skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The rest is history. I know I'm discussing an "N=1" anecdote, but I've personally found that life is what you make it, no matter where you come from or your background.

So my dad grew up in a village (they didn't get electricity until the 1990's) in Bangladesh. He went to college and graduate school, eventually moved to the U.S., and ultimately my brother and I grew up solidly upper middle class. One thing he always told me is that he was never the hardest worker or the smartest person in his peer group, but was ultimately more successful than nearly everyone he thought was harder working and/or smarter. He said that what he had, in addition to being very smart and very hard working, was being very lucky.
I wrote up this large spill about this being their personal feelings, financially drowning and overdrafting $500 each month. Husbands being the sole income providers ranging from $18k-29k a year for 2-4 kids. Jobs going at a very fast pace and very often not returning for a long period of time.

It is much akin to building a home without a foundation. Reproducing without a security blanket for when times are harsh is an equation for depression. I agree, they have different priorities, but there is not one group (out of my 7) that is happy with their choice. They are riddled with embarrassment and guilt. You get to the gas pump with $1.50 to put in the tank... and have a clean consciousness that you were correct in prioritizing a large family over creating a foundation. Don't worry though, the doctors still write prescriptions of Oxycotin, Valiums, and a myriad of antidepressants to reinforce that they made the right choice! I judge them not, I relay their silent cries that they hide from the community, because they fear communal judgment. A far greater damnation than my single judgement in that type of atmosphere.
Having lived high in the Rocky Mountains and in Singapore (and various intermediate climes), it's my personal impression that "hot" people have a harder time in cold weather than "cold" people have in hot weather. Aircon is great! The thing is, you can adjust. When I visited central India with an Indian-American friend, both of us were in short-sleeved shirts the whole time, while his family were bundled in all the sweaters and coats they had and were still cold. (It was late January I believe.)
Damn... the people in your life are very interesting, clever, and busy. I would have never guess most of those reasons. The people in your life sound like fun... and occasionally combative ;)
So, what does it even _mean_ to "buy a city"? Is it reasonable to assume (as the author of the post does) that if Google "bailed out" Detroit, it would then have full control over the regulatory process required to rip out and replace the existing bureaucracy and install a Google-friendly one? Or are we just assuming that Detroiters would happily vote for whoever Google endorsed to run the city?

The idea is really interesting, but is it plausible? How would it work?
It's usually called something like "automatic account updater" by the credit card issuer. I think it's pretty common for merchant banks and merchant service providers to offer it these days. (We use it where I work.)

Here's an older Braintree blog post about it:
https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/automatic-update-of-c...
This whole thing is very confusing.

There is over 17 gallons of carbon dioxide for every gallon of fuel burnt.

Volume is a strange choice of measurement for a gas... The EIA[1] shows that about 8kg of CO2 are created for every gallon of gas that a car burns. We use a baseline stoichiometric consumption of about 1.8kg of CO2 per 1 kg of algal biomass.

They say these CO2ubes are good for 8-10 weeks, which if you average 200 miles per week, and 25mpg, you'd burn over 70 gallons of gas. This gas would've produced about 560kg of CO2. I can't imagine more than 1kg of biomass accumulating in this tip (especially since it's cantilevered at the furthest point from the exhaust clip) so you'd have used maybe 2kg of the CO2, reducing your consumption by 0.3%.

We are using the process of photosynthesis and applying it
to where carbon dioxide is being released. Since the process of
algae photosynthesis is not fast enough to accomodate for the
free flowing exhaust emissions, we have implemented a secondary
reactant into the device.

There's problem #2. Not only is photosynthesis not fast enough, it NEEDS SUNLIGHT. It doesn't use the "sun's energy" as is shown in that chart, it literally needs photons to excite the reaction centres.[2]

So they're not using photosynthesis at all. Apparently the tip arrives with a supply of NaOH inside, which reacts with CO2 in the exhaust stream and then is emitted out the tailpipe as carbonic acid. So why use algae at all?

Pending approval, users of the CO2ube will be able to drive in the
H.O.V. lane without meeting the occupancy minimum requirement [...]
Also pending approval, users of the CO2ube will receive an
additional tax credit from the EPA! [...] We have applied to give
our customers a tax credit (similar to the electric vehicle tax credit)
for using our technologies. Once that is approved, we plan to push
for regulation approval.

I'm shocked that they'd make these claims. There is virtually no chance they'll get HOV access. The 1st generation Chevy Volt, which made something like 65mpg equivalent didn't qualify for HOV access, why would this tech? They also expect that they're going to get Federal tax credits? Come on..

