skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you keep those brains in sync?
The idea of an employer needing to judge me based on what I say/do on Facebook makes me really uncomfortable.

Facebook is my social life, not the company's time or anything, and if I'm a decent worker + programmer just let me be? For example I swear a lot on facebook about certain current events, should I stop simply because some HR person in 2 or 3 years might look/analyse my profile and see that I use profane language?
I know how this movie ends...

with the whole colony trying to get to the lee of the stone.
> Pregnant women who are exposed to low levels of the chemical during a crucial three-week period in their first trimester face an increased risk of having a baby born with holes in the heart

This is going to scare many pregnant women and their partners, but it's almost worthless information. What is the baseline rate of babies born with holes in the heart, and what is the rate of babies exposed to TCE? And what's the consequence of hole in the heart - is it a problem for every child born with it? Without that information you've just got a scary soundbite but nothing else.
The HN headline for this story is a bit misleading. Kind of subtle, but it implies, as written, that Google had secret workers at a Superfund site and that their identities have been revealed. I was expecting something much odder when I clicked the link :)
The problem is not that you can't find someone who is x, the problem is that when you find someone who you want to be with, and you don't give a flying fuck if they are x or non-x, you still get your relationship ruined by other x being dicks to your non-x and to you by extension. That is the problem. And no, those sites do not solve it, if anything they might make it worse. (You should dump your non-x because look how many eligible x there are on xdate.com and xpeoplemeet.com)
Because it affected his mentality. For example, he bought new Mercedes SL55 AMG every 6 months so he could avoid putting license plates on it.
How is it that this comment is much clearer than that mailing list post?
"If you can trade faster than others, you can drain some resources from them"

What's embarrassing is how many intellectual resources are focused on this problem. For those not in finance, compare it to focusing talent on finding better advertising techniques.
I think crowd sourcing should be for gaining knowledge you don't have yourself. It should not be a replacement for being lazy - you can google tour dates for all those bands and comedians yourself - you don't need others to do that for you.

And also, you might want to spell San Francisco correctly :)
For me the reverse happened, back in 2009ish, lose the job then lose the girlfriend because you're not as spendy as before. I dodged a bullet on that one. In hindsight it was the best thing to happen to me. But while I was going through it, it was like the world was ending.

Now that I'm older and wiser, I've got my shit together, I don't see employment or love/girlfriends as a source of validation that you belong here and are appreciated.

When things get rough, I envision myself as a tiny bud on the tip of a branch on a tree. When life is created, it's not new, it's just a new branch and a new sprout, and when life ends, it's just the older buds making way for the new ones.

So love, and employment is a process by which the tree sustains itself. But the tree represents the entire DNA meta organism found on earth, from the bacteria, through the beetles, on up to us. Death and life are illusions, employment is simply a process, like photosynthesis, to expand the size of the tree. The reason I think this way:

1. Reproduction, having love, girlfriends, wives and kids is not necessary. The other branches of "you" will create plenty.

2. Having a good job, vs a sucky one, is in the grand scheme of things not all that important. You are one bud on a gigantic tree. You think if you can make the next huge thing, then you'll be more important. Not really, it's the cooperation between all the units that cause increases in the sentience of the whole.

The meaning of life is to expand the growth and prosperity of the tree (all dna based life), and eventually transcend biology and get off this rock so we can fill the universe with our proud waves. You either contribute a macroscopic amount to that goal, or take away from it. Look at yourself from the edge of our galaxy and tell me again how your situation warrants an emotional blog post.
Our team made Take-It-Offline flags that we'd wave whenever someone started going off track during standup. The change was immediate, standup time was cut in half. Now people don't even bring their flags, we just raise our hand or quietly say, "TIO!" Once standup's over, those that had items to TIO stick around and talk about them.
Your pejorative, based on a cultural stereotype, detracts from the point you want to make. You'll end up spending more time justifying your use of that pejorative than persuading others to not focus on needless and worthless optimizations.

It also confuses people like me who thought it would be something more interesting, like making an allusion to a potato ricer, or some wordplay related to Rice coding.
Dropbox perhaps could have a service tier for cerebral cortices.
For small plugins yes, it's on par with Emacs, but I've yet to see something like org-mode or tramp in Sublime Text, and it's not open, closed-souce text editor don't last long.
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Depends on what you're doing. Mono 3.0 has a stable llvm backend. For low level code it should run as fast as c modulo array bounds checks etc.
As a guitar teacher I recommend the basic Yamaha Pacifica models, 012 and 112, to students.

