skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think Comcast likes the competition from a slew of telecoms, Google, and DirecTV?
I'm not saying "recruit" in terms of "they got a recruiter" or "sent out some formal offer to try and win them over," or "conducted a job interview," but there was certainly a point at which they "asked" them to join on because of their existing relationship. They recruited them. We're saying the same thing.

My original point, however, that the Jessica Livingston article seems to stress odd parts of her personality and role in the company when you consider that she was the only non-technical co-founder, she was dating the founder, and Paul Graham has a history of making boneheaded statements about women in the industry.

Yes, it's a controversial position to take, and, no, I'm certainly not belittling her role -- she absolutely made a huge impact on the company. However, the wording, and tone of the article, I thought, was poor.
Would you settle for 'agenda pushing'?
Interesting. The only reason I used rdio was because of all of the good initial impressions designers and product people I knew had of it. The biggest assumption it made was that people understood the 'sliding pane' UI as being self evident, and it wasn't.

Wouldn't the only reason there being limited choice be because of the way music deals are structured? I'm not familiar enough with how those work but having a mismatch of payouts / winning labels vs listeners would be a problem.
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Ah I'm not advocating budget cuts but I do think a certain understanding that ignoring intelligence from friendly governments is the kind of thing that ends your career.

Similarly, the organization needs to adjust to avoid similar lapses in judgement in the future.
Do you see the word "recent" in the church's official position? What do you think "recent" means?

But whether or not Ben Carson is a young-earth creationist he is without question a creationist, specifically a six-day creationist:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/ben-carson-creat...

Personally, I don't much care about the particular flavor of Ben Carson's wing-nuttery. The fact that he's the leading contender for the Republican nomination is deeply disturbing. And the Republican leadership agrees with me, BTW:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/time-for-gop-panic-e...
I take it back; You are right that it is not pure capitalism - in pure capitalism, there would not be FDA regulation which definitely plays a huge part here. But I think the end result is indistinguishable.

I'll grant you that it is not YET the result of pure capitalism, assuming that there is, indeed, foreign production. But what stops the buyer from consolidating foreign producers as well? It's good for every producer involved - together, they can raise the prices even more.

Totally free markets are unstable.
More politics: there are a dozen states in the USA that have declared today "we refuse to take any Syrian refugees"

So yes, Daesh/ISIS/ISIL has won already, this is EXACTLY what they wanted, the western world to reject refugees.
Time and time again the terrorists turn out to be people who were already being monitored by conventional intelligence strategies. However, the difficulty is in spotting the difference between people with terrorist sympathies and people who are an imminent threat. Harvesting more data won't help with this at all.
some western commenter... and you are from?

Sad imho is that most of 'the middle east' since decades didn't succeed to solve their issues, a.o. become modern states. Always blame others. And you seem to do this also.

Yes I think 'the west' has many good things which could serve as a blueprint for most middle east countries: division of power, respect minorities, confine the influence of the religion(s).

Of course 'the west' is not perfect, far from it. (But your examples don't help in the grand scheme, this is known and won't help the Middle East to get capable governments who care for their citizens).

What happened in Paris (and in Beirut, Bagdad...) is murder. Weak persons who, lamentably - failed for a totalitarian sect. We must make sure that 'problematic things' get focused. It is also for the benefit of the normal people in the Middle East. Or don't you agree?
You know, in days like this I wonder if the hordes of Orcs ravaging the Middle Earth were really evil... or just wanting to make an honest living for them and their families while waiting for their stock options on World Domination Inc. to vest.

And Sauron must have been a heck of a CEO too.
A coworker who worked as a doctor in Afghanistan and Myanmar for about a year told me that a third of the medications they had in the hospital, and two thirds of the medications you could purchase in pharmacies contained no active ingredient. People kept dying on him because an antibiotic would randomly do nothing, or lysis medication turned out to consist of colored NaCl. He said that most of those medications were delivered from China and India because of the low prices in those countries. This is anecdata, obviously, but I'd be very careful purchasing drugs from countries with low oversight. Fake drugs are an enormously profitable market.

I also like this quote from a New York Times article:

“If I have to follow U.S. standards in inspecting facilities supplying to the Indian market,” G. N. Singh, India’s top drug regulator, said in a recent interview with an Indian newspaper, “we will have to shut almost all of those.”

The unease culminated Tuesday when a top executive at Ranbaxy — which has repeatedly been caught lying to the F.D.A. and found to have conditions such as flies “too numerous to count” in critical plant areas — pleaded with Dr. Hamburg at a private meeting with other drug executives to allow his products into the United States so that the company could more easily pay for fixes. She politely declined.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/world/asia/medicines-made-...
My goodness, has no one else ever heard that before?

http://www.perc.org/blog/rahms-rule-never-let-serious-crisis...

