skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just see a blank white page.

Had to dig into the html and turn off 'visibility: hidden' on '.font-entrybody'. Clearly a well designed site...
Have you ever lived in a third world country? I lived in Bangladesh until I was 5. Homeless people in SF is one thing. But children begging in the street. Fuck, I don't have the stomach for that.
It's a shame that you think the down-vote button means something other than what it is used to mean.
Very exciting I've been working remote for last four years. Every time looking for a new job is a pain
> Would never use that. It's free of charge, so how is it financed? Right, its Facebook owned and just like every product of (Google, Facebook, Apple, whatever)

I understand, and agree with your basic sentiment and point. I don't get why you include Apple with Google and Facebook.

Google and Facebook famously make all their money from offering 'free' services and monetising eyeballs on ads.

Apple famously makes all it's money from (traditionally) selling hardware, and recently, through it's digital media stores.

Apple give very little away "for free" - sure, they don't charge for the OS, but its financed by the purchases of hardware, not being a privacy whore.
I can make it even more convenient - get out a couple of dice and roll them across your desk. If the total is under 7 you are ok otherwise go to the doctor for some competently run test.
Hi Sung, this looks great. Do you mind sharing what technology you used to build it?
About 6 months back - we and five other startups were invited by federal government with a pitch that operate in canada & win North American market. They toured us to almost every happening startup place in the city of Toronto, Montreal and Waterloo. Only thing that we couldn't do because of our tight schedule was meet the talent and figure out for ourselves.
I think mucking up blood tests that almost certainly lead to misdiagnoses should stir up some fury.
From this map I wonder:

http://www.youcanseethemilkyway.com/light-pollution/

WTF are these huge masses of light off the coasts of Argentina and Peru?
It's owned by Facebook.

What part of their monetisation plan (privacy whoring to sell ads) is not apparent to anyone who cares to look by now?
There's nothing wrong with throwaway accounts or opposing views; both are perfectly welcome.

What's problematic is when there's two throwaway accounts created at the same time, replying to one another in agreement, using the same writing style, and advancing same the narrative that's worded as if it's straight out of a public relations office.

HN has seen at least one NSA employee and one American intelligence community member posting in the wake of Snowden, and both were overwhelmingly treated with respect by the community despite their views. I myself often express views here that are staunchly anti-Snowden in nature.

The throwaway accounts you're defending received such hostility because they were perceived as being insincere due to their suspicious posting behavior. It was not due to their views or opinions.
This could be a really neat canary too
An old and maybe not terribly popular one is Enemy Mine. There are bad guys, but they're humans, and they only play a role near the end. But they aren't primary to the story. It's mostly a story of two people thrown together in a shitty situation and learning to get along despite their initial hatred for each other.

There are lots of scifi movies where the story only barely, rather than primarily, deals with the idea of good guys versus bad guys, if it puts them together directly at all. Moon, The Martian, Gravity are recent ones. Interstellar, in its way.

Less true of fantasy which pulls its stories from the idea of grand epics with noble warriors fighting monsters and villains.

Action movies without an idea of good guy and bad guy is a challenge. Maybe I'll think of one while I lie in bed tonight but off the top of my head there aren't any occurring to me.
Did you run into any bugs or strange beahviour in Cloud Haskell? I looked into using it a while ago and came to the (possibly hasty) conclusion that it's not stable enough to build a large project on. Thanks!
https://www.google.com/?q=tag%20matches%20shell
The hallmark of a good product is whether or not the founder, founding team, board and few key shareholders are using the product. I'd like to hear more about this.
> #5: Merck: veterinary medicine, PhD

I'm really curious what sort of path takes someone from training to be a vet to heading up a global pharmaceuticals company.
From the Medium page:
"Every day, your content is gone and you’ve gotta start fresh. That’s the whole point. I’d like to say this is an intentional feature, but really I just left it out because I’ve only worked on Morning Mill for about four hours."

I found that amusing and audacious!
Several years ago, I bought myself a copy of the original 11th edition. It is a marvelous work, and it's a fascinating read especially to see how the world looked to the leading British minds in pre-World War I England.

It was definitely written for rich English readers. At times, this takes on an almost comic aspect. For example, here is some text from early on in the entry on static electricity (aka here as "electrostatics"):

"The reader possessed of no previous knowledge of electrical phenomena will best appreciate the meaning of the terms employed by the aid of a few simple experiments. For this purpose, the following apparatus should be provided: 1) two small metal tea trays and some clean dry tumblers, the latter preferably varnished with shellac varnish made with alcohol free from water; 2) a rod of sealing wax or ebonite and a glass tube, also some pieces of silk and flannel; 3) a gold-leaf electroscope, etc."

