skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For 3rd world countries that actually want to join the 1st world, this is great. But I'm afraid that we're creating a global monoculture (spreading western-style capitalism everywhere) and this is not in society's long-term best interest.

Some people might not want "jobs" as we define them. Some might not want an "economy" as we define it. I think we should do our best to shield peoples who don't want to buy in to our system from having to do it.

By no means do I want to condemn people to lives of toiling for giant multinational corporations if they would be perfectly happy being self-sufficient yet isolated.
Nope, I don't think that's true. At least that's not what they told employees. They told us stores make almost identical money from the margin of most items (I think it was something like almost everything is marked up 20%) and yearly membership fees.
Anyone who've used a search engine disagrees with you.
And as far as Google goes, their only "gripe" with SEO/Spammers is that they get the money instead of Google.

So yes, Google does work to stay ahead of SEO spammers by providing a better service than them for those who are willing to pay, because the consumers don't care and as long as you don't get Viagra commercial and 17 types of malware by clicking on a promoted search result in Google neither will you.
Gah. Time keeps speeding up as I get older.
Just starting to realize how out of touch HN readers are with CSS. This mindset does not belong in a conversation about CSS in 2015.
>Makes it that much harder to game...

But surely the people who play the game best should win. And surely YC has criteria by which the judge talent, just as a record company does, otherwise there is no method and it is a crapshoot.

It's not a matter of disclosing "secret sauce" -- each VC, record company, sports team, or incubator, has its own criteria for selection. Some may favor experienced founders, some may favor products that are past alpha, some like mobile. The problem here is that no-one knows YC's rules. By not specifying basic points then it does become a crapshoot.

When we see something like Sniply being rejected for "we can’t see it becoming the huge type of company that investors like to fund" then at least we know something. From that we can infer that YC wants companies that can be huge and can get upstream funding. But if that was the case, then why did they select Sniply for interview? And why are so many of the previous batch not huge ideas? To outsiders the process is very inconsistent.

It would be a big help if YC said "these are the main criteria we judge by, don't apply otherwise." It would save YC a lot of work sifting through inappropriate applications, and would save potential applicants with good ideas being rejected because of poor match.
> That doesn't say much about the quality of the curriculum

I agree.

However, this thread is not about the schools themselves, but their output, the graduates (c.f. parent and GP: "produce monkey coders", "yield better results").
Yes, but it should be noted that to see this speed up you can only do read caching. You can do write buffering in RAM but you need to mirror it to another node or you risk data loss in a power outage situation. RAM-over-network is roughly equivalent to SSD performance. It should also be noted that not all SSDs are created equal. You can get an SSD that will do tens of thousands of IOPS or you can get SSDs that do over a million IOPs per drive.
There won't be many unicorns. They'll be one or maybe two, and it won't be obvious for a few years which companies they are.
slow shit
I'm finding Judith's article much better written. Looking at the response the students had to the "dangerous space" flier, seems to typify free speech. Why shouldn't they ask the university to condemn the flier?

But the article is very slippery-slope, and mostly doesn't criticize safe spaces directly, just what the author sees as their side effects.
An internet without Google and apps, Bing, Youtube, Facebook and Instagram, Snapchat, almost all big content publishers, Tumblr (as of recently), Twitter... what would be left?

of my usage: Apple-owned apps, Spotify (premium only), Vimeo, SoundCloud, WhatsApp, Dropbox, Trello, Reddit.
Do you have any evidence that any of this is actually the case? In my experience it is Zionist feelings verses actual facts that BDS activists present about Israel's expansion. Your anecdotes against mine, I suppose.
Only partially. You usually have to use browser prefixes to get it to function. http://caniuse.com/#feat=multicolumn
So, advertising that's hard to distinguish from what you think you're reading? In the context of education, that sounds pretty ugly and manipulative.
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Strange that the article doesn't cover anything I'd call the essence of coffee, smell/taste/flavour.

I visited Iceland a few years ago, and while I was there for only 10days or so (and drove the length of the ring-road that encircles it), have an overwhelming memory of terrible American drip-style coffee. I wonder if that was coffee made for tourism or a reaction to ordering in English not Icelandic. Makes me hope so, so I can return and try again.
>when you control public opinion

What does this mean and where is the actual documentary evidence to back it up (assuming that whatever it means would need such things)?
John Varley's Eight Worlds setting would make a great cable series. Lots of good visuals in there (unsurprising, since like George R. R. Martin he spent a lot of years working in Hollywood).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds
I don't think "absolutely impossible" means quite what you think it means. Again, I will make no claims that it is easy. And in some cases you may wind up with some global reasoning entering into the coding process.

