skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't provide an argument for why working in an office provides what you are claiming remote workers to lack, nor do you provide evidence to backup your claim that remote workers are more replaceable.

Maybe the reason you don't see that this is obviously the case is that you haven't been in enough direct contact with the people making these replacement decisions. :P

> If you can't do this through verbal communication and hangouts, maybe you should work on your communication skills as a manager - sometimes listening to the words people say is more reliable than making assumptions based on body positioning.

...and sometimes it's not. Also, you're making it sound like people are more likely to make assumptions based on body positioning--every form of communication involves assumptions. Communication without body language inherently communicates less--you're making more assumptions because you have less information to go on.
I don't really care to coddle the people we entrust with the guns. If their feelings are so easily hurt, then we should fire the lot of them and find new ones who can withstand some words.

I don't think the police actually are this way, not most of them. But if they were, then the answer would be to start over from a clean slate, not try to work around their delicate feelings.
That's rough. How on Earth do you make it through Scooby-Doo?
Unless Andres Torres is involved, there's likely no connection:

"While visiting St. Petersburg [to celebrate friend Andres Torres's birthday], Vasquez was shot in the chest after a verbal argument with Andres Torres [in a Publix supermarket]." [0]

I'm having some difficulty discovering the details of Mr. Torres's conviction and sentencing, but it has only been a year and a half since that shooting. My gut tells me that someone convicted of such a thing would serve more than one-and-a-half years.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/eddy-vasquez-murdered-2013-11
Not excessively (it's not excessively long, yes it's normal). Toxicology is usually at least 8 weeks unless we're talking about someone famous enough to have it rushed.
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Lotta people here talking like they understand Chicago politics.

The people who investigate these incidents were appointed to investigate them because City and State agree'd that CPD was unwilling to investigate the misdeeds of their department.

So they setup an Independent review board. Which sounds nice and independent but...(Mayor and CPD friends filled it with former CPD brass or family of former CPD or former consultants to CPD)

Now they are firing investigators because they don't give reports that appease the department.

This is just another feather in the hat of police corruption rolling thru Chicago.
Some of these words are Serbian although some are made to sound as if you're talking to a baby by dropping some hard Rs and a few other consonants.

English - TP - Serbian

hand - luka - ruka

leg - noka - noga

eye - oko - oko

A few are also phonetic English-isms "Money" turns into "Mani"
> Because the bind function implementation shows why it is so slow.

Does it? I'm not going to pretend to know why that would be. Your explanation would be welcome.

I don't know if this sebmck fellow has benchmarked the code, but another commenter below found it to be a whopping 25% faster. Micro-optimizations, anyone?

> 99.5% of JS programmers will never read the spec

You don't have to read the spec, it's literally the first thing after the description paragraph on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

As others have mentioned, when I bind a function, I don't expect it to be able to be messed with.

Anyway, I'm done debating, but it should be quite obvious that there's no need to throw bind() away.
This could shift how technology is funded on a scale much larger than YC already has. Teams probably need more like $50k, but even $12k is going to be the difference for some great people. Congrats to YC for pushing things forward, again. Let a million flowers bloom!
The issue with having complex views is that minority opinion doesn't really matter in a democracy. So people gravitate towards one of two largest pieces of the pie and tie their beliefs in to match that pie.

Even if someone subscribes to say "85%" of "most liberal beliefs and ideologies" they're still a liberal/Democrat and will be held to believe 100% of the "commonplace beliefs".

This is why all Republicans are blanket-washed as religious nutcase, global warming denying bigots. While all the Liberals are caricatures of 1984's Thought Police.
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Even if I took umbrage to that, how is censorship legislation going to stop you?
Regarding the first point, how would that help? The password has to be stored in the clear on the server. If an adversary got control of the box, then the adversary would get the password. And secondly, how would you search a database full of encrypted data? Homomorphic encryption isn't ready for prime time as I understand it.
looks like he fixed it, now clicking on the images work
Recording is a step, however that only addresses a small part of the issue: proof of wrongdoing. Even in clear-cut cases with recordings, such as the Eric Garner incident, it does not seem to lead to real justice. Every other day I'm reading an article about cases where there are no doubts as to the events, but no charges are ever brought.

I think the first thing that needs to be addressed is the lack of independent, third-party mediators, capable of policing the police and enforcing fair and balanced punishments.

Second, we need to address the corruption, collusions, and abuses of power that come from being involved in the justice system. If you are a member of the court or a law enforcement officer and were, e.g. pulled over for a moving violation, there is a very good chance that revealing your profession will result in your release with no record or punishment.

