skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please. While that program may exist, Russia and its agents absolutely DID hack the US political parties. Russia had a HUGE incentive to back the, at the time, pro-Russian Trump. Moreover, Putin had a personal grudge with Clinton who Putin thinks sowed dissent into the Russian people during Clinton's helm at the State Department.

These recent wikileaks releases, while alarming as an American, are just a play by Russia. Russia has been backed into a corner. Their only real move is to use their powerful counter-intelligence and propaganda arms to brigade the popular U.S. websites to sow dissent of our own government. You can go on 4chan and see people planning before hand to brigade sites like Reddit (and even HackerNews) with masked pro-Russian, anti-American propaganda.

At this point, Russia has seriously messed up in the eyes of the international community. Russia has sort of backed themselves into a corner. The only way they see they can minimize the damage is by sowing into us, the average American citizens, a dissent of our own government - dividing the citizenry. They do this so our domestic politics severely hinders our foreign policies. We can already see this happening.
What's your story? I'm curious
He's not saying Altman supports Trump. He's saying the idea that he's doing things like a startup would is in error.

https://twitter.com/tqbf

I mean, most startups don't have the opportunity to "break things" like this:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/travel-ban-iranian-ba...
> trying to separate fact from hysteria

Painting the people who oppose the policy as "hysterical" isn't neutral and I bet that's what people are reacting to.
here's a pic of the expected output https://u.teknik.io/QWvJx.png
quizlet has the massive data and engineering talent necessary to make something truly meaningful here. video summary for tl;dr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMHucmzjByE
An Afternoon of Code Golf in Lua to Achieve 4x Performance in Redis
You don't need everyone to be leaving it, you just need the new generations of scientists/entrepreneurs/etc to go somewhere else.

And if they can't get in the US, well that's an easy call.
DeepMind's PathNet – potentially describing how general AI will look like
Supposedly 34 mil of customer money was in escrow. They were only operating of the 15 mil in investment. I don't know if that is true. If they invested that 34 million they could have made some money in interest.

in http://www.droningon.co/2017/01/12/lily-drone-project-cancel...

Apparently their original footage was from a DJI inspire.
I realize there are income differences, but I don't think it's terribly relevant. Even if I have low income (and concomitant low expenses), then my choice is to save money consistently when times are good and then spend extra money during some time period; or I can not maintain any savings, spend extra during some emergency by borrowing money, and then spend less afterwards to put money toward my incurred debt. Both of these financial life plans earn and spend the same amount of money, but one of these plans seems much more stressful than the other. None of the preceding is at all related to the amount of income or spending, only the timing.
What about a medium sized soda at a fast-food place? Those places use consumer surplus as an incentive to get a larger drink, so seeing people with huge cups, presumably filled with soda is very common.

Besides, 140 calories is a lot, considering it has about the same calorie density as milk and the number of great drinks available to you at 0 calories, like black tea, green tea, coffee and plain water.

Soda is sugar only, always, so it's much easier to throw your daily balance of carb/protein/fat off with soda than any other drink (e.g. milk).
What makes you think that dimensions do exist?
> the top speed was utterly inadequate for essentially all actionsports where drone filming would be cool.

This wasn't the reason they failed, though. They sold plenty of units, they just never delivered them.
You brought it up so you tell me. And give me concrete examples, not hypothetical, how people have been hurt and laws broken by Wikileaks. Discussions of transparency can just be a redirection from the issue at hand. The new DNC chair is toting transparency as an issue but he really is just using it to obfuscate that they don't represent the public but only corporate interests and use buzzwords to distract and redirect people from the DNC corruption. Oh, and BBC is fake news.
Event Sourcing + CQRS is an extremely scalable, and flexible system, but at the same time it can overcomplicate things. I'm not sure it was required here.

Interesting to see it used outside the .Net world.
I don't know. It's not like there's all of a sudden a lack of homegrown startup ideas and tech talent in the Bay Area / USA.
>>Fascist Regimes in Europe
> Awesome!

>>US's new shiny fascist regime
> inflammatory
> Political Commentary
As a Canadian, I'm doubtful that this is the case. There is a reason why almost all Canadian startups seek funding South of the border. In Canada, it is easier to get government grants than it is to secure venture capital.
You're not following the narrative that these zombies want you to follow. That's why you get downvoted.
Note that you need to provide an e-mail address to download the book (but my address from a disposable e-mail service worked OK).
Brain Twitter Conference
What a great opportunity to make the world a better place.
wow, I must have missed a generation, I have literally no idea what you're talking about.
Have you even been to Dubai? It's more happening place than SF.
Clearly you have no idea and can't differentiate b/w Saudi and Dubai.
Perhaps, if funding to research is cut in the US via Trump policies (or even remains small as is currently the case) and China jumps on this opportunity to snatch the world's best talent, the question for brilliant young students will be China, a fascist regime where you are funded, or the US, a slightly less fascist regime where you are not funded and face hate crime, discrimination, and constant threats to your ability to remain due to your immigration status.