Honestly, with how many solutions I've seen with tons of "locally pure" parts that were a bloody mess to deal with, maybe some "global" reasoning is called for.
As someone else has noted, the set of things that won't harm you, aren't necessarily the same set of things that you are allowed to carry on a plane (leatherman), or check (LiOn batteries).

Also - while you can be trusted to make judgements about your own safety, the airlines have to make somewhat more conservative decisions about the safety of everyone else on the plane.

And carrying packages for someone else is just one of likely hundreds (thousands?) of factors that they are concerned about.

This doesn't guarantee airplane safety (Nothing ever will), but it reduces the number of easy attacks one can make, such that it's becoming somewhat more difficult for a passenger to bring down the plane they are flying on now. Of course, now we have to worry about the pilots (a thankfully rather rare vector)
I just happen to think it's a bad example because political correctness pervades all of politics, but (unlike say White vs Black or Male vs Female), for the Israel-Palestine issue only in the far left would does political correctness favor the Palestinians, while this is reversed in mainstream US politics. So I think it's important to point out that how this example differs from most forms of political correctness.
The only differences are that you have to opt into the new box model (required, because "justify-content" and "align-items" are incompatible with the old box model) and the names are different (which is a good thing, because one of the important features of flexbox is that you can switch from vertical to horizontal layout very easily).
What an odd and formulaic response.
> If you are needing typing to solve your own inadequacies as a programmer, you should become a better programmer rather than expect your language to do that for you.

That is one of the most ignorant things I have ever read.

Perhaps if you are needing dynamicism to solve your own inadequacies as a programmer, you should become a better programmer rather than rely on your language like a crutch.

Perhaps if you were an adequate programmer, you wouldn't have such a hard time understanding types and getting the compiler to accept your program.

I cannot imagine a worse programmer than one who willfully rejects a tool which improves a codebase to great extent. Typed languages are strictly more powerful, and you cannot get the same code guarantees from a dynamic language.
Neuromancer by William Gibson, as directed by Chris Cunningham.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Cunningham#Neuromancer

TV or film, really. The distinctions between the two have been greatly blurred these days, for better or for worse. Film, I suppose, is still considered a purer medium, though. Unfettered by commercial interruptions, and syndication or serialization concerns...
Conversely, that same reasoning allows you to conclude that there is no reason to follow your heart.
I'm going to invoke identity politics and say that this does not match my lived experiences. All of the deans I ever dealt with at my Ivy League college were women. And Buddy Teevens did not hold an amount of power that could stun a fourth-string walk-on fullback into a concussion.
> It seems you and I live in a different country.

Well, the discussion here is about the US, where that is definitely true. "Safe spaces" give straight white men the slightest taste of what the rest of the world is like for people who aren't that trifecta. And, predictably, we straight white men freak the hell out when exposed to that...
I chuckled a little because you mention "generic white males" and then Satya in the next sentence.

Satya's comments were poorly stated and he said as much. People spoke freely about it, and he clarified. Free speech in action!
Stumbling in the right direction
My sister worked three minimum wage jobs and still worked less than 35 hours a week for two years.
Per the linked history of coffee in Iceland, it seems that coffee in Iceland is made in drip or steeped (kokekaffe) styles. Other sources suggest that Icelandic coffee is drip, strong, and dark. Is that congruent with what you experienced?
> In fact, I didn't know much about Tor until researching DARPA and the other participants involved in the program.

This reminds me of the movie Cube :(.
Interesting I'll have to take a look at this Python lib. I was trying out various Node.JS libs.
Very passionate write up, but what in gods name does Russia have to do with anything here?! No people in Moscow or other parts of Russia will not stop to correct a strangers scarf. In fact, most Russians don't even like eye contact with strangers. They don't smile in the same way Americans do because it's often seen as fake. It it is a very different culture for sure.

Author is display exceptional level of bias throwing in culture he doesn't understand or know about...
I pay about $150/mth on electricity ($1800/yr), if your numbers are to be believed, then it would take about ~13.2 years to pay off a 24k battery pack, this doesn't include the cost of the panels which would probably be another 24K, so roughly a 26 years to pay off (Probably the working life of the panels) So basically at current prices the cost is on par with my utility. It's not amazing, but with the right gov't incentives and future advancements in battery and solar technology I don't see why we couldn't see renewables edge out the dominant players. Sucks for me though, just finished my B.eng in mechanical with specialization in thermal power generation.
"Works" is a tricky word, but consider:

What is cheaper, having to replace a microwave once a month, or sending a homeless person to a hospital once a month? And once a month is probably an underestimate, if anything.

