skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That works in personal therapy. If you expect people in a thread of hundreds of partisan comments to have some kind of catharsis, please see r/politics.

It's too complex of a topic and too emotional to be discussed in a large group setting.
This is why I always recommend to individuals that when a startup offers equity in lieu of cash compensation to ask every financial/equity question imaginable. (what are you valued at today? how much investment have you taken? what's been diluted? etc etc)

People don't like to have that conversation because they think it's inappropriate. However, it's more inappropriate for a founder to tell you that you're getting equity in lieu of compensation and explain nothing about the value of that equity and potential future value of that equity based on the current state and future state assumptions.
I thought the problem was that you can't teach both of those things at the same time (masses in spacetime vs. matter as clouds of bosons and fermions statistically obeying laws of quantum behaviour) . Hence the interest in finding a theory that accounts for both of them.
Then they should ask for money instead of blood.
Start-ups in the health care field have difficulty managing their HIPAA / HITECH compliance. You would have to be a special kind of idiot to allow them anywhere near your blood.
The idea being that I should install Clementine to listen to Soundcloud, instead of Chrome, which is already installed? This is the only thing I would use Clementine for, since it doesn't support multiple genres per track so it's out as a music library.
Why Are Ships Buried Under San Francisco?
At some point it seems like the US government needs to step in and somehow mediate these things. I'm sure it's incredibly popular to fine US companies huge sums of money in Europe, but this is starting to get out of hand.
In hash function competitions, are the authors of the function allowed to vote for their own entry?
They are betting heavily on Power BI:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/
Intuitively, you can think of this as providing the name of a variable as compared to an lvalue that doesn't name a variable.
I agree, but moreover: You can also do nice OOP with C.
Take a look, for example, to COS (C Object System) which implements OOP on top of your C compiler. The object system itself is inspired by CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) and Objective-C (in turn inspired by Smalltalk). It also allows 'automatic' allocation by reference counting.

https://github.com/CObjectSystem/COS

Paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.2547
Popper would respond that the thing preventing their resolution is their unfalsifiability.
Same question but now the browser is using local storage?
Don't know why this got downvoted--drive by hate, mainly. The left clearly took a huge hit and don't like it--and they shouldn't--because the backlash has only just begun and if humanity really is a marketplace of ideas, then it's way past time that collectivism lost its shine and got relegated to the bad ideas of the past.
In cases where OneLogin provisioned third-party accounts for sites that didn't support SAML, they (at least used to) sync your OneLogin password to these third parties. It did not use unique per-site passwords.

If your OneLogin password was "pass123", so was the password for your OneLogin-managed accounts at Google, Salesforce, and so on. I believe but am not certain that this was even the case for some sites that used SAML but required passwords for non-HTTP access. Mail clients accessing Gmail is an example.

I do not know if this is still the case. I suspect it would not be difficult to check.
As a European I think it's sad how we spend our efforts fining startups instead of creating an ecosystem that fosters the creation of break out companies.
Well yes, but they are closely related. You set the MTU/MRU to take advantage of the availability of larger frames. There isn't some separate adjustment on Linux, for example.
This reminds me of Godel's proof - A formal system (axiomatic system) cannot be complete and consistent at the same time!

Each side of the argument have their own set of premises/axioms to come to certain conclusions but there are always unknown truths which people tend to ignore. if there are no unknown truths then the argument should be contradictory
Political discussion tends to be of a fundamentally different type vis-à-vis technical discussion. Discussion mechanics like voting and flagging (particularly apropos here) which work well for technical discussions are often...lacking...when it comes to political ones. This is literally what much of the article is complaining about.

If someone is pounding in nails with a screwdriver, I might suggest that they use a hammer instead. That doesn't mean that I think nails are beneath me.
For folks in the United Kingdom, Vanguard index funds are now accessible through their new website[0]. Their website was released mid May 2017 and has caused a good shakeup[1] in the individual investor space as other stock brokers commission charges are incredibly high.

[0] https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/home

[1] http://www.scotsman.com/business/markets-economy/bill-jamies...

They have mentioned that Vanguard will be looking to give access to Europe in 2018.

[Edit] - Removed Financial Times link as they have a paywall.
fining startups

does google really still count as a startup (18 years old, 50k+ employees)?
What about a smart card then?
I think dheera meant CString class from MFC, not a "plain C string".

I'll also add QString, AnsiString, BSTR and glib::ustring to the mix :)
So many of our clients (I'm still working in the BI space) are still using Excel workbooks and sending them to each other over email. I think it will take quite some time before we see any major improvements in this area. But I agree with you. Some of the stuff I see makes me cringe.
Do they have proof of that?
> we can then engage with our community in political convo of substance

This is damned optimistic. It's not as though politics doesn't show up on HN, and when it does the results are usually unpleasant and uninformative. I'm not opposed to politics-on-HN because it's a formal space, I'm opposed because historically the results have been inflammatory and useless.

