skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not think that a corporation should not be allowed to challenge a government due to decisions impacting its business. Some of its actions can be very harmful to businesses. If an harm is done, the victim should be able to initiate a process of _public_ investigation (which ISDS seems not to be, I wonder why) and if the government is shown to have done wrong, the corporation should have the possibility to get compensated.

The above Saluka v. Czech Republic case got me interested, so I have read a little on this. At the time Japanese Nomura had invested in Czech IPB bank in 1998, there was an international treaty on protection of investments in effect between the Czech republic and the Netherlands. Nomura had transferred the 46% ownership of IPB to their Netherlands-based fund Saluka (I am not sure on legality of this operation). The lawsuit took place after Czech government's actions reacting to IPB bank falling down. Nomura was partially responsible for the downfall as it did not make promised actions to help the bank, but the government also had their feet wet when later they helped other banks in similarly bad shape, but did not help IPB. Nomura was smart and resourceful enough to point out this is in odds with the above treaty and benefit from the situation. The government has tried to sue Nomura as well for its actions/inactions and law breaking for 240 billion crowns, but then dropped it to make an agreement with Nomura.

An international arbitrage took place in 2006-8 which found 5 out of 8 claims made by Saluka to be invalid, but the remaining 3 were found to be valid. The most important finding was that the Czech republic did not give the same kind of financial assistance to the IPB bank it had given to other banks in similar shape and thus failed to honor the international treaty ion investment protection. Saluka demanded 30 billion crowns as a compensation, the arbiters decided only 3.5 billion crowns, equal to initial Nomura's investment, should be payed. In this case at least, it seems to me, legally things worked well - the government screwed up, it got sued, it lost and it paid up.

Sorry for the long write-up. What's the morale of the story? I am not outraged so much by the possibility of corporation suing the government as by government's utter ineptness. We need more efficient, less corrupt government that can follow and enforce meaningful rules and at the same time, keep nasty investors and their schemes in check.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144277

http://www.protext.cz/zprava.php?id=2487
http://www.kurzy.cz/zpravy/117569-respekt-nomura-na-investic...
http://www.rozhlas.cz/radiozurnal/publicistika/_zprava/jan-m...
> Doing a google search of "top TV 2014"

Hollywood has a history of being a canary in the coal mine when it comes to stereotypes...both good and bad. For example, when homosexuality started becoming more accepted in American culture one of the first signs were prominent gay sitcom characters.
If like many Washingtonians you never leave NW, sure. But there are plenty of billboards in NE and SE. There are definitely billboards when you get a little ways out on 66, also on 50E towards Annapolis. 95 in VA is non-stop billboards, I forget if 395 has them. The one I'm not certain about is the beltway ... but pretty sure I've seen billboards on the beltway in parts of MD. There are (were?) also what amount to billboards along H St in NW. So I have to disagree, and encourage you to explore the area more.
There' a Black Mirror episode built around that very idea.
I think in general Markhor's model of operation is commendable. This transformation of business -- this lifting of the veil, getting to know the backstory of how our products are made, it's great, this transparency, this kind of personalization will make way for better working standards for workers abroad, since we humans tend to be more moved when the intimate and visible details are put in front of our eyes. If I see that the guy making my shoes is making a dignified living, that he's not stuck in a circle of indentured servitude, that's awesome.

Also, I wouldn't read into the pregnant woman comment too much. Pakistan is a very different world -- and there is a legitimate concern of pregnant women doing this kind of work. Most "mochies" (folks who work on shoes) do this stuff sitting down on the floor (despite the pic of a guy working on a table on techcrunch article), I cannot think in any way that that is good for a pregnant woman. The Markhor dude messed up in explaining what he was getting at, I think his motives are good, it's probably a language/culture barrier at fault here. That said, the other thing is that there are basically no women mochies in Pakistan. That's just a matter of fact, so uh, women getting fired are not even a concern to begin with. :)

tldr: this ain't the company to get your pitchforks ready for -- facebook et al. are a better bet.
You're tying up the re-birth of entrepreneurship to the 2011 revolution that happened in Egypt. But isn't the ousting of past-elected president and the forced takeover by el-Sisi (a military man) a sign of complacency from the youth in particular?