Also worth mentioning is that restricting the exhaust flow will also make the engine burn less efficiently, which will use more gasoline and create more CO2...

[1] http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=307&t=10
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_reaction_centre
Is it more than a single line of code in a well-designed engine to flip the Z?
However there's no confusion about how cold -40 is!
That might be this comment: "It’s true that the Baltics suffered a particularly rapid outflow after the popping of their respective economic bubbles".
Danger of Open Access to University IP
Imagine this blog post but with Google replaced with Exxon Mobil (which has an even higher market cap), and Google-friendly public policy replaced with Exxon Mobil-friendly public policy.

There's a damn good reason we don't want corporations to be able to "buy" cities.
I am keenly reminded of Shadowrun's megacorps, where corporations are the government, for all practical purposes.

Do. Not. Want.
This is nonsensical. Bailing out Detroit wouldn't give Google (or anyone else) any incremental sway over the auto makers. Nor would it give them some kind of carte blanche to act as a benevolent dictator and make changes to legislation without normal democratic process.
I think because in most "cold" places the summer still gets pretty hot.
I'd hesitate to call imperative the antithesis of FP:

It's imperative vs declarative - FP is on a different level of abstraction, as a sibling to, let's say, logic programming.
I use WidgetBlock. You have to click on any media you want to play but it hugely reduces my time spent on disabling auto-play and it's worth the hassle.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hgiihiookhijpbhafl...
We're already Deus Ex.
Do you have any evidence that isn't based on a video game plot?
This actually confused me, too.

I did preorder, now that hopefully it will work on T-mobile network. (Which uses somewhat oddball frequency...)
Luckily this is still a year in the future. It is good amount of time for
a)sub $10 adapter to appear
b)you might change your hardware for unrelated purpouse
c)you might change your hardware for this purpouse over the course of the year for monitors that support vga+hdmi(or DVI+cheap adapter)
One insight is that functional programming and pure functional programming are very different beasts. As an example, Clojure does not aim to be pure, Haskell does. In Clojure, the focus is on immutability, and state is modeled as a succession of immutable values. Example: the employees in a company is represented as an immutable value. A place (a ref) stores the current immutable value, and you can always ask this ref for that value, and set it to a new one. But the value itself is always immutable. In Haskell, everything must be pure, and uses monads to models things such as random number generators, I/O, and other side effects.
I should do what squirrels do.
one doesnt need to own land to participate in the agriculture industry. It seems that food stand might be all it takes. Jim rogrrs moved to singapore and not minesota because he participates in the agriculture industry using his brokerage skills. probably much mire effective given his background. my claim is this: write software that has to do with agriculture. might be a great niche. and if you are young enough dont waste your time studying IT to compete with bazolion others to write apps for free. rather help in an industry likr agriculture where supply is very weak and demand is very strong. ever heard of restaurants giving out food for free on a regular basis to lure in customers?
Disney Rapid Design Tool Creates Mechatronic Characters
If ISPs in the UK have a shred of decency, I'm hoping they phrase the opt-in as "would you like the internet you pay good money for to be unfiltered?" as opposed to "would you like to be able to access pornography?". It gives the subscriber plausible deniability, and changes the conversation to being an empowerment versus a shame.
Wouldn't that essentially be the beginnings of Fascism with a completely corporation owned city? Next Google could presumably install its "manager", lets call it the "Director/Dictator", that has no worries about democratic niceties and can therefore pass any legislation Google wishes (goodbye social justice, hello minimum work standards, corporate friendly legal environment).
>The biggest problem for me is that I have a number of monitors and laptops that don't support HDMI

That's not a problem for anybody else. It's practically a non-issue.
Makes me think of Google Fiber project - NSA to every home :)
Ruby does have support for callcc, which most lisps, specially the fast ones like Common Lisp, don't, since it is a pain to implement a fast one without implications in your whole language.

Gambit-C is one of the fastest Lisp implementations around, and it does have a full and performant implementations of call/cc. And I'm afraid that Common Lisp happens to be "fast by sccident" rather than "fast by design" - there's probably more extra speed to be gained by having a better implementable standard (which CL isn't, or at least not that much) than by omitting call/cc.

(Also note that call/cc is sort of out of favour these days, delimited continuations is where it's at.)
Umm. I'm surprised no one has mentioned OCP yet. All we are missing is the cyborg.
Am I misreading this article, or is the author confusing buying all of Detroit's $20bn of outstanding debt (an unbelievably terrible idea) with buying the actual city? To "buy the city", you'd need to buy all its residential, commercial, and industrial real estate. There are $1 houses in Detroit, but there are also million dollar houses there, along with 8-figure office towers.

