skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would, even if other public sector unions don't result in a physical war on the public. All public sector unions have the same imbalance of power as police unions: they have the power to withhold vital public services, the very reason we accept the problems with government as an institution, and they do it for personal gain. If a Kellogs plant goes on strike, I can still buy cereal from Post. If a transit union goes on strike, 10% of the city can't get to work. Unions are a collusion power that we accept as a counterbalance to the collusion power that businesses have over us. Why would we ever give government the power to collude against us?
Here is a banner ad I am referring to: http://thehairpin.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2011/04/1-7...
I think it's well worth including on HN. It's a pretty momentous occasion, as the Cold War is arguably the defining geopolitical phenomena of the last half of the 20th century. Sure, some of the commentary is gonna suck, but people vote accordingly and then we move on. But I'm glad we're at least giving discussion a chance.
I have a regexp set up that immediately moves all incoming emails with no-reply to my spam folder. If I am expecting such an email I can look in my spam folder manually.
This is great!! I am in SLC so this is good for me. I don't really see much hackathon events or dev meet ups around Salt Lake, or I am just not aware ))

Signing up now!
This is really interesting, and seems like a great opportunity for people in a position to take advantage of it. Particularly the ability to work remotely. An 8-week relocation could have been a major sticking pint for many groups.

If I wasn't tied down at my job for the foreseeable future I would jump at this chance to go hard on an idea out of my "future/dream projects" design docs folder that I only get to sporadically put time towards.
If we have raised funds through a Kickstarter campaign but have no outside investment, are we still eligible?
dd it onto a "raw" Linode disk, set the bootloader to "Direct to disk".
What if you have no contracts with any utility companies whatsoever? Are you still required to pick one and pay them?
Considering Babel solves most ES2015/2016 needs and has support for flow, what does TS still bring to the table for people who aren't using Visual Studio?

Serious question. I last looked at TS when it had plenty of warts (e.g. verbose metadata to make imports work, no real JS API) and since switched to Babel via JSX+harmony. Flow integrates nicely and seems to be better at understanding implicitly typed (legacy) code, too. TS's main selling points seem to be VS integration and Angular's blessings.
Great opportunity, thanks guys. I'll point out that first yc.submittable form is a bit confusing: http://imgur.com/ITk71jN

I guess the "YC Fellowship Application" is a link to it? I wasn't sure where to click besides 'submit' and was a bit afraid it'd submit a blank form and lock me out of a real submission later! (It didn't, of course – the submit button is just an anchor tag pointing to https://yc.submittable.com/submit/44764)
YC has evolved quite a bit. This seems like a good way for us to scale and to enable more innovation. A lot of companies need the full $120k, but I bet many will be able to make great progress with just $12k.

We thought about trying to combine them, but they seem too different.
I don't get why people get so worked up over this.
Yes, people have afairs; so what? It's fun and everyone likes to have a bit of harmless sex with new people once in a while. No big deal.
Obviously on this site there are some harmful cases not involving open marriages. And while cheating may not be illegal, I'm pretty sure that many people would rather they be physically assaulted to a degree enough for the law to be involved than to be cheated on in a relationship they value.

So then the question becomes, how much wrong/harm can a site promote before it is shut down?

What about an anti-vaxxer site that is leading parents to make choices that will kill some number of children?

What about a website hosting all the leaked data from this hack?

What about a site promoting self harm directed towards children who are most vulnerable to such promotions?

What about recent Tor sites that were taken down?
I completely agree. There's still a long way until we have a common API that caters for all use-cases across tools and runtimes, but uniting around the same protocol is the first tiny step towards this vision of better decoupled tooling.

Luckily the Chrome Remote Debugging protocols is quite flexible, so we could start iterating on the API's too using some sort of vendor prefixing, if needed.
>How did American society get so there was wiggle room around torture and other war crimes?

The same way Europeans and the rest of the whole world justify that sort of stuff.

"They are terrorists, who cares."
So, your program needs to calculate what date that is

Yes it does, Qnd that is harder for the programmer and easier for the user. Calendar wudguts suck for:

> last week of august next year.

Twenty years ago parsing user input and calculating a date was resource constrained and ambiguity was expensive because the query was hitting Sabre on some mainframe. Today we've got gigahertz and gigabytes in our pockets and we're wired up at megabit speeds to caches and CDN's and search tools with autocompletion (Windows Intellisense)
>Does it change your mind at all that you linked to a zoomable site?

No, I said I decide based on the needs of the project and which devices will be supported which META tag makes the most sense. Not 100% of my projects disable zooming, and I don't believe 100% of sites should disable zooming. Zooming is a useful feature added to mobile browser that does serve a purpose: to allow the user to navigate a site that was designed without their device/hardware in mind. It's good at what it does, but it's not better than a properly designed site (whatever that means). My job is to figure out for each project what a properly designed site means, and for the big web-app type projects that make the most money, having zooming disabled allows me to deliver a better experience I couldn't with zooming enabled.

