skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not my job to educate you in the history and mechanics of privilege and power, and I certainly won't try to do it through a comment box. I also have no idea why you think yourself entitled to ask me to withdraw anything.

And yes, of course, you aren't trying to read anyone's mind. That's the problem. You appoint yourself vigilante of any statement offered without a dissertation's worth of evidence. But then you immediately make unsupported statements about what we know, about exactly how we think. You took not a moment to understand, you asked not one question.

The only difference I see is that our statements question the status quo, while yours defend it. That is a depressingly common double standard when the police come up. It's also common from white people on the topic of race, and there when I dig into it it normally is rooted in white fragility[1].

Either way, I stand by my statements. I'm sure that Ken Walton stands by his. That you don't understand is not my problem. Stomp your feet all you like, but your ignorance is your problem to fix.

[1] http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/view/249
Outreachy helps people from groups underrepresented in open source get involved
This is a website for start up companies.
Facebook Events is a damn good idea. I am going to be looking into this and see if it is at all possible to do. Thanks for the feedback.

https://showlist.io/@jonny ;-)
I think the commenter meant that the usb Bluetooth dongles are so cheap it's barely worth even filing the return. I got mine two weeks ago for $7.50 and it's worked perfectly since. Not exactly a do-or-die investment.
I've smoked for 15+ years, I earn in the top 5% of the UK writing software for big players if that is a metric you respect. Only as a software developer although I've had the opportunity to be "promoted" I chose to write code...for more money. However I recognize that the amount I am smoking of current is affecting my cognitive load (I think). If I was drinking alcohol in the same amount I smoke cannabis I'd be an alcoholic like my father. Hmmm, wonder if there is a genetics issue...
Ah okay i didn't think of that, that is a pity then yes, as travelling broadens/opens the mind better then cannabis hehe. Specially seeing how other people have to live, struggle or live glamorous, etc. Using cannabis (being high) does make it easy to postpone things, and before you know it its indeed postponed 10 years. Though i have had this idea/thought too, i'm still getting less convinced about this. I've seen too many different cases to be sure. I might consider videogaming/online multiplayer stuff ruined more time of people and or students around me then cannabis. And yes, they do 'work well' together :)
In the US, it basically depends on how poor and/or black you are. No joke.
> As a backup mechanism your liver can also produce glucose by converting amino acids (muscle) and even fat, a process known as gluconeogenesis.

Just a quick note, and your explanation is fantastic otherwise: this isn't quite correct. The (human) liver doesn't use fat directly for gluconeogenesis. It's just not efficient for humans: We wouldn't gain enough energy from it. The liver uses fat indirectly through glycerol (which is a product of fatty acid catabolism), but it's important to draw a distinction here because this is why ketosis occurs - if the liver could efficiently break down fat directly, ketosis would never happen at all! Most tissues would much rather use glucose directly if it's an option.

While muscle breakdown occurs in small amounts normally it's mostly a last resort that occurs after an extended period of starvation. Which makes sense: You wouldn't want to break down the thing (skeletal muscle) you need to get more food except as a last resort. The amino acids involved in more typical gluconeogenesis largely come from other sources.
How does blunted insulin response feel? Is that as simple as feeling burnt out early?
> We seem to be ok with people dropping out and becoming monks, but somehow living a relaxed lifestyle is somehow a major problem.

Thank you for this reframing! I believe that it is useful and will likely use it in the future.
How to Match Your Startup Stage to Investor Interest
by by => bye bye
Ubuntu is not Linux. Ubuntu is one option out of many.
The only way you can learn these is to become employed and get mentored up. You can learn the basics online or with an OSS project, but even that won't prepare you for using them in a business.

Companies should accept this and be willing to invest in their employees, not just use them as cogs.
A problem is that women are smoking marijuana and may not yet know they are pregnant.

Medical marijuana laws and pregnancy: implications for public health policy.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27422056

"Although there is much to learn yet about the effects of prenatal marijuana use on pregnancy and child outcome, there is enough evidence to suggest that marijuana, contrary to popular perception, is not a harmless drug, especially when used during pregnancy. Consequently, the public health system has a responsibility to educate physicians and the public about the impact of marijuana on pregnancy and to discourage the use of medical marijuana by pregnant women or women considering pregnancy." [emphasis added]

Long-term Marijuana Use and Cognitive Impairment in Middle Age
http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=24849...

Association Between Lifetime Marijuana Use and Cognitive Function in Middle Age
The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study
http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=24849...

