skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With regards to grooming: Brush only once a day, but floss twice daily. Most people walk around with all this gristle between their teeth and gums, but it's covered up by minty flavor and smell just after they brush. Then it degenerates to a mixture of the gristle and the minty-toothpaste, which is actually worse!
It's not that universities are dependent on huge subsidies. The problem is that the federal loan system has enabled them to do some pretty shady things that no other industry can do. Today, universities set the base tuition prices so high that essentially nobody can afford to pay. But then, the university gives their prospective students the opportunity to disclose exactly how much they can afford -- verifiable with their income statements and their parents' income statements. Once this upper bound on price is established, the prospective student then receives a combination of grants and loans to cover the difference.

Meanwhile, these loans (entered into by teenagers still in high school) are not subject to bankruptcy laws. So the repayment of them is all but guaranteed.

I don't know of any other industry in which the federal government enables a supplier to achieve tax-return-based proof of income in the supplier / purchaser negotiation process.

[Do] you have a plan that helps current students

Sadly, I don't. I empathize for people who are saddled with a lot of debt, but enshrining the problem by passing new legislation on top of the existing federal loan guidelines just perpetuates the problem for the next generation.
I'm sorry if I get too personal, but years later I found out I have prostate cancer (so slow I will die of old age first). I have wondered if that procedure caused it. I'll never know and it doesn't matter.
I disagree. With a rocket you have to lift all your fuel. With a space gun the fuel stays on earth and only the payload goes to space.

Look up the rocket equation to see what a huge difference this makes.
From my understanding there is a formula that factors in the ratio between upvotes and number of comments.
A common failure mode for companies like these is to talk a lot about how hard their problems are and never get anything at all done.

Even a huge project starts with a first step. We look for founders that get that one done, and then the second, and ...

Good founders get stuff done. Bad founders talk about why they aren't getting stuff done. This is true for web apps and nuclear reactors.
One of the more positive aspects of hereditary monarchies is that their rulers are invested in the long-term success of their kingdoms. Democratically elected rulers have no such incentive. Instead, they promise favors to donors and their electorate, start never-end wars (wars on drugs, wars on poverty, wars on hunger, wars on literacy) for which the costs are socialized and the profits privatized (particularly by companies in which they have interest). Democratically elected politicians remind me of people who strip the appliances and wiring out of their homes as they are being evicted.
You realize you have approximately 0 effect on the stock price, right? Why would this be motivating to a rational person?
> I believe that sites can implement technical measures to "enforce" a fairly normal request profile.

Doesn't that make some projects and uses, where it needs more than what is regularly allowed, impossible? I think the natural response to that would be "well, we'll just charge them (something/more) and give them special access beyond our normal restrictions", and we're back at square one. Enforcing everyone gets the exact same access is essentially communist theory, not mean in an inflammatory way, but in that it really does enforce some level of mediocrity on everyone (to be fair, as insurance some bad actors makeing things untenable for the rest) in comparison to an approach that allows some companies to pay for for extra access to account for the extra burden which may result in new products that people want.

I'm for making publicly available data available to use as wanted, but I'm not really for enforcing arbitrary limits that prevent whole classes of useful products that people generally might want in the name of being fair, especially when "being fair" might mean contradictory things depending on the side you approach from. The fact that the data is generated by the users, and ownership may or may not reside with users or the aggregator, and current law may not be the best with regard to that just makes it all the more complex. :/
How does it make people without debt less desirable?
Nothing but positives about Jason, I was in the last Launch class. I was away from my family for 4 months. Jason invited me to thanksgiving and when my family did arrive we had play dates with his family.
Post Launch he could easily cut us loose and focus on the top 1% of his portfolio. He doesn't do that, he is incredibly loyal and helpful. Some people just don't like that he likes to win but he doesn't do it at the expense of others in my experience.
True. These are the countries that would have a de facto veto in any event due to military or economic power. Mostly military.
Don't over-optimize. At some point you have to stop reading advice blogs and go build a company, and figure it out as you go.

