skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is good. There has been a lot of criticism in YC as of late due to batch size increases and lower quality of companies at and past demo day; this should help bring in more experts when helping education related start-ups which will hopefully return higher quality at demo day.

I do wonder if there is a certain limit to how many companies YC can help shape. After a certain point it's going to be hard to scale helping companies to get off the ground and YC as the brand won't be valued as highly, right? Just thinking out loud here.
Apart from the reasons mentioned already this could also be a cashflow / working capital related issue. Larger companies in particular optimize their working capital - sometimes quite relentlessly so.

This means that for accounts receivable the payment term is optimized to be as low as is reasonably possible while outgoing payments are delayed as much as possible, which results in a better cashflow.
"There is no such thing as climate change."
The risk is people borrowing money at low rates and further pushing up asset prices. Control of interest rates is supposed to influence investment, but it's tied to leveraged asset speculation.

If you could get an interest-only mortgage at zero rates, why wouldn't you buy the largest house the lender would allow?
But we must protect ourselves from the research parasites! Man the ramparts and ready the harsh words!
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learning how to read technical documentation is a skill in its own right, and we all need to practice it in order to get good at it.

obviously some documentation is better than others, and asking specific questions to fill in the gaps where documentation is unclear is a good thing to do.

however, programming is very much driven by learning how to find the answers to problems on your own. often those answers are in the documentation but not always. sometimes they haven't been answered by anyone before and learning how to extrapolate from documentation to understand the behavior of programs in new situations is a skill that has to be developed.

and of course, ultimately, the final authoritative document on how a program will behave is the code itself. there are times when you have to read source. hopefully those are rare occasions, but being capable of doing it when necessary is yet another skill that needs to be developed. reading through an unfamiliar codebase is difficult and requires practice and experience.

all of these technical reading skills need to be practiced. beginners frequently make the mistake of denying themselves opportunities to practice those skills by simply asking for someone to tell them the answer.
So did the settlement not open Happy Birthday for everyone?
> That's visibly demonstrated by every civil war.

No it's not. Especially so with the civil wars in the Arab world, they didn't spring up virtually overnight and almost across the board started well away from the capital cities where most expats and embassies/consulates are.

> Give me an example of a developed military that's gone into an armed conflict to rescue citizens. The closest I can think of is the rescuing of hostages. That's not quite the same thing though and very rare.

There are a variety of examples of this by practically every developed country. In the last two decades it's been relatively common in Africa and the Middle East. The US in particular has a number of such cases which can be found in this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili...

Hostage rescues are very rare, I agree. That's an extreme measure.
Fair enough, luckily we're not there yet, but what's concerning is that the title of the article uses the words "way, way lower"!
Joel Spolsky gave a great talk a few years ago about the design of StackOverflow. Three groups of people are involved in every question on the site: the asker, the people who answer and the people who read the answer later. Which group do you think the site is optimised for?

The answer is the third group. The average SO question gets read 30 times per day. Any value captured by either of the other groups is massively dominated by the value captured by people who google the question and land on SO. Complaining about the site being harsh to question askers fundamentally misunderstands the value SO provides to the community.

I'm all for websites which help beginners learn programming, but if you need 1-on-1 help to figure out why your loop is invalid, SO is the wrong site. https://hackhands.com might be a better destination.

(I can't find the video on my phone - if somebody could link it below that would be great. )
I'd consider the #1 to #5 (out of 10,000 students) in Ng's MachineLearning Coursera more compelling than 'A' from his on-campus class.

So by making it a national competition, MOOCs have an advantage for those companies seeking high quality candidates.

Also, they deliver a more standardized training experience: Even if you took some interesting but non-conventional AI class at Harvey Mudd, it might be better for companies hiring junior devs to just know you're competent at the basics from your online work.
People were aware of it, but considered it the domain of internet marketing shmoes. Sadly, the media keeps losing money, so one by one those principles get compromised.
When he said "at a small base outside of the Hanscom U.S. Air Force Base" I took his responsibility to be that of one of these two bases (or perhaps the AOC if that was elsewhere). I'd agree that it seems unreasonable for a single person to have such responsibility, even for their 'ground' software. Operational battle management software would also probably come from a different place than the payroll systems, for example. The software in the various air platforms would likely come from each platform's development programme.

In the UK and Canadian military, there is no single overall software person, although there are technical authorities who define standards, etc, that should be used when software is developed.

FWIW, the UK Ministry of Defence actively supports the use of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) software. This isn't always OSS, but is at least better than building everything from scratch. A good ongoing example is the use of 'serious games' to support military training, e.g. as image generators inside simulators or as standalone desktop training packages. There are various COTS packages that fulfill both of these and other roles.

