skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On of my co-founders advised me starting my first role as a CEO - "Listen." That one word changed how I perceive the world around me.

Sidenote: this is one of the most beautiful sites I have ever seen
I did have a friend wanting to jump into programming and came asking for advice. Later came back with a website copied and edited from another friend's website, proud.

Some people just don't understand how much time and love is poured into the design and code. Being inspired by something/someone doesn't mean you can just imitate.

Don't give up! Really admire how you kept things calm and clean.
> ... is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

I think the reason is that the effort these limitations assign to us -- the imagination we need to activate in order to overcome them -- is what attaches us to them.
>We've moved away from a society where the police were there to truly protect and serve the community (think 1950's/60's beat cop

lol maybe if you're white

welcome to the logic that everyone has had to operate under
Not only that, but violating someone's 4th amendment rights is a crime, and in fact a felony under USC 18-242. That DEA agent (and every TSA agent, FWIW) belongs in jail for a long time.

What is it when the laws only apply to you but not the government? In this case the law is specific to people doing the violation "under color of law".
Reminds me of http://flynixie.com
> Being kind also mean being more open-minded.

Should I be more open-minded about climate change deniers when NASA has stated multiple times human activity is affecting it?

I have better things to do with my time.
Developing a Trust Page for the Enterprise
My interest is in proving expressivity results. Such proofs are much easier in a sequential setting. Indeed, at this point I don't even have a strong intuition what exactly the expressivity limitations of Haskell's monadic effect control are.
It is amazing that Americans allow this sort of thing then say they are a world leader in personal liberty.
Current fiat monetary systems are not based on 'what the world ow[e]s you'. Money is only a token of a debt an individual or group of individuals has with a legally sanctioned and central bank blessed commercial bank.
How does the Third-Party Doctrine date back to the framers? I'm pretty sure it wasn't coined until the 60s, but are there court cases from earlier than that?
I'm saying that increased taxes cause landlords to try to increase rent or exit the rental market due to the increased expense, leading to decreased rental supply at a higher average cost. In a competitive rental market, you are renting the property for pretty much exactly what it costs you to rent it. If free money rained from the sky by pushing the "rent" button, more people would do it, increasing supply, and decreasing cost.

Similarly, lowering the tax rate would provide greater profit to landlords, which would cause new entrants to the rental market, leading to greater supply and a lower average cost.

That's just the basic theory of competitive markets, at least as I remember it. It starts with the 'X' shaped chart of supply vs demand which you draw over and over in Microeconomics 101. Macro takes the concepts from Micro and connects the dots to get from increasing taxes -> higher rental prices.
Well, I prefer cdnjs.com. It hosts a very comprehensive collection of js libraries, and it's hosted by CloudFlare so there's no risk of it going down.
Why is it Nadya's responsibility to persuade or convince?
Everybody's brain is wired differently (and infused with a different cocktail of chemicals).

For me, controlling my emotions brings a sense of inner calm -- happiness. There is nothing better than thinking with a clear head, without being dogged by feelings of anger, anxiety, jealousy, fear or sadness.
Arial, I think.
One can be pleasant without being nice, nice is making an effort and is unnecessary for most public encounters with staff while in a store. However, even then, no it's not my job to be pleasant to deal with.
Read "Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience", whose author's name I cannot spell, as well as "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig.

When you start your workday, work, even if only for a little bit. That is, don't start your workday by checking email, HN, Facebook...
Thats horrifying. Please, if you haven't already, publish this somewhere. This is something that needs to be shared.
One of the original cases establishing the third-party doctrine was US v. Miller (1976), where SCOTUS ruled that turning over deposit slips and checks to your bank removes your reasonable expectation of privacy. On the other hand, if you choose to opt out of using the banking system to avoid this, you'll need to use cash.

However, if you carry large amounts of cash, you're subject to warrantless seizure because of some sort of bizarre assumption that the only reason to opt out of the banking system is if you are a criminal.
Women are not weaker? Ofcourse, physically they are. Otherwise why do we have sport events segregated by sex? There is a reason why they are weaker sex.

This one more instance how everyone has been educated/trained to pretend that women are not weaker. And how women are educated to feel offended if they are called weaker sex.
And how do you know the same isn't true here?
Oh hey, you wrote that? You might have mentioned it on another thread because I have it on my amazon wishlist already. xP

I've just promoted your book up in the long to-read list.
In this specific case, it's not a result of the toolset, but a result of the consumer. The vinyl enthusiast is buying something they are a fan of at a higher price and expecting a quality product. The typical MP3 customer is buying it based on a 15 second sample. So, the 'loudness wars' still apply to many digital products, sadly.
Luckily, KSP1.0 recently came out to help us with prototyping for the Lunar XPrize.
this is a good argument for building your own firmware image from source, but with a patch that simply removes location services.

