skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Very busy news day unfortunately.

It opens up plethora new ways of scaling Core solutions. What an exciting year for C#!
How I landed my first startup job through a roadtrip
Kent Beck's Product Development Triathlon: The Three-Phased Approach
There is no chance whatsoever that I'm going to give Uber access to my location while not using the app, so this just makes it harder to me to be a customer.
I'd say getting an offer from Google means nothing, but successfully working there for a few years at level 5 or above, does count for something. If you are recruiting for a startup, as my wife's recently did, the difference between the Xooglers she hired and non-Xooglers in terms of productivity and code quality was large.

This would likewise apply to seasoned ex-Facebook, Twitter, Square, Amazon, etc engineers. These are likely people who had to work with teams on reliable complex systems that serve a big audience. It won't matter for the prototype you use to get seed funding, but I'd argue it matters for the eventual rewrite.
Not that it really matters at the end of the day, but there's probably some charm in knowing that your "cultured" pearl was still formed inside a bivalve living in the ocean, versus being made in a machine like a porcelain gobstopper.

That said, check out this cool picture: https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_800_800/AAEAAQAAAAA... I didn't realize it was so industrial...
And you can turn all of those items off in the app's settings. It might be annoying although because it wont work as you want. It would be nice if apple added a general 'turn off all background activity' permission switch.
They don't need to, since they have the much better source of cell phone carriers with 24/7 location. And google android OS and apple to a certain extent.
"Some medical professionals held the studies at arm’s length. Dr. William Breitbart,
chairman of the psychiatry department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
questioned this use of cancer patients. "Medical marijuana got its foot in the door by
making the appeal that ‘cancer patients are suffering, they’re near death, so for
compassionate purposes, let’s make it available,’ " he said. "And then you’re able to
extend this drug to other purposes.""

This is supposed to be a criticism? Sounds like an endorsement to me.
Would be nice to have a good single & clean reference site like this for many boards, not just RPi.
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My browser asked me if your site could send me push notifications, and I feel like that's probably not necessary.
I prefer good coffee to bad espresso.
There's crappy things about React but one thing I like about it is that if you know JavaScript and HTML, you know the syntax for React and JSX.

Like you can pretty much write what you would expect to write as plain HTML and it'll work.
Blasphemy!

Seriously though I have never been a fan of any of the non-norwegian black metal acts and have found that it's not at all associated with the antics of the old days but rather that they have the right sound. Namely very analog - with exception of some of the symphonic black metal albums.
Or in countries which have family registries it can be used to track people who fail to update the registry or move to a city illegally in places where intra-national movement is restricted.
What's your salary/compensation?
I wonder if this could affect open source in some way.
This from the company who recently settled a fine with the A.G in New York for uasge of its "god view" tool:

"Uber and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman have reached a settlement over the company's "God View" tool, which allowed employees to access and track the location of Uber riders and customers without obtaining permission."

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10726004/uber-god-mode-sett...
Why is it off-topic? In my ~7 years on HN, I've only had comments detached as "off-topic" twice, both times in the past week and by you. Is HN just getting more heavy on moderation?
> I left the office at 5:40pm tonite

I can't tell if this is supposed to be evidence that you don't work long hours or an admission that you do.
I love espresso, but simply will not spend the money to make it properly at home. When at home, grinding my own beans and a small drip coffee maker works well and is cheap.

So I'm with you. If I'm going to spend any real effort or money I'll finally break down and buy an actual espresso machine.
If you are interested in this sort of thing, I'd strongly recommend "The Secret Chief Revealed",[1] which goes in to detail on the playlist selection for psychedelic therapy and many other related topics. It's a truly excellent book on the subject.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Chief-Revealed-Myron-Stolaroff...
It's more like the container service without setting up your own cluster
Try firing it at yourself to start with, then ask the openssh community once you've got some useful data?

Edit: Thanks for the downvote! Every time I consider sending in a pile of automated bug-reports to a project where I'm not already part of the community, I look at them myself first. If that's bad, I'm happy to be bad.
Where could I get hold of this?
I just linked one feature that by your own definition was better and you replied that Linux got it in 6 months, rather than "I did not realize FreeBSD does some great things in networking first".

If you are as experienced in networking as you claim, you should stop waiting to hear about magical features that are better. Nothing will ever impress you as being magical. That is a downside of having experience.

Maybe you would find talking to an actual expert on FreeBSD's network stack more interesting. I am not one and while I could list several other things I know, I am clearly is not doing it justice.
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Imagine if the Founding Fathers decided to forgo western civilization and go live in the woods as nomadic hunter gatherers instead of standing up to British oppression... Or if all the blacks just listened to Marcus Garvey and went back to Africa instead of participating in the American Civil Rights Movement. This is basically what you're suggesting.

We have the technological means to ensure reasonable levels of privacy. There's no excuse for lemon technology that exposes every intimate detail of our lives.
How much did he take? It sounds like he took too much. Taking a sensible dose should not result in this.
I'll be honest. I think that's terrible advice for improving your accent, though it might be okay advice for improving your comprehension at an early level and maybe picking up some vocab and grammar along the way.