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Such price inflation would be illegal in the European Union, as what can be advertised as a "sale" is regulated by consumer law, and raising prices in the previous weeks is forbidden.

Nevertheless, that doesn't mean that it won't be done; the appeal of marketing tricks is too strong for many businesses, because psychology trumps buyer's rational consideration in the aggregate and thus these practices pay for themselves against any possible sanction.

(If it didn't work, the art of advertising would look completely different).
> Ever go to a gym and ask someone how to do a basic lift only to be scoffed at? Ever been to a foreign country and have someone berate you for not understanding how to navigate through some strange process or not knowing how to speak their language well enough?

That's not asking, that's demanding that someone teach you. Its a brazen form of entitlement that completely disregards the state of the other person.

In regards to the gym, I don't go to the gym to wait around to randomly help some other person with their lifting techniques. I squeeze in going to the gym before or after work, to try to get in my exercise before I get home, so I don't die at 40. Don't be a dick and expect me to drop everything I'm doing because you don't know what you are doing. I am, literally, not here to help you.

If you really want somebody who is waiting around to help you, then your in luck: They are called personal trainers, and you can pay them to help you! If you don't have the money do that, then (god-forbid) you google it or get a book from the library and make a best effort on your own before getting pissy at me because I have other priorities than to make your life easier/less emotionally distressing.
Those physical Microsoft stores are often practically vacant.

But what would the marketing budget for a really well placed billboard be per month? What if you could walk into the billboard? Host launch parties starring famous bands, getting you into more news stories. Fans can make a pilgrimage to something tangible.

Apple stores are clearly profitable, but I wonder if "close to break even" isn't a good enough goal for brand awareness stores like these.
Not to argue, but the article does say this isn't the first time the lake has disappeared. Wikipedia also adds that "The time period between 1975 and 1992 is the longest period in recent times with a continuous existence of a water body."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Poop%C3%B3

edit: the article's title is actually, "Proba-V eyes Bolivia’s vanishing lake" which is actually decent in that it seems to be trying to describe that the lake "vanishes" from time-to-time and that Proba-V is showing some views of it.
Agreed, and so I will remain an Amazon shopper in spite of the fact that they (both the company itself and third party sellers) were by far and away the worst when it came to price inflation. Convenience is a part of the cost.
I was some of the "technical support" for Hanscom AFB when they were deploying dotProject and then the fork web2project for web-based project management. They were replacing hundreds of Microsoft Project licenses and projected to save over $200k/year at the time.

As noted in the article, the biggest things for them were being able to review security, fix bugs, and affect the roadmap. While I didn't add their requirements to the core system, I added a number of hooks and interfaces they specifically requested.

For contractual/legal reasons, they had issues around making the fixes themselves or even providing them to me but I received a lot of "highly specific explanations" to issues and approaches on resolving them.

Getting started with Hanscom's team was painful on the contractual side but excellent to work with once things were rolling.
What portion of a U.S. citizen living abroad's tax bill do you think those services represent? 1%? .01%? .001%?
Aldehydes covalently bond and crosslink the proteins and irreversibly kill all of the fixed cells. There is zero hope that this provides a solution to cryopreservation except in the slice it up and look at it under the microscope sense.
True; vocabulary isn't just about knowing words, it's about knowing the right words. That applies to playing an instrument as well, especially soloing. I'm glad I spent a half-dozen years wanting to be a shredder, because learning the speed and stamina is extremely useful later on when playing slower and more contemplative. It's back to the vocabulary thing though, in that having the choice of what to use tends to come along with having the prowess to afford the choice.
I wouldn’t place any trust in the Daily Mail whatsoever. Do you have a more reliable link?

As far as I’m aware, NASA knew that there had been a foam / ice strike on the orbiter but had no idea how bad it was. Given those circumstances, why tell the astronauts about a theoretical risk (that turned out to be very real) ?
Whew, I'm not the only one
Actually, according to the article:

> For those with a dead battery or who are not inclined to take their smartphone out of their pocket, there are a few scanners around the bookstore, which you can use to scan books and discover their prices.

People who refuse to install the Amazon app are also very unlikely to visit the Amazon store. Just get your books elsewhere.

Also your link has nothing to do with security issues in the Amazon app and is just a ranking from the EFF for how companies respond to records requests.