If I want to use a map, I'll supply an address.

I found it disturbing a few months ago, to find that Apple Maps had my location down to within twenty feet.
"For all phone types, WhatsApp is free to download and try for the first year. After, you have the option of extending your subscription for $0.99 USD per year." from http://s831.us/1JbKMiG
Where else in the world could WBC and the KKK exist?

Just look at how the neo Nazis are treated in Germany.

The US fucks it up royally and regularly, but in different ways from the rest of the world.
It would be useful if people carefully considered their real motivations for their feedback, and whether it was really all correct and relevant. Feedback which hasn't passed a strong internal filter for whether it is basically constructive, objective and well-informed isn't worth voicing and really should be withheld. So I like that you say "be thoughtful."
This sounds like the beginning of a modern day Robin Hood movie.
He's getting downvotes because no one actually says "you're an idiot" in real life and that comparison has fuck all to do with the actual point anyone in this thread is coming close to.
I do not dispute that this is very unfair (and thats putting it mildly)....

... but did the Washington Post bother finding out if this man was involved in criminal activity? It does not make this law any less unfair, but surely it makes a difference in the outrage in this case.

People are not upset when cartel members have their planes and jewelry confiscated.

Proving your life savings are in fact legally earned should be pretty simple. Print out a bank statement (he said he withdrew it from an out of state bank) and take it to the nearest DEA (or US Marshal?) office.

On the other hand, if he could not furnish a bank statement, has a history of drug dealing or other criminal activity I would be no more outraged than when a local drug dealer has his car confiscated. (Although I would still be against the law in principle)
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That does seem sensible. I'll agree to a weaker, more specific claim like: HTML5 + CSS can simulate a Turing machine in Rule 110, but browsers aren't set up to do that without user input. Turing completeness level: eh.
haha, wow. That was at +5.

You MRA guys don't mess around!
pepsico.design
mcdonalds.design
generalmotors.design

The explosion of TLDs is just a way to extort money from big companies.

If a designer really wants to promote themselves, they should just put up a ".com" page with the normal kind of white hat SEO.
Maybe it is and maybe it isn't, but you assume it's a choice and that's a mistake. You presume it's easy to know how people want to be treated, but there are a great many conditions that make reading other people difficult for entire classes of people. They aren't necessarily being miserly, they may be doing the best they can and that's all they've got. Those with Aspergers for example have to do with intellect what most people do instinctively socially speaking, and that's exhausting for them; they simply aren't wired to be social.
I wonder why making all stock non-voting don't tend to be used.
Yes, I can handle working at a company where I think the CEO is a piece of crap because to me that's part of being an adult.

I've worked with people who endured things like metal holding their bones together because the people who managed them couldn't be bothered to look out for their safety. So do I care that somebody might have their feelings hurt by their CEO's social views? Not really, not when there's zero evidence he created a hostile or unfair workplace.

> and then you find out via the outrage machine that he's donating to groups whose /one and only/ reason for existing is to marginalize you.

This is just ridiculous, it's like you never took the time to understand why people supported Prop 8. They were afraid their churches would be forced to marry same-sex couples and when they expressed that fear they were called bigots so they sought legal protections. I'm not religious and I don't go around apologizing for them very often, but I think calling them bigots it's going too far.
You missed the idea here. Its not about AJAX loading. Its about how the content is served to the client without server storing the data to be served (content). You should spend more time on shared link to glean the beauty of this.
Civil forfeiture is entirely within the legal system, provided for by democratically appointed laws, upheld time and time again by judges. There is no twist of language that makes this "unlawful." Civil forfeiture is a facet of law.

As such, it is also subject to being eliminated by legislatures. As the article mentions, New Mexico did this. That this has not happened at the federal level is in fact not an indication of a misbehaving executive branch. It is an indication that Congressman do not find the issue relevant to their reelection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_...
shrug Several news orgs point to a DoJ study that finds that 20% of those hit by asset forfeiture end up charged with one or more crimes.

I agree that forfeiture is a tool that is currently widely abused. Its use should be tightly constrained, if not entirely eliminated. However, I cannot agree that forfeiture has never been used to fight crime. Much like it's pretty clear that the NSA's dragnet has swept up evidence of at least one credible terror plot[0], it's pretty clear that at least one instance of forfeiture use was in the service of crime elimination or punishment.

