skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that, much like the U.S., the French simply have grown accustomed to seeing themselves as having the best education in the world. So when I read comments like this, I just tell myself that this must be what it's like all the time for people in other countries hearing Americans bragging about the U.S.

As for the evidence that one system is better than the other, I think I'll stay out of that one, other than to say that I don't know how you would reliably measure this objectively except by looking at a ranking that attempts capture programs' reputations among employers in the field. Even this will, of course, exhibit some form of national bias, though interestingly the most well-known ranking, U.S. News and World Report ranks many Chinese universities very highly, which might suggest that their national bias isn't too extreme. And then there is the problem of controlling for differences in population, etc.
The composition is public, and needs to be disclosed when patented. In order to get FDA approval for a generic drug, you need to show that it performs as well as the actual drug (not really, but that's a different issue [0]). In order to do that, you need to have samples of the actual drug.

[0] http://fortune.com/2013/01/10/are-generics-really-the-same-a...
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Url changed from https://curiosity.com/paths/super-fast-cameras-nova-pbs, which points to this.
The parent's getting downvoted to oblivion, but I dare say the argument makes sense. In the long run, more lives will be saved if there's a greater economic incentive for entrepreneurs to make new and better drugs.

Or to put it another way - the government can instantly save many lives in the short run by forcing all drug companies and hospitals to make all their products and services $1 each, but this would have disastrous consequences in the long run, as every single one of those companies would quickly exit the market.
Many, but I'd not say all, blanket degree requirements are a unfair and inefficiency-driving discriminatory practice along the lines of the criminal record check-box.

We need a ban the box campaign for academic credentials so that applicants are judged on their skill and merit and not on too often flimsy credentials.
Because elephants and lions and whatnot being poached makes international news and ranching is business as usual. Clearly there is a substantial population that believes the former is wrong while the latter is not.
A few Mozilla execs have left and gone there.

* Gary Kovacs: Former Mozilla CEO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garykovacs

* Harvey Anderson: Former Mozilla Chief Legal Counsel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harveyanderson

* Todd Simpson: Former Mozilla CIO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tgsimpson

* Rick Fant: Former Mozilla VP of Marketplace: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickfant
Europe didn't have that many native peoples to displace. Colonialism rather dented the record for the countries that got into it though. And many that didn't got conquered. So kind of a survivor bias.
Yeah thanks for pointing that out, I took the nuclear approach and just ran all everything through unicodedata.normalize("NFC", ...) which seems to have done the trick.
Great story. In the "Animal Minds" episode, Radiolab recounts a story of divers saving a net-entangled whale, and the whale in turn "thanks" each diver. It's a good show, and the examples included are thought-provoking. If you found this story intriguing, I recommend giving this Radiolab episode a listen. If not, the stories leads to what is intelligence and connection possibilities across species, and the topic of Spindle Neurons is presented which are explored as a connection between high and low order parts of the brain. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindle_neuron)

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The Goods:

1. The episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91701-animal-minds/

2. A related follow-up about whales: http://www.radiolab.org/story/149761-whale-saying-thank-you/
It's gotten better, but it's still plenty prevalent, especially in rock and all of it's various subgenres.

One of my favorite albums from 2014 has perhaps some of the absolute worst mastering I've ever listened to.

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/69622

The dynamic range is so low you actually hear clipping on the CD version.

The same album, on vinyl?

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/91768

Now, because of the way DR is scored, a vinyl album will almost always score higher on a DR test, but you can generally see this right away without even listening, because everything will have a pretty uniform 3-4 DR boost. But this one is a dedicated vinyl master, and the score increase comes from that.

(For more in depth on this specific release, the guys at AngryMetalGuy wrote up a lengthy review/screed about the loudness war/etc http://www.angrymetalguy.com/fallujah-the-flesh-prevails-pre... )

Mainstream rock is still really bad about it, and less-mainstream metal is some of the worst.
I dropped out of university after a year and did a startup for 2 years. The jobs I've been offered since parting ways with the startup have been as good or better than my peers who went the traditional route.

I think the takeaway is that, in certain fields and certain jobs, it's possible to get enough experience to be qualified for high quality jobs without a degree if you're willing to put in the effort. There's no "good job please" shortcut, but a degree isn't necessarily a prerequisite now.
The Church of Scientology lost because of two reasons:

(1) Karin Spaink

(2) xs4all

If not for those two they would have very likely won.
There's nothing capitalist about allowing market manipulation. Real capitalism is about allowing markets to find efficient and effective agents through the use of money. Manipulating a market to arbitrarily increase wealth by reducing choices and information is not a feature of capitalism itself, it's a byproduct of markets that aren't incentivized (including mitigating negative incentives, as in this case) correctly.
Well that explains the enternal question of why only half the Northern line stops at Mornington Crescent.
Because the article is about poachers you moralizer.
For anyone who isn't a data scientist, much of this applies to any interview experience, especially the latter part of the article.

