skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The content is free because it is distributed over the public airwaves. If you distribute it in a way that does not use the public airwaves, the basis for making it free to the public disappears. Also, broadcasters couldn't care less if people cut the cable. They only reason they cared about Aereo is because they're in a bitter war with the cable companies over retransmission fees, and if Aereo can stream broadcast content for free, that could undermine broadcasters' leverage over cable companies.

The system definitely needs to be rethought. The sensible thing to do would be to simply get rid of free public broadcasting and the associated copyright exceptions. Free up the airwaves, and let broadcasters sell content directly to cable and internet companies. But as Netflix is finding out, content is king. There is little room for simple middle-men like Aereo to make money when they can't get content for free.
Immortal cells
It will be a performance issue at some point. It creates a lot of allocator & GC churn.

Part of the reason this is mitigated somewhat has to do with how the Beam VM manages GC. It's per process, which provides a few nice features. One is that processes that do a lot of "work" tend not to be long-lived, and consequently they tend not to accrete a lot of heap allocations. The share-nothing concurrency model enforces an isolation pattern on the developer, which then allows the GC to make some guaranteed assumptions about what is safe and isn't safe to reap. The combination of those to factors allows GC sweeps to be both typically small/short and also done in parallel with other scheduled running processes, so that GC doesn't block all the execution resources.

Considering the use case here though, I'd really not worry about it. The only way it'd likely bite you is if you were building a massive scale email pushing application, and you were weirdly trying to optimize for using as low-end, or as few, machines as possible to run it, and you hadn't already found yourself flagged by every mail relay as being a spammer.
Jesus Christ, at least use "black people" or "people of color" rather than "black".

You talk a lot about "the gays" too?
Any specific techniques/pointers for pumping up? It seemed to me meditation was all about relaxation, and my problem is it seems I can easily calm down but anything that would increase alertness without needing chemistry, that would be much appreciated.
No, the publisher just didn't want to publish anti-choice drek. It's 2016 now and white men like this author need to accept that women have control over their own bodies.

>I didn’t want to do the same old same superior-vision-Matrix/Termintor-style-A.I.-hates-humanity-because-they’re-better-than-us schlock.

No, you wanted to write anti-choice scare propaganda. And fuck you for trying. What's next, the machines rise up because they want lebensraum for the white race?
I am the very proud father of a 14yo girl whom I have turned into an teenaged IT guru over the years.

She learned to read at age 3 using the very well done "Cat In The Hat" desktop program, and since then I have turned her on to everything from Gmail at age 6 to Ableton at 12.

I've decided that Snapchat is where it ends for me/us last year...she needs something to be hers and her friends alone, without "Dad" poking is old-ass nose into things.

I think she really appreciates that I haven't bugged her about connecting and sharing on that platform, and I know deep down it was time.

But boy...do I sometimes miss that 6yo angel sending me cryptic "i luvu" via Gmail.
I have chosen Hipchat, solely based on the fact that I can sometimes type faster than Slack's web interface can update, causing typos. All the feel-good stuff inside the interface that wants to make me love it, just makes this worse for me, because now I am thinking "You have had time to add that?! Make it fast first! It is a text-based chat, goddammit!!!11"

Though Slack's mobile client is better.
I agree with you that it is fair to be concerned. It's also nearly impossible not to notice. I think the difference is what you do with the information and how it influences your decisions.
Genome-editing is deemed US national security threat
Streams of Gulp
>I'm also confident enough in my skills that I don't want or need anyone making exceptions for me.

Literally nothing about this has anything to do with making exceptions for PoC. At all. Whatsoever.

It's a made up narrative that I'm shocked you've fallen for.

edit: Oh right, you're a gamergater, never mind, I'll save my breath.
> I've never had a cyclist blow a red light and nearly run me down in a crosswalk.

Wait really? This happens to me several times daily in NYC. Hell, yesterday evening it happened going the wrong way on a one-way road.
This headline is editorializing (compared with the link) and kind of throwing the discussion off base, isn't it?
You're going to bug your workplace? Are you trying to get fired? Why not just quit?
Unfortunately I am abroad very often, so it's difficult to find the time to switch banks. Also, I checked the mobile apps of other banks and they are even worse.
Go is really verbose but this is really great.
It felt nice when you had to physically meet a person to exchange the latest meme. The physical vicinity adds so much quality to the social experience. I cannot talk to friends the same way over char or even the phone than in person, it just feels weird.
Their support site shows a few that seem like they would be great selling points.

For example this: http://support.yardbook.com/faq-i-want-to-measure-lot-sizes-...

And, of course, even if it were just a re-skinned CRM, having it appear to be niche specific makes it easier to sell. "You understand me and my business..."
In Germany, a "study" is often cited saying that men were better paid than women. However, peer review uncovered that the media covering this study omitted the fact that the women also worked less hours than men and thus got less money (obviously).

