skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but sometimes there is no money to spend, and that's my point...it is purely a budget issue not a political one. When your State budget goes from say $70B down to $60B (including a stimulus package from the federal government) and the state is already $200B in debt where does the money come from?

Had the republican (turned independent, turned democrat) governor Crist known saving $5.5M would cost $5.5B he wouldn't have done it, but he didn't and instead maybe he saved 100 state jobs.

It's easy to know the right decision after the facts, but these budget issues cut both ways. For example, during the housing crisis to keep Florida operating I believe Crist liquidated like 1/3 to 2/3 of FL pension trusts. So, yes it's great that FL didn't shut down, but what happens when FL can't pay retirees pensions?

So if you want $100M for mental Health funding who do you take it from?
$8-10/pack in WA also.
"A certain age"? I "joined" the club by getting a gig at Amazon at 46. Before that I'd never worked at any of the big tech companies. I also get interest from startups all the time, but from what I can tell they don't want employees above a certain salary, not a certain age.

I don't think it's age but attitude and skills that distinguish people who can get "in the club." If the attitude is "SHOW ME THE MONEY" when Google is well known for paying way above market rates, or if the attitude is "WHY SHOULD I KNOW THESE CS PROBLEMS!?", when it's well known that Google cares about those problems...well, then no, you can't join the club.

At this point I've interviewed at Google but turned them down when they could only offer me what sounded like a glorified accounting programming position (in the Boulder office, which doesn't have as many teams as in Mountain View). I might have fun working at Google on the right team, but I have other options (including Amazon) that also pay well and are very attractive for other reasons, so why not?
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And they put more effort into doing so with regulations from central authorities pushing it. There are no regulations, central authorities, or even strong investments in such security for the Bitcoin exchanges. So, again, how normal banks handle security vs how Bitcoins are managed is difference between night and day. You bringing in an exceptional situation for normal banking (a) doesn't apply to majority of normal banks, (b) distracts from fact that such things are normal for Bitcoin but not status quo its proponents want people to avoid, and (c) ignores that there's rarely effort in protecting Bitcoin exchanges that matches what players in existing system put in.

So, people should trust or build on existing system if they care about their stuff disappearing or being stolen. There's mitigations that work for that situation for the common case. Unlike Bitcoin and its exchanges.
Seems like a poorly negotiated acquisition if your employees don't get anything of value out of it. Hell of a way to encourage work.
> Oculus is order to not become a niche product needs to be sold as part of a console bundle

Facebook wants VR to be more than video games. Bundling the Gear with Samsung phones has been a success so far.
I'd probably listen to someone with actual dental training over someone who opened their comment with "I am not a dentist" :)
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"Yes officer, I'd like to report a suspicious frolic! It's like they're in some sort of jamboree."
According to the NOAA link I provided the CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa rose from 402.80 ppm in June 2015 to 406.81 ppm in June 2016 (most recent data) which is 4.01 ppm in a year :(

I think you mean the growth rate of CO2 emission is starting to level (actually looking at the data not even this is true), not growth of CO2. We are still headed for disaster if the CO2 goes up by 4ppm every year. I see no sign that emissions of CO2 are slowing, or that we are doing anything serious to stop emitting GHG. Just look at the growth of CH4 which is continuing to increase [1].

1. http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends_ch4/
Does Uber still use Python for backend services?
The simple answer is that all the current (and thus all the power) is drawn at the peaks of the sin wave. This means for most of the sin wave no current is being drawn. This is a problem because now the average power rating that a power plant can produce -- where the power is produced for all parts of the wave in roughly equal amounts -- is no longer enough, they have to be able to generate much more power just for the peak of cycle.

This load imbalance is a large problem.
My understanding is that, although possible, if the cancer risk does exist, it's very small; here's an article placing it at 3-4 cases per 1,000,000:
http://aaem.pl/fulltxt.php?ICID=1011054
(They cite a 2012 meta-analysis which showed no statistically significant effect of mouthwash)
Here's a recent large-sample statistical study:
https://healthcare.utah.edu/huntsmancancerinstitute/research...
They find an 1.15 odds ratio of cancer for mouthwash users, but in the non-smoking non-alcohol-drinking cohort this effect goes the opposite direction (OR 0.83); statistics is hard and there isn't high-quality data to give a real conclusion. But since the overall incidence of oral cancer is roughly 1 in 10000 (http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/DataStatistics/FindDataByTopic/Oral...) I wouldn't be too worried; all these show is that the effect is tiny. (Of course, if you only remember the big headline from ten years ago with a tiny sample size...)