> Amazon, Snapchat and AT&T rank among the least trustworthy technology companies when it comes to how they handle government data requests, according to a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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> [Double taxation] has been the case in the US since the Civil War in the 19th Century

That's a fascinating detail to me, as it explains why the US, and pretty much only the US, has double taxation. I'm guessing they instituted it so Union citizens still had to pay tax even when living in the Confederacy?
Clock Skew Exists
"The three 100-m resolution Proba-V images shown here were acquired on 27 April 2014, 20 July 2015 and 22 January 2016 respectively."

"But the lake’s shallow nature, with an average depth of just 3 m, coupled with its arid highland surroundings, means that it is very sensitive to fluctuations in climate."

These quotes leave me wondering; why did they chose to take these images in vastly different times of year?
Hedge funds are in fact losing money as well: http://uk.businessinsider.com/hedge-funds-returns-in-2015-20...

The negative rates are only on central bank deposits. Loans within the finance industry are usually collateralised as well; if you had $1m of collateral you'd find it a lot easier to borrow another million.
You should capitalize the M in the title.
A quick look at rkt v1.0.0
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NASA had third and fourth options as well. Have the Columbia crew patch the hole and pray while doing what little they could to reduce stress and heating on the damaged wing during re-entry, or expedite Atlantis' next launch as a rescue mission (there would have been something like a four-day margin for launching it without skipping safety checks before Columbia ran out of consumables).
No, you are talking about three different distinct highways. They are planning to tear down the viaduct, sr-99, on the west side of the city. This proposal is for covering i-5 through the center, and you are talking about jumping off sr-520 ramps (which I believe are now gone) in the arboretum on the east edge of the city.
As a pedestrian, I have to watch out for both. Cars at least respect crosswalks for the most part after having that drilled into them. I routinely have to take action to avoid being hit by a bicyclist who thinks that red lights are a suggestion or that the signs saying no bikes on the sidewalks are just for decoration
No one denies that climates change.
The "Programming Professional", as a rule, suffers from a kind of mental disease. He is deformed, clumsy, awkward, violent, narrow, infantile, dwarfish and wretched.

These people need therapy. But instead they are encouraged and exploited.
This is one of those cases where you can study the processes, which people set up, because the structure of the outcomes invariably resembles the structure of the processes that produced them. The difference in processes here (US v USSR) is quite striking.
PZ Myers had a good take on this a few days ago -
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/01/29/how-can-you-pr...

> What I didn’t do with my experiments in aldehyde-preserved brains was claim that I was preserving all the information necessary for nervous system function. I was quite aware that I was chemically nuking all the proteins in the tissue; I was washing out most of the chemistry; I was destroying most of the physiological information to preserve a structural skeleton of what was there, so I could see the physical arrangement of the pieces. Nothing more.
Yeah, they're not going to launch a Saving Private Ryan search for every US citizen in the country.
Due to inflation, budgets must increase each year. If you don't increase the budget in line with inflation, it's a cut in practical terms.
What does TIL stand for?
Rightscale's 2016 State of the Cloud Survey
You're both right. I think the study is on what it is because that is the less obvious of the two, and the more academically interesting. Cheaters winning is rather obvious. But it's also a chicken and the egg situation. Which came first? Cheating or winning? To each their own probably. The stories of our lives...
Full-disk encryption protects against anyone who steals your laptop. However, if someone can get access to your laptop without your knowledge, and you subsequently use the laptop, they could install a hardware or software mechanism to obtain your passphrase.
In the case of Weave: encryption, multicast, fault tolerance (fully distributed through a CRDT mesh), integrates beautifully with containers (can be used as a Docker network plugin and provides out-of-the-box service discovery). More over, it's stupidly simple to use and setup (zero-conf, no kv-store required).

Full disclamer: I work at Weaveworks.
Do you have a source besides the Daily Mail? There are other ways to get astronauts back from the ISS, if they knew about the issue ahead of time.
Today I Learned - from a popular subreddit /r/todayilearned/
What about execution isolation? Any info?
One thing I see a lot of developers (new and experienced) do is attempt to get around having to really understand the language and libraries they are working with by constantly googling whatever problem they are working on at a given time and assuming there should be an example or blog post out there somewhere that will show them exactly what they need to do.

Of course, when the code they find is incorrect, outdated, or not easily applied to their specific situation, they lack the understanding to figure out what they need to do to fix it on their own, so they ask.

This of comes out in the form of a question which, to anyone who has taken the time to build such an understanding, smacks of laziness, hence all of the "RTFM" replies.

And in that case, RTFM is the absolutely the right answer. They need to slow down, read the problem code, figure out what they don't understand, and learn. Maybe they need to slow way down and learn about some of the constructs of the language they are working with. Maybe they need to read the docs for a particular library or framework to figure out what abstractions it relies on. Maybe they just need a high level view of the API so they will know what all is available to them.

