skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm missing something,

But I honestly don't understand the point of spending billions of dollars building light rail, when the solution seems much simpler.

Roads? Check

Busses? Check

Busses are way more flexible than rail.
They can utilize existing road infrastructure.
With some investment into dedicated bus lanes in high traffic areas, and more busses/bus routes, people can be moved around with significantly less capital investment.
Internet a great source. Internet resembles the sea.I think you should pay.
[ed: I got a bit carried away, I should've prefixed this with a big thank you for a nice and concise intro to setting up a sane reactjs environment! It's refreshing to see live reloading of comments posted from the console by w3m show up in Firefox!]

Ouch, any chance that these examples could be dual-lincenced under cc0/public domain (where applicable) and something like MIT/BSD/APL in jurisdictions without public domain?

Because, frankly examples that are: "The examples provided by Facebook are for non-commercial testing and evaluation
purposes only. Facebook reserves all rights not expressly granted." are worse than useless. If you end up using anything from the examples in production, you're in breach of copyright!?
Interesting, though it sounds a lot like a standard operations research type problem.
I think there's a difference between the general store owner displaced by Walmart and the manufacturer of Widgets that has all these factory jobs everyone talks about do much; these factories require enormous of capital.
The FBI knows how bad hardware and software security is, as well as how they're being exploited, and doesn't want the same things he wants from you.
They might even realise that you can't have only two parties represent a population of 300 million people in a multicultural society spread all the way across a continent, sea-to-sea.
This is incredible. Thank you.
Wait, is he also blocking the microphone on his laptop? That seems like a much bigger security risk than his face.
Don't look at Colorado either, it's all Tebow lovers and overly stoned grass-heads now.
Two years ago, it used to be our business model: selling maintenance services to bigger companies (includes unlimited technical support for bugfixes and upgrades). We tried hard to grow on services rather than selling proprietary features. (I don't think another open source software vendor succeeded to push a business model relying on services that far)

We grew up to 300 employees with this model but reached the limit of the model. (most companies don't want to pay for bugfixes and prefer to buy upgrades later) Now, we rely on 3 different offers: https://odoo.com/pricing

Since we switched to the new open core model, everything is simpler. Revenues grew a lot (monthly MRR growth is 242% higher than before) and we can invest more in the development of the open source product. Relationship with partners is easier too.

Disclaimer: I am the founder/CEO of Odoo.
By the time they do everything right and in the proper way no one will want the stupid thing. It will be outdated and stupid. That's the Seattle way: aversion to making decisions fast and moving along. People here are aftaid of taking any risk. And on top of that, there is a severe amoung of entrenched old school thinking.
The globalization process has nearly run it's course. In the near future we're going to need to pick one: tariffs, redistribution, or poor-people-with-pitch-forks.
I worked in a cubicle for 10 years. It's not a bad life, but I wanted more and started my own business.
> She was 35, had been with the company for four years, and was told without explanation by her 28-year-old manager that she had two weeks to get out.

I think that's a bit funny that the author implies you can't be good as a manager at 28. Specially when you are writing an article about bias.
This self-fellating cultural revisionist drivel is exactly the sort of meta-analysis I'd expect from someone who has spent too long codependent with academia and thusly suffers from an irrational self-hatred and tunnel vision and a lingering feeling that their qualifications are much narrower than they'd like to believe. The author only once cites an external party (three links to the very same blog along with a link to their colleague's book). Even that study says:

> The proximate cause of inefficiency in at least some cases was the workers' refusal to accept more machinery, but the choices of workers correlated with the local real wage. Whatever constrained the choices of workers in cotton textiles, or whatever determined their preferences, must have applied to all of the local labor force. Unfortunately the sources on the textile industry do not allow me to go with any confidence beyond this limited ascription of responsibility to local influences.

So workers in Bombay, who were being payed less than workers in England, refused to take on more responsibilities until they received higher wages. Sounds pretty fair to me. Given the information at hand, we could posit that Western countries were more successful at organizing labor instead of assuming, like the author does, that it can be fundamentally attributed to culture, and that less-developed countries like India should just adopt Western culture. Maybe if they adopted Western culture, they could come colonize Western nations, then they'd be really successful. /s

I can't see this as anything more than some sort of strange philosophical flexing, and the author could stand to get another degree--perhaps this time in history.
You are attacking an invisible bogeyman you concocted yourself. No one said anything about being anti-science. Your reactionary stance is anti-science. I'm not sure what your wife's profession or crazies she met or anything else you've said has to do with the topic at hand.