Recruiters and companies tend to flip out when I push back, but you know what? That is an excellent signal that this is the wrong job for you. I only have a very brief time to form an impression of your company and your team; why come to me with irrational or unsupported by the data behavior? I really don't understand it. Everyone claims hiring is really hard, and then they do everything they can to alienate the interviewee, then wonder when the offer is turned down, or why the person failed to perform some stupid coding trick on demand they last saw 20 years ago, maybe, in a classroom.

Make the interviewee like you and want to work for you. That shouldn't be hard to understand. Then figure out what work you need to have done, and talk to them about it. It'll be readily clear in most cases. If you are lucky and land a live one, there mind will be straying far from the constraints of your little problem and pretty much have grasped your business, your problems, and are full of ideas of how to improve them all. If not, you probably still have a good worker (if they are able to do the work, i.e. didn't lie on their resume).

I would add to this article - do what you can to see the source code[1]. If you can't, often questions can expose what it is like. Most won't give good answers, but if you are put through the normal wringer one of the 6-12 people you talk to will be fairly open and honest. Every place has warts and limitations - the question is whether these are due to inavoidable tradeoffs (jump on board), or a horrible culture/infrastructure (run away unless you are being very, very well compensated to fix the problem).

[1] trawl the github/bitbucket page of every engineer if you have to, or of course the company's pages if they do open source. It's surprising how much undocumented spaghetti is released by companies in 'support' of their products. I'm mulling pulling it up on a laptop and doing a little code review if the questions for me get silly. But realistically, I'll probably not accept the offer to interview if it is really bad.
The way religions and other factions have duked it out in the past: war.

Most wars have been either about property, religion or both.
If you're 18 and in the army, you can buy alcohol on post.
It's also not just that the loss of a species is bad. It's that some species are especially important, and it's not necessarily known which these species are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species
Sure, but the advantage in terms of expressiveness surely goes to 3-address instructions (ARM) ather than 2-address ones (x86). See the sibling comment for an example of ARM being more compact in practice. The only way x86 could possibly pull ahead with a less expressive ISA would be if they got smaller instructions out of it, but they don't (thanks to the bloated REX prefixes).
Personally, I think if they a) are very upfront about this (clearly stated during install) and b) offer a paid alternative then I'd be fine with this.

To be sure, you don't really know if you'd be fine with this because it's never been tried, and probably won't, because no company dealing user information out the back door has ever given any indication that they are open to giving up even a shred of this business line.
Actually, this is perfect evidence that it isn't heavily regulated enough. No one should be allowed to come into an established market, buy up life-saving drugs, jack up the prices hugely for no good reason, and kill those who can't afford the increased prices in the process. This is one of the best arguments for more regulation I can think of. He's a multi-multi-millionaire literally killing people to make even more profit, and he's doing it in an entirely rent-seeking manner that adds no value to humanity whatsoever.
I don't think that the advice in the posting guidelines to omit numbers from the titles of articles with enumerated lists applies here. In this case, omitting the "50" from the title significantly detracts from its meaning - that The Elements of Style is now 50 years old.
I kept writing, scrapping and re-writing responses to you. Trying different ideas/methods/examples, perhaps to hopefully enlighten you to alternative ways of thinking about this topic.

And then I realized that it probably won't work. You seem to be under the impression that this individual seeks ill towards you. That he values monetary profit over your well-being in some sort of immoral way, evil way. You've been heavily influenced, through many years I would assume, into this line of thinking. Nothing I could possibly say could sway you. No example, no idea, no persuasive argument. I believe this is due to your beliefs not being rational at all.

Instead, I'll just implore you to do one thing. Don't bring a child into this world without knowing you personally can take care of all it's basic needs (if it came to it), with minimal state intervention. Which is something your creators didn't do for you, but hopefully you'll learn something from that and break the cycle. Good luck to you.

*Edit. Added the word "basic" to clarify my point a little.
By tools, if you mean IDE's, I'd say Brackets or Sublime Text are worth at least $10. If you can broaden to API's & SDK, the one I'd pay for is Google Maps.
It wasn't stolen, it was lost and found. [1]

And for the credentials part, you're assuming a certain amount of technical knowledge and interest for iPod features beyond the basics.

[1] Relevant, from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10247974
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Foley
I'd like to offer a couple more in-depth approaches:

* Use Pimsleur tapes, if you can, to master the basic conversational phrases. Downloadable all over the place.

