skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GenerateData is great when it comes to dummy databases.

URL: http://www.generatedata.com/
Source: https://github.com/benkeen/generatedata
There's always the good old fashioned Northwind DB from Microsoft: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143221(v=sql.1...
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No, I don't, actually! (I'm a writer). I have a friend at the company though, so you're right - I follow and support their news. So yes, I'm totally biased, but I'm also a big believer in what they do. Will add a disclaimer to my comment.
They are in the process of constructing what will be the new tallest building in the city (their headquarters is the current King of Towers here), with the intent that it will become the largest tech campus in the Northeast.

Comcast kinda wants to position Philly as the East Coast's answer to Silicon Valley. They don't have the talent for such vision -- yet -- but they do have an enormous pile of resources and a near-monopoly position in their market, so...
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Our team threw this together in a couple weekends when we were test driving react native: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/emergency-kittens-adorable/i...

The ability to reuse code is very real, even sharing a lot with a web react app since most state/business logic is in some flux implementation.

The pain points (documentation, build process, etc.) are real, too, but things I can forgive for now due to its newness and its very strong foundation.
In news today, the SIGINT branch of the United States government collected signals intelligence on a key public official in another country; in particular, it did this at a moment of crisis, allowing the United States government to have an edge of knowledge in charting its policies.
look nice

couple of questions

- do you plan to make it work with something like Paypal API ?

- maybe other language than English ?

look promising anyway
I've used Mailplane for years - http://mailplaneapp.com

Yes, it is "just" a wrapper, but it's nice having Mail and Calendar in a separate dedicated app. I can restart my browser without impacting my mail, and the integration with the desktop (e.g. mailto: links just work, I can use quicklook on attachments, better drag and drop support, etc.) make it worthwhile.
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"This is true, in no small part, because the big three have cleverly extended the lives of their patents, making incremental “improvements” to their insulin."

Possibly dumb question: If the improvements really are that minor, what's stopping other companies from using the original, "unimproved" formulation in a generic? How would disallowing the "improved" patents change the situation?
This is true, but I recently switched to DDG as my primary search engine and have found that I can just add !g to any programming related queries (it redirects to Google). Best of both worlds, in my case.
Yes, all of the above. This wasn't so bad when our reach was less, but today with Siri-like things being built into Barbie dolls it seems we should be spending more time thinking deeply before we chase that dollar, eh?

(P.S. I'm a fan of your Earley Parser Explained post. Kudos, great job!)
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The problem is that the "bad" kind of magic the author describes (opaque, complex interfaces that don't follow any logic) are unavoidable. In the past, you simply couldn't produce these behemoths, so people built elegant simple things. Now you can produce Microsoft Excel, or Adobe Photoshop. Once you start building real world products and start adding all the features that people need, things get messy. I've been in the situation where adding certain features would make the code very messy and would break the logic of the interface, and argued against adding them, but the people who worked with users insisted that these features were needed. And I agreed in the end, users really did need these features.

I think the only thing that has a chance to tame the complexity of software is better languages, like Haskell and beyond.
VIM cheatsheet! Sweet..
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duckduckgo simply gets better everytime and I've made it my default search engine. And like someone mentioned, if I find the results inadequate, I just !g it.
Agreed, it'd be worth trying with a set-top box of some variety where almost no data of consequence is being shared other than the aforementioned services but I'd be too wary of phishing for anything other than the most minimal of usage.
Your comment is too short for me to understand your point. What do you mean? (in particular "this issue" refers to what? which viewpoint is irresponsible? and why?)
I'm a graduate student in Environmental Fluid Dynamics and I deal with a lot of environmental sensors. The temperature sensors on phones are pretty accurate, but they're quite sensitive to small changes. This means that nradov's original statement is correct: Body heat and cell phone usage are absolutely going to affect the temperature sensor. For example, Sensirion makes a high quality temperature/relative humidity sensor and they recommend the PCB have cutouts around the sensor to offer proper ventilation and minimize heat transfer from surrounding components [1]. On the iPhone 6s, the pressure/temperature sensor is on an edge, but it's also right next to the NAND flash chip, so I'm not quite sure what the heating effects would be.

I can't answer much to your second question but I imagine it's easier in colder environments, especially if the phone is not in a pocket. In addition, here's a publication that claims to be able to get useful signals from noisy data, so I don't know if I would say the measurements are useless [2].

[1] Fig. 10 in https://www.sensirion.com/fileadmin/user_upload/customers/se...

