skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm French and I moved to San Diego, so....

My health insurance is paid by my company and I don't really care about free education.

Yet, after all my bills, groceries for the month and rent (which is around $2k/month) is paid, I still have almost $2k / month in my pocket to do whatever I want. Good luck to have that in France.

The quality of life in Southern California is miles ahead from what I could have in France. My only regret is about food.
Both had rich parents though. I think that makes it slightly easier to get into Harvard. They could live in good neighborhoods, attend the best public or private schools and also try entrepreneurial activities with a safety net. Now maybe that safety is overrated in general but it is still there nonetheless.
Also very happy with premii. Mostly due to the offline caching, but also the clean and simple layout, and integration with Pocket.
Ask HN: I feel like helping somebody out, what can I help you with?
Let me help you. Just ask. Anything, as long as it's reasonable and I can actually make it happen, yo. No strings attached, just a random act of kindness, I guess.

Edit: Some already started sending me emails (email is in my profile). That's ok if you think it's better vs the comments section.
That is like arguing "I'm just saying there should be equal rights for white people" on a post about white-on-black harassment because MLK Jr had "much to say about equality."

No, it's more like mentioning how people should be judged on the contents of their character, not the color of their skin. It's more like citing the importance of understanding the ideological basis of activism in the protection of individual rights and dignity. These are two points of great importance to MLK's activism where many of today's social justice activists are very weak.

Taken in context it is an attempt to deny the imbalance of power that exists and which civil rights / feminism seek to dismantle.

If you look at the greater historical context, you will find that overcompensation and tilting the playing field "the other way" doesn't produce greater social justice. However, I congratulate you for coming out and saying overtly that you are for creating an imbalance going "the other way." You thereby admit that you are not for a "level playing field" but rather an "equality of outcome."

I'd bet "equality of outcome" is a great way to run a startup! (/jk)
Same, it seems pretty stable and very usable for the past year or so. The dark theme is nice as well.
How do you make money off of people who don’t have anything though?
Current Affairs is insanely high quality. I endorse it fully.
Sanskrit is also Indo-European, and definitely had a large literary corpus before English became separate from Old Norse.
Gold is used in jewelry and electronics. It'll always have some worth, though personally I do think it's overpriced.
NICE is no different to insurance companies when it comes to hiding the value of a given drug. For cancer patients not given chemo, you're thinking of the US when your credit card bounces and you get dragged out of hospital.

I'm not aware of any cases when people are denied chaemotheropy on the NHS, yet I am aware of people in the Us struggling to pay $50k a year for something as basic as insulin.
Occasionally I wonder if it would be possible to let districts be completely dynamic, by allowing each voter to choose what district they wanted to vote in. Geographic proximity would no longer be a consideration (except of course that the district has to be entirely within the state); a geographically distributed interest group could form a district, if they were sufficiently numerous.

We would want the districts to be relatively stable; huge numbers of people changing districts right before an election would be too weird. And of course, we would want the system to overall increase voters' sense that their vote matters and that they are being represented well.

I haven't come up with a set of rules that could make this work, but I haven't thought about it all that hard. Seems like it could solve the gerrymandering problem, though.
> I'm having a really hard time figuring out what Watson is.

That is consistent with danpalmer's suggestion that it is a marketing construct.
> drug/stimulant use (YOLO culture?) [...] The interesting statistic was the urban regions were less pronounced than the suburbs, which may indicate something either cultural or economic that may drive this change.

"Energy drinks" (Red Bull, Monster, Rockstar et. al.) blew up in the late '90s/early 2000s or so. As far as I remember, early marketing for these was heavily targeted at "extreme sports" fans and practitioners of their less-extreme variants (e.g. skateboarding). I wonder if that targeting might have something to do with the urban/suburban split.
The people behind sia coin believe differently [0] and after reading that I'm more inclined to believe them.