For improving pronunciation, it's much more useful to pick a short passage that includes pretty much the full phonetic set of the language and drill it repeatedly. In years past, famous hyper-polyglots in Europe tended to use The Lord's Prayer for this. Now, there are a lot more options and you can also record yourself reading the passage and listen and compare your own sound with a native recording. Spend half an hour a day doing this for a month and it will have a dramatic effect on your pronunciation and accent in the target language. At least it has with every single person I've seen who has had the discipline to do it.
Dropbox is hiring a Solution Architect in Australia (out of our Sydney office), focusing on the technical side of the sales process. They need to be able to work in Australia and they'll be working with enterprise companies in a "large small market" (we have 10 million individual Dropbox accounts in a country of 24 million people) but also covering Asia Pacific when needed. Passion for technology and sales is a must, along with technical experience and consulting/sales/presales experience. PM me if you're excited about Dropbox and this opportunity!
This. As someone who works on bioinformatics workflows one of the more difficult aspects of my job is to try to explain to other software folks why we do what we do. While scheduling is a solved problem the issue is that you're dealing with a ton of command line tools expecting POSIX filesystems and often not involving parallelization
U.S. natural gas pipeline incidents are less common
Maybe that's just the current price point, though I haven't a clue what it would cost to produce one of these things. They're probably trying to capture as much surplus as possible right now.
Not HN
Nice writeup. My favorite part is

>> simply practiced interview questions for about three to four months, every day, from morning till night. I then had three phone interviews around November, which I passed.

It's interesting (& funny) to see both high schoolers and experienced people spend similar amount of time (~several months) practicing for these types of technical interviews.
For people involved with scientific workflow engines this is the Amazon equivalent of the Google Genomics pipelines API. For most of the computational world it's silly but for us it is pretty important.
Sorry, not currently.
> I wonder what study you could perform to accept hypothesis 1 but reject hypothesis 2.

One test would be whether only fear relating to one's own death is eliminated, or whether all fear is eliminated. E.g. I wouldn't expect a mother to let her children play with knives or whatever.

Also, the key mediating variable in terms of people achieving lasting peace is whether or not they have a mystical experience. And whether or not one has this qualitative experience is only loosely related to dosage, which to me makes it unlikely that some part of the brain is just getting biologically switched off or whatever.
Startups Fizzling Out Though VCs Raising More Money
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Because he's talking like he thinks the study is a scam to pave the way for legalization of psychedelics, and he does this by comparing it to the legalization of marijuana. This goes against my worldview for multiple reasons:

1) Psychedelic therapy is a promising treatment for mental health issues

2) Legalization of psychedelics might actually be a GOOD idea

3) The legalization of medical marijuana was a step in the RIGHT direction, toward the overdue legalization of marijuana

This guy is skeptical of #1 and seems to believe the opposite of #2 and #3. So yeah, I don't like him, and I think his beliefs are misguided and harmful.
I think it's ridiculous that you need an app to approximately control other background apps. Denying background access to the phone should be the default. Anything else should need a permission popup IMO.
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I haven't worked with goefences, but I'm guessing you can tell the OS you're interested in receiving particular geofence events such as when a user enters one. So the OS will relaunch apps which subscribed to those events so they can act on it.

Someone who has actually worked with geofences, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Armchair anecdotes. Everyone can and will have a different experience. Even from "safe" doses.
He had prior experience with the same substance at the same dosage. It was a little high but nothing unheard of, certainly not a heroic dose.
How about the Qataar donation of a million dollars to the CF which they never reported?

> The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-foundation-id...
Yup, which is a strong possibility for Uber. I had an Uber charge me for a ride that continued for 12 hours after I had been dropped off. Uber had no problem billing me >$300 for this. If they don't have safeguards in place for questionable fare collection, they surely don't have safeguards in place for questionable data collection.
The "black hole" argument is real, though.

Think of a catastrophe (natural or otherwise) which yielded a long-term interruption to the power grid— all those cloud-archived images and documents carefully striped with redundancy across multiple disks in different availability zones? All gone.

And yet a stack of papers in a fire-proof safe will be there and perfectly readable for centuries, with no intervention or maintenance required, and no special technology (at all) on the receiving end.
Agreed. I deleted Waze yesterday and set Uber to "Never" until they fix this.
http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004115589/verbati...
The toilets in question are individual room style toilets. You really can't handle that? Is that really a political belief? How do you go to the bathroom in smaller restaurants that have had toilets like that for decades?
From the Notes, this is a very sad story:

"I am Muslim, born in Massachusetts. I love my faith. Muslims in the US are very scared. Both my mom and wife wear the hijab, so I'm always worried they'll be attacked in the street. Even in the Bay Area it's a concern. Of course I encourage them to continue; it's important not to be affected. A few years ago, my mom and sister were at a farmers' market in Boston, what seems like a liberal setting. A big guy ran up and called them terrorists, started spitting at them. My 60 year old mom and 20 year old sister were really intimidated. My sister cried for the rest of the day. People stood by and watched. I give them the benefit of the doubt; they were taken off guard. We have to be aware of our surroundings and be ready to act. It takes mental preparation, so you don't end up reacting like a deer in the headlights."

