skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it discourage long-time owners from selling, thereby limiting supply and raising prices?
I ported my number out of Google Voice a couple of years ago. Some things to keep in mind with GV:

* Your only form of "support", even when paying to port out a number, is a forum staffed entirely with volunteers. If you're actually using GV it's useful to read through here to see the trainwreck: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/voice

* As the parent mentioned, the GV Blog is barren.

* You're better off porting out your number now given this support situation.
That's the awesome thing about cryonics. It's like forward time travel, an ambulance ride to the future. We have found organisms almost perfectly preserved for thousands of years in far worse conditions, including seeds that were able to grow and living viruses and bacteria. As long as the synapses that make you you are preserved, then a sufficient level of technology could revive you.

Whenever cryonics comes up on HN there is usually a lot of negative comments. It seems "weird" and that really repels people. That was my first reaction to it. As a kid I saw a photo of a cryonics facility in some magazine. A bunch of metal tubes with frozen dead bodies inside. I thought it was really creepy and disturbing. Pictures of thawing rabbit brains aren't exactly enticing.
From criticisms I've read of freezing a brain by infusing it with aldehyde, it destroys things necessary for brain function, such that it will be impossible to bring a brain frozen this way back in the future.

P.Z. Myers^1 has said (http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/01/29/how-can-yo...):

>I was fixing zebrafish brains with a cocktail of acrolein, glutaraldehyde, and paraformaldehyde in the 1980s, trying to capture detailed images of synapses in the spinal cord. It worked pretty well, too. They know what they are getting out of this: an aldehyde-preserved brain.

>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.

And later:

>The pattern of synaptic connections is an essential part of the story, but it is not sufficient. A simple counterexample: consider the effect of MAO inhibitors and various antidepressants. They modulate the activity of the brain by affecting the intercellular concentration of neurotransmitters. ...

> These things are all destroyed by fixation. The information is no longer there.

> If this organization is so confident that they have preserved all the necessary information, I’d like to know why they’re playing around with just the first step of the problem, doing so in impractically complex organisms, and not working on the necessary step of recovering that information. That’s the real test.

> Take a simpler organism, like a fruit fly or a nematode. Kill it, fix it, freeze it, vitrify it. That should be trivial at their tiny scale. Then rebuild a fly brain from the extracted information and show me that it still knows how to walk, fly, eat, court, and mate.

It's reasonably convincing

[1] I know he's considered somewhat controversial, but he's a biologist here speaking a sub-topic in biology he's worked in. Even if you don't like him, this can't be dismissed out of hand.
Gruber Interviews Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi of Apple
Which wouldn't be so bad if they didn't form the majority (or at least appear-to, judging by the net-effect of everyone interacting in the public-sphere).
Ok, we changed the title to incorporate that.
> See, I'm inclined to believe it. If for no other reason than it just seems intuitive. Women who go into technology know it's an uphill battle.

Or at least they've been told repeatedly that it's an uphill battle, by news media and activists with an ideology to push and clicks to farm.
Unfortunately, the provincial/foreign governments refuse to even study the problem. So all we get is anecdotes and investigatory journalism[1], which do not make for good data points.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/investigations/the-real-...
HN should add some sort of mechanism where the community could vote on what articles it deems interesting/appropriate!
"It'll be there for years."

No, not if a good person like yourself does the good work that needs to be done.

Thank you in advance for being a decent person that pitches in anonymously to help the community in which they live.
Really? At least where I live (NYC), I've heard that lots of places will no longer accept certain items, like books. I'd imagine CDs won't be accepted much longer either.

But, not to (just) be pedantic, there's a real cost in my just searching for an organization to accept my CDs!

If you know of an organization that will accept them then let me know. Otherwise, I don't feel bad about throwing them away. I'm mildly confident some species of bacteria or fungi will digest all of the CDs materials eventually.
I was a Picasa user for several years and I really liked it, but after Google Photos was announced and I saw the handwriting on the wall and completely switched (with much consternation) to Google Photos and have had a great experience. I uploaded over 17,000 to the Google-free tier and applaud all the automation they have built around auto-panorama-stitching, auto-animations, auto-face-tagging, auto-object, and auto-location. I've found that I share my photos much more now, and I also really enjoy having a single stream for my DLSR and smartphone photos (my workflow is to backup uncompressed DSLR photos then upload to Google.)

Picasa served me well, but I've moved on as well.
The definition of "art" is not "hung in a museum". The people who hang art in museums would tell you that. So the real question isn't whether video games are art, but whether they can address the kinds of questions addressed by other forms of modern art (and do any do that well enough to be considered for inclusion in modern art museums, alongside other works of concept and technique).

