skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All that does is remove financing from the equation.

Last year, I paid cash for a new car at a dealership. I arranged the entire purchase via email, but it still took about 2-hours at the dealership doing paperwork, declining all the BS extras and getting my car "prepped" to drive out the door. Then I had to arrange for the single largest wire-transfer I've ever had leave my bank account.

Assuming Drive Motors takes away a good part of that hassle, it'll be a great asset to people like me who don't particularly relish the dealership process.
No, this came up on Hacker News recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10810390
Don't rule out of all of Spain! Northern Spain is nice and parts have a similar climate to the UK. But yes some places in mid and southern Spain can be hell in summer.
I have a feeling it doesn't exactly work that way... How would someone be un-YC'd?
Reminds me of this sweet paper

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nick/coqasm.pd...
Repeat 1-4 enough times and you have yourself a bubble.
> I think there is a heavy urban prejudice to the generational categories definitions

There's a heavy urban prejudice to the population (US population is 81% urban), too, so its not surprising that broad descriptions of population might be biased that way.
Thanks for this explanation. The universe is a pretty freaking amazing place.
Question to the author: have you tried a GUI like Deducer for creating ggplot2 graphs? If yes, what was your experience like? If no, why not?
> I say this as a person who met a woman who said she basically doesn't date anyone who has anything less than a Master's degree.

At first, I thought that is petty. However, such bluntness is helpful to you; you get to very quickly (i.e. never date) select against a potentially improper partner. Supposing you have a Bachelor's, would you want to date a woman who only dated men with a Bachelor's degree or higher?

My first guess is that she is avoiding sub-Master's degreed men as a means to avoid boring, wealthy, and/or immature men. My second guess is that she might be trying to use a simple criterion to select among a relatively high volume of date offers.
> I think there is a heavy urban prejudice to the generational categories definitions

There's a heavy urban prejudice to the population (US population is 81% urban), too, so its not surprising that broad descriptions of population might be biased that way.

> and a lot of it seems to be directed at what sales categories to use.

Given that substantial real money is on the line in often highly competitive environments, "sales categories" most likely capture real features.
Yep, my company has the same tendencies. Some folks I work with have their phones configured for company email which I refuse to do. When I'm home, I'm home and it's the only time I have with my family. When they're all asleep and the wife is watching her netflix, I'll usually jump on the VPN but turn off email and IM so I can get real work done. Most of my days are sadly filled with meetings and email, the 30-60 minutes of extra work I occasionally do at home does wonders for my productivity.
I have first hand experience on how awesome the support team is and salute them for the great work they no doubt do every day.

I don't mean to offend in any way it was more of a general feeling I got when using the service and having known Zapier for a while now.

Since the dawn of business time humans have done business with other humans and even in the digital age I don't think that has changed.

To see a friendly face on the homepage that has worked hard to get the business to where it is. Who I know is working hard to look after my data and make sure it gets from A to B.

Again just a gut feeling I had when I saw the homepage. Apologies for the 180 of the questions you had been expecting! Keep up the awesome work dude :)
Good question, there's an interesting link to a wiki page in their matlab function docstring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_stretch_transform
If I get some time tomorrow, I will try to do a network visualization - a coincidence graph (like this one http://p.migdal.pl/tagoverflow/) or something in the line for word2vec (job2vec? ;)).
> Is this where the translation from GR -> QM breaks down?

Sort of, to get a graviton you introduce perturbations on a background metric. (Basically small wiggles of spacetime around an 'average.') You don't do anything like that when you solve the Einstein equations. Consequently, the background spacetime ( that is, the black hole) is not really made of gravitons. (At least in some sense.)
How much of your time is indirectly consumed by this leviathan?

If you're talking about taxes, I'm right there with you!
As my public speaking coach once said: Squeeze your butt.

It provides a release for the adrenaline so you're not fidgety. It is completely invisible to the audience. It gives you better posture, making you look more confident.

Try it next time you're anxious. Squeeze your butt.

edit: also one thing to practice in general. Next time you're waiting in line at a coffee shop or whatever, put the phone away, take your hands out of your pockets, and don't touch anything on your body or your surroundings. Stand up straight, hands loose by your side. Gently place thumb of each hand on its corresponding index finger. It's good practice for presenting a composed and calm body language. And you'll be surprised to realize that nobody else in the entire coffee shop cares or even notices.
How would this apply to learning a conceptual topic, as opposed to a physical skill?
Love the passive voice "may have received access to" -- OK, who gave them access I wonder?