I suppose its possible that structured exposure would work better than 'natural' discussions arising from politics-related links, but I"d intuitively expect the opposite. "Political threads" with no clear prompt are especially easy to derail, and I'm scared that any major experiment with this would damage HN.
I don't think this is what concerns most people at all - a bigger concern is how broadly defined whatever measure they use for "anti-American" social media posts is.

There's no shortage of harmless anti-Trump social media posting throughout the world - how long before we read a press story covering someone who tweeted a tame criticism of the president being denied entry? Twelve months ago I'd have found the idea hard to believe; today, not so much.
The key words are "in classical mechanics." Nobody wondered whether the mass of two stacked bricks was equal to the sum of the masses of the individual bricks. On the other hand, burning cloth seems to "leave behind" a lot less than you started with. Lavoisier's contribution was to demonstrate that even in chemical reactions, with shocking changes in color, state of matter, etc, mass was conserved.

Wilczek is discussing the ingrained assumption about the bricks.
devel newton this program for example to understand the program how its work for beginners to programming world
Does my business need an online invoice software?
Hi Eric, Tiho, Marcus, etc.

This is a fantastic start. Yes, angel.co/clear was complicated. I hope you have better luck driving adoption.

What you are charting at the top is the company exit value. But the UI controls enter info tied to the employee. You should chart the employee's exit value.

You should also put the "or not*" controls as totally optional toggles as an exploratory UI. I.e. the user can toggle "preference" and see what it does to their value.
I'm tired of media abusing and bullshitting people's health consciousness and wanting to know what to eat.
I'm even more appalled at the scientists who have no idea how nutrition works.
We're down to treating the body like a black box and resorting to laws of thermodynamics (aka calorie counting) or anecdotal knowledge of veggies are good cheesecake is bad. It is increasingly absurd in an era of synthesizing proteins designed to combat specific diseases that we can't tell people who want to eat healthy what to do with any scientific backing.
Yes. Second solution is much better if you can do it: faster, more efficient, more accurate, but it depends on using an authentication mechanism which gives the server access to the plain password during authentication, so it will not work in all situations.
Just reading this post got me stressed out thinking about what I would do if I had to move. We were lucky to get our current house in Los Angeles. We bought in 2012 when prices and interest rates were low ($415k and 3.5% for a 30y fixed in our case). Now houses in our neighborhood are going for $800k or more, so while we could sell easily, anywhere we would move would be even more. We put a lot of work into this house with a kitchen, bath, and sunroom remodel, artificial grass, a new covered patio, and solar panels, and I would hate to have to go through all that construction again so soon. Plus, this is the only house my 4 year old daughter has ever known, and I wouldn't want to give that up.
Plus the small but non-zero risk when receiving a transfusion. Disease screening isn't perfect and there are other risks too.
Chippy!! "It looks like you're creating a histogram of 2017 customer ratings. Would you like help?"
C++ offers too many options for how to do things. C is a nicely restrained subset. The end.
Seed oil is mechanically pressed from the seed. Then the remaining oil is chemically extracted from the seed meal with hexane, then the hxane is boiled off and used again. Unsaturated seed oils go rancid as part of this production process. The odor is removed from the oil with steam.
>* Based on research by Kahan et. al., Saks mentions that otherwise intelligent people will likely misunderstand data if understanding it challenges their preexisting beliefs.*

While this happens, it's also an empty argument that can be applied to everything.

How about the author there misunderstands his own data on C++ because it challenges his preexisting beliefs (that C++ is "de facto" better)?

It goes downhill from there fast, to argue that those pesky people who dare to not want to use C++ are irattional, conditioned from childhood, etc (those willing to use C++ are not, because of course C++ is the only reasonable choice a programmer can ever make between C and C++).

>In fact, Saks found that quite often logic, facts and the truth were simply not sufficient enough to convince people. Instead, people reacted in a very irrational and emotional way, and kept sticking to and defending their beliefs. People’s basic reaction was “show me all the data you want, C++ is still undesirable.”

The problem in the paper is that some BS arguments and numerical data in favor of C++ (which I'm assuming they have -- they fail to mention any of them in this article) are conflated for "THE truth".

Sorry, author, but you are not showing people "THE reality", you're showing them some arguments and some numbers.

The programmers you are talking to (those that have tried both C and C++) are the ones that have actual empirical experience from actual reality on what C++ gets them -- and whether its worth the tradeoffs they've seen.

