skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the only way I ever found it was because I kept accidentally doing global searches when I though I was searching a repo. Turns out I just held backspace too long while clearing out the search bar. It took me a long time to realize what was going on.
Yeah, exactly. A lot of research done on DARPA grants is only tangentially related to military applications. For instance, our lab gets half our funding from DARPA and we work on general-purpose CPUs and vector accelerators. You can't get NSF funding for ambitious long-term research projects. They just don't have the budget for it.
I don't know why you think PG/YC "piss on that model."

The YC website says:

> We try to interfere as little as possible in the startups we fund. We don’t take board seats or many of the other powers investors sometimes require. We offer lots of advice, but we can’t force anyone to take it. We realize that independence is one of the reasons people want to start startups in the first place. And frankly, it’s also one of the reasons startups succeed. Investors who try to control the companies they fund often end up destroying them.

> One concrete consequence is that Y Combinator funding lets you sell early, if you want to. It can sometimes make sense to sell yourself when you’re small for a few million, rather than take more funding and roll the dice again.
This isn't pure capitalism. This is a result of what Mises called "license monopoly". See "The Monopolized Commodity" under https://mises.org/library/monopoly-prices for more discussion of this.

"Under monopoly, a greater part of the specific factors of production concerned will remain unused. The common feature of all instances of monopoly prices is that part of the supply, which under competitive conditions would have been offered on the market, is withheld from the market. The most spectacular and objectionable instance of this withholding is the purposeful destruction of the commodities concerned. It happened mostly with consumers’ goods (e.g., coffee) but sometimes also with factors of production."

There are other sources of this drug, notably foreign production, but they don't have the proper licensing. Thus you get a license monopoly. There are a lot of drugs developed overseas that are effective but they are unknown in the U.S market because they are not approved by the proper license monopoly granter. Under pure capitalism, these products would be allowed on the market and independent rating agencies would ensure their quality.
One thing I really liked about TI BASIC as a kid was that it gave you direct access to a graphics API. You could even mess with the font bitmaps from BASIC. On almost every other home computer of that era (e.g. C64) you had to use arcane POKE commands to create graphics.
Can the person who submitted this explain a bit more about what this is and how it is different than the rest of the local online presence software out there?
Is there a good way to 'deep' browse GitHub? I love just browsing through repos by language, but I have found that this is limited to a max of 500. Once you get to 500 there is no way to get to 501, etc.
Hell, I live at 53N and I definitely don't want the circadian rhythm dictated by sunrise/sunset. Sunrise right now is 8:00AM and sunset is 4:35PM. At solstice it'll be almost 9AM and just after 4PM.
During the Cold War Pravda said the US's military-industrial complex existed due to America's nascent imperialism. All mainstream talking heads, commentators etc. in the US said US military bases only ringed the world because of the threat of teh Soviet Union. Of course, when the USSR dissolved itself, NATO expanded east, and US bases didn't close, but open in countries it could not have been in before. As some Russians say "Everything the communists said about here was false, everything they said about the West is true".

The militaruy-industrial complex has found its own form of product-market fit. Arm Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda and the Taliban to eliminate Afghanistan's seculat government. Work with the mullahs to overthrow Mossadegh's secular parliament in Iran. Arm Islamic fundamentalists to undermine Assad's Syrian government. Then put military bases in, and bomb in some of the countries in which these Arab nationalists live. Well after a decade of US military occupation of "Saudi" Arabia, and some decades of arming him against secular threats, Osama and company attacked the Pentagon etc. ISIS just responded to France's month long bombing campaign with bombs of their own.

Then we're told we the people have to be spied on...when I was young Nixon was having burglars break into the Democratic campaign headquarters, then using the FBI to cover it up. The FBI which was bugging and intefering in Martin Luther King's campaign for all people in the US to get the freedoms which the law said we all were supposed to have.

It's a self-reinforcing circle. What the hell does the US have military bases all over the world for? Not for any good purpose, I have as much suspicion of the US and French's governments intentions in Arab countries as the Arabs do.
I see that you clarified in another comment.

However, it's not uncommon for tech companies to say that they're like a "family", but what it really means is that they want you to long hours, weekends etc, because you know, family obligations.
> This statement is about a career government official cynically using the murder of a large number of people for his own ends

Which sort of takes for granted the idea that the government official's position -- which no one doubts precedes the attacks -- is not honestly held for the reasons presented, and that the official does not honestly believe that the attacks represent the kind of problem that adopting the policies he advocates would help prevent.

