skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very interesting perspective. Personally I thought Finn was the most "normal" character in that film (meaning the one most like us). He's just a child soldier that not only found a way out of it but he worked his way to the rebellion, with no "destiny" or the Force.

IMO he doesn't have to be rich like Lando or powerful like Windu. He just has to be cool and portrayed positively, and I think he is. If he was like Jar Jar then yes, I'd complain.

Either way, we went from tech diversity to Star Wars, so maybe we should stop here :-)
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So... what does that practically mean? Bay Area salary = $100k+benefits, Google salary = $200k?

I definitely know folks who claim Bay Area $ to be $60-$70k and play the numbers game... but then they play the numbers game (and 3 isn't a numbers game).
The main complaint that "Rust is much more complicated to program in." Is still very valid. The learning curve for Rust's memory handling is steep. But this is to be expected when comparing any GC to a non-GC language. GC languages are always going to be easier for the programmer, that's the whole point of the GC. Rust's claim of being memory-safe without a GC is great but it's not an advantage if you can afford the GC.
Last I looked:

- Nim had a lot of undefined behavior. Dereferencing a null pointer, for example, led to undefined behavior because of compiling to C.

- Nim seemed to have less flexible data race prevention (though the abstract interpretation stuff that Nim does to determine disjointness of arrays could be more ergonomic than Rust's split_at_mut, albeit more complex). Data races were also more of a problem in Nim because the lack of a thread-safe GC meant that races could result in use-after-free.

- Nim was in the typical "memory safety requires a GC; opt out of GC and you lose memory safety" category of languages (reference counting being a form of GC). Rust, by contrast, retains safety even when GC is not used (which it rarely is).

This was many months ago, so it may well have changed.
I think that is the usual English (as opposed to American) terminology. See, for example, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/36944#eid8715028 .
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I'd say only the interviews have become demanding!
Because it's such a deal breaker that you can't have "userName" and "user_name" in the same scope. This was brought up in the other thread, and it's just as silly now. Rejecting an absurd naming scheme is a feature.
Only if you believe the process followed by GMO engineering is the same as the process of selective breeding
As usual, nobody advocating a CoC can point to any situation in the project's history where having a CoC would have improved the situation. There's also a few classic kafkatraps in the discussion ("your opposition to my proposal is just proof that my proposal is required.") All it'll need is to wrap up with some high-level authority ramming the code of conduct down the community's throat to be a classic example of how these discussions usually go.
"Clean eating is about feelings, not reality."
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I may be wrong, but it looks like GoDaddy owns Starfield: https://certs.godaddy.com/repository/ (Mozilla inclusion request: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527056)
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Another viewpoint might be that if the economy is indeed in for a slow or down period (which is certainly not a guarantee at this point), they will be better equipped to weather the storm and seize opportunities that arise (ex: acquiring competitors who could not survive).

Personally I'd love to see them throw around that cash to bring serious competition to a few specific markets. Cell phones and cable are the big ones (and Google is already getting started there). Looks like they are plans to do similar things with VR, robotics, and automated vehicles.
It took me 26 years to realize dairy was the problem. It's hard to see the cloud from within.
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I think the author was referring to programmability as in language extensibility. So the "geniuses" he references would be C++ template metaprogramming wizards. I don't think he was claiming that statically typed languages require you to be a genius to use.
It's the easiest (not the best, IMO) way for companies to reach out to a broad market right now, because consumers as a whole haven't yet figured out that advertising is a negative quality signal and are currently terrible at controlling their information diet. But there are growing segments of the population that are getting better at reading healthy just the same as there's a growing segment concerned about eating healthy.

As more information-savvy and time-sensitive (read: higher-income) consumers reject advertising, companies seeking to target them will have to find alternate methods of reaching out to them. If information distribution continues to be disintermediated, then they might find that the only way to do that is by focusing on building things people legitimately want to use and tell their peers about. Traditional advertising will become even more a ghetto than it already is, and will primarily target low-value consumers.
As an outsider who analysed moving to a startup, parts of this struck me as being particularly accurate. The employee takes on more risk via

1) Not having full access to the financials and discussions over change of control events
2) Having options with a trigger that activates upon leaving the company
3) Being exposed to massive dilution and having a comparatively small stake

while at the same time being "just an employee". If the startup goes under, founders could possibly parlay their experience into bigger and better things. They can take some money off the table in financing rounds. The employee has to suck it up and go find another job.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance, "The frequency of lactose intolerance ranges from 5% in Northern European to more than 90% in some African and Asian countries."