Marijuana use leads to increased stillbirth: (free download)

Association between stillbirth and illicit drug use and smoking during pregnancy
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24463671

"CONCLUSION: Cannabis use, smoking, illicit drug use, and apparent exposure to second-hand smoke, separately or in combination, during pregnancy were associated with an increased risk of stillbirth. Because cannabis use may be increasing with increased legalization, the relevance of these findings may increase as well."
The Connection Machine (1985) [pdf]
Yes but there is no where you can enter your screen name. I should have clarified that in my question because I got down voted for asking this.

The whole down voting thing imo really has to go. Just flag answers or up vote. The whole bro intellectual rudeness is sort of off putting.
The Search Engine (1999)
Why is everyone clicking so much? Once you get your first few 'taters the extra gain from clicking is so small as to be pointless.
> End-to-end encryption doesn't seem to impact whether law enforcement can look backwards in time or not.

I think he was referring to the fact that the Signal protocol has perfect forward secrecy -- if you break the key today, all previous communications are still secure because they used different keys (the key is updated using the Axolotl ratchet).
Thanks for the points/ideas.

The 'I was there' idea is one that I really like. And yes, discoverability by what shows other users were at is a feature we are working towards.

Thanks again.
> This is my progression as well :^)

I never said that list was arbitrary or randomly generated :D
Can you give a short overview of what you are eating and why? Just plants? Also including nuts? What about eggs? If you go full vegan it's not without risk either, you know.
I think it is a great way to fund development. In any case various Linux distros will have gratis packages available at some point.
> I try and hire engineers and we have to go through dozens of candidates to find someone who just seems motivated and competent

This has been our experience as well.
Yes, your body can't carry that much energy in your blood - it gets shunted off to glycogen or fat quickly because if it didn't the chemistry would start to go horribly wrong.

You could maybe do what you suggest by just slowly sipping a glucose solution over the course of a few hours but it would be very inefficient.
If you violate multiple laws in looking at this hypothetical person's phone, then yes, you're more in the wrong.
- First there's nothing wrong per se about charging for binaries in a GPL project, other projects did it before them (XChat comes to mind) and others will do. Doing so is absolutely not flaunting anything for a GPL project, if you think so you should read about what Free Software means.

- Second, in the case of Ardour, just read https://community.ardour.org/node/8288 . These people are doing what they can to keep the project alive.
You are right, extreme stress makes you lose weight as long as it occurs. But it also makes you drop a bunch of your daily routines. Or at least that's what it does for me. The most successful run at weight loss for me was completely destroyed when I went to another country for a year of exchange studying. In that time other things were more important and after that I never picked up my habbits from before again, sadly.
I kinda agree with this, being stoned 24/7 makes things tougher but you get used to that. Some people don't have as much drive as others for whatever reasons, it's just an extra hurdle.
Venture Capital for newsletter/digital media startups?
Which VC firms are known for investing in newsletter/digital media startups?
Thanks for the feedback! I will fix it.
It would be great to see how your life continues. I certainly read everything here about weight loss.
That's already happening: KXStudio, a Linux distro for audio work, has pre-packaged Ardour binaries.
I posted the leak on here yesterday and yeah, it was flagged immediately. Hate to have to say it but when it comes to information critical of a certain candidate this place is an echo chamber, looks like 13 people have now submitted the site and it is no longer flagged. Still concerning about the overall censorship in regards to a topic this site should find interesting no matter your political views
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12279977
Introduction to Webpack
It's a vicious circle, and what makes it worse (from the outside) is that companies who are willing to take on fresh-from-college talent and mentor them up (and keep their salaries on par with the rest of the industry) tend to have lower churn. Which means they have fewer openings, but more competition for those openings.

There's two major tech companies who do this locally, and they have some of the most loyal employees I've seen anywhere.
Is it worth investing in training when the employee might leave in a year for greener pastures as developers commonly do? It's a two way street.
What the invention of the sewing machine tells us about automation
The power of the placebo effect.
> The University budget was getting cut left and right throughout the history of Gopher's evolution.

Was it actually getting cut or were they not getting the increase they wanted? I lived in MN off and on since the 90's and it seems like they call a "cut" every time they don't get the increase they want.

> edit: Also you have to remember that computing was a LOT more expensive then. I have old quotes for SparcStations and RS/6000s that were in the $20-40k range, even with an educational discount.. The Mac IIci's were not cheap either ~$5k when loaded up with RAM.

Looking back, when people see the price of the NeXT cube and freak out, they forget how much a Mac IIfx was. Its amazing the era had basically expensive computers and machines like the Sinclair and Commodores in the very low end.
Snapchat for Business – DigitalAmple – Online Magazine
Not just specialized distros like KX, Ardour is at your fingertips in vanilla Debian and Ubuntu

- http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&suite=all&s...