How we currently treat the homeless is a disaster, both in terms of outcomes and cost. "On a monthly basis she does hundreds of dollars worth of property damage, shoots up heroin once per week, has ten times the chance of the general population of being raped, and costs the government thousands of dollars" is genuinely a massive improvement over the status quo: people just don't realize how shitty and expensive the status quo actually is. One of the benefits of starting from really low is that things that otherwise are shitty end up looking like sunshine in comparison.

San Francisco spends something like $150 million a year in direct tax expenditures on solving its homelessness problem, to no observable benefit. It seems obvious choice to me that it'd be better to totally disregard any rights of the homeless, offer Stockton or Kansas $100 million a year just for the right to set up a staffed homeless complex within its borders, and call it a day.
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Commonwealth saga. It will be pretty difficult to film I guess, but they are filming the expanse, and a few others.
> A basic rule of universe is that complexity remains, you can merely shift it around.

Not really. CSS grid systems (like in Bootstrap) require some ugly and non-semantic markup, but they're not very complex.
Oh interesting! Thanks for sharing.
The developers did a SHOW HN launching wagtail.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7231164
Except that, why would people need to stop thinking that?

Because, its very obvious that, at the very least, becoming part of y combinator sets you up for major success. Just like being part of an Ivy League.

Sure, you can have success without it, but damn, why wouldn't you want it?
How long have you been on medication? I've considered going back on medication, but my understanding is that many people build up tolerance to it very quickly.
Doctors have a very high suicide rate, so I don't think they actually do have significantly better coping mechanisms.
You must be easily amused then. Satya Nadella was an example of people in generally being required to speak in a politically correct way. Haven't you heard of intersectionality? Nadella could still be accused of having male privilege in spite of being non-White.

And your analysis is very shallow. Of course speech was "free" in the legal sense, that is not the issue. The issue is that even though his honest opinion was that in the long run, women's approach might not be a big disadvantage, he was forced to recant and give the "right" answer.
We applied (and interviewed!) for YC last season. We didn't get in, but they were dead on about the issues with our business.

Since then, we've addressed the issue and are continuing to move forward.

Remember, not getting into YC isn't the end - and YC does make mistakes. Just remember to hear their reasons out and really consider what they have to say. They're all brilliant people and have an uncanny ability to unravel your business in less than 10 minutes.

Build, fail, listen, learn, keep building, keep listening, keep learning, keep moving.
Shovel data around at speeds that push the boundaries of hardware performance. That isn't systems programming?
For those not familiar... Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the commander at Gallipoli and later founder of the Turkish republic. During the initial invasion, he famously told one of his units: "Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place." Later, after the war, he commemorated the memorial for Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey with what I still think is the most moving thing ever said about war:

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are
now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest
in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and
Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this
country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from
far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now
lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost
their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
370km, nice!
I do think it is important to give credit to the far left for their activism on certain fronts. On this point I agree with you.

You define a safe space as something that people opt into. Do you really believe that? Here's an example that doesn't look very opt-in to me:

http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2013/10/nypd-commissione...

Further - while some people are no doubt standing up for free speech to protect their privilege, many are doing so for reasons that have nothing to do with their own feelings - but because we are concerned about the possibility that we might be wrong in our beliefs; the exact opposite of worrying about our own feelings. I don't agree with NYPD actions in recent times. But I need to be able to listen to what they have to say - JUST IN CASE I'm wrong in those beliefs.

To not admit this possibility would be hubris of the worst kind. That many on the left can't see this is a great modern, political tragedy. They would achieve so much more if they did.
The "semantic witch hunt" against using tables for page layout exists not because the table tag is a semantic tag, but rather because pages are not tables. Likewise, ul and li tags are semantic, and I think most people would advise against using them for something other than unordered lists and list items.

Of course, the issue would probably come up rarely, since the browser stylesheets for those tags don't do anything particularly useful for anything other than lists and list items.
I wouldn't use null anywhere in my Scala code, unless I had to in order to interface with a Java library. I'm talking about sugar for working with Option.
But then what happened to it?

wtf?

do...do they know...how many manhours could've been saved...?
Its not an uncommon use of "white male". Most of the media describes Asians in tech as white - it is the only way to preserve the narrative.
I'm definitely from the same planet as the parent poster (PP). There is a subset of people, like me and PP (I'd say we're probably < 10% of the general population), for which physical exercise really is "repetitive, boring and requires discipline" and sometimes even feels like pure pain when we force ourselves to do it, because we know it's healthy, even if we'd rather be lazying around, although there is no physical pain involved and we are otherwise in good health.

