skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There they are, they are agreed by the scientists of the whole world, so again no need to worry about the e-mails of one country's organization:

http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/index.shtml

There are other countries among those who took part in making the reports who would be more than eager to point on anything that's wrong there. And nobody did find anything significant against.
This must be their answer to Zen Payroll/Gusto now offering worker's compensation and health insurance.

It's great to see competition in this space. ADP and the other dinosaur providers in this area have had it too good for too long.
The Area Where Netflix Is Forgetting All about Your Experience
I'd venture that's valid for any interaction with journalism these days. You read a story and if you are part of the story you realize how wrong and/or skewed the whole thing really is. Then you start to question how many other stories or articles are the same. Eventually you realize you can only take them with a grain of salt.
So Paul Graham had a girlfriend with an English degree and a background in marketing, and he brought her on to handle their marketing at YC. She was jokingly called the "mom" of the company, and she handled all the "social stuff" while they did all the "technical stuff" People assumed she was the secretary, and, according to her husband, she was okay with that. She's stayed out of the limelight because she's "sensitive," "modest," "shrank from engaging," was "mortified" on a previous encounter with the press.

I mean, this is nothing against Jessica or her character -- there's absolutely nothing wrong with being non-technical, an introvert, or preferring to stay out of the limelight, but it doesn't exactly speak volumes that YC is promoting her like this, in response to YC starting out as a "one-man show," and some of the other accusations against them.

"No, really, my girlfriend was around to be the work mom and handle the social stuff!" Just seems a little tone deaf.
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Gosh... java is getting uglier by these weird syntax.
Support for java 8 will come with jack & jill.
It might also need a new API level (24 ? ), which would seriously hamper its adoption.
This is why many people see kotlin as a great thing for the future of Android (even though kotlin on android could also benefit from java 8 as a target)
Thanks for the info. It's interesting that on Amazon, it says "Android OS" for this phone instead of just "Android" as it is for all the other phones.
California’s DNA Law Violates Privacy Protections Guaranteed by State
It's perfectly okay to say all communication on a particular project of public interest should be open. Fine, set up a public mailing list and tell people to use that instead of private email.

It's a lot less okay to lead people to believe their communications are private and then demand to read their email after the fact. What if Alice, in what she believed to be a private email to Bob, truthfully criticised Carol for being a vindictive jerk, and in the meantime Carol has climbed the political ladder and now has the power to sabotage Alice's career?

If Congress or whoever wanted that sort of oversight, they should have said so upfront, not to try to apply it retroactively.
I see that too. Seems chronological other than this, probably an indexing error.
This individual didn't volunteer to help the government. He undercut all competition in a competitive bidding process because his costs are $0 for the project.

This is one of the known failures of free markets, regardless of the actors intent the effect of his behavior is negative for those trying to participate in the market as a means of sustenance.

I'm not mad at the guy, he can do whatever he wants. It's just kind of a crappy thing to do knowingly to other people and, if widespread, could have some strange externalities.
The man likes to stir shit but he's no racist.
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I wish they reverted to the old search bar, where you could chose to search globally or just the repository you're on currently: https://github.com/blog/1492-repository-search-on-all-reposi...

Unless I missed something, the only way to search globally now is to go to github.com and then use the search bar.
Syntax is not a big deal. Ideally it should be small.
If you don't like java, please don't use it.
move on. Why create ugliness in java?
Even if the winning bid had been $3000, it wouldn't have changed the situation for everyone who lost the bid. By bidding $1, he only caused one person to lose the bid, which is whomever bid second lowest.
No idea why this is downvoted. The financial crash seems to provide evidence of it happening. And there have been studies showing monkeys being as good as financial analysts at piking stocks.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickferri/2012/12/20/any-monkey-...
Plausible deniability? Anonymous can be used as a cover for clearly illegal activities which, if overtly connected to a particular government, might do more political harm than good.
I have not read all of PG's essays, but the few things that I have read here, talking about Jessica Livingston, including this essay, set her up as a magic oracle, sitting in obscure silence, judging everyone (on which basis, it is never revealed, except for appeals to "character", through a Social Radar).

I don't disbelieve that is how it happens, but to me it just seems all a bit too magical. Like, founders should be betting their entire business that this person who won't talk to you can correctly divine your entire past and future trajectories just by watching you talk to her husband? Otherwise, they won't accept you into their family?

It's a bit of a turn off and vaguely cult-like.
Yep. Fully agreed. I think it sucks for the other participants because it wasn't the "intent" of the market. At the end of the day the market is going to yield a solution, intent doesn't matter.
Maybe to be mildly negative. To be outraged, though, takes enormous energy. Unless the offense is actually worthy of the outrage, it's a waste of time and energy.
How a joke launched an international hackathon
Okay, "Sam". Just "Sam".
Maybe, but I still doubt that equates to a 30% drop.

