skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is HNs, plenty of people think they know everything about startups because they can deploy a React app on Digital Ocean.

Running a startup is difficult as hell, so IMHO, if an app manages to have a successful launch, then more power to them. At the end of the day, it boils down to capturing value to be able to make it. For some businesses Techcrunch/Buzzfeed/etc press may be a key factor in this process, for others, it is just vanity. Why do we even care?
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Dead honest, I've been considering doing the same and just digitally signing the ones I want to preserve identity on.

The current state of HN moderation and management is quite bad. I see no reason to treat them with dignity and respect (as an organization).
If people would judge a tool on its technical merits, that may be true. However, a lot of people that adopted git hardly needed/used git's improvements (in their one man projects).
The trouble is if people don't deal with the root cause then they will just fill their newly empty homes with junk again.
> Everyone was distracted by the blonde blue eyed Stanford dropout in the Steve Jobs outfit!

Please. I'm sure Stanford has an even better looking blond blue eyed dropout every year. If that somehow could get you billions in investment, silicon valley would be filled with founders who looked like pharmaceutical reps.
I do the same thing with mercurial's "hg commit -i" interactive interface. There's also a very nice curses interface for interactive hunk selection which is currently behind an experimental config flag but is shipped with the core application.
Americans buy larger homes, and junk expands to fill the allotted space. Then you move into an apartment, or the the Bay Area, and cry. ;)
Oh yeah, I agree that's the long term solution. I was also using the term "procedure" loosely. In the mid-term a human will actually do things like check for swollen glands, but it doesn't need to a doctor.
See my toplevel post. Our customers love using `access_by_lua` to delegate authentication and authorization to our service. Obviously you can use your own authorization and and access control to accomplish the same thing, in the same way.
If (if) you already like lisp, it more feels like writing HTML with cleaner, more composable syntax. Were I working on an all-lisp team, I'd be totally happy to use it. Since I'm generally not, JSX function components seem to be the next best (or at least next-least-worst) thing.
How about the way we do it now, with patents on devices, therapies, and drugs that are approved by the FDA instead of on the techniques used to develop them? There is even a way to extend the patent life of these developments to account for the amount of time it takes to receive government approval with a maximum term of 14 years after approval [1]. Patenting such a fundamental technique as CRISPR will only set back research for more than a decade and prevent most investors from funding further research while giving companies a huge headstart if they are located outside of the USPTO's jurisdiction.

[1] http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/SmallBus...
I agree slightly about Ko (although it does not seem that inelegant to say that you cannot repeat a board position). However, this scoring complications are entirely a result of players being lazy, the game would be equivalent if you played until the person whose turn it is had no legal moves.

This ruleset would be prohibitivly tedious, but (in Japanese scoring) if you play with the rule that passing requires you to give your opponent an extra captured stone, then the game become equivalent to one where players were required to capture all the stones they thought were dead.

This is even simpler under Chinese scoring, where you would not even have to give your opponent pass stones.

However, because players are lazy, their is no reason to waste time killing dead stones.

Having said that, I can think of 2 inelegences that you did not mention:

Komi, where we give White extra points just because Black was winning to often.

The overtime rules in timed games.
Exactly. An evaluation of the efficiency of "buying" clinical trials with patents would be very interesting.
This seems to me like the US becoming a lot like Brazil, where income inequality allows the middle class to have maids. Except, of course, americans would do it more efficiently and with a positive attitude.
If your web site offers live chat, be prepared for hackers
Yeah, docs are a bit fuzzy and I'm not exactly sure what the right answer is.

So there are actually two ways to go about it AFAIK and I'm not entirely sure which one is the best. One is to list files in MANIFEST.in and then access it via __file__, but I think this doesn't work if your module gets turned into an egg/wheel (it's for source dists).

On the other hand is using pkg_resources, where you declare the list of files in the package_data argument to setup in your setup.py. You can then get the contents of that file (not its path) by importing the pkg_resources package, which provides a lookup table of loaded resources. This [apparently] works for binary dists but not source dists (the opposite of MANIFEST).

I've used pkg_resources without issue myself, but it's possible I just have been lucky. In any event, here's a few links discussing the differences and also how to use pkg_resources:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7522250/how-to-include-pa...

http://blog.codekills.net/2011/07/15/lies,-more-lies-and-pyt...

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs#accessing...