This however does not stop "female-rights-activists" from citing it over and over again. I'm sick of it.

I also don't like the notion that women are portraied as victims here. Most women I know don't want to go into tech-jobs because they think it's fucking boring. Live with it, people!

I know it's also due to socialization, but do we really want to change the entire society just to shoehorn exactly 50% in our employee statistics? Who benefits from this?

I know no woman who is sad because she just can't get hold in a tech job. If a woman is passionate about something, and pursues it, it will work out for her. Same with men of course.

Oh, and why don't people go berserk because we have like 96% women as educators (kindergartens, pre-schools, ...). Oh yeah, right, I know, because you can't earn as much money with that.
Because "skill" is not a well defined measure, and it often ends up meaning "people similar to me" in practise?
You're right - it's about sites that display advertising gaining a better understanding of how their revenue is affected by ad blockers. Once they know that they can have an informed discussion on what, if any, changes are needed.

I'm not sure what tools and content you're referring to though. Can you send me an email with details?
https://www.adblockanalytics.com/contact/
Ask HN: Basic corporate presence website?
What's a simple choice for someone who's technical in non-web areas but doesn't want to learn CSS and the rest of it, and certainly not about visual design, to make a minimal corporate presence website that looks "legit." Presumably some CMS and templates with graphics? Doesn't have to be completely free...
Do you really not get that VISIBILITY is the first step to change and things improving?

You think minorities are treated the same by society, law enforcement and employers?

It's all in how they asked them, especially if they were given a real choice and allowed to express their ideas/concerns.

This is why "politically correct" exists in the first place. It forces people to practice best behavior even before they realize what they are doing/saying is wrong, until they "get it". At one point it was completely okay to employ only white males. Now it's not.
In my mind mostly. I keep track of the big pieces - the university debt, the stock portfolio, the bank account balance. On the day I get paid, I take out a chunk to repay debt, and take out a chunk to move to the portfolio, and whatever I have a left, it's a game of making it last. I keep a lookout every week on my expenses and make sure I have enough to last to payday.
Supreme Court’s Blow to Emissions Efforts May Imperil Paris Climate Accord
It gives congress the power to regulate the value of cash.
I got my entrepreneurial start in the home service industry and always used: http://www.kickserv.com/

Couple of questions:

Can you explain the routing feature?

Do you have any plans for automated marketing features?
Follow-up after submitting an estimate was always a huge pain point for us.
Re: aid workers; I agree that they don't seem very selfish, but we might simply be hitting the bottom of the power continuum - because they know that they couldn't succeed/gain influence in any other endeavour, they opt at least for good feelings (that one gets when one is altruistic/ethical); or as you said, they benefit in other ways. I'm not saying that's a bad thing - there are definitely worse ways to satisfy one's emotional needs; just that it doesn't mean they wouldn't fuck people over if given a chance.

Re: clergy - what is this, I can't even... I guess this simply wasn't the best example, but I can't even begin to consider members/representatives of one of the most corrupt, deceitful, greediest institutions in the past 2000 years - the longest-running scam - to be anywhere near selfless.

Re: economists - I'm afraid my opinion of them weights heavily towards them being completely delusional; economics is such a vague "science" and everything is completely unprovable, so having a theory (which isn't correct - no theory is) is infinitely more valuable than being intellectually honest and admitting that you basically know nothing. This is apparent both in theorists (academia encourages this), as with practitioners (LTCM: win Nobel => crash the market; or the past few presidents of US FED - each "fixing" the market only to make it crash even harder). Sure, they might be well-meaning, but so were middle-age "doctors" who made leeches suck their patients blood...
Only in terms of the countries you can travel to without a visa. Go just about anywhere with a Canadian passport and they'll wave you past, almost like they're annoyed you think you might be considered a security risk.

I got a 6 month visa in the UK while laid over at Heathrow in under 10 minutes. Under "Reason for your stay in the UK" I wrote "a cigarette."
> The distributed ledger is a permanent, secure tool that makes it easier to create cost-efficient business networks without requiring a centralized point of control.

Really a fucking shame it is only business for networks.... A fish doesn't understand it is in water.
> So this bill basically tips the scales in favor of prosecutors by empowering them to pick new supporting evidence while not empowering the defense to do the same.

Actually, this bill just changes the existing warrant requirement to apply to a communication stored more than 180 days (the warrant requirement already exists.)

The argument is that one aspect of the existing warrant requirement is that it burdens the defense in certain circumstances (I don't think anyone would argue that the arrangement in general -- or this bill's changes -- simply favors the prosecution; without the warrant requirement, while the defense might have more access to certain evidence once a trial started, police and prosecutors would have -- and do have, now, for communications outside the time limit of the existing rule -- more ability to conduct arbitrary fishing expeditions without probable cause before a trial started.)

