skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using data from the AngelList API as a starting point, I compiled this list to save founders time in considering startup resources in LA. Let me know if you have suggestions for additions/corrections.

Hope it helps!
I'm dimly aware that that wonderful black and brown crust on the meat I've grilled is carcinogenic, and I try really hard not to think about it.
There was no science! It was a handful of quotes from 2 people...
It certainly says that vitamin C doesn't cure all cancers.
Land is a "Resource," just like water, lumber, grain, and ore are generally considered resources.

As we recall from Econ 101, Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources.

Land becomes "Property" when we introduce the fundamental tool and building block of society: law. Property law grants the land owner certain rights and restrictions that are set, guaranteed, and enforced by society.

Property can be considered a "Monopoly" only in the context of some sort of market, which implies supply, demand, and flow of goods.

Say we own an acre of land in the middle of Los Angeles, and it is the only plot in the city with an oil derrick. If we define our market to be rentable land within the city of LA, we most definitely do not have a monopoly on the market. If we define the market to be rentable land in the "center" of LA, our power within the market has gone up, but we still do not have a monopoly on the market. If we define the market to be an acre of rentable land in the center of LA with an oil derrick, then we do have a complete monopoly on that specific market.

So if you own land, you can monopolize a certain subset of a market, depending on how you define its parameters.
Interesting concept (scored 4/10 on the first test, there's also a similar test with a different song)

But to be honest I don't think the snippets are good candidates for the comparison
Be Careful What You Wish for (2000)
Looks like they're working on bringing it to market;
http://www.reminova.com/faqs
People slip, fall and suffer under things falling on top of them.

Liability insurance is not exactly a new product. Underwriters that sell it do ask questions about swings, trampolines and other liability-generating items.
Oh, there are rules. There's just little relating them. You must learn them all separately.
> Why you did that rather than throwing an error or generating a more informative value is a mystery.

Why would you think it's automatically an error or that a more informative value could exist?

I might have a form with yes/no or date answers and if a question isn't required and the user doesn't provide an answer then it's stored as NULL. Either way the meaning is obvious, it's read and written perfectly fine, and it's not an error.

I don't understand the implication that storing NULL means something went wrong? That's not at all what it means to me. I'm going to assume something about your response: you seem to conflating the concept of stored null value in database vs. returning a null reference or pointer in C.
It's only a sticker for gays as it doesn't serve any purpose to them. They are pretty good being just in a partnership.
From the article:

"Even if one of the parties is dishonest and deviates from the protocol, that person cannot learn anything more than if x = y."
There is a great book on film by David Mamet[0] in which he describes the authentic way to piece together a story. Roughly, stories should be told through editing and camera movement, somewhat following the montage theory.[1] You see a picture of a man staring. You see a coffin. He's sad. Replace the coffin with a bowl of soup, and now he's hungry instead.
According to Mamet (and many others) even feature films should be done in this manner, no dialogue whatsoever (and definitely no voice overs or signs/texts to read).

In the same vein, a game should be told with the protagonist as the camera. You go to the farm house, no one is home. You go the forest, you see broken twigs and no animals: Somethings not right.

The upcoming game The Witness seems to embrace this sort of thinking. So did many rpgs (even vanilla WoW, to a certain degree. Much of the feedback from the game came through interaction with your surroundings[2] and you could always choose a different quest line).

[0] http://www.amazon.com/On-Directing-Film-David-Mamet/dp/01401...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_montage_theory
[2] The first time you see a glowing plant you realise there's something called herbalism etc.
Their stickers are easy to remove, so it's not the same thing.
A more accurate statement would be that Wordpress is used by these sites, because of how they count stats: all subdomains are considered one site, and they count it if any single page uses Wordpress.

So for example this would count the NYTimes.com site as a Wordpress site, even though they only use Wordpress for a few of their blogs.
Actually, if you bother to look you'll find that tribal societies often have very rich culture and rules around marriage exactly because "worrying about inheritance" is a critical for their very survival. And "worrying about inheritance" is also a substantial part of the reason there is a rich history of marriage that goes beyond one man marrying one woman in these societies.

E.g. many African tribes have traditions for polygamy that are either explicitly intended to deal with men being likely to die earlier (as fighters or hunters) to safeguard the viability of the house-hold and/or to deal with inheritance in societies where women were often not allowed to inherit (a typical case being a social obligation in some tribes for a man to marry his deceased brothers wives in order to ensure she still has somewhere to live).
There are a couple of these organizations on whose labels I rely.

Non-GMO project: http://www.nongmoproject.org/learn-more/understanding-our-se...

Certified Humane: http://certifiedhumane.org/
The first issue would be touchy, I think. You'd have to find a way to deploy gradually the cable, or else each end would gain really high speeds that could break the cable when it stops deploying.

