skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you don't get deals because you don't shower then that's a solved problem since Roman times and you should only blame yourself ;)

Absolutely!

> Once you're past $1M net worth or so the game gets easier, sometimes a lot easier.

I sometimes feel that difficulty of doing business is halved with very order of magnitude, being friends with business owners whose net worth are between 10k€ and 50M€.
My 50M€ friend has access to things my 10k€ wouldn't even believe exists.

50M€ is "let me talk to the ministry chief of staff about this. I'll also talk to the CEO of a fortune 500 company about this mild inconvenience"

10k€ is queuing at the city building in the hope that maybe someone will do something about the closed road leading to your shop.

> But $1M vs $1B doesn't make much of a difference if the business tanks and you've invested all of your capital in your own business.

> And that's the main reason you don't see billionaires usually spending all their money on their own projects: they spread the risk around to avoid possibly losing it all.
I'm kind of interested in the funnel prior to the addiction. How to make heroin etc uninteresting...
I went looking for you. The guidelines appear to have been updated since last I checked, and are no longer as irresponsible as I thought they were. Here's what I found:

(easy version) https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/guideline_infographic-a...

(hard version) https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/rr/rr6501e1.htm
This talk is so good.
The state is able to make funding contingent.

The state doesn't want to own up to the fact that UC is so underfunded that its struggling to fulfill its purpose of educating Californians. To get more money, UC turns to admitting more students who can pay full price. So the solution by lawmakers is to solve the symptom (too few students from California) rather than the problem (not enough money to support lots of in-state students).You can bet that when UC pushes back against being squeezed even more by the state, the state will use it as an excuse to cut funding more.
I don't believe "going private" is an option for any of the UC schools.
As others speculated I meant parentheses around the condition - my mistake, I should have qualified
> writes a presentation to share their approach (primarily so that other people working on Go can understand and extend it

Perhaps Ericson2314's gripe is that it's being posted (and upvoted) on HN, rather than just a Go-specific forum (e.g. reddit.com/r/golang), and by implication it's intended to be read by a more general audience.
While some of our targets will be Google App Engine Flexible, some will be GAE standard. Can we use it with GAE standard as well?
on 2) I think if investors are rewarded for the risk they take, then other stock holders should also be rewarded for the opportunity cost they've sacrificed. So specifically, in terms of 'a similar deal' I'm talking about tax incentives.

At the very least, I think tax shouldn't apply until you cash out - this just makes sense.

Perhaps the system could also offer a tax incentive for lower returns for non-investor shareholders to recognise sacrificed opportunity cost as well.
Deep Session Learning for Cyber Security
I'd concur.... anecdotes from reading Reddit suggest that's true for a number of pot or hallucinogen users. They move on to more fulfilling roles in life.
Were My Bank Accounts Targeted by Hackers Because of My Political Analysis?
Thanks @kyunbit! I'll point you to a cleaned up front end soon :)
I'm mostly looking for people who want to learn about engineering with largeish datasets (~100gb/day for us), and have some of the prerequisite skills. Our codebase is mostly in Spark/Scala and uses functional programming idioms, so I'm looking for people who either know or want to learn how to use those. I'm also specifically trying to filter out people who mostly want a stats-heavy, machine learning heavy job, since that's not what we do.

An engineer who wants to learn data science is a great fit for us, an academic who wants to write R all day is not (though an academic who wants to learn engineering/functional programming is fine!)

Beyond that, I ask some questions about projects they've worked on, and in particular, how their approach would change if assumptions were different. Here I'm looking for the ability to reason backwards from a business goal, as opposed to somewhat blindly applying statistical techniques.

If they do well on these, we send the take-home exam. As previously noted, this is specifically designed to require relatively little knowledge but heavily test analysis skills, and lightly test programming skills. It's almost impossible to complete this exam without using Google effectively, so that's another thing I'm testing.
It's great to see companies building this category of products once they reach a certain scale where customer experience matters. Gatekeeper from Facebook, LiX from LinkedIn (where I am from), and now you guys. I really like the way Stormcrow taps into data on Hive to enable richer targeting. Any plans on tying Stormcrow to analytics?