[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50786/full
"I'm assuming that's what you're here - for knowledge - otherwise, why are you here?"

To look cool to other developers by shitting all over something.
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Things I wish I would have listened to/learned better early on.

1. Don't overthink the problem.

2. Don't try to engineer for the unknown, work with what you know and what is specified. You can't plan for anything else, no matter how good you think you are. As stuff pops up, address it then. Be brutally clear about this to your employer/client.

3. Nothing beats experience, but execution. Even if you have a ton of experience, but don't execute it doesn't matter. In fact, experience sometimes cripples people into not executing quick enough, usually because they are trying to think through things too much. Basically, don't let your brain get in the way.

4. What zerodefex said is really pretty accurate. What a hacker would produce is a lot like what you produce when you have some experience but aren't trying to impress anyone or think through all possibilities.

5. Done is better then perfect.
Wish they had nano
We've suggested people try saying "Duck it", but admittedly it's not in popular use just yet...
haha I'm a huge fan of the vulcan salute icon!
> Instead, it almost always is shorthand for a republic with representative government.

Actually, it most often representative democracy, which may be a republic, but may just as easily be, say, a constitutional monarchy.
The "shruggie" Instant Answer has been helpful with the rise of Slack et al.
They've hit that sweet spot on the controversy spectrum where you could pretty much say anything about Zenefits and have it be believable. The WSJ article makes it sound like being a teacher in a rough and tumble high school.
Now at Grade 4 ("Significant stress period"), associated with greater than 50% chance of a "Systemic Stress Episode" according to [1]. Previous events: LTCM rescue, Bear Sterns collapse and Lehman Brothers failure.

[1] https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publication...
> An FRS radio and a Garmin Etrex cost about the same, but are vastly better suited to the task.

That's what I was about to post...like why am I paying for a WHOLE NEW DEVICE?
This is really interesting stuff. How are you guys managing that scale of streaming data? Some kind of Kafka based stack?
> This requires a rather different set of skills - instead of being skilled in stochastic calculus, partial differential equations and numerical methods, the quant trader is skilled in statistics, data analysis, optimisation and machine learning.

Although I'm not a quant and do not even directly work in the finance industry, my experience working as part of a machine learning outfit definitely corroborates this. Data Science may be a hard term to truly define (it's quite broad, particularly when you start applying it in the real world) -- but the general skill set is definitely seeping into computer software/engineering roles. I'm not sure how it will go in the future (there are many viewpoints on this) but I wouldn't be surprised for this trend to continue.
Coder * (self taught) + MBA * (human communication skills) = somebody elses money :)
Yeah I sort of thought that's its legitimate purpose (as opposed to domestic surveillance).
> If the improvements really are that minor, what's stopping other companies from using the original, "unimproved" formulation in a generic?

The fact that doctors won't prescribe the unimproved formulation when the improved one is available.
Ooh, thank you! This looks promising, I'll check it out!
Nothing much. FDA regulations are a major hurdle though, and means you'd need to sell a pretty high volume to break even, but nothing insane.

Problem: You set up shop, you make up a big batch of generic insulin and then...you don't sell any, because doctors aren't prescribing it. Why would they? Most probably haven't heard of it, and the ones who have will also know (correctly) that the patented improvements may be minor improvements, but they are improvements. All you've got to compete on is cost, but the doctors aren't paying the cost. Nor are the majority of their customers; they have insurance. The minority who are paying the cost directly would probably prefer a cheaper option, but that would require them to hear of it, and it's not clear there's enough of them to cover your overheads even if they did hear of it, and your generic drug margins don't cover the cost of the massive marketing campaign you'd need; you're not selling Viagra here.

Your success will rely on getting the big insurers to stop covering the better forms of insulin, or at least stop covering it in the general case. Which they absolutely should do! And the second one of them tries the "insulin cartel" will do a little lobbying, and some patient groups will express outrage, and a congressman will start talking about hearings, and the NYT will run an nominally balanced news piece about insurance company greed forcing diabetics onto archaic, inferior forms of insulin, and the insurance company will give up, because hell, they just pass the costs on in the form of premiums; it's no skin off their nose.