They are reliably well made, and fairly no-frills, you get a lot for your money.
surely you could just run lljvm on the llvm IR that ghc emits and have haskell code on your JVM?
Why not just use OCaml then?
I thought so too, but the original title is the same.
Interesting but flawed....Scotty79: to argue that models cannot be blamed for market crashes is the same type of argument that says guns don't kill people. Both statements outside context are correct, yet...btw: another academic created the option formula already: Vincent Brontin who taught in Triest in 1910...and not the physicists who knew howcto treat formulae appropriately survived the crashes but street smart traders like Taleb did...experienced option traders never used Black-Scholes anyway because they knew it was flawed...an accident waiting to happen...
I'm feeling pretty lazy this morning, too... certainly too lazy to fork a repo, clone it, edit a file and save, commit and push, and create a pull request just to give you some travel advice.

Try starting a Reddit thread instead. :-)
I don't think your two racial profiling examples are so much a problem of conflating statistics and probability, as they are a problem of confusion of the inverse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_of_the_inverse). It is the case that if you randomly select an illegal immigrant in the US, then the expectation (p ≈ 75%) is that they will be Hispanic. That's not a misapplication of statistics; it's just what the numbers say.

However, that does not mean that if you randomly select a Hispanic person, the expectation is that they are an illegal immigrant. The probability is in fact closer to 15%.

The imbalance of those numbers for people who "look like terrorists" at airports is even more preposterous, of course.

But statistical invalidity is not the only reason that racial profiling is bad. Even if 99% of Hispanic people really were illegal immigrants, it would be unacceptable for police to target them based on race. Not because it would be an invalid conflation of statistics and probability - it wouldn't. The problem is that in order to protect individual rights, the police and the courts must not act strictly according to expectation. We shouldn't imprison someone, for example, just because we reckon there's a 75% chance they were the killer.

And if 99% of Hispanic people were illegal immigrants, and so police hassled every Hispanic person, then we would know just as sure as we'd know that they'd have a 99% success rate, that they'd be violating the civil rights of the other 1%.
Agreed - some of the stuff he's asking for is plain lazy. @OP: Google it yourself!
Lets say your Facebook page was public and you rant about the company you are working for. Do you think future employers won't wonder if you will do the same if you join them?

Lets say you write something about a topic that shouldn't be discussed (wasn't there a rape case that was clinched because of social media?). Who would want to risk potential backlash in the future?

While you may think its your social life, Facebook definitely has enough reach that statements made by you could reflect poorly on your employer as well as on you.
This failed as an experiment in the same way mythbusters gets Adam to scale a building, and he can't get to a second floor with suction cups, and deems it a myth. All the while we have a french guy that is scaling skyscrapers with only his hands and getting arrested for that the very same weekend.
KXEN does some interesting things with assuming that what the data approximates is (I think) the solution set to a quadratic equation, rather than a linear one.
But as soon as you need to express new domain concepts in a language that does not natively support them, macros become essential to maintaining good, concise code.

There are good arguments for macros, but this is not one of them. Macros are certainly not essential for this purpose.
I remember scoring a 6.49mhz crystal around that time, and feeling pretty elite.
Background missing from article: Trichloroethylene was in widespread use during the early days of silicon fab, and was part of the "RCA clean" that was used in order to remove everything from the surface of a silicon wafer.

It's scattered through a great deal of SV, many of the Santa Clara county superfund sites are from former fabs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Cali...

Naturally, no jail time was ever served because of these.
Except he was already allowed to carry it. He was just not allowed to show it to anyone.
Is that necessarily true though?

I reckon it's cool to draw on the collective experience of a group to find out nichey stuff, underground bands in that genre, for example.
Just a few more years of research and Brecht's wonderful allegory might finally become reality:
http://pamolson.org/ArtSharksMen.htm
Github as a GUI which lets you edit text files in the browser.
I've losy my flagging ability a long time ago too. Whats more concerning is the abuse of the flagging system to hide articles people that don't want others to seee. like articles not showing Apple or Google in a good light, or articles friendly to Microsoft... like the Surface review, for example.
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Standups are Not Poisonous
weird methodology if you ask me but there it is:

The proportion of mothers who were both older and had presumed TCE exposure was more than six-fold greater among case infants than among control infants (3.3% [8/245] versus 0.5% [19/3780]). When adjusted for other variables, CHD risk was over three-fold greater among infants of older, exposed mothers compared to infants of older, nonexposed mothers (adjusted OR, 3.2; 95% CI, 1.2-8.7). Older maternal age, alcohol use, chronic hypertension, and preexisting diabetes were each associated with CHDs (adjusted ORs, 1.9, 2.1, 2.8, 4.1; 95% CIs, 1.1-3.5, 1.1-4.2, 1.2-6.7, 1.5-11.2, respectively), but residence close to TCE sites alone was not.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15390315
"...and human’s are the smartest of all thinkers"

:|
Being one of the no idea / barely an idea teams in s12, one of the teams that acrimoniously blew apart and probably one of the teams that led to the changes that YC made for w13, I am glad that "no idea" is no longer an option.