I have sat in a court while my father was being tried for a felony. Since my family are essentially nobodies, there was no one else in the court prior to proceedings beginning except us and the court staff. We listened as the prosecutor spoke in a familiar tone with the various staff in court, including the judge, about a recent vacation he had taken out of state. He mentioned that he was pulled over for speeding, but once he told the officer who he was he was let go, and he was very proud of it. About an hour later, he was calling my father a "monster with no regard for the law".
"Or, are the people with more complex views (i.e., having both liberal and conservative viewpoints) just less likely to speak out?"

In my experience it's more that people with complex viewpoints get some combination of shouted down by zealots on either side or sick of arguing with ideologues who aren't capable of having rational discussion with an open mind.

Basically the "us against them" message has been sold the members of both parties and prevents intelligent discourse.
I don't know. Hopefully before Half Life 3, or at least before the heat death of the universe. Anyway, I've been hearing about this game for quite some time now and I really, really like the idea so I wish for a release someday soon :).
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Hi! I am 32 years old, have a young family, and a steady software engineering job at a large software company. I have always loved the idea of a traditional YC experience but have never applied because I feel like I am not at a stage in my life where I'd be a good fit. Is it fair to say that this Fellowship experiment is an attempt to examine the "may have a good idea but is not very mobile" demographic?
I have to say that I love this idea. It addresses the biggest deficiency in the typical Silicon Valley VC funding model, in that it requires moving to Silicon Valley. It also bridges the gap in low-level seed funding which stops many ideas from becoming reality. Perhaps you could call this "catalyst-stage funding" since it will probably reduce the activation energy for getting many ideas started (to use a physics analogy).

So, in short, go YC, you rock!

That said, I have a few questions:

1) Any idea of how many slots are open for this round? I expect you will get many more applications than YC normally gets.

2) Some teams may have members with families who won't want to move to SV and will work remotely. Other teams may have members who can and want to move. Some teams may have a mix. What are your thoughts on splitting a team, having some remote and some in SV? Would this provide advantages over having no one in SV, or would splitting the team have so many downsides that it would be better to be all remote?

3) For a team that already has a prototype and is beginning to work on getting customers, but is not able to relocate, would YCF be a good choice?
I interned at Grooveshark two summers ago; Josh incredibly changed my life for the better. The Summer with the Sharks program was transformative and catapulted me out of Louisiana and into the world of tech. He's such a happy and charismatic personality; the company outings, like going to Disneyworld, are some of my best memories.

Talk about a life gone too soon. I'm pouring one out for Josh tonight.
You know what I love about PHP? My six-figure salary. If you're making more than $150 grand or doing Haskell, I'm willing to listen. Otherwise, I care less than a squat about anyone's opinion of PHP.

I'm not pretending to be Alan Turing or Bill Gates or whomever, but I make a very good living, provide a valuable service, and I'm grateful for it.
I hope this doesn't come off as too selfish, but I hope that I can do things/interact with people that leaves a meaningful bond long after the relationship has "ended" Maybe paying it forward is the best thing to do in his memory.
I wonder if it makes sense to produce copies of linux that look like RedStar OS without any of the backdoors and things like tor setup for you.
Wow. I am super impressed that this is being allowed remotely. I really hope this is foreshadowing a shift in being more supportive of remote teams for the larger YC program.
Would censorship legislation prevent you from doing so, if you really wanted to?

We should spend more effort removing the potential harm that unwanted information disclosure can cause, rather than running around plugging leaks and jailing whistleblowers.
If you have good ideas, that's great, but it's not that important. We primarily want to see that you and your co-founders are a very determined, smart team working on an interesting idea. We expect a lot of ideas to keep evolving as teams work on their companies, and any business models would of course change with that as well.

Don't try to send us business plans -- we won't look at them.
I don't prefer this method to bring AM down.

Put I would not mind a law that forces AM to search and notify the spouses of their users (and that would certainly bring the site down)
Asking for the police to be less discriminatory, less violent in their counters, and more accountable for their actions is normal, routine and given in every other profession. That we allow any exception for the police to violate those aspects as a matter of respecting their pride means that we're giving their pride FAR more weight than it deserves.
Oh, I can play "snarky HN comment" too! Ahem...

Typical.

Privacy! (until people I disagree with have their privacy taken).

The Free Speech/Equal Rights remarks weren't about this case. The GP's comment was alluding to them and comparing them to Privacy, which was what was being discussed. Your remarks about Free Speech and Equal Rights are pointless and immaterial.