You're basing your whole point on this revolution that was undone soon after, which really takes away from the core points of your article. That said I can definitely imagine how much of a positive impact an attempted revolution could have on people's appetite for change.
It's really important to not forget the genetic factors at play in Alzheimer's. Between 65-80% of all Alzheimer's patients have at least one genetic version of the ApoE4 allele, a genotype found in around 25% of the population [1]. ApoE is made in astrocytes and is involved in cholesterol transport to neurons and in repairing damage done to neurons that occurs with normal aging. That isn't to say there isn't a dietary link or that critical lifestyle factors don't interact with these genetics, however! Insulin resistance leads to inflammation (which has been shown to accelerate brain aging) and may be one way in which type 2 diabetes is linked with Alzheimer's. I think calling Alzheimer's disease "type 3 diabetes" may be a somewhat dramatic oversimplification and a bit misleading, though, since the mechanism would be a bit more general (in this case).

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21787325
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Okay, so it turns out that there are 2 deals:

TTP
TTIP

In essence, it is hoping to standardize trade and other shit into 1 "free" system.

It also looks to be centred around NATO countries (or mostly them). So similar capitalist-agenda I guess?

This also sounds very dangerous on political grounds, as it will outcast many countries with alternate ideologies compared to the corporate-governed (or would "controlled" be a better word?) countries.

As hackers, many on HN wouldn't care too much for political banter like this, but as startup founders, this type of deal will entrench the VWs of the world and the "much-loved" Teslas will be squeezed out by entrenched corporate-sponsors with deep pockets.
Yes, but in all fairness, this is one article out of 6 Spiegel Online had on the protests. And one was an explicit counter point to their own earlier polemic:

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ttip-kommentar-ich...
I can't imagine Tokyo or Taipei without large billboards and other signage draping over whole buildings.

As others have said, I neither miss them nor dislike them. The one thing I will say is that some do cover over otherwise useful windows --which since covered by advertising become useless and wonder how the inhabitants deal with diminished sunlight --but on the other hand you have places like France where you are (were?) taxed on window count on your flat and so people would board them up, so as not to count as "windows".
The Mother of All Questions
The FBI Is Struggling to Hire Hackers Who Don't Smoke Weed (2014)
These days, I guess it's partly because the media keeps telling us that pop culture portrays scientists and hackers this way. Which makes me wonder - is there any study on the effect of articles like this one on women in STEM fields and computing?
Not being able to discharge a loan through bankruptcy doesn't mean the borrower will pay. If that rule is changed expect to see people complaining not long after that no one will give them a student loan.

Not getting the lowest rate is a direct function of propensity to pay. Getting a college degree in anything does not always mean more money for the borrower. The rates reflect that reality.
Knuth has answered your worries in 1990:

http://www.ntg.nl/maps/05/34.pdf

"I have put these systems into the public domain so that
people everywhere can use the ideas freely if they wish.
I have also spent thousands of hours trying to ensure
that the systems produce essentially identical results on
all computers. I strongly believe that an unchanging
system has great value, even though it is axiomatic that
any complex system can be improved."

"Of course I do not claim to have found the best solution
to every problem. I simply claim that it is a great
advantage to have a fixed point as a building block. Improved
macro packages can be added on the input side;
improved device drivers can be added on the output side.
I welcome continued research that will lead to alternative
systems that can typeset documents better than TEX
is able to do. But the authors of such systems must think
of another name.

That is all I ask, after devoting a substantial portion
of my life to the creation of these systems and making
them available to everybody in the world. I sincerely
hope that the members of TUG will help me to enforce
these wishes, by putting severe pressure on any person or
group who produces any incompatible system and calls
it TEX or METAFONT or Computer Modern — no matter
how slight the incompatibility might seem."
>You could make the virtual environment like the versions of heaven in the various religious books and have that stuff for real rather than make believe.

Have you seen religious beliefs about the afterlife? Actually attempting such a virtual environment will wind up being the nail in the coffin for religious belief in a bodily afterlife, because it will be unenjoyable and ridiculous.
They have/had the same problem with people with tattoos. Previous story:

http://gizmodo.com/the-fbi-is-struggling-to-hire-hackers-who...

There's definitely still a struggle in certain circles with the idea that many people in security (and other fields) are also members of subcultures that tend to have members that use recreational drugs, have tattoos, piercings, dyed hair, etc. Getting people to work for these agencies instead of the private sector is going to be challenging for a mound of other reasons; the least these agencies should do is rescind some of these bans.
It's very unlikely that this has anything to do with your troubles. Unless you distribute content to the extent that other nations have requested assistance in stopping your operation, I can't imagine dispatching the FBI to deal with that.
I agree to some extent, the problems are partially with people misunderstanding economic growth, and once we move away from that then at least some of the problems will go away.

In the economy of barter, we gave what we had for what we wanted. Money was invented because it allowed us to buy from those we had nothing to sell to, facilitating easier trades. If you consider an economy as an engine, money would be the lubricant, it helps the engine run more smoothly, and just like engine lubricant it only works when it flows.