This is aggravated by the mutual contempt between the "art" and "engineering" camps, with each finding reasons to look down on the other.
The Apple Watch Guide for a More Useful Smartwatch
>>> but I can only guess Asian (since Canadian isn't a race!)

That's a perfect example. You've assumed that I meant "race" as meaning there where different races in either country. I mean to speak about the concept of race generally. American's are obsessed with race. It is part of nearly every discussion and aspect of life. In Canada it isn't such a big deal. You don't hear Canadian politicians ever speak of wining "the black vote" or caring that someone is "the first jewish person to win a primary." As a canadian I find such phrases impolite, almost difficult to type.

Look at the new defense minister. If he was named to head the US DOD FoxNews would scream 24/7. In Canada, barely anyone noticed. Those that did did so only because the guy looks like the toughest defense minister on the planet atm.

http://www.readoo.in/2015/11/meet-canadas-new-badass-defence...
Whenever I look at hong kong on google earth, I see a lot of empty green space that tall buildings could be built on. I also see an area in the north that isn't really dense, large open sports areas and green areas on the south island. HK the territory seems to be much larger than HK the city and it smells suspicious that prices are high but land is not being used.

And don't say, we need parks! I'm fairly certain that large amounts of that parkland is unused because you need to hike in pretty deep to enjoy it. And highrises can be built on mountains.
I'm not opposed to a dedicated scrum master, but the issue I have is that I have yet to meet one who ever defends the developers' right to have the agile/scrum process respected. Really, they just wind up being another manager that happens to spend a lot of time in Jira. I've butt heads a lot with scrum people who bend over and say "yes" to every single (unreasonable) demand thrown at them from the business side. :'(
For very real reasons, it's different in Vancouver than in the Bay Area, which some of the comments touch on.

Not that you're wrong -- we bought in the bay area. Our offer was the best of 13, and narrowly beat out an all-cash offer. Of course, you have to have the right seller to be willing to "risk" selling it to normal people who have to borrow to buy, vs the sure thing of an all cash offer.

Guy across the street bid on tons of properties before buying. I think they had the best of 34 (!) offers. RWC.
If you only look within a given occupation, sure, the disparity isn’t as wide, but that fails to answer some important questions: why do the choices that women (or any given group) make result in them being paid less overall? Should they essentially be punished for those choices, particularly when you consider the power that money buys? Are some of the occupations that are dominated by women undervalued and underpaid, such as teaching and nursing? Consider watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV9zBAotFeo
-22 celsius in a tiny home
Most countries dont have such high property taxes that the USA does. In London I paid $2500 a year in council tax and thought that was a lot of money, even though that was about 0.25%. Meanwhile NYC suburbs I'm now paying that every two months.
this is to learn rather than building an entire project. And I really advise you to try it more as you learn.

Also, are you on OSX? I never use Ctrl + → but rather emacs shortcuts like option + f, option + b, ...
I don't think there is a problem with the way bitcoin works. The majority of miners, i.e. the people who actually have invested the money to run the network, decide what software to run, and therefore what bitcoin is.

Bitcoin depends entirely on the self-interest of the involved parties to not destroy the system they have invested so much in. That's how much of the real world works too.
Then it's not indefinite preservation :)
Jonathan Blow is currently doing an AMA on reddit right now https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45fu74/i_am_jonathan_...
Here's a recent article from The Atlantic:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/whats-re...
Hey all—OP here.

I'm working on developing Cardiogram, the Apple Watch app from which this data is derived, and working with UCSF cardiology doing machine learning on heart rate data.

Feel free to ask any questions here!
Employees React to News 1,400 Jobs Are Leaving the Country
Please. Safari is the IE6 of 2016.
It's not possible to know attention is unwanted until after it's given. Sometimes such attention is wanted.

I know at least two women who sometimes complain about unwanted attention from men at tech conferences and similar circumstances. On the other hand, they both slept with me within a few hours of meeting me under the exact same circumstances as a result of exactly the same type of attention. They just happened to find me attractive but other folks unattractive. This doesn't make the unattractive folks hitting on them sexist villains. It just makes me a guy blessed with virtues like being tall and having a symmetric face.

The fact that women receive more attention is solely proportional to the convention that men must approach women. Feel free to try to change that - I'm sure nerds with approach anxiety everywhere will thank you if you succeed.

Attention, wanted or unwanted, is of course always proportional to how desirable a person is. That's the cost of being beautiful. Similarly, being a hot commodity in the job market has some costs like unwanted recruiter attention, in addition to benefits like six figure salaries.

