skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on how you live. I am a east coast city person through and through, so it might be my bias, but these rooms seem not all that terrible.

Raising kids, living with a significant other, sure. You need space in those. But for a post-grad getting started who isn't a homebody and mostly just needs a place to sleep and store food, I don't see why they'd need to reaccess their life.
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That isn't limited to cancer. Western medicine is driven by a lot of bad mental and social models. Doctors only make money if you are sick. That strikes me as a seriously flawed model right there.
> But I don't see any particular reason to assume that he couldn't have been equally successful had he chosen a different route.

It's sheer speculation to wonder what different thing Thiel could have done to become successful. And that gets into the "would Jobs have been as successful if he had never founded Apple?" thing, which is naval gazing.

But it's less of a shot in the dark to speculate that Thiel probably couldn't have successfully co-founded PayPal (a financial services company), without a college degree and Wall Street background. You can look at many entrepreneurs and say that they could've still founded their company if someone had given them $100k cash at age 18. I don't think Thiel is one of those people.

> What - if anything - could Thiel do now (or around the time he launched the Thiel Fellowship initiative) that would make him a good messenger in your view?

Hire people without college degrees to work at Clarium Capital.
For all of the people in this thread saying "some of these aren't that bad" you seriously need to get some perspective.

7-year New Yorker here.

By NYC standards, they aren't that bad. They're unattractive and small, but I've seen a lot worse.

Some of the places that I've had realtors show me make these places look like palaces. When I first got here and was living on close to nothing, I found (on Craigslist) a Williamsburg loft where there'd literally be a shower curtain separating my "room" (which was filthy) from a dark, tenement-like space with ~12 people in it. Kitchen stuff was at least 50 years old and probably didn't work. I visited at 10:00pm on a Thursday and it was loud as hell. $1200 per month. Um, no thanks. (By the way, Williamsburg has the most intense negative energy on earth. Hipsters sound okay in theory but I can't fucking stand them in practice. To give one a job is like pouring salt on a slug, except a good thing in the former case because the whining is entertaining.)

However, I agree with you. If you can get a stream of good jobs out in the Midwest, that is the way to go.

It's honestly not worth the cost of living here for most people. The high rents here are driven by (a) asshole foreign speculators that the government irresponsibly lets into the market, when a 6-months-and-1-day rule is really in order, (b) various legacy rent-control systems that wouldn't be a big deal except in the context of extreme price inelasticity-- I have no problem with the idea of rent control, or even with its continuation for the legitimate beneficiaries; but when upper-middle-class well-connected asswipes buy their way into an arrangement that's superior to ownership, and lock up housing stock, that's wrong, (c) NIMBY like you wouldn't believe, (d) parentally-funded hipster zeros whose guilt-ridden spawners decided they have some entitlement to the "New York Experience" (at $2-6k/month) even though they do absolutely nothing for anyone, (e) the fact that in investment banking and large-firm law, there really are major career benefits to living here (you pretty much need to live in Manhattan to get promoted in soft-side banking; trading is more of a meritocracy where you can live whereever you want as long as you show up on time). If none of these apply, New York is not worth the cost of living here. It is nice, if you take out the cost problem; I just think having savings and, eventually, the freedom with having a nest egg, improves the average person's quality of life by more. (You might guess that I don't intend to be here in 10 years, although I'm very glad I spent the 7 that I have.)
I had to google what is tiger mom, and found this:
"never allowed:

- attend a sleepover

- have a playdate

- be in a school play

- complain about not being in a school play

- watch TV or play computer games

- choose their own extracurricular activities

- get any grade less than an “A”

- not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama

- play any instrument other than the piano or violin

- not play the piano or violin.”

Well, fuck.
Bro/Sis, your http://siculars.posterous.com link is out-of-date. What is your new home on web?
Your assumptions are based on a PandoDaily post where they cover just a few of the fellows that have decided to publicise their companies.

There's a wider (but far from full) list here.
https://www.quora.com/Thiel-Fellows/What-were-the-results-of...

I'd say most of the projects aren't known about (in beta, not startups, not publicised or not launched) at this point, some will fail but I can see quite a few big tech companies springing up from that batch.

I believe they said today that fellows have raised $34M+ in funding and I know quite a few YC founders in the fellowship and I've only just scratched the surface of speaking to people.
Most people in the world do not have this level of luxury in the accommodations.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sconcerns/housing/hou...
I'm honestly a bit annoyed by this article. Someone wants to live in one of the most populous cities in the world with quite high density and also expects a more luxurious setting and a low price?
I found this http://www.faqs.org/childhood/So-Th/Teenagers.html that claims that schooling past the age of 14 went from rare to normal between 1901 and 1940.
This is great, especially for an "alpha" (ha ha).

