skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question, and my point is that most people don't ask themselves this question. There is probably nothing wrong with the candidate at all, the "off" you feel is just the different color.
You're writing words as if you disagree with me, but you are making my point. The only time we would get a call is when they've run out of every other option, and are willing to endure the added cost of desperately trying to find anyone to write them a check. This isn't an unusual circumstance in marketplaces. Sometimes investors are hard to find. But a good way to differentiate a distressed investment and a pump-n-dump is that when salesmen are desperate to make a sale on distressed investments, prices are usually near record lows. For PnDs, they're at record highs.

And as for the calls. We don't get them directly from the company. It's banks who are organizing pooled investments.
I don't know how you'd measure fit (tenure at first job? % that change jobs to another SV company?), but it should be pretty easy to get hiring numbers. Stanford might not be a good test simply because of proximity, but MIT certainly would be a contender.
Because addiction has very little to do with the substance itself, and it is mostly a coping mechanism to deal with many of the issues people of all social strata can face: traumas, broken homes, lack of self-realization, isolation, etc...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

Or in comic form:

- http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park
Did you read past the title? Nothing in the article is pro-smoking, it's about how effective the cigarette tax is.
A long time ago, some people felt similarly about alcohol. We all know how that worked out.
I've taught using Meteor as well, and I agree that it's incredibly wonderful for getting a real, live, modern web app off the ground in minutes. I plan to do more workshops with Meteor.

However, I wonder about what exactly beginner students are learning. It's important to illustrate foundational concepts, and Meteor's foundational concepts are quite different in some places: no traditional CRUD API, but rather an entirely new protocol (DDP) for automagically syncing databases. It's wonderful for prototyping but is something of a black box unless you're really going to dive deep.

My current philosophy is to teach Meteor as a rapid prototyping tool, for which it absolutely excels, where the audience is actual more on the product designer end but with nontrivial javascript experience. When I taught an absolute beginner's workshop, I realized (as others have said here) that the complexity level really does ramp up rapidly.
Not OP, but giving false promise to people is very cruel. A lot of people who do not get into schools on their own merits (for whatever reason) do not do as well. The drop out rate among African Americans is significantly higher. This may be because of the colleges attended, but even in the same college, these differences remain. This doesn't necessarily mean that its caused by different standards for different races. For instance it may be because some students have trouble fitting in or finding the support they need. But it is worth considering.
I'm not too familiar with this, but I have read a few stories on Bloomberg about some of the large investment banks selling chunks of shares of Uber to their clients. Just the other day they said they reduced the minimum order size as well (I think they said $25k).

I have done zero digging, but it doesn't shock me that people at JP Morgan and other investment banks are making calls to their private wealth management clients to offer them shares in large private 'unicorns'
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Have you met people? Can you name a topic where ad campaigns and available facts have been 100% persuasive? It just doesn't work like that. For one thing, people are bad at assessing abstract risks--they figure it won't happen to them, or something else will get them first. Especially since most smokers start young, at a time when they're _especially_ bad at making these kinds of decisions (and the tobacco industry counts on that).
Addiction isn't that predictable. Lots of people can drink regularly and stop when they want to, lots of people can do cocaine a few times and not get addicted. That doesn't mean alcoholism and cocaine addiction don't exist.
Well that would be consistent with the roman/greek names for planets and large moons. Now we have to find a stronger tie between the theory and the myth. In some article regarding this news I've read that Planet 9 might have ended in its orbit due to encounters with Jupiter/Saturn. Not exactly an eagle eating its liver, but it can be paralled to "the punishment from Zeus(Jupiter)".
White/black cultural differences in the US is a different issue from immigrant assimilation. Because black people are already "real Americans", and yet overall are culturally distinct from white Americans in some ways.
That's true of some people, but not everyone. People also become addicted to exercise, gambling, sex, and lots of other things, but it's not because those things make them look dangerous. It's because those things create a pleasure response in the brain.

Even when smoking wasn't considered dangerous at all, people willingly started doing it. The danger factor is more recent (the last 80 years or so).
It doesn't. It's one of those things that sounds good enough in theory that people tried it and of course someone is willing to sell the materials/service if there's money to be made. But yeah, it's along the lines of those "cleanse" drinks that make you crap out what they say is "toxins" that had built up in your intestines but is really just the congealed fiber in the drink (which is mostly just a laxative). In this case, it's candle waxes on the cloth that people claim are ear wax that's been somehow drawn out.
I've sat in a dive bar and listened to smokers voices ramble incoherently about the cancer conspiracy. Someone doing that might understand the warnings, but they have rejected them and aren't weighing them against smoking.
> However, I'm not at all concerned about the stock market. That has never influenced my decision to fund a company.