Regarding the second part... If the cable is severed, the lower part goes down and the upper part goews away as it does not have an anchor on Earth anymore (I think). Either way, you lose the cable. If it's a bit higher, maybe it doesn't burn up completely (for example, in Spain we've recently found space junk landing almost unharmed in a field [1]). And if it's several kilometres long (just a few hundreds) it could cause considerable damage.

1: http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/05/inenglish/1446724352_762...
Still too risky from a PR standpoint. It's the kind of corporate activity that means well (truly) but can be interpreted negatively too easily.

Unfortunately the only safe play is to give away the service for free (for duration of the attack). Which could be a solid marketing strategy, cloudflare's price point is reasonable enough that many would stick with their service even after the attack was over.
The programming model here is very similar to that of the language I work on, Streams Processing Language, normally just called SPL. A paper we have submitted on the language itself: http://www.scott-a-s.com/files/ibm_tr_2014.pdf

Our domain is online stream processing for, generally, the big data space. I do think, however, that describing computations in this manner gives enormous flexibility to runtime systems to actually exploit all available parallelism dynamically.
Intel Quark D1000 microcontroller [pdf]
A bad no-negotiation offer seems beneficial to candidates since it makes the decision easy and doesn't create the illusion that there's a good deal there to be had. It's hard to see how a good no-negotiation offer is bad for candidates either, since it's easy to decide and doesn't waste their time with something they're not going to get.

Middling no-negotiation offers would make the decision straight forward if not easier or harder...and again, not waste the candidate's time. So at worst it seems to me a wash.

Good luck.
We haven't established any official open-source policy, per se.

Our software (mostly ruby and python with some C firmware and Objective-C for iOS) does make considerable use of many open-source libraries.

While working, I often find bugs in these upstream dependencies and will:

* Find the project on github
* Search existing issues for the problem I've encountered.
* If found, see if there's an existing patch (and use it).
* If no existing issue is found, I'll open one, then try
my hand at supplying a pull request that addresses said
issue.

My PRs aren't always accepted.

* I generally fork -> PR under my personal github account,
since I'm not acting at an official level for my company.
* I don't mention my company in the PR.
More power? The already use countless google products, AdSense being where they currently serve ads from. Publishers don't lose power. Google relies on publishers for revenue, I don't see them purposefully hurting a publisher.
Actually, as far as I can tell one part of the planning agreement was for the developers to fund a ranger to help monitor the area - probably one of this lot:

https://www.facebook.com/East-Lothian-Countryside-Ranger-Ser...
You are supposed to do the test "blind". :-)
Because often the point was to ensure a pooling of the resources of two families.

But adoptions to secure an inheritance chain is historically certainly not that unusual either.
Almost every time my company gets called in to do JIRA consulting the situation is this: Devs bring JIRA in.. JIRA gets popular.. things get out of control.

It is almost NEVER brought in by management.
In 1939, the book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration was published. In it Weston A. Price explains that you can avoid cavities by eating a good diet. I wonder if most people will ever become aware of this. Probably not - they don't read much, and certainly not non-mainstream stuff like that book.

Edit: I would also recommend reading The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, since Weston A. Price did not get everything right.
If this turns out to be cheaper than fillings, I get the feeling my dentist probably won't adopt it haha.
The Arduino-compatible kitchen
Jira is a super flexible tool.

Sounds like all the developers you know hate how their bosses use tools. I happen to love how my team uses Jira.
Why most Math texts have so much technical detail and so little enlightenment?
The newest version of Orange (version 3) is standardizing on the scientific python stack (numpy, scipy, scikit-learn)
>Don't get me wrong, differences between 16-bit and 8-bit are clearly audible, and are demonstrated on my Dynamic Range, Dithering and Noise Shaping page. However, because contemporary popular music has such a limited dynamic range, these differences become subtle, if not inaudible, when tested on it.

From the summary thing above the blind test. They're aware of this, this test was mostly done for irony (as also explained in the blurb.)
That's a tragic story. I certainly don't think it's anybody's business why you need a second job. Ultimately why do we need any job? Money of course. What you do with that money is your own business.
Wow. Those administrators were much more patient with those kids than I would have been. The narrow-minded intolerance (in the name of tolerance) of these kids is just... words fail me.
Er. * cough * Yes, rockoon, not ballocket.