I am worried what happens to a diverse country, such as the USA, when it elects a leadership that is vocally anti-immigrant. We are about to find out. All of us need to do what we can to minimize the kind of bigotry that might escalate under anti-immigrant leadership.
That's not that expensive.

If you bought a rack of servers and storage from HP, IBM or Dell and wanted a tier that got you to an engineer in <15m, that would cost far more.
I live in NYC with a lot of one-way streets, including my home. I actually use two different addresses for my home depending on whether I'm being picked-up or dropped-off. Otherwise, when being dropped off, Uber has sent me on some really odd detours just to get me exactly in front of my house. Instead, I'd rather get dropped off at a corner and walk 200 feet.

In theory, by collecting the location data 5 minutes after, they can get a sense of this where and to whom this happens, and automatically correct for it. I don't know if it'll work, but if it does, it'll definitely be a benefit to me.
Ask HN: Whats the Equivalent GCP Service to AWS SES?
I own a domain, whats the Google Cloud Platform service that provides a managed email server?

Preferably with an option for a webmail interface.
I want effectively a phone that works like Sandstorm. :) If I want it to have a right outside itself, I'll grant it.
Netflix runs Java and the Oracle JVM runs on Linux but not FreeBSD.

I have no information, but there aren't very many dots to connect here.
What it should be, is sad. These types of questions are often very different from actual work. The fact that you have to study or train for an interview process specifically, is absurd. Just being qualified for the job, should suffice.
That's why I've recently gotten my parents to change their schedule slightly to watch PBS NewsHour. Easily the nicest TV news in the US with its relatively condensed yet exploratory methodology. Personally, I peruse the PBS NewsHour website for news and the New Yorker for editorials.
That's what's killing me currently. Get a task, fairly straight forward, legacy system makes debugging a nightmare, end up spending a day or two on a task the output of which is < 10 LOC.
The harvests of Chernobyl
In the UK butter is sold in 0.25 or 0.5 kg blocks, not sticks. Recipes call for butter by weight rather than volume (unless its tablespoon sized).
It might seem that way, but there is actually a large caloric penalty to longer active lifespans. Birds live longer than mice because they have fewer predators but also because birds spend a lot of energy ensuring a longer lifespan. From an evolutionary perspective very old means very well adapted, so it is a useful benchmark.
Not all diamond types/classes are being manufactured. Synthetic diamonds will always be different from natural stones specifically because they lack natural imperfections. Not everyone wants perfection.
Do you sponsor visa's?
Nah, if you don't watch out in the early to middle stages, things can quickly get out of hand...
Like I said, I would be very proud to own a Tesla, and to have resources to send funds towards renewable energy resources. However, while that is great to be able to make those purchases, let's not conflate 2 separate economic choices. I can obviously buy renewable energy certificates without buying an electric car, and I can buy an electric car without buying RECs. The question I posed was: should we get more renewable energy on the grid before forcing EVs onto the market? That is in the context of the article which discusses government influencing public policy -- if made those aforementioned individual choices that's great, I think well of you for doing that.

> I'm also unsure what you mean by "pressure the car makers out of economic equilibrium"?

No worries. Here is the Wikipedia definition:

> In economics, economic equilibrium is a state where economic forces such as supply and demand are balanced and in the absence of external influences the values of economic variables will not change

So take that and put it in the context of the article. From the article:

> The government in Berlin fears that German automobile companies are lagging behind as electric cars pick up speed around the world

> The Chancellery and the Economics Ministry have spent years trying to persuade German manufacturers to establish their own joint battery-cell manufacturing facility.

Does that make sense?

Since the German car manufacturers are for-profit corporations who exist to make profit, their profit-maximizing strategy is to produce at market equilibrium the products which consumers demand. What the article discusses is that they are "lagging behind." You should place your null hypothesis on their products as responding to market forces, not that successful corporations do not produce what their markets demand.

You bring up negative externalities, which are a prudent factor to account for, and is a reason why free markets don't always lead to optimal outcomes. So that's a perfect example of a reason to have a government which can effectively regulate, if you care about human welfare and economic prosperity.

In this case, is it the right call for the government to force electric cars into the market? There are pros and cons, and it depends on a number of given factors. If our effort is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, do we produce less or more by switching to electric cars? It's a complex question, but if renewable energy production remains constant, the increased load on the grid will come from fossil fuels, so the answer could actually be more. Counter intiuitive, but generating and transmitting electricity over the grid and storing it in relatively very heavy batteries that most be moved with the vehicle all create inefficiencies.

It's not such a simple yes or no question, either. Like you pointed out, residents of LA and SF may wish to effectively relocate their pollution from their respective urban centers to remote areas where energy generation occurs, and that appears to make sense: less people live in remote areas.
I shopped for created diamonds a year or two ago, and like others was disappointed with the cost savings. It seems awfully odd that on the spectrum from $0.01/caret to $1,000,000/caret, that created diamonds ended up costing exactly the same as a mined diamond, less maybe 30%. It's clear that there are only a couple players in the clear created diamonds market, and no one is too eager for a price war and to stop printing money. In which case it doesn't sound all that different from the mined diamond market