I would normally applaud the hacker mentality of using a computer to automate stupid or repetitive tasks, as long as any dishonesty is limited to a white lie. Like the obligatory security training video watching. But running a compliance company that doesn't comply seems more fundamentally problematic.
I loved this game, but I have one major objection to the design, something that afflicts even AAA titles; Getting the "good" ending pretty much requires a walkthrough, since the actions the player must take to achieve it are so arbitrary and counter-intuitive.
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Meaning, ex-communicated from the YC network. Not be invited back to YC as a mentor, no demo day invites, etc.
Those example cases are not 'retroactive' illegalization. They're examples of uneven enforcement. Usury was entirely illegal throughout the life of the two businesses in question. Both businesses made multiple explicit attempts to evade the laws in question (using tribal sovereignty) which says they knew perfectly well their actions were illegal.

They just weren't enforced very well.
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I guess this is a useful lesson to any would-be founders who want to make a business out of breaking the law: make sure you don't break laws higher than those on the municipal level. The difference between Uber and Zenefits/Theranos is that cities have limited resources and angry citizens can convince them to back down (and if you lose, hey, just ignore that city and try somewhere else), whereas state and Federal agencies can nuke you at any time and don't really have to worry about the vox populi.
How about a theory where spacetime touches upon another spacetime and interacts with it, perhaps through gravity?

Or if spacetime folds back onto itself?
Do older people use Tinder as well?
>"that it's located in Singapore as means to reduce salary when they import a worker."

Having lived and worked there (and having a Singaporean father) this mentality does not surprise me at all. The national propaganda machine indoctrinates their citizens to believe it is the greatest most successful place in the world, and a curious kind of arrogance arises from it. This is not to say that other nations are not guilty of these practices, but I certainly notice it when I deal with Singaporeans
Err, that last thing you mentioned is the entire business model of the rent-to-own outfits like Aarons, Rentacenter, Fingerhut...
What was the last payday loan chain you saw go bankrupt?

It's extremely profitable as an industry, if not on margin, on volume.

If it were so risky, they'd not be in it. They're making out very very well.
If anyone is curious, the psychologists discovered this long ago; it's related to spaced repetition, but in education & sports & psychology, this is known as blocking: you get better skill gain by not massing practice on a single skill, but by regularly rotating through multiple tasks. (So in a baseball study, the players would rotate through batting, throwing, catching etc, instead of spending a long time at each activity.)
But people have been preserving physical books for hundreds, even thousands of years. Physical archives have been a thing for a long time and try to preserve everything from music to letters to government records. Historians often use letters and notes written by people hundreds of years ago, because people often saved that stuff.
Buzzfeed's curious chimaera of its trademark virally-targeted fluff content and a burgeoning hard news organization probably merits at least some kind of reconsideration of the penalty applied to submissions on HN.

It would be nice if Buzzfeed had something like a separate subdomain for its non-trivial content, but I'm not aware of any such thing that would enable automated differentiation.
There is a bit of fun to be poked at startups/the hacker mentality in this case, sure.

But what's appears to be a refreshing break from what happens when big corporations are caught red-handed, is that the leaders responsible have been fired/disciplined, while the employees on the floor have been told they will not be punished (though they will be if such things happen again).

At least that's what I understand from the email reproduced in the BuzzFeed article linked in another comment.
> most of the engineers flailing around here work with PMs in their day job, whose job it is to do what isn't getting done here.

That sure would be nice. Almost every PM I've work with has actually just been a source of busywork who seemed to view their job as to ensure that the engineers spent as much time on issue management as possible. The only one which actually tried to do it himself had a habit of closing actionable bug reports because the reporter didn't bother giving the useless extra info that the PM asked for, while sending all the useless ones on to the developers.
Lunch: like anything else. How much will it save you? That depends on how much you would otherwise spend on lunch (hint, not $20). Even with free lunch, you will sometimes want to get out of the office anyway, so don't count it at a full 5x/week. Note: there are 52 weeks/year (not 48), subtract vacation.

Dinner is more complicated. Yes, you can do a straight calculation like for lunch. But free dinner is only a benefit if you assume you are going to be at the office at dinner time. I go home and have dinner with my family. That they offer it could be a red flag that you'll be expected to work long hours.
I wonder whether open-sourcing Parse tools could increase its use rather than be used to shut it down.
So what if she was? He just let her talk for 10-15 minutes, contributing little. If I were her, I'd be a little annoyed too. He had all this time to participate, why didn't he?

I'm sorry, but I'm way more inclined to think that it was him that was lacking in social adroitness than that she was so unbelievably insulting that he couldn't even talk to her.

I don't want to analyze it too much, in the end it's just a bad date. But I get asked stuff like that all the time, and it doesn't piss me off. Some coders really aren't very adventurous. If I was one of those coders, I wouldn't get mad either. I'd just realize she's not my type, enjoy the conversation as much as I could and move on.