My wife will love this for creating transparencies (she does serigraphy).
Even cells in solitary confinement have windows.
I don't believe many people mean that literally any more than people mean for you to literally "go have intercourse with yourself" or literally "consume feces and die"
It is so professional and insightful to discuss a product that's not even finalized yet. Journalism ftw!
One of the most interesting points made around this article was written in the comments:

> So many people watch and laugh at this vids, and they are the same people who hear Retah's story and think bullying is terrible. We don't realize how hypocrtical we can all be sometimes.
Scala & Play Framework :P
White House: New Open Data Policy Executive Order Today
Forget CISPA and such, I'd say that initiatives like this are the biggest threat to internet freedom and anonymity.

Unless burner phones become available that support FIDO protocols and that can be purchased for cash, this idea will make "Login with Facebook" seem like child's play by comparison.
For a second I thought this was an April Fool's day post!
Yes, but calling it an "acqui-hire" probably makes it look less good.

>Why payoff the VCs?

Because they're probably interested in the executive/founding team, and they can't leave without placating their investors. Wouldn't be surprised if the employees got shafted/walked away with a mild bonus.

As far as I can tell, this sort of thing basically acts as a shareholder wealth redistribution scheme to people who have demonstrated social proof.
Awesome. Thanks for the insight :) I'm definitely keeping an eye on you guys, all the best!
Yeah, I'm coming from the perspective of someone who spent much of their early life on the east coast. At that point in my life my apartment was just that place I crashed after partying. I hung out, ate, and generally lived elsewhere throughout the city.

These days my life has changed and my apartment is more of a place that I wind down after work. I would not consider living in these places now, but in my past? Absolutely.
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Should I Start My Own Business?
Seems like the winner. I used it years ago but wasn't as complete as it looks right now, will give it another shot.
This can be explained without bringing in accusations of fraud or incompetence [1].

Basically, if you have a bazillion experiments running and only publish the results which are significant, you still have a huge predictability problem, because most of those statistically significant results will be due to chance alone.

For example, assume that only 1% of cancer experiments produce something valid and interesting, and that standard for statistical significance is the industry standard 95%, or 1 in 20. If 100,000 hypothesis are tested, you'll get 100,000 * 1% = 1000 valid results and 100,000 * 5% = 5000 results from chance alone. In this example, only 16% of the published results will be reproducible, because only 1000 / 6000 are valid.

[1] http://sciencehouse.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/why-most-publis...
You seem to be implying making a touch-friendly interface is difficult. I made a touch-friendly interface for one of my websites by accident: making the buttons slightly bigger was all that was needed.
I got a bunch of "Failed to get a worker assigned: undefined" for a bit, but once that stopped happening and I figured out the zoom, it was very impressive: http://i.imgur.com/WT4bH5M.jpg
Undo is sorely needed.

Just deployed a smaller brush size (30px instead of 40px when zoomed out).

It should get picked up when you reload the page (though default asset caching might hold it for another hour. Well, well)
It probably has much more to do with the voting system they added.
Yahoo acquires Palo Alto startup GoPollGo
Click to call isn't interesting because of connecting the actual phone number. It's a UX problem of minimizing the steps to figure out which Congressman belongs to the constituent visiting the page. [This gets way more complex on a state officials level.]
Also available, and newly made free: http://www.bonanza.com/background_burns

Pros: Doesn't require the fg/bg coloring step needed here, just figures out your FG without intervention.
Cons: Have to register for an account to access it currently, but can use FB or Google to register
The DMCA is still responsible for its unintended consequences.

I'm in complete agreement. But fixing that issue will be more difficult than fixing this one, in my opinion. Getting this bill passed would do some good even if it is overstating things a little.
I'm a recent NYC transplant. In past places I've lived (VA, DC, MN) it's definitely the law that a bedroom must have an egress window — not just a window, but one that opens and is large enough you could exit through it in case of a fire.

In New York, either that isn't the law, or it just gets violated a lot more often. Since moving here I've seen a surprising number of places where the bedroom has no windows.

However, there is definitely no requirement (in any state I've lived in) for a bedroom to have a closet. Some do, many don't.
I'm speaking for the majority of people that can't afford racks of servers and custom-laid transatlantic fiberoptic lines. I'm speaking about typical americans that have their money in 401(k) accounts or maybe buy stocks from an online broker to try and fund their kids' college accounts.

Barriers to entry. Cost of business, etc... It's really not a concern to people who actually understand HFT and trade in their own way despite. They generally really don't mind the added liquidity.

These people are all being scraped, very slowly but very surely, by HFT. That's the point I'm making.

Buy in at $40. Sell at $80. Where does the computer scrape money from the transactions? It doesn't. Like I said, you're only losing if you're trying to trade like a computer. It's like trying to out-robot a robot on an assembly line.