There are a thousand choices you can make when it comes to diet. It's not an all or nothing, democrat or republican, us vs them proposition. What the previous poster was getting at is that typically, for each choice you can make with your diet, a good rule of thumb is that the less processed a food is, the more likely it is to be better for you. That doesn't mean it's always true in every case, or that occasionally a bit of processed food will kill you, or whatever other straw man you are chasing after.

In any case, there IS plenty of science backing up the negative health effects of processed foods:

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/eating-too-much-added-sug...

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesit...

http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/22693-highly-processed-food...

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/news/world-health-organiza...

http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/di...

http://www.ewg.org/research/bpa-canned-food

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/transfats/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olestra#Side_effects

Plenty of linked studies here as well:

https://authoritynutrition.com/9-ways-that-processed-foods-a...

Do you have any science to back up your claims?
No, I'm not achieving any more by "giving up" than I am by not "giving up". I'm not in a position to change the nature of US policy, and as long as American voters use their power to vote in venal assholes, that won't change.
No, in addition to.
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11463434
is this a serious statement?

it's because of traffic. trains move the same speed regardless of who is on the roads or accidents or weather.

i travel around the US and i see that ALL cities of a certain size in the US are perma-fucked 7 days a week with traffic now, have you noticed?

that's why the light rail resurgence is happening.
Still open and currently Drupal 8.2 is targeted. The version I tried to evaluate was 8.0.6.
Sage is fantastic! I used it for math research for years; it's python, and brings together many of the best open source math projects. So yeah, there are seams, but the seams are far less bad than (say) writing your own translation layer between the various components. And Sage has a large (and always growing) base of native functionality, as well.

In fact, I'm pretty confused as to why someone would go to the trouble of trying to write a new, python-based mathematica alternative with Sage already quite established and equally free. (I guess keeping the Mathematica language is a motivation for someone who's tied to the mathematica world already, but I've always found it to be a write-only language...)
Elassandra, a fork of Elasticsearch running on top of Apache Cassandra
Does anyone have more context on Dan Lyons?

After reading this article, and the one from Fortune[0], and his post on LinkedIn[1], it feels like he's out there scraping together blatant PR for his new book. And it makes me honestly wonder whether he went to work for HubSpot looking for a story to write in the first place... and being a writer for the "Silicon Valley" TV series doesn't really help his credibility in that sense.

Disclaimer: I really don't know anything about this story. Something just feels off. Maybe HubSpot really is that bad, who knows.

[0]: http://fortune.com/disrupted-excerpt-hubspot-startup-dan-lyo...

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-comes-age-bias-tech-comp...

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Edit:

After listening to the interview from @CPLX's response[2] I have to agree, he doesn't seem outlandish or anything. And all of the points he makes about HubSpot's content model being complete spam I agree with. I've definitely never liked interacting with HubSpot as a consumer, that much I know.

I feel like in these scenarios he's incentivized to get outlandish PR for his book, so some of the things I'd take with a grain of salt--sentences like, "The offices bear a striking resemblance to the Montessori preschool that my kids attended: lots of bright basic colors, plenty of toys, and a nap room with a hammock and soothing palm tree murals on the wall." But there is probably a lot truth to his story as well.

@ghaff also summed it up well: "That said, I find it's a cogent perspective even if it probably shouldn't be taken as literally accurate reportage."

[2]: http://www.npr.org/2016/04/05/473097951/laid-off-tech-journa...
Microliving for the future
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> It was believed babies do not really feel pain

Or maybe it was because too many anesthesia can easily kill a baby and the other option was seen as safer and better for his/her life. Not all in the history of the humanity is necessarily related with the new painphobia wave.

In any case that history about paralized babies and evil surgeons seems entirely or mostly faked to me, telled in the most truculent way possible to elicit a visceral reaction and attract donors or gain social cookies.
full circle?
Reminds me of Ember FastBoot. Different framework, different use case, but relatively easy to implement.

https://github.com/ember-fastboot/ember-cli-fastboot
New York turns to micro apartments to solve city's big housing problem
> Imagine a frat house mixed with a kindergarten mixed with Scientology, and you have an idea of what it’s like [working at a startup].

Is this an accurate description? I feel this might be more of the well funded ones but would not know.
I think I have very poor studying skills. So I've been wondering lately if maybe how I think about notes is wrong.

How often do you review your notes for a topic? It probably varies between subjects, but I bet the answer is that once you take notes once most people never review their notes. This is probably more the case for studying done on your own and outside of a school setting because you don't get tested on those topics as much. I guess thats not as effective, but it probably works for most topics given that we all usually have limited time.