If you want an example, here's a package I made that uses pkg_resources (I make no promises that this is the right way to do it, but it works for me):

(setup.py, see line 10) https://github.com/jasonmhite/gefry2/blob/master/setup.py

(the data file I want to include) https://github.com/jasonmhite/gefry2/tree/master/gefry2/data

(where the code loads the data file, see line 67) https://github.com/jasonmhite/gefry2/blob/master/gefry2/mate...
I think the whole ethos behind a high-tech startup is that you do something well by implementing a novel (in the sense of adoption rate) process or technology.

There is certainly room for disagreement, but all of the "high tech startups" that make up the startup zeitgeist, were exactly that.
This was very hard for me to read.

The "tweet storm" form of writing actually made my eyes hurt.

I'm sure the author has some interesting ideas, but the format was so painfully irritating for me to read, that it detracted from their overall message.

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer essay-style long form content.
There are a whole host of other things that are potential optimizations, like not being pushed around in the crowd.
I guess they arenot myths then ?! :)
2016 – the year of web streams
This is anecdotal. The article discusses the fact that you THINK you have these different styles. But TONS of research shows that the best approach to learning does not take this into account.
No, the universe is not a brain
> When there's a possibility that she dresses in a certain way in order to subconsciously convince people that she's a maverick visionary, or when she lacks that intent but it probably had that effect, I think it's justified (but not needed). And a defined masculine jaw would probably help you raise money, just like it helps you get dates.

Appearance no doubt helps. The notion that it is a significant enough factor to be worth mentioning here doesn't appear to be borne out in the allocation of VC funds.
There are tons of companies using mercurial including some of the biggest ones. It's not really accurate to imply that Git won and Mercurial is dead.
They sure don't make 'em like they used to.
> San Francisco

Try living downtown. :)
You gotta lay back super far, that's my secret. I was driving a e30 m3 the other day and was amazed on how much view the driver gets, it's like being in a fish bowl.
Messaging is hard, speaking from experience having been part of an attempt that failed.

IMO it seems like Peach did everything they possibly could and the execution was in broad strokes excellent, but a messaging app in 2016 is the Hail Mary of Hail Maries.

Firstly, there are no "new users" to messaging. Literally everyone is already using something for messaging - Hangouts, Messenger, Line, WhatsApp, etc etc. Unlike other areas of tech, social messaging is a zero-sum game where every user you gain means someone else loses a user. This is hard environment for any new product with no existing traction.

Messaging is also one of those things that is used so much that it's driven heavily by habitual behavior. Which also means you have to break a user's muscle memory/habits before you can have a shot at keeping them in the long term. The default for a competent messaging app is that people try your app out, think you're cool, and then promptly go back to whatever they were using before, because you haven't broken their old habit and/or haven't formed a new one. 14-day cohort retention is going to be nearly zero in the default case.

Habit-formation within users is really, really, really f'ing hard.
I like to give a little thought to the words that I speak. The conversational gap timing may be the reason I never seem to get a turn to speak in some conversations.

Sometimes, when speaking with the spouse, I sense a "your turn to speak" gap, but by the time I actually start speaking, I apparently missed my turn, and I get dinged for interrupting the continuation. Then, later, I get double-dinged for not being communicative enough.

I never quite got the hang of "seizing the conch" (as in _Lord of the Flies_) and holding onto it with a continuous stream of priority-holding conversational nulls while my brain works out what I actually want to say next. I'll sometimes pause to take a breath and before I am able to resume, someone else jumps in.

So I'd love it if I had a cultural conversation timeout even just 15 seconds long. I might actually get to talk and finish a line of thought without someone else trampling over me.

Edit (sibling post): So maybe I should try to get some Finnish friends, then? But it's been a while since I've been to Minnesota or da Yoop, doncha know.
I remember that thread now! Looks like the creator took the advice, too
It's interesting to compare this to a recent article about MEC, Canada's REI clone.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/mec-govern...

Both co-ops seem to have similar issues developing from the change from small scale co-op to major national retailer.
It's a form of art. Imagine Matrix done by arranging small pictures of flowers, by constructing scenes using parabolic approximating curves or fractals. Just an interesting form of art giving you another perspective. And for many text-oriented people ASCII art is like opening up a new visual perspective they were lacking.
Who needs lots of uptime when we are rewriting everything constantly with this week's favorite framework?
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I'm well aware of fear producing a faster/quick instinctual response than higher-level cognitive processes, however what you seem to be unaware of is the fact that this difference (in terms of milliseconds, actually, according to the research by Mr. Joseph LeDoux) is quite negligible to be of practical use in the modern world.

Furthermore, fear in such instances more often than not introduces more harm than otherwise as it hampers clear thinking that is essential to successfully come out of those dangers. The list of accidents and deaths caused by human stampedes and crushes should surely give you a pause before you reach for the keyboard once again to defend the much-cherished fear and introduce ever more carefully crafted denigrations.