Btw, I wrote a quick post based on this trend:

http://www.split.io/blog/dropboxs-stormcrow-and-the-new-era-...
I think this has to with community. The Arch community moves pretty fast and forces users to go look up packages online and comment/vote on their state which results in packages being both promoted to default repos and getting thrown out of the default repos.
This has the added advantage of producing some very strange buying-habit data, as you are likely not the only person to have provided 867-5309 / 555-1212.
So I guess that means they have to follow the wishes of their funding source.
If All Else Fails, Try Sikuli
Suddenly I regret all of my lifes choices that led me to doing anything but becoming Pippin Barr.
I once read of a 20-year-long study that found that when heroin-addicted UK doctors were given unlimited access to pure heroin they performed slightly better than their non-heroin-addicted colleagues, and they had no negative long-term health consequences. If anyone else has heard of this study, or especially if they have some documentation on it, I would appreciate a link.
Yes, it totally is possible. But it's worse than Core Audio for most use cases.
Redefining need as nice to have isn't interesting either. It should be possible for there to exist a set of features which are convenient if present, but the absence of which does not substantially impede the development of solutions.
Thanks @fasicle. That's a great idea and I'll work on it asap. Some limitations will be English speaking countries (my own limitation!) and data availability, but I'll look into it.
Does it show up as ES5 functions? I down transpile it to ES5. Search for BMW and Joe Smith.
Man, really sad to hear this. Best of luck to Jesse, Brennan, and Mark in their next adventure
I have repeatedly thought about building a variant of Go that compiles down to Go and then gets compiled by the upstream compiler, mostly to add generics and autogenerate all these

if err != nil {
return nil, err
}

blocks. But it would most definitely be a pain in the ass to integrate this with the toolchain.
> Not really a fair direct comparison to FB

Fair enough. The standard growth adjustment to the P/E ratio is the price/earnings to growth (PEG) ratio. Let's consider a price/revenue to growth (PRG) ratio for Facebook and Snap.

Facebook's $398bn valuation [1] sits on $27.6bn of 2016 revenues, up 54.2% from 2015 [2]. This represents a PRG of 0.266. Snap's $30.4bn valuation [3] rests on $404 million of 2016 revenues, up 690% from 2015 [4]. Thus, a PRG of 0.109.

Snap needs to grow revenues by at least 290% a year every year for the foreseeable future to reach Facebook's price/revenue levels. Put another way, Snap has a year and a half [5] to hit $2bn in revenues. (At that point, its price-today-to-revenues-tomorrow profile will be similar to Facebook's price-today-to-revenues-today.)

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AFB&ei=z_C9WLngO4W8...

[2] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AFB&fstype=ii&ei=JP...}

[3] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ASNAP&sq=snap&sp=2&ei...

[4] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ASNAP&fstype=ii&ei=1v...

[5] log 1.29 ((27.64 / 398.3) * 30.44) / 0.4045)

Disclaimer: this is not investment advice. Please don't be a numpty and buy or sell securities based on Internet comments.
Exceeding capacity
Couldn't you FROM and then update? I'm not a ruby expert but I'd hope that it could be incremental.
Another one, more technical, on the patching technology we used in the Newton: http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=2233
Khizr Khan cancels speech after told “travel privileges are being reviewed.”
Fair enough. But I don't think the situation would be any better if that particular risk was absent from the filing.
Are prescription opiate users as likely to overdose as heroin users? My understanding is that they are not. If you're buying oxycontin at CVS, you're getting oxycontin in the dosage prescribed. At least once a year in Chicago we see a news story about dozens of people hospitalized after using what they bought as heroin but which was not.

Making heroin available to those who want or need to use it may reduce deaths or even hospitalizations without changing the number of opiate users.
It's a little bit more complicated than "they're government employees", but not much more.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
If the natural production of Helium via radioactive decay in the Earth isn't enough, we can use create it from Boron and Lithium after using copious amounts of energy to accelerate protons into them, or for just Lithium, Deuterium.
Petition – Shutdown accounts which tweet rape threats
thanks @vikrampatel. Pulling the data from a few places. The concept graphs are w2v and Wikipedia. The funding data is from sources like the NSF (I capture 90% of the $60bn of annual public funded research). Papers are from sources like Elsevier. Patents are from the USPTO. I'd love to pull in the 4th innovation leg, startups, but Angel and Crunchbase are pretty tight with that info.
Others have responded but I'll throw in another way to look at it. They aren't subscribing to an email list per se, the are signing up to get reminders when a content provider--that they are already interested in viewing the content from--releases said content.

It's more of a notification via email than the email itself.
Seriously. A friend brought over his 2i4 for a project and my Mac was able to plug-and-play with it at 5ms latency.

That page is "dissuade people from calling tech support", not the reality of how audio actually works on OS X.
The key to that is where you said they gave them jobs. That goes a long fucking way to reduce robberies.
Some rules are best left unstated. By formalizing them everybody is incentivized to stretch them. By formalizing them we fool ourselves into believing that they're more objective than they really are.

A [poor] analogy would be false precision. By stating something in overly specific terms we can communicate something completely opposite of what we mean.

In the case of something like "naughtiness" there's really no decent way to communicate what the author has in mind, not even in an approximate fashion. It's not reducible to a term divorced from the messy details of real-world context. And that presumes what the author has in mind is at all consistent. Better leave it unstated and leave one's actions to speak in their stead.
A couple of important notes FTA:

1) the cap is currently not limiting for the system as a whole, as the proportion is around 16%

2) It also includes a per-campus 20% cap, with raised caps for campuses that are already above 20%. So Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSD will be prevented from raising their nonresident proportions, and new growth will be redirected to schools like Merced (only 1% nonresident students).

