skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prescribing psychiatric medication to another user is maybe not the best way to encourage them to comment more thoughtfully.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10247727 and marked it off-topic.
Needed to engage a consulting company for auditing requirement. E & Y couldn't answer their email.
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> I think it's sad that we've reached a point where you're expected to have a four year degree, and $80k of debt in order to get a job as a receptionist or a barista.

(a) They can become a receptionist or barista once they've definitively proved to themselves that they can't get a degree and do something more fulfilling, intellectually stimulating and ultimately likely to lead them to lives with more freedom and time to devote to their own projects.

(b) The 80k debt is a problem with the USA, not nearly so much with developed countries elsewhere. I expect you'd agree with this but it shouldn't be a reason not to go to university; the USA just needs to get away from making people pay so much for their education and healthcare. (The article was about the UK). I work in the USA and I've just got back from traveling in Indonesia for a couple of weeks. It was really sad to see that all the people we met traveling were from Europe and none from the USA: I think a large part of this is that young Americans go into debt for college and think that they can't afford to travel, and thus don't become as familiar with other cultures.
Gnome do that with a crap load of their software, i guess they think it is "user friendly".

For example the binary for their file archive program is file-roller, but the entry in XDG compatible menus are Archive Manager.

Frankly i find that Freedesktop has been another example of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". More and more Freedesktop projects reminds me of the kind of Windows stuff i moved to Linux to get away from.
Used this for a lot of cs classes that sadly required a lot of memorization for tests. I like anki a lot. Would recommend for any study flash card style app
What do these things sell dollar / sq foot? Some quick calculation show about $240 / sq foot. Better then SF bay prices but probably not better than most of the rest of the country.
Was it anyhow influenced by https://reddit.com/r/subredditsimulator?
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AVG has a long history of doing scammy things. Starting from pushing toolbars heavily, flagging software that is harmless but poses competition etc. They will never change. Unfortunately, most of the public is not knowledgeable enough to understand this. In Czech Republic many people see this company as a national pride. I have been dealing with that company for a while and certainly do not agree with my fellow countrymen.
Well, a calculator is more powerful than a human at most types of mathematics. Machines are more powerful than humans in all kinds of tasks. It's probably better if we start breaking AI into the tasks that it can do better than a human can, that way we get to watch the milestones fall one by one.
I work on an Ubuntu vm, the only reason I use Windows, really, is for games and likely just out of habit.

I don't think it will be much longer until I actually make the switch.
You can see which ones you've upvoted at https://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=larrys (only works for you).
Yep, it uses the same technique. I've pulled every comment and story from HN through the API and make a bunch of Markov chains to produce story titles and comments. The input corpus is a lot smaller than subredditsimulator though and the various subreddits have a large variation in the words used (meaning more funny comments), so it's no way near as good.

Perhaps a future enhancement might be to partition comments by the submission domain, i.e use only comments for github.com stories for fake github submissions, might generate very different text than a munge of every comment.
What I think is interesting is that in Asia, where property prices are also sky-high...this is dealt with via a large network of public and semi-public spaces for rent.

-Want to smooch on the couch with your significant other but neither of your family apartments are large enough to do so in private? Rent a movie room!

-Want to have a party with half a dozen of your best friends? Rent a music room!

-Need a quiet place to study away from your noisy household? Rent a study room!

-Need a quiet place to have sex away from your nosy families? Rent a love hotel!

-Want to take a quiet day and pamper yourself, with meal service?

and so on. Even better the places offer extra amenities -- you don't have to clean up afterwards, there's usually drink and light snack service (and tech support), and so on.

So it's curious that this kind of business hasn't really sprung up (outside of Asian enclaves) in highly dense cities.
Ask HN: Any good Asterisk client open source projects for looking at their code?
I'm looking for any client developed in any popular languages like Java or C# that works with Asterisk to adopt for my company needs.
My unintuitive experience is that I remember .NET 2.0/C# syntax better than any other language, and it was because Visual Studio had the best tab-completion around (probably still does).

Perhaps because I never had to switch out to a browser (usually I could just 'tab' to the right answer), I was able to keep the code in front of my eyes and 'loaded', and somehow etch more corner-case syntax into my brain.
That is not true. 4 years ago Parse described itself as "A Heroku For Mobile Apps"

http://blog.ycombinator.com/parse-a-heroku-for-mobile-apps
What is really happening? I'm genuinely interested in your answer to this seemingly simple question.
How can what be true? The price of the old out of patent drug was too cheap and the target market too small for generic manufacturers to bother making it while it was widely available. Now that the prices have gone up they're having trouble getting samples to make a competing generic.
Reminded me of some code i wrote some time ago. here it is,
https://github.com/voidware/dp
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On that note, i seem to recall that certain encryption algorithms were transported out of USA by way of book back in the day.