- https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ardour
He said "digital age" not "Internet age" and then he mentions access to computers, the Internet, e-books, etc. Were you just looking for a comment to criticize?
Thanks for registering and adding your list -- I'm kind of jealous that you've seen David Gilmour!

Since we just launched 24 hours ago, it is currently a personal journal that you can organize and share with friends on Facebook and Twitter.

The vision is social and discoverability. We will enable you to follow other users that like similar bands to you, and see everyone that has been to the same shows as you. This will help you discover new bands and find shows in your geo area.
Citation, please.
I'd say that it's competitive with older versions of the major DAWs. It's reasonably stable and has a reasonably complete feature set.

The problem for Ardour on Linux is the plugin ecosystem. Any serious DAW user has invested thousands of dollars in plugins, none of which will run on Linux. For Linux to be a serious platform for audio work, it needs much more than just a DAW; it needs samplers, synths, reverbs, dynamics and EQ processors, pitch correction, restoration and mastering tools, etc etc.

Ardour is a noble effort, but I can't help feeling that it's a little bit futile. The sheer scale of the audio software ecosystem seems insurmountable for free software.
Because it's meta discussion about the "plumbing" and has nothing to do with the topic at hand. And generally speaking, the HN culture favors avoiding this kind of meta discussion. It also isn't important that your post specifically get upvoted, just that interesting posts eventually get seen. HN karma is worthless, so there's really no point worrying about getting upvotes.
The parent suggests it as an alternative to what we have now. That's not viable unless we want to regress to pre-agrarian levels.
To some extent, unless there is a flaw in the hash (fortunately, those are mythical;)), you're right, except leaking the hash itself can still leak useful data (here's a comment explaining how this can be used for an early-exit byte comparison[1]), and, for some hashes (such as MD5, SHA, etc) leaking the salt can significantly reduce the number of hashes that would need to be brute forced as well. Also, leaking the hash itself can provide a great deal of information about the scheme in use, which can either cause him to accelerate his attacks offline (DES!) or run away crying (bcrypt/scrypt!) :)

1. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/111040/should-i...
This is far from an objective point of view and extremely misleading.

Opium war in china had nothing to do with social cohesion, but trade and geopolitics. Same for the war in Afghanistan.

You don't need to go that far in order to come up with dubious examples (that few are familiar with) however.

The early 1900s in the good old USA, where morphine and later heroin were sold over the counter should provide plenty of evidence that you're spewing garbage.
That said, get rid of Unity and Ubuntu would suddenly so much better. Canonical might have damaged Linux lesser if it made Openbox the default WM.

I do not understand from where comes all this constant Unity bashing. I think that this is actually what creates the real damage.

I think that Unity is great user interface that takes the maximum out of the current distorted screens and I have used it for years as my main (and only) desktop.
"Why does every video player need a play and pause button? They are legacy interfaces left over from hardware devices with actual buttons. There is no cost or side effect of not pausing a video. GIFs are a great example showing that we don't need these controls any more."

Having extensive control becomes more important with longer videos. Being interrupted while watching, the desire to go back and rewatch a particular segment, etc. becomes more likely
> Currently, internships are open internationally to women (cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people. Additionally, they are open to residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.

It's have been quicker to write, 'internships are open to everyone but white, heterosexual men,' but that would have been too honest.

How utterly despicable.

Perhaps Paul Davis could apply, and claim to be Pauline Davis for internship purposes.
Thanks for trying it out and giving your feedback.

I agree that it can be annoying when you can't enter venues/dates manually, but we are on it.
I remember those days and I don't miss them in the slightest.
A big life event can be used to great effect (and for giving up smoking). Once you get through it (and it's never quite as hard as you fear), you demonstrate to yourself that nothing can stop you.
The consensus on HN seems to be that git/js/web/SQL/etc are the skills everyone has, but linked lists and binary trees are the gaps that disqualify them in interviews.
I think the problem is not that people shun them that those people want to live a more relaxed life, but more that some of these people haven't done the necessary steps to do it properly (bouncing from job to job because you can't function due to psychological addiction in a high-cost city is not good). As anything else, I believe that the individual should be responsible for what they do, yet proper knowledge of potential effects and how to face them is needed to avoid wasted years of their life.
Musician turned his experience as a diplomat in Afghanistan into a book
This, so much this.

During conversations in everyday life, I can not believe how many (well-educated) people I meet that are completely ignorant of the humongous elephant in the room even when they've been caught multiple times with their hand in the suitcases full of money that the CIA likes to throw around their potential "customers" like they're candy.