And you'll go under. And the worst part is, there's no big conspiracy or villain. The system is just incredibly screwed up.
Spying on other governments is the NSA's job. The problem is when it starts spying on ordinary citizens.
Does anyone know if this is what Chromixium uses?
WikiLeaks – NSA Targets World Leaders for US Geopolitical Interests: Italy
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Latest Wikileaks docs: Irish citizen working for the UN was targeted by the NSA
No offense taken. Idealist me thinks that Wall Street should invest in those companies they believe in and wish to assist in achieving their business goals. As an exchange, the investor shares in the profits and enjoys the satisfaction that they directly and indirectly brought prosperity to themselves and others.

If it is just about agnostic profit over assisting business expansion and creation than Wall Street is really is a casino than a market.

I would never knowingly invest in a tobacco company or an arms maker. (I am long the S&P 500) Some might feel okay with it since they are smokers and appreciate a strong defense but who is okay with a computer crashing a market becasue it was profitable?
WikiLeaks – NSA Targeting on United Nations
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You're not going to get 23 miles or anything close to it with the FRS 500mW.
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> Spying on other governments is the NSA's job.

Nevertheless, specific instances of spying on allied governments is often irritating to the ally involved, and their citizenry.

US citizens are probably less upset about foreign surveillance by the NSA (even if it is directed at allies), OTOH, US citizens aren't the entire audience for news.
Just included him!
So while I appreciate some peoples' notions of "living Constitution", this is why I tend toward "originalist" readings of the document.

Also, read up on the Katz test for questions on the 4th amendment. tl;dr it's important that society as a whole places high value on privacy, or else the SCOTUS might not protect it so much.
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"One thing is certain: what happened in those difficult times was intercepted and transcribed by .. the National Security Agency (NSA), as this interception and other top-secret documents published today by WikiLeaks and our newspaper reveal. "

Well it ain't no secret anymore and I wonder at the timing, who at the NSA leaked the documents and what their motivation is.
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Ahh yes, Bupkis: my grandmother's preferred Linux desktop mail client.
Title mentions PhD yet only 1 of the 6 guys in the article has one.
I thought the point of nano is being usable without a cheatsheet.
For me it will be interesting to see if any details come out about what pressure he was put under during the euro crisis behind closed doors. Not too bothered about the NSA spying part in this case. As others have said this is what they're supposed to be doing.
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I think what's happening is in ETFs, the quants are writing programs that trade, as opposed to slamming phones. In my stint in Wall Street I saw a general move in Fixed Income towards traders with CS/Math/Engineering degrees, sometimes paired with MBAs.
It depends. Sometimes it's simply more profitable to produce something else. Sometimes the market is too small to justify the bioequivalence studies. Sometimes the FDA mysteriously changes its mind on the safety of a drug the same day the patent expires [1].

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/04/17/17760239...
These are cool!

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I was asking a question, not claiming anything. Thanks for your answer.
I believe it’s very possible, just not standard. A number of companies have adopted such measures to great effect for the founders to maintain power over investors [1], but not many have used similar legal tools in reverse to help spread the upside with earlier employees as suggested in the first comment. Perhaps the standard should be for founders to get ‘super-voting’ shares and use some of the power to distribute better upside distribution. Sell it in both directions, longer term stability and more employee alignment.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-co-founders-are-going...
No, it's not. Not when what you're saying is doing absolutely nothing for the conversation, and really is just shitting on the work of others to make yourself look cool.
Yes, this is what it's chartered to do.

Now, there exists a group of people, of which Assange is one (as far as I can tell), who believe that spying is wrong, and governmental secrecy is wrong. Thus this particular Wikileaks release, and, afaict, a lot of the Wikileaks effort has gone into promulgating that ideological goal. I would note that governmental transparency is pursued by multiple political groups across the US spectrum: police transparency, foreign policy transparency, purchasing transparency, etc. It's not a simple bijective mapping between the thought-movement Assange is with and the goal of governmental transparency; there are profound nuances and deep variances of goal within the broader 'transparency' ideal.

As for me, I am perfectly content to have the spy game played against heads of state; especially if it keeps down total system instability and human suffering.
the meat of the article:

"Another strong link between exceptions and RAII is in constructors. Constructors cannot have return values. Therefore, if a constructor encounters an error condition, you either throw an exception or mark some internal error state. The latter has its issues (which is why alternative methods of construction are recommended in code without exceptions), so throwing an exception is the most common approach."

wish the author had provided examples of the alternative methods of construction, rather than explain RAII from scratch.
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"Biopharma is not IT where a smart kid can compete from his garage."