For one, there's an ergonomic factor in language and API design (it's usability) which can be highly subjective -- and syntax/api usability is one of the big reasons people dislike C++. This issue cannot be shot down with any "objective" argument or numbers table....
Do you have statistics to back this claim?
EURGBP: Retains Its Bullishness Short Term
Like US is not doing it...

Google broke EU laws on purpose - their revenue is huge from European markets, thus they should pay a huge fine. As simple as that.
Certainly not, the Alphabet company is a multinational corporation.
Sietsema deserves a bit of a pass here. His Magnolia piece is mostly damning and he admits some guilt in liking the pudding.

More importantly, he's is one of the biggest champions of non-conspicuous food consumption in the New York food scene.
The issue is that even after dramatic crashes my impression is that stocks generally beat bonds long term. That means that if one person put all theirs in stocks and the other in bonds the one in stocks is likely going to have more money later, even if the market crashed a few times in between.
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Starcraft 2 player here as well :) #Eyenstyn2661
been playing since 2010, still newb
currently silver leageue
mostly playing coops, campaign and 1v1

Also Hearthstone casual player here as well :)

I also bought a Nintendo Switch recently and its a great 4 player party game device, I play Zelda but its much better to play on a big screen....

I was just happy to see someone playing similar games :)
What claim did I make that would require statistical backing?
It's presumably because you're breaking the HN guidelines by complaining about downvotes and calling names (in the sense we use the term), and posting unsubstantively while complaining about the lack of "informed discussion".
Hi, I highly recommend a book in case you read German. Despite its weird title, I found it very worthwhile.

Souverän investieren mit Indexfonds und ETFs: Wie Privatanleger das Spiel gegen die Finanzbranche gewinne

by Gerd Kommer

You can also google for Kommer Portfolio. It is, IMHO, very well balanced (asset classes, geography etc.).
This is very neat.

But the best, still-mostly-hidden feature I've found recently is App Scripting and especially the ability to do a UrlFetch.

I use it as an "API Runner" to run various batch jobs against APIs.

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/url-fetc...
Write you a Haskell by Stephen Diehl:

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/
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I think this portfolio lacks an "antifragile" asset. Invest, say, 5% in something with high risks, high returns, and potentially anticyclic, such as cryptocurrencies.

What do you think?
>"psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests".

-Allen Frances, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine and DSM-IV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances
Ask HN: Business and CS double degree
Hello, I would like to know if someone has Computer Science and Business double degree. Does it bring any extra advantages if that person wants to work in the tech field?
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Would you say the same thing if America fined China for its companies taking advantage of US citizens? Or is it selective sovereignty?
Sorry, I'm not making or am swayed by emotive arguments, and no one should be. Nothing in the constitution or in established interpretation of it require citizens to support the president.
im also playing it, although i would have enjoyed it more without friends spoiling it for me by telling me where they are or what they found :(
as well as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=51451
> The internet was built on people writing massive forums posts about completely stripping down Kawasaki motorbike engines...

Yes the internet came about because of academics and hobbyists playing around in their spare time. We as people who often came up during that time have a habit of over-weighting that. The internet is not a side project anymore. The internet is the future of every industry - and absolutely the future of every content creation industry.

You can't expect every industry to be reduced to what can be produced by hobbyists working for free in their spare time.
Personally, if I was dependent on my assets for the income I use to eat, I wouldn't want those assets to be ones that can wildly swing in value.

If I had enough other investments that the stocks were just icing on the cake that wouldn't be an issue, but that kind of goes back to my point of being extremely wealthy and having truly extra money you can park in risky stuff.
> creating an ecosystem that fosters the creation of break out companies

I think that the fine imposed here is doing exactly that. How is Google in any way a startup?
I like to think of C# as what C++ should have been.
We lost seven curb lindens (including ours) on my end of the block a few years back, the summer solstice windstorm that left much of south Minneapolis without power for days. My block took it particularly hard, trees down all over the street, smashed cars. So yeah, not enough shade for us either.

I'm waiting for the emerald ash borers to finally get to the beautiful, mature ash in my backyard. :( I love living in a forest, but hate the tree maladies. Luckily, they replanted all our curb trees with diversity, rather than the monocultures of older Minneapolis streets.
At a cultural level, when you have to convince somebody of something, isnt that generally a bad approach if you want somebody to change their view?

Though, Keeping thIngs Simply Stupid, is really the only lesson one has to know/learn. When C++ has a specific function go with C++, when C is sufficient use C. If a bash script is sufficient use that.

If people could just show why something is cool in what situation, instead of why something should be used over something else. And this includes guides 'how to switch desktop OS' too.
Is there a direct email to reach you at? It looks like there are a ton of people applying on Angelist and I want to make sure my app doesn't get lost! I was an early adopter of Kit and would love to work there!
No, it's not "as simple as that". Deciding that a company owes 10% of its worldwide revenue because of something like this is not simple.