The instructions for the experiments go on for pages and pages. There then follows the theoretical explanations, including detailed analysis using tables, calculus, complex diagrams.

Amazing WRT to its comprehensiveness, its formality of tone, as much as its failure to consider the needs of readers who might not be well-heeled, but still desirous of the information.
I use a paper notebook to sketch out diagrams and sometimes make todo lists. I like to use the notebook during useful meetings too, I feel like it's less distracting than a computer.
cmaggard is being downvoted, but he's quite right. Playing Worms means repeated multiplayer matches on a handful of maps, with a couple dozen weapons that don't change. Sequels repeated most of the maps and weapons and added a few more, and these would indeed be small IAP or perhaps $5-10 DLC on Steam if made today. I think it's fair to say that the sequels were more derivative than the sequels of most other franchises since at least those franchises could add new campaigns (Worms added a campaign-esque experience at some point that was mainly a chain of single-player matches) or do significant graphics updates (which Worms could not meaningfully do since its cartoon graphics and physics were good enough early on in the series.)
There is a fundamental difference between snapchat and medical tests. You cannot approach one as you approach the other. I have worked for a medical software company and the atmosphere is completely different from the usual move-fast-break-things culture at other places. You digitally sign for every line of code you write or review, every test you write, every test you say is working. If a single bug is found in your code, after deployment, it is traced back to the tester, dev and manager and it is counted against their performance.

TL;DR people die when you move fast and break things in medicine, and your company gets sued for millions of dollars.
That would be rather short-sighted. Different platforms should be monetized differently, and Facebook has shown that it is willing to do this, such as with WhatsApp, which isn't filled with ads: https://www.quora.com/How-does-WhatsApp-make-money-especiall...

With wit.ai, I would be surprised if they decided "privacy whoring to sell ads" is the right way to go.
I count at least 3/5. Last I checked chemical engineering, MD and veterinary medicine are all science degrees, two are terminal degrees (MD, PhD.)
Haha, what does that imply, all tech is unnecessary?
Don't get me wrong (I mean I'm rewriting in Rust), but:

LTO and static compilation are available to binaries built and statically linked with musl (it's one of the main advantages musl has over glibc, aside from being a more readable and cleaner codebase). And musl has done a lot of work to have correct cross-platform implementations. Granted whenever Rust adds a new target, it should be easier for things to "just work" when cross-compiled, but Rust is far less portable than C + a modicum of macros at the moment.
I see. I guess that is different.
You can't safely put a price on rights at a level that wealthy organizations can easily afford.
One of the biggest (maybe silly) change is that cmd is fully resizable. I think Powershell was already able to do this in Win 7. So I think apart from the changes to conhost, cmd itself has been upgraded in some ways.
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The "civilized countries" snark at the end was pointless and annoying, I agree. But still, I'm not sure why knowingly swindling ordinary people should be anything other than criminal, whether it's done in the guise of a medical service or as a simple street con. There were people in Theranos who knew exactly what was going on, knew the human cost of it, had the power to stop it, and still pushed forward. How are they better than any common thief?
Using Octoparse(web scraper) to scraping a website but just gives me ine result
I have created a design workflow for a website but everytime I run it, instead of giving me multiple rows of data it just gives me one row of data. It has 10 links and instead of returning with 10 rows of data it returns with one row of data of the link which it has visited currently. Please help
How many times have we heard that City X has poised to become "next tech capital" ? Austin, San Antonio, London and which not.

Building a specialization is far more complex. It might seem unrelated but I think the SF's historical openness for all sort of "weird" people have played a big role in its emergence as Tech capital. It would take years for nay city to beat it.
You're suggesting that rewriting billions of lines of code that probably contain lots of bugs somewhere every time a new safer language comes along is the most sensible investment of effort by the software industry in order to improve the quality of our software infrastructure, while I'm saying, wait, maybe we should use some inspection tools first before we decide on an approach, so at least we know where the worst of the problem is, and you think I'm the one who needs to cite sources? Alternatively, do you think that "rewrite all legacy code!" (an effort that would probably cost billions of dollars) does not need to be justified by concrete claims about actual cost and benefit?

But fine, here's a taste (look for what is required to use the tool as well as results):

* http://mir.cs.illinois.edu/marinov/publications/SenETAL05CUT...

* http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ (see the "The bug-o-rama trophy case")

* http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/144848/2011%20CAV%20SLAye...