Even if black budgets that are kept off the books are a small slice of the pie, all the other colossal bureaucracies (DEA, prison-industrial complex) more than make up for it.
Blab is dead … long live Blab
You guys in Boulder CO have all the mutant climbers. You should see our little Ontario climbing news outlets! I'm pretty sure there's only one guy in the entire province that even sets indoor 5.14 (despite having quite a few gyms, I believe at least 15). Anyways, it was a bit overboard and in terms of international climbing news, I very much agree with you.
SXF also has it's own S-Bahn station.
The algorithm in that paper produces incorrect parses for some PEGs: http://tratt.net/laurie/research/publications/papers/tratt__...
What's with the slur? Arguably, "fucking nerds" have been the most successful at taking over the desktop.

https://twitter.com/billgates/status/478693050404069377
The author publicly made a serious allegation of racism against an officer of the law, based solely on his own preconceived notions, which you supported, and apparently neither of you have any evidence to back up those allegations. Ironically, it's actually YOU pre-judging the officer.

Then you mischaracterized my statements entirely. I'm not defending the status quo - I'm pointing out that you and BLM are wrong to assume this is only a problem for black people.

Police brutality can happen to anyone.

Like Chase Sherman, a 32 year old white male.

> Sherman's mother called 911 after he had a bad reaction to a substance she believed to be the drug 'spice'. According to authorities, Sherman and the responding deputies ended up in an struggle and a Taser was used. Sherman became unresponsive shortly after. Body camera footage shows Sherman being shocked repeatedly while handcuffed in the back of his fiancee's car. Sherman was shocked at least 15 times, according to deputies' Taser logs.

Or Eric Tompkins, a 41 year old white male.

> Tompkins allegedly refused to keep his hands out of his pockets while talking to officers who had been dispatched to respond to reports of a suicidal man. Two officers fatally shot Tompkins when he pulled a cellphone out of his pocket, which the officers said they believed was a gun.

Or William Bowers, a 51 year old white male.

> A deputy shot and killed Bowers, who was homeless, after he ran from police, authorities said. Deputies reportedly tried to stop Bowers while he was riding his bicycle because they recognized him and knew he was on probation.

But by all means, continue to attack anyone who asks for evidence if you wish.
Would you rather have skilled employees who eventually leave, or unskilled employees who do not?
> It's pretty easy to lose 40-50 pounds and end up being much less healthier than you were before

Maybe if you amputate your legs or catch AIDS or syphilis in the process. Otherwise, I can't see how losing 50 pounds will leave you less healthier than before.
Interesting.

I thought you are allowed to discriminate based on disability, if it impedes work function.

Any depression that gets to the level of being qualified as a disability seems severe enough to impede work.
Losing weight is not as impossible a mission as the author makes out. Plenty of people on /r/loseit who have lost significant weight. All reduced calories and almost all used myfitnesspal to track them.
I feel if I eat lunch before the gherlin hits hard my mood is much better in the afternoon.
Why are people allowed to downvote medical studies from highly regarded journals? Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology?

What kind of human being would want increased babies neurologically deprived from marijuana exposure or additional stillbirths?

Instead of downvoting, why don't you explain why you want these effects in infants?
In what way could iMessage's encryption be better than TLS? Which improvements, specifically, could make it better than TLS? I was under the impression that TLS is state-of-the-art.
> Experience, service, novelty.

And a price close enough to that found online that you can get the close. Or you're going to get showroomed.

An alternative to having the price close enough is to have the price in the ballpark and have a sense of urgency such that the consumer will buy now. I have walked into Barnes and Noble and bought a book because I wanted it right then and I was out and about. Perhaps I could have had it for $5 cheaper on Amazon, but saving that $5 wasn't worth the wait.

Another alternative is to have (at least some of )the physical experience be purchased--hence the coffee shops in the bookstore--you can't get hot coffee via Amazon. (Yet?)
> "It's have been quicker to write, 'internships are open to everyone but white, heterosexual men,' but that would have been too honest."

Agreed.

But I don't think it's despicable. Our field needs diversity, and in a dominated ecosystem you don't get diversity by just letting natural forces do their job, because the ecosystem is already dominated/biased.

So to my eyes we need biased, opposed initiatives like this one, or PyLadies.

Does it remove available funding for Paul? (In other words, are the total available OSS funds the result of a zero-sum game)? I don't think so: some support the goals of Outreachy and contribute to it, some like Mozilla just contribute to what's in their field. These programs are about OSS fundings but I wouldn't categorize them as part of the same set.
I don't think anyone was claiming that listening for the passive voice is the only way to identify when someone is dodging responsibility.

I do think it is being identified (at least) as an important or effective way of noticing when you are being evasive in your own writing - otherwise why is "the passive is often used to conceal agency" even relevant to the question of improving your writing? And I think to that end, asking the more direct question is better.