[0] Before you downvote, understand my stance. The NSA dragnet is reprehensible and clearly dangerous to the integrity of the Republic. However, the dragnet is so wide that it can't help but catch some of what the NSA is looking for. See what I'm getting at?
It depends. Saying "horrible idea" and "can't believe we're considering this" will be pointlessly hostile in many situations. Why not just be specific about the problem?
wealthy consultants.
Why would anyone even announce they've solved some of these problems, if an industry would pay them 10x or more the prize.

For all we know, some of these actually are solved.
Related: If you haven't seen John Oliver's segment on civil asset forfeiture, you should really check it out - https://youtu.be/3kEpZWGgJks
All this blabbering...

Men exist as functions. To assume otherwise defies every single thing you actually act upon. Without perpetual fear hanging over their heads, they'll devolve into overt rapists and monsters that burn down the world.

You all secretly believe this. Stop pretending to care about us. It's about as trite as some 1990s neo-hippie caring about some non-induatrialized tribe du jour for Starbucks points.
They get paid to deal with customers. It's their job, end of story.

The reason people say it's exhausting to "be nice" constantly is specifically because of people like you. You've made up your mind on something that's completely outlandish and unfair, but you're going to attack him for being "unkind" because he doesn't agree with you.

Stop acting like that and maybe more of these "blunt" people would stop being so damned blunt to you.
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For all the Americans on HN, just be clear that the DEA is acting in our name. They represent us, and we are responsible for their actions. This and worse occurs every day, and will continue to until we get our elected representatives to stop it.
When the Heritage Foundation[1] and the ACLU [2] are both against it, you know it's really bad.

[1] http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/03/civil-asset...
[2] https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-po...
I've heard this sort of thing happening in Third World countries. Perhaps the US is - for all its advanced technology and creature comforts - essentially now a Third World kleptocracy. Silicon Valley and Manhattan are like Dubai - gaudy showcases that don't represent the true nature of the hinterland. I would be very wary about working in Dubai; I would be equally wary about working and living in the US for the same reasons.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I agree with you that the officials crossed the limits in basically everything in case what's reported is completely factual.

And honestly, having cash in an envelope should be something completely normal no matter where you are. In Japan having tons of cash on you is not frown upon by anyone, because cash is used for everything and accepted everywhere even where cards aren't (and people are not afraid of being robbed).
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If the police continue to allow asset seizure eventually an enterprising politician and banker will find a way to seize police pensions. There will be no public outcry. Once you institutionalize theft at this level it doesn't stay put--it grows.
In more mature companies there will be certain levels of decision delegation, usually tied to CapEx approval or the like, that require board approval vs. senior delegation vs. mid-level delegation. For example, it may be that mid-level managers can approve $10k spend, VPs can approve $1m, EVPs can approve $10m and the board must take anything higher.

This usually dovetails in with project management stage gates, in that for the project to progress to a latter stage, it must pass the financial stage gate to secure funding for that stage. To get that funding then triggers the aformentioned approval process.

Other decisions that may go to the board are executive team hiring, or the approval of major policy.

In start-ups, that's obviously going to be different but hopefully that paints the idea of what a board does. It's essentially a semi-democratic leadership structure for companies, rather than having a single founder run the show. By diversifying that decisionmaking process you, in theory, avoid the big blunders falling on a single person.
They stole it, and they will not give it back. If someone is mugged on your block, is the first thing you do to sit there and wonder whether they are completely free of sin?
> ... but did the Washington Post bother finding out if this man was involved in criminal activity? It does not make this law any less unfair, but surely it makes a difference in the outrage in this case.

The Washington Post confirmed that he was never tried for any crime, let alone convicted. The legal system of the US is built on the premise that guilt must be shown, and innocence presumed. They didn't even attempt to show he was guilty -- instead, they just stole his money.
Kaley v. United States[1]

"Held: When challenging the legality of a §853(e)(1) pre-trial asset seizure, a criminal defendant who has been indicted is not constitutionally entitled to contest a grand jury’s determination of probable cause to believe the defendant committed the crimes charged."

Kind of a weird 6-3 coalition too.

[1] http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-464_7mi8.pdf
I keep seeing these stories and, yes, civil forfeiture is a problem, but why are these people traveling with CASH in these amounts? I always get a cashier's check or similar since it offers me some protection.
I found it a bit odd that an article on great board members (advisors with teeth) was only reviewed by one person. While there was nothing groundbreaking or surprising in this helpful post, it would have been nice to see it reviewed by one or two other founders and board members, preferably from outside the direct YC family, since this talks in generalizations about what does and does not work.

EDIT: Of course, I do feel a bit spoiled asking for this, as so many of PG's and sama's essays do have a long list of reviewers at the end. And this is of course much less than an essay (which I like). I welcome counter-opinions :-)
> a person of color

There's one of your problems. Am I a person of no colour?