Take care of yourself, take some time to enjoy your life, and work the rest of the time.
I worked directly for Jason for about 3 years, as a direct report. I never once saw him bully anyone. He expects and pushes people to be their best. Additionally he doesn't allow people to waste his time, or the time of others in his organizations. Both of these are admirable qualities.

Additionally after I left his employ, he was our first investor in a new venture, and relentlessly supported us along the way. Jason is the best possible investor you can have on your side.
If I didn't live in the US, I would have trouble imagining life without some sort of VPN based in the US. The amount of crap I experienced the last time I was overseas was astounding, and it seems to be getting worse, not better.
We need to get John Regehr on the C standard committee!
Those are also deflated prices compared to americans with equivalent education and skills, though. Which is the entire point of the H1B.
Theres something odd about the reasoning in the article thay I cant quite put my finger on
you circle jerk fucktards its https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIMA not watson. Watson is an implementation of UIMA.
I can confirm that it sounds reasonable. My offer was over 100k at amazon a few years ago as a new college grad (though I declined). Glassdoor seems to confirm that this is the norm nowadays.
Sam, what's your ideal vision for how many nonprofits you would engage?
Hi Sam, I'm a young entrepreneur who is really passionate about startup and SAAS. For one man SAAS B2B startup with limited funds is there any advice on initial growth? I have used Twitter with some success and used Adwords but had little success (could be due to not enough budget)
Either she does understand security, or she doesn't. Which is it, in your opinion? Genuinely curious.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIMA
And venture capitalists should not be at the forefront of social change either. That is why we have organizations like the DOE, NIH, and NSF for basic research. I can not imagine how many socially important projects would be scrapped now because they did not meet profitability goals.
I've wanted to share my thoughts and experiences regarding the "never be the first to quote a number" strategy for some time, but I usually see these threads when they're too stale to comment on.

My background: I'm a senior-level engineer in my early 30s, in SF. After a consulting stint, I interviewed heavily in 2013, and again in the second half of 2015, and currently speak with 1-2 recruiter cold calls per week to keep my options open. My sample size is many dozens of intro calls, across startups ranging in maturity from 1st engineer through some of the unicorns everyone knows.

In short, I agree with p4wnc6. A very relevant fraction of recruiters, say a third, will refuse to proceed until you quote a figure. This is true for internal and external recruiters. No amount of push back works with this group, they'll see you as difficult or otherwise not worth pursuing, and would rather end the discussion than proceed number-less.

This leaves the two-thirds of recruiters who are willing to play ball. Now there's another problem - not quoting a number is only a good idea if you want to avoid being low-balled - it's a tremendous waste of time if your desired compensation is above the expected range.

For transparency and knowledge sharing, I'll be specific: my background is in operations and infrastructure ("devops"). 90+% of the roles coming my way pay in the range of $130-180K base. My base is above this, and very few companies will be willing to pay a premium of 50% more than they expected to. No amount of wishful thinking about "your payroll is a drop in the bucket" will bridge the gap if it's too large.

Which brings me to a question I'd love the answer to: other than working for the big ~6 (Google, Facebook, Uber, Apple, etc), how can I push my comp up to $2X0 (or even $3XX!)? I feel like I'm near max, so I'm biding my time until the right VP/Director/etc of Ops role comes along. Is there anything else I can do?
I use it to make sure I haven't missed anything that I would want to buy in the grocery store, or in order to orient myself in space, or to determine where I may have left something by replaying my actions in that space.
This is perfect timing as Google Seattle is hiring around 1000 devs and promotions are being revealed in April.

I used a throwaway account, but I'm sure I'm identifiable by this information if my manager sees this. I'm not too concerned. I think it's in Amazon's and the employees' best interest for this stuff to be transparent. Besides that, while I like my work, I can easily get an offer from Google, Facebook or pretty much anywhere else.