I still view YC's willingness to experiment in an extremely positive light. It's why YC is the innovator, and everyone else (500, techstars etc) are just imitators. That being said, I think "no idea" was a bad idea, for YC as investors and advisors, for the following reasons:

1. It created teams that had not actually worked together for a significant length of time on an idea that all founders believed in. In other words, "teams" which were not actually "teams", but rather a set of individuals with strong credentials.

2. Some of the most important psychological benefits of going through YC, particularly the artificial pressure of Demo Day, have a paradoxical effect on "no idea" teams. The experience of watching good startups grow literally before your eyes at weekly dinners is inspiring, but not particularly conducive to coming up with your own idea. For me at least, it created an almost existential angst.

3. Without an idea, a shared revolutionary vision of the future, there is nothing binding a team together. Each time an idea "failed" there was an intense feeling of loss and personal failure, particularly (as mentioned above) when you see the "idea" teams progressing week on week. That emotional baggage can rip apart formerly great friends .. it did in our case.

Given that, s12 was not a disaster. For one, many s12 teams are doing brilliantly, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are more than a few black swans amongst my batchmates. But more importantly, it wasn't a failure in the same sense that Edison's first 9,999 light bulbs (that didn't work) were not failures.

For me personally, "no idea" was a great idea, as I learned more from my YC experience than can be quantified. While I'd never take funding again without an idea (or a working product or service) as it causes unnecessary and often contradictory pressure, my understanding of how to succeed in startups is orders of magnitude greater than it would have been without YC, and for that I will be eternally grateful.
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You can accomplish this all in exactly three clicks, without ever leaving your browser. Hell I'm pretty sure there's even a keyboard shortcut for it somewhere.
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Airplane, I believe.
"Windows Server takes most of the profit... competing against free products."

That makes sense, doesn't it?
> Like the vast vast vast majority of all consumer facing internet businesses ever created since the dawn of the Web, Google was created to do something: Search, without any clear business plan about how to make money.

Without AdWords, we'd probably have gone back to AltaVista.

> Most Web businesses do not charge end user fees, they are founded to get users, and either make money from ads, or get acquired by those that do.

This is where it's confusing. AdWords behaves like old-fashioned newspaper advertising: Google both control the inventory of spots to advertise and accept the adverts.

AdSense is different: Google doesn't not provide inventory, but they fill it. In that respect they are more like a central ad buying agency than a newspaper.

> which says to me that there's some intellectual dishonesty going on, people with an axe to grind.

Or it might be that I'm just pointing out that what Google spends its money on doesn't change what people actually pay Google for.

If you classify companies according to what they are paid to do, then Google is a company that gets paid to take and display advertising, just as Ford is a company that's paid to manufacture and distribute cars or WalMart is paid to source and distribute durable and perishable retail goods.

Journalists don't like to think about where the money is coming from. And in fairness to journalists, that's been the grand bargain for more than a century: pay my wages, don't meddle too much and I'll give you good copy to sell your papers.

Well now the grand bargain is: pay my wages, don't meddle too much and I'll produce services that support, directly or indirectly, AdSense and AdWords.

There is no shame in this. None of this detracts one iota from the journalists at a media firm or the engineers at Google. But TANSTAAFL.

> Google spent nearly $7 billion on R&D in 2013.

And most of the wages paid at newspapers are not paid to the advertising or classifieds staff. They make enough money per head to support a much larger staff of journalists, designers, subeditors, setters, printers etc etc etc.

> Larry Page is not an idiot, he sees that relying on ads for 97% of your revenue is a risky proposition.

I agree. But simply elbowing your way into a different business model is hard. Really, really hard. Ask Newscorp. Ask Microsoft.
Tunnels of Doom was fantastic as well.
"You can't really have a totally safe systems programming language (correct me if I'm wrong here)."

It bears repeating because most people are totally unaware of this but you can use code verifiers to analyze C code and then prove that that C code is free from buffer overflow/overrun, unexpected pointer dereferencing, etc.