But I didn't link to the RGD.ca site to help prove my case, my learning comes from actually doing web development, not what an organization says is best practice. Mine comes from hundreds of hours of specializing in making sites that dont support mobile convert more users. People hire me because I help them reach more mobile customers, and I make a fraction of the money I make for my clients by supporting mobile better.

I posted the link to the Registered Graphic Designers site because the commenter above me said:

> If designers were actually licensed, I think that disabling zoom should be an offense that results in a 2-year revocation of design license.

Here where I live if you're RGD you get letters after your name like a dentist or reverend. So a little education before speaking can help keep the conversation on a contructive path.

I listen to my users and none have complained about zooming where zooming has been disabled. There are voices here offering opinions and I do actually care about their reasons.

Please, tell me the reasons why zooming on a legible, usable design is necessary. Explain your side of things, downvotes and ad hominems aren't constructive, and there is value in this conversation being had. Why is this conversation being treated like spam? Here's your chance to tell the guy who makes mobile sites the way they are how you wish they were different and all you want to do is stop others from seeing that I'm listening here on HN?

I'd appreciate any constructive input on the pain points of using mobile sites. Today's work includes taking a credit card form designes in 2009 and making it work on mobile. Seriously, if there's valuable insight you have that I can use to make this easier for you I'm all ears.
And it's not just this site. Basically, we're a cheering section for crimes committed against people we don't like, and we'll even put effort into valorizing criminals and demonizing victims in order to make our rooting interests simpler.

See, for example, the lionization of Jeremy Hammond and the fantastical elevation of Stratfor, a third-tier foreign policy pundit shop, into a shadowy global intelligence firm.

Want an uncomfortable thought to think? The breakin and doc-dump from Hacking Team: also probably immoral.
The announcement's discussion of 'good founders' led me to view this as supporting individuals, as well as teams. In contrast to YC's stance on only really exceptional solo founders, could this program be more tailored to a solo founder, perhaps still looking for a co-founder?
In the UK at least Customer Service is superb. I honestly cannot rate the company enough.

On the few occasions I've needed anything Dyson simply ask for the serial number and I describe the part. Next day or two and it arrives in the post.

They also do on site visits if the vacuum has any issues. £80 labour and parts inclusive.

I mean my mum still uses her DC02 from 1995 and it works just fine.

They're (in the UK at least) a top, top company.
It's also designed for prototype and idea-stage teams in mind. Also, there won't be a traditional Demo Day at the end, but there will be an end event where teams will come to Mountain View to present to YC partners and alumni.
This is great. It's the natural evolution of going earlier and earlier into lifecycle of a startup (or even idea).

As a next move, I'd like to see them go "pre-team" and put talented individuals with complimentary skill sets together behind a single idea.
The sites sole purpose is inherently harmful.

The ads speak for themselves: https://www.google.com/search?q=ashlymadison+ads
Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home
Your interpretation is right. There's an example somewhere in one of the official tutorials that shows how moving the li can change the meaning for this reason (although "pi", which means something like "of", was also added for a similar reason: I think Sonja's example was distinguishing two ways of grouping "tomo telo nasa", where "(tomo telo) nasa" would mean "crazy bathroom" and "tomo (telo nasa)" would mean "bar, liquor store" -- so Sonja said the second case would be expressed by "tomo pi telo nasa").
That seems orthogonal to NoGUI.
The question to ask yourself is: Do I want static typing?

If yes, then TypeScript is quite similar to plain JavaScript and introduces this feature you want.

If no, then JavaScript should be sufficient.
Police profile cars.

That is, in edge cases like a bit of swerving, 10 over the limit, newly expired tags, etc; police will look at the car and what they can tell about who is driving it and where they are to determine if they pull over or not.

A cop told me this directly. I don't remember his exact conditions – but they included things like a young guy driving a real nice car or a car that seem like maybe it was his mother's or a really beat up car. You're a lot less likely to get pulled over if you're driving a mid-priced sedan.

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In America police kill about 1000 people per year. There's no hard number because there are no official statistics kept – that's telling in itself.

Thousands and thousands of police interactions each day, and each day about three of those ends up with somebody dead. The police in this country are undertrained and underpaid. The stupidity of the populace drives them to be statistics driven, and the environment attracts hot heads who want power to the career. Once on the job the complete lack of negative feedback from internal investigations and the courts gives them god complexes and their culture becomes a cesspool of corruption and us vs. them mentality.
I have a Koncept Z-bar desk lamp (~$300) that I got at my lighting shop after looking for something that was cool to the touch and had a nice even light pattern. One minute I use it on "low" for lighting up my desk and the next I'm using it at full brightness for computer vision tasks.