Well, I am currently producing one early-stage (xenograft) drug candidate literally in my garage, and have made two new molecules based on the structure, also in my garage, about to be submitted to structural characterization (and eventually, in vitro studies and maybe even xenograft)... But yeah, I do have a PhD in chemistry, and spend 10-20h/wk on the project.

(also with the caveat that all my studies hit a "brick wall" of can't do in the garage when I have to start worrying about GMP).
The doughnut hole isn't that weird, a coverage was expanded, with a limit on how far it was expanded. The limitation is on spending, not related to the calendar beyond that:

https://www.medicare.gov/part-d/costs/coverage-gap/part-d-co...

Of course once the annual limit is reached coverage is reduced for a period of time, but there will also be cases where the limit is not reached.

And while it doesn't compare favorably to a simpler to access program that covers all expenses, enacting it didn't make anybody that ends up using it worse off.
And so, when we say "permanently destroy" do we really mean that something is "destroyed" and so done with "permanence"?

This motherboard... It refuses any sort of reflashing of the firmware? Taking the button cell out of the battery slot, and removing all power from the board does nothing? The motherboard won't enter BIOS, upon pressing F10 at power on?

What is this... "bricking" we speak of, here?
I liked the progressive equity plan a lot. I'm not sure it really solves the problem unless you take it further than Detour does, but it says a lot to say "Once people get filthy rich, they won't get filthier unless others get brought along for the ride too."
Are you saying that the US population has health habits poor enough to account for the 1/3 more we spend on health care than anywhere else in the developed world?
So what you're saying is that you're for communist single-payer healthcare, right?
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Of course I'm speculating. It's also speculation to assume the Neanderthals imitated, badly, the technology of modern humans. Indeed the article asserts that the humans who first ventured into Neanderthal territory did not have superior technology. So who developed better spear points? No way of knowing, really. Some genius from either group, perhaps.

As for arrows... bows were not known to exist until tens of thousands of years after the time period we're discussing. Atl-atl are thought to have existed since Upper Paleolithic (30KYA) but it's now believed that modern humans were in Europe and Asia much earlier, perhaps 70K or 80K years ago. It was between 40K-30K that the Neanderthal disappeared.

Cannibalism is assumed, based on tooth marks on bone. There's no evidence that it was universally practiced, however. Maybe just a few extreme cases. Or perhaps it was universal among hominids -- meat is meat.
After dropping thousands of Parse.com devs in the middle of the desert (albeit giving each a small bottle of water), you won't find many loving fans of the FB around here...
While I agree it's worth being cautious about how you phrase any "advice", I think the parent post was perfectly reasonable. There was something that worked well for someone he knew, and he mentioned it in case it might help.

For context, I've been a Type 1 diabetic since around '85 and, as I get older, I'm becoming more insulin resistant (Type 2) also. While I've been able to keep my blood sugar mostly under control, I test my blood 4-10 times a day and sometimes need to take insulin 5+ times in a single day (sometimes it just doesn't "work" and I need to take more in smaller amounts to bring my blood sugar down. I can't just retake the original amount in case the first shot suddenly "kicks in").
Bah, that'll teach me to post when I'm half asleep. At least I remembered the end rightly (ish). Clearly it's time for me to re-read his early robot anthologies.
Well, it's certainly not a valid area for market economics to address, since everyone is forced to participate by virtue of being mortal. Single-payer is probably the optimum model for any advanced society, regardless of its political alignment.

The thing is, our glorious capitalistic, market-based health care system already costs us as much as a single-payer system would. We just don't get the benefits.
This is the crux of the matter. No, there's no evidence that these activities produce economic value of a magnitude that justifies their compensation.

A certain number of "speculators" are needed to provide liquidity to capital markets. It's unclear what that number is, but it is most likely nowhere near the level we currently see.

In essence, it is gambling. These funds are supported on an ongoing basis by asset management fees. This provides a nice living for the fund managers and employees. They are structured so that the players experience all upside and no downside. If they lose millions of dollars it's not like the employees and managers are responsible for making it up (although sometimes there are clawback provisions, but not nearly as often as you would want). But if they make millions they take a cut of their gains.

This most likely leads to unnecessary risk-taking. (unnecessary in the sense that there's no net economic benefit from it).

So if this is largely a zero-sum game, who are the losers and why don't they do anything about it? Good question. Most directly it is the institutions and wealthy individuals who invest with hedge funds.

These institutions/individuals do it because as a species we have a flawed reasoning capacity and overestimate our ability to exercise good judgment.
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