Back then (and i think the law is still in place) anything beyond something like a 90-bit key was considered a military weapon, and thus needed relevant export licenses.

But this only applied to working binaries, not the code printed on paper. So what some researchers did was to get the code printed in a book, using a OCR friendly font, and then ship the book to something like Switzerland where it was scanned, compiled, and put online.
Is there's a way to hook up muni-sewer? If there's a way to avoid composting my own poop, this seems like a fun way to live.
Why are companies leaving the US?
The prices seem kinda ridiculous, or is it just me?
They're definitely still being used today, though in my experience, we weren't docked points for syntax errors where the intent was obvious, except in the introductory classes where the syntax was one of the criteria being tested. In the algorithms and math programming courses, legible pseudo-code was often considered fine.

Pen and paper definitely make it easier for the test administrators to prevent cheating with resources saved on the computer or using the internet. In one of the introductory engineering programming courses, which was electronically submitted in class and auto-graded, there was an issue one semester with students using TeamViewer during class and having others take the test for them.
The question is, if it costs me X to make a product, and the value to you is 100X, who captures the 99X spread? I could charge 99X, you would pay it since the value is higher, and I'll capture most of it. I could charge 2X, it's still worth it to me to produce it, and you'll capture most of it. What value here is most fair? Why is one value fairer than another? The standard economic answer is "let the market decide", and that works, up to a point. If you reject that, you need a better way to decide. Let's say you have a government agency set prices: how do they choose?

You've just pushed the problem around. Saying "get rid of the free market" in only a solution if you have a concrete alternative.
This is always a good topic with numerous HN submissions and comments:

Just from a search, there are some great results:

1. Mathematics for Computer Science - HN Submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9311752, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3694448

2. How to Read Mathematics - HN Submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4030812, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1576969

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Here are some other excellent mathematics books:

1. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning

Containing the thoughts and direction of numerous mathematicians including Kolmogorov, this is a great survey of the field of mathematics. It touches upon Analysis, Analytic Geometry, Probability, Linear Algebra, Topology, and more. [1.]

2. Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science

Containing the thoughts and direction of mathematician and computer scientists such as Donald Knuth, this is a great reference for computer science related mathematical concepts focusing on continuous and discrete concepts. [2.]

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[1.] http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Content-Methods-Meaning-Do...

[2.] http://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Comput...
Yes, especially if your graduate degree involves skills such as programming and statistics and certain scientific areas which are likely to translate well into industry. One thing that a PhD (and Masters to a lesser extent I guess) tends to give is an appreciation for the depth and volume of work that is out there in the research literature; another thing is the important skill of knowing when you don't understand something. Another thing is math and statistics: rather than being just abstract areas of knowledge in which you can do the homework exercises, after a quantitative graduate degree these become tools you actually have experience of using.
Why are poachers shitty but ranchers are not? It seems much more ethical to me to kill an existing wild animal for money vs. breeding new animals in inhumane conditions for the sole purpose of killing them for money later on.
clouds are so great
Everything has been commercialized into absolute death.
I seem to recall it was used to print some HDCP keys on t-shirts.
> meet every single day first thing in the morning and go over open issues, blockers, eta, and priorities... every effective organization i've been in does this

I was going to counter this and say not everyone works best with daily meetings... until I saw your username, "Beach Startup"? Because remote work is the counter-example I would have given. Do you work remotely / from a beach & still have these synchronous morning meetings every day?

I agree it's important for team members to always be aware of open issues / blockers / eta / priorities, but I'd suggest that's what project management software is for. Team members can work in their own timezones / schedule and still check the issues / priorities themselves daily. Curious to hear if your experience is different.
A matter of personal taste, but I greatly prefer the lambda style (though I wish the example had the .stream() on the following line).

I have been coding Java (and C-style) languages for a really long time. And, I still have some cognitive delay when traversing multiple indented scopes. Not a long delay, but long enough to be slightly annoying.

With the lambda style, I can quickly glance down the text column to see what's going on. Stream -> Map -> Filter -> Collect.

After using lambdas enough, one starts to subconsciously cull the stream() and collect() calls. So, when I look at it, I really see Map -> Filter.