I suspect that you have to be old enough that your eyes need a little help before you can appreciate a good lamp.
hey Matt, what are key differences b/w the fellowship and the YC incubator?
Erm, no. He's making a pro-cop argument. You are the one bringing up the race card.

The fact remains: cops (and cop supporters) are proud and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I think if people portrayed the arguments and problems with cops in a way that cops (and cop supporters) can keep their pride... life is going to be a lot better.

At the end of the day, Cops have more pride in their work than other government workers (compared to... say... Motor Vehicle Administrations or TSA Airport scanners). When you push on Cops, they push back because of their pride.

But its not necessarily a bad thing. You just gotta keep the pride in mind when you propose police reform. Otherwise, it becomes very difficult to get the individual officers to reform with the law.
o musi!
I think it is interesting that AWS seems to be moving to consistent data-stores. Previously they were championing eventual consistency everywhere, even when it made for painful products (SimpleDB) or painful APIs (retry loops when using EC2 APIs).
There's no such thing as a legal open relationship.

Can you tell me which law an open relationship would be breaking in the state of Oregon?
Robots Given Self-Consciousness Artificial Intelligence
Hi Kat! We're considering applying and wondering if you folks have a conception of companies that would be considered too far along for this program. In our situation, we're have not yet taken investment, but we would definitely love to and still have much to learn about getting ready for that. We're also somewhat beyond the prototype phase, but only to the extent that we're soon shipping a version 1 product to crowdfunding backers. Thanks!
Agreed. This is much needed for enabling other tools to be built in the RemoteDebug-ecosystem.

I've recently started exploring what I could mean to have concurrent connections to browsers, and what kind of tools we could build. Realtime visual comparison is really exciting.

See https://kenneth.io/blog/2015/07/02/concurrent-editing-and-re...
The people that are taking those screenshots to generate that content make up a tiny minority of users. Most people don't know how to screenshot, and the basic point that you shouldn't have to take a screenshot to zoom into a page is still a good one.
Automation with Ansible – A real life example and introduction
This is exactly why Y Combinator is the best. This is what leadership is (and what those other accelerators do, is follow the lead).

> but as always we’ll consider solo founders too.

Please be extremely open minded about solo founders. I feel that is one consideration that hasn't been adapted with the changing tech landscape.
I used a browser and a keyboard to hit the address bar and enter the URI and type my comment. Logging into HN did not required HTTPS, not GUI.
Hmm, in what sense, or do you mean it's feasible now? I was thinking that whenever I press F5 it should instantly run. It's insane that the computer just loiters around and doesn't compile until you explicitly tells it to, when it could do incremental background compiling... especially since the editor pretty much does that anyway to provide its intellisense and stuff. The build process seems very separated from the editor. Guess it's more complicated with app that's deployed to devices though.

Live-editing I was thinking more like I could change parameters and methods and have the reflect directly in an running app. Edit-and-continue has been around for a while but doesn't work on apps ... for probably natural reasons. Eclipse seems to have stuff like that
as a newish dev (eventually I'll work my way to vim), I really enjoy using Visual Studio, and my wallet is very happy that they decided to release a Community edition.

Microsoft has been making some great strides lately - keep it up!
You can. Facebook has started the Stetho project, which essentially is a protocol adaptor for Android. https://github.com/facebook/stetho
I'll juste leave this quote here:

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
Even for pre-recorded video you still need Flash if you want to implement adaptive bitrate streaming in order to provide multiple quality levels and have the client automatically switch between them rather than buffer.
>How can it be illegal to see the evidence for a crime?

It happens all the time, except that the defense is allowed to see the information.
Any mention of health insurance, or other things like that? One of the biggest reasons people do go to work for large companies instead of starting their own business is things like that. Without them, you're really only targeting the young kids right out of school, most of whom (but not all) don't really need that much in healthcare.
12k gets them first dibs on an individual and/or a team ... a smart idea.

Essentially a variation of Cialdini's "reciprocity" principle (among others..)

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/six-principles-influe...

People are free to do whatever they want with the grant and not go any further with YC but it's obvious that the good will and grant will cause a large percentage of them to not do that.
We're treating it the same way -- solo founders are definitely encouraged to apply, but everything being equal, it's better to have co-founders.
We will be slightly more open to solo founders because we think at this stage you still have a good chance of finding a cofounder.

But the bar will still remain higher for solo founders given all of our historical data.
To be fair, this is common of many bilinguals when the other language is not in common use in their lives. I personally know at least 8 bilinguals ranging from Chinese to Zulu that can understand the language, once-upon-a-time spoke it well, are spoken to in the language, but respond in English.