There's a clear line of research showing benefits in mouthwash:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4948552/
It's true that the fluoride in mouthwash does little, and there are some stupid mouthwashes that don't have any real ingredients, but essential oil mouthwashes (like Listerine) and several others (as mentioned in the review) have been shown to have significant gum benefits.

There's also some interesting research with tetrapotassium pyrophosphate and tartar buildup: http://periogen.com/periogen-studies.html Although I expect these studies are manufacturer-funded and thus overstate the effect, it seems pretty hard to deny that it helps.

Note: I'm not a dentist either, but I read this book my dentist recommended: https://amzn.com/B009LPLMRU. It's well-referenced for everything except water fluoridation and her conflict of interest (xylitol products).
We should not be praising someone for being afraid to stand behind their words. That is the behavior of a coward.
I am a Canadian and don't have a family doctor and am unclear on the benefits of having one. When I had one years ago I didn't feel like I was getting any extra special attention beyond what I get now by walking into a walk-in clinic and seeing any random doctor.

Perhaps the benefits are clearer if you have ongoing medical issues? Or perhaps my old family doctor wasn't doing things a family doctor is supposed to do in terms of ongoing care?
You got one. 'Thinking Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman. Sometimes people don't optimize long term and just prefer to get 'daily' rate and go back to their families. This might turn bad if sth happens and they can't ride for some time and could use the 'rain' money. Book is really good, highly recommended.
he's not falling for Chinese propaganda, he's part of the Chinese propaganda
My question was what is the total cost of Florida's mental hospitals and if that is worth it. Assuming that $100M cut was a 10% cut it means that the total expenditure could be $1B. Which looks ridiculously high for merely 20M population of Florida.

Of course there is a whole point of whether government ought to spend some money now to avoid spending on basic services later whether there are proper studies done and if people agree to it and if the mental hospitals are free for everyone. But that was not my question here.
Or 418 :)

Edit: For reference, 418 is real. It is the "I am a teapot" error code, from an April fools RFC about teapots being internet connected, which I thought was at least marginally relevant to hardware hacking.
Presumably, one's git hooks are not in danger of being lost to oblivion. If that's the case, neither bit of advice is ideal. If, however, one is careless enough that unix plumbing with obliterate the hook for eternity, then appending at least allows the original to exist some place.
What's Up with the British?
The new Seattle, where everything looks the same
what's a good encryption program?
You won't find any, there isn't any. The basic idea is people from different backgrounds will have different views on things and this is a good thing. The concept itself does make sense, but I can't imagine any type of study actually being possible to back it up.
Yes, thank you. I strongly agree.

I have a couple SIM cards since I live on the US/Canada border. WhatsApp and Telegram won't let me send messages when I switch SIMs and there is no other way to verify my identity.
:-) I like both of those publications because they wear their bias on their sleeves. It's easier to extract information when you don't have to also try to reverse engineer the bias.
I really like this one: https://blog.alexmaccaw.com/an-engineers-guide-to-stock-opti...
Then just use checksum instead of an obsolete cryptographic hash.
Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

I know that in the fog of war, it's easy to get fixated on what could be vs. what you actually have NOW.

About 3 years ago I was holding a very large amount of stock in a startup. The primary investor and ceo offered to do some of the early employees a solid by allowing the primary investor to purchase some shares directly from the employees.

I decided to sell about 10% which gave me a nice payday, but I decided to hold onto the remainder because 'it could be worth so much more.'

Needless to say I'm sitting on some stock that is virtually worthless. While the company in question is still active and doing ok, the real value has dropped, there is no IPO in sight, no secondary market sales opportunity, and the long term prognosis isn't great.

If I'd only had asked myself that question then, I would have sold at least 60% or more.
Isn't MySQL owned by Oracle and closed sourced as a result these days?
Let's all say it together:

No.

Fucking.

Way.

How could anyone have seen this coming!?
I don't understand this either. It's not up to companies to "be the change they want to see in the world". To me, this behavior is nothing but a ploy. No successful company invests money to get the second, third, fourth, etc best return possible.

If anything, it's an insult to the minorities; they only hire them because they are a minority and they fill the minority quota, not necessarily because of their ability.
I'm sure it doesn't compare to SF, but the "homeless issue" is hardly solved in SLC, Utah, from my anecdotal experiences living here. If the homeless population has been reduced "91%" as this article maintains, then I cannot imagine what it was like before.
Not guaranteed. If you exercise your options at company X, say $20 per share, left company X, and company Y buys company X for $10 per share, then you just lost money.

I imagine this is pretty rare but it's possible for a company to acquire another and strictly buy all preferred stock instead of common stock and then all employees get nothing [0].