It seems to depend on the region of the world your ancestors are from. Those cultures which used milk as a food source for adults tend to have lower incidences of lactose intolerance.
Previous discussion (different title): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10939457
> If higher prices help reduce smoking, I'm for higher prices.

Higher prices damage the only people that really need any help: those who have already been helplessly addicted for decades. These people are - statistically - poor, under-educated, and unhealthy. Making them pay more than they already have to is just pouring more gasoline over the fire.

Don't fool yourself - you're advocating for the further crippling of these addicts' finances and lives. And in doing so, you're giving even more money to the state, which will just mismanage the money and use it to line its own pockets.
That's a whole 'nother topic. I'm currently using redux with plain ES5, no compiler or build tools other than a minifier.
But surely there are tools to remap X-language physical keyboard codes to the US layout?

Here's diagrams of the mappings.

https://www.terena.org/activities/multiling/ml-mua/test/kbd-...

And here's usbkbd (note scancodes at the top):

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/hid/usbhid/usbk...

Explanation on scancodes, which map to which keys for different physical boards: http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/scan.htm
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I can't tell if you're being sincere, but your attitude is common enough among well-meaning STEM types that I'll assume you are.

There never was nor will there ever be a cut-and-dried, scientifically-precise definition of "black." That's because the concept of "being black" and, in fact, the entire modern notion of "race" are inherently political in the broadest sense of the term. They were invented and subsequently weaponized as a means for a certain class of people to achieve their political outcomes at the expense of another class of people.

Again, I'm talking about the US only.

You are "black" if you are collectively labeled as "black", treated as "black", and are otherwise identified in whole or in part by your "black-ness". Yes, that means that someone's "black-ness" might vary across time, geography, socioeconomic status, who they're interacting with, and any number of other squishy-wishy, imprecise axes.

The idea that "being black" corresponds to something concrete and inherent in a person is part of the lie at the heart of the concept of "race".

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about these things better than anyone I know. Here's an essay of his that touches on this idea: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/tanehisi...

Appropriately enough given the original link, the most relevant section begins with "My only Mecca was, is, and shall always be Howard University."
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Can you elaborate on what the "starve the beast" strategy is?
Dumb question: Can you extract the private certificate and use it elsewhere, or is it held securely and only accessible via specific AWS services?
I can't see why it would. I am sure some people would argue that any GMO food is somehow evil and deadly, but I think that thinking of that sort can be discarded. However some GMO foods achieve pest and disease resistance by causing the plant to secrete toxins - pesticides, and these are what some experiments have shown troubling results for. On the other hand farmers spray these toxins on crops in any case.

Personally I grow my own and eat organic when I can, but that's fine if you can afford it and live in the country.
This article is dated November 27, 2015. Shouldn't he have created it by now?
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I got this off of a post from someone else on HN:

Fuck working hard for people who don't care about you.

Fuck working hard for another dollar to spend impressing people who don't care about you.

But, when you find those things that are their own reward, then, work hard.
I've also worked in senior care and have seen some incredibly horrific abuse cases. One caregiver would say he was taking the elder to the park for a walk, to a cafe for lunch, to the pharmacy to pick up meds and then to the store, but really he was driving them to his house, locking the elder in the back with the child proof locks enabled, and leaving him inside the car for hours while he went in his apartment and watched TV. We only found out because the elder tapped on the window when someone walked by the SUV (tinted windows) and that person called the police.

Other things like triple diapering to not have to change the elder more than 1x per shift and massive yeast infections underneath the breasts due to lack of bathing and not changing clothes.

The worst types of places I have seen are the "board and care" facilities for mentally disabled adults run by Russians in the east bay. There were a few rotted/unchanged/septic g-tubes that were absolutely horrific. It's been years and that specific smell of a rotting gtube is still burned into my brain.

There was also this case in the East Bay where the facility abruptly shut down and stopped paying their workers and so all the caregiving staff just left except for the janitor and the cook who stayed on and cared for the seniors for several days until the fire department and sheriff finally responded:
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/21/365433685/if-we-left-they-woul... <--- Honor should give those two dudes who stayed jobs!

It's a very challenging industry.
If a "clean energy" philanthropist really wanted to steer the world away from fossil fuels, they would lobby for the replacement of coal and oil with nuclear.

It is impossible to meet rising global energy needs without either a: nuclear energy as a wedge, b: divine advancements in renewable tech and cost, or c: burning a ton ton ton of fossil fuels.