Could this be communicated in a more friendly way? Sure. Is it the responsibility of the community to do that? I don't know.

tl;dr RTFM.
Looks like what Meteor team are planning to do...

Very interesting as a complete web app starter kit
They could open source their older Opera 12 (presto) and Opera Mail, just before they sell the company.
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Mathematica is actually 0-based - but with the zero index spot reserved. A list {1, 2, 3}=List[1, 2, 3] could be read as (List 1 2 3) in Lisp style; one can check if you have Mathematica that {1, 2, 3}[[0]] = List.

But I think that's neither here nor there. Whenever the index has more use than as a label, mathematics starts at zero. Modular arithmetic, polynomials, discrete fourier transformations - for that matter, any discrete approximation of continuous math - all naturally start at zero, and generate lots of -1s in one-based indexing.
No. You'd have to roll your own using nvp TransactionSearch api with BalanceAffecting transaction. Also you'd have to do currency conversions on your own
BTW - I wrote a Curator Tech Note about this a while ago: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CURATOR/TN10
At this point, Black Friday and Cyber Monday have become ritualized cultural events. There is a cult around the supposed "rock bottom prices" on these days that allegedly remove the "research" bit and so we wanted to see if people were actually rewarded by capitalizing on the sales of these particular days.
OpenID is dead, effectively.
This is no good! I am not using Opera as my main browser, but I do use it to test my webapps. Is there a way to disable auto-update from now on, surely, safely, and cleanly? My last version is going to be 35.
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Is this a parody? It must be right?

"Meteor is awesome! But after 3 years, it's starting to show it's age."

Edit: Reading more into it, this is just a starter kit and not a replacement for Meteor. You lose everything that made Meteor insanely popular, for what exactly? RethinkDB?
Fair. The real difference is how long THC hangs around. If it worked more like alcohol, I'm not sure this would be an issue.

Have two beers, wait a couple hours and it's no worry.

Have a bowl, and wait a couple days, maybe one day?

More research on potential tests is needed.
Someone told you that they offered the lowest price and you believed them? This is not a Hacker News story. Everyone ask their parents if they found the results surprising.
Well, it's not that obvious to someone who hasn't heard about this in 2012. Adding the year next to the title would definitely help people to make a decision to click on it or not.
No more than anywhere else. If you have your own domain name, you can host your own GNU social instance, or point people to your profile.
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The concept has only recently become popularized in the west, but the reality is not new that societal upbringing, reproductive sex, and mental self-image, while strongly correlated, aren't intrinsically linked.
Nice project, but wouldn't call it yet Meteor alternative. It looks more like Meteor 0.x, but done with a few different tools.

Still it doesn't solve my main problem with Meteor adoption. Right now if you would like to use Meteor you need to start from scratch using specified database. That limit adoption a lot. I would love if Meteor could be adopted more incrementally by companies (e.g. write collaboration layer to your existing app).
Det finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder.

It literally means what adrianN said.
I think what your trying to say can be more abstractly put as "the ends justify the means".

> Rules in society are also pretty stupid.

If you mean laws than no.. they are not stupid. Killing people and getting away with it is bad. And some of the "rules" in wall street if broken can have an equally horrific impact.

And that comes back to the question do the ends justify the means? Sometimes it does for sure. For Armstrong it could be argued it did.
We're providing it for others to start social networks, with the relevant user support, branding, etc.

I'm delighted that there is a general network of users, but that's not why I started it.
True! Seems pretty much the direction meteor is taking & is an interesting web app starter kit :)
Welcoming Nodal 0.7 to the World
This is far closer to mainstream JS - with the benefits that offers, eg, wide user base, maintained version of node, etc - while offering the same 'change item in browser, DOM updates, DB replicates, other clients see changes' as Meteor did.
Capable? Maybe. Willing to exert itself on behalf of US citizens in danger? Nope.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/01/american-civili...

The US evacuated government staff and contractors, but abandoned anyone else.
Few sentence in the pages made me think the same.
While too much coddling is probably not helpful, neither is being overly abrasive because "back in my day that's how we learned it".

Holding on to old teaching methods "just because" isn't the right answer, nor will it help the programming profession in the long run.
Low interest rates reduce borrowing cost. While it's debatable whether that's a wealth transfer, if it is, the transfer is from holders of capital (generally, though not always, lenders) to borrowers.

Those with assets - that is, lenders - would generally prefer a higher [risk-free rate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-free_interest_rate#Proxie...), not a lower one.w