It doesn't seem to me that this style of argument serves much except to win kudos from people who already agree with the ideas behind it and oppose the policies being advocated.
> Those restrictions directly affect (in his opinion) his job. It's not like he's scoring points for his local constituents,

The points he is trying to score are with politicians to untie his hands and give him more power. So yes, that is what he is doing. He conveniently ignores France already passed and implemented his "Dream" of being able to engage in highly intrusive surveillance methods without judicial oversight.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/05/france-passes-n...

> The new bill, which allows intelligence agencies to tap phones and emails without seeking permission from a judge, sparked protests from rights groups who claimed it would legalise highly intrusive surveillance methods without guarantees for individual freedom and privacy.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/07/france-new-su...

> The surveillance measures authorized by this law are wildly out of proportion. Large swathes of France’s population could soon find themselves under surveillance on obscure grounds and without prior judicial approval.

http://www.nytimes.com/live/paris-attacks-live-updates/turke...

> The Turkish authorities warned their French counterparts twice in the past year about one of the attackers, Ismaël Omar Mostefaï, a 29-year-old French citizen who was known by the authorities as someone who had radical Islamist beliefs, an official said on Monday.

> The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, in line with government protocol, said the government never heard back from France and only received an “information request” about Mr. Mostefaï after the Paris attacks.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/16/paris-atta...

> During an investigation, the Turkish authorities identified Mostefai and notified their French counterparts twice – in December 2014 and June 2015 – the official said.

> “We have, however, not heard back from France on the matter,” the official said. “It was only after the Paris attacks that the Turkish authorities received an information request about Omar Ismail Mostefai from France.”
Seems like Lua would be a perfect target for Ragel. Do you know if anyone is working in this direction ?

How does it compare with LPeg[1] ? This is what I currently use for all my parsing needs.

[1] http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/
Seems evident at least that strategy is failing. Why not accept that they exist and open a dialogue? Best case, they're ambitious sociopaths using violence as an aesthetic. Worst case they're zealots. At any rate, they've clearly bought equity in the geopolitical conversation. If they cannot be bought out, we will need to weigh our need for safety against our values. Because eradicating them will mean murdering many, many, many non-combatants.
Yea this library with Java 8 makes functional style java actually kinda nice. The addition of an Either really opens up what you can do.
I've posted it as a top level, but -- questcor controls the market for this drug after an 2012 purchase[0]. Here's your "more information". I wouldn't be surprised if Martin Shkreli got the idea for buying and hiking the DataPrim price after reading[0]. Expect a lot more of these things to happen.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/business/questcor-finds-pr...
Perhaps we should donate copies of NSA software to our allies so they can protect themselves. </snark>
Yes, it is the urgency to advocate a certain agenda without taking the time to analyze the problem of his own failure carefully. If with all the resources at their disposal the needle can still not be moved there is a problem, and that problem will not be solved by doubling down on an apparently already failing strategy. So cool heads and long term planning is what's needed, not hotheads and (predictable) reactions to further run us off the rails.

The most dumb thing one can do is repeating the same operation over and over again expecting a different outcome.
Instincts matter.

My grandfather was a pub owner -- he could talk to anyone about anything, and was often able to de-escalate people and situations. I remember him being a fluent reader of body language... he could size somebody up and immediately & accurately tell you that the person was trouble.
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It was the same deal here with the Boston bombers. Mooks already hot on the radar due to passage of information from other friendly intel operations manage to somehow organize and perform a large scale attack. It's almost as though preventing terrorism isn't the main focus of these totalitarian programs or something. Anyways, if anything, failures of intelligence like these should elicit budget cuts and re-strategizing rather than re-investment into a proven failed avenue-- a failed avenue that, when functioning properly, deprives the population of human rights, and when failing, fails silently and violently at the expense of the same public that was also hurt during the "successful" period.

A sober approach is to accept that there is no way to prevent people from killing each other; after all, even in prison people manage to kill each other.
That's not the point. Due to its verbosity, it's impractical to use Java without an IDE. That's not necessarily the case for more compact languages.
Does it support businesses who mainly only work with contractors including helping to create 1099's to send out? Don't see anything about it on the page.

After leaving Quickbooks for a contractor based business, I've been looking for a solution for 1099 work outside of "do it by hand" which I can and am prepared to do, but it takes a long time.
Same - I'm actually starting the process of switching over the Gusto simply because I wanted to consolidate the services I was using, but now I'm having second thoughts since Zenefits is free. So far I much prefer the Gusto/zenpayroll interface, so I'll probably keep going forward with Gusto and only switch back if I run into any frustrations.
This article doesn't mention one of the most interesting aspects of snowmaking - the addition of bacteria to the water to increase the productivity.http://web.mst.edu/~microbio/BIO221_2010/P_syringae.html
FWIW I don't believe that the NSA programs actually help keep us secure, similarly to how I don't believe the TSA or any part of the "Freedom" Act has helped us significantly. I believe in 30 years, children will be reading about this "terrorist-scare" the same way we were taught about the "Red Scare" during the 50s.