I think this analysis is a little silly.
I think everything I wrote is a matter for debate. It's impossible to capture all of software design in two paragraphs. Ten minutes ago I was writing some code to display a baseball game - a quick Python hack, not a game or anything. To me a class plus a bit of encapsulation for things like players, ball, the field is 'just right' in a Goldilocks way. A bigger problem, a different domain, and your link may make a lot more sense. My real point was that you pick and choose based on your needs, not that some incredibly hastily written list is immutable and not open to argument.

I would also suggest you (perhaps through equal haste in writing) made a category error. Encapsulation != OO. For example, I can achieve encapsulation in C just by putting variables in my .c file, and not distributing the .c, but only the headers and a lib. I am not trying to nitpick, but wondering if 'classical OO' is part of your assumption.

In any case, I have never programmed in Clojure, and know nothing about epochal time models. It looks interesting enough, but is it a tool I can readily reach for if I am programming in C++, Python, or what have you? Will others understand it? Googling provides only a dozen or so relevant links. I think all in all I stand behind "Encapsulation is nice". It is nice, it is not the only way or necessarily the best.
Bringing the site down for 5 minutes, brb.
StackExchange has a "favorite tags" feature which will highlight specific tags on the front page (and for busier sites, it may even bias its display on them, though I'm not sure about that).

There is also an advanced "filters" functionality (visible at stackexchange.com/filters) which apparently lets you filter out all but certain tags, as well as have 15-minute/3-hour/daily emails with new questions in that tag. I have never used it, but it sounds like what you're aiming for.
I find this post suggestive. The title—"from the trenches"—makes the important point that this is a reflection from experience on what seems to work best where. That's more valuable and harder to come up with than it sounds, because if you identify with a paradigm then you don't easily notice it getting in your way.

I would like to hear a more detailed treatment of the distinction between "dealing with data about people" and "simulating people". If these overlap (and surely they do), then you get into a circularity where your favorite paradigm leads you to see a problem its way, just as much or more than the problem nudges you toward a paradigm for solving it.

On the other hand, my experience matches the OP's that OO's sweet spot is close to its origins in simulation--where you have a working system that exists outside your program, your job is to model it, and--critically--you can answer questions about how it works empirically. When you aren't simulating anything, OO is cumbersome because it requires you to name and reify concepts that become "things" in your mind; these ersatz "things" continually draw attention to themselves and get between you and the problem.
sprouts
We (iNovia) funded Vidyard and Bufferbox as part of their seed round.
What I learned from three IPOs and a major acquisition
I couldn't find any information on the expected performance of the device, including the absolute and relative quantities of CO2 removed from the exhaust stream in various climates (even if they're resistant to high exhaust temperatures, I'd expect a good freeze to kill off any algae). How much of an impact is this product expected to have, and what are its limitations? What assumptions are made on mileage driven to give it a two-month lifespan?
The poster is confusing the amount of insolvency with the value of Detroit. The value of the city far exceeds the valuation of Google.
My model of Paul Graham assigns that a very low probability.

The parent's argument hinges on being able to clearly distinguish what people call porn from criminally-produced media. Essentially the No True Scotsman Fallacy.

My point is that it's basically impossible to do that, in practice. Sure one could imagine a conscientious porn consumer who only goes to certain trusted producers. Maybe that's what you're getting at with your PG reference?
FWIW my Permanent Residency came in way faster than the time that was published at the time.

The estimate is based on "processing time from receipt of application to final decision for 80% of cases".

The rather excellent British Expats (not just for Brits!) forum users keep track of the various processing times of Canadian immigration applications.

http://britishexpats.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=33

British Expats forums is a great resource for anyone trying to move within the English speaking world.
We do play Humans Vs. Zombies at SFSU roughly once a month. It's awesome!
It doesn't sound like the published API key is the problem here. They can revoke the key, and other users of Snaphax can put their own in the code. I think the larger issue is the reverse engineering of their protocol.
Economic Impacts of Tax Expenditures Evidence from Spatial Variation Across U.S.
I'd suspect if you gave a 15-year exclusive license to a few companies, Mexico'd get cleaned up really fast. Dealing with the DEA and what not is one thing; but dealing with Monsanto?
Battery Life of Haswell ULT vs Modern ARM Tablets
It's tough to generalize across all VCs and Angels in the country, but a few high level items to consider:

- Canada is somewhat unique in that there are federal and provincial subsidies for specific sectors related to technology (I.e. Video Game development tax credits, scientific research and develop credits - see http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site//cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/... for some of the big ones at the federal level). Most of these incentives don't require your business to make a profit. Some Angels and VCs have a preference to invest in businesses which are eligible to receive these incentives, and in rare cases will even ask you to relocate in order to a specific location in Canada to maximize incentives.

