skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to buy a dozen foldscopes and give them to friends. Sadly, still not possible as per their FAQ[0] :(

[0] http://www.foldscope.com/faqs/
I guess another option is to work to increase the population again. There's no implicit reason why Japanese couldn't have more children (the immigration option does seem to be off the table).
I hear this sentiment a lot. Psychologists are aware of this distinction. In the DSM one of the requirements for a diagnosis of clinical depression is that the symptoms are not due to bereavement. While psychiatry and pills are often talked about in the context of depression, there are psychologists and talk therapy also. If you haven't, I recommend seeing a psychologist.
As someone who has had... shall we say, intimate interactions with NGP-VAN's code base, the idea being floated by some Sanders supporters that this is a DNC conspiracy and not a bug is hilarious.
Indeed; I always slam the door on them as they approach, as a sign of respect.
> the vanished start menu

Frankly what the H... where they thinking? It made absolutely no sense at all. I still don't understand who and why it was approved. Nobody I know, likes this whole metro/modern UI thing on desktop, NONE. X years later I'll still be complaining about this fiasco, windows 10 or not, it wasted the time and the energy of so many people I can't believe it.

Death threats are obviously unacceptable but I hope someday someone write a blog post or a book about that single stuff and the process that led to that insane mistake. Was it Balmer? Synofsky? someone else? I don't know but for god sake, people work on Windows like 9 hours a day, you can't change stuff just because it looks cool on a tablet...
I think the endgame of SV is to become more like Hollywood. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

Typical startup raises a $500k seed round and is two founders + 2 senior engineers building the v1. If founders want Google-caliber people, they can't afford to pay $200k; the cash just isn't there.

So companies will have to start giving out real chunks of equity (5% or more) to early key hires. And "who you are" will matter even more than it does now (e.g. look what having Spielberg or another A-list director does to a movie's prospects, they can get the good actors, etc.)

I just don't see any other way this plays out. SV will become more like Hollywood.
The threatening message itself is actually from 1996.
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I will be using this because I think Product Hunt can't manage their waiting lists. I mean I've been waiting for a long time to be removed from the waiting list. I've also been doing their "suggestions" to get a full membership. But, I get nothing. Hopefully Open Hunt gets a stronger community.

BTW: your api calls for registration has exceeded
Compared to what? Perception from the media or what you remember personally in the past?
China is in big trouble demographically. They recently relaxed the one child policy, and that isn't really enough. Sinking populations are bad when it comes to the pyramid nature of taking care of elderly.
I'd guess that more than half of people I know in tech have tried or occasionally do psychedelic drugs (LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA). There does seem to be a correlation with an interest in them and computers going all the way back to the beginning.

If you're interested in the history I found What the Dormouse Said to be pretty interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Pers...
Gotta love an open platform like Twitter....
So its Sanders' campaign's fault NGP-VAN's code is shit and released information it shouldn't?

EDIT: Why isn't the DNC taking punitive actions against NGP-VAN? Ahh! Of course. Because they're a tight knit "provider" which is essentially the political tech vendor of the DNC.
Given the rampant assholism in the world, I have to be unconcerned with those people who believe I'm an asshole for doing this.
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That was my first thought. Product Hunt and Open Hunt are both in the #2 spot on each other's site now.
No problem :) I was running in windowed mode, if that makes a difference.
You're awesome Jose... Incredibly prolific, brilliant, and most of all, kind. Thanks for all you do.
Ok, so a bus driver in Sweden can buy 1500*(1-.8)=300 times more take out meals than one in India.
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What does "like this" mean to you?

I got a death threat by email in 1993. I took it seriously, and the campus police got involved.
I'm sorry, but basically anyone familiar with the demographics disagrees with you.

(1) a TFR of 1.2 is not slowly shrinking, it is a collapse

(2) you end up a dependency ratio of more than 1 retiree per worker very quickly. So no, it's not good news for anyone born today.

(3) it is even worse, because Japan has the world's longest life expectancy. so that 1 child is going to have to support 4 generations of senior citizens.

Any kid born today is going to be burdened by an incredibly expensive social net, making it even HARDER to afford to have enough children to even manage replacement. It is a serious catastrophe.
I have also been depressed for a significant fraction of my life, a period that spanned over two decades. In my case it was primarily caused by what was called "anxiety" until recently and is now generally called a "stress disorder," but for most of that period the stress disorder was entirely cryptic; I had no idea that I was a particularly 'anxious' or fearful person.

I can tell you that my condition eventually responded dramatically to medication, and that I would not be able to live the life I live now if it were not for that medication; furthermore, that because of the medication and my experience during the years I have been on it, I can look forwards to continuing to reduce my dependence on that medication.