Now the bad news: on the tiny codebase of 7000 lines of code of the esL4 microkernel such a prover found hundreds of potentially exploitable errors. They've all been fixed and it is now guaranteed that that codebase cannot be exploited due to, say, a buffer overflow/overrun/underflow in that microkernel. It doesn't mean there aren't other way to exploit that OS: but simply it is a fact that there isn't going any exploit using a buffer overrun in that part of the codebase. That's already quite a big win.

This is fascinating stuff and I'm sure we'll see more of that in the future.
Or if there are more old people now, when you're young, than there will be young people when you are old. :P
What does "public" mean? I haven't used Facebook in like 2 years, so I don't know how their new subscribe/follow model works. Would the employer be able to just "follow" him without "friending" him and still see what he said?
Considering the culture of Apple, and how big of an issue this would be if it got out, this is huge.

The poor bastards in China can choose to do something else. They are grown adults who can make their own life decisions. It's literally a thousand times safer than the fishermen and loggers here in the west.
If you're just starting out playing guitar, you can get a perfectly serviceable electric guitar off Craigslist for $100-$200. You can probably find used acoustics for even less money. Cut your teeth on a cheap acoustic guitar, and when you pick up a cheap electric guitar, it'll be so much easier to play. Build up your skill on that, and if you feel comfortable, head to guitar center and try out more expensive instruments. If the difference is notable enough to drop $2,000 on an upgrade, go for it.
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We just launched Dudepins v.2 - What do you think?
Some of you may not be aware, but legislation was drafted by republicans to force the USPS to pay too much into the civil service retirement fund. They have not taken any government funding for decades, and currently there is more money than is required in the fund to pay the pensions of every postal worker.

Because of this, the USPS is having to take austerity measures, like ending saturday delivery. But it will only get worse.

That's the reason why they don't have money. It's not because they are inefficient. Another reason is that every time they try to do something competitive against UPS or FedEx, lobbyists get it shot down.

They have been operating at a severe handicap.

By the way, I'm an atheist, and the idea of "atheist shoes" makes me cringe a bit.
I really hope that was the case, but he did say this:

> 6 person team * 30 minutes = 3 hours lost
Surely you don't mean to refute Hans Rosling's testimony that his mother had more time to read to him? I think you have an interesting viewpoint. If these technologies don't actually save any time, it follows that we spend as much doing X before the technology than after. So 4 hrs/wk washing 1 loads/wk + washing machine => 4 hrs/wk washing 4 loads/wk.

What if you reverse this and apply it to computers? I spend maybe 2-3 hours in Excel every week. If I were born 100 years earlier, would it follow that I'd also spend 2-3 hrs/wk making spreadsheets, albeit at a much slower work pace? It seems doubtful. I've got only a few dozen sheets, tops. Lots of time spent in Excel is tweaking, making things line up / look right, updating kludges, etc. Busywork, basically. Maybe this is my fault; the 'math' tells me I should have lots of sheets, but I get caught up doing busywork on this machine that's supposed to automate the whole ordeal. What a scam!
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For iOS devices we use airplay and airserver on the computer side.
Unfortunately this doesn't show touches, so you need to be creative and implement it part of your app.
That may not be a practically relevant difference. Why would you want to run F# on the JVM? To interface with JVM code. IKVM lets you do that already.

I've rolled out multiple .NET programs that contain Java open source libraries through IKVM. It works just fine, and the amount of extra work you need to do to make the JVM->.NET mapping work is remarkably little.
so you are saying that a game must have high end graphics or else it only applies to the lowest common denominator?

What about the fact that this thing boots up faster than a pc, is dedicated to focus on entertainment around the TV space as consoles are and is a system that is priced at $99. Call me a realist but a pc can do alot of the things my mp3 player can. But i dont want to have to lug around by pc just so i can listen to songs.

Oh and you do know steam is also coming out with their own console right? This only solidifies the notion that there is still a growing market for non techie individuals who want entertainment in their living rooms. Personally i prefer crowding around a big tv when playing console style games with friends. Its a bit hard to do that on 1 computer and 1 keyboard.
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> project managers

There's your problem. That role is the antithesis of a self organising team. With someone responsible for "managing" that stand up turns into a very expensive way to keep the manager briefed.
None of the tests they used were food-related.

If you're curious, pages 13 to 17 of the supplementary data (from "Auditory fear conditioning" onwards) describe the methods they used to test learning and memory: http://download.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/mmcs/journals/1934-5...
Don't forget about Open webOS [1]. At the very least the progress of its Galaxy Nexus port is curious to watch [2], though I wonder how the recent acquisition of rights to webOS by LG might influence the project.

[1] http://www.openwebosproject.org/.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XelmomAq91o
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