Position: SysDE 2 in AWS
Tenure: 1.5 years
Job Level: 5
Base: $120000
Stock: 140 RSU (granted at signing, almost none vested)
Bonus: $20000 + relocation at signing, $15000 will come after 2 years
Gender: M
Native English: yes

I was hired at L4 as SE 1, moved to SE 2/L5 after a year, and now SysDE 2. There was no raise for SE2->SysDE2.
Sam, if you could attract the cream of the crop, what percentage/number of nonprofits would you want to engage?
Jason is one of the most honest and helpful people I've ever met. Super happy that we met him and have his support. Never experienced any sort of bullying, offer changing and confidentially info sharing...
This is the same reason I avoid doctors unless I'm sick. With doctors it's like they think (or think you will think) that they are not doing their jobs if they don't find something wrong or you don't leave with a prescription for something.

I do get routine dental cleanings every 6 months though. Luckily my dentist is an ethical guy and never pushes anything unnecessary.
My Windows 10 Pro has it (as did Windows 7 Ultimate):

http://imgur.com/FbWPLIg

Right-click -> Properties -> Advanced
Nylas N1 uses a realtime streaming delta API that we developed, so there's no need to ever manually "refresh" the app. The entire data layer is a giant flux store which populates the UI immediately.
More on that API here: https://nylas.com/docs/platform#deltas

We've actually considered adding this and just making it a no-op-- a placebo feature to help users transition.
I work for one of AMZN's subsidiaries down in SF. Its kinda hard to say exactly how much I earn since most of my compensation is in retention and acquisition bonuses.

Roughly $130k a year base, $150k a year in retention and $100k (for one more year) in pre-acquisition stock.

6 years in the industry, no higher education. SDEII (I think?)
We're still working through this--it turns out to be a research problem in itself.

We talk about it a lot, and I'm working on a post about it (for example, we may not share intermediate breakthrough that we think pose major safety risks), but I've been much busier than expected the last few months and haven't gotten to it yet.

Definitely expect us to do safety research.
Candidness is a virtue. Jason delivers it in a manner that motivates. I spent 4 months away from my family for Launch. Jason invited me to Thanksgiving. Post launch his support is unwavering despite having at least two of the 14 companies already flying. I found him to be a gentleman.
Competitive internships will offer 2-2.5X that.
Hi Sam,

Thanks for doing this. Accelerators like StartX at Stanford have programs where you can volunteer to work for the entity itself. Is YC open to having volunteers in this capacity? Do you hire often for the entity, YC, itself?
By "unlikely" you mean "mathematically impossible for the founder population to be representative of the H-1B visa holder population" right? Harvard doesn't graduate enough international students each year to maintain this ratio.

With your second sentence, are you trying to argue that about half of H-1B visa holder population went to famous colleges? Otherwise, what's your point?

My point is that the report gives anecdotes and numbers that cannot be used for sound policy decisions.

Anecdotes are nothing new. 100 years ago we would have read how Andrew Carnegie, son of poor Scottish weavers, became one of the wealthiest people in the US through his innovative steel company. While it's a valid point that immigrants can be helpful, it's also a valid point that the US has more than 100,000 citizens - neither point is all that useful. Or do you really think that most of the target audience won't be able to think of dozens of helpful contributions by immigrants, so need a reminder?

Numbers that cannot be used for policy decisions are also not new. I earlier give an example of the report "Most high tech companies are founded by founded by First/2nd gen immigrants", which is another statement that cannot be used to make a policy decision.

So you tell me, based on this report, are immigrants over- or under- represented as (co)founders of $1B+ startups? Should we have different policy changes if they are under-represented, vs. if they are over-represented? Or what if the number of immigrant founders is what we would except from population statistics?

Your views, frequently stated, are pro-immigration. That's fine. I support that, and I speak as an immigrant who is in turn the child of an immigrant.