Is it really a worthwhile use of our time and attention to make life marginally better for people who are already at the top of the heap? (Not that you've actually provided any mechanism for separating wanted and unwanted attention.) Why not focus your time and attention on the folks who are really suffering - e.g., low skill workers who are barred from working in the US, or unattractive men who get laid once a year at best? Why is increasing social inequality such a priority of yours?
That is a really bad way to solve the issue, since smaller pieces of software may not need further development.
Analog systems decay even at low temperatures.
It would, and it does.
Nutritional supplements for anxiety and related disorders: systematic review
Google photos doesn't have a desktop app. Being able to sort pics on a desktop is just as important, if not moreso, as being able to sort pics on the web. Not everything needs to be, nor should be, a pure webapp.
Naaahh, those OBJECTIVE TRUTHFUL REAL Vulcans have anecdotal evidence to accuse "bullshit PC research". I would like to challenge the GP to post THREE pieces of research published in a journal that you would otherwise consider prestigious, to prove your point.

TO GP: There may be /are persons who argue that, of course. Don't pretend to be an 'objective'/impartial judge yourself.
I do not have any problems with Twitter's actions in the New Yorker article. I don't find "slippery slope" arguments persuasive when there is real harassment being committed right now. I don't think the wikipedia link is relevant to this conversation; it seems to be about state censorship. The "Controversy" section as it's written now is obviously not NPOV and cites no sources.
Like @zo1 said, we don't really know the real landscape either. Just think of how little it takes to silence someone like Marc Andreessen. Now think of all the commentary people in tech don't say, especially on social issues, because the online masses with pitchforks will be after you.

Unfortunately that's the way it is for a lot of people after a certain point. The only counter example of this in tech I can think of is David Heinemeier Hansson.
> It's like saying one should be free to shout "FIRE!" in a cinema just so that he can feel happy with himself

But the difference in media and consequences matter. When the consequences involve a stampede of people, you best believe it's a different situation than if the consequences amounted to revving up insecure guys.

> Wearing clothes is a social act, not a personal one.

It's both. Until society tells you how you have to dress all the time, then there's a social component and a personal one.
Thanks. We changed the URL from https://ethcore.io/press.html to what seems to be a better starting point.
Galatea is great. In general there are a lot of great works in Interactive Fiction. "Shade" by Andrew Plotkin comes to mind.
I feel like I'm missing something here... Is it not legal to run an investment management company as a non-profit? Likewise, is it not legal for the non-profit arm of Vanguard to mange its own investment as an integrated part of its organization?

At what point do these legal distinctions begin to take effect? If a friend and I pool resources and purchase some stock, then later sell it at a profit and split the trading fees, did we somehow owe unpaid tax?

It seems like this is a tax against vertical integration in financial services, which I'm not sure I understand the need for...
But I am sure you paid more in income taxes in London. Which policy do you prefer? In my opinion taxing wealth is always a better idea than taxing income..
The Gershad app will help you avoid Iran's morality police
This contains the massive assumption, which is repeated throughout every economic textbook I've ever seen, that staying at home taking care of kids doesn't count as labor or economic activity. The free labor donated to the economy by stay at home moms and dads would throw off everyone's equations if they ever bothered to count it.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wage-gap-myth-that-wont-die-...
I live in a municipality that does not recycle aluminum or any other metal at all. They only take plastic, glass, and paper.
One of the reasons I had heard for some people wanting it is that some local politicians had figured out that they could manipulate housing valuations to increase their tax revenue. It's not in the list on Wikipedia and I'm not sure of the validity of it all as I'm not aware of what the practices actually are in California; but I recall reading about it back when Arnold first ran for governor.
"Is burning trash better* than a landfill? Honestly asking"

I don't know a lot about this, but I do know that the nordic countries all incinerate their trash, and do so with scrubbers/filters that negate the pollution coming out of the incinerator.

Word on the street is that the nordic countries do everything better than we do and are the bright shining example for all things urban progressivism ... so ... I guess it's the right thing to be doing :)
> 3. for some wealthy foreign investors, an asset that's not at risk of being seized by a corrupt government.

I think it's far more often the opposite; wealthy Russian oligarchs and corrupt CCP members trying to dodge economic sanctions and Xi Jinping's corruption crackdown by stashing their cash and children safely away from their home countries.
The west end is the west part of downtown. You are talking about the west side, and in fact, not even the west side, but west of Alma, which is waaaay out there. Super west side.

This 'academic case study' you linked to is cited over and over however, no one really looks at the actual data in it, namely where the homes are. It's literally a tiny pocket, which has the most expensive homes in the whole city, so yes, it's primarily Asian buyers. Not that surprising.

Don't get me wrong - there is a real problem here but that study is repurposed over and over to show the extent of the problem and it's very misleading.
>Because most people of above-average intelligence go through life on the normal path, they just do it faster or better.