Lastly, there is a distinction between fear itself (the emotion/passion) and the reflex action, and that being without fear doesn't necessarily get rid of the reflex action which is indeed useful in avoiding danger, especially on those situations you mention. As for "children who haven't got enough experience to reason about the danger" - that is besides the point as this discussion is pertaining to adults.

> Also, seriously, get a therapist. It's been shown in psychological studies that trying to suppress emotions (of any kind) tends to lead to depression.

As suppression and repression (a hallmark of such practices as Vipassana and Stoicism, which HN is known to be fond of) are at much lower levels than normal in this body, your ill-informed and unsolicited suggestion to "get a therapist," stemming as it does from your "you astounding idiot" insult, is cast aside in the waste bin where it rightfully belongs.

Meanwhile here is an useful word for you:

<quote>
projection |prəˈjekSH(ə)n|
noun
• the unconscious transfer of one's own desires or emotions to another person: we protect the self by a number of defense mechanisms, including repression and projection.
<endquote>
There is also https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list which blocks far more, even the unobtrusive ones. Think of it as AdBlock Plus with the 'acceptable ads' feature disabled.
SRP does not require the server to store either a password or a password equivalent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_proto...
I've been a member since '83 or '84. I've undoubtedly gotten the my original money's worth out of my membership dozens of times over.

The article raises an interesting point. While I am quite loyal to REI - often choosing to buy there even though I pay sales tax and might be able to find it cheaper online, I don't pay that much attention to elections and other co-op stuff.

The primary benefit I see as a co-op member is their unparalleled customer service. I've lost count of the number of times one of their associates has gone out of their way to ensure that whatever issue I was having was taken care of appropriately.
"Avoiding problem areas" is the last thing you should do if you're working on a startup. It's a good thing that people make stupid mistakes because sometimes something extraordinary comes out of them. If everyone acted in conservative manner because they don't want to make mistakes and be called an idiot by others, we will have much slower innovation.
As I read about each of the security concerns and the measures taken to address them, I kept thinking: isn't that what Richard Stallman would do?
His comparison with Stalin may be hyperbolic, but the article you cited gives Churchill's response to the famine you think is unfair to blame on him:

Up to 3 million people starved to death while
British officials begged Churchill to direct food
supplies to the region. He bluntly refused. He
raged that it was their own fault for "breeding
like rabbits". At other times, he said the plague
was "merrily" culling the population.

>[Stalin] killed between 20-60m people with possibly the worst “machinery of killing” ever created does an injustice to the point you where trying to make

And quoting or arguing that kind of unsubstantiated claptrap does a disservice to the point you are making.

I don't believe you are a neo-Nazi, I think you just pulled the first result from Google on "how many people did Stalin kill", but in my experience it's usually people with right or extreme right agendas who try to paint Stalin as worse than Hitler by quoting such nonsensically high figures.
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I suspect it's because people regard the implied foreach loop of data-scope to not count as logicless. Personally I can see the arguments both ways, and have concluded that simply ensuring I'm using the same definition of logicless as the people I'm talking to is the best answer.
Impressive, but it seems an inversion of paradigms. Small data to compute ratios is usually associated with high performance computing (HPC). Why use Spark when the data is small and is broadcast to each worker? You have to pay the serialization-deserialization penalties of moving the data from Python to JVM and back again. In fact the JVM isn't really needed here at all since all the computation is done in the pure-Python workers in an embarrassingly-parallel way. Seems to me that you would just move onto an HPC and use TensorFlow within a IPython.parallel paradigm and be done much sooner.
Hacker News allows pseudonymity which is a different thing. True anonymity would be using 4chan over Tor which, as you said, produces a different atmosphere.
FUD?? Why? The did have ROM version, and, being made from slower silicon had lower leakage.
> it would be naive to assume that VCs are completely immune to the influence of a young, attractive woman.

...and it would require completely ignoring the data to think that young, attractive women do well in front of VC's.

There's a real world out there where female founders are fighting to get in the door.
I would also like to know at what scale as I've used MSSQL for several years and only badly designed queries/tables caused locking issues.

The real _problem_ (which BizSpark can resolve short-term) seems like it would be licensing.
Where did you take such a class? A local community college?

That actually sounds like a pretty fun idea. The engineer in me always loves learning how to take apart more things and put them back together.
No fraud is necessary, just sloppy interpretation of data.