But this report cannot be used to support your viewpoint other than with the trivial observation that there are ways in which immigrants are helpful.
I suspect your final point explains most of it. I certainly don't think its the idealistic interns' fault.
> If a surgeon amputates the wrong limb, is he just doing his job?

No, I would consider that outside of his job description (grin). I didn't say it, but I meant that if he was following standard modern procedure it was excusable.

P.S. One time I had shoulder surgery and the nurse drew a large target with a permanent marker on my shoulder and made be verify that was the bad one.
Should economists revise the natural rate of unemployment? And what do you think that rate will look like once AI is the new norm?
If you think you have enough knowledge and insight to criticize me, criticize my main point instead of trying to take things out of context to make your point. My main point was "There are tons of other qualified people who are as old as you and has as many children and wives as you, who are also tied with as many obligations as you. AND they ALL are willing to spend that 3 months in the bay area. Why would an investor choose someone who's NOT willing to do that over someone who is?"
I have very few friends. I must be smart!!
How i became a developer at age 10
> Truth is an absolute defence for libel.

In the USA. In the UK, the opposite.
yeah, especially for all the guys who don't come from the US.
While the physical CD isn't currently available even through Ebay, through the wonders of modern technology you can still listen to the full album online:

High-sensitivity recordings of various types of insect
pests released for the 5th International working conference
on stored product protection, 1990.

This is the full and unedited version of the recording.

INRA. Insect noise in stored foodstuffs.
"Ces vibrations caracteristiques, plus proches de la
musique que du bruit, trahissent la presence de tous ces
convives invisibles qui ne peuvent se tenir silencieux.
A.J. Andrieu et F. Fleurat-Lessard."

01. Detecting pests in stored foodstuffs and wood.
02. Rice weevil larvae in rice.
03. Angoumois grain moth larvae in maize.
04. Grain weevil larvae in barley.
05. Communication signals of termites in wood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FISDgcaBSYQ
... expect only jerks to answer?
The first image that came to mind was the "here is the church, here is the steeple..."[0] hand game that I had otherwise forgotten about for the last 30 years. I wonder what that implies (assuming there's validity to the exercise). On one hand, it's a doubly abstract, non-existing steeple. On the other hand, I was recalling actual hands making the gesture.

[0] In case you hadn't heard of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H3E33o4URc
Satoshi Kanazawa is not an intellectual I respect very much

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa

> views such as that African countries suffer chronic poverty and illness because their people have lower IQs and that black women are objectively less attractive than other races

> a group of 68 evolutionary psychologists issued an open letter titled "Kanazawa's bad science does not represent evolutionary psychology",[6] and an article was published by 35 on the same theme.[7]
Hey DK,

Just another entrepreneur here, but I'm a Canadian citizen and also need a VISA.

I've received excellent help from Julie Pearl's firm: https://www.immigrationlaw.com/

They work with plenty of startup founders and I was recommended her through fellow immigrant founders. :) Hope this helps!
I regret that I have only one upvote to give. I had two of my wisdom teeth out when I was younger, due to extreme pressure from my parents and dentist. Remembering the X-rays now, they would probably have grown in just fine (as did the other two). Adding injury to injury, during the procedure one of my healthy molars was broken, and the dentist (or oral surgeon — it was a long time ago) subsequently lied about it for years!

In retrospect, the idea that wisdom teeth must be extracted because modern people's mouths just can't handle them really should have seemed spurious. What — everyone who's not a relatively wealthy American is in agonising pain his entire adult life? That just doesn't compute.
>let education and teaching be free

But I don't think many teachers will teach for free. And the ones that do might not be as qualified.

