can find 3 hours a year you're poor relationship material, starting with the time you spent writing this comment.
To be fair, it's pretty improbable to accidentally hit the ISS. It takes really precise maneuvers and calculations to get there on purpose.
What qualifies Gradberry to be the vetters (candidates are "vetted by the Gradberry team"). Because the founder is a "nerd". Another stupid power play.
Note that the concept of 'suppressed memories' is not very well accepted by the psychological community. People can be convinced that they remember something they don't, so it's extremely difficult to tell between a 'suppressed' memory and a false one.
Does anyone have an explanation for why she can tell a dissociatve episode is about to happen? It strikes me as really odd.
It's not like YC gives them money and says "cya" and never talks to them again. They are probably forever involved in the start up until they exit, which doesn't seem to happen often.
Also if anyone knows a good windows developer who might be interested in joining uss please don't hesitate to put them in contact with me.

We want this to be cross platform.
This is missing one of the most useful features of using netsh for this: boot time captures.

By using the "persistent=yes" argument one can cause the capture to keep running through a reboot. This is incredibly useful when trying to troubleshoot something that happens before login. This was very, very difficult before without a tap, span port, etc.

I wrote a small article about doing this a few years back, for anyone who is interested: https://nuxx.net/blog/2010/08/17/network-capture-during-boot...

Also, if you'd like to get these in a format that can be read using Wireshark, Microsoft Message Analyzer (mentioned in the original article) can export in .cap format. Or if you want to stick with Microsoft tools just open the ETL in Network Monitor and use it for more traditional frame-oriented capture analysis.
Bring money and go to the marina

Or hit up mission at night, lots of fun, non-snobby bars.

I like the tech scene, during the day, but they're total lame-asses to party with and sausage fest city if you're doing the whole tech mixer stuff
MVCC doesn't necessarily mean no in-place updates, it just means that you can distinguish between multiple versions. For example, Oracle:

- keep most recent version of all keys in B-tree

- store updates in undo log ("rollback segments")

- queries for older versions dynamically undo recent changes

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14220/consis...
>>Yes, that is unfair! The whole reason we have the ADA and anti-discrimination laws is that plenty of people would rather just work with people that look and talk and think like them, and in fact believe they are more productive that way, and we as a society have decided that's NOT OK.

Sensitive/controversial/potentially-just-plain-wrong opinion incoming:

I completely agree with this. But, as a black male, I don't want someone who's racist to be forced to work with me. Extreme out-of-the-park example; I don't want the KKK to be forced to hire me because of affirmative-action or something. That'd be awkward for all of us! I'd prefer to get at the root of the problem and change society's views such that nobody needs to be forced to hire me and they do it because they like me and think I'll be good at the job; and being black doesn't bother them. If someone doesn't hire me because I'm black, I suspect it's better for me than being hired anyway and having all kinds of odd social cues happening in the office because someone(s) is trying really hard to hide their racism but it slips out every now 'n again.

Maybe there's a catch-22 in my reasoning. To solve racism, people need to be exposed to more people different from themselves but I don't want to be exposed to racist people until they're not racist anymore.
I prefer to learn, rather than stay ignorant, when I find new tech.

The only people I would not want to work with are ignoramuses and ironically, smart-asses. So you.
Overall it was a good experience. Our attrition (already low) didn't increase, we kept our office and most of our culture, we grew the team and increased our sales many folds. Now we are part of Watson which is pretty exciting. Obviously there also downsides related to being in a big company - the biggest being that you have uber forces beyond your control rocking the big ship.
That's sorta like a lot of the "Hispanic" immigrant community in the US, isn't it? Many still fiercely identify as their home country, etc., but end up paying local US taxes. But if nationality enforced where they had to live, nearly all of them would drop it to be a US national in a second.
You're not understanding the situation. The board isn't choosing where to allocate the money from the acquisition. The money goes to different classes of shareholders based on previously signed contracts.
If you don't like javascript, use whatever you want instead in the front-end that compiles to javascript. There are hundreds of language that can suits your needs. The only thing that matters is whether they allow easy interaction with the DOM. However you should know javascript,even if you don't write it in your app. You can try Haxe,JSX(the original one,not the stuff related to React that stole the name).However I would advise against anything that abstracts the DOM, like JWT.
I created an account, which is apparently more than half the people commenting here were willing to do (most people apparently took one look at your landing page, didn't understand the product, and closed the tab).

1. The first page after logging in says "To get started, type something in the Edit Box above and hit ENTER when you are done. Everything you create here will be visible to you and I because we are the only members of this loop." The last point on the page says "If you have any questions or feedback, just add a note in the Edit Box above and I'll make sure I forward it to the right people!"

Which is it? Private testing ground or feedback form? This isn't a good start, confusing and contradicting your new users.

2. The default/showcase loops are annoying. I don't want my account to be cluttered with tutorial content. An intuitive interface and clean documentation should be enough.