That said, it certainly is an easy security blanket for some people, to believe that "if we were monitoring everything, all those lives could have been saved". I just don't believe it, and for example, it didn't help stop the Boston bombings, even when that information was available.

But I'm curious if other people feel otherwise, and if so, what are their reasons. Maybe I can be convinced otherwise.
I would imagine you could learn a lot about peer education from the "one-room" schoolhouses in developing countries. By necessity, there aren't enough teachers to go around, and all the students of different levels are learning together. If students manage at all in such an environment, it's because they're learning from their peers. (Maybe not in an effective manner; there's no formal encouragement of the practice and nobody is given any collaboration tools—but there are probably still learning strategies that can be derived from what students do manage to accomplish.)
Yes, the government granting limited rights in 2015 to a naturally occurring chemical discovered in 1933 is "capitalism".
I wonder whether pictures would be a good source. I could see strong leanings towards blue (sky, water) and green (vegetation), and maybe also grey (concrete, asphalt). Would be interesting to do a collective histogram over a wide array of images and see if colors tend to average out or if there's clear peaks.
Yes-- My feelings have become even more negative as this is yet another instance where there was undoubtedly plenty of evidence within existing surveillance programs to have prevented this.

As usual nobody could stop playing bureaucrat long enough to find it, but now that it's happened NSA will surely have no problem helping france find targets to hit in Syria and Iraq. To say nothing about how various agencies will use this event as a flagrant power grab.
How would you propose we incentivize drug companies to spend $1B and 10 years in development/time costs (in the oncology space, for instance) if there is no IP to protect that investment?

Drug development is hard, expensive, and littered with failure. There isn't a simple approach to this problem.
41 Percent of Fliers Think You’re Rude If You Recline Your Seat
John Oliver just made fantasy sports interesting, unloads on Wall Street
I agree, FB Infer is not a certifying compiler, but it's based on program logic.
Not to mention the fact that one year is 1/5 of your life at that point.
There's not enough listeners for the number of music services. If your service stumbles, it's easy to move onto something else, so you really only get one or no chances to convince your potential customers.

My experience with Rdio was one of frustration. Their desktop player was buggy and frequently failed to play anything at all. When it did work, I found the consistency of the music catalog to be unreliable. One week they'd have the license to an album I wanted to listen-to, and then they'd lose it, and I couldn't listen to that anymore. I'm not sure what factors were at-play on their end to cause that to happen, but it was a horrible experience for he listener.

I wanted to like Rdio, but they failed at the basics in my experience.
"doctors may not be able to legally prescribe it from those places."

We just get a prescription and have it filled wherever's cheapest. It's not up to the doctor to say where it can be filled...
What worries me most is Hillary is going to give all these agencies a blank check.

We might not find out what horrors they've done to "protect us" until late next decade.
That's what I thought (part time ketoer here) but not the case. I googled it just now and educated myself a bit more... It comes down to the cell membranes and the amount of fat in the blood stream. All news to me.

"saturated fat significantly worsen insulin-resistance, while monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids improve it through modifications in the composition of cell membranes which reflect at least in part dietary fat composition"[0]

"Fat in the bloodstream can build up inside the muscle cell and create toxic fatty breakdown products and free radicals that can block the insulin signaling process. When that happens, no matter how much insulin we have in our blood, it won’t be able to open the glucose gates." [1]

So it's interesting to me, then, that the crux of what Tim Ferris says is accurate in a different light- the fat seems to clog the insulin response from the cells (including fat cells) which would lead me to believe that's beneficial in some way to stop the addition of sugar to fat cells. IANADr tho.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15297079

[1] http://www.forksoverknives.com/fat-insulin-resistance-blood-...

Edit: Just found this one too... very interesting

"In conclusion, the present study shows that a high-fat KD causes hepatic insulin resistance in mice, which can be attributed to an increase in hepatic DAG content, leading to PKCε activation and subsequent impaired insulin signaling. Moreover, this study found that a KD increases energy expenditure, which results in weight loss. Given the widespread use of KD in the treatment of obesity and the role of NAFLD and hepatic insulin resistance in promoting type 2 diabetes, these results may have important clinical implications, as obese patients on such diets could lose weight but develop NAFLD and hepatic insulin resistance."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980360/
The hyperloop could be related to space if they decide to experiment with slightly altering the trajectory to lead into space, giving it an edge energy-wise to break out of the atmosphere.