I would think those whose concern is primarily with the rights of the criminally accused would like the warrant requirement for police investigations but would want some provision for criminal defendants to get access to communications that might be exculpatory evidence, even if it has similar requirements (probable cause showing) to a warrant that would be sought by police/prosecutors.
The most damning thing about Snapchat:

ME: I’ve seen how fast you do these responses… How are you able to take in all that information so quickly?

BROOKE: I don’t really see what they send. I tap through so fast. It’s rapid fire.

I closed the tab at that moment. That alone proved Snapchat has no relevancy to anyone, and is a waste of time and money.
>I don't like appeals to "common sense" in political matters

All things must often appeal to common sense regardless of the politics behind the issue. Males have penises and females don't, does a scientific study need to be conducted to prove this point? No. Because if we needed a scientific study for every possible issue without regard to common sense we would make zero progress on any topic.
Of course. :)

I don't mean to imply you weren't working hard or that these bugs were unusual for any complex project. I'm just getting the impression that the current version of RethinkDB you end up scaling like this if you were attempting to be safe:

1) Get to 5-9 Nodes

2) Vertically scale this cluster.

3) Shard via adding additional clusters [e.g. 5 Clusters of 7 Nodes] since ~30 nodes for certain workloads you run into performance issues.
The parser and some lowering passes are still written in femtolisp. There has been some discussion of switching to the native JuliaParser package [1]. However, JuliaParser doesn't implement the fairly tricky lowering passes that the femtolisp parser does. I personally would prefer to have the parser in Julia, but at this point the most pressing issue with parsing and lowering is speed – so it's possible that the parsing and lowering will be converted to C instead.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaParser.jl
One someone paid to have promoted. Or is a part of a much larger marketing/branding deal.
To which I'd say, "And?"

The fact that you say something controversial doesn't change the relationship between an author and a publisher from "I'll publish your book if I think it's good and will sell" into "I'll publish your book absolutely because it makes a political stand".

He's free to find another publisher, or as in this case, self-publish. This seems about as clear a case of "move along, nothing to see here" as the internet is capable of providing.
As much as this isn't an atttempt to "ban" the book it also isn't an attempt to "censor" the book. It's simply a publisher saying 'We don't want to publish this book in this form". And they could say that for any reason, including a political one.

Now, he may have signed a contract with this publisher that has the literary equivalent to a non-compete in it ( "You can only publish through us" ), but that's on him.
It's idiotic. You're not bringing in any major differentiation. Your idea will be implemented by your competitors in less than a week and you will have no competitive advantage and way less clients.

You've been through YC? How the hell did you graduate? Because you just did mistake number 4: http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
Justin Kan made a post a month ago on the virtues of Snapchat's complexity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10859860

I'll echo the comment I made there that I am concerned that the teenage-focus will be the lesson startups take away from Snapchat, and that might lead to usability regression for apps as a whole.
I do think there is a lot of BS going on here (unsubstantiated medical claims). However, being able to engage a "full strength" placebo effect when the patient knows that it is just a placebo effect would be quite helpful. The experiment design to prove whether or not that is happening would have to be quite clever (multiple categories of placebo-unknown vs placebo-known vs meds). A few anecdotes about people being saved by magic juice definitely doesn't prove it. We know things like big bright pills are better at inducing placebo and placebo is stronger when the patient believes it will work. If we could consistently trigger a full and strong placebo effect without any medicine then it would be a useful and helpful first line of treatment for non-critical issues. Interesting indeed.
Because you can't buy $1 billion in individual cash saving accounts; there isn't a supply of them and a bank won't sell them to you. When you have very large sums your options of what you can buy and kind of the returns you can expect change. A small investor with $10k can experience greater volatility in their returns (good and poor), and can just go ahead and buy Apple shares without the FT writing an article about it.

Also, the base rate is only really encountered directly by Banks that have accounts with central, in the case of the US, or regional central banks. A normal company and even very large non-bank firms don't typically have accounts with the central bank. For consumers and most businesses the interest rate set by the fed is more of a benchmark that ends up being used to help calculate the returns of other products.
College Faculties Have a Serious Diversity Problem
This article gives us one passionate side of the situation. It would be nice to be a fly on the wall during the lead up conversations between HarperCollins and Mr. Cole's agent prior to the final decision being made.

Perhaps the story is as straight forward as Mr. Cole represented it; that HarperCollins declined to publish the novel because of the nature of the AI conflict described. Personally, it strikes me as oddly simplistic, and lacking in other context, given the success that Mr. Cole's previous work brought the publisher.
> Should we then provide the defense access to the prosecution's evidence (and vice-versa)?