In my defence I (a) am coming down with a horrible cold, and (b) read The Register...
India’s Flipkart Throws Google a Bone in the Battle Between Mobile Web and Apps
Google Just Open Sourced TensorFlow, Its Artificial Intelligence Engine
Doesn't the R&D ramp look a bit unusual? 57 -> 79 -> 141? Totally destroys their margins, right in the year when they must know they're going public?
The assumption that Google is aiming solely for a short-term trade is absurd. A competent business like Google very much goes for long term solutions, especially when Adwords drives their revenue.
I've often heard conspiracy theorists say that if dentists ever learned of a way to cure cavities more cheaply and without drilling, they'd suppress the information as it would endanger their business. I think this is insane, but can anyone offer a sound economic argument for why dentists would embrace the new technique instead of cartelling up to suppress it?
Of course, it's the people against convoluted, multipronged trade agreements who are the neo-mercantilists! The Ludwig von Mises Institute are all a bunch of reds!
Ask HN: What else in the world should be Open Sourced?
Just a shower thought:

Computer science is evolving blazing fast. On one hand it's hardware that's providing more and more computational power and on the other hand it's software that gives us endless opportunities. IMO if it hadn't been for Open Source and sharing knowledge we would be changing the world in a much slower pace.

So my question is: which other domain could accelerate beyond our imagination if it adopted Open Source model?
I actually really like Confluence specifically because it's WYSIWYG -- not for myself, but because by being accessible, other (non-developer/technical) people actually use it. I hate having to deal with the mess that is every shared network drive at every company ever, or even worse, email attachments.

Personally, I'd be happy with just Markdown if it was just a group of devs, but that is a rarity. At my company now, we have tech support, IT, (non-technical) account reps and even to some extent HR and finance using it, and to get that to happen, it was essential to be very easy. There's still a handful of users that attach Word or PDF documents to a page, but at least it's accepted that the wiki is still the canonical location to get any type of documentation, company policy/forms, etc. Baby steps.

So well Confluence does have its warts, getting buy-in into non-technical departments trumps those.

Conversely, I've never seen a non-WYSIWYG wiki actually successfully deployed and used by non-technical users (as contributors) -- anyone else?
The animated images are ridiculous. When I read your comment I thought "Oh great another article using one second gifs of popular tv shows to seem funny". But it's worse than that. It's literally just text.
Is anyone familiar with how this differs from a zero knowledge proof, or is this a TYPE of ZKP?
Can you tell me any names of companies to look at for applying or websites/resources/organizations where I might find names? I'm interested in checking the city and its opportunities out.
No. The two parties trust each other. This is to secure the fact that Alice and Bob are talking to each other and only know that x=y
I accidentally upvoted your comment, but I meant to downvote. Sorry.

If fear of collisions is the reason you don't use a crypto hash function, then you are using a broken hash function.

A hash doesn't satisfy all the requirements of the problem, but it's not because of collisions.
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The best thing about this comment is: This opinion doesn't matter any more.

Whether officiated by a religious order, the state, or the word of those involved, 'marriage' is just a word, a concept, and has many permutations.

The new Marriage is unbounded by anyone else's beliefs.

The old Marriage is concerned with law, religion, and society. And sometimes we need to drop down a gear and consider these things, but law, religion, and society do not a marriage make.

It is the combination or mixture of elements that gives rise to something new, something neither of the elements alone is capable of, that is a 'marriage'.
I love Jira. You just have to have it set up for the people using it every day (developers)
But it must be countered by the fact that some valid opinions of today were the silliest of the past.

Consider how many things we accept as valid today (say opinions related to equality) were once almost blasphemous to mention. It would be arrogant of us to assume we are not making similar mistakes.
The key thing to understand from the Wikipedia article mattgibson links to:

Ricardo noticed that the bargaining power of laborers can never dip below the produce obtainable on the best available rent-free land, because whenever rent leaves them with less than they could get on that free land, they can simply move to the new location. The produce obtainable on the best available rent-free land is known as the margin of production. Since landlords have a monopoly over a given location, the only limiting factor for rent is the margin of production. Thus, rent is a differential between the productive capacity of the land and the margin of production.

In the U.S. today, there is no free land. This changes everything. Landowners as a group have an effective monopoly: those who can't afford land have no choice but to rent from them, for one needs a place to sleep, grow food, and to just stand!

Please read http://geolib.com/essays/sullivan.dan/royallib.html, or as ethanbond recommends in another comment, Progress and Poverty by Henry George.
Hearthstone runs but is not optimised for retina, nor does full screen mode work as it should (i've heard it's a trivial fix from other unity devs).
BLLLAAAAAAALIRRRRRRRRRR.
Like what? As someone maintaining a Confluence wiki among other tasks I can say the only thing I has provided is reasonably fine-grained access control and a huge ton of headaches, pure WTF moments of XML hell, and java crash stack traces to debug.

Confluence is the Wordpress of wikis, but without Wordpress's code quality
> That's already better in a case when agreement involves laws.

Why on Earth would it be better to have Jeff Sessions (R-AL) representing US interests during the TPP negotiations rather than a US trade rep? Actually that seems exactly the _opposite_ of a good thing, since any individual Congressman or set of Congressman is going to favor their state(s) over the country as a whole; they are directly accountable to the people in their state who elected them. At least a US trade representative is accountable to an elected official who represents the entire country.