I am more a fan of the whole, increase in division between community and its police leading to lack of informants among other things, idea.
I like the novelty of this. I think requiring keyboard input is distracting, though. Maybe you could just press spacebar when something appears on screen?
It could be hypnagogia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
Thanks for bringing up Parks & Rec. I miss that show.
That sounds like a horrible experience and it's not surprising that you feel the way you do about psychiatric meds.

You're right that many of them at the moment suck. They have long lists of side effects, some of the side effects are severe (reducing quality of life, sometimes reducing length of life).

At least in the UK there's some push towards patients becoming much more involved in their care. There's a bit of of focus on the informed part of informed consent. But we could do better here.

For some of the severe mental illnesses it's a tricky balance - do we medicate people or let them live with their illness? Mostly this should be up to the patient. If someone has the capacity to decide then they're allowed to "make the wrong choice".

And while the side effects suck they can be better than the illness, which can lead people to die by suicide or live miserable lives.

But if someone just hears voices, and is okay with them, doctors should not be pushing that person towards medication but towards crisis planning and advanced directives.
If you press the delete/backspace key when you focus the search box, you can search globally from most pages.
> Why the heck would any developers use HIP with this legal issue up in the air?

Probably because if just implementing an API really turns out to be a disallowed by law - and I'm not familiar enough with the Google/Oracle case in particular or the law in general to know how well it generalizes to such a conclusion - then most of the stuff I rely on goes poof anyway.
The market isn't destroyed, it's just driven to zero. You can't force market participants to behave in the fashion you want. The market being driven to zero is one solution for the market, it optimizes for the people selling services and the people buying them, it just doesn't optimize for the profitability of those trying to make money off of selling their services.
> The author didn't share a diagnosis, nor did he or she share the specific medication(s) that helped. Given that, how can you conclude that the drugs "deadened neurons"?

You mistake me for talking about the author. I was making commentary about the broad umbrella of psychiatric medicines.

Both I and my wife have taken those drugs, and the feeling in my body was that they deadened a part of ourselves. In my wife's words, "I still wanted to kill my self, but didnt have the will to do it." That's the deadening; feelings were 'grayer', tastes were bland, colors were muted.

> It would not surprise me if the patient had the same concerns as you and I, but was so desperate, so hopeless that they were willing to take the risk.

And I'm perfectly OK with someone with informed consent taking substances. And I consider making use of wikipedia and Erowid as part of that consent, as well as doctors in your stead. I'm also not OK with doctors covering up, glossing over, or blatantly lying about problems that can arise. And from what I've seen, the psychoactive drugs can cause all sorts of side effects, some short lived; others permanent.

My wife and I have had this discussion; Under what conditions would it be OK to forcefully administer psychiatric medicines? Our discussions seem to show no good way to handle this, as it goes from the men in lab coats prior to the 60s, to the abuse of patients ending in the 80s, to simple imprisonment now.
Please reread the essay. She was not "a girlfriend with an English degree" he "brought on to handle marketing."

> Y Combinator is fundamentally a nexus of people, like a university. It doesn't make a product. What defines it is the people. Jessica more than anyone curated and nurtured that collection of people. In that sense she literally made YC.

You seem to be assuming that pg wrote this essay to boost YC's reputation. Actually it feels like he wrote it to correct an injustice. A large one, I'd add, considering it's gone on for most of a decade.
This location-based setting sounds clever, but it's a crappy idea if you live further north than ~60°N. Or do you want your screen to go red at 3pm and stay that way until 10am the next day when it's winter? And then in summer it's red from 2am to 4am?

I use CF.lumen on Android and Redshift on Linux and I have to regularly shift the fake locations I give them in order to have them do what I want. At least with Redshift on Linux I can script it...
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Microsoft to Provide New Encryption Algorithm for the Healthcare Sector
I'm not convinced that it's because the single-man myth is sexier. It's probably just easier to not go into detail (make that as short as possible) on that part of the story because it isn't the most interesting part to the layperson.
It does feel a bit wide to me, but I haven't tried it yet.

Some extra margin on each side might be nice.
Theoretically, the gain element is not necessary. They only need it to compensate for physical imperfections in the device.
How is it racist to call out the inhumane things ISIS is doing?
This is a nice overview. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23512950
Wondering if this would apply for things like hourly workers as well.
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> Unless I missed something, the only way to search globally now is to go to github.com and then use the search bar.