Why be so quick to take offense?
Worked with private browsing mode for me.
Mastering a musical instrument can be broken down into physical skills and aural skills. Exercises can be useful for physical skills, but aural skills can be practiced without them. Improvising is about being open to where you can go, and ear training of various kinds is going to be far more useful for that than practising the same group of exercises time and time again.
I suppose you are right. The last time a bought a car, it was out of state. Everything was done via email and the extra perk was they drove it down to me at no extra cost along with the paperwork to sign after final inspection. It will be nice if Drive Motors can offer the "Drive the car to you" at some point after purchase.
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Singapore currently has one of the highest standards of living in the world, so bargains are few.

It is nearly 100% ethnic Chinese, and Chinese prefer family-managed companies, so you would have some culture-shock.

There are some web and ISP companies there, so that's your best bet for a typical cosmopolitan workplace.

Condos are over $1 million each for residents, so housing is expensive.

Anyway, it sounds like you need to do more homework before moving there.
I used to work at Gusto (ZenPayroll back in my day) and dealing with Zenefits was always a pain for this reason.

They were the consummate hackers, using screen scraping and automation to do whatever the hell they wanted. One nightmare example was when a bug in their "automated" system rewrote bank account information for tons of employees to just be the last 4 digits of their account number. Such a mess.

Even if this weren't a tightly regulated industry, you're dealing with how people are paid and covered for health conditions.

We didn't hire hackers[1] because that attitude just doesn't fit for certain classes of problems.

Hats off to the investigative journalism by BuzzFeed, uncovering some frightening immaturity pervasive in Valley companies.

[1] I authored this post about our hiring at the time: https://gusto.com/blog/zenpayroll-is-not-hiring-hackers/
Here in the UK, we use a mixture of metric and imperial. Speed limits are given in miles per hour. When you go to the pub, you ask for a pint of beer. And I believe imperial units are still being taught in schools.

So I don't think that map is entirely accurate. There are sure to be more countries that use imperial units to some degree, if not exclusively.
It's the old "OH you have a problem or a request with some open source project? Then how about YOU write the code/solve the problem! It's open source you know!"

It's a canned response that people roll out whenever anything is raised about an open source project.
I think you must be right -- but maybe there's some other way to create them, without needing to move a mass. The ability to manipulate gravity itself might be the key to space travel.
Yeah, thanks! I can't edit it any more, unfortunately.
Fully agree. Our overall mission is replace the average American home with a ZE home, no additional cost and no energy bill to boot.

This first series is the first DVD player. High end, priced at a premium and for early adopters. It'll help us push the edge of our product and fund development of tech/engineering that pushes future price down.

We should be able to launch homes in the $225K range next year that can be built spec and start helping that average family. That is no easy task and nothing else is commonly available anywhere. The early adopters will pave the way for everyone else, just like the Roadster and Model S is doing for the Model 3 and spurring on the rest of the industry to pay attention.

Currently Net-Zero homes start around $250/sqft, with many that push well above that. We aren't really targeting the mid west, where this does tip the scales (we are originally from Kansas City, so appropriate the gap). In major metros in CA, OR, CO, WA, etc, this is actually a good deal for a normal home and a steal for a turn key zero energy home. Our current home in Redwood City, CA is zillowed at $1.6M and would be $220K in KC. It's all relative.

I'll disagree on the resale. The principal of the home is based on passive heating/cooling, good design and great materials, so performs well regardless. Solar will last 30, quality is significantly better than par and even the software can be updated.

Keep posted, we will have a model home available via AirBnB late summer and you can see how truly different (better) these homes are. By the time you are ready to buy, we should also have our next series available.
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> Anyway, I was a bit irritated of this same phrase, but because I tought radio astronomers had been listening to skies for quite some time now.

Radio waves are light too though. Or at least they're photons.
Is the idea that you're already using Parse in your mobile application? Or can this be used as a standalone tool to enable push notifications in existing, non Parse apps?

I found it fairly trivial to do push notifications with Node and pre existing libraries.
The "hacker" and "hustler" mentality is also largely driven by expectations of growth when you take $500M in a Series C. When you have that much riding on a company you've built and you have been told to hustle, then you're going to do whatever it takes even if that means breaking the law.
All the files they host are just mp3 hosted in s3 with no encryption or authentication required.

Its 128kbps which is disappointing but its no different from how it would sound streaming on the site.
I won't repeat the points others have made on this thread but I find the following pretty insane. That judge should not be permitted to give LE what amounts to a mulligan.

--

Writing separately, Judge Thomas Rose said that the authorities had enough probable cause to get a warrant, and that their failure to do so was "harmless."
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Ya know what? That wasn't that bad. I'm sure to him it felt way worse than it actually was. Pick yourself up and move on, Dr. Habib. No worries. No one will remember this as some giant cock-up.
That sounds a lot like the 4 stages of competence[1].