[0] This happened to a friend of mine where all execs had preferred stock and were totally fine selling the company and screwing over the employees. Make sure your founders/execs have common stock so that everyone is on the same playing field...
We're several years too late to stop it, and we still have half of our government (in the US) utterly denying the problem even exists.

I suggest looking up what people on the opposite side of the debate actually believe, rather than lumping them all together as "denying the problem even exists".

C02 levels are rising (currently 0.04%, will be 0.05% by 2060) and cause a greenhouse effect. We don't know how strong this effect is, but we do know the effect is logarithmic (every additional unit of C02 causes less warming). Many predictions of knock-on effects of climate change are highly speculative (e.g., gulf stream shutdown) or products of distorted incentives (much more money is allocated for climate science research than for other environmental studies, incentivising researchers to exaggerate links between climate change and other environmental issues).

Every indication is that we're facing changes which we can adapt to or mitigate with technology. What's also clear is that cutting emissions by more than 80% (as is often advocated) would cripple energy production, which would cripple industrial civilisation. We're talking people going back to living in tiny smoke-filled cottages (no AC or central heating), in small villages (no commuting), mostly working on farms (no diesel-powered farm equipment).

Fossil fuels, nuclear and hydro power are currently the only viable options to keep modern civilisation running. Hopefully we eventually find an alternative, but it's insane to risk mass suicide to avoid a manageable change in the climate, on the utopian hope that wind/solar will somehow leap forwards in efficiency.

Anyway, that's what I (and many other rational anti-environmentalists) believe.

there's a whole segment of the population that still believes in fairy tales spun by the oil and gas industry.

If you're implying people are in hock to propaganda, the amount spent by the fossil fuel industry on advocacy is dwarfed by the amount spent on pro-environmentalist advocacy by governments, liberal foundations and the big environmentalist NGOs.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2014/01/02/dark-mone...

The human mind is just terrible at grasping problems on the scale and timeline of global climate change, and it's plausible that it'll be the end of life as we know it in another few decades.

Nice combination of speculation about why people disagree (their minds just can't "grasp" it) followed by ungrounded catastrophism. Even the IPCC thinks we're facing a sea level rise of between 20 and 60 centimetres by 2100. That is not "the end of life as we know it".
The longer you can put off paying taxes the longer you can keep that portion of the money and earn a return on it.
The act of selecting one candidate for a job over another based on their ethnicity or gender instead of their qualifications and aptitude is literally the definition of racism/sexism. By doing so they are propagating the very thing they claim to want to destroy.

This obsession with balance of race and gender is toxic to what actually makes businesses great, talent.
This country seems quite capable of destroying itself in short order regardless.

Now we have unstoppable constitutional rights abuses and endless drone wars in far away lands. Not to mention a lobbying apparatus that can concentrate "donations" to less and less people to get its way.
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>CCPOA is the largest actor in California politics

it isn't exactly full order, so you kind of right in questioning my statements at their absolute face value. It is more like partial order here - oil industry and the guards have orthogonal interests. Except for the one aspect - guards consume state budget while oil industry is a source of it. And as we know from the business community whining - CA is considered "not business friendly"/"high tax state". Though of course i don't think the guards and oil clash directly here - the guards' politics is more about redistribution of the budget away from the other categories. I.e the oil and the guards have their own big fields to play, and when it comes to their own fields, the guards have much higher success than oil in their respective fields in CA.

And, man, $22 millions is just a rounding error for either of the players - the CA prison budget is $10B.

If you remember the beginning of Schwarzenegger's time, the first thing he did was taking on the biggest problem of the state - the guards union. He failed. No surprise here given the nature of the task. Still my personal great respect to him - he was the only one who even have ever tried to do it.
Well this is my sad TIL for the day.
It's that for many jobs good enough is in fact good enough, and then the hiring question turns into a quality-of-life issue. Some people really don't like to sit across from blacks, queers or Trump voters.
Note that Git ships with Xcode, not part of OS X itself. Xcode 7.3.1 updated Git to v2.7.4. Xcode 8, likely to GM in the next month or two, includes Git v2.8.4.
It's a good idea to bias entreprenurial in tech, IMHO. It's hard but it escapes the crush of the job search. If you can find a bit of investment that's even better.
I'm an American with kickass insurance who doesn't have a "family doctor". I go to a local practice that has 5 or so doctors and a couple of CNP's. I don't always see the same person, but I see someone within 2 or 3 days for routine stuff and same day for urgent stuff. I think that the moderate trade off between "personalization" and availability is totally worth it, especially since it saves me money (my insurance is apparently billed less for an appointment at a group practice, which means eventually my premiums are lower).
Global Warming coincides with leftist economic/political policies very neatly. That can't be denied.
Isn't Oculus Rift a premium VR product?
The only parts on that list that would have different grades are the capacitors. It isn't a measure of quality, but the temperature and stability specs of the dielectrics.