You may be the exceptional person who has no assets whatsoever tied up in the stock market, but nearly every investor who has the resources to be an angel will have money in the market.

When the market falls they have less money. They use money to invest in things. The correlation between the market and seed stage investing should be fairly direct and clear.
Alcohol is a highly addictive drug that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year.

The reason it's not banned is that we can't control the precursors. Alcohol can be made in almost any conditions from pretty much any food. Even prisons have problems with alcohol manufacture on site.
And lots of engineers will be out of work (or working for much less pay, in much more traditional organizations)...at least if the last bubble pop is any indication.
And you have no vices right?
You're right! Now that we have one single data point, we can make a generalization about cigarette addiction as a whole! And now we can just forget about the many decades of research ACS and other organizations have done tracking millions of smokers around the world, because you are the only data point we need!!
They don't do anything. The "earwax" is literally candle wax.
Stage I of a Saturn V contributes a maximum of about 3600 m/s of delta-v. Replacing a first stage of that magnitude would require a 3g acceleration track 220 km long.

It still takes a lot of launches before the track starts to be cheaper than just building a new first stage for each launch. It takes a lot more if the first stage rocket is reusable.
I'm a black guy working in IT at a company in the top 5 of the Fortune 500. This is complicated issue. There have been experiment that show having a "black" name lowers your job prospects [1]. Other studies that show:

"...race actually turned out to be more significant than a criminal background. Notice that employers were more likely to call Whites with a criminal record (17% were offered an interview) than Blacks without a criminal record (14%). [2]"

So all the people acting as though our society is some meritocratic, utopia can keep that bullsh*t to themselves.

On the other hand, there is no doubt that blacks under-perform relative to whites when it comes to academics. There are obvious reason for this, but those reasons don't change the truth. Companies that are heavy on the engineering are going to use academic markers to try and select the best of the best. There aren't enough blacks >= white peers in the top percentiles of CS to give us proportional representation.

[1] http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html
[2] http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/04/03/race-crimina...
Sad situation? I'd say it's limited for security and user comfort. I can't say I've ever felt HTML emails beyond basic text formatting and links improved my life.
Oh, yeah, I've definitely worked with those types before. I still have love for most of them though because of the intelligent, quirky side. I read the OP comment as the wall street types invading the industry, but I guess I shouldn't make that assumption.
career < friends < loved ones

YMMV.
Here is a clear example of how it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-WMn_zHCVo
Interesting use cases of opinion analysis and sentiment analysis
Americas views on race are very weird. Race is a social construct. It was essentially a binary view on race. There were blacks and then everyone else. Thats why you could marry Mexicans or Indians but not blacks in many states, historically, if you were white.

This changed when Americas immigration opened up to people from Asia and get central.

But as those groups assimililate we are going to revert to the old style view of race. Black and then everyone else.

So when people say white culture they really just mean mainstream American culture.
Investing money is work. You have to sink resources into it. If you don't, then you will assuredly lose that money.

A guaranteed return is better than an assured loss.
Physicist here: yes, photon collisions can lead to annihilation ... and production of a particle--anti-particle pair.
Same for me, but don't generalize - some people get easily addicted, some don't.
To add to this, while as you say, it's possible flat earth might have been a thing amongst the illiterate, we have lots and lots of evidence that shows that the idea of a spherical earth had not been forgotten in Europe at the time either (with numerous older sources, but just to specifically address "600 years ago...):

Dante's Divine Comedy, finished in 1320, for example, goes into a lot of detail about the difference between the hemispheres such as how it affects which stars are visible and the concept of time difference and where he imagines the sun rises and sets over different parts of the world, and how gravity changes as Dante travels through the earth to arrive at other side.

It's first four known printed editions incidentally all pre-date Columbus first voyage, being published in 1472, 1477, 1482 and 1491 in Foligno, Venice and Florence, and adding up to hundreds of copies.

We also know that Columbus had read Claudius Ptomely's work, as well as Pierre d'Ailly's Imago Mundi which depicts the world as a globe. For some books we know this specifically because he owned printed editions and scribbled extensively in the margins.

These books were circulated in some numbers: Columbus did not have to dig up obscure hand written copies or somehow otherwise come across old, forgotten knowledge that nobody else had. He grow up at a time when Italian publishers were churning out rapidly increasing numbers of copies of classical texts all over the place, and works by authors like Ptolemy and d'Ailly (and Dante) who explicitly described the world as round were printed in multiple editions and sought after.