It would be a horrible expenditure of resources because when you look at a map of where humans designed and placed their cities, they are inefficient for travel and resource distribution.

Example: Manufacturing parts are created in Tennessee, shipped to Michigan, Manufactured in Michigan, and shipped to Florida to sell/distribute.

Instead, why not ship the raw materials to a equidistant manufacturing node/plant, create the material there, then distribute it. It's not done this way (most efficient) because money/corruption incentivizes backwards thinking of keeping "jobs" in sectors that are a waste of energy to complete and continue. Interesting times we live in.

Here is an example of an efficient and effective city design: http://i.imgur.com/shnIgHn.jpg
Curl is more than an http client or else wget would. Raw sockets would work just fine when you control the Web server
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What about the US, then? We have a form of multiculturalism where minorities are on average oppressed, but integrate rather than lash out (usually).

I'm not saying we're a shining model or anything, but we have a ton of different cultures living together more or less harmoniously, even taking into account the habitual blacks vs whites squabble.
It could very well be that he in fact holds these reasons for honest reasons and truly believes them. But at the same time the opposition (IS) also believe all kinds of stuff for reasons held dear to them and the populace are caught - literally - in the crossfire.

I'd rather see some more introspection and a bit less clamoring for more budget and fewer restrictions from the intelligence community after this attack. And it is not as if this is the first spectacular failure of the intelligence services when it comes to actually preventing this sort of thing either (Which does not surprise me because I strongly believe that it is fundamentally impossible to protect an open society against these kinds of attacks without a substantial change of that society, after which we could probably no longer call it 'open').
http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/24/the-problems-with-gener...
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I can't help but feeling reactionary when something upsetting happens. It is true that early reports suggest that encryption was being used and obviously low-tech communications like meeting in cafes. But despite the rather extensive surveillance state that exists, it still did not prevent such a massive, coordinated attack.

So yes, I am still skeptical of NSA style surveillance, however I am now more likely to keep my opinion to myself as the issue is now so caught up in emotion.
I'm interested to see if/how Pandora changes their service after this. It's been a while since they added a new feature.
"If Oliver Emberton came from a different socio-economic background, he would be more aware of how much of a myth meritocracy is."

Exactly, although we wouldn't be having this discussion because he wouldn't have had the platform to transmit his thoughts on the matter.
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Millions of Medical Records Are Exposed Right Now and Nobody Seems to Care
> Of course, when the USSR dissolved itself, NATO expanded east, and US bases didn't close, but open in countries it could not have been in before.

A number of U.S. bases and installations did shut down, and no U.S. bases in newly joined NATO states were established.
Lets build a 1000 core cpu. And since the bottleneck will be the connections, let's build them as SOCs and bundle them with ram and ethernet.
What you need to know about underwater drones
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> It doesn't seem to me that this style of argument serves much except to win kudos from people who already agree with the ideas behind it and oppose the policies being advocated.

Given France already possessed the desired legal capability and was warned by a friendly government about one of the suspects in 2014 and again in 2015...

I'm not sure how asking for the same measures that failed is a strategy of someone with genuine concerns. Why do you think that?
Any detail about what's going to happen to existing user accounts? As an Rdio subscriber, I want to make sure my existing collections and playlists don't just get deleted.
I wouldn't think there's anything magical to it. Keep in mind the context she operates in - one filled with nerdy founders. Based on most of the "nerds" I know, myself included, we tend to be less socially skilled. Someone who is very socially skilled would seem magical in that context. Just like our ability to make machines do things seems magical to regular folks.

Personally I've invested a lot more time in my computer skills than my social ones. I imagine if it was the reverse I'd have some social radar. Instead I can make pixels do my bidding while peers in my age group have trouble with email but don't freak out about networking mixers.

I think it would be pretty difficult for her to write about social radar. It probably involves a lot of intuition that has been learned and honed over years of socializing.
Zenpayroll & Gusto customer here. Looks like the biggest difference will be that Zenefits is free for payroll if you use them for everything else (vs Gusto at $29 base + 6/person per month). I wonder if Gusto will extend a similar pricing model for those who use Gusto for benefits.

But Zenefits handles more than just benefits for us. It's a fully-featured HR platform, which makes employee on-boarding super simple. I wonder if Gusto will go that direction, because I'm so tied to Zenefits right now I can't imagine living without it.
My experience was mostly the same. The mobile apps were awful when your connection was spotty and frequently refused to actually play music or skip track, meaning I'd have to kill the process.

Being unable to add local tracks like I can with spotify is a killer feature that was missing as well.
Zenefits definitely supports Contractor Payments, if you sign up, look for the "contractors" card to get started.

edit: to be clear, this is a separate product from payroll.