Using the engine analogy again, what we should realise is that it's the engine that does the work and produces the goods, why do we need ever increasing amounts of lubricant for this engine? Two reasons, the lubricant gets hoarded, taking it out of use, and there's an ever increasing demand on the engine to produce more.

Breaking away from the engine analogy now, whilst some of the increased demands on growth come from increasing population size, the other reason for the increase is extra demands on material wealth. Whilst there are those in poverty that clearly would benefit from increased material wealth, is that universally true? I don't know about you, but I know I've felt a certain amount of emptiness from the whole process, it's rare that I'll be excited about a new item, and yet I'm working a good chunk of my time for items I barely want.

Perhaps material wealth only brings you happiness up to a point, and after that it's a case of diminishing returns. Perhaps you need to have grown up comfortably to see that, though clearly some people are happy with endlessly chasing material wealth so it doesn't appear to be a view held by everyone.
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Kiddicraft -> Lego -> Infiniminer -> Minecraft

Even if it's just in namesake, the world does have a funny way of coming full-circle.
What motivates you to rewrite it in Go? / What benefit do you expect from it?

Moving things towards a clear API is a good step towards replacing a back-end. I won't comment on the choice of Angular because I don't know enough about front-end development and it really depends on the type of product what fits well.
Losing it?
If the deal is bad enough, I do endorse B.
This seems to be a much better source than the article, but I don't think it's actually claiming to show any clear connection to diet. A high-fat diet is mentioned in the description of a mouse model of type 2 diabetes (which the authors then seem to say didn't actually serve as a good Alzheimer's model), but I don't see the authors actually making a direct case for dietary influence.

The article, by contrast, has a headline worded as though diet-induced Alzheimer's disease is an established phenomenon and the type 3 diabetes hypothesis is a proposed explanation of that phenomenon.
I thought this was pretty damn impressive https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/3m1bao/13ghz_o... I didn't know you could make a fairly simple oscillator to generate ~1GHz frequency.
Doctors are not always helpful for stuff like this. I wouldn't go to a doctor unless I am bleeding or immobile from pain or for scheduled checkups. They see far worse that a little paranoia every day, and will probably just prescribe some random pills. Doctors don't care about un-treatable problems and "i'm afraid of my phone" isn't a treatable problem. Yes, they can refer a mental health specialist. That specialist will just confirm, yes you do have whatever problem you think you might or something else that's more benign and should start regularly paying them.
You have an anecdote. I don't know the timeframe for the events you described, but it's a widespread international connectivity to the internet developed much later outside the US than it did inside it, so all things being equal, I suspect there were simply more international participants available during your tenure than during the previous years.

This experience may have convinced you that language policing is effective, but it doesn't convince me. Bragging about your karma likewise has no effect on my evaluation of the merits of your argument.

> That gets done to me quite a lot.

It happens to everyone a lot. In context, I get the feeling that you're suggesting it happens to you because you're a woman. Am I wrong? These sly implications of sexism where none really exist are extremely offensive and offputting and make me less likely to sympathize with your cause.
Hearing that somewhere there's a tax on how many windows a housing has, I was confused and immediately rushed to search more about this weirdness.

Don't know about correctness, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax says France got this until 1926, so it must be somewhat before the age of modern omnipresent advertising.
The requirement to register for an API key (presumably with your Google account) seems a bit weird. Do they expect other browsers to share a Google-controlled API key service, or do they expect developers to sign up for multiple developer accounts, or to deal with four radically different systems for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari?

Last time I heard something like this discussed, one of the suggestions was "browsers automatically disable support for experimental features on Tuesdays", which should allow people time to experiment but should prevent them from depending on it in production. Also, it's a simple rule that can be shared through the web development community by word-of-mouth[1], and many browser vendors can share it without having to coordinate infrastructure, etc.

[1]: Obviously this wouldn't be the only way to share it, but when one developer can turn to another and say 'why doesn't this work' and get a one-sentence answer that contains an accurate model for predicting future occurrences, it's a lot more likely for that model to be reliably propagated via Stack Overflow, Twitter, the random mailing-lists-reformatted-as-web-forums content farms that crop up in search results, etc.
Well I'd say changing human behavior is harder than changing perceptions. And most of the article (outside of the behavioral bit about the sexism she experienced, which is unfortunately a harder problem) is therefore focused on perceptions, which seems very justifiable given this bit:

"As Dr. Cheryan points out, stereotypes are only partly true, and women who actually take classes in computer science don’t hold the same prejudices as women who get their ideas from pop culture."

So the male nerd culture aspects inside the system aren't as offputting as however the current popular stereotypes make them out to be. Sounds like there are some lower hanging fruit than changing people's desires.