EDIT: Source: I'm an electrical engineer and design electronics for a living and have even worked with ex-Apple engineers.
What do you think our government will do with that money? Give it to the poor?

It will go right into bloated defense spending.
> So nobody here is advocating for taking away anything granted by contract.

You can't really say that when the contract is opaque. Most recruits do not understand that the tax consequences of the 90 day window supersede the vesting schedule, to the point where vesting is effectively meaningless.

You're concerned that if employees can actually keep their options that they will be more mercenary and diversify their startup portfolio. Ok, that's not an unreasonable concern. Diversification is a smart investment strategy with high-risk assets.

But the issue here is firstly one of transparency. The reasoning you laid out is opaque. What does it mean to require employees to buy their options "to take the risk on the gain" when in most cases they can't afford to buy them? Furthermore, haven't they already risked their time and effort? Why would "no longer adding value to the company" justify the loss of previously vested options?

Look, if what you're aiming for is a disincentive for mercenary employees, that's totally fine. But make it transparent. Make it a backloaded vesting schedule. Make it a cliff. Make it a cliff all they way out to the IPO if you want. But that's how you need to present it to recruits: clearly and transparently. Otherwise you are simply misleading recruits into thinking they will keep more than they really can.
Looks like you found a bug in the Google Keyboard on the final beta of Android Nougat on the Nexus 6P! That symbol shows up on the Google Keyboard in place of percent.

I do understand the need for people to see others that look like themselves, but at what cost? Here is the cost: when you say you want "larger percent of X demographic", you could also say you want a "smaller percent of Y demographic". A company is not simply going to have a bigger workforce to fit more black women, they are going to pass on some Asian man to fit them in. That's a disservice to some hard working people. We are, after all, people. We all want different things in life.
>A bargained-for exchange of information for service is a perfectly acceptable and widely used model throughout the U.S. economy, including the Internet ecosystem

Isn't bargaining a two sided affair?

Also something that should be part of the article and is a LARGE omission is the fact that Comcast is literally a shareholder in Hulu.

This could mean it is them selling ads on a service they are owners of using the data they gathered as an ISP and not only as a service, like the data Netflix would have. It seems to me a much more egregious offense then them selling my data, something I expect to happen with a monopoly.

Comcast is the company that seems like the entity that one would provide as an example of why Libertarian ideology can't feasibly work, but the example would seem so absurd it still shocks me it exists.
This is such an absurd fucking argument for people to have.

BTW, Apple is based in Cupertino, which has 0.6% Black population, 63.1% Asian, and 29.3% White -- even if you take a huge surrounding area, it is about the same.

Shouldn't they hire to match the demographics?

How about the state demographics? They would need a lot more hispanics!

How about the world demographics? They would need a lot more Asians!

Why stop at matching gender and race?

Why not match the population of red-headed people that are qualified? Are they not normally discriminated against enough?

How about fat or old people? Plenty of them and those motherfuckers wake up discriminated against!

How about ugly people? I have been to Apple headquarters and can vouch they are low on ugly people compared to the general population. Are ugly people not discriminated against enough?

How about hire who is best qualified? That is a fucking idea! Almost like if you had a fiduciary duty to do what is best for your company, and hiring the best qualified employees is exactly that!
Liberal democracy requires the availability of liquid capital (and therefore capitalism), because with only illiquid types of capital (land, social ties etc), there is no freedom and mobility. Other types of democracy may not require it, but they are not used much currently.
Not an answered, just repeating a common warning:

> Never invest more than you can afford to lose.
As someone who is an inconsolable bipolar wreck without therapy and medications, go fuck yourself. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about on this topic.
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> Liberal democracy requires the availability of liquid capital (and therefore capitalism),

"Capitalism" is not named for or defined by the existence of liquid capital (which both predates and exists outside of capitalism.)
Stuff like this is why I wish you could review the companies code before joining. Getting hired, discovering how bad everything is and then starting the job hunt again is awful for everyone.
“Turkey coup plotters' use of 'amateur' app helped unveil their network”
I just spent 8 minutes, and I still haven't figured out how to edit the text of a blog article on the demo site, or create a new post with any body content. All I see is a form for editing article metadata and lead, no matter how I try to get at it.

1. Blog -> Article List -> (Title) doesn't do it.

2. Blog -> Edit this article doesn't do it.

3. Double clicking on article text only lets me edit single paragraphs at a time. It doesn't seem to let me add or re-order paragraphs either.

4. Blog -> Article List -> Add Article doesn't let me create a post with body content.

5. Same with Blog -> Add New Article.