* Apps like Memrise use a similar delayed repetition method. Read up on how to improve your memory, which a memory palace and vivid associations, and use those techniques.

* Read children's books. Start at an early-grade school level and work your way up. Find and use bilingual editions with matching page translations to make it easy in the beginning. Work your way toward Harry Potter level (it's been translated into many, many languages, including Latin.) Finally go for the simpler of its great authors. In English, that would be Hemingway.

* Learn old children's songs. Putting a foreign language to music makes the phrases more memorable, and will also take you one step closer to getting a feel for the new culture and people, who have those songs rattling around in their memories... Then start listening to the ballads of the language. In French it might be Jacques Brel.

* The key is to maintain a feeling of mastery and progress while challenging yourself enough to improve. Don't fall into the trap of dry grammars.

* Seek out immersion. Talk radio stations in the language you want to learn are probably online. Listen to them while you walk around or are falling asleep. Some languages like Swedish have online radio specifically produced for foreigners.
https://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=493

* Find multiple text books or primers that teach the language you're learning. Each one will have different strengths and weaknesses. When you bog down with one, switch to another.

* Remember that progress learning a language isn't always linear. It spikes and plateaus. Don't get frustrated, just keep exposing yourself to the parts of the language and culture you're interested in.
motivational speaker Matt Foley explains:

https://screen.yahoo.com/down-river-000000356.html
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>Doxycycline, an antibiotic, went from $20 a bottle in October 2013 to $1,849 by April 2014, according to the two lawmakers

wft? I'm kind of confused. Wikipedia says "Doxycycline is available as a generic medicine and is not very expensive. The wholesale cost is between 0.01 and 0.04 USD per pill." Why on earth are they paying $1,849 a bottle? Maybe they are only allowed to buy of certain suppliers with FDA licences or some such rather than just buying it from India for a few cents?

edit: I see the " $750 a tablet" "Daraprim, known generically as pyrimethamine" is avilable on AliBaba for "US $1-10 / Kilogram " http://india.alibaba.com/country/products_india-pyrimethamin...

Some weird import restrictions going on I guess?
Matching his and her DXRacer chairs
Overriding default elements and managing view state both seem pretty common in non-trivial applications.
We're all markov chains when you get down to it.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_import
Related - I'm working on learning better Angular for my new job, where we're using it heavily. I'm a little surprised how few open-source projects using it are out there, considering how popular it seems to be. Does anybody have any idea why? It is mostly popular for internal corporate apps or something?
Radiolab has a new episode about this called "Rhino Hunter" about this type of thing: (show and description here: http://www.radiolab.org/story/rhino-hunter/)

It talks about how hunting is used as a funding mechanism for conservation, and in general the ethics of whether (and how) killing an individual could benefit the species as a whole.

If you have 50 or so minutes to spare, I highly recommend it.
linux is free. What is the catch?
> Now, because of the way it's recorded, a vinyl album will almost always score higher on a DR test

Hold up, what? As far as technological potential is concerned, CDs have a far higher dynamic range than vinyl! Just listen to classical music if you don't believe me. The only problem is the way they are mastered.
There is no immediate need of a hierarchy.

Depending on the size of the team, this is a good thing. As long as you have one "alpha", a designated or undesignated person who makes a call when contentious views are blocking progress.

I believe that a flat structure would be best
You'd want to be careful of premature optimization here. I know what you are trying to get at (i.e. ensuring that you are setting up titles and roles that people can grow into), but this may not be the right time to do it.

Any structure is good, bad, best depending on the situation you are in, the size of the group, the problem you are trying to solve etc. The point is not to see hierarchy & structure as inhenrently good or bad -- but to work back from what you are trying to accomplish to the structure you need. Lets say you were trying to organize a 6 month expedition to a remote area with a group of people that you just met. How would you or this group go about it? I don't think you'd setup titles or hierarchy -- you'd probably go with "role clarity", and doing things that engender "excellence" in their respective tasks.

In a startup, one expects an organization to be driven by passion, creativity and very little structure. This is an important part of why people are there. Traditional forms of motivation or organization often don't work very well (e.g. hierarchy money, title or fear). Once the group is large, then there are companies that go for military style "command & control" structures. Even military is organized differently during war time and peace time. This comes back to the context of your particular situation & what you are trying to do. Are you in war time or peace time? :)

The most important thing is that you have a process that everybody understands -- you may never codify that process, but everyone on the team should know that it is there. And the process is: "To get things done & make a difference". What is the best way to do this?