My personal observation: no evidence is presented that nonresident admissions reduce the absolute number of Californians the system can support.
IBM to build quantum computers
I'm an undergraduate at a UC school right now, and I can tell you that that is happening in the UC system. State funding per student has collapsed [1] and campuses are scrambling to cover the costs. One way to do that is by increasing tuition, and another is by admitting out-of-state students who pay massive premiums to attend the university.

Out of state students pay about $50k/yr to attend a UC. In-state students pay about $12K, and the UC spends a bit over $30k per student. That means that each out-of-state student provides enough revenue to pay for an additional in-state student!

Absent additional state funding (lol), an enrollment cap would necessarily result in tuition increases. I really really hope it doesn't get passed.

[1] http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_quick.asp?i=1119
It is amazing how a few analysts can change how much a company is valued on the stock market. Has the opinion about Snapchat on tech forums like this, whose opinion should matter since we're literally the people who built it have significantly changed since two days ago to justify a 4 billion dollars price change?
For a moment it seemed like the "food" spawned out of the snake's "tail" in the narcissism one, but I guess I was just imagining it.
I usually tailor my questions to whatever the person said they did. If they say they did search, I ask about precision recall. If they discuss hypothesis testing, I'll ask about p-values or other approaches.

I'd happily take a Bayesian answer if they preferred that, but that hasn't happened very often.
> Early employees often have an outsized impact on the trajectory of a company

Mmm... I think we'll have to agree to disagree there... Seems to me that the bulk of the work adding value in a company, even if it's "just maintenance", is in the marathon and not the sprint. The initial engineers who contributed to Google Search no doubt contributed value but it's the folks who kept it going strong (and changing for the better) for many years afterwards that are the real company heroes.

And if someone is really such a special snowflake, I don't see why they'd bother working for someone else instead of founding their own company. If they expect to get paid proportionally that is.

> get it to a point where additional hiring is possible

Usually investors do this by injecting cash, at least in your traditional high growth "startup".

> To take away that earned and vested compensation ... is ... grossly unfair

How is it unfair if the employee agrees to the terms walking in?

If Joe Vendor down the street sells something to you at a loss, do you feel bad about buying it anyway? Likely not, since he happily signed it over to you for a reduced price.
I've actually come to dislike it a bit more in the last few days when dealing with SQL statements. If you're not meticulously adding context to all errors at every part of the step, you end up with a result like

$ go build -o my-program .
$ ./my-program
error: SQL syntax error at column 9
$

Now have fun figuring out which of your dozens of db.Prepare() caused that. Of course, when you manually add context at every step of the error return chain, you can just as well show a stacktrace for the same amount of (if not more) information.
This is sort of how European data protection is supposed to work, although you have to maintain your own list as there is no central one. And the enforcement is intermittent.

(Data subject requests are a very powerful tool)
Alcohol, drugs and sex on autism spectrum are still largely a taboo among mental health professionals, hence the lack of results. For many on the autism spectrum, it works out just as the article says:

> Many people with autism have a penchant for strictly following rules, which would seem to make them less likely to try alcohol or illegal drugs.

For others, especially the higher-functioning, undiagnosed and too smart, alcohol, drugs and sex may become the means, end, and medicine. I'm speaking from personal experience.
If you gave them Bupenorpine, we might not have this problem?

Free Bupenorpine, and don't make patients just through hoops to get it.

And don't make doctors go to special classes in order to prescribe it.

Yes it's one drug for another, but I feel it might be easier to taper off Bupenorpine. And yes--there will always be those that abuse it, but nothings perfect.

Subutex is in genetic form, but is still very expensive. I don't know why. It's cheap compared to heroin though. The average person wouldn't need Suboxone, which has Nalaxone in it, but the powers at be think all addicts gave no self-control.

My bigger question is why are Americans so misserable--they would try heroin. I don't buy it's just because of the Vicodin script the doctor ordered.

I feel they were misserable before, and the opiate just made their existence a bit better--at least at first?

As Americans we need to lighten up. We need to work on making life here less stressful.
> the ethical thing to do is to offer better cash compensations and less equity

That's one of my main points: Employees have the power to refuse employers that offer equity in lieu of fair salary. But my experience has been that people keep falling for the equity carrot again and again, and as long as they keep falling for it, employers will keep doing it.
Agree. There will never exist a direct comparison, given this current market is about one company owning a particular niche in the overall online services market. There are no close 2nd placers when it comes to a particular model and offering.
JS as a secondary language to Go is absolutely not surprising, given Go's focus on web applications.
Most of them do use C due to talent and tooling available. They often subset it. They're also very careful. A small niche of the industry use Ada or embedded Java. A recent trend is toward model-driven develooment with tools such as Simulink, Stateflow, and Esterel SCADE.
> "If you're 40, you have ( or should have) nearly a couple of decades of hard-won experience in building software"

Why should every 40 year-old have 20 years of experience building software? Most 20-somethings weren't building software 20 years ago. Do you feel that people in their 30s can't (or shouldn't) learn to code?
That's because nonresident admissions don't reduce the absolute number of Californians the system can support!