PhDs take a long time; do you want to commit 5+ years of your life to being in a place whose leaders are psychotic and don't want you around? Remember, if you are forced to quit your PhD program early, you don't get one and you have to start over somewhere else. And the time you've spent you're being paid nothing. Stability is key when you're making decisions like that, and it's something we've lost here inarguably in a big way.
> Why did you feel that it was necessary to inject political commentary into this?

Because politics, especially what's happening now, affects all of our lives? Hacker News talks about politics all the time, just look at Bitcoin or Snowden threads.
I don't think that's necessarily true. The Bay Area's become an international hub for tech, not just a domestic one — many influential founders (including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel) were born outside the United States.
Let me know if you're interested in talking about pricing (probably once the work from launching settles down)- I'm working on a pricing analytics service and would love to get your thoughts/feedback.
Evolution is a process of massive parallelisation.

It's somewhat effective.
> Why did you feel that it was necessary to inject political commentary into this?

The notion that we can remove politics from all the discussions we have is just silly. Especially when we're discussing immigration, something controlled by the governments we elect and the politicians that represent us.

I'm not arguing that the OP's post was great and insightful ("fascist" is indeed not helpful to use without elaboration) but neither can we say "keep the politics to /r/politics please".
Whenever I see companies like this with a spectacular demo but no product to show, I always think of the Richard Feynman quote, "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
> "He's not saying Altman supports Trump"

"continues to give every sign of being in fact a quiet supporter of the administration"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13824917
I'm waiting to see some opinions about this. I wouldn't agree with this if it were the U.S., but given Israel's history and how they are constantly under threat by every country in the region, I can sympathize.
This is unfortunately quite common coming from tptacek: inflammatory remark against big powerful organisation, condescending responses to anybody that wants to explain themselves and finally he cuts people off that don't agree with him [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/839625304175935488
They supposedly didn't even fully pay the company that made that video on their homepage from over a year ago.

>According to a different unnamed source, the company who made the video, CMI Productions, has also not been paid in full for its work. A CMI employee did not respond immediately to a request for comment. CTO Bradlow did not respond to questions about the video payments before hanging up on FORBES. A Lily spokesperson declined to comment on the lawsuit to FORBES, though the company is expected to file a response to the district attorney on Thursday.
I enjoyed this article until the closer at the very end:

"Having boobs and running a business is exactly the same as having a penis and running a business, except boobs are more aesthetically pleasing. I hope, at minimum, we can all agree on that."

Female CEOs are exactly the same as male CEOs, except women are more aesthetically pleasing?
About Impala 1 – Preview
1. It's the CIA and the NSA, as well as a host of friendly non-US intelligence agencies. They develop vulnerabilities, share them, and release them when the improvement to the defensive advantage the release provides outweighs the hindrance to the offensive advantage they provide over adversarial intelligence agencies.

2. Not only was such a promise never made, but it's well outside of the realm of reason. Of all the vulnerabilities out there (and the way the market works, there are more shipped every day), only small disjoint fractions have been discovered by intelligence agencies both friendly and hostile to the USIC, and hence there is absolutely no reason for them to disclose NOBUS vulns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOBUS
Somebody needs to go to the library and rent Legacy of Ashes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/books/review/Thomas-t.html
That's unduly personal. Please don't comment like that here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830917 and marked it off-topic.
actually Canada just announced another visa pilot program for
temporary workers i.e. "Global Talent":

"Canada to make skilled-worker permits easier to get in wake of U.S. delays"

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/canada-t...
What does "new JavaScript client library" mean in the context of front-end libraries like React?

A DRF API + React stack seems like a good combo so I've been looking into that workflow.
Nothing special going on here; my syntax is based on me not knowing the particulars of `&`. I'll try to remember using yours in the future as it's more elegant. Thanks for the reply.
Blokur | Full Stack Engineer | London | Full Time | Onsite | http://www.blokur.com/

Blokur is a startup company building a blockchain-based platform for the management and monetization of creative rights, and is the successor to Ujo, the prototype blockchain music platform developed in collaboration with the Grammy-winning artist Imogen Heap.

We are looking for a full-stack engineer who is passionate about applying blockchain technologies to the music and creative industries. You will become one of our first engineers and will have the opportunity to shape our code base, tech stack and the product itself. We are a small team with tight deadlines, but we also value the creativity to experiment and build a product we are all proud of.