Your (and this isn't a direct attack on you) use of language contributes to the situation while it is trying to be softly softly.
At the bottom there is a list of "solved problems". I was surprised to read,

Brexit Prize
by Institute of Economic Affairs

2013 - 2014

€100,000
Find the best plan for a UK exit from the European Union.

I was surprised, because my own personal opinion is that that's a pretty stupid idea (UK exit from the EU). Since I'm a super, super open-minded guy I decided to embetter my worldview and read the paper, since, you know, if it's in company like the "longitudinal prize" then hell, maybe 1) I'm wrong and 2) I'll learn something.

So I looked for the plan. Here it is:

http://www.iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files...

Folks, this is 15,000 words. That means he got paid $6 per word to write that. I personally skimmed the PDF, didn't find anything that caught my eye or even a point, based on the the abstract or the section titles and the whole framing, and wasn't left with the impression that the author even believed it. Perhaps his 15,000 word PDF won simply because nobody else bothered to put a plan together, not because there's anything great or wortwhile about such a plan.

So forget "lander on mars". Win a prize that consists of a meaty term paper on some stupid proposition. A+ as a term paper, though.
Robin Hood did not steal from the poor, if I remember correctly.
Civil forfeiture isn't "soft language", it's a precise legal term. You may not agree with the principle (I certainly don't), but calling it theft is no different from a libertarian doing the same with taxation.
what happens when 10 skiers all release their lily cameras at the same time and womp it down a slope at variable speeds ?
I wouldn't call the Lunar XPrize an unsolved problem. We have already landed manned vessels on the moon, and have landed and operated rovers on other celestial bodies. The issue is more that we do not care enough to land a rover on the moon.

Of course, if you interpret the challenge as doing it withing a budget of $20,000,000, then it becomes a much more interesting challenge.
It doesn't violate the 4th amendment because, despite the inaccuracies in the article, you do get a trial and the government does have the burden of proof.

The DEA agent they are quoting is either ignorant or means that there is no due process before they seize the money in the first place.

But you do get the due process after the fact.

Most of the time there is no trial because the person they took the money from doesn't go back to claim it. Why? Because it was illegal money.

There probably should be some quick safeguards put in place to make sure the cops aren't just stealing cash for no reason forcing a court hearing to get it back. But the whole process is a lot less thieving that WAPO depicts.
Gold is deflationary, which is why people like you fear it.
> Twitter Bootstrap scaled down would look the same

If I had a dollar...
This. And while the USA purports to be the leaders in freedom, we see similar erosion of freedom and liberty in other Socialist/Democratic societies like Australia, UK and France.

The UK seems especially bad to me at the moment. The level of open surveillance that they practice on their citizens is astonishing.

People are only just starting to cotton on to this, but the Five Eyes are getting around the restrictions of not openly monitoring all their citizens by giving access to their surveillance systems to another member of the five and then just getting it handed straight back.

"Oh no, your honour, we don't monitor all our citizens."
You could imagine reading it this way: DEA agents confronted the only black man in the train car and demanded he open his bags, shook him down, and stole his cash. In a brazen theft which DEA agents later claimed was legal under the veil of "civil forfeiture" the state prosecutor has refused to press charges, and the judge on the case has refused to provide relief for the plaintiff...

I hope we continue to see a relentless stream of articles highlighting these cases one after another until finally the outcry builds loud enough for something substantive to be done at the federal level. It's to the point where we need an 'Audit the Fed' level response to scrutinize every dollar seized, and victims should be compensated in full, with interest.

I wonder how the story would have gone differently if the man had refused to consent to the search. Probably not much better, heck, that would probably be considered 'evidence' against his money.

I also wonder what the burden of proof is for showing the source of the funds. If you walk into court with bank statements and W-2s, why is it so hard to get the money back? Judges are obstructing this for some reason, and I think that's an angle to the story we haven't seen much reported.
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> Civil forfeiture isn't "soft language", it's a precise legal term.

It is both.

> calling it theft is no different from a libertarian doing the same with taxation.

Taxation today is theft.
I definitely see your point, bad things happening to bad men is not our concern. However, I do believe that the law being unfair is a bigger issue than whether or not the victim was a bad person or not. That is the basis for a fair legal system.

In a less philosophical and a more practical sense, if we look the other way when the law is stretched, it will quickly lead to discrimination, and eventually the law will go after the rest. Civil forfeiture has already become a source of profit for police department.
Land value tax + principal residence deduction can solve both the economic and political problems.

By the way, property tax and land value tax are different. Land value tax is superior than the other.
hah didn't notice that, I've set my firefox to force use my choice of font all the time
Solution: bitcoin.