Depression is indeed a normal response to ongoing helplessness and despair. I probably share your experience of depression in this regard, because the 'depression' that I had been treated for for years was suddenly completely irrelevant the moment my brain finally responded to medication.

However, there are several things that this account leaves out. You can't scoff and say that depression is just an normal response any more than people can scoff and say the reason you don't want to take a shower is because you're lazy. For one, as you know, depression can be very self-perpetuating. People come to believe things that keep them depressed, ruminating on their depressed state over and over again. People always see verification and never contradiction of their worldview, even though the entire world has somehow failed to just lay down and die over the course of many thousands of years, which is what it would do if that understanding of reality was valid. And people very definitely do encounter depression that does not have a proximate external cause to justify the response; many of those Afghanis, for instance, will suffer from the bleakest of depressions for many years after the wars in Afghanistan are ended. All of these things constitute a medical condition. If you don't like the word "illness" because of how it makes you feel, I can sympathize. But that doesn't invalidate the fact that depression is something that frequently does become a genuine medical problem and frequently does require a solution beyond the reach of the person suffering from it.
Yeah, because making death threats is just a "joke" right?
> The idea that a government would give itself permission to spend massive amounts of money isn't news.

That any regular budget (rather than a short-term CR) was passed by the Congress to be signed by the President is news.

> The tucking of unrelated legislation into the budget however, is news, especially since it had been vehemently opposed over and over in every previous version.

Policy riders on budgets aren't actually unusual (people complain about them all the time, but that's not because they are uncommon), except in the sense that actual full budgets in the US are unusual.

> Guess which part is reported in detail.

Mostly, process and reaction and commentary from those involved; there's a lot of detail on that, but both the spending provisions and the policy riders, while covered, are given only extremely brief summaries.
This is my favourite rant on the topic of software upgrades:

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/04/volatile-software/

Boy, how I dislike upgrading Django. Look at all this breakage (and this is only the intentional, documented changes, and only across one release):

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/releases/1.9/#backward...

I appreciate much more policies like these:

Suggestions to change the default output of these
commands will not be treated with patience.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/CompatibilityRules#Introd...
Firstly, everyone not working in the Bay Area can ignore these figures because they are bloated due to cost of living (3K for 1BR/1BA apartment) and competition for talent (from startups and peers).

Secondly, people are ignoring the fact that RSUs at the 3 companies mentioned (and a few others AMZN/MSFT) have grown substantially in the past 5 years (about 125-150% on average) and is the biggest factor in these "surreal" figures.

Broken down into base (110k starting common at BigCorp), RSUs (initially 100-150K over 4 years) and bonus (10-20% base comp ), these numbers would make more sense. First year total comp is close to 145K-170K. By the time you are a senior engineer (mid-level) and assuming this took 5 years, your base comp is close to 135-160K, with refresher grants (and accounting for market performance) your RSUs probably hit 100K/year, bonuses at 30K bringing total comp to 265K-290K.

I happen to work for a BigCorp in SV (close to 1.5 years now) whose stock is performing poorly, hence my total comp is 160K (110K base, 25K bonus, 25K in RSUs/year). But if we had FB/AMZN/NFLX type of stock performance, then my comp would shoot up to 185K without any promotions.
That's what I thought. I'm in Dublin too but not in google/fb/etc
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I gave a few examples, but as long as you use one from a really good school you won't have a problem. If you decide to use a template from word, you will have a bad time. The biggest error I have seen people make is to use a multi-page resume for non-research job in the US. In Europe I think multi-page is more standard (please correct me if I am wrong).
Police departments, US state-level LE departments, the wealthy and powerful, other countries and likely corporations come to mind
For those that are not familiar with the space, campaigns typically use voter contact software to record the results of the conversations they have with potential voters on the phones, at the doors, and over the Internet. In this case, the voter contact software that both the Hillary and Sanders campaigns were using, NGP VAN, had a bug which allowed both campaigns to access each other's private, proprietary data (in this case, I believe, modeling data).

The Data Director on the Sanders campaign discovered the error and (he claims) was verifying and documenting the bug, which was then reported to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and NGP VAN. The DNC claims these actions were not in good faith, and as a reaction cut the Sanders campaign off from the system.

This is a BIG deal for a campaign, so close to the first elections. Campaigns rely on that data to inform nearly everything they do, and rely on access to such tools to conduct their voter outreach program. Being cut off from the system is crippling for a campaign, likely why the Sanders campaign so quickly sued to get its access reinstated [1].