The issue goes beyond that, to providing the defense comparable ability to collect evidence to the prosecution. Giving the defense access to prosecution evidence doesn't help if the prosecution deliberately does not collect evidence that it believes would be exculpatory and the defense doesn't have comparable means to compel access to potential evidence.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to be eighth book
Frankly, this is wilfully ignorant. To suggest that the production of media is devoid of political or ideological interest beyond ad dollars is, I think, stretching the boundary of believability to a breaking point.
That video was just a mock of our product. If you would like to see the results of the performance of the models, have a look at the slides we made for the project (at the bottom of the post). The best performance we got was about 0.7 r.
> That alone proved Snapchat has no relevancy to anyone, and is a waste of time and money.

I think our definitions of 'proof' differ greatly.
Then use your logo and slogan to indicate something else other than DNA.
RNPM is pretty good, but it doesn't work with some libraries that require slightly unique initialization steps or paths. I imagine this will eventually lead to some kind of postinstall hook in the module packages, which will be picked up by RNPM.
I'm not sure it is, since both the title and the story highlight the same detail. What do you suggest as a better title?
Take a step back, man. This is a very dark, negative path you're contemplating. It doesn't make you a bad person to have these kinds of thoughts (it's part of our neurobiology, basically). But please don't act on them.

Rather, accept the fact that you're basically being blackballed (look up the term if you're not familiar with it), and that these are the preliminary signs that you're about to be fired.

Whether you deserve it (or even partially deserve it) or not doesn't matter (very much) at this stage. These things happen. What does matter is that you accept the rejection gracefully rather than look for ways to fight against it. Which (if they're of the form you're contemplating) might very well backfire.
Yeah, capitalism plays a big role as well. The focus on money without caring about morals or responsibilities seems to also play a role in the breaking up of the family unit, which in turn is producing more "liberal/open minded" likes.

I wonder if anybody stopped to think about how much "gender dysphoria" was an issue in previous societies. It seems to be purely a modern mental illness. I'm not talking about actual hormonal and physical issues such as hermaphroditism, that's something else.
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EXCSRESNS

There is no liquidity problem in the United States. Bank & large corporate balance sheets are flush with cash. There is very much a velocity problem.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2V

The velocity problem is the intersection of demographic changes (wealth holders are old), corporate tax policies (money is sequestered) and pervasive fear over global economic stability (china).

Negative interest rates cannot change any of these factors, and I question if negative interest rates will force the flow of significant funds into commodities, thus reversing the current deflationary spiral.

If the USGOV wants inflation create it the old fashioned way... incentivize risk taking.
Hmm I'm pretty sure that 'hoped' in this case means something like: "Well, in a normal case we would have recommended 12 doses of the medicine in order to get a full recovery."

This is not like testing stuff with a computer program, you can not reset the human to a known state and replicate the experiment all over again.

Following your logic, even all vaccines are a lie, how can we know that the vaccines that we take every year are doing anything?
Recompose: A React utility belt for function components and HOC
“I want to respond to Marc Andreessen's comments about India”
I didn't say it was sinister, I just said that we shouldn't use the existence of this article as a barometer of the problems in the industry.

> 'will we get advertising revenue from our target demographic by publishing this?'

I agree this is the most likely agenda. But it's not the agenda I want to use to determine what to do in this industry.
> I don't think there should be quotas but the tech industry demographics do not come anywhere close to tracking with our country's demographics.

Every industry ranging from Construction to Accountants has gender/ethnicity disparity.
Well, sure. It's pretty impossible to be completely unbiased.

But the parent of my comment couched the phrase as if there's some dark cabal pushing some evil agenda. It reeked of a cis-gendered cis-sexual white male privilege soaked persecution complex.
So basically, it's nothing they won't be able to do in less than a week themselves.
I agree. Total beginners do deserve more patience and more explicit instruction. Novice and Intermediate programmers who have learned the basics and are looking to learn more are the ones who really need the practice in "learning how to find your own answer".
i couldnt agree with this more. i think most things related to diversity are currently being approached with far to much emphasis on short term and not nearly enough on the long term.
I don't believe I said anything is "totally fine", you're imagining things.
Even worse... a huge portion of loans to small businesses are made through secondary lenders charging 10-28% on the money. This debt burden increases default risk at the same time as it decreases additional investment.
Great advice.

I follow very few people I know in real life because they aren't interesting on Twitter. I don't feel bad about that — if you don't like what I tweet, you should unfollow me and we can still be real-life friends.
Not trying to be snarky, honestly. But, this is fiction. Wouldn't you expect a fair amount of viewpoints you didn't agree with to be in a work of fiction? Even outrageous viewpoints?

I do agree that publishers have the latitude to decide what they publish, but it seems odd to complain about fictional viewpoints.