Worse, you cannot delete these default loops. I spent 10 minutes simply trying to remove the tutorial content without receiving "not found" or "permission denied" errors. Turns out you can only remove the shortcuts from the menu, not the loops themselves. I imagine this is because you implemented these as a single loop shared across all accounts rather than importing a copy of these loops per new account. Bad implementation - why are you presenting me with the functionality to delete the loop only to prevent me from doing so?

I would not clutter every new account with tutorial content. A new account should be perfectly clean so I can start using it, rather than wasting time trying to determine what are core pages vs. tutorial content. Also cannot remove the annoying "Loopy" page.

3. The transitions and animations are not cool. They are very distracting and slow down the use of the application by several factors. You said this project started a long time ago, and the way the UI tries to be fancy in my face seems to confirm this. An animation on every single mouse click is not acceptable since 2010+.

4. The hassle of just trying to kill the tutorial content imported to my new account, coupled with the in-my-face transition animations wasted the full amount of time I invest in trying out a new web app. The initial process frustrated me and chased me away from checking out the real product.

Sorry, I spent 15 minutes reading the landing page and exploring the first steps after logging in and got nowhere. That is too much time spent trying to evaluate a product and not seeing any progress.
Crowdsourced Robot Servants and the Willow Garage Spinoff That Never Was
The benefit of nations is that there is not a universally agreed-upon set of values.
It would be more accurate of me to say that "In my experience, banks require terms in their lending contract
to a startup that results in their notes being paid before anything else."

Clearly there are legal regulations around a company going through bankruptcy and/or restructuring, however when an acquisition is occurring outside the structure of dissolution, which is to say the company is being sold to another entity while it is nominally a going concern, the bank's note may (and my experience does) have specific language to cover that situation and its primacy with respect to where the funds from such a sale might be disbursed :-). The good news is that can also keep a bank from "forcing" a company into default which starts to limit what options they have going forward.
Whenever I hear about stuff like this, I wonder: Is there anything the failure modes of the human brain allow us to deduce about the software architecture?

Maybe memories are stored in some partitioned database, and one of the partitions is always stuff relating to "my identity", and somehow this partition can get unlinked and temporarily re-linked to a blank one, which is discarded after a few hours.

Hmm, maybe this is actually a feature, not a bug. In ancient times people often had to deal with being abused, enslaved, etc. Maybe being able to blank out really unpleasant experiences helped young slaves tolerate their abuse without becoming totally insane or going the route of suicide or rebellion (assuming the latter's success rate was negligible, rebellion would basically be the same as suicide from the standpoint of evolutionary pressures). Which ultimately helped them survive and reproduce.

Then once the mechanism exists, it can still get triggered naturally in modern humans if they're abused, or artificially by drugs.
How could you not be profitable with NASA contracts and Google cash?
But that's readable. This isn't.
that is a sad, super strange coincidence, in a relatively small (but.. growing?) field
I'm genuinely curious here: what if you happen to be frankly ugly? What if you are really awkward around people?

These characteristics don't necessarily mean you will be unable to build great products or a disruptive business. They don't mean your startup will fail. But they would almost certainly cause you to fail the character test.

Admittedly, being awkward and ugly does put your startup at a disadvantage because it will be a bit harder to recruit and a bit harder to close sales. But I am positive it is still possible to succeed if you are delivering real value. The product will speak for itself.

So aren't such character filters a bad business decision for YC? Aren't they passing on great startups by paying too much attention to things that ultimately don't impact success that much?
First image of light as both a particle and a wave
Meh, Maxis as I knew it was gone long ago.
Hey guys, I'm one of the founders at Outbound. We're trying to build the most developer friendly marketing automation solution -- so we appreciate any feedback from the community. Happy to answer any questions.
He mentions dissociatives, like ketamine, not LSD.
That would actually explain a lot of his comments.
Correct up until your last sentence. Founders & executives do not often get preferred shares.
She sits in on interviews where she doesn't understand what people are talking about but she's still able to judge people on some vague character variable that's only based on her gut instinct? Sounds like bullshit to me. I wonder if there's any science behind being a good judge of character.

I wonder how much being a 20-something white guy from an ivy league adds to your "character".
TL;DR: Americans have no idea why they and their country are so terrifying to the rest of the world.
Enter a bunch of startup competitions like VC Task Force and have some write down what the judges critique, we won second place at a big one and got a TON of comps, + even if you lose you get to know EXACTLY what VC people will ask you at the big meetings (Big wigs)!

Meeting other founders will lead to you going to "tech mixers" a bunch of people begging for money or talking your ear off about stuff no one cares about, and newsflash, startups are typically broke as shit, so you're gonna have a hard time finding customers by going to startup stuff

My best days have just been working from coffeeshops
>lying and abuses in virtual currency systems - that surpass anything physical currency systems have experienced.

Bernie Madoff wasn't using dollars to run his scheme? What about the housing market bubble? Bank bailouts? I don't recall those happening in bitcoin-land. The fact is that scams happen everywhere all of the time with everything. Beanie babies...fake gold bars... you name it.
That's only the one example, and the author could have thrown his hands up with the usual explanation that undefined behaviour entitles the compiler to launch missiles at you or whatever.