They pay much more in tuition than the UC spends on their education, and much of the remainder gets spent on in-state residents.

In-state admissions have fallen at highly competitive schools like UCLA not because out-of-state students are taking up more of a set number of spots, but because the amount of in-state students whose educations the UC can afford to subsidize has fallen because of decreasing state funding per student.

Declining admit rates of in-state students is a problem, but out-of-state students are part of the solution. I really, really hope this proposal doesn't get passed.
Time is money, friend.
I'm normally a fan of generalizations to make conversation flow easier. No need to get stuck in the weeds of all the exceptions. However, you've made some assertions that go a bit too far for my comfort.

It was not and has not been my experience that the majority or even plurality of economists support "Reaganomics" or "oligarchical capitalism". There are some famous and outspoken economists that are often quoted by politicians, but the rank and file are generally ignored.

Of politically powerful people, it seems to me that most are lawyers. The second largest cohort is perhaps businesspeople as a general category. I'm not sure where economists would rank, but they're not common in politics outside of the Federal Reserve.

I'm not sure why an academic discipline being "up to snuff" would make much difference for policy. I've never known politicians (as a whole) to appreciate science, except for military applications. The economists have been saying we should put a tax on carbon for decades. There are entire departments dedicated to "environmental economics", studying how to coordinate fisheries to avoid population collapse, how to manage forests, etc. Their policy recommendations are largely ignored. An economic system is an outcome of a socio-political system, not some exogenous phenomenon.

> if it isn't going to run out in three months or kill you in three months, it doesn't matter and is ignored by economic study

This is false. I'm not sure what else to say. I suppose the recent years of truthiness and fake news have worn away my resistance.

> those two points are slight exaggerations, but ... apparent

More than slight, and not apparent to me.

> if you can't measure it, it doesn't ... exist

Much of econometric literature concerns how to measure things that are difficult to measure. This includes ineffable things like "freedom" or "happiness".
Not completely accurate. UCLA Anderson "went private" a few years ago, though that appears to only mean that it doesn't rely on state funding for operations - it's still a public institution.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-26/ucla-wins...
> How would a type system protect against unit confusion?

That this is a mistake that is possible to make in any language, but nevertheless this is also a problem that could be caught by a sufficiently good type system, if it was put to sufficiently good use. In fact, part of the justification for allowing user defined literals in C++ was precisely to make it easy and convenient to avoid mistakes like the Mars Climate Orbiter. Bjarne Stroustrup himself used that as an example in at least one talk he gave about C++11.
Curious about this, what "distinction" are you referring to here exactly? My understand is that the whole point of preferred vs. common shares is that there's a distinction: preferred shares get, well, preference in a liquidity event. This ensures investors recoup their losses if things go awry.
It may put a cap on the reliance on out-of-state tuition fees to fund the system.
tl;dr: 3 years before Unix got pipes, a different OS (DTSS) got communication channels. The channels have a master end and a slave end, the slave end acts like a normal file descriptor, the master end is run by a process, much like a debugger that has breakpoints on open/close/read/write/lseek/close. Except that the syscalls on the slave side result in "breakpoints" on the master side so the master can do whatever it wants in response to the events.

Pretty neat idea but much more complex than Unix pipes.
We rely on the whitelist to block all new threats, putting us ahead of domain-based blacklists. The server side checking is just to create a grade for privacy which you can look at for informational purposes as you browse.
Sorry if I'm being naive, but isn't that like owning a McDonald's and giving homeless people money as long as they spend it at your restaurant? I don't think it's nearly as bad.
It's perverse because even if out-of-state subsidizes in-state it is better for the school to push it even further. The school and in-state population have a conflict of interests.

State funding can prevent the ratio from getting too far out of whack. Which is exactly what UC is doing.

The real problem is probably exploding tuition rates. But that's another conversation entirely...
The world our grandchildren will inherit: the rights revolution and beyond [pdf]
I think you may have mixed up blackmail and extortion. Blackmail is demanding money in return for not revealing someone's secrets. Extortion is obtaining something through force or threats.
Andrew Kennedy's PhD thesis was about extending Hindley-Milner type inference to support units of measure. It basically boils down to extending unification to support equations over free abelian groups, which had been solved earlier in an abstract context. The approach could be integrated into just about any HM-derived language, and is shipping as part of F#.