Unconscious Incompetence: You don't know that you don't know. (I don't know how to drive a manual)

Conscious Incompetence: You know that you don't know, and start learning the skill. (I'm learning how to drive a manual)

Conscious Competence: Your skills have improved and you understand them, but there's a lot of manual work involved. (To drive a manual, you do step X, Y, and Z)

Unconscious Competence: The skill has been internalized and is automatic. (I know how to drive a manual without thinking about it)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence
Amusingly, YC's new publication is also called The Macro[0]. Perhaps there'll be an article in The Macro about "The Macro."

0: http://www.themacro.com/
Data stories analyzed 4 million data points from the front page or Reddit to figure out what features of articles increase their likelihood of showing up on the Reddit front page. A very interesting application of machine learning algorithms, though they don't get into the details of what ML tools/algorithms they used.
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I think your argument presupposes that women have no say in the matter. Like you're talking about men beating other men to have "access" to women, as if that's all that's needed. I personally believe that women have more agency than that, and they gravitate towards richer men. That establishes my earlier post - rich men have power over women.
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I'm not entirely sure he approves of it but its comedic nonetheless and certainly happens.
You might get better organized daily and find a good hobby but vacations are important, especially if you spend it with some traveling.
A good hobby I recommend everyone that will help you totally tune out from your work is jiu jitsu.
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I would hope that they come down on requiring a warrant to install additional surveillance. I can see the argument that if the cameras at the convenience store just happen to record what goes up and down your driveway, that is fair game, but if they go out of their way to install an additional camera to watch? For me that sounds like an easy to implement standard which is reasonable.
Well, something like LIGO can only measure gravitational waves, because it looks for changes in the geometry of spacetime. If you were to move the LIGO in and out of Earth's gravitational well, I guess then it would record a shift.
> since distributing music is literally their only real cost of doing business.

Salaries dominate many or most business costs.
If (straight) females aren't marrying down then (straight) males aren't going marry up.
Being a developer myself, I'm well aware of this. Still, it's ugly.
There are many apps using Parse only for Push, so it's good for both... But, you've already got that solved (in a similar fashion, this is using node modules.)
I heard a terrific analogy the other day. “Tinder is a nightclub, OKCupid is a bar, eHarmony is a dinner party.”

by the terms of that analogy, sorta, but they’re weird
I sorted the data by which occupation marries within the same occupation the most:

13.9% Physicians and Surgeons
10.7% Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
10.1% none
9.7% Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
9.7% Lawyers, and judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers
9.5% Miscellaneous Personal Appearance Workers
9.3% Veterinarians
8.8% Dentists
8.5% Miscellaneous agricultural workers including animal breeders
8.4% Postsecondary Teachers
7.6% Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software
7.6% Health Diagnosing and Treating Practitioners, All Other
7.5% Optometrists
7.3% Chiropractors
7.2% Pharmacists
6.7% Elementary and Middle School Teachers
6.4% Food Service Managers
6.2% Agricultural and Food Scientists
6.1% Physical Therapists
6.1% Gaming Services Workers
6.0% Upholsterers
5.9% Communications Equipment Operators, All Other
5.8% Air Traffic Controllers and Airfield Operations Specialists
5.8% Physical Scientists, All Other
5.8% Nurse Anesthetists
5.5% Chief executives and legislators
5.5% Real Estate Brokers and Sales Agents
5.4% Clergy
5.2% Marine Engineers and Naval Architects
5.0% Psychologists
4.9% Lodging Managers
4.8% First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
4.7% Miscellaneous Managers, Including Funeral Service Managers and Postmasters and Mail Superintendents
4.7% Medical Scientists, and Life Scientists, All Other
4.6% Secondary School Teachers
4.0% Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
4.0% Podiatrists
4.0% News Analysts, Reporters and Correspondents
4.0% Sewing Machine Operators
3.9% Bailiffs, Correctional Officers, and Jailers
3.9% First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers
3.8% Tailors, Dressmakers, and Sewers
3.8% Economists
3.8% Musicians, Singers, and Related Workers
3.8% Environmental Scientists and Geoscientists
3.8% Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
3.7% Insurance Sales Agents
3.5% Agricultural Inspectors
3.3% Butchers and Other Meat, Poultry, and Fish Processing Workers
3.2% Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Directors
I agree to a certain degree, but if I understand this particular case correctly, isn't one of the conflicts in this case the difference between general surveillance vs. targeted surveillance?

It's one thing to say that "everyone" is under observation when a 360-degree camera is posted on a pole in the middle of town, but another when a single lens camera is posted on the same pole but only pointed at your bedroom window. Now, whether they are legally different is not something that I'm qualified to address, but personally I see a wide difference between the two.
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