If you:

- Enjoy writing web applications and building the backend to power them

- Like solving interesting problems and can take ownership

- You are interested in UX and have a sense of aesthetics

- Have relevant experience with Front-end frameworks like React/Redux (or similar) and backend/API with Node/Express (or similar)

- Can bring an entrepreneurial and collaborative spirit to the team

- Have an interest in blockchain and decentralised applications (Dapps)

Please let us know: https://blokur.workable.com/jobs/368107
Vitaminetekort herkennen en voorkomen met natuurlijke voeding
Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vGcH0Bk3hg
For Swift on the server you only need an editor like Sublime, Atom, or whatever suits your fancy. That's it, nothing else. Get one of the most popular frameworks like Kitura, Vapor, Perfect, Zewo or the dozens of smaller ones and be ready to deploy to Heroku, Bluemix, AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean in no time.

It is that simple, tested, proven, it works, it simply works. In just a couple of weeks I developed a couple of apps in Swift and they're up and running unattended:

http://swiftforums.herokuapp.com

http://pokerduel.herokuapp.com

Repos here:

https://github.com/kuyawa

And the fact that you can also develop for the desktop, mobile, tablets, watch, TV and IoT in one language is a huge advantage.

Swift is here to stay.
Uber says it will stop using Greyball to evade authorities
Those are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przewalski%27s_horse brought there in the nineties.
Yeah weird how people hold up IPO as a holy grail. Its the worst thing to do if you are actually passionate about the company, if it is your labor of love.

Its the best thing to do if you want to make a lot of money from your money machine and are largely apathetic about the outcome of the business itself. Easy enough to find the next MBA graduate to feign passion for you while they are just trying to sell the company.
But a senior engineer in Vancouver makes less than a coffee-fetching intern in SF.
> Unless, they fix this and get more people to review honestly. I think they're going to run into a lot of problems.

I don't airBnB, but a friend who does was recently berated by a host after leaving a 4-star review; that host claimed (don't know how true this is) that many hosts will refuse to rent to you again if you leave anything but a 5-star review.

That and other things I've seen and heard about airBnB reviews suggest to me that there a structural problems that are likely to make it problematic for them to become honest and useful in general, even on top of the usual problems in numeric/star rated reviews that come from cultural differences in how people rate when given such a scale even when the actual substantive opinion is the same.
> Am I going to ruin their productive lives by introducing them to Factorio?

Yes most definitely, but they will enjoy it!

That said, I do agree that you can look at designing a factory with a mindset of writing good code, and refactoring that code as you modify the factory. I'm not sure if this will provide a benefit to existing programmers, I could see it being useful for explaining those concepts to new programmers - perhaps as part of an IT class in school though.
It would be risky to rely on this single story. I have heard directly from 2 friends both have parents based in India hospitalized there. Once doctors got hint that people from US are coming to take care, medical bills skyrocketed. One colleague end up spending 15 lakh (USD 25K) as hospital would refuse to release body of his father and issue death certificate. They keep claiming patient is critical and need ICU.

With other friends' mother doctors would keep ordering injections, each worth 20,000 Rs ($300) confident in the fact US based son can surely afford it. In the end he ended up spending about $35-40K for about 2 weeks of treatment which ended with mother's death.

Medical council is in cahoots with doctors and hospitals. If anyone has grievance they can spend years in courts before they see any justice about medical malpractice.
Hi. I am the author of the article.
Thank you for spending time to read this.
The combined reach of the co-founders is very large, thus being able to provably handle scale was an essential prerequisite. Additionally, the requirements of the platform extend way beyond a simple content server. Content performance is tracked in real-time and this is fed to multiple ranking and recommendation models. Those frequently change, thus we need a way to retroactively process our data.
Flexibility is key when trying to build an intelligent platform. Thus, we decided to early-on invest time in the ability to quickly iterate and experiment on algorithms, in real time over live data.
You are right that the API fleet could be implemented using the aforementioned technologies; We use Scala and thus decided to use Akka HTTP instead. The challenging part is how you manage state behind that.
> they would need to track down and get permission from everyone who has contributed

This is not true, not everything in the kernel is GPLv2-only, some parts are GPLv2-or-later (but it's less than the GPLv2-only code).
Canada to make skilled-worker permits easier to get in wake of U.S. delays
Or visit the museums, where all the exhibits have both French and English text.

As an American who worked in Canada for a summer, I can honestly say that the two countries are so similar you're surprised by any minor differences that do come up.
Even if you were correct about that (you're not! [0]), why would you persist in ineffective rhetoric?

