skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole site seems to be down again. Looks like HN load isn't so easy to handle after all :)

EDIT: looks like it's back up again.
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Donald is a common first name. Rice is a not so uncommon last name. I might seriously think of Jerry Rice first if you say "Rice" and I'm not a huge sports fan.

Aren't Michele Bachmann and Nancy Pelosi referenced by their last name as much as Donald Rumsfeld is?

I am just using anecdotes and select data after all so I don't think I'm definitely right or you're definitely wrong.
Actually, FP and OO are mutually exclusive to some degree:

OO comes from the imperative end of the spectrum (after all, objects are an abstraction over mutable state), whereas FP comes from the declarative end (a pure function is a relation between sets and mutability is a foreign concept).

However, most programming languages are impure and support both paradigms, so you can get away with thinking about OO and FP as orthogonal ways to reason about and structure your code; language syntax and semantics may of course favour one concept over the other...
In this corner, Los Zetas and the rest of the cartels.

In that corner, Pfizer, Merck, Bayer, Dow.

Somehow, my money's on Big Pharma. Especially if they get to spend money on security contractors.

The basic reasoning here is that once you flood the markets with cheap, awesome, solid product the operating funds of the cartels go away. Destroy the market and you can't afford to be evil.
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Into your pipe and smoke it.
$35k individual income is solidly middle class. If your wife works and makes $20k, you're at the median household income.
There are really two questions here: Do I understand the science? Do I trust the scientists?

Understanding the basic theory is not that hard--certain gases in the atmosphere trap heat; we're adding more gases so we expect more heat to get trapped; and we've confirmed that by measuring rising temps. An afternoon on Wikipedia can fill in a lot of the details.

The question of belief might be more difficult, but I think it comes down to understanding that the scientific process works largely the same across disciplines. Black holes, quantum tunnelling, and retroviruses are at least as fantastic as a warming Earth. Do you believe scientists on those subjects? So why not on the physics of the Earth's climate?

Science is not really a buffet; I think one should either accept that it works, as a process, or don't. Picking and choosing is dangerous--because what is your criteria?

Of course individual scientists can be wrong, but how do we know that? Because other scientists proved it. So it always has to come back to scientific proof. Not op-eds and blogs.
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Most kids looking for porn are going to find it easier to install Tor than to set up a VPN to proxy through.
It seems like there should be a way to define player1 as its own (root) lens so that one is simply writing player1.location.x .~ (+10), or so. Are we simply not doing this because it makes reading the data structure rather difficult?
Manufacturing is expensive.

The vast majority of the $32M goes simply to manufacturing. The remainder covers taxes, fees, shipping, certification, and returns.

It does not cover the cost of the development team's time.
slava @ rethink here. Nick @ dotcloud did phenomenal work with getting this project off the ground, so I'm here to answer any questions about RethinkDB while Nick will be covering Docker questions.
So they can revoke the key.
I don't have that kind of money.

Is it easy to get a VISA as a developer?
I do like having the different UIs to remind me of what "user" I'm acting as. Thanks for the tip, though. I might find that handy if I need more than two "user"s.
- Pebble is in the Valley, after going through YC.

- Couple is in San Francisco.

- Vidyard is based in KW.

- BufferBox is based in KW, and got acquired by Google.

- Thalmic is in KW.

So two out of five have Canadian founders who left for the Bay Area. Three out of the five stayed, one of which has succesfully exited.

Vidyard's first round of financing came from exclusively American sources. Canadian investors did not join until they were well underway.

Thalmic's first round of funding came from angels that I can't find any info on, their series A came from exclusively American sources.

I'm not sure if these companies really support the notion that Canadian VC firms are ready to create success and nurture extremely early-stage startups.
Perhaps a better name for MVP would be FVP: "Fastest viable product". The end goal is to get something in a customer's hands as quickly as possible. There is no reason for the product to be minimal (or cheap). Renting a plane and manually processing images is extremely expensive from a per unit perspective - but the more important feature is that it can be deployed quickly.
A great story, very proud of what you have accomplished and you should be too. I would just mention that your parents sound like they are incredibly supportive and were encouraging of your dreams. Not everyone has that.
You don't get a full desktop OS (Mac OS X) when you dock the iPhone. I assume that's what you mean, your comment was a little unclear.
> Then again, as a political liberal, I tend to say an un-liberal thing when talking about income distribution... income isn't distributed evenly, but neither is talent. Mediocre people don't advance society. They tend to stay where they started (which explains a lot of management mediocrity - some are born into positions of privilege, but lack the talent to do anything with it but maintain the status quo). The way to maximize success for society as a whole is to maximize the opportunity of its most talented members, by eliminating cultural and social barriers to success.

I tend to take the another point of view on this: a society structured in a way that denies determination to individuals and communities because those people/communities are perceived to be untalented or unworthy is a society that perpetuates injustice and perpetuates and creates institutionalized class divisions.

> The way to maximize success for society as a whole is to maximize the opportunity of its most talented members, by eliminating cultural and social barriers to success.