> Having a lack of sympathy for someone who committed a crime (in this case a contract violation)

Just curious, what crime did they commit in signing up for AM? What proof do you have that they did sign up? What proof do you have that the released data will be accurate? What contract did they violate by signing up for AM?

I'm curious to know what proof you have besides assumptions to make a bold statement that anyone mentioned in the released data is immediately guilty of something.

> Do you think it would be better for us to feel more empathy for contract breakers than for those whose marriages have been adversely affected?

Do you think it would be better for us to find people guilty until proven innocent, or innocent until proven guilty?
That seems like a heat of the moment incident. I hope there is closure soon for everyone's sake.
Police Cameras in general. Most cities seem to "sell" police departments on the idea that they protect the officer, when in fact they are being used for reviewing officer behavior.
Well your site doesn't explain anything about how it technically works or what steps you go through for certification. Your demo doesn't work and appears to be a phony flash demo anyways. What kind of bond do you carry to support your guarantee? It's pretty easy to conclude that your service is a scam.
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He was one of the most genuinely positive people I've ever known. He believed in you, even when you didn't believe in yourself. Everyone whose life he touched is a better person for it.

I'm going to miss him. He, and my years at Grooveshark, changed my life. He changed all of Gainesville.
A number of Western embassies in a number of countries deliberately have ramped up the public Wifi during specific events. For example elections where the local government shuts off the internet.
There's proactive and reactive aggression. Proactive aggression is the typical bullying of others based on what programming they do. It's basically just another way to pat yourself on the back, and people eat that shit up.
The 'Interests Section' was essentially an embassy in everything but name.
An unknown congenital heart defect seems more likely than someone killing him and leaving no visible signs. People with congenital defects can appear completely healthy right up until they die.
Its more like they serve a critical role in cities.

There's been a drive-by shooting in Baltimore a few weeks ago, but Officer Morale (from the protests / etc. etc.) is so low that none of the officers wanted to do anything about it. Anthony Batts was fired for it, but a change in leadership doesn't change the fundamental morale problem going on with the Baltimore City Police Department.
It seems that no one is making the distinction between actually having an affair and simply the fantasy of it that most of these members probably engage in.

I would guess that of those 40m members only a small handful have ever engaged in an affair through the site.
Are you talking about spinners or calendars?

For either, you can just enlarge the widgets to enlarge the click areas.

For spinners, one can often scroll one's mousewheel (or equivalent gesture) with the pointer inside the spinner to rapidly increase or decrease the value contained within.

The best calendar widgets I've seen also permit you to click a part of the widget -say the displayed date- to type in a desired date.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9917334
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9917442
Having an affair actually is illegal in almost half the US, and in some states, it's even a felony.
That's awful. They don't work that way on stock Android.
Okay, but let's assume this in the context of Greece. I understand that everything sorta "works" semi-smoothly when everything is fine. I too have managed to move money over borders, between accounts, etc.

But in the context of the Greek situation? I.e. Imagine someone wanting to come in now (or at the start of the crisis?) in order to open up a new "foreign" bank and offer it to Greek individuals? Because the regulation is so intertwined, and this mess of the loans and ECB, means that no one dare do that.

They'd have to jump through mountains of regulation, come up with some sort of initial capital to fund the bank (with no idea whether they could have legal access to it again), and on top of that all, give the new Greek depositors any sort of guarantee. A tall order, to say the least.

Another point, sorta tangential. You can also barely have an "informal" bank by virtue of transferring money to a foreign bank. Have a look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala

I haven't confirmed, but I'd bet that almost every single country in the world defines that sort of transfer as illegal. Or additionally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_controls
Actually, I wouldn't say the article rules out foul play at all. It simply states that the police found no evidence of foul play.

People can be killed in ways that are difficult to trace, especially before there is the benefit of autopsy results.

I am not suggesting that this is what happened in this case, I'm just saying that it is far from entirely ruled out.
LED bulbs have been getting gradually closer to the color fidelity of incandescents, I would think for most people in most situations, those with a CRI greater than 90 would be sufficient (certainly worth it for the the efficiency gain), e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_CRI_LED_lighting
I did try that, even in incognito mode, but still hit the paywall.
What kind of progress are you expecting teams to make during the 8 weeks?

How greatly do you anticipate this program impact getting into the "real" YC winter batch? Do you expect that after 8 weeks most good startups would be "ready" to be accepted into the winter class?

Do you expect that after completing the 8 weeks, teams will be ready to raise funds?
Unless -of course- you don't have a good idea of what it is that you want to search for!

This happens to me far more frequently than I would like. :)
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That's a bit misleading. It says there was no evidence of drugs but then goes on to say that the toxicology report would take 2-3 months.

