skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you deserved to be downvoted for your comment, but I think it's to be expected with new languages.

When C# first appeared, I searched a few job boards out of curiosity. The "#" symbol wasn't recognized, so I tried "c-sharp". The only listing that came up was for a custodial position that required the employee to maintain a "sharp appearance". If early search results were indicative of a languages chance for success, the only C# jobs available now would be for well-dressed janitors.
I'd be amazed if #1 washed in court. By connecting to a swarm that is distributing copyrighted works without the copyright holder's consent you've demonstrated that you have intent to pirate the material. Besides even if you argued that you got a few chunks of the file from the copyright holder (or a party acting on their behalf) you will have downloaded other chunks from others (and possibly uploaded some of them back to the rights holder).

#2 I'd put down to a random bureaucratic fuckup rather than an inherent issue with the detection system. I know a couple of people who've had letters from their ISPs regards these activities and they have said that they were accurate.
As a side question, what exactly is the benefit of a time-series database vs a regular relational database? Is it just a special case or a relational database, where rows are stored based on time, so that time-based queries are more efficient? Or is there some other fundamental difference that makes it more useful?
You have to wonder then why Paul Ryan submitted a question to Quora. Was it coordinated, or was Ryan already a Quora user?
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You don't need to be involved to be against something.
Data centers could suck up 10% of Northwestern power by 2030
Charlie is a really smart and humble guy; I respect him a lot. He's definitely someone I look up to as a person and as a leader. He is the one that inspired me to move to San Francisco and join a startup, and I'm grateful for that.

Best of luck, Charlie, with whatever direction you decide to go.
While I agree that bit of Dave's article is about trying harder to appeal to underdogs. Is YC investing in companies abroad then? I am not talking about companies started abroad but essentially cater to US and/or global audience(I know you guys do invest in such companies) but Companies for example that were started in India and cater to Indians. Is YC investing in such companies? Last I wrote to YC, answer was no.
Are you actually going to compete with these guys for the title of "biggest jerk"?
Here are the BC requirements, bit different from Federal government.

$400,000 investment and at least a 33.3% stake in the company. Plus a net worth requirement of $800,000.

http://www.welcomebc.ca/wbc/immigration/come/work/about/busi...?
In fact: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/09/its-opus-it-rocks-and-now-...
I've read better articles on Unix. Just a few thoughts:

1) Software packages should probably install into /usr/local by default, not /usr as the author suggests. Distributions can always pass an option to install into /usr in their build scripts. In my experience as a distro packager, plenty of package-build/install systems install to /usr/local by default (autotools, python's disttools IIRC, etc).

2) FreeBSD (and likely other *BSD OS) ports install into /usr/local. So, if you're using the ports system for package management, you might still be screwed. (Of course, if you, as an admin, don't notice that you're installing over system packages, your system is going to end up hosed some day anyway.)

At the end of the day, go ahead and use /usr/local. But be aware what your system does with it, and that other 3rd party packages may randomly scribble all over it as well.
First, your comment is vacuous.

Second, your account is over 1900 days old and it seems you are making personal attacks? Is this true, or have I mistaken "you" for a you general.

Third, my original comment was rhetorical. If someone thinks it is hard to touch base with 500 Startups then it doesn't mean anything other than the person thinks it is hard to touch base with 500 Startups. There are plenty of good investors out there, and if you are going to invest in technology then it only makes sense to, you know, use technology to make it easy to collect potential investments (which as I pointed out, 500.co sucks at doing).
The difference is with Amazon you're the customer, and the device and content are the products.

Funny, my Kindle has ads. I believe you mean IF you pay the $15 extra, and for all I know is that $15 allows you to turn off ads. As far as I know, it doesn't preclude Amazon from selling your information and choices to third parties. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
They're often on the tail of years of anxiety and depression, plus environmental stressors which aren't going to disappear through talking or medication.

Sometimes you take a pill and the problem is solved. But often, it's a matter of a struggle for better, not fixed. Or a decision between the illness and the side effects of continuous medication.

But ignoring it is a terrible option.
> If something in the road catches you by surprise that's another story.

One major problem there: sidewalk construction isn't sign-posted. I ended up in the hospital because a two foot section of the sidewalk on my work-route had been replaced by sand. That was long enough for my roller-blades to stop and my face to keep going, neatly landing a couple feet after the concrete picked back up.