(As to why we'd want to fix it in the first place... I don't know many tech companies right now that are satisfied with the size and depth of the talent pool. Getting more education to more people to become potential candidates could only help with that, and increased demand for a major tends to increase department size, so I don't think it's a zero-sum game with males losing out here. More people with at least a cursory or exploratory level of education in science could eventually lead to better policy around it, etc, too.)
I really like the app as a whole. I know it's an alpha, but it's sluggish as hell. Also i've peeked through the frontend repo and i've seen them using jQuery; would't it be better going vanilla? ( or maybe using coffe for speeding up the whole process?)
I genuinely like the feel. Waiting for more !
Small volume of mouse cortex is already successfully scanned at 3x3x20nm voxel resolution, with smallest synaptic details being visible http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(15)00824-7
The tool is called ATLUM. The process could be scaled up.
It seems only OpenBSD got this right (in my opinion) from a cursory inspection of the man pages for resolv.conf - they allow for not-default port in it. There is a bug in glibc around since 2012 [1] for this!

Oh well.

1. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14242
So, this is unflaggable and should be discussed, but is buried on the fifth page? Is there something in the ranking algorithm that is dinging it, over other older posts with fewer up-votes?
Unfortunately it haven't worked very well for me - quickly changing emojis, completely unrelated to my face
Interesting. In what ways do you feel the US has shifted to the right? (I'm more familiar with the right wing narrative saying the country has shifted to the left - gay marriage, black president, etc. But it's very possible that I'm getting a biased sample of the rhetoric.)
"A report issued late last month by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau supports this view. Even though the economy and labor market have improved, student loan borrowers are experiencing high distress levels compared with borrowers with other types of consumer debt, the government report found. More than one in four student loan borrowers are delinquent or in default on their obligations."

1 in 4 are delinquent or in default. Read that again.

This situation is a failure mode, and is only fail-safe for the lenders who forced it there. This means that on some level, the lenders knew their interest rates were impossible to keep up with, yet knowingly went forward anyway because they knew they could get away with it. The USA's system is utterly bought out against the common good. At this point, I think we'd be better off with a widespread boycott of student loan payments in order to bankrupt the lenders. They can't call collections on all of us, and there would be riots if they tried.

I know that a lot of people are jaded as a result of societal failure to address the student loan crisis. These intentional failures for the sake of profit have long term consequences, as nearly everyone can blatantly see.

"Some 41 million Americans owe $1.2 trillion in student loan debt. The median debt burden among borrowers was $20,000 in 2014, up from $13,000 in 2007."

This is an entire generation worth of people that have been cursed to start their adult lives with an anchor around their neck. As though the brutally competitive ultra-hostile economic depression they graduated into wasn't enough to weigh them down to begin with.

To top it off, the boomers find a way to hold us in contempt.
I was super pumped to see that as well. Was cool to see how much of an effect a good power supply had on getting the phase noise under control.
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Speed would definitely play a part if I wanted to integrate any CI deployment for a large site. My experience with PHP was never very good in the past, and after switching to Node, I haven't looked back. It had an inconsistent API, was unpredictable, etc. But then again, it has been awhile since I've used it. If it has gotten better since then, that's awesome. I should take another look at it.
What state is that?
There are more than two trade deals being negotiated right now, there are at least five: TTIP, TPP, TISA, CETA and a Chinese-led deal I forget the name of.

EDIT: The Chinese-led trade deal I was referring to is called RCEP.
> This childhood self-discrimination...needs to be fixed

I'm baffled by how you can believe that individual choice can be a problem that needs to be fixed. Do you believe that people should be directed into non-traditional fields against their will? Or do you believe that they're not competent to make their own decisions?
Or perhaps a Siri like AI could try to imitate someone or 'be' them in a way that an actor does. That seems the kind of tech we are closest to actually being able to try to build.
Love this quote:

“Most people would be very uncomfortable tearing down 315 houses. But they don’t have a similar objection to never building them in the first place, even though I feel they’re morally equivalent. Those people show up anyway. They get born anyway. They get a job in the area anyway. What do they do? They live in an overcrowded situation, they pay too much rent, they have a commute that’s too long. Or maybe they outbid someone else, and someone else is displaced.”

“It’s easy to see the problem when you’re tearing down someone’s home. But when you’re not building, it’s hard to see whose home it is.”
Greg Egan is fantastic; I particularly liked his short stories.

One should note that he says people shouldn't expect to just sit down and read a book, but should use a pencil and paper to help figure things out. Though that doesn't apply so much to Permutation City, it does to other stuff like Orthogonal and Incandescence. (From what I've heard Schild's Ladder, too).