[0] Nuclear power is never the best option, no matter what criteria is used. It's always more expensive, it always produces more dangerous waste, and it always poses more risk to the community than numerous competing options. Whatever lives you thought you might save with a nuclear plant, save billions of dollars and decades of development and just put in some wind or solar farms or natural gas turbines or some combination of those.
We are creating a hiring marketplace for lawyers, VC analysts and copywriters
We are creating a hiring marketplace to connect employers to potential employees across a number of fields including; junior attorneys, legal secretaries, paralegals, VC analysts and copywriters. We specifically chose these fields because our founders have experience working in all the above sectors (law, VC and working with freelance copywriters through our previous business model)

We plan on only accepting applicants who are sufficiently qualified and capable of passing a basic test which we would give them prior to signing up. We are talking to a few companies and law firms to help create this test and make sure that it is practical enough to be useful. In addition to this we have in the past played around with a freelance marketplace where we connected vetted freelance copywriters to clients looking for freelancers (and we managed the freelance projects) so we have some experience with a similar model.

Just wanted to get opinions on this business model and potential issues we may be overlooking from the HN community.
You can get help in the spacemacs gitter chat... there is usually someone around that can help you out for most things.

https://gitter.im/syl20bnr/spacemacs
How can we talk about recent shifts in SV due to immigration issues without being political?

Sorry that people can't frame their interpretations of Trump's policies to make you comfortable. They very clearly echo past fascist regimes. That's Trump & co's fault.
..and they too in turn should credit the Greeks and Indian cultures whose knowledge they transcribed!
Clef is joining Twilio
7 strategies to retain customers way before they churn
I would also be interested
There is no such thing as a perfect country. The United States comes out looking very bad in incarceration per capita rates. China and Iran comes out looking bad in execution rate per capita. Malaysia still retains caning, a concept many in the West find barbaric. "Who is worse" will depend on your focus.

Regarding freedom of speech, the United States does have the concept more strongly encoded in law than the other 3. China's Constitution has Article 35, but apparently there is little enforcement of these rights (http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/constitution-day-prote...), so such is toothless. I am not aware of a freedom of speech law in Iran, nor I was able to Google one.

Malaysia does have freedom of speech protections with Article 10. Having said that, the legalese is not as strong as the US's Amendment 1 -- the Sedition Act overrules Article 10, for instance. So criticizing the leader in Malaysia could bring you into legal trouble, unlike in the United States.

The First Amendment is not completely unbounded either, but unless you can demonstrate a US equivalent to Malaysia's Sedition Act (Malaysia being the country with the strongest freedom of speech protections of the three being compared), well, I think the OP has a point.
How quickly we forget that Wikileaks was the darling of the left when all those Iraq War documents were released several years ago.
I am sorry to say something personal but it is a toxic style of communicating with people and reoccuring.
> and 0 AD

"Zero AD" is not a year, AD (a.k.a. CE) begins with year 1.
There are many drones on the market that have high speeds and can follow you. AirDog is one of the well known ones, can go up to 42 mph, costs $1600.

The cool thing about Lily was the waterproof aspect. There are very few of them that aren't toys and aren't very expensive at the same time.
Sure, maybe YC could go to Mogadishu and pump some money in there to improve it.
Wikileaks has always defended responsible disclosure and censored crucial names. They simply have a different notion of who or what is crucial.
Leap Year: (Example 2) This program checks whether year is a leap year
Are you?

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20150422-which-women-get-ah...
I am a Bangladeshi who is now a grad student in US. Perhaps I can give a generalized peek view of the health system of Bangladesh. I feel much more safe being in Bangladesh if I were to have some urgent/serious health problems. There are public hospitals where doctors are always available. You go and buy a ticket which is very cheap(in the order of 1-2 dollars in BD currency) and you get to see a doctor. Sure, there are lots of people, you might have to wait for 2 hours, but it beats the insurance system here in US any day. In fact, the concept of having a health insurance is so alien in BD that I feel there will be riots if someone wanted to introduce that. Also, the quality of the doctors in the public hospital is almost on par with the private hospitals. Because for any up and coming doctor, if they want to gain recognition, they first have to get a job at a public hospital. Then they may also practice at a private hospital at their extra hours. If you do not want to wait and you have the money(which is in the order of 10 dollars in BD currecy) you can visit the same doctor at a private hospital. Medicines are really cheap mostly too. This is one of the reasons many Bangladeshi green card holders or US citizens would go to BD for health care if they have some serious issues. I feel there is a huge cultural difference regarding the solution of healthcare between US and BD. The public in BD expects the government to take care of its people through public hospitals. That is why when I came to US and got acquainted with the system of healthcare here it was a huge shock to me.
I completely agree with this. 1) I have never seen a startup pay anything close to that. 2) you are so right--you generally only need 1 every 12 months (at most!). There are some exceptions but they are rare. Some valuation providers sell 409As as if you need them monthly or something. That is absurd.