Is this really true? If we ignore the problems of the average person or community do we really advance society? In a lot of ways western societies now turn a blind eye to class divisions, racism, sexism, etc. Can we say as a society this treatment really advances things? Is advancement for some really a society-wide advancement?
Would they rename it Delta City?
I think the reason why it's not easy is because the academic selection process does not select for good managers.
YES! FUCK YES! Go Canada!
"10Gbps Ethernet doesn't run across standard Cat5/6 cable. Instead, you need what is known as an SFP."

(edit to include links)

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/network-adapters/conv...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-gigabit_Ethernet#10GBASE-T
FP makes an excellent backend -- architecturally speaking -- for OO-, REST-, front-ends, and a most excellent front-end for Relational systems. (Haskell, for example, would be a dream language for sprocs.)
The scientific method and skeptical inquiry are not the same thing. Being skeptical does not confer any kind of scientific legitimacy.
You may be slightly out of touch if you think saving $700 a month is poor. Huge portions of America have no savings and live paycheck to paycheck. Many more have only a few hundred in savings total.

50% of Americans couldn't come up with $2,000 in an emergency (citation: http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/24/news/economy/americans_lack_...). Only 25% were "certain" they could come up with the funds.
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Aren't there routers where you can just enable it?

If there had been any demand for this it would have at least.
17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1) claim is BS. Terms of Service and/or "Company Policy" is not a copyright protection mechanism.
One reason why I'm at Vimeo.
Not according to this:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/307054/is-ubuntu-for-android-...
god, how I hate what YouTube has become.

It really used to be so nice until Google got their grubby hands on it. Nowadays I can barely get through a single video without massive stalling issues, or 30 second ads for a 10 second video. It's ridiculous.
Increasing the problem space (as opposed to constantly shrinking it which the author suggests as a trend) can actually make things easier to solve.

You can see the small version of that in a language like Prolog where a common pattern is to generalize the problem because more generalized problems tend to be easier to solve/reason about (often because they already come with easy to discover base cases and steps for a recursive approach)
Which cases have found support here?
I like the idea ... signed up!

(as others have mentioned, showing a few samples prior to registration can't hurt)
What did the criminal underground alcohol producers do when prohibition ended?
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I was referring to the film version of A Clockwork Orange, which does have a rape scene, but not of the two teenagers from the record shop. The book is another matter though (not that I can remember it clearly, haven't read it for at least 2 decades..).

EDIT: Actually, this is cleared up above, which is fortunate since I appeared to be asleep at the wheel when I wrote my original response ;)
>I think many of the best scientists have been nerds, and many smart nerds really don't see the utility in playing the political tenure game.

I think this is 75% of the "problem". It gets worse because the smart nerds who do like to play the political game are often so solipsistic and selfish that they are really spectacularly atrocious managers, many of whom take a scorched earth attitude to solving their scientific problems. This becomes a vicious cycle as that becomes the percieved way to act within the culture.
Yes, we have collective centuries of hardware experience.

No, we do not think a phone is a collection of parts.
I don't think that is a valid argument. In theory, you could burn it to power your car and have this thing convert it again, ad infinitum.

I don't see how this thing would work, though. Whatever you do, if you burn a kilogram of gas, a kilogram of stuff comes out. What comes out of this thing, and where does it store it? From the reactions, I see that over half of it must be either sodium carbonate or sugar (rounding down significantly; the sugar from the reaction already has thre times the oxygen of the oxygen coming out, and the sodium carbonate has 50% more oxygen than the water), if this handles all exhaust gases.

Also, you will need two sodium atoms to capture one carbon atom. How much sodium would that be over 6-8 weeks? Where is it stored?

Finally, I notice that the FAQ does not answer the question how much this process decreases your CO2 emissions. The cynic/realist in me would guess it's too tiny to measure because most exhaust gases pass through the thing unhindered.
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Hey,

We'll definitely support multiple apps per 'publisher', I could see charging 20$/month for 5 apps, if they're all small enough - thanks for the thought.

A Custom domain should only cost ~10/year, so it shouldn't add that much overhead?

And finally, yes, we're planning on supporting quotes and reviews, thanks for asking!
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$60K seems to be typical in thriving tech areas of the country, and $40K outside. How does that compare to the general USA?

You might be able to find $100K jobs in Toronto or Vancouver, but those areas have costs of living that is approaching SF and NYC.
I noticed that too and have always wondered why.

Maybe the lack of games make Linux users appreciate it more?
The first paragraph explains it.

let me quote:
"In the car industry, Formula 1 provides a commercial testbed for cutting-edge technologies. The Ubuntu Edge project aims to do the same for the mobile phone industry -- to provide a low-volume, high-technology platform, crowdfunded by enthusiasts and mobile computing professionals. A pioneering project that accelerates the adoption of new technologies and drives them down into the mainstream."

It is not for you. If you want good phone, there are plenty out there to choose from.

formula 1 car is impossible to use in everyday life. It has really specific place where it excels. Edge is probably medicore phone and medicore pc, but it is probably really good at being both at the same time.

It is wrong approach to compare it to mobile users.

Edit:
quote from comment section:
"It's a premier, demonstration platform, not a mass market device." -achiang
It's an idea that might be a little ahead of its time yet, but I think the potential is there for tomorrow's phones to drive every aspect of our digital lives.