The short version is that since "commodity" hardware can mine many things, you can't gauge how much power there could possibly be. Someone with 100,000 GPUs could turn their whole system to your coin and have over 50% of the hashing power for a day, then go back to whatever else the day after.

With ASICs, the devices can't be used for anything other than that specific coin, so to "save up" your hashing power to sneak in a day that you can get majority hashing power would be stupid. You'd have to be giving up the income from them while you waited.

The article explains it much better than I can, I really recommend it.

[0] https://blog.sia.tech/choosing-asics-for-sia-b318505b5b51?gi...
How is he right wing? He was the economy minister for Hollande...
Was it luck that both of the parents were able to put in long, concerted effort?

(I'm not trying to say that hard work has nothing to do with anything, quite the opposite, but that "luck", as the word is commonly used, also plays a huge part in any ones life)
First off, for the record, routine physicals/wellness exams are not evidence based.

That being said, theres nothing about routine physicals/wellness exams that are standard. Every doctor/clinician has a different idea of what a routine physical is and many (most?) ignore official guidelines. I've had routine physicals from many different doctors (I've moved a lot) and ever single one of them do something different. One didn't actually touch me other than blood pressure (which was done by a medical assistant) but ordered a ton of "routine" blood work and talked to me a real lot. One listened to my heart, lungs, looked at my eyes, nose, throat, and felt every single one of my organs (that she could) but didn't order any blood work at all. Some call to see me every year some don't call until a few years later. Then there's this nonsense - https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/32293/

So absolutely nobody knows what your doctor orders, you'll have to ask them. (Which you should do anyways).

Routine screening of individuals without symptoms or other indications can also harm, so caution is warranted: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-skeptical-look-at-screeni...

"I would like to be screened for anemia" is what you would say to your doctor.
Ethereum startups don’t need Silicon Valley
I'd be interesting to hear more on what manual window arrangement means to you. It's not obvious to me what you are indicating.

I'm pretty sure writing chained commands would be 2-3 lines of Lua. You're welcome to keep waiting but I invite you to dip your toes in & see what it'd look like. I rather suspect you'd find a community interested in helping you chase your dreams. No need to be bystander and follower on this one.
Which failed economic theories and failed how exactly?
You are effectively at square one if this becomes successful. In the end it's all about agreement between you three. In my opinion if this is a person you value enough to join you as a cofounder at this early of a stage, and he will be putting in the same amount of work as you and your other cofounder, I would suggest making him an equal or close to equal partner.

If you don't see him as valuable as your other cofounder, you can always offer a significant equity package as a first employee. I know the difference may just seem like a title at this stage of the company, but it makes a difference in terms of what kind of information and decisions he will partake in and the magnitude of volatility in the emotional startup-wave he will be riding is.
I would think nearly everything, either uniform military or contractor employee. What else is there?
Don’t know if this is true, but it rings true all the same. A students get bogged down with “getting an A” at what they do. That requires a lot of time and work. C students socialize and make connections. They fail a lot more often than they succeed, but there’s survivor bias.
"Omar's coming!"
Gates also left a mark or two at Harvard for actual academic stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting
This very article demonstrates that the largest enterprise Linux distros -- Red Hat and CentOS 7.3-- both recognize and support usernames beginning with a digit.
CaN you ping phones
It's about value creation. A band of enthusiasts in the middle of nowhere and with no resources to create anything will probably have a hard time bootstrapping a startup, especially when you consider the relative definitions of "no resources," but that's the point of starting an incubator: to help resource the enthusiasts.

If they can take what they get and run with it in pursuit of the idea that got them the investment, they've now created value where none previously existed. Commence the theoretical positive cascade of investments and growth and having an exit strategy so that investors and entrepreneurs get back a return on what they invested.