We also known that Ptolemy's work had been sought after in Europe for hundreds of years before that, with adaptations of his Geography, which reflects a round earth, regularly being made and amended and updated with additional information. The first printed edition of his Geography to include engraved maps was made in Bologna in 1477.
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Business (as life) is not science. If you want to find proof of anything go be a scientist, because everything you find elsewhere will just be anecdotal.
Wonder why this isn't on the front page . . . a simple points/time since posted doesn't add up to me . . . IMHO HN is too opaque.
I think it all started with Facebook. TechCrunch was reporting every 2 weeks on how Facebook's valuation grew another $5 million. What kind of "news" is that, unless you want to profit from the extra hype of Facebook's valuation?!

Many people got very rich from Facebook gaining such high valuation before IPO. And now many other VCs want to replicate that kind of sort of almost ponzi-scheme type of investment.
Personally, I think there is a more subtle conceptual idea that it glosses over that makes the more explicit Java version more "clean".

> D + 1m1d != D + 1d1m

Mixing time units like days, months, years (where units are intransitive) is, in my opinion, a bad idea.
I assume there's no way to import Diagrams.Prelude in https://try.jupyter.org/ ? I get
Failed to load interface for `Diagrams.Prelude'
It might be true that the majority are coming out of top tech schools, I really have no way of knowing that. However, I'm skeptical about how important the school is to Google as an employer given their rigorous screening process. Coming from a top tech school certainly can't hurt but I don't believe the school you go to necessarily dictates what quality of engineer you are, though it can increase your opportunities for sure.

On the second point, I think interest prior to University is certainly helpful but saying it's a majority is just an anecdotal conjecture itself.
This is great for pranks: you send a serious looking email to someone, and then they forward it to someone else thinking they sent some chart or whatever but the next receiver instead sees another picture of your choosing
To those that understand it to mean that AZERTY is dying, it is not. In fact, it is very hard to buy a non-AZERTY laptop in France. It is unlikely to ever go away.

I personally would prefer (and do use) a QWERTY with compose key shortcuts. It is obviously easier to write code, but I find writing French also easier that way. Not only do we get the obvious (compose + ' = é, compose + ^ = ê, compose + ` = è), but we also get common non-keyboard characters (compose + C + o = ©, compose + - + > = →, compose + = + e = €, guess how to do ₤ and ¥).
By that logic I can say because I've been drunk a number of times in my life but are in control of the substance, I think alcoholism is blown out of proportion.
Ironically, Lotus Notes Webmail is the only client I have seen so far that actually uses iframes to display HTML emails. If webmails just could embed the HTML content into an iframe with the proper sandbox attributes... nods off and dreams
Not so sure about this opinion actually.

Whenever I go to baseball games at AT&T Park in San Francisco, there's just something about the energy in the stadium, the sights of the park and surrounding area+views, the "different" (using that word loosely here) food, the cold foggy/windy night games, etc. You can get there early and try to get autographs, which not everybody is into but it's a cool benefit. You have a chance of catching foul or homerun balls.

I think using a VR version of this app would definitely be better than TV, but I wouldn't necessarily say it becomes any more of a comparatively better experience. I don't think it can quite match watching a game live and at the stadium itself.
I wouldn't say that jQuery is something that should be avoided. It depends on your current experience in JavaScript. I remember that our designer at a former company was preparing the HTML markup and CSS styles for us (mainly JavaScript developers) and he was comfortable using jQuery for prototyping animations and other stuff.

The more I learned about frontend technologies the more I started to realize where it makes sense to use jQuery and where not. With increasing knowledge one starts to think more about optimizing code and reducing the amount of libraries used etc. At the current company I'm working now, we also had use cases where we had to use native JavaScript due to some restrictions.

All in all, we still have a fair usage of jQuery and I honestly don't see anything wrong with that.
I think gmail was built using closure which is JavaScript. https://developers.google.com/closure/faq?hl=en#gwt
I feel like Gmail reached a peak of Javascript use just slightly past what the basic-HTML version has, and everything since has just slowed it down and made it eat more RAM for little benefit. Sometime between then and now I'm sure they added some "helpful" frameworks that have contributed to the problem. Inbox is even worse.

Our children won't believe we ever browsed the web in a graphical multitasking OS on 64mb of RAM and a single processor core. "Don't be silly, that wouldn't even be 1/6 enough to load Google Inbox!"
I would say the main problem with Americans is that they really do not like to speak any language other than English ;)
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The US-International layout exists for ages, and allows for composable letters. "áéíóúçãñàâô..." is as simple as getting the accent + letter.

I fail to understand why the Brazilian Standardization bodies decided that we needed to get a keyboard with an exclusive letter for "ç" and yet forces composition of everything else.
Wanting to be like your friends can cause someone to start smoking, but it can also be neighbors, parents, coworkers, or just people on TV.