But what really, really annoys me is that exception handling can't be applied to the whole stream processing statement. This leads to code that looks like:

collection
.stream()
.map(o -> {
try {
return o.oToC();
} catch(Exception e) {
// handle
}
return new C();
})
.reduce((c1, c2) -> {
try {
return c1.combine(c2);
} catch(Exception e) {
// handle
}
return c1;
});

For that, I have had to write a bunch of helper functions that wrap and throw the exceptions.
Sorry, I don't think you have much of a right to expect privacy when using someone else's iPod without permission.
I got out of college 11 years ago without nearly that much debt. I had loans for a little over $16,000 for In-State tuition to a state school. But I just checked, and now it costs over $100,000 for 4 years there. That's insane.
cough IBM cough
This is why I live in a van down by the river.
I don't know exactly what your definition of success is, but products of hyper-specialization do indeed make money. Etsy is eBay for home crafts, Twitch.tv is Justin.tv/YouTube/Ustream for video games. And of course there are thousands of enterprise solutions that are simply domain specializations of Microsoft Office and Dropbox that are doing quite well.
This is a great step. In several cases, degrees can be a good way to filter applicants, but having them as mandatory requirements in these cases can sometimes deny a potentially good candidate an opportunity. For example, I know a lot of great front-end engineers who don't know what Big O is.
His comment is very relevant when it comes to for-profit corporations.
The question is how we can fix this systematically without making bigger problems. Should a government agency set prices? What if the company stops making the drug, then? The price is high because no other companies are willing to make it for lower, after all. Note that the drug in question is not under patent.

I don't think you'd advocate for literally forcing the company to make it and sell it for a specific price.

There's also the concerns I went over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248817
I'm not saying "get rid of the free market". I'm saying that in a monopoly situation, there is no free market. And if there is no free market, claiming "the free market will work" is insanity, so we have no choice but to try something else.
Science is about skepticism. Being an anti-believer who knee jerk pisses on the idea that this could possibly be true is no more scientific than the people who accept assertions uncritically.

It matters relatively little whether it was actually poachers or some other human. We can be fairly certain it was actually humans that injured the animals. I also think it is not hugely important whether the animals went there intentionally seeking medical care or happened to end up in the right place. I think the most important detail of this story is that the elephants apparently cooperated with the humans that treated them, after being injured by other humans. I think that is huge and really hopeful.
Cool - some of these look like fancy motor homes for a five star road trip haha.

PS: The first listing is really just an ad for a small home custom builder? Savvy of him to get oodles of free promo for his business but may want to look into that?
And it would also require unicode, so it gets even more harder since you have to go out of ASCII range.
The thing is, the value for these products is infinite. If people don't have them, they'll die.
Such is often the case with apps that actually need to and/or get released.
Take a look at what AP Stats teaches.
>“This is still one of the smallest pharmaceutical products in the world”

What Turing is doing is exploiting the natural monopoly that has formed for this drug. I was able to find only two global producers of this drug after a quick search (Turing and a generic Alibaba listing), which if true means Turing is the only game in town for a lot of supply channels. In addition, the medical market is relatively unable to adapt to these sorts of market fluctuations due to 1. supply chain being slow to respond (high regulation and insurance) 2. high need of patients themselves and 3. lack of knowledge about the drug and alternatives due to the infrequency of its prescription.

What this adds up to is that Turing can buy up the manufacturing of this drug, jack up the price, and pocket the gains for a year or two while the market adapts. Make no mistake, the market will adapt and undercut him and he will destroy his monopoly by doing this, but he will also achieve perhaps many hundreds of percent ROI on his purchase of the drug. Afterwards he can sell the drug to another company and move on to another vulnerable natural monopoly in the drug space.

>“It really doesn’t make sense to get any criticism for this.”

It absolutely does, though. If he's able to exploit a pricing inefficiency as a producer, then the press can exploit him by hanging him out to dry in the public eye. Companies can, and should, face public relations campaigns against them for unethical, if legal, behavior.
I think this is a good move, but I'm worried that people will understand it as "education is useless, I should go work".

The problem here is very obviously that most educational systems are completely broken. The american one maybe the most, since it's so "famous".

I come from France, I had a better education than you can get probably anywhere in the world (I went to les Mines de Paris, roughly equivalent to the top 10% of MIT), and EVERYTHING, since I was 5 years old, was free and based on merit. This leads to people with degrees actually being much more performant in the workplace. I am 100% sure this study would have opposite results in France, as it is very easy to look at what the alumni of my school go to become.

People, education is primordial, paying for education is a sin that brings all this shit out. Someone needs to fix this, and probably no one will in my lifetime in america, it is very sad
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In other words, no USG or remaining China CA has violated the CA guidelines and requirements publicly.
> "Any sufficiently complicated company w/o management contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of management."