And, are the notes concise versions of the information (like pegs in a memory system to find the real information) or copies of the information entirely so you don't need to refer to the original anymore? I wonder if with computers the fact that you don't need to copy information form a book to avoid carrying it thanks to PDFs and Kindles has made natural habits that happened before unnatural. Why copy everything when it's right there? Why not just copy and paste it? "Thats what I would have written, it's so much easier if I just copy and paste it."

It's kind of like with programming books, esp the intro ones, which always offer the code but tell the reader to please type out all the code.

So maybe when we teach those like myself with poor study skills we should explain: Use pen/paper because you can express more, you will probably not read this later so using pen/paper will help you remember more given that, copying information isn't bad (Even if it's duplicate thanks to computers) because it helps that retention factor with information that prior to it being on computers would have been smart to take notes on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_discrimination_law_...

Under Federal law, employers generally cannot discriminate against employees on the basis of: Sex.
Because light rail is big and shiny.
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What I would much prefer to see is what effect the % of dialog has on profitability. Audiences buying behavior is what is responsible for what kinds of movies, actors and characters are made because movies are profit driven endeavor.

Looking at their data, I took the "top 20" male and female movies and compared their world wide gross, male movies averaged 50% more than female.

http://i.imgur.com/24dUzBD.png
Just submitted a YC application
Is there a slight chance that we might be considered / could possibly get it even though we applied 2 days before decisions are announced? lol.
Global survey of 10k people learning to program
You're right, but your point doesn't negate my point that dissecting an emergent phenomenon to 'simply' be the sum of its parts is a comprehensible way to understand the phenomenon.
Why are more roads the immediate answer when talking about transit investment?
People get it totally wrong. Less roads means less cars on the streets. We need massive transportation systems and bike paths.
it seems to me that the Go package can easily slot in golang.org/x/unix, where all the extra syscalls not present in the fixed stdlib syscall package go. that's a minor point. if pledge becomes widespread in usage it will get its spot there.
Inequality in blue states flows from housing policy. Boomers propping up housing costs regardless of the societal impact. Sneering at meritistrocats won't put fish back in the sea for the people of New Bedford to catch, but allowing developers to build a ton of housing would create a lot of jobs for working people, help lower the largest expense of poor and working class people, and make it affordable for college students to stay.

As for public transit, the city and state certain can spare many dimes. What they can't spare is the ten billion dollars it would take to actually deal with the MBTA's debt and deferred maintenance. It absolutely has to be addressed, for the sake of the entire regional economy, but investments on that scale, when they are not immediately relevant to the lives of 4/5ths of voters, are... challenging. If killing off an expensive but lightly used late night service that accounted for 0.4% of trips makes it marginally easier to deal with the root issues, then it should be cut. The T had four years (not six months) to make late night service viable, they failed.
And, even setting aside the traffic issues in major US cities, traffic is always unpredictable and public transit aims to provide some sort of dependable, predictable schedule.
While I'm not going to say anyone should be writing one function packages you might want to provide some constructive criticism instead of just being an asshole.
Ohh wow. Didn't know that. Thanks. I should have said that the shuttle was built for a different purpose.
Turkish developers see English content on the blog was both strange and beautiful. :)
There is glassdoor review for my last company about how they are saving money by hiring only from colleges. Any number of my colleagues could have written it. Or for any number of companies. :)
buses would be predictable if it weren't for the traffic!
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The good news is that by the time they are finished, the whole thing will be obsolete. Self-driving technology is going to completely change urban transportation.
"The Oxfam report An Economy for the 1%, shows that the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population has fallen by a trillion dollars since 2010, a drop of 38 percent. This has occurred despite the global population increasing by around 400 million people during that period. Meanwhile, the wealth of the richest 62 has increased by more than half a trillion dollars to $1.76tr. The report also shows how women are disproportionately affected by inequality – of the current ‘62’, 53 are men and just nine are women."

OK so assume these top 62 people give all their money to the poor. 1.76 trillion is distributed among 3.5 billion people giving $502 each. the average net worth of these people goes from $500 to about $1000. 1 year later what will have happened? probably not much. These people will increase consumption somewhat, some might invest a bit, but mostly the money will just disappear.