And further -

"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."

Rahm Emanuel

Before the bodies were cold, multiple mouth pieces were blaming encryption for the attacks. This is exactly what the quote was talking about.

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-abou...
If "secure" communication schemes are made insecure, other methods will be used. For example, while it may be inconvenient for two people to drive halfway across town and meet face-to-face in a dark warehouse, they'd have no problem doing that if it was the only way to ensure secret communications. Especially when they're planning events that might take weeks or months to unfold, what's an extra 30 minutes of driving?

If you invest billions in surveillance, you will only achieve two things: having spent billions, and making sure that criminals communicate in some other way. You will have stopped no crimes, except the people who are stupid enough that they would have been caught anyway.
Yeah, I understood that, I was just confused as to why he or she mentioned firmware along with software because I thought firmware can't be modified by users like software can. I was wrong in thinking that though.
Not to mention the fact that Isis killed 224 people when they bombed the Russian plane on Oct. 31st and no one seemed to care. When they kill 100 indie rock fans in Paris though, it's time to repeal personal liberties as fast as possible? Why is this incident different than the Russian bombing?

Neither incident should influence policy since as you say, while horrible, there are a lot of other things killing orders of magnitude more people that don't get "addressed" the same way this is.

People need to stand strong and resist the urge to be reactive.
Not to mention dependencies it will make you install.
Here is the perfect opportunity to clarify a misconception.

Swaps != debt.

Swaps do not create a liability/asset unless interest rates move, and even so, most of the swap contracts will then nullify one another.

Most banks admittedly have trillions of notional swaps on their books. The very vast majority of these offset each other. The "open position" (net exposure) in banks is very heavily monitored by the authorities. Banks are not heavily exposed.

Arguably, corporates (who hedge) and insurance companies or pension funds DO have open positions in swaps. But even so, recall that the potential liability is proportional to the likelihood of an interest rate move. Let's say an open position of 1 trillion (enormous) receiver swaps (lent) sees a 3% upmove in 5y interest rates on an average 5y maturity of the book (usually lower). Assuming rates near zero which they are, the duration calculation means a net debt becomes payable by such company of 3x5% = 15% of the notional = 150 billion USD. So 1 trillion became 150 billion, even under an extreme scenario. 1/6th. Then recall, that rates will never move 3% (300bps) in one line. They'll move a few bps every day. It'll be very clear once the liability hits, say 5-10 billion, that the counterparty cannot pay anymore, they will be made bankrupt (or close these positions) well before 3% (remember daily margining?), and the swap contracts will become null and void immediately. So now 1 trillion of swap contracts became 5-10 billion realizable debts.

By contrast, when the Treasury borrows 1 trillion, they owe a full trillion, no matter what happens in interest rates. See the difference?

Now in this analysis, I'm glossing over counterparty risk in swaps. Banks "not heavily exposed" relies on the idea that all banks are good for their commitments, since their netting is done against other banks. This is not the case in a Lehman style scenario(it's like a huge web that even neo4j would have trouble monitoring - ha ha - if a piece of the web falls away, many banks are then potentially exposed). Hence the major focus of all policy makers in the past several years has been to make derivative clearing daily-marginable, and exchange cleared. To erase that problem (outside of 6-sigma "impossible" etc - see one of my other posts)

Further to that policy maker regulation, did you know that in the latest European banking sector rules, derivative contract commitments are senior even to small depositors? So equity goes first, then subordinated (higher yield) debt, then depositors > 100k, then senior debt, then depositors < 100k, and only then, swap liabilities.

Of course, lawyers sit even above swaps ;-)
Coca Cola has been around for 129 years. How many centuries does this process take?
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You're right, she was not brought in to handle the marketing. She did have some marketing-type roles within the community, however her position was far more broad than that. However, I believe that my original point still stands, in that, the post is poorly-worded, and stresses odd parts of her personality and role in the company that, I believe, does not reflect well on YC and Paul Graham in particular, given his past boneheaded statements about women in the industry.
> Believe it or not the people pushing for surveillance are not villains out of a movie or TV show. They see a tragedy like Paris and they really believe that more surveillance would help prevent these kinds of things in the future.

Having the character genuinely believe that their harmful actions will serve the greater good is pretty much the most frequent advice to writing believable villains in any context, including for movies or TV shows.

> Immediately after the tragedy is exactly the time we should be taking steps to prevent it in the future.

Immediately after the tragedy is when we should start taking steps to understand why it happened, and how (and at what costs) similar tragedies could be prevented. Jumping based on emotionally-driven haste into steps intended to prevent recurrence without due consideration is a great way to maximize the effect of the Law of Unintended Consequences, and to prove the adage about the paving material used in the road to perdition.
Yeah, you know what it seems like to me? That old saying that you can't put a price on human life, that's what these pharma companies are testing now.