It would probably make sense to further split the participants of a study like this into two groups: the ones that enjoy physical exercise and the ones that most of the time don't enjoy physical exercise.

If I were to speculate on the physiology of this, I'd say that for people like me and the PP, the brain either fails to secrete enough endorphins - the feel-good chemicals that are usually released during physical exercise that make it "fun" and an "urge" (I've read once about a study liking physical exercise addiction to addiction to hard drugs, so it makes sense to have a similar mechanism) - or we don't have enough receptors for endorphins. Thankfully I also happen to have an auto-burner metabolism (I can eat anything anytime and just never get fat) and and no genetical predisposition for obesity or diabetes, so I can stay reasonably healthy even when I stop doing any kind of exercise for some periods of time, but other people are not as lucky as me...
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april 21st

Great. April 2011 was when Google launched Panda 1.0, from which I don't think my slang dictionary site has ever recovered.

Thanks for the link. I guess I better hop to it.
run vicious media smear campaigns and organize automated blacklists of people on Twitter

What are you referring to here?
I think it is reasonable to say that progress has been made and is being made, but there is still an imbalance that is not representative of the population at large, and probably does not accurately represent the number of qualified women and people of color who could be in positions of power within universities.

https://chronicle.com/article/Who-Are-College-Presidents-/13...

There are probably also interesting conversations to have about why men are graduating college less than women, particularly black men, who attend college at a rate much lower than any other demographic in the US, including black women. It's tempting to make it "us against them" (no matter who the "us" is), but, it's probably not useful except for the most powerful (who do tend to be white and male, though not all white males fit into that category).
Women are photoshopped and presented as objects in the mainstream media. Women are constantly getting in trouble or losing their jobs for saying the wrong thing, e.g. "no" to sex and harassment.
Apparently too clever for its own good. Mobile Safari just shows clean Google search page, no search results. I guess this is what happened to the GP poster.
If you look at it from a different perspective, being able to work on personal projects means your place of employment gets the skills you develop, has a chance to offer help and support or even invest in the idea together with you. It's brilliant for morale as well, and something that I love about my current place of work.
Exercise has a huge benefit for me, and I am PI as well.

Benefits to the point that my wife will bend over backwards to find time for me to exercise, completely out of selfish reasons.
I understand and agree with the general argument, but is it actually true that screen readers for the web are that naive? I would expect them to render a page (like with WebKit) and try to figure out the layout of the page, which things are actually visible, etc., or at least use heuristics to figure out what is and isn't content (in the same way that Readability-esque algorithms presumably do).
I think it would be good to define "bubble" specifically. It's not solely when valuations are up.

Also, I love CB Insights.
Yeah, everyone did a really bad job of evangelizing absolute centering back in the day, leading to lots of angry Web developers and awful hacks like the inline-block/vertical-align trick. It should have been the first example given for "position: absolute"…
A good example of this:

https://github.com/freebsdgirl/ggautoblocker

I'd rather not talk about that subject too much, because it's such a clusterfuck. That said, there's an example for you.

EDIT:

A similar setup, for the curious.

http://www.theblockbot.com/?page_id=2
Nothing happened to it. It gets used by front-end developers every single day. I personally can't follow the CSS complaints. It is easier to learn than any other front-end dev language in one's toolkit.
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The other side of the coin is that there really might not be any actual pattern to pull out of any single dolphin's vocalizations.

Just because dolphins possess a possible capacity for language doesn't mean that any language exists.

I'd figure the mutlitude of dolphins in the wild all establish personal colloquial parlances, organized according to the whims an experiences of each individual pod.

Kind of like in that movie Nell, where the children grew up learning to make noises like their stroke-afflicted mother. If there are no regimented social constraints to enforce teaching and learning, wild animals have no externalized motive for establishing the codified norms of a symbolic language.
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The question is the increasingly outdated notion of "needing to work", searching for ways to keep people working is rather missing the point being raised. People don't need work, they need a sense of accomplishment and meaning; work isn't the only method of obtaining that.
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No.

If I accept $10 in deposits, make $8 in loans, and have $3 of cash on hand, I'm operating a fractional reserve.

I have $11 in assets ($3 cash, and $8 of loans receivable), and $10 in liabilities (cash owed to depositors). There's some risk if my loans go bad, but it's fundamentally sane.

Insolvency, on the other hand would be if I accept $10 in deposits, make $8 in loans, and have $0 cash on hand.

At this point, I'm insolvent. There's no reason to believe I can pay back my depositors because my liabilities are greater than my assets. Even if all the loans are repaid, I simply don't have the money.
What history could a western country have to be the only one to recruit for the army in schools?