At least we all admit that the modern stock market has absolutely no connection to the economy or to the interests of long-term investing or capital building. It's just a very large and very legal casino.

I disagree to the first part, and I think the second bit is an oversimplification.

It obviously matters, or else people wouldn't be upset by HFT or claim that they're losing money to it. We also have to consider the fact that pretty much all money comes through the bond and stock markets at exchanges. The exchanges are price arbitration centers for the economy. Paying attention to them matters because the exchanges and what happens there matters.

A casino is a place you go to lose money. It's all games and the odds are stacked against you. Everything we do in life is a gamble. An exchange is a place for people to make informed decisions about the prices of goods and financial instruments. Everyone loses and wins some.

I do relate to the long-term investing/capital building. The central banks keep printing money which funnels into the bond and stock markets. This in turn signals an abundance of actual economic capital, which there isn't. With the communication that there is plenty of excess capital for the long term, we (and especially people dealing in finance) act as if it is the case and start consuming capital. Eventually, facts catch up and we get some sort of terrible economic downturn. As a result of the long-term economic irregularity, actors act for the short-term because the long term is just too undependable.
Actually you can, you just need a license. That you'll never get one is assumed, however. You need a license to export anything to the AT (Anti-terrorism) countries but for some items you probably can get the license, at least for certain items to certain end users.
If you like this remember to donate some money to the project on http://pypy.org/ [I am not in any way affiliated with PyPy, only supporting the project].
Strawman. The video is comical because it shows kids being kids. Not everyone who watches the video is mocking the subject.
Making the Case For/Against #VINE by #Twitter
Sorry, that's me being slow scaling out the backend. I've added a couple more boxes. (Haven't added auto-scaling yet)
That's exactly the kind of analogy I was looking for. Thanks.
Show HN: Queue Simulator - How many cashiers do you need?
Flying Low - Platforms should be close to the machine
The fartscroll script at least demonstrated how to embed audio data in the script itself and handle cross-browser format differences. Sure, it was a little juvenile, but every once in a while, we have to stop taking ourselves so seriously.
I think the Backbone.js-style class pattern is something that helps keep your code modular and well organized. Prototype are nothing to fear.

However, the article does not really touch on this. It's mostly just saying to use `{}` instead of `new Object`.
>Go read the actual study then rather than the article, and find out how she justified her decisions.

If you've got $11.95 to spare, I'll take you up on that. Unfortunately all that's available is the abstract. But if you want me to analyze that, I will. 232 words, not counting the copyright. 122 unique. 'Tiger' occurs 7 times -- 4th behind 'parenting' (15), 'the' (12), and 'and' (9). My analysis concludes that Kim doesn't just have something she wants to say, she has something she wants the public to hear. I.e., right or wrong, Kim has an agenda.

>Most likely, she based them on definitions that were defined and validated by multiple previous studies before her

I don't see how; she openly states in the quoted section of the parent comment that her delineation of categories was aimed at challenging the standard in the field.

>a whole load of very critical people have to agree with your judgement before something gets published.

In this case, it was the fine people over at the AAJP. The Asian American Journal of Psychology. Most def not a journal oriented toward "their version" of the truth, I'm sure.
That behavior is fairly common in that age group. It's a bit hard to say what it means without more information.
Gotcha!

You are clearly not who you claim to be. You're either a liar or a shill. You created your profile a day ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dsaber

I note that you are unable to engage in any of the critical issues.

> Had you even lived in Syria

You've never lived in Syria - you're a fake.

Contact me directly & I'll get one of my Syrian friends to have a chat with you.

What were the main electoral issues for the 2012 elections?

> Yes, many of those videos have been verified.

You have failed to provide any evidence of this. You dont seem to understand the difference between assertion & fact.

Facts & evidence please - not assertion.

> There's around 275 intelligence officers for each Syrian citizen

275 * 20.82 million citizens = 5500 million intelligence officers? You're an idiot.

> You very well know my position about advocating for the rights and freedom of civilians.

NO, we don't know your position.

> , that question demonstrates many of the classic logical fallacies in your entire argument.

Such as?

Yeah, didn't think so. If you even knew what a logical fallacy was you would have stated it.

> What a ridiculous question.

You don't seem to understand a rhetorical question. So I'll put it more clearly for you:

You are supporting killing civilians to aid a propaganda effort.

Again, we note that you do not acknowledge the fact that:
- NATO backed death squads were responsible for the Houla massacre;
- western media tried to blame the Syrian government;
- western media ignored the UN report exonerating the Syrian government;

> your claimed propaganda efforts

There's nothing claimed - the propaganda effort is a FACT.

Also the death & destruction on the ground is not claimed, it's a fact.

> the main responsible party in the destruction of the country is the Syrian regime

Yet again, incorrect.