> When they are completely opaque and results are shown post factum - that's where potential for corruption grows.

That's how Congress already works. Staffers and legislators produce the text of a bill and the results are shown after the deed is already done. All that enters the public record is some of the amendment history and the conference report, if there is one. And often amendments change huge portions of a bill, and you again see only the after-the-fact result. It's not a write-commit-write-commit cycle, it's a write-write-write-write-write-commit.

> To put it shortly - evil things like to lurk in the dark.

A lot of effective governance also works in the dark. The reality of life is that completely transparent, open negotiations are very difficult and close to impossible except for small, very tight-knit communities.
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As a dev, Jira is the best of a bad lot.
By virtue of the fact that Atlassian chose not to list in Australia they have sent a message to government. Turnbull appears to be the kind of prime minister who could make Australia more tech-friendly, so fingers crossed.

The best option for a rising tech company in Australia remains, unfortunately, to purchase outright a flailing listed mining company and invert, a la 1999. This is where the "scammy" feel of listed tech companies comes from.
They're not. Retail trading is a fools game.
If your shares are fully vested, yes, you will receive payment for them. They may be stock options and you would have to pay the strike price for them.

You really want to read up on this though. It sounds like your shares could be worth a significant amount of money and there's a lot more you probably want to be aware of (tax treatment, etc).
Since Disney owns ABC, and ABC is a co-owner of the Hulu web app for watching TV and movies, it seems to me that Disney already has positive experience in this space.

BTW, Hulu with no commercials for $12/month is really nice.
Non-Americans know a lot of facts about the US. However, the evidence that non-Americans know a lot about life in the US is much thinner; you get exactly, and I do mean exactly, the same sort of stereotyped impressions of a complex country that Americans have of others. It's exactly the same because it sources from the exact same human brain patterns. We're all just human in the end.

I'd also observe that since the US has had such a large footprint, the interesting question isn't whether the French know our President, vs. whether an American can name the French Prime Minister. That doesn't scale properly, as it implies a standard by which the non-American wins by knowing one name, but the American has to know everyone. The more interesting question is does the average Japanese person know the name of France's Prime Minister, or vice versa? And that's staying comfortably within the world's top ten economies, hardly an unfair question. I suspect by this standard the US would look a lot less bad, though I would still be completely unsurprised to see it at the bottom of such a measure. It just wouldn't be such an extreme difference.
Probably not. It's been a few years since I took the in-house Employment Law class, but in the US I do not believe that you must be offered vacation time. I remember that you have to have to be able to take at least one morning and one afternoon break, but that's it as far as the law goes.
While it is easy to criticize any animal model study, especially when targeting cancer, we should be HIGHLY skeptical of any mouse study that uses vitamin C. Why?

Mice synthesize their own vitamin C; humans do not (hence, it should properly be called ascorbic acid in mice, not vitamin c). The biological pathways involving this compound are very different between species, and deserve special consideration.
9/10 times for me it's because I'm filtering them out. It's not a good feeling to go back to work after a few days being out to a full inbox.

The other 1/10 of the time is because I probably pushed something out last-minute before I left due to some deadline, and I want to make sure my coworkers have their questions answered. I don't necessarily look at it as a fear of being fired, more so as someone who has been on the opposite end of that scenario and it's frustrating. If spending 30 minutes answering an email from a coworker on my vacation prevents a day's worth of frustration on their end, yeah, I'll take one for the team.
The people that own those houses have enough money that it isn't worth the time investment to make a little extra cash, even if the side benefit it ruining the experience. That's a hell of a time commitment.
The author describes a strategy: maximize the density of storage space and minimize the density of living space.

I had discovered that excellent wisdom independently when setting up my various college dorm rooms.

He later says that he is "forever changed" by the experience. I hope so. Myself, I had forgotten, and I thank him for the reminder.
More recent article says they still haven't actually used the technique on a human being, only on extracted teeth.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/25/us-dental-device-i...

Still, sounds very promising.
Why don't dentists recommend drinking more soda and eating more candy?
> None of your decisions are important.

Some of your decisions are vitally important. That time you're going to get spring fever and go rock climbing without a rope? Yeah, that decision's going to matter. It's only by the grace of God that you're going to live through that one.

Most of your decisions aren't important. Some of your decisions are critical.
Firesheep
Even the things Snowden revealed required various industries to cooperate with the NSA. They weren't doing it on their own. Most portions of it were even designed and maintained by contractors! The people that work for these agencies are not savants... The people who work for the contractors however... They're terrifying. The NSA, FBI, etc. are red herrings -- look at MITRE, Booze Allen (consulting), etc.