You can delete the default "this repository" facet. Just hit backspace when you're in the "local" search: http://giphy.com/gifs/l41lJC4ZrO3sEFuNO
> Should plumbers be upset about their work being devalued?

The problem stems from contributions that have a big impact. Big impact can be achieved by one person contributing a large amount, or many people contributing small amounts.

Another comment referred to this article where a Florida business man donated a million t-shirts to Africa that resulted in the textile industry bankruptcy:
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1987628,00...

Was it bad just by giving away t-shirts? I don't think so.
Was it bad just by giving away that many t-shirts? I don't think so either.

It was bad because his actions created a dependency on an unreliable source while removing the main income source that sustains reliable ones. If he subsidized the income loss of the textile industry, the consequences would not have been as devastating.

That's really the crux of the argument; giving away things for free generally takes income from dependable sources of labour. It's only when it has a big impact that people pay attention.

Going back to the topic, the same can be said about volunteering. I think it's okay if volunteering dislodges an entire industry as long as the volunteering is sustainable and reliable.
Gender roles are an immutable feature of the universe. Yes, men can learn and become good at some of these things that women have a natural inclination toward, just as women can learn and become good at some of the things that men have a natural inclination toward, and there is some play here in terms of the quantity of each trait that a specific individual gets, but it's hard to fully substitute a native intuition.

We need both genders -- neither can be discarded, and insisting that the two genders are so similar as to not have any unique properties or advantages is the same as discarding them.
Oh man, please don't tell me I'm secretly an accountant!
>If you want to refer to the corporate/political amalgamation as the problem, great.

Well, you effectively got halfway there in your description. only it goes beyond "cronyism" to direct influence on lawmaking. This is not something debatable and "subjective" like the old/young lady image -- it has been shown time and again in the courts, reporting and historical research.

>and seems like an effort to push a particular anti-capitalism ideology.

And that's bad because? Did anybody prove that capitalism, and especially as practiced now, with said corruption, cronyism etc, is the last and final word of politics and civilization?
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I understand where you're coming from but I disagree. Ignoring the emotional impact on the losing bidders I think that reducing the net payout of the market has a negative effect on all market participants.

If he won at a bid based on cost it would have kept the market at a price level comparable for all participants. He won the bid by ignoring all cost which has the effect of lowering the entire marketplace by pushing prices down.
Okay, I stand corrected. She was his girlfriend with an English degree and a background in marketing who was brought in to "curate and nurture a collection of people." I'm not commenting on whether or not the injustice was corrected -- I think it's important to give recognition to peoples' contributions and achievements. It still seems fairly tone deaf, all things considered.
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They wanted more repository content above the fold. Turns out having discoverable and clear navigation is more important since the vast majority of the content (e.g. readmes) is going to be displayed below the fold either way.
The lifestyle of Tanystropheus, part 1: was that neck too heavy for use on land?
And probably the coolest president on the planet.
Oric Atmos seems to be missing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric
Surprised the essay doesn't mention Founders At Work, a great read that is really well done and likely very difficult given the breadth of the interview subjects. Seems like a perfect reflection on its author.
Oh wow, can't believe I haven't tried that all this time! I'm glad I complained now :)
A subpoena doesn't require evidence of misconduct. As I understand it congress asked one of their agencies to provide information and they refused. I think subpoena is the legal way of saying, your refusal is invalid. Give us the information
>There are other countries among those who took part in making the reports who would be more than eager to point on anything that's wrong there. And nobody did find anything significant against.

Wait - but you didn't verify it your self ? After all :

>You don't have to be a rocket scientist to repeat most of the basic calculations which give similar results.

Or does it all boil down to trust and your original argument is nonsense.
I don't think there's any "magic" to it, just careful observation.
What's an example of something that would need to be custom? Does anyone know?

I'm also confused by that line, and the plans in general.
> My wife and I have had this discussion; Under what conditions would it be OK to forcefully administer psychiatric medicines?

That's a significant interference with a person's human rights, so it should be done as a measure of last resort, after all other options have been tried, and with a bunch of checks and measures built in. The person should pose an immediate risk of significant harm to themselves or to other people, and the person should lack capacity to make the choice. The people making the choice should be senior, experienced, and well trained.

And after it's happened there should be some kind of case review to see if it can be avoided in future.

For example, if the person became distressed to the point they are rapidly tranquilised the case review would look at behaviours of other people that created the distress.
I wish they'd have talked about what it takes to get this to $10. At what cost to human rights, the environment, labor, etc.