* https://code.facebook.com/posts/1648953042007882

* http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-17524-9_1

Note that there are some strengths, some weaknesses, but I hope those sources make it clear that using those tools first is at least more sensible than "rewriting everything", as they require orders of magnitude less effort, and they do uncover bugs (you're free to guess what percentage of those bugs would be found in a rewrite, and whether the bug density demands a rewrite). We may decide that a rewrite of some libraries is the best approach once we have more information.

Now, do you have any sources suggesting that a complete rewrite is cost-effective?
What do you mean by pad the reviews? Coerce employees into giving mostly favorable ones?
The US is a big place, so if you look at it as a whole it's definitely not going to look as attractive. If you look specifically at the tech hubs however, even if we don't account for the 2 biggest US tech hubs, SV and NYC, places like Seattle and Boston still have much higher median salary and salary potential compared to the two biggest Canadian tech hubs, Toronto and Vancouver, and with comparable cost of living to boot.

The AngelList salaries data confirms this at least when it comes to the startup job sector: https://angel.co/salaries
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From that very page

> Instead, the company said it will explore ways businesses can use WhatsApp to connect with individuals, and will introduce new ways for users to communicate with businesses and organisations that will pay the company to target relevant communications with customers.

>> organisations that will pay the company to target relevant communications with customers

So, their plan is more targeted advertising in the form of "offers" or "deals" etc.
the smartest energy investors from the green energy bubble which burst 3 YEARS AGO NOW, have all basically concluded that we are not YET at the tipping point, accelerating up the curve, of scaling the construction of industrial solar .

perhaps the cheerleaders who pout about our 'slow' progress are doing us a service by trying to motivate us. but i also see them as pesky and annoying.

while some measure of r&d benefits from the feedback loop of failure to industrialize or failures learned from in the industrialization of extant technologies, ------the reality is that basic r&d needs to be done. much much more of it.

pushing relentlessly for industrialization at a stage in time where the technology IS NOT YET READY TO SCALE RELATIVE TO OUR EXISTING BASE---------is just foolishness and a waste of money.

BETTER TO SPEND THE MONEY IN R&D, THAN TO WASTE TOO MUCH OF IT ON NON-SCALEABLE SYSTEMS.
My favorite Lysander quote, which has proven quite true:

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."

QFT.
Stefano Pessina. One of the most impressive European entrepreneurs. And he's CEO because the pre-existing management, who got them into this mess, were terrible.
The "no regulation faction" is fighting hard to get out of its corner. A few days ago, Jessica Flanigan (https://sites.google.com/site/jessicamflanigan/Research), an anti-FDA medicine ethicist at the University of Richmond, made the rounds on this very board. She shows how this group is trying to get its ideas accepted by the mainstream.

Note that she is housed at a philosophy department! Physicians are trained to put patient outcomes first. If she were invited to speak at any medical school she would be torn to pieces. She wouldn't have any good answers how her positions would help prevent Elixir Sulfanilamide or now Theranos. The medical school I am associated with is in the South, in a conservative town, and she wouldn't fare well here. But I guess at a conservative philosophy department they don't ask that kind of hard questions.

We need to fight to keep the libertarian fringe confined.
> Also, in some place like San Fransisco the cost of living is going to be 2x or more, so that 2-3x higher salary will end up translating into maybe 1.2x.

This is a pretty important point...

Currently it looks like a ~100k salary in San Fransisco is required to maintain the same standard of living that 55k gets you in Atlanta, Dallas, Raleigh, Pittsburgh, and essentially every other big city I've looked at. So about 1.8x higher is required.

For Toronto it's about 1.9x.
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Haha, it's not as extreme as it sounds though -- you just gotta copy and paste it somewhere more permanent when you're done! :P Didn't want to build anything to store or manage your writing -- that's way more involved, plus there are plenty of great tools for that.
The more you read online, the worse you write
I think the first time I've witnessed the Milky Way was only 3 years ago at 27. Ever since than I'd often grab my DSLR and drive a couple of hours in the middle of the night outside the city limits to shoot the stars. Quite frankly, unless you live close to a large city like NYC, you're likely 30 minutes to 1 hour away from a decent location to observe the Milky Way.

You're probably not going to see it in its full glory as you would at the Grand Canyon, but it would still be a memorable sight. If you're interested in chasing the Milky Way, check the light pollution map [1] to find some dark spots around your area and then head over to Clear Dark Sky [2] to check weather and visibility conditions. Also, if you're Android or iPhone user, check out Star Walk 2 [3] to help locate the Milky Way (and a ton of other neat stuff!) when you're on site.