> Like US is not doing it...

They're not.
I don't think there's any official policy, but nothing stops them from asking when you go through customs. It's rare but it happens. For example: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/american-citizens-u-s-bo...
I don't think Google is a US company for legal purposes. These violations, if there were any, were done by the European subsidy of Google.
By `correctbatteryhorsestaple` I meant exactly that. Four words are great. THOSE four words would be terrible.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that your marriage needs mediation. I meant to suggest that you seek professional guidance if your feelings about the issue are causing you distress. HN isn't really intended to be a venue for this kind of discussion, nor does it seem to be a good one (in my experience).
Blood banks in the US tend not to pay for whole blood.

Plasma donations are often paid though.
If they levied a $9 billion fine because of how a Chinese tech firm possibly manipulated search results? First, that wouldn't happen. Second, yes, I would.
It's also incredibly popular in the US to fine European companies, so to me this looks like tit for tat.
It's not really wrong, because GoL is Turing Complete.
What do you mean? If you don't want to be subject to EU judgement, don't do business in the EU. It's the same everywhere, European countries that enter the US have to follow US laws and obey US courts.
How to convince them:

- Show them how classes makes things easier (automatic object management, some operator overloading, etc)

- Show how the STL makes most things easier (arrays, maps, etc)

How not to convince them:

- Show uses of excessive/pathological inheritance

- Use of templating beyond the basics

- Insist they use C++ functions for every single thing

- Insist they OOify every interface in their code

- Creating giant classes (structs) with a getter and setter for every field with no control or validation

- Going crazy with operator overloading
90% of my engineer/designer friends have no clue what every financial/equity question imaginable even look like, and even if they had a list of them, they'd have no clue about how to interpret any of the results, or how to tell if the company is feeding you BS.

I mean, I was the first employee at a startup, involved with fund raising, and then founder at a startup, and even I would have a hard time with that.

Not to mention that even if you have a very solid understanding of what things are like when you get hired, it can all change dramatically in subsequent fundraising.

This is just one of many instances where the employee/employer relationship is heavily biased against the employee. And unless clear disclosure requirements understandable by the average worker are put in place, it'll stay that way. As an employee, your options are inscrutable lottery tickets which value can be redefined in many ways at many points in time, and there's not much you can do against that.
McRevolt: The Frustrating Life of the McDonald's Franchisee (2015)
Just keep working. Masters programs suck anyway --- the only things that really make a difference are a) time, b) conversations with peers, c) conversations with an advisor. When you're 22 a PhD is a reasonable deal to spend 4 years to get this. When you're 32 it's a significantly crappier bargain.

If you get good at designing the models, your results will speak for themselves, and it won't matter whether you have a certificate saying you can design models. Likewise if you're actually bad at something you're supposedly certified to do, I think that's actually worse than not having the qualification at all!

The simplest thing to do is just pick a problem with a decent dataset and work on it. Either build the model from scratch, or if you prefer to use a library, make sure you're compiling the library from source. You want to make sure you can change arbitrary things --- don't just use an API.

If you're interested in NLP, I can suggest a number of things you might work on for spaCy :). For instance, I'd like to have a sequence-to-sequence lemmatisation model. This will take some experimentation, but the basic idea should definitely work.

If you need any more convincing not to do a masters...Really think about what that will involve. You'll go to lectures. You'll get homework. You can do better than that.
THANK YOU FOR SPELLING OUT YOUR ACRONYM!!!!

So many internet idiots just use acronyms all the time on the assumption that everyone speaks the same language as them. I wish more people would take your approach.
No, a garbage collector is a non-starter for a lot of what C and C++ get used for.

C# is more what Java should have been (which lines up pretty well with the history of C#).
Your last point hits home to me. We have two and a third due next month. Room is starting to get cramped, but I highly value a place where my kids can grow up entirely within its walls.

Also, I've done a lot of renovations to the home myself to cut cost and also update it faster: wood-look tile floors throughout, new flooring in bathrooms, update kitchen appliances & cabinets, deck, floor trim, etc. I often think that my commitment comes from all the blood and sweat (and even more tears) thrown into those things.
The title should be "a scam startup is stealing money from fool people".
I think it's because you presented a very simplistic point.

Any person with a little history knowledge would indeed be able to say that what you said is correct. Any person with a little more history knowledge will understand that the reasons for WWII were complex, and the more you try to generalize from Hitler and his circle of friends to the entire population of Germany, the less clear it makes sense.

If WWII teaches us anything, it's that everyone is vulnerable to the same forces that created the Reich. It also teaches us that the more hate and more division isn't going to help anyone. This is what I fear "builds up the ingredients for the next downfall of humanity" - more hate, more outrage, more division between people. More politics and status games.