The invisible costs are huge.
Yes, I think the comment-parents point is that it doesn't really speak well of YC, and so doesn't really address any injustice.`
Yeah. The point should be helping me maintain the sort of circadian rhythm I want, not the one dictated by Earth's rotation.
RE: muzzled scientist issue being overblown.

I'm Canadian. I have scientist friends. I can say this was not overblown. Funding was cut. Programs that were decades old were shut down. Data that contradicted the government was buried.
Graphite Software has released a new Nexus 5 ROM
Graphite Software has released a new Nexus 5 ROM

Virtual Phone System ROM for Android with Hidden Space support now available
Graphite Software announced today the availability of a downloadable system ROM image for Google Nexus 5 phones. The ROM includes the powerful “Spaces” feature that is in use by device manufacturers including Coolpad, TCL, Blackphone with others launching soon. In addition, Graphite Software is making available several apps that demonstrate the power of Hidden Spaces.

http://www.securespaces.com/WP2015/
Nice, thanks for the demo! I take back what I said, this is better than the old version with the dropdown.
Ok, so I took away some work that they were going to pay someone for. What, though, are they going to do with that money they saved? They are probably going to spend it on something else, which will employ somebody. It just shifts where that money is spent.
>It's not a proven thing that humanity would excel if people co-operated instead of competed.

It doesn't matter if it's proven or not. We're (hopefully) not automata just doing what's proven to make us excel without consideration for the others.
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We're launching in all 50 states. Happy to have you on board!
Unfortunately, I don't think the original Moto G and Moto G 4G are getting security updates anymore, and all the newer phones are much bigger.
YC is a VC company and people skills are central to making that work. Remember, one of the main things PG said he actually did was "We all had dinner together once a week, cooked for the first couple years by me." There main problems where not building servers, but "How do you recognize good founders?"
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/11/extreme-...
Why does it matter what I have personally done or not done? Science works. E-mails are irrelevant. That's what we're discussing. If you claim that science doesn't work, you can prove that, but you have to know the science, or nobody will believe your claim. The major problem you'd have in order to prove that the current findings are wrong is that even the simplest formulas are against you. So you'd have to accept 99% of the existing results at the end and then to discover something completely new that amazingly nobody discovered up to now but that makes bigger influence on the results than everything known up to now. Good luck with that, as the data already add up now, as you can see in these graphs on the Bloomberg.
Most antivirus software will probably account for direct Windows API usage and maybe using CURL doesn't set off such flags? Not sure, I don't make antivirus software, nor do I use it.
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>Because it uses sunset times to change your colour temperature around dusk. Localtime is not sufficient to work out dusk with any degree of accuracy.

So, why not just ask for the location instead of bundling 200MB of crap to get it?
Food in your teeth rotting is one of the causes of bad breath.
It's refreshing to read an article about a scientific study from a university press office that doesn't exaggerate or misinterpret its implications. Perhaps it's a luxury of prestigious schools.

I suppose a reasonable hypothesis to draw from this is that a too structured environment in early childhood is destructive to mental health. But I wonder whether they're considering the possibility that being one of the older children in the class carries certain advantages that might affect the development of the child's personality.

If my memory serves, Malcolm Gladwell explored this topic in the book "Outliers" when discussing differences in birth month frequency between successful Canadian hockey players and the general population, except it focused on differences in physical rather than social development between children in the same classes but different age groups.

If something similar were taking place here, delaying kindergarten for the general population wouldn't solve much.
Wow, they're investing 300 billion yuan over 5 years, and they only have ~12 billion yuan in annual revenue. There must be some monster loans being made available...
Today's supercomputer is a GPU in 5 years time.
A Cosmic Detective Story: Finding Artifacts from the Early Universe
Book: "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)#Brea...

Theory: The brain has two hemispheres: One does the talking and one does the listening. Sometimes we react because the "self" is the last to know or just reacts not realizing it is a self evaluation below our awareness. (Dog goes to bite your hand and you react.) We then try to assign order to that chaos with a reason such as "god[s]", or "spirit[s] warned us or made us do so.

Snippet: "..."... Leftovers of the bicameral mind today, according to Jaynes, include religion, hypnosis, possession, schizophrenia and the general sense of need for external authority in decision-making...."
I can think of one possible reason: if you have a passphrase on your SSH key (which GitHub recommends in their keygen tutorial) then pulling from a repo will require you to enter your passphrase, which is somewhat silly if you have some remotes that you only pull from and never push to (and of course you can set up different remotes for pushing and pulling for the same alias, but I've rarely seen that done).
Welcome to the world of functional programming =D. I personally (and professionally) suggest moving toward Scala when you feel that itch to dig deeper into FP.