After four broken bones and a dozen or so stitches from roller blading and cycling accidents, I've decided to stick to walking and public transit.
My only concern is the belt driven drivetrain. I used to race R/C cars who used the same time of layout (belts and plastic/aluminum gears), and the belts did not last that long. Given that this board would be pushing a fair amount of weight around, I don't see how it would last over a reasonable time frame. Though I'm just speculating. If anyone can chime in with more data, I'd love to know about it. Maybe the belts are kevlar reinforced? I know there are suppliers making those and they are readily available.
As pointed out by Tony Arkles in blog post comments, GSL is a bit restrictive in it's licensing:

GSL can be used internally ("in-house") without restriction, but only redistributed in other software that is under the GNU GPL.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/
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Fairly obvious, if you've been adminning UNIX-type systems for a while, but on top of this I would add: use stow: http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
The citation above was about video codecs, FUD about which is spread by MPEG-LA, who never showed any patents as a proof.

Opus is another story, since Qualcomm and Huawei listed supposedly violated patents, so Opus creators were able to review them and to confirm that those claims are bogus.
Canada offers a 2 year work visa which is quite easy to obtain. I've been living in Canada for s year now (from Australia)
On my computer it also blocks the play button by default. It looks like this: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30313301/Photos/Screen%20Shot%20201...

And this is with a completely different browser: https://aboutmybrowser.com/1498962490
> This sounds more like a problem with the issuing banks.

It's a problem with both parties, since both are known to refuse to process them.

> Is there any way for a merchant to know that a card is prepaid?

Yes

> Is there any way for a merchant to know that a card is prepaid?

No
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In view of your comment I regret using the term institutional, I think that really means much larger investors. A quick Wikipedia check shows that technically venture is actually a subset of private equity.

What I should have said is: try to think of vcs as investors with a mandate to invest in a specific asset class.

Talking about venture capitalists within the context of what they actually are, rather than stretching athletic metaphors adds a lot of clarity to the discussion. It actually fits quite well with the art dealers and a&r guys you mentioned. Both of them are (basically) investors in a very specific asset class. Each of those asset classes has unique qualities and each of those investors can add value in unique ways.

Lastly, I think you are genuinely trying to contribute and I concede that I may just be ignorant; however, your approach to commenting doesn't make it very clear what you are trying to say. I would suggest that you dial down the complexity of your writing and reduce your use of equations/ variables when words and sentences would do.
UC med school is in SF, so your analysis makes sense. UCSF definitely in the elite tier of Med schools, too.
To generate a number between 0 and k:

0) remove undergarment (I'm assuming a bra because it's simplest, but the same principle applies to other varieties)
1) scratch your arm until you bleed
2) mark one cup of the bra with blood (both inside and outside)
3) stand against a wall
4) set i <- 0, n <- 0
5) throw bra up into the air, spinning it in the plane parallel to the floor
6) observe which cup is closer to the wall (if unclear, goto 5)
7) set x <- 0 if clean, 1 if bloody
8) if i >= floor(log2(k)), goto 11
9) set n <- n + (2i)*x
10) set i <- i + 1, goto 5
11) if n > k, goto 4
12) your number is n.
so instead of tying you down to the device, they tie you down to their services. In my eyes, thats not too different.

At least with a physical device, you may be able to subvert any ill intentions.
I currently have two classes of moderator - one with edit/delete access, and a lower one with the power to hide a post in a "Sin Bin" until a higher-level moderator can judge it.

But with anonymous accounts, I need to provide greater incentive for people to sign in - karma, etc.

Thanks for the reply.
I found you don't end up searching for go or golang that much...instead you search the package docs on golang.org or command-f through "effective go" or the language spec both of which are well written and readable.
You could just spray some spit on the wall and count the big blobs.
take the button of my boxers and flip it as a coin to produce a random binary string. break it down into even chunks of the appropriate length and convert to decimal.
OR
inspect the threads of the undergarment cloth like they did in "Wanted", except encode each type of thread as a number instead of a character
That's true for this board, but I was responding to the general statement:

> It is impossible to provide effective braking on a skateboard.
One thing that helped me was additional vitamin D. I did some quick research and found out that one must be careful, as overdosing will bring back the same symptoms, but after adding an additional 1000 IUs a day, I am not getting as depressed as I used to.

Please note that my depression was minor, more of the "there is too much going on, I can't get started on anything, I don't feel like working, I think I will just browse something new on the net" day after day, sometimes for weeks at a time. Also, I am convinced everyone's system is different, so tread carefully and consult professional medical advice, where appropriate.

I also had recently (4 years ago) moved to way northern California, US, along the coast, so I get Oregon's type of weather (much more rain, overcast). Sun was no longer so prevalent, and very much may have had a bearing on this. YMMV.
localhosts: check

i suspect it's the free WiFis that require you to comply with their terms and conditions. They probably catch the traffic and inject text ads into the HTML, which arguably is quite clever and malicious.

i'll get more data to confirm this
I'd also recommend reading psychologist Martin Seligman's book "What You Can Change and What You Can't", which covers a variety of mental health issues from sexual fetishes to fear of spiders to schizophrenia, and the treatment options available for each.

Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches people to recognize negative thoughts ("I failed the test because I'm stupid"), dispute the thought ("If I'm stupid, how did I get an A in math last week"), and propose alternative explanations that are transitory or shift the blame to an external source ("The teacher was in a bad mood when he graded the test/I didn't study hard enough").

It's been shown in studies to be as effective as drugs, and more lasting (if you stop taking the drugs, the sadness might come back).

It's an alternative - it might not work for everyone, the OP mentions he had trouble with therapy and I'm glad he is finally doing better.
Exactly. If you value yourself at $65 p/hour or more, that's a few hundred months of paying Chargify to break even.

I am as optimistic about my software product as anyone, but I need the break even point to be sooner than that if I am going to spend the time coding.

This is also completely discounting the fact that they probably have a more comprehensive system that you wrote, it's all they do. They keep updating it too.
one in four adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year

This is something that frightens me. What is a "diagnosable mental disorder"? I'm willing to bet this statement was far from true 50 or a 100 years ago. Not because I think people got more depressed or anxious, but rather because we're looking harder to "diagnose" things.

I think there's a big danger, especially in psychological afflictions, to always "look for" problems with yourself.

This may be a cultural thing as well. Until I came to the US (I'm from Germany), I never asked myself "Am I depressed?", "Is this what depression feels like?" when I was aving a down day. I also never considered that I may have/have had ADD now/as a kid but now people tell me I should "get that checked out" all the time.
An effective way to be friendly with another person is by collaborating to hurt a third party.
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> Medication has a statistical significant effect, but is often marginal at best, and most of the effect is placebo.

The point of the author's post is that medication made a huge difference for him

Hey's saying: if you have a problem, there might be help for you too.

Your comment was just negative side talk.
Thanks spitfire, kind and encouraging words. Most of my understanding of programming as a craft I've picked up here, probably from people who are like you (and maybe you yourself).
I wonder how depressed people in the 3rd world manage to survive.
But really, the question comes down to layers of abstraction. Is /bin the base system? Is /usr/bin? Is /usr/local/bin? Probably not on the last one, but Linux distros have chosen /usr/bin as where all packages install. And BSD treats packages as user programs and goes to /usr/local/bin.

As I've always understood it, since /usr can be on another partition (to keep / small, or keep it from filling up with stuff from /usr, /home, /tmp, and the like), /bin should contain "essential" binaries for booting that weren't necessarily "system" tools (those would go in /sbin). Now that I think of it, I can't really think of binaries essential to booting that aren't "system" tools, but my Linux boxes typically have about a hundred CLI programs that are basic, but not essential (AFAICT) to booting in there. They're all from packages.
There's one more thing I would like to add. Apologies if it's already discussed... Non-techie guys with ideas should not think that by offering nice stock options/equity to a techie, they can get them on board.. A simple thought - there's no value of your equity.. So, do not make the mistake of thinking that you're obliging the techie by offering him/her a considerable stake in your idea/company...
Thank you for sharing your code! This is really cool stuff.

How important of a goal was it to follow/diverge from pp/sql's lead in designing Qip?
I think this issue is beyond defining. Skeuomorphism has been generalized to cover most designs that include faux textures or design elements.

When it comes to Apple's design decisions, they absolutely have no idea what they are doing with all of these disgusting flourishes. see this article: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670760/will-apples-tacky-softwa...
If you want to threaten others, best to use and influence the entity that is "allowed" to use aggressive force. If you had to threaten internet users one-by-one with guns, you might discredit yourself. Best to use Uncle Sam.
Thanks smoyer, for the encouragement and also for the new acronym. I wasn't familiar with Not Invented Here syndrome, or at least the characterization of it.
"Recognizing" To wit: with money
This is sort of tangential to the main discussion. That said, I thought that strategy wasnt "optimizing" for black swans (as in trying to find specific investments where a black swan event is likely) so much as accepting that the market underestimates their probability and holding a wide portfolio of securities which will payoff in a dramatic downturn. That may be a bad definition of optimizing, or just an incorrect understanding of their strategy though.
You are absolutely right. That's what worked in my case: I started, about a year ago, to count calories using the Lose It! app (I can't recommend it enough, it's a free service and works for most food you can get in the US.)