You want to give a sense of progression, via money & title etc. These are good things, but there are more levers you can pull. In a small group, it is obvious who is kicking-ass and who isn't. You should let them, create an atmosphere first where they can do this -- and then, when they are. Talk to them about what they want. Do they want to run a team? Do they want more money? Do they want a more senior title? Do they want more free time? Do they want more flexibility? Do they want more responsibility (e.g. looking at 3 workstreams, instead of one)? Your answers will evolve. But don't take your eye off the prize -- and the prize is to create an atmosphere where people can excel.

Judging merit
You make this sound hard, but is it? In a small group, isn't it obvious when someone is kicking ass? The problem you are worrying about is that when somoene is kicking-ass, how do I make sure they are rewarded, so that they continue kicking ass. I would say, let people kick-ass first, and understand why they are -- lets say they inherently love 'solving problems', then give them problems to solve that honors & respects their talents.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10241491
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I just managed to book this one for anyone interested. Could even accommodate my very last minute booking! https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/8170781?eluid=2&euid=e31ad3e3...
Anyone have experience living in one of these? Even at 20 grand, sleeping above a chemical toilet is bound to get old fast.
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The original report (https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/updates/updates.asp?R...) which someone else linked is much more interesting.

While it definitely claims that the Elephants come to DSWT for help, it stops short of claiming that the arrows came from poachers.

Indeed, I have to wonder what the survival rate is for Elephants that come into contact with poachers? The report suggests that ~10 Elephants were treated with Arrow wounds. This seems quite disconnected from the intent of poachers (kill them), and more in line with the intent of farmers (drive them away).

I'm not saying it wasn't poachers (I don't know the subject well enough to claim anything like that). It just seems odd to me for a poacher to do that.
Genetic engineering can't bring back most extinct animals. DNA molecules have a half life of around ~500 years and samples older than a few hundred thousand years will have too many errors to recreate. Better statistical techniques will push this bound but it's hard to argue against physics. It's estimated that DNA older than 20 million years old will be fully unrecoverable.

Notice how all the author's examples are recently extinct species, not ancient ones. I guess they don't mention this because it doesn't fit with their worldview.

Some sources:

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/32799/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA
Why would enough people participate in such a system?

In the absence of a usable currency, I think people would barter, until the point at which a good that is commonly used in bartering becomes a currency.

Would you propose making bartering illegal?
offshoring has to do with excess supply, not shortages. eg, after telecom became cheap int't calls allowed telconferencing to bring english speaking people online who were overseas (eg, india). So, it's not that there is not shortage, there is simply new excess capacity (oversupply). The tech sector is the same way. There is no shortage... people actually just want to tap into pools of cheap labour to decrease market power of existing staff...and are marketing this as being needed by a shortage. Its complete BS as far as common english usage is concerned. There are plenty of engineers available, but there is only a shortage of engineers willing to work below market. By tapping into h1b and other new labour pools, again it shows that outsourcing is simply tapping into latent excess capacity. Totally different than a "shortage" being the original issue. But there will always be a shortage of people willing to work below market rates...that is a tautological logic working there, no/?
'Yay, I don't have to go to college to get a decent job anymore'

That's always been true. Vocational careers earn pretty good money (quite a lot more than a lot of degrees) and have good career prospects, particularly with parents looking down on vocational training for a career.
They share a single sign-on, but their accounting systems are totally separate. You don't have to worry about it. Also if you really are worried about it, just open an account under a different email address and you'll be safe.
Sublime Text 2. I love its simplicity! Even using IDE's at work, sometimes you need a fast text editor with syntax highlighting.
Hmmm, I'm trying to decide between this recursive query or something using ltrees.

Can't make up my mind . . .

[1] https://truongtx.me/2014/02/28/tree-structure-query-with-pos...
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/603894/is-postgresqls-ltr...
Yea I agree, but this is also just photos.
We don't track what article links users click on. It might be nice data to have if it helped us measure story quality, but it would also cross a privacy line that doesn't feel right to us, either as HN users or community members or moderators.

I suppose we could save/serve which comment threads users have visited but that would be a lot of data, so I wonder if it wouldn't just replace one needle-in-haystack problem with another.
Great scam. Riffing off of this, there's probably a marketplace for a whole bunch of stuff, incl. urine/blood/faecal/saliva samples correlated with diet/exercise logs, handwriting, etc.

Never underestimate the modern idiot's tendency to ascribe any personality trait some sort of scientific-sounding, "quantifiable" entity.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, it's very good advice for someone who is computer literate enough to not run things they don't trust. Keep your OS and software up to date, uninstall Flash, disable crap that automatically previews files, and stick to doing most of your computing in a good web browser.
Germany is one of the few countries that gets destructive cults like these. I wish more countries would learn.