The part that's kinda taken on faith, though, is whether the value created will stay in the area. Unless there are huge incentives to stay local, I see the companies, exited founders, and investors all taking their funds and resources back into developed nations rather than staying local and perpetuating prosperity where they first laid their roots. There's hope that there'll be a will to stay local... but man, people tend to take whatever chance they can get to escape a bad place.
I really like AquaSnap for Windows and Magnet for MacOS: http://www.nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap https://www.techrepublic.com/article/magnet-why-the-macos-wi...

They're half-way between the minimal snapping built into each OS and a full-blown tiling WM. The keyboard shortcuts for left and right 2:3rds and shortcuts for moving a window to a specific quadrant in Magnet are my most-used, since often I want a terminal and a browser, or two IDE windows, or IDE + browser + docs (dash) + terminal on one screen.
It's 72 years since Hitler or Mussolini, how's that within a generation?
There are several numeracy issues with the story.

The first is strokes are incredibly rare. Going from 5-ish to 10-ish per 10K hospitalizations. "When I was that age" I was never hospitalized once, so you need to factor in how many times that group is hospitalized. I would theorize its extremely rare leading to perhaps better diagnosis or something rather than actual medical effects. Also its worth contemplating that "when I was that age" a kid who stroked out on coke was considered a coke related death not a stroke related death. A classic example when I was that age was the story of "Len Bias" a basketball player who celebrated being drafted by the Celtics by snorting coke until he died. There was quite a circular firing squad of blame but attitudes in that era were unified that coke killed, not strokes, despite the medical definition and all that.

The next numeracy issue is there's about 84 million in the group and unlike previous generations its not white majority and there are considerable differences in race and ancestry and socioeconomic group. Basically that group can't be usefully compared to historical groups because its literally a different people. You wouldn't compare Bolivia with Nigeria and claim the comparison means anything when there's no relationship between the separate and unrelated groups of people. Its entirely possible that (now older) middle class professional Scotts-Irish have a different stroke profile than formerly Mexican peasant villagers. Apples to Oranges means nothing. That group is a different nation merely coincidentally happening to inhabit the same plot of land. Like comparing the medical issues of the pre-Crusades residents of Jerusalem to Crusades ere residents. Or pre- and post- Holocaust ghettos in eastern europe. Its a different people, the comparison means nothing.

The next numeracy issue is there's 84M in the group, as of May 15 2015 Time magazine (per google) claims only 53M are in the workforce. As of 2013 Gallup poll indicated only 43% of the group have a full time job, and 43% of 83M is 36M. So there's a lot of handwaving involved, but when only 36M out of 84M are working full time, overwork is probably not statistically possible to double the instance of strokes. That would imply strokes are something like six times more likely among full time workers. Basically the socioeconomic group is extremely poor and disenfranchised and no percentage of ivy grad programmers dying at their desks at video game companies is numerically high enough to double the entire groups stroke rate. There are not enough SV programmers such that if they all died of strokes it would boost the numbers. Whats killing kids can't be work because the employment stats are so incredibly dire, permanent long term economic decline and all that.
I couldn't find the separation by kind of stroke (arterial/veinous, ischemic/hemorrhagic).
One could argue that monetization isn't actually a problem tackled by most SV companies...
I could ping my friends phones, though they probably won't appreciate me spamming them or giving away their personal data (phone number). So probably not a reasonable thing to do :)
You're confusing there space of possibilities with the space of what's actually consumed. An omnivore's diet is not more diverse if they only eat pepperoni pizza.
"Suffix arrays : How to compute them fast with Python"

The assumption is it's fast in Python without using Cython etc. My intuition says that looping and iterating in Python is slow. It seems like a great reference implementation, but I don't think anyone should use it if there are implementations that are (possibly) orders of magnitude faster.

I guess my bigger issue with this is that in many cases it's much more time efficient to just drop to Cython earlier on instead of fighting with the language.
Of course you're fully entitled to not use Facebook, but that needn't deprive everyone else of being made aware of the content and being able to access and discuss it, either by using the Facebook workaround or paying for a subscription.