[1] - http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/sanders-campaign-threa...

edit: typos
I don't know if I'd entirely agree. I feel like the way we package up javascript deps changes all the time (gulp seems to have won the battle for now?) and Scala's build system wasn't even really usable until maybe 2 years ago. It's an issue, but I think that having a usable IDE, devops toolchain/integration are bigger issues.
This is just my speculation, but people might use smartphones sitting next to their laptop for a variety of reasons:

- Streaming video on laptop while doing something else

- You can't text message or snapchat from your laptop

- It might be quicker to hit an app icon than load a webpage for checking the weather

- You're on your work laptop but you get a personal email on your phone

I think the author's point about a "better" internet is that ubiquity / portability will eventually trump any other advantages you get from accessing the internet from your computer. A larger laptop screen doesn't really help if you don't have wifi access.

There are definite advantages to accessing the internet with a real keyboard and a large screen, but over time those advantages will shrink. Consider this "reversed" review of the Macbook Pro: http://www.speirs.org/blog/2015/11/30/can-the-macbook-pro-re...
Someone is in VRSN pocket

This has been under-discussed in this thread. But looking to "government" (nee ICANN, nee Dept of Commerce) for help is not the answer, rather it's more the problem.

A while ago we had this headline about a no-bid contract awarded to Verisign. I don't know about recent developments, but a while ago this was an ongoing thing.[1]

Appeals Court Reverses & Allows Suit
Against Verisign To Go To Trial:
This Is A BIG Deal

You can bet there are people getting rich off of this. E.g.:[2]

Under the current contract, which expires Friday,
VeriSign was guaranteed four price increases
of up to 7 percent each on domain name registrations

There's chutzpah for you. Verisign was demanding more price increases to run infrastructure that has historically had crazy price deflation associated with it.

[1] http://www.thedomains.com/2009/06/05/appeals-court-reverses-...
[2] http://www.nwherald.com/mobile/article.xml/articles/2012/11/...
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I'm with vinceguidry here. I can be poor enough that I have to walk to the library to use a computer. Once there, though, I can Google basically all of the world's information. (20 years ago, I could have tried to look it up in the library's card catalog, I suppose, and hoped that they had a relevant book, and that I was looking under the right topic, and that the book, if it existed in the catalog, was listed under the right topic, and that the book wasn't checked out or misplaced...)

20 years ago, if you were poor and unemployed, you went through the help-wanted ads in the newspaper. Today, you can look at those same ads on-line, or you can go to craigslist.

20 years ago, if you were poor and the cops beat you up, you whined about The Man to your buddies. Today, you hope one of your buddies got a video of it, and you post it online and bring down public outrage on the PD. (Whether the PD changes or not as a result, at least your voice can be really heard - to the point that sometimes the president starts putting pressure on the PD.)

I could go on. The point is something that PG has said: Technology is a multiplier. If you've got something you want to do, technology can make it take much less effort. But if you're hopeless and adrift, with nothing you're aiming for, all the technology can do is fill your time with fluff so that you don't feel so bad. That's not much of a win for those people.
I used it for a couple months at the oral dose that the early phase NIH clinical trial found to be effective. I did feel like i got a positive benefit from it with no side effects, though didn't do any extensive blind testing myself so it's purely anecdotal. I found it to lift some constant anxieties a bit, and help guide my overall outlook on life more positively.

That said, I did find ketamine to be an extremely effective anti depressant with the primary effects being immediately noticeable and positive. I currently re-dose on ketamine every couple months and take bupropion daily--between all of these I've been able to greatly reduce fairly severe depression that went untreated and worsened over a 10+ yr period.
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> the demands of the Occupy movement that the "1%" pay higher taxes.

Those demands are purely class warfare, though. They're ceremonial, not serious proposals to fix inequality or budget issues.

Maybe I'm wrong. Show me some serious proposals that can improve the circumstance of the poor or close the deficit based on taxing the 1%.

The broader point is well taken, though -- that we expect people with disposable time and money to use some of it to benefit mankind.

EDIT: I'm getting some downvotes, probably for the politics? (I didn't bring it up). The point is that the other examples are about the need to make a difference. The Occupy demands are substantially not. I wouldn't mind hearing contrary thoughts on this.
Difficulty level in replicating this dataset from secretary of state rolls?
agreed! tracked via https://github.com/OpenHunting/openhunt/issues/16
And, via zoning restrictions, ordinary rent from real estate.
Q: What does the completely free market say about the practice of adding melamine to food to increase protein contents?

A: A completely free market would not require food labelling, meaning that protein contents would be unrecorded. Therefore, there would be no point in adding melamine.

Q: What does the free market say about the addition of fillers such as sawdust to food?