But in fact it's quite a reasonable (the only reasonable?) approach to optimisation, given a function that might invoke undefined behaviour on certain arguments, to emit code that is optimised for work on arguments that don't.

That doesn't seem to me to be tortured logic. The compiler ought to make that optimisation, always. It might be perfectly clear to the programmer that the function in question can never be sent a null pointer, but only by reasoning about the program on a level the compiler can't. It's only a minor side benefit that this can allow a certain amount of reasoning about the code paths that might be taken when you DO invoke undefined behaviour. That usually won't be much use, but might help one identify the kind of error one has made.

I expect most of us here have puzzled over some confusing output from a C program and tried to work out, from the output, whether we made an allocation error or overflowed a buffer or were off-by-one on some bounds. It's a wonderful language in some ways, but the pitfalls are there. Which is the point the author is trying to make.
I understand this apparently awesome application is only intended for Mac OS X, but it would be wonderful if the web presence marketing it wasn't totally unusable on a mobile device.
You're not wrong per se - a ruler usually has graduations but _could_ just be a straight-edge. However, as the GP says, "ruler" implies a straight-edged measuring stick (aka "measure" [n]).

Ruler derives, I gather, from Latin regula which just means a straight stick or bar and in turn derives from terms referring to keeping straight (literally or figuratively).

tl;dr measuring stick ⊂ ruler.
That article is mostly a rehash of a 2011 NPR article.[1] More technical information is available in Popular Science (I know, bad source) [2]. Here's a video of some captured gear.[3]

From the video and descriptions, it looks like they're using walkie talkies with repeaters, like a police radio system. They used some minimal scrambling, just enough to prevent people with scanners from listening in. That's cheap, easily available gear.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143442365/mexico-busts-drug-ca...
[2] http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/radio-tecnico-how-z...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT9-dDxkbJc
If you replace "audiophiles" with "humans", then yes, you're right. Humans are gullible, notoriously so. Audiophiles are only human, so some of those traits pass along nicely.

It's like calling hackers notoriously gullible because there are folks who buy $500 HDMI and Cat6 cables.
Would you say they are in temporary camps because Modern infrastructure can't handle massive population migrations?

Don't get me wrong I think most countries could accept far more immigrants, but the much of the world is a long way from what most HN are used to. Consider, ethnic cleansing' is not just something that happened in WWII, it far more common than people want to admit. Poverty, language, ethnicity, and culture are real issues and complex issues.

PS: I think most people should read though every item on this list at least once. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_cleansings And then realize a lot of things did not make the cut.
sure, just like everyone else's programs just use libc, python standard library, etc.

Which license? How about BSD or GPL?
Just another kid with a keyboard and High Speed Internet.
I hope that you are mis-representing Rust. I'd be pretty discouraged if I was learning a new language and one of the first interactions I had with a notable community member was a notice of take-down containing neither encouragement nor constructive criticism.
Unfortunately, it's not quite that easy --- to be able to push, you need git+ssh, and I've never made that work with github (it just hangs saying something about git-upload-pack), and it doesn't seem to help you with some of the more horrible git interactions, such as doing a pull from upstream to your forked github repository.

(And I suspect that if I could do that reliably I would have internalised enough git to use that natively.)
I'd say you know nothing about me.

My life experience tells me that it's not worth meeting broken people and supporting them, fixing them and so on.

It's a good way to make yourself miserable. If you have a pattern of doing this, it says something about you. Maybe you don't think you deserve better or something, or you need to feel that someone depends on you and needs your support.

Latching on to needy people and supporting them doesn't mean that you're good relationship material in any objective sense; it's just your self-image of what you think makes you "good" is in a relationship.
To a first approximation, a startup's company culture is simply a reflection of the personality of the founder(s).
Because she's experienced it before and it doesn't happen instantaneously?

Even some of the most fast-acting drugs still have a ramp-up. I'm thinking, IV propofol, if you've experienced it before (and even if it's your first time), you can tell that something is happening.
A web application for storing notes that does encryption in the browser
looks a lot like what I built with NLP months ago:

https://freelancers.legalsifter.com/

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/07/legalsifter-helps-designers...
First you love the person, THEN they have this thing happen, THEN you keep on loving them in spite of it. Like everyone else you love. Or maybe you didn't love them enough in the first place.
Are there any lessons you have learned from existing language projects that use this process such as PEP (Python) and JEP (Java)? Personally, I like the fact that you have them in Github so it's easy to tag, comment, revise, etc.
Also, there's a bias on HN (and the world in general but here in particular) against giving real, polite negative feedback (note downvoting without comment).
Assume self-driving car is perfected, Google can easily offer better mobile/local ads for both business and consumer because of context.

Show popups ads of ongoing/upcoming events of the current street you are on. Going to the movie theatre, recommend a nearby lunch spot. Feeling lucky? Let the car plan your weekend

This bring huge potential to ads