Behaviors are "contagious" that way. Gun violence and suicide have been shown to be "transferrable".
> hedge long bets with shorts
I am curious, without sharing details obviously, have you actually been able to successfully pull it off or do you expect to see some hits due to changes in direction?
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Just make them get the spanish QWERTY. It has all possible accents (even for german). The only exceptions for characters would be for words like "soeur", or "oeil".
While its not default you can get it very easily on Linux and its ready on OSX, just need to pick it. No idea about Windows. For pair programming I use keyboard with hardware Colemak, my pp partner can use whatever that way ;)
> It's pretty standard in the US, due to our history, for colored people to just feel out of place in 9/10 white environment.

Calling them "colored people" certainly doesn't help.
I'm posting this tool that my friend (@sinanuozdemir) and I hacked together yesterday! It's a tool to find someone's email based on their twitter handle. We made this tool to help you find someone to contact when all you really know is their twitter handle. I've had times on twitter when I'm in a DM with someone and I'd really like to email them, so I would spend 15 minutes trying to find their email online. Hence why Sinan and I built this tool to save time scouring the internet for an email. It's not perfect so any feedback is much appreciated.

The reason why it asks for an email to start is so we can know uses the tool. It's nice to know people rather than decipher the black hole that is google analytics.

The tool works by first checking if the user had tweeted their email in some form, thats the easiest way to find their email. If they didn't then it will check to see if they posted it on their personal website. Still couldn't find it? It will then check where they work and check their work address. The confidence in the email is based on where the email was found.

Cheers,
Jamasen
If it gives everyone around you cancer, yes.
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The article refers to quotation marks as "inverted commas", I've never heard that before.
Building tolerance and addiction is highly dependant on the individual, and so is quitting. Besides there's a difference between "a couple packs" and a long term smoking (at which point you're not yet that much addicted but smoke due to different reasons and get addicted in the meantime).
Persian is a beautiful language. Especially when spoken by females, it sounds so soft and precious (ok, in my mind there are "man"-languages and "female"-languages, depending on which sex sounds nicer when using them)
Holding cash is essentially an investment in the sovereign government that controls that currency. Simply sitting on cash does not imply little or no risk.
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Thank you for the links to places with actual schedules! Always the difference between theory and practice.... ;)
As a black guy working IT at a giant car maker, I can say there's truth to this. Nice comment.
I'm not getting calls directly but I am getting calls from second market brokers pitching companies that never used to be available (or sold instantly) like Pinterest and Uber. There is a large lot of Uber shares that one firm in particular has been trying to sell at the 50b valuation price for a few weeks now, seemingly without success. Just another anecdotal data point.
That works for most taxes on consumer products since it's fixed and not based on income.

If two people have the same exact habit it will cost them the same amount. If I have a higher income than you I'm actually paying less relative of my income than I would with a normal tax.

This is true even not considering the social aspect of it. Some of this taxes are on addictive things like drugs (tobacco, alchool) and gambling (lottery). And one social influence of addictive behaviour is poverty.
Sony Xperia Z5: overheating Snapdragon 810 still an issue?
It's not risk-less, but it's way less risky than every other alternative.
Esp in sexing female fetuses!

http://www.bc.edu/clubs/mendel/ethos/archives/2008/younger.s...

> These counterfeit medical professionals lure in clients with advertisements outside their clinics stating, “pay 500 Rupees now and save 50,000 in the future”. Parents can spare a lot of time and future hardship by terminating the pregnancy early and trying again for a son in lieu of having to kill a newborn child. The clinics have proven so profitable, that ultrasound machines are even finding their way into rural villages that do not have potable water (Kumar 1998).
From the New Scientist article:

"This device splits each electron into two, sends them along both paths simultaneously, then brings them together again."

http://phys.org/news/2015-05-electron.html

The experiment reveals that, when a single electron fractionalizes into two pulses, the final state cannot be described as a single-particle state, but rather as a collective state composed of several excitations. For this reason, the fractionalization process destroys the original electron particle. Electron destruction can be measured by the decoherence of the electron's wave packet.
"supersonic air travel" is really not going to happen unless NASA's sonic boom mitigation actually works.
This is the correct answer. the term people should search for is indeed majorana mass.

I would just like to add that most of the mass we observe doesn't come from the higgs but from QCD.

the higgs part is minuscule.
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Could you tell us a little more about your idea? Nothing too specific obviously but at least what industry your idea is for and a little more background would be nice. I'm based out of Austin and have tons of friends in both Austin and Houston that have worked on a lot of really awesome projects in the past. Maybe I could help, but would like some more information :)