A: If such fillers are in such quantity as to affect the quality of the food, the food product will command a lower price in relation to other, higher quality products. If not, well, no harm, no foul.

Q: What if there are no higher quality products? What if the manufacturers collude, implicitly or explicitly, or if the costs required to enter the market prevent competition?

A: The market will adapt to use other products. Too much sawdust in your bread? Eat cake.
I got a death threat while working at Microsoft around 2003. Someone managed to hit the lottery on our phone tree and find me, a lowly software development engineer on Windows CE. This person was _very_ angry and was trying to open a PDF on their new Dell computer. I let them know they needed a PDF reader and I recommended Adobe's product. The person was now confused on top of angry and I was running out of patience after about 15 minutes in a circular discussion. I tried to wrap up the conversation by telling him to try support and gave him that phone number. He snapped and told me he was going to come hunt me and my family down and kill us. I hung up the phone at that point. I really didn't take him seriously, I hadn't given him any identifiable info other than I was an engineer on CE and he just sounded like a very angry person.

I called security and let them know what happened anyway. My office was invaded in about 15 minutes by 3 security folks and a Microsoft investigator. The best part was how big my coworkers eyes would get when they walked by my office and saw me surrounded by security being questioned. That afternoon the investigator followed up and asked if I was still doing ok and let me know the person was calling in from I think Kansas or some other place half way across the country. I told him I didn't feel like it was really a credible threat and that was the last I heard about the whole thing from security.
is this a big problem for you personally

Perhaps he's just abhorred by typical rent-seeking[1] behavior for such an important part of the global Internet?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking
I'm skeptical of the long term benefits of Ketamine. It seems odd to give an anesthetic, a depressant, to someone with depression. They claim it reduces the risk of suicide and works quickly, but is that due to a curative neurological effect or is it just because you've given them a sedative? Not to mention the side effects: memory loss, delusions, psychosis, even schizophrenia-like symptoms. Sure, these tend to happen at higher doses, but the long term effects of low doses have not been studied thoroughly.
Here's an interview the Sanders campaign staffer who was fired gave explaining just what you describe: http://www.msnbc.com/thomas-roberts/watch/fired-sanders-camp...
Are you on physical hardware? Or a cloud provider? If you're on a cloud provider, how are you handling their security group abstractions with Mesos?
I think you're right.

I guess the opposite of a curated list is a list that can be spammed by anyone.
I know Vita Nuova uses it in their consulting. I've heard of other fringe cases for various projects or systems.

http://www.vitanuova.com/
I think the allegation is that the _response_ is an overreaction which when taken with other events, namely the lack of debates, has echoes of a conspiracy. I will say it's a loose usage of the word.
It actually seems to have a tight tie-in to theistic evolution: Genesis 1-2 was a metaphor for the advent of agriculture.
If that is the study I remember, I don't think it shows women are deemed less capable. It might as well be possible that women are deemed less likely to follow through with their studies (for example because they might drop out to have kids), making them a worse investment.

That's of course still a problem, but a different one than you make it to be.

I think if there is an actual issue like that (if women are a less promising investment), rather than crying "sexism", society should compensate for it somehow. Why should it be the burden of employers to insure against women's life choices?
As I understand it, the data set contains proprietary information from the campaigns using it, so it is impossible to reconstruct it from any public source, or really any source unless the campaign has retained separate copies of all the data (which is probably impractical.)
The USA is not a police state. This is a catalog of tools with legitimate law enforcement and espionage uses, and I would hope that most intelligence services, militaries and national law enforcement agencies would have access to these, and better, tools. We have known that such devices exist long before Snowden, this catalog is nothing new.

Of course, understanding the motivation for their use, and oversight of the users is important, and I am in favour of making sure these tools are not abused. However to say that their mere existence implies a police state is laughable.
I meant rent as the externality, not the property as such.

Without the state taking the cost of enforcing the exclusivity the possessor would probably have to invest some cost in securing it. Either buying weapons or entering some kind of contractual agreements.

In either case the cost would probably correlate with the value of property. The rent, then, is the value the possessor can extract from the property as a result of not having to take those costs. In fact, it is the other way around, the cost is distributed among the non-possessors.

Assuming we would like to avoid a situation where possessors have to invest in violent means of exclusivity, I argue that the states role should be to enforce propery as, fair, contractual agreements between possessor and non-possessors.
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No. This is why Canadians cross the boarder to shop in the US:

US: $30 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EZYMF4

Canada: $70 - http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B001EZYMF4
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It requires physical access to the device, which makes a lot of this information easy to obtain, especially at the time the catalog was created.