"Will they pay, even if we raise the price by 20x?"

That's not the kind of behavior I'd like to look back on for my own life, when I'm at the end of my days.
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I worked in a shop with two of these, side by side. I don't remember toner (except for the rare spillage) so much as the fog of thousands of tiny bits of paper dust.

It was generally a low-maintenance job: pull the printed stack periodically, separating individual jobs; every 20 minutes or so, feed a new box of paper and tape-splice new to old; separate individual jobs in the printed stack; listen to the gentle white-noise shuffle of paper swimming through the tracks.
As rare as good founders are to find, i'd argue that it's even rarer to find founder founders like PG & Jessica.

Not to say that people like PG & Jessica are so rare that it couldnt happen via an institution, (i'd ague that most of the yc alumni could become founder founders), but the circumstances to become a PG & Jessica require a rare blend of both personal character development beyond just authenticity and a perfect alignment of opportunity to make for such an incubator.

As soon as the process of an art form is institutionalized, one of the first things to go tend to be authenticity to the form of process and policy. It isn't that there is anything inherently wrong with institutionalizing something, but that authenticity and relationship development inherently do not scale, and the simplest way to make it scale is to exchange relationships for process & policy.

Many day to day decisions could be made into an algorithm optimizing for the greater good, yet opportunities would be lost to scenarios akin to that of the scene in iRobot where the robot saves the adult man instead of the young girl from drowning because the robot calculated that the man had a higher chance of survival. decisions like these are where character is paramount.
Damn shame when my old school cannot make the list with an active drone program http://aviation.und.edu/prospective-students/Undergraduate/u...
If you make a list of the most successful tech investors, you're going to find that they're not as a rule all technologists. Ron Conway has a poli sci degree. Fred Wilson has a finance background. Peter Fenton at Benchmark has a Philosphy degree.

Note though that it's only the women who get dinged as "girlfriends" tagging along with their technologist boyfriends when they co-found immensely successful venture capital firms.

Hopefully that helps you understand the immediate negative reaction your comments generated.
I sent the same email to them, but I did get a response:

We're fundamentally different than Zenefits in a few very important ways, so accessing all of Gusto's features still makes sense:
1) Payroll is your system of record in your back office and quite simply, we believe computers follow rules a lot better than humans do. Zenefits functions on a “hub-and-spoke” model… they’re the hub, we’re the spokes. But that's already an outdated functionality-- there should be no spokes when it comes to payroll and benefits—they are really just one single hub functioning in unison. Removing the spokes and human operations that Zenefits uses removes the opportunity for error.

2) We’re a customer service organization, not a sales organization. With the technology comes the vital human touch—you’ve got your dedicated Care Team trained to support your benefits just like you have a Care Team trained to support specific payroll needs.You also have your dedicated and experienced Benefits Advisor for business and benefits strategy planning. This way, you can go to one partner for all your back-office needs rather than using an intermediary to control several different disjointed resources.

3) Because it’s all in one place, you get one beautifully simple experience for your entire team—administrators/managers and regular employees. That means onboarding your employees' payroll and benefits in one place while we help you navigate the confusing world that is US Health Care Reform.
Basically, we love you as a customer and we want the best product experience for you. That happens when you use the full Gusto platform to combine payroll, benefits, and compliance.

It wasn't very convincing to me, and I think it might be an even harder sell now that Zenefits is launching payroll. I love both companies but I definitely would prefer to have everything integrated in one platform.
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Older children a more mature? Shocking.
No, not at all. Freedom is its own end, and State sponsored mass surveillance is inimical to freedom. Even IF this stuff kept us safer, which I doubt, it wouldn't be a trade-off that makes sense to me. If you're not free, why live at all? To me, agency, the freedom to make our own choices, to live our own lives, is the most fundamental essence of what it means to be alive.
WalMart is advertising the LG Sunset for $24 next Friday -- Android 5.0, 8gb flash, 4-core 1.2ghz, 4.5" screen, MicroSD slot.

I'm planning on getting one and adding a bluetooth remote music controller as a music player on my motorcycle.
"Rdio's service will not be interrupted today. We will have more updates in the coming weeks on what this process means for your Rdio account, but for the time being the service continues unchanged." From there blog.
I think you need to read up on some more history.
I didn't say all 7DAs were YECs. But the fact of the matter is that YEC is the church's official position. And Ben Carson is on record as believing in a six-day creation, and professing ignorance of the age of the earth. So we can quibble over the YE part, but not the C part. Ben Carson is without question a creationist.
Only one thing is for sure. No matter where, no matter when, no matter why: Capitalism is to blame.
Ask HN: Why are GMT{+,-}N timezones sometimes reversed?
So today I encountered a very strange "bug" in some code. I was converting timezones using a time and date library, and they were being converted totally wrong.