That include companies with management as well. I have yet to work a place where the formal and informal management structure matched. They are usually correlated, sure, but they don't match. You have the manager that have raised to his level of incompetence that is generally ignored, people with a lot more to say than their position should indicate and people working across the company hierarchy in ways that the formal management structure does not suggest. I would in fact say that it is a requirement for a successful company to allow that to happen to some degree.
You could laser burn it onto the rubber material stamps are made of. That would allow for easily making copies on paper.

Not sure whether "stamp" is the right word. I'm talking about this: http://www.stempel-wolf.de/de/img/stempel/herstellung/gravur...
I don't really understand what you mean by that.
The next cheap ssd I get, I'm going to install pcbsd and give it a go.
That is a very impressing thing about China.
Ok,

I am somewhat ignorant about how the drug system works in america, but theoretically, can one buy the drug where it's cheaper (say, India) via the darknet markets like silkroad or whatever and have it shipped to the US?
Economic conditions.

If you're a millennial, you'd typically buy a starter home. Student loan debt and wages (having been disconnected from productivity in the 70s) cause workers to have insufficient income to devote to a "traditional" housing expenses. Therefore, a tiny home with less financial exposure is more attractive. Even though they're not dirt cheap, they can be of high quality construction and cost about the same as a traditional deposit on a traditional home.
I was really surprised when Congress decided to make it very hard or almost impossible to discharge Student Loan debt through bankruptcy while forgiving other types of debt.

This fact in addition to the fleecing of the nation's youth by the For-Profit Colleges has given a really bad impression about going to college.

The best thing a nation can do for its future is to encourage (and make it easy) for students to get the best education that they can.

You can bet that India and China are investing heavily in their nation's youth and encouraging STEM based higher education. They understand that this is of strategic importance.
Scientists reveal tree of life
There are times i wish rm had a dry run kind of switch, where it would list out all the files that would be affected before asking for approval.
Care to share any experiences you had implementing them?
The value of a human life is not infinite, at least not in health budgets. Insurance companies set a non-infinite value to decide what procedures to cover.

In theory, you could calculate the exact value provided by this drug (under the QALY model).
The death penalty is 18 by a recent supreme court ruling.
Measuring programmer competency
Nice! This book is modeled after the The Princeton Companion to Mathematics [1] which is simply awesome in every sense of the word, and extremely recommended for any person who is interested in mathematics.

I'm very glad to see more books being modeled after it, and I hope this trend will continue with things beyond math. My only hope is that those new books will match the quality of the original.

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Princeton-Companion-Mathematics-Timoth...
Nope. I still disagree. No service can guarantee 99.999999% unless you discount software upgrade. You just cannot. If you think those nines include software upgrades, you are probably over optimistic.
We don't necessarily have to choose: they are both unethical and evil activities.
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Without picking a side, one notable difference is the sustainability of ranching. To my knowledge it hasn't driven many species to the brink of extinction (though maybe it has contributed indirectly by changing the habitat?)
I believe if you raid0 an HDD and an SSD you lose fast writes because the OS waits for it to be written to all disks in the array.

Maybe depends on the implementation, I I'd imagine it would degrade performance.
If you're doing grad school full time then it should only take 2 years for a Masters.

You can get a Masters in 4 years while also working at your high paying job. That just costs you a night or two a week (and not that much money, depending on the school)
Of those two, poaching seems to me more likely to reduce the number that remain in the wild.
How much does this translate too? In mid 2010, 1 coin was worth about 5 cents.
> No service can guarantee 99.999999%

Don't advertise it if you can't offer it then.

> If you think those nines include software upgrades, you are probably over optimistic.

If you advertise a product with a specific SLA, and you can't meet that SLA, you're a liar. Don't try to blame the victim because of inaccurate/untruthful marketing or engineering.
Tried to sign up with Facebook and got an error, FYI.
1. So far, no direct corroboration. Not even on the DSWT website.

the story on DSWT is linked from the article:
https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/updates/updates.asp?R...
What is that something else?

In a monopoly situation, the price tends towards 100X in my example, which is still less than the value provided. Even in a monopoly, nobody's paying more for a product than they receive value from it.

Yes, it may still seem unfair, but what else are you proposing? Nobody should sell the product? How is that making anyone better off?
Looks like around $60,000 for 270 coins.
The legal version of poaching is called hunting. Provided the laws are sound (you haven't e.g. bribed someone to "legally" kill a tiger), hunting is fine. Killing a legally-protected animal almost always means you shot something whose species is in some sort of jeopardy. That's bad.