[1] http://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html

[2] http://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/

[3] http://vitotechnology.com/star-walk-2-guide-sky-night-day.ht...
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2) we ARE SEEING A DRAMATIC ECONOMIC CRASH IN THE WEST.

electricity rates in europe have skyrocketed and this is part of the artificial scarcity of electricity , and the suckout of savings that is draining the european economy by rising costs (electricity costs as input to industrial goods) and declining supply ( of money that could have been spent or saved and reinvested in other things other than ridiculous high cash payments for electricity)
The article is an interesting if impractical thought experiment.

Nations are more than the sum of their citizen parts. They live beyond the scope of any one human. Thousands if not millions are born and die every day. Law is more long lived by necessity.

Framework documents like the constitution are gifts from our ancestors -- any system sting enough to endure and flexible enough to change is a good thing. If the 20th century taught anything, it's that nation building is exceptionally difficult. The US constitution has been the core framework for a robust nation for centuries.
Wanda acquiring legendary is one of the changes. Being owned locally means the pictures are more likely to be approved.
That's useful if they're not all cranks trying to sell perpetual motion, organic food, or placebos.
It looks like the alias file is overwritten with each invocation.
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I've saved the criteria he mentions for deciding if you're coasting or not for later review
In my estimation (I'd like to be wrong!) righteous fury adds nothing to the pursuit of insight. And, again in my estimation,[0] we'll better distribute justice if we stay unbiased and seek to understand the situation.

The people at Theranos, especially the wrongdoers, probably want to be and feel understood. I think that's a step toward insight and justice.

Maximizing fury (I love the turn of phrase) makes people defensive, which aborts the insight-pursuit.

[0] Sorry to use so many qualifiers. Because I'm telling people how they should talk, I want to be as precise as possible.
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Sometimes I feel those J2ME games were better than games today. I remember wasting hundreds of hours on worms and galaxy on fire and several others. I tried the new galaxy on fire in android and the game is just not good enough to keep me engrossed.
> There needs to be larger governments, governments not ruled by the local majority, which can step in to curb the abuses an unchecked majoritarian government would otherwise get away with.

Changing the size of government doesn't fix any problem created by majoritarianism. A larger government only makes it so that when the majority gets it wrong, they get it wrong everywhere at once and there is nowhere left to run.
Woot! Thanks ismdubey for posting my medium post to hackernews. I'm honored. Imagine my suprise when I saw a link to my own blog on hackernews. Followed by jumping up and down. Hit me up if you got questions :D
What browser are you using?

I see they set both visibility:hidden and visibility:visible but Firefox let's visible override hidden here.
I read the first two sentences, and then I immediately closed the tab. I then decided to give it a second thought seeing the response on HN, and I see my first gut reaction was correct.

I'm 27, and I know people who are younger who surprise, surprise are reflective. I stay about 45 minutes away from my office by bus. By bike it takes 35. I like the bike ride, but initially, I missed the bus rides because I had time to contemplate on the bus...yes, with my phone in hand. May be I am the minority, but even with my phone I think a lot because I decide to and to be honest, my phone isn't as interesting as my thoughts...frequently. Technology has always been an augment to my life, it isn't my life. When I didn't spend 5 hours on my phone I probably spent 5 hours playing video games or 5 hours doing something else. This feels like another thinly veiled $(echo Rock and roll is corrupting the youth | sed 's/Rock and roll/Marijuana/' | sed 's/Marijuana/Grunge Music/' | sed 's/Grunge Music/Video Games/' | sed 's/Video Games/the Internet/') argument--it also is another article that indirectly targets Millenials ( attacking the selfie, then the tweet ) and that their culture is "unreflective"...yes, the same generation that drinks, smokes, is more educated, and has less teen pregnancies than prior ones. Possibly, some of those 5 hours were spent self-inflicting one's self with cancer in generations past, which I would argue is quite unreflective.

The phone and the internet is not going away, many introspective introverts like me still do think and still like it. Just because we have written language, it doesn't mean the corrupt youth know less since they no longer have to memorize. In fact, as Aristotle was dead wrong on Newton's 1st Law, I offer that written language, like all technology, just makes us better thinkers...it all comes down to how we use it.
> Screw the big cities.

Adelaide is not a big city. Adelaide is a small, very affordable city. A big city is Sydney, Melbourne, Paris, London, NY, Tokyo.

Its good you have found something you like, but I have no need for so much space. Why would I, I think it is wasteful. And having to own a car, I would hate that.