I probed a little deeper and discovered that converting to e.g. "GMT+1" from GMT was actually subtracting an hour.

I opened a ticket on the library, and the owner linked me to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#Area

> " In order to conform with the POSIX style, those zone names beginning with "Etc/GMT" have their sign reversed from the standard ISO 8601 convention. In the "Etc" area, zones west of GMT have a positive sign and those east have a negative sign in their name (e.g "Etc/GMT-14" is 14 hours ahead/east of GMT.)"

Does anyone know why?
> Without more information, I think the indignant tone and format of this article are unwarranted.

Agreed. For me, that "more information" includes things like: whether or not the drug is viable at its former price, the likelihood of this price driving other entrants into the market to find new solutions to address this problem, the ability of other manufacturers to develop substitutes, the amount of the profits that will be returned into development of other drugs that will save other lives, the baseline cost per life saved across the pharmaceutical industry, et. al.

High prices attract attention to existing social problems and are sometimes useful. Other times they're opportunistic and exploitative. It's not trivial to isolate the two.
The study compared children enrolled versus forced to delay entrance according to an arbitrary date.[1] Socioeconomic status has nothing to do with it.

Further, the study explicitly claims causal relationships, rather than merely correlative. I'm guessing as a result of the kind of fancy-pants regression analysis they used. [2]

[1] "children who were born a certain number of days before the Dec. 31 enrollment cut-off and those born after the cut-off" http://www.nber.org/papers/w21610

[2] "We estimate the causal effects of delayed school enrollment using a "fuzzy" regression-discontinuity design" http://www.nber.org/papers/w21610
Personally I find SQL much easier to read. In a product where you might allow users to write queries it is a much more pleasant UX experience to write and read SQL than it would be to do so for ES queries. It isn't a problem to understand how to build an ES query object but an ES query object is pretty terrible to read IMO.
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How does Zenefits handle if a Employer paid check does not match the Zenefits charged amount? ie: reconciliation portion.

Employee X terminated, check is $22.8k instead of $23k.

Employee Y has three policies for a single benefit, but only two get paid through the employer.

Is this all automagically handled by the UI in a simple 'SSN or Policy' amount does not match for these three records, how do you want to apply the $30? 'No record found for Employee X, reason for non-payment?' Does Zenefits handle managing/forwarding that to all to the carriers?

(disclaimer: I work in insurance)
No NeXT cube??
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Like many modern movements, the surveillance state thrives on its failures, which makes it nearly impossible to defeat.
>> Scaling it might be somewhat difficult.

Facebook has what, almost a billion and a half users? 500PB of data?

They are likely the largest systems of their kind in a few areas. It has to be more than somewhat difficult.
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I'm flagging this post. High fat diets are not proven to be detrimental to your health, and science is proving that the low fat fad diets that have been pushed by the FDA for years ARE detrimental to your health. The article is almost entirely bullshit.
I hope it's not dismantled by the next administration to come into power.
> Hundreds of thousands of Californians who were once in custody but never charged still have their DNA stored in law enforcement databases

Can those databases be cleaned from this information? By a judge request maybe?
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I wrote it in T-SQL and classic ASP, and I've never updated it. It's hosted on a server in my basement (Server 2008 w/ SQL Server 2008 ). It's a little clunky. I also use PersonalCapital.com to see the pretty graphs. I've always wanted to write something more elegant and securely shareable for other people to use, but it has never been enough of a priority.
The problem is most languages we use are not very safe, and which means if you have one unverified part in code, you can't prove code correct. I read a paper recently which tried to do modular verification of C by adding runtime contracts are boundaries[1]. Theory wise its sound, but it's really slow. You may even have to rewrite code certain ways to make it perform better.

[1] https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/471365/3/soun...
Hmm, when I'm very tired I get slight tingling sensations in my feet sometimes. I wonder if that is (anecdotally of course) related to the insulin sensitivity. I've heard that is a symptom of diabetes.

Usually sleep fixes everything right back up. I'm pretty skinny, although I know that's not necessarily always an indicator of good health, I'm pretty sure I'm pretty healthy.
Pretty sure a lot of FOTRAN code are compiled or wrapped around with C interface when I install numpy/scipy. I just don't remember which module to be exact.
At least one of the authors is Danish (~55°N) so they are presumably aware of this to some degree. I am at 37°N and really do want the colour temperature inside to match that outside.

In any event it is open source, so you can change the code as you deem fit :)