- There aren't THAT many VCs in Canada, and of the few that there are, some of the more active ones are are operated by pension plans (http://www.omersventures.com/) and arms-length government organizations ( https://www.bdc.ca/EN/solutions/venture_capital/ , http://www.marsdd.com/aboutmars/partners/iaf/, etc... ) . As can be expected, this affects the types of companies most likely to get funding in Canada.

- IMHO, the cliche that Canadians are conservative with their money is mostly true - historically the majority of the big money in Canada was made in resources, banking, real estate & manufacturing, which are all (for the most part) much less risky than early stage technology investing. Yes, there have been a few big tech winners - but they are almost rounding errors compared to the amount of cash made in these other industries. My personal hypothesis is the "conservative" cliche is somewhat self-enforcing, as the Canadians who like early stage technology end up moving to NYC or SF, have success there, and then rarely return. This has resulted in the creation of informal Canadian clubs in those locations, as well as formal organizations like http://www.thec100.org/ .

Some general links for more info:
- http://www.cvca.ca/
- http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/061.nsf/eng/h_02772.html
For actor-based programming in Clojure (complete with real lightweight processes, selective receive and an Erlang-like API), look no further than Pulsar:

http://puniverse.github.io/pulsar/
I'm interested in levels of ethnic Russian emigration from the Baltics. Has this happened, and if so, how much does it contribute to this picture?
The Marginal Returns of Advice
Well, using Angular.js in a good way would actualy make possible to have the same flexibility without adding any code to the view layer.

That said, it is possible but still not that easy to do. Native solution will probably be faster, more energy efficient and easier to use.
Our business depends on the ability to process a byte of information as inexpensively as possible. Fighting for the lowest possible hardware pricing is part of that. While agreements keep us from disclosing pricing details, I can say that we work extremely hard to ensure we're getting the best price from the vendors we choose to work with.
Microaggression and Management
Yes, it is definitely hard to imagine anything going wrong in a scenario where the entire population of a city is turned over to a corporation to use as guinea pigs.
Among them that doing so would tend to "bankrupt" the corporation.
It's back up. Sorry about that. Such a massive demand (a good thing!)
Yeah we tried company towns. Didn't work so well.
It's working again. Sorry about that.
Macbook Airs aren't as powerful as desktop Mac Pros, but they offer a great convenience to the owners. It's "good enough" for most things. I see the Ubuntu Edge as a similar device.
Naah, that would only happen if Delta Airlines bought it.
The price for one of the phones doesn't seem all that outrageous, I know if you wanted to buy a Samsung Galaxy S4 it's like $700 without a contract.

Being a college student I currently can't afford it, but I up voted and hope it works out. In the future I would love to buy a phone like this, it looks awesome.
He seems to be suggesting Google could garner significant local influence by 'bailing out' the city of its unfunded liabilities. Not, strictly speaking, as insane as intimating that you could own the City of Detroit for $20bn. But it's still pretty 'out there'.
How to Bypass the Great Firewall of the United Kingdom
I've never seen this in almost a decade of using Gmail.
I have always wanted to know what it costs a state when they lose a senior senator.
Not to mention if they just wanted influence GM in some way it would be far cheaper for Google to just write a check directly to them.
Isn't this the plot to RoboCop?
I want this to be an easy resource for anyone in the UK to stumble across and be able to bypass the ridiculous proposed censorship measures being proposed by the government.

I'll be watching for feedback and suggestions.
Well to be fair, he does use the phrase "bail out" in the post, so maybe he means that if Google threw $20bn at Detroit, they'd earn enough political capital to push some of these ideas through. Although it seems more likely that such a move would create an adversarial relationship between Google and the citizens of Detroit, especially given the troubles Google and Ann Arbor are having, as referenced by another user in this thread.
"over the past two decades, their populations have collapsed at a historically unprecedented rate."

I don't think it's completely unprecedented, but I doubt that people will take heart in being compared favorably to the Black Death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
Could you show some evidence that previous generations were more mobile? I'm not disputing it, but I'm inclined to think we're not much more or less mobile than previous generations...