Staying with Schuman et al (2015) linked in this thread, they start with 2.5 x 10^5 cells and end up with 5 x 10^4 to 2 x 10^5 three to four days later. Why are there fewer cells even without accounting for any division? Because the treatment is toxic. This is reported in many papers.

I don't know what the proliferation rate is like for the cells in the conditions of that study, but apparently up to 7 divisions in 4 days is considered plausible for T-cells: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17367338
> Most if not all techniques that would allow for not transmitting the password in a server-decryptable fashion would require the password or a password equivalent to be stored in clear on the server.

That's not true at all! SRP[1][2] allows the server to not have the plaintext password ever, even during account creation.

Kerberos' KDC doesn't know the plain-text password either[3].

Even HTTP Digest didn't require the password to be stored in plain text [4]. [Edit: though if you leaked HA1 that effectively becomes the credential]

Moreover, client TLS certificates would also fit the bill, as the client key is never transmitted.

Don't spread FUD if you aren't sure. If you don't know, don't say anything or say you don't know.

[1] http://srp.stanford.edu/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...
[3] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/15849/does-the-k...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication
If you like this book you will probably also like the gold standard for cellular biology: Molecular Biology of the Cell (http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Cell-5th-Edition/dp/...).

It costs more but it's worth it. It's a deeply informative book that covers a large spectrum of topics that you can read without much background knowledge in biology. It's the same book your doctor or bioinformatics professional probably used in school learning about cellular biology.
The band name "Sleep" and song titled "Dopesmoker" didn't tip you off?
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Lobotomies are definitely worse than adding a misleading preface to a book. Maybe a more precise title for the post would be "the greatest villain in the history of history of science"?
I've been a member for years, I don't actually remember receiving ballots to vote.

However, I don't even know how I'd educate myself to cast an informed vote. Same thing with a timeshare I just got from my grandfather. I received a name, a title, and one or two paragraphs about the candidates. It's pretty daunting to try to extrapolate from that into a guess at who will be the best candidate.

Same thing with REI. I don't know their business, their challenges, and the qualifications or competency of the candidates well enough to have a meaningful say in who should be on the board. Do I?
Ummm, does the style and the content of this e-mail / article remind anyone of the random philosophy essay generators?

Just googled "random philosophy generator" and there's apparently like a dozen of them nowadays.
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Find your local community or technical college.
This is a gutsy thing to do with a piece of software that has been part of your life for over a decade. Mad props to mpm.

Up until Blekko I had pretty much been a perforce user (both at NetApp and at Google) and git was "that weird system you had to use to check in kernel changes". Blekko used Mercurial and I had no opinion as I had no experience. But over the years using hg at work and then starting up a github account to learn git, I saw the writing on the wall. Hg was the betamax of source code management systems. Clean, elegant, reliable, and not mainstream.
Except unlike your examples, hg was contemporaneous with git.

Git may have won the network effect benefit but 10 years ago it was not at all clear how it would shake out. Mercurial did gain enough users (and large users) to remain relevant, unlike some of the other options at the time.
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Oh this is masterful trolling. If you connect over IPv4:

The IPv6 version has extra scenes and extra color support.
So if you want to experience ascii starwars to it's fullest
you really should get IPv6.

www.sixxs.net or another IPv6 tunnel broker may
help getting IPv6 to your computer.

Good Luck,

Snore ( Has no life for Hardware )

But if you actually connect over IPv6:

Well, the IPv6 version is exactly the same as the IPv4 one.

The difference is in the visitors...

Je bent een Stoere Bikkel, aka You Rock.
If you login to amazon.com and enable 2FA, then when you login to amazon.co.uk (same username etc.) it will ask you for the 2FA code. It seems if you have an account for one Amazon domain you can login to all with the same credentials.
http://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459
Another issue is that sweeping, curvy rooflines are in style right now. I'm 6'2" and I find that in a lot of newer cars I can barely fit in the drivers seat.

If you're looking at midsize sedans, FWIW, I found the Honda Accord and the Subaru Legacy to have the best headroom.
Growing up, we had a late 60's Dodge station wagon. It was pretty much the definition of "unsafe" - the interior was made of hard metal surfaces, loose steering & suspension, and no crash engineering at all. But it was the first family car that came with disc brakes, and that's why Dad bought it.

Later, they bought a mid 80's Pontiac 6000, and while it had disc brakes, GM hadn't increased the size of the brake rotors to accommodate the change from asbestos brake pad material, so it had huge brake fade and panic stops really did result in driver panic. Not a fun car to drive.
Not correct.

Like many things in Python import is actually just syntactic sugar for a dunder function.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#__import__