Huge swathes of the population have minimal net worth, like many of my friends, and live happy, comfortable lives. If they had an extra $500 they would spend it quick. This isn't the rule obviously, and there is a lot of poverty, but these statements don't really quite give a true picture of the issue.
The philosopher Slavoj Žižek explains this with the ‘postmodern’ boss:

>Not a master but just a coordinator of our joint creative efforts; the first among equals. There should be no formalities among us, we should address him by his nickname, he shares a dirty joke with us… but in all this, HE REMAINS OUR MASTER.
Only audio is not anonymous, right? What I am not telling my close friends, even my roommate's dog, I am not going to record with my own voice and hand over to a server admin who then distributes it publicly.

I love the idea of being able to get forgiveness and praise from other listeners. If you could somehow make it truly anonymous, I would be very interested and a loyal user.
Yes he's doing PR for a book by telling bits and pieces of the same story in other media. That's what writers do for a living.

If you genuinely want to get a read on the guy listen to this long form interview on Fresh Air from a couple days ago:

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/05/473097951/laid-off-tech-journa...

He comes across as quite lucid and nuanced in my opinion, and also credible, as he has been covering the tech industry for decades and has a sense of context (he was also fake Steve Jobs by the way) rather than a "look at these crazy start up kids" point of view.
Travel around and look at what type of public transportation has worked for large, advanced societies.
Suppose there are 500 craftsman working together on a project because it too big for a smaller group to handle. How do they divide work? Especially when it comes to the work that everyone wants to do, or the work that no body wants to do? How do they resolve disagreements about what 'better' means? If caftman-1 says that craftman-2's performance is holding him back, while craftman-2 says that craftman-1 is asking him to do too much work, who adjudicates? What is a reasonable basis for a judgement?

Again, I'm honestly asking because I don't know. Large human organizations seem to repeatably converge on similar design patterns, but if there's a better way, I want to know it.
I am kinda getting sick of these Dan Lyons "pr for my book" pieces.
This is a dubious claim - similar to the falsehood trotted out about how America can't do public transport because it's bigger than European countries.

The size of the country isn't playing in to people's commute distances. The scale of infrastructure within cities and towns does, though. If your zoning laws mean that the nearest place to buy a box of cereal is 2 miles from your house, and for that matter if density restrictions, height maximums, and parking minimums mean you have relatively few houses per acre, your city (to use the term generously) is not going to achieve anything resembling medium density.
When I first saw SaaSS I figured RMS had his own acronym for SaaS, and sure enough further in the article he spells it out - Service as a Software Substitute.

I like it!
This is great.

Seeing all of the old alternatives in one place, it makes it so clear why CSS layout is such a hard concept for beginners to learn. Incredibly basic layout needs involve learning at least three or four different box models, and knowing how they'll interact together. So glad we have flexbox now!
Probably a broken record statement, but what about basic income?
So he's trying to push his book. Great.
Comments like those really reinforce to me the notion that Americans really do have it easy.

A Chilean from a subpar city like Valparaiso could make maybe like 4$/hr, with similar hollidays as in the US. Would never be able to pay 500$ a month for rent.

Also Valparaiso is a "touristic" city, or more accurately used to be one, so not many lucrative carreers to be had -I imagine that the second something pops out there all prices would go up, too. The reason it's medium denisty it's more likely because of the sismic activity in the area.
By "was" I meant "was at the time" (in regards to when Rails was created). Interesting that he left for Spain. I did not know that!
I will put $100 into an index fund and bet the proceeds that self-driving technology will not be competitive with rail by 2040. The technology will be much harder to bring up to the necessary level than anyone expects, and without banning human drivers (politically impossible for the foreseeable future), you'll never be able to match the capacity of rail.
The interesting thing about this is that Lyons quotes Jeff Bezos's letter to shareholders, which some places described as ‘a very late response’ (http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/5/11373438/amazon-corporate-c...) to the NYT's own story from earlier this year… Lyons quotes it to demonstrate how Amazon is totally down for this exploitative culture he's trying to describe. But while I was pretty horrified reading the NYT's original story, Bezos responded—admittedly internally—shortly after the original article came out. He basically dismissed the idea of the type of culture Lyons is describing (‘I strongly believe that anyone working in a company that really is like the one described in the NYT would be crazy to stay. I know I would leave such a company.’), and that response was fairly widely circulated.

To me, while I recognize some of the anecdotes that Lyons is describing as indeed representative of things that happen at startups, this is the kind of cherry picking that rapidly turns a potentially interesting book (or article) into total nonsense. If you can't choose your supporting arguments well, your main argument falls over.

(Worth noting: Pretty sure these sundry* articles all just possibly-adapted excerpts from the book.)
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