Facebook has over 2Bn users. Many of them are on HN. The debate about whether or not that's a good thing is orthogonal to the fact that Facebook search is a viable workaround that allows the anyone who chooses to use it, the option of reading WSJ articles.
2 months ago:

"Researchers Find Gut Bacteria Can Trigger Brain Lesions That Lead to Strokes ;
Another connection between the gut and the brain."

http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-find-gut-bacteria-ca...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14315355
No, if I understand your question. You can pass a function pointer or function object via bind, it’s just that the behaviour may be surprising if it’s the result of a bind.
The ethics of ethicists
I'm from Ghana and this trend happens quite a lot. But most of the time, the C students who become successful tend to come from wealthy families...
Can you ping some phones. Only Need Cell-ID info as I know the a-
gps requires gateway access.
I have heard the same argument was made about about CEO salaries. Once they got published they started rising.
Not asking to spam them or personal info. Guess you cannot do those
How does Homicide compare to The Wire?
Malayalam diverged from Tamil. But, Kannada is not a derivative of tamil.
Interesting idea.

Also, kudos for wariness on "witch hunts". The desired long-term goal here is for people to be treated the same regardless of gender. It'd be easy to get distracted from that.
That's really cool. I wanted to see what the second order effect would be (as the shutter speed changes, how does the final image change?)

Take a look:
http://antidom.com/fan.webm
Using it right now! It's very nice, feels native and we'll designed.
Reminded of MITRE building a very affordable ADS-B unit for small aircraft, to help promote flight safety: https://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/pdf/07_0634.pdf

Eventually got commercialized as a $2000 unit but I somewhat recall the idea was to target a sub-$400 upgrade to drastically enhance air safety.
Also, they would not have just become swimming mamals one day. The transition from land to water would have taken a while.
They're not uncommon but SpaceX doesnt see most, there are other higher-performance launcher platforms that can easily put these into orbit. SpaceX's next rocket (Falcoln Heavy) will roughly quadruple the capability of their platform. The other SpaceX limitation is their fairing size. They designed their rockets to fit under bridges on American highways which limits the size of the payload they can deliver.
None. They (or rather the API) don't allow to comment or upvote. Sad.
Yes, that's what I mean.
But in the context of this article, the point was simply that if you eat more or less anything you will get most of the different general food types you need (salad, protein, fibers, carbs) and thus you will most likely get what you need.

Vegans trying to find substitutes for some of those general food types doesn't mean they end up being more diverse just that they have to look at more alternatives but the body doesn't really care if you eat iceberg and romain and baby spinach it cares that you eat fibers and protein and minerals.

I am not an expert it just seems to me that by not excluding things from your diet like meat you are getting a for much less (eating meat gives you not just protein but ex. iron)

Things that other protein substitutes doesn't necessarily give you.
I got a 100% response rate which makes me think I was aiming too low.
It's the #1 cause of liver failure in the United States. [1]

[1] https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/depression/2233
Apple only allowed web apps at first. Palm's first SDK for WebOS was based on web technologies. BlackBerry's first SDK was based on Adobe Air.
I keep going back to the website.

Although I don't like the design and it's not very usable of mobile (buttons are too small), my consumption flow depends on the "Open in new tab" functionality. This is also why I prefer the Reddit website to the app.

I would use a client that let me queue links/threads/comments for future reading. I'll probably end up building it.
What do you mean regarding "philosopher kings"?
Franco, Hitler and... De Gaulle lumped together. All right, mate...
New hunt for old earthquakes in San Francisco and San Pablo bays
This Beautiful Species Could Be Trouble for Native Birds
I have a BS computer engineering from GT and the only interviews I have received have been from companies wishing me to sign a 3 year contract or other 1*star glassdoor type shenanigans. I am trying to stay positive but I have lost hope. Ive done the mass submitting and specific tailoring strategies to no avail. Now I wish I had gotten a degree in ANY other engineering discipline. Any advice?
I keep going back to MiniHack as well. Simple, solid, very nice.
I think you're extrapolating a lot from my post :D.
Yes there are laws associated with it.