It happens frequently when the only time they ever use the language is with their parents/family and their parents can understand English just fine.
it's 2 months. if you really need it just get travel insurance. that should be do-able in 12k.
Forgive my language but a saying I like to live by and I'll say to myself quite often:

"You look like an asshole pointing out that somebody else is an asshole."
citation please

John Carmack was (is?) absolutely against software patents so I do not believe that.
I don't think a monkey would have burned $2b on a non-sensical Skype purchase. So she's got that going for her.
Startups for Inheritors
So I have to admit --- inheriting money is not a good thing, it made me lose focus and motivation. I dropped out of college several times due to a lack of motivation.

The first 2 times I applied back, I got accepted by both the school and visa officer. But the last time when I reapplied back to study in USA about 3 years ago, I got accepted by the school but got my visa denied by the consular officer.

I didn't have any criminal convictions or get deported. Neither did I overstay mu visa at any single time to the very best of my knowledge. I definitely did not get arrested or convicted in any way shape or form. The visa officer told me to reapply back only when my personal financial, career circumstances have improved dramatically.

I have now spent a lot of time and money on a college education without any form of return and am feeling depressed as I have few friends and have no skills.

Does anyone here think that there is a market for startups for people who inherit/are going to inherit large sums of money ? Perhaps like a social networking site for individuals like these who want to find friends, learn new skills like programming, business partners, work out plans for travel, study, emigration , look for great investments?

I find it very hard to find good financial advisors in Singapore, most of whom mainly just want to make a quick buck out of you by selling policies that your family doesn't need , especially if they know that you are rich.

Perhaps a social networking site to connect inheritors with other inheritors and professional hedge fund managers and technology "visionaries" who will let us invest money in their startups.

I for example, would love to be able to invest in the next Apple, Google or Microsoft but I have little opportunity to do so because I don't have the correct social network and the startup scene isn't so hot here in Singapore. (My dream is to emigrate to Europe through the investor program by investing many millions of dollars in their economy and creating high-value jobs there, get married and have a family and play my favourite game Weiqi while relaxing on the beach :p)

So perhaps a social network for high net worth individuals/families with total net assets 15 million USD and above? I just realised that its something I actually urgently need myself ... just wanted to post here to get some feedback on this ...
Wow. After all the truth that's come out which makes everyone else look like a turd (especially Reddit's own users), you still can't find no love for Pao? Ask your doctor if reality is right for you.
"continuous background compiling and "live-updating" ... I use .net demon for this. It also does auto-save.
"You could look at my ticketing and arrests for the few months I've been on the job and say I do racial profiling cause most of them are [insert what you know it is] cause, from what I can tell, most of them do the things that get them tickets or arrested and put in jail."

I am not the one who brought up race.
The difference is more than 100KB in code size. It's a HUGE advantage especially on mobile connections.
And nothing done entirely in consensual privacy should be a crime.
There's "taking pride in your work", and there's "the thin blue line". One of those things is healthy. The other is emphatically not.

It's left as an exercise for the reader to determine which is which.
If you're using a typed server language, or can get typed API definitions you can get through stack compile time safety. Writing an ASP.Net MVC application using Entity Framework I can now have a DB change go into my C# and then into Typescript thanks to T4 templates like Typelite.

The other aspect is that if you're a C# shop it is so similar as to reduce the learning curve. Especially if you want to write OO front end code.
I saw a lot of people complaining online about the cost of New Horizons. I took the time to explain that if we had foregone a single aircraft carrier, we could have sent nearly 20 such missions to Pluto. And that was just for the carrier, not for the support craft, aircraft, etc.

A carrier costs roughly $12 billion, and costs about $1.5 billion per year in operational costs.

People really have no concept of how much NASA costs. They think NASA gets an insane amount of money. We'd have moon bases and maybe even a Mars base if NASA got the funding people think they get.
It's a 12k equity-free grant, it lasts for 8 weeks, you can do it remotely, and it's primarily meant for idea and prototype-stage companies. No dinners and no formal Demo Day, but there will be kickoff and end events in Mountain View where teams will present to the YC community. We'll fly out remote teams for those.
If you're after early usenet data, these should help:

https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2015/02/23/early_usenet_history...

http://ianmilligan.ca/2013/03/06/exploring-the-usenet-archiv...

https://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive

But if you're after "usenet search," then that can be a real headache.
Hi, Matt and Kat. Cool to see the focus on helping more people start companies - I had written off an article bouncing around over the weekend alleging that rich families are the key to entrepreneurship [1]. Maybe it is true, but with enough YC fellowships it doesn't have to be.

Question: my organization is a nonprofit co-op. I know YC recently started accepting nonprofits - what's your opinion on them for YC fellowships?

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1: http://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-...