I dream of a post-energy-scarcity-star-trek future pretty often, but the fact is that barring some revolutionary technological advancement, nuclear is the only long term hope we have to wean ourselves away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energies. "Green" tech it ain't either: refining rare earths is environmentally disastrous and even recycling the waste can be quite hazardous, such as lead battery recycling plants in Africa resulting in lead poisoning in surrounding communities.

If we want to be serious about renewable energy and the long road it will take to get there, we will have to get over our fears of Chernobyl and Homer Simpson running the power plant
One can argue that even with a Marshall-like plan the region was doomed from the start. The country is not homogeneous like a European nation or especially Japan. It is made up of several ethnic groups who all want to dominate/eradicate the others. The British carefully drew the lines in the middle east to make sure the powers there would never be a threat to their empire and would instead be forever embroiled in petty tribal rivalries and incessant power grabs. It also insures that whomever is in power doesn't care about roughly half of the country and will almost certainly be corrupt as hell.

The only power system that seems to work is the hideously authoritarian dictatorships, because they're the only ones who can make people believe that everybody is being oppressed equally and who have the agility to violently and ruthlessly quash uprisings while they are still small and peaceful.

Of course even if the maps were redrawn to match the ethnic boundaries you would still have fairly regular border skirmishes. Due to the gender politics in the region there is always a need to get rid of the excess young males, and fighting otherwise pointless border wars is the time honored way to accomplish that.
I was going to disagree but you are right. I only watched some trailers and I thought Finn would be the main character. He even wields a lightsaber in the official poster, despite the fact that he received no training nor he had the Force and only used it because he had nothing else to use and his life depended on it. I doubt he'll use it in the rest of the series—seems like he'll join Poe Dameron.
>An Indian- or Chinese-American can attain "no longer considered minority" (aka whiteness)

Is this something white people actually believe?

Successful minorities don't become white. They become weapons white people wield against less successful minorities.
Expenditures and investments by these companies have to be justified on the basis of expected returns. The constraints sequestering the money:

- Valuations for acquisitions that exceed expected ROI.
- Taxes on repatriated funds.
- Dearth of top-end human talent to manage the acquisitions and investments.
- Pervasive fear in corporate board rooms that the day of reckoning for quantitative easing and US debt is still ahead.
- Changing demographics whereby consumers wealth is held by low spenders (older folks), rather than high spenders (younger folks).

Its a combination of factors.
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I think that "median income" means "half of all households make less than this and half of all households make more than this."
That may be, but nobody was whining. Your solution is in need of a problem.
Approximately 65% of the worlds population suffers from a diminished ability to digest dairy after childhood, see http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/lactose-intolerance. That said lactose intolerance usually doesn't occur in people of European descent so I would imagine you happen to live in s special subgroup who has no such problem.
I'm pretty sure we don't need billions of dollars of investments in clean energy, we need billions of dollars of investments in energy storage across a variety of scales ranging from household/vehicle level all the way to geographic regions. There are plenty of existing clean technologies that are as low or lower than the existing cost/kWh of dirty energy technologies. They are just intermittent and unreliable for base power distribution. Unfortunately energy storage is not as glamorous as clean energy production and doesn't get anywhere near the investment levels that it deserves.
Sadly it is even worse - think early 70s.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-wor...
The article you linked to failed to factor in stereotype threat, which suggests the authors have no idea how accurate the IQ test really is. Just because you're not asking questions like "Does the salad fork go on the outside or the inside?" doesn't mean the test is bias-free.
For dairy in particular, it's the last one. Globally, lactose persistence (the opposite of lactose intolerance) is a minority trait that appears to have arisen in populations that raised domesticated cattle, but not elsewhere. Most African and southeast Asian adults, for example, are lactose intolerant. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence
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Actually, the article does talk about the higher price sensitivity of younger smokers: namely, they note that the price sensitivity estimates are based on data collected during periods of low cigarette prices, and that at higher price levels, there seems to be no detectable effect on smoking rates, suggesting low price sensitivity.
Spend recklessly until the government is out of money, then use the crisis as an excuse to cut back on popular services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
> I don't adblock for privacy, security, or speed. Those are just nice-side effects. I adblock because I do not want to be manipulated into buying things I do not need.

Surely, though, "this project does not fit my use case" is not the same as "this is a bad project and you should feel bad"? There are people who adblock just for those reasons, and who would (or claim that they would) allow through ads, to support content creators, if those concerns were obviated.
On the micro level, you're right.