More intelligent people may be less likely to learn how to work hard as a child. They learn that life is easy, and you can succeed without trying. When they get to something hard enough to require trying, they think they aren't smart enough to do it.
What LinkedIn CEO said to employees after stock plunge
Is the choice of the type of work done being made by employers or by women?

(Asking sincerely, not as critique.)
Exactly. Give them the tools and they'll censor whatever the fashion of the day calls offensive.
I agree that they haven't "taken off," but we do still have them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey

Helicopters are expensive to operate and maintain. It's hard to keep something hovering.
Plot twist: most of the Bay Area is a ghost town, culturally.
Legally, you own your number, and have the right to transfer it. This should still apply if it shuts down.

IANAL, but see https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/keeping-your-telephone-...
No, the miners don't decide what Bitcoin is. If a miner produces an invalid block, other Bitcoin nodes will reject it.

It's true that the recent hard fork proposals have keyed off miner voting, but they wouldn't have to - they could just activate at a certain time, block height, strawpoll vote API, or whatever.
Monthly subscriptions for your monthly services . . .

Setup your payments with Stripe so they are recurring subscriptions . . . this will keep them paid on time.

I expect most clients will just signup so they don't have to handle your invoices.

I would start getting your slow to pay clients signed up first but roll this out to all clients. If a client is shying away from signing up offer them a discount to get on subscription payment.

For slow/non-paying clients . . . not on subscription . . . a friendly email reminder that invoice are due upon receipt or 30 days net (spell out terms on invoice). After 30 days we will stop providing services till invoices are caught up.

Good luck.
I still don't know how to use the Internet without Google Reader :/
The whole Google Photo infrastructure has other weirdnesses. Photos/images that I share with Hangouts don't show up in Google Photos. Previously I could remove them with Google+ Photos, but since that was shut down, I used Picasa web albums to remove Hangouts images.

Another interesting thing that I noticed is that some photos are not added to Google Drive if you upload them to Google Photos and have the Google Drive functionality enabled. Turns out it's exactly the photos that I already shared with Hangouts.

Their whole photo story is a mess.
There's a desktop uploader that you might be able to point at the picasa folder, or just throw pics at it and then organize on the web.
Try DigiKam - it's open source and its photo management features work very well.

> Does anyone have a web or desktop alternative that supports tagging on individual and multiple photos?

DigiKam!
In my experience, lesbians may also exhibit more assertive traits in demanding fields similar to their male counterparts.

Meaning that, perhaps, they are less likely to be taken more advantage of than their hetero counterparts only because of the innate disposition dynamic they create in dealing with others.

To reiterate, lesbians, who are in high-functioning/demanding positions seem to be more willing/capable of standing up for them selves in negotiations in such a way that they can (apparently provenly) produce better results for themselves.

TL;DR: assertive type-a behavior has its merits in negotiations, regardless of gender.
Eh, I was until Feedly came along. It is really is just as good.
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Men-Earn-More-Startling/dp/0814472...
The constitutional right to freedom of speech applies to public (government) institutions, not to private (non-government) institutions like Twitter. Twitter is exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech to disallow certain kinds of content on their platform. There is no violation of anyone's constitutional freedom of speech.

If you think it's a poor business decision, that's your call, and time will tell. But it has precisely nothing to do with "freedom of speech."
Holding stocks in a mutual fund is not tax exempt. You pay taxes on dividends and I think also you pay as the turnover produces net profits. You also pay capital gains on shares you sell. Eventually it all gets taxed
A 4-bedroom house bought in the 70s is far more affordable than a 1-bedroom condo bought today, which creates a situation where no one can afford to move out of their homes. It's a massive tax benefit for themselves, their children, and grandchildren, that instantly and irrevocably goes away when they sell the house. No matter how high the market drives prices there is little incentive to sell.

I don't know how much this has to do with the shortage of supply in the bay area but I'd be very surprised if it has "nothing to do" with it.
If we want our countries to have the same tax revenue, then every time we reduce the tax on something we also need to rise the tax on something else. So the taxes you will save will be paid by someone (most likely yourself) somewhere else.

So making something tax free/reduce taxes is more like a subsidy. By reducing taxes on basic amenities like food you're subsidizing the poor, as more of their money will be spent on basic things. When reducing taxes on something else, then you're essentially subsidizing that thing. It makes sense to subsidize internet access if you want to temporarily give a boost in adoption. But if you make that tax free status perpetual then you're saying that this is more important than everything else that doesn't get the tax free status.
Is this not available to view signed out? https://gitlab.com/explore if not I think that's something Gitlab should make visible to anyone. But the problem here isn't that Gitlab lacks this it's that no one is using it to make the explore page interesting.
No idea what you mean, sorry. I'm just using Github's automatically generated web pages, so if there's a problem there it's probably a Github issue.