Soon enough I could distinguish between a 600cal lunch and a 1000+ one. Or between a 500cal snack and a ~200cal one. Just the realization that I could cut about half my caloric intake by choosing A over B and not feel hunger made a huge psychological difference: all of a sudden those huge Five Guys burgers weren't as tempting as they used to, and I started using 'calorie free' stuff (like tomatoes, celery, and even some cheese spreads) because it could fill me up. I used to ignore veggies because 'why would I put them in my sandwich if I have a tastier option like bacon/mayo'.

At the end of the day, paraphrasing Timothy Ferriss said in one of his TED talks, I had to learn to "eat like an adult", instead of giving in to every childish want.
>Apple knows what they’re doing

They did, once upon a time. Look at the aesthetics of recent iterations of iCal though, and you can see that they really, really don't anymore.
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Thanks! I checked out your profile -- Nutrivise is doing great work. Hopefully I won't need a job anytime soon, but if I do I'll definitely talk to you guys.

And I love the resume submittal via a post request. I may have to steal that idea in the future!
Resumes are for chumps. Don't do it, spend the time getting to know the company you want to work for, or people you'd like to work with.

Frankly, I don't want to compete on the basis of my resume! Keywords and biz speak are hard to avoid on these documents. And now that everyone can spray their resume at hiring managers without licking a stamp, sending in a resume really is a waste of time. It almost always has been that way, read 'What Color is Your Parachute' for a taste of job hunting over the past few decades.

Get to know someone at the company, do a contract to hire, do a gig, volunteer with someone, even read and comment on a blog or twitter feed of someone in the company.

All these are far more likely to lead to conversations that will let you know if you actually want to work there, and if you'll be a good fit.
In my opinion, there's no way that this is an actual intelligence or military operated switch.

I'm not firm in this belief because of the open nature of a phone line like this (that part seems fine), but because there is no reason for a real switch to use actual terminology like "agent" and "compromised."

This reminds me a lot of a Capture the Flag contest: you know you're not really hacking an intelligence agency, but sometimes it's fun to pretend.
Derek Collison (@derekcollison, Apcera founder & CEO, former CTO and Chief Architect Cloud Application Platforms at VMware) ‏tweeted yesterday:

"Prediction: Go will become the dominant language for systems work in IaaS, Orchestration, and PaaS in 24 months. #golang"

https://twitter.com/derekcollison/status/245522124666716160
I think it is debatable as to whether or not Apple knows what they are doing.

From http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670760/will-apples-tacky-softwa... :

"It’s visual masturbation," says one former senior UI designer at Apple who worked closely with Steve Jobs. "It’s like the designers are flexing their muscles to show you how good of a visual rendering they can do of a physical object. Who cares?"

Inside Apple, tension has brewed for years over the issue. Apple iOS SVP Scott Forstall is said to push for skeuomorphic design, while industrial designer Jony Ive and other Apple higher-ups are said to oppose the direction. "You could tell who did the product based on how much glitz was in the UI," says one source intimately familiar with Apple’s design process.

But before Forstall, it was Steve Jobs who encouraged the skeuomorphic approach, some say. "iCal’s leather-stitching was literally based on a texture in his Gulfstream jet," says the former senior UI designer. "There was lots of internal email among UI designers at Apple saying this was just embarrassing, just terrible."

Perhaps the most infamous culprit of this design direction is Apple’s Game Center, the social-gaming app that’s dressed in a lacquered wood and green felt that lends it the feel of a casino. "Steve pushed very hard to have everything--the felt-cloth table, the game chips--look like they would in real life," says another former Apple designer. "Internally, a lot of people were shocked by the richness. Many think it’s gone too far."
I had the same problem. My depression had been latent since early HS but it really manifested when I began college, and my grades were horrible as a result despite having been a model student until then(well, until the last year of HS; college only hastened its development). I'm 29 and I've since gotten treatment but the effect on my professional development has been incredibly damaging. It's less a stumble out of the gate than a foot shot.

I know intellectually that I've achieved as much - or possibly more - than my typical peer because I've worked through my problems and traumas and come out the other end alive and healthy, but they're still the ones with the comparatively advanced careers, living in nicer cities, and taking care of their young families while I'm still working saw jobs in the midwest and living, alone, in a studio apartment.

But I'm alive, and I'm able to finally live a normal life, which is priceless.
Sounds like a viral marketing stunt or alternate reality game.
Sit down. Pluck as many hair follicles from your body as you can. Arrange the follicles radially around your body. Remove undergarment and sit down on top of it. Choose one follicle, deliberately is fine, move this follicle closer to the undergarment than the other follicles. Stand up and with eyes closed turn as as many rotations as you can without stepping off the undergarment. Sit down. With your smallest finger, push forward from the undergarment outward along the floor. Count the number of follicles between the one closest to the undergarment and the one you pushed outward from the circle. This is your random number, its range is between zero and the total number of follicles you plucked.