You could force them to teach for free, but thats hardly ethical.
> Smoking an equivalent amount of cocaine-base (crack) vs snorting cocaine-HCL (powder) is a completely different experience

This boils down to "the means of ingestion of a drug has a significant effect on the effects of the drug". Anybody who has ever both smoked a joint and consumed THC edibles knows firsthand that this is the case. Insufflation and ingestion are different from inhalation, so yes, the experience, onset, reinforcement mechanisms would be different. That does not change the fact that they are fundamentally the same drug.

> Not to mention that is not an ionic bond, it is covalent. Different molecule.

It's not the form it's transported in that's relevant; it's the form that reaches the CNS that matters[0]. In this case, the pharmacokinetics of the two drugs are the same once they hit the bloodstream.

If that doesn't convince you, the consider that the effects of injecting crack cocaine[1] and powder cocaine are literally chemically identical.

[0] Actually, it's the pharmacokinetic process of the drug that's relevant, since two different molecules can be metabolized identically. (And not all drugs affect the CNS, but that's a side point).

[1] Less common, because smoking is logistically easier, and also results in a sharper onset since it saves half the round trip to the lungs. But it does happen.
Hey what software are you using for this?

I was thinking I really wish there was a good app where you can listen to audio articles. It is partly solved in iOS as you can speak selected text, but problem is you cannot select all text easily and you don't wanna mess with it while driving.

Was wondering what would be a great UI for the transcriber and whether you could create p2p network to share the transcriptions.
No one wants a simple process.

The craptastic [1-4] F-35 has ties to 42 states plus Puerto Rico if I counted correctly [0]. That's one of the reasons why it can't be canceled.

The defense contractors want the systems confusing so they can spread out production across as many congressional districts as possible in order to maintain clout. (A vote to cancel the Radioactive Ferret Launcher, is a vote kill 50 jobs in your hometown!). Also confusion allows for ample padding.

Another problem that isn't talked about is that since World War II, and especially since the end of the draft, the number of people that have seen how the military actually works, is pretty small, yet at the same time it's standing as an institution has increased. Arguably this is because people only see the recruiting videos, and not the political bureaucracy that the military (and all large organizations) actually is. Congress doesn't push back when the military and their contractors do... well asinine stuff. Say try to make a one-size-fits all fighter that, that has never worked. Or makes a carrier without testing it.[5]

[0] https://www.f35.com/about/economic-impact-map
[1] https://medium.com/war-is-boring/everything-wrong-with-the-f...
[2] http://warisboring.com/articles/the-f-35-is-still-horribly-b...
[3] http://warisboring.com/articles/we-have-proof-the-u-s-air-fo...
[4] https://medium.com/war-is-boring/test-pilot-admits-the-f-35-...
[5] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-11/navy-order...
Mind sharing what company this is? I'm 100% sure if I leave to go somewhere else and come back, I'll still make a lot more than sticking around. This is the unfortunate reality.
Convert your Pi 2 into a Web Server and host your own Web site
I actually think that downvoting you is counterproductive to this discussion though. :)

It's a shame downvote has become an "I disagree with you" button instead of a way of signalling "low quality content." I counter-upvoted you, which also abuses the downvote button, but at least two wrongs somewhat make a right here.

Aristotle: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Also interested in this... I am working on my second mainland Chinese startup right now. But honestly, there's easier sources of capital in the country than outside that sidestep this problem. In my previous experience, seeking foreign VC is difficult from China due to investor fear and unfamiliarity with the regulatory environment.
About security: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1247/what-sho...

Next step: http://mattrichardson.com/Raspberry-Pi-Flask/

Thought I'd share
Your anecdote is the exception to the rule. I've been in the industry for 20 years and can affirm the rule: you don't get raises from your current employer. You get raises by changing employers.
Do you talk to a dentist to get one of those, or an orthodontist, or what?
Woman Was Called “Chinese Pig” on Flight by Passenger,
Mine never hurt me, but I had zero need for braces until after my wisdom teeth came in. Of course the report seems to claim it is not possible for wisdom teeth to move other teeth like this, so maybe it's just coincidence.