Snipers from Dagestan armed with US produced M40A3 rifles started shooting civilians in 2011.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27955.htm

http://www.ozyism.com/2011/12/us-sniper-squad-caught-on-vide...

There are over 300 European mercenaries languishing in Syrian jails:

http://www.ozyism.com/2012/06/40-german-arms-smugglers-arres...

There are over 20000 Foreign Mercenaries in Syria:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-uncleared-war-nearly-2...

http://www.kurdnas.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&v...

A United Nations Independent Commission, has confirmed that:
- contractors hired by the Pentagon were training the terrorists in the use of chemical weapons;
- terrorists possess sarin nerve gas, which they are using against the civilian population

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=United+Nations+Independent...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/pentagon-contractors-have-train...

Furthermore, Qatar has been implicated in a plot to procure chemical weapons from a UK security company for use by the death squads, hoping to blame the government.

http://www.infowars.com/hack-reveals-washington-approved-pla...

All of which you seem quite happy with.

It is obvious you have no empathy for the suffering of the Syrian people & fully support the killing of civilians by NATO death squads.
The kind of "programming" that you are describing is fundamentally different than what Winograd did, and that was my point. This learning from many examples is an instance of inductive inference, and the complexity involved is why modern NLP research (and you in your project) uses machine learning techniques with massive datasets -- this more closely mimics the way we naturally acquire language. Trying to hand engineer all those rules and dependencies and exceptions is prohibitively difficult, which is why we have Siri and not SHRDLU+.
That's not quite right. Stock numpy doesn't install, and nobody's working on that as far as I know, but they've reimplemented part of the numpy API (at least the Python API, not the C one), and the subset they've implemented works fine. I have an application in production that uses it.
Yeah we actually do that for some of our code. Usually when one person is editing some code that is typically outside their comfort zone, so they want to make sure the usual maintainer looks at it before it gets merged in.
Well... there are a lot of Jews out there who tend to disagree. Ha.
SOD BEING IN USA Now [http://www.planetseeder.com/watch.php?mdid=4706]
I watched the video, I laughed at the video, and I think the bullying is awful. Just watching the video and finding it amusing does not turn you into a bully. Posting mean comments about the guy does. How many of us did that?
The most similar BMW and Audi are the 7 series and A8, they are priced pretty comparably to the Tesla before any fuel savings.
Looks like work has started on using emscripten with Objective-C code:

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/pull/1162/files

Still, a long way to go.
Your setup sounds perfect for your skills and experience.

Are you familiar with Gina Trapani's ToDo.txt?
http://todotxt.com/

Seems like it might be up your alley if you don't have a system already. You should ping @ginatrapani with a link to your comment - I imagine she'd be interested...
I think this was a sarcastic commentary on the Summly acquisition.
The problem is if you forget it.

x = new ConstructorFunction()

vs

x = ConstructorFunction()

Both will work without raising an error but the second will potentially write stuff into the global object, leading to some weird bugs.
The Star Wolf
Yup, they're pretty sweet ;)
Unless you include every jewish male character in a woody allen movie or a philip roth novel, which can be read as a case study on highly depressed high achievers.
Ethnomining and the combination of qualitative & quantitative data
Comparing these rooms to solitary confinement is pretty stupid. You can't leave solitary confinement whenever you want (hence, "confinement").
They don't sell music and they don't sell much software... Do you mean iTunes and the Apple App store? In that case, yes, it really did.
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did you read my question?

what's it to do with salesforce?
Lots of pseudonymous forums are reasonably civil. I suspect the problem with Youtube's comments is more an absence of signal than the presence of noise. Videos are far more accessible to the barely literate, "People who watch videos on YouTube" has no community identity, and there's no external purpose to the commenting to overcome the weakness of text as a medium to discuss cat videos.

I'm not sure why Youtube even bothered allowing text comments in the first place, let alone why they didn't go to video-response only years ago.
I'll keep just linking people to my github, and showing them projects I've built.

[1]: Actual real work as in: writing libraries that other people use. Contributing to the community in ways that effect the entire community.

I worry a little about the GitHub approach as well.

On the one hand, it's great that some people have effectively got portfolios now. It's verifiable evidence that they have some clue what they're doing.

On the other hand, I'm concerned about a bias developing against people who don't put loads of work on GitHub for whatever reason, which is not verifiable evidence that they don't know what they're doing. They might be world class experts who could easily demonstrate their skill and expertise in person, but that's no good if employers all start using cost-cutting auto-screening software that never shortlists such candidates for interview because they didn't share their ingenious but proprietary code/ideas with the general public.

In short, any scheme that relies on historical demonstrations, whether it's claims on a CV or code on a GitHub account, is always going to be vulnerable to false negatives.
You forgot to highlight the other 3 "Graphic design" :)