You bought the book, you own the pdf. I'm not advocating or implying people giving them away.

I'm not sure if you read above but I'm actually an author.
Authors don't really make much money when working with publishers..but it doesn't mean I don't want something for my work.

I'm also not going to hand out legal advice as I'm not qualified to comment on or do so.
So, you decided to contribute to open source
That would be a really weak argument though. 100% of VCs are in it for the money.
Two things about this incident have always struck me: How incredibly calmly New York City handled what movies tell me should be a riot-worthy moment; and how I have never met someone who wasn't living in the Northeast at the time who is aware that this occurred (I mention it off-and-on).
Need to be a product, like:

http://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/09/09/viz-unveils-dynamic...

I guess the current easiest market is Military PsyOps in "found footage" for swaying public opinion - the kind of stuff that can be handed off to embedded reporters as "proof". Having some known foreign talking head (head of state or of a military organization) saying something damning might possibly help - but I think run of the mill special effects footage mixed with some traditional film making would work as good.

I also assume that most sales would be direct, and not advertised on the web...
Yeah, that would be totally hands off. But I believe you'd have to ensure that your requests didn't timeout, (3 seconds in lambda) and in this example of 10ms response times I couldn't see any issue here. If you're into python, checkout Chalice, it's being built as a "flask" like interface on top of AWS Lambda. https://github.com/awslabs/chalice
Think it's probably wrong to say that they don't have anything -- they just have less on a GDP basis.
So, when kangaroo jumps in front of your car your best chance to avoid hit would be to try to steer your car towards it and let kangaroo's instinct do the rest? :)
$139B out of $583B is salaries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
A lot of “compounds of interest” such as nicotine, opium latex, and capsaicin evolved as part of the natural defense mechanisms of plants against insects and herbivores.
Sad truth is that you buy bananas in lbf and in most of the world we use Kgf.

This world is lost I tell you, can't even pay for something according to it's mass.
There are not many shows taht are better than the Wire; my favorite part about Omar is that he doesn't curse.

In a profane and violent world, he has a code, which he upholds. IIRC, MKWilliams was the one who insisted that Omar not curse.
Anything discretionary that is. Ghana’s per capita PPP GDP is $1381 and falling. That’s a bit over $100/mo
Technology-efficiency startups are the best bet - My startup reduces the cost of doing _blank_ by 100 times. You have to pay me 1/10th of what you currently pay to do _blank_.
If you've not seen the Wire, this article contains major spoilers.
AMD's and Intel's SHA256 instructions are utterly useless to compete with ASICs: they use approximately 10 000 times more energy (4 orders of magnitude!) than a 16nm Bitcoin mining ASIC per hash: 1000 J/GH vs 0.1 J/GH.

Source: I wrote one of the first GPU miners, founded a Bitcoin mining ASIC system integrator company, etc.
Emulation's useful, but it's something that I've been doing in various forms for over half of my life. There'd be a novelty to actually running something on a 40 or 50 year old piece of refurbished hardware, adapted to run as a host on the Internet.
This 2.9 number comes from "Millionaire Mind," published in 2000 with the data from 1990s. The same book states that 2% of millionaires were in the top 1% of the college classes and 90% graduated from college. Note the huge amount of grade inflation since the surveyed millionaires graduated (their average age was 54, so they would be in college on average in the 1960s) and a large increase in the percentage of students attending colleges. And a myriad of possible selection biases. It doesn't seem like a good argument that people with poor GPAs do better than people with high GPAs.

http://www.gradeinflation.com/tcr2010grading.pdf

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2010/ted_20100428.png

https://books.google.com/books?id=p60tDntHVnUC&pg=PA99&lpg=P...
If we had to choose one party in the U.S. that is more guilty of this sin, which would it be?