They probably just didn't see any drugs lying around. If he didn't have some sort of undiagnosed medical condition, he may have very well OD'd on something. Research chemicals, xanax and opiate combo, etc... It's fairly common for people to OD on those things and they're all readily available.
In that context, "Real Programmer" means something like "someone who understands every minute detail about every part of the systems he's programming to the point that they can keep track of every variable, every system state, and every operation to make it do whatever they want". It's not about programming style or finesse. It's about raw mastery of the system to deeper levels than those not called "real programmers" could fathom.
You just said "advertising".
> Basically, I prefer to be onsite therefore everyone should be onsite.

That is the opposite of true: I prefer to work remotely.

The purpose of my post was to tear apart bullshit claims that working remotely fixes all sorts of problems. Working remotely is better for workers, not for companies (at least not in the ways claimed).
> Have us not forget that the Syrian conflict brought us ISIS/ISAL who subsequently invaded Iraq and still hold land there today.

The entity now calling itself simply "the Islamic State" and claiming a global caliphate -- formerly styled Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, before that the separate Islamic State in Iraq and al-Nusra front in Syria, before that just the Islamic State in Iraq (al-Nusra front was an offshoot which later reunited), earlier still (before severing the ties it formed in 2004 with al-Qaeda) al-Qaeda in Iraq, and originally Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad -- has been around since 1999.

Certainly, the US war with al-Qaeda, the US invasion of Iraq, and the Syrian civil war each provided opportunities which it exploited in its growth, but none of them -- and certainly not the last of those -- can be credited with having "brought us" the organization.

And the Islamic State in Iraq held territory in Iraq and was fighting a campaign against the government there before it sent an offshoot group to Syria, it wasn't something formed in Syria which later invaded Iraq.
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"A pandas-like data expression system providing comprehensive coverage of the functionality already provided by Impala. It is composable and semantically complete; if you can write it with SQL, you can write it with Ibis, often with substantially less code."

This sounds really interesting, but my biggest gripe with pandas is that I often know exactly the query I want to run with SQL but have to jump through a ton of hoops and a weird join syntax to figure out how to make the query in pandas. IMHO if you want to make data processing language as full-featured as SQL, why not just use SQL as the query language...
My impression is that they have several different backend data stores, each with different trade-offs and consistency models, and they choose the one that makes sense for each app/service.

The way Werner describes the ECS data store sounds very similar to Google's Megastore:

To achieve concurrency control, we implemented Amazon ECS using one of Amazon’s core distributed systems primitives: a Paxos-based transactional journal based data store that keeps a record of every change made to a data entry. Any write to the data store is committed as a transaction in the journal with a specific order-based ID. The current value in a data store is the sum of all transactions made as recorded by the journal. Any read from the data store is only a snapshot in time of the journal. For a write to succeed, the write proposed must be the latest transaction since the last read.
reminds me of harry potter and the methods of rationality
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how many RPMs for one of those drums?
Parts of it. Stuff like WinForms and System.Web are so wrapped around the axle of Windows that they probably won't be open-sourced, but a lot of it has been.
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> or below every comment that wasn't downvoted

That could be yeah, but he isn't stuck at dead-bottom.
This is exciting, and appears to be just for me.

One of the hardest things to do is get enough past the idea stage to get to a prototype to attract an investor. A little cash can make that happen a whole lot faster.
If my understanding is correct you're using VS and writing C#. If that's the case it's just stupid to use VIM.

Please don't call people stupid just because you don't like their workflow. BTW, you can use a Vim emulation layer in VS.
This quote caught my eye from the FAQ section of the fellowship page:

Can a single person apply for funding?
Yes, but the odds of being accepted are lower. A startup is too much work for one person.

A statement such as "A startup is too much work for one person" seems unusually stark and absolute for a company as progressive as YC. There are always exceptions, as mattkrisiloff as noted below.
> We listened as the prosecutor spoke in a familiar tone with the various staff in court, including the judge, about a recent vacation he had taken out of state. He mentioned that he was pulled over for speeding, but once he told the officer who he was he was let go, and he was very proud of it. About an hour later, he was calling my father a "monster with no regard for the law".

Is this for real? Unbelievable.

And yes, it seems that proof of wrongdoing is often not enough. Hopefully the public outrage that these cases ignite can be sustained and channeled productively, towards greater accountability and transparency.
When I was in high school, an exceptionally popular varsity athlete was killed in his sleep by an anyurism. It was profoundly shocking to realize that things like that could - and did - happen.