On the macro level, the new generations of smart talented folks are choosing CS over other career choices.
I think you wouldn't; instead, you change the state twice: once the "model" state, once the navigation state.

The first will incorporate the changes of the current view controller and make it accessible to whoever is interested -- and then the next view controller will show the current "model" state which in fact includes everything that was changed already.
I suppose you could use something like autohotkey to do that, but it would require intercepting and generating new key presses for every altered key on the keyboard, and could theoretically cause input-swaps if one keypress took longer than a subsequent keypress (e.g. due to a context switch).
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This. Ultrasound is a great non-invasive medical imaging technique. The safety of medical imaging is well established: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2390856/ ... PLEASE NOTE THE POWER LEVELS USED IN MEDICAL IMAGING APPLICATIONS: LESS THAN 720 mW/cm^2 (and possibly less for other types of imaging, this is just one study) that is milliwatts / cubic centimeter.

It is VERY IMPORTANT to consider power delivery. Ultrasonic pulses are also a commonly used for lysing bacterial cells during protein purification -- essentially turning cells to mush. If, in your DIY project, you accidentally "turn it up to 11" (don't know the acutal power level threshold and do not want to find out) -- You could also turn your own cells to mush. Here is an example of ultrasonic cell preparation equipment (200 Watt range): http://www.hielscher.com/ultrasonic-lysis-cell-disruption-ex...

So. Please pay attention to the safety concerns of ultrasonic imaging, do all of your testing on fruit and use a high quality bench top regulated power supply.
Buying lower means a lower exit is required to get the same multiple. So buying lower is always better for a VC. Worst case they make less money on the same multiple, better case they make a much higher multiple. It's all about the rate of return, not the actual amount (assuming the amounts are still worth the effort of investing, obviously there are some lower bounds here).
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This is what Persian Biryani looks like, pretty sure it is nothing like Indian Biryanis. I was pretty surprised when I saw it on a cooking travel show.

http://www.kosherdelight.com/Iran_Recipes_Beryani.gif

http://www.iliveinafryingpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/...

How are the spices 'definitely' Persian derived. I remember the spices used for Indian biryanis and they run the entire gamut definitely not common in Persia even today.

Well Turkic people have been around long before Turkey. Mughalai cuisine is strongly influenced by central asian cuisine not Persian. Regarding Turks and Central Asia, they have a culture and history independent of Persia or Middle east or China. Most of the Muslims came to India directly via central asia and had their own culture. They did not detour via Persia. Korma for example cooking meats in yogurt/cream after braising most definitely a central asian cultural byproduct.
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I agree that Java is the best programming language to write web services in right now.

But I have to admit that the most threatening counter-argument to using Java in 2016 is that Scala is, to all appearances, a strictly better language. It's similar to Java and does everything Java does, but better- it has type inference, it does away with primitive types and arrays, it has compiler-checked string interpolation, it has declaration site variance, it has a richer collections library, powerful syntactic sugar, robust mechanisms for dealing with asynchronous programming... I could go on and on. And it's deeply interoperable with Java so it should be a no-brainer to use it wherever possible.

Java's saving grace in my opinion is, ironically given Java's history, its culture. When you find that you need to use a small class from a library, you pray that it's written in Java, because most of the time you can just go to its source in your IDE and see painstakingly detailed Javadoc describing exactly what each public method does and common pitfalls. And Java isn't very expressive so all code looks the same- you just have to understand how the components interact with each other. If, on the other hand, the class is written in Scala, you're vastly more likely to crash into a brick wall of undocumented one-liners that are complicated greatly by uses of the downright tricky bits of Scala's type system. Using typesafe's libraries (akka/akka-stream/slick) is an exercise in poking your code experimentally until it magically compiles, usually due to some random undocumented import. And scala culture's love of DSLs and lifted types is downright hostile to ease of debugging. It's hard to overstate how much of an impact these factors make throughout a workweek.

And yes, lots of Scala code is good and lots of Java code is bad. But I think the stereotype generally holds true.
So they should create a billion dollar lobby? Don't we want cheap, clean, renewable energy? Then there would be no need to lobby for anything. The market will do the rest.
The brand I purchase is Jarrow which seems reputable. Is there a practical guide to inexpensive home testing? I guess an alternative is annual B12 injections from your physician or some sort of wellness center. For the record, the only other supplement I take is an algae-based EPA/DHA pill and I'm told all brands of such are manufactured in one place.
He did, a couple of days later.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/29/news/economy/bill-gates-brea...