The little geek in me that wants to live in the Jetsons' future is going to be pretty disappointed if, 5+ years from now, I'm not unplugging my phone from a dock at home and plugging it in to one at work to meet all my computing needs.
slava @ rethink here. There are dozens of production projects built on top of Rethink. We're in the process of working with the customers to publish case studies (rough ETA on this is end of summer).

FYI, here's a list of things to do before we label Rethink production-ready: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/1174 (though Rethink is already really good for doing real work).
Regarding the desktop side....hardware wise we're not there yet but personally i'm convinced that this is the future (maybe in 5-10 years if Intel and AMD keep it up ? ). Single device which will be desktop, phone, game console, ebook reader etc.
Skilled immigration is a popular track for immigration to Canada. How easy it is depends on how highly you score based on the government's criteria:

http://www.workpermit.com/canada/points_calculator.htm

The primary contributors to points is education background, linguistic ability (English and/or French), work experience, and age.

It takes a fair amount of time (compared to H-1B or other US work visas), since this is considered actual immigration, not just a work permit (those are available too). If you are accepted you become a full-fledged permanent resident (with all of the social benefits afforded to all Canadians), not a temporary worker with a ticking clock.
My mistake. Early draft (with incorrect information) included in the article. Our network guys corrected me. Here's what it's being updated to read:

===

Finally, while 10Gbps Ethernet can run across standard Cat5/6 cable, we elected to use SFP+ connectors. We chose this to have the flexibility between optical (fiber) and copper connections. Some network card and switch vendors lock down their equipment to only support proprietary SFP+s, which they charge a significant premium for. We spent significant time testing a combination of SFP+ vendors before finding FiberStore, a SFP+ manufacturer from which we could directly source SFP+s at a reasonable price that worked in the network gear we wanted to use.
Is not fast. Is hammered. Cannot test.
How many science fiction novels take place in a corporate-owned metropolis, where everything you do is monitored and logged to your profile? How long until we become Deus Ex?
We in Michigan are already a bit disillusioned with Google.

We gave Google a huge ($38 million) tax break when they opened an office here in Ann Arbor with promises to hire 1,000 workers at the Ann Arbor office.

Instead staffing has been around 300 people at that office.

The state actually filed a tax lien against Google due to this violation of the agreement.

So I doubt you'll see the state getting into bed with Google again soon.
I think the biggest problem is the question: would they be buying the assets? Or, the assets and liabilities? Future pension payments is a huge challenge for the current owners and future owners.
Perhaps it's not "poor" but I was questioning whether it is really considered "solidly middle class." If it is, I guess I am out of touch.
So what happened in 2010? The article doesn't explain the most prominent feature of the charts...
Related to cli and Go, if you ever want to quickly execute Go funcs from a terminal [1]:

$ goe go/parser 'ParseExpr("5 + 7")'

[1] https://github.com/shurcooL/goe#examples
What I found fascinating was when I zoomed in on my hometown area (Canton, OH area) the interactive "... With Parents in the X Percentile, ends up on average in the Y Percentile" flattens out as I raised the parent's percentile and then started to decrease. So on average children born into rich families decline by this metric (at least in this one area).
Here are the main points...

This morning before the open yahoo announced that 3 board members were leaving. This has understandably caused their stock price to drop.

At the same time yahoo is buying back a large block of stock from its biggest investor at the price of Friday's close.

They made this transaction with the knowledge of the board change, knowing full well that the stock price would drop on Monday morning.

This article asks the question "Is this illegal", or put another way, did this constitute insider trading where Third Point and Yahoo did a stock trade with insider knowledge based on a price that was obviously going to drop when the news was made public.
...and youtube is annoying the fuck out of me, asking me to change account to real name. If you don't they try to trick you with a follow-up question. My username is my real name. Amazing that the tech powerhouse can't write a simple script that sees my username matches my real name. Google, cut the BS and spend your time making search better. Not my fault youtube comments are out of control and add NO value to your platform.
The issue isn't general supply, but specific engineers. Half our team is Canadian now, but many of the people we'd like to work with but can't are located elsewhere and Canadian immigration law is very unfriendly to immigrants without college degrees.
Why do we need hierarchy? Grouping makes sense, but deep nesting often looks misguided from where I stand.
Hah. I was so sure you were exaggerating these claims. But in these examples I automatically complete the person's last name in my mind yet for Hillary Clinton, I don't.
From a legal standpoint, how would such a thing even work?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_ceiling
Temperatures in Canada are measured in Celsius, not Fahrenheit. So that could be the source of your confusion.
Nice writeup. I'm interested in seeing some pricing data, but I understand if you're trying to keep that under wraps.
Carry on! Really excited for your launch and/or beta.
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Shopify, which is headquartered in Ottawa with an extra office in Toronto, is doing really really well.

There's also Freshbooks in Toronto.
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I'm not sure you can buy the right to legislate as you want, even if you own all the property in a given city.
But it doesn't have to be that way.

Seattle has a lot of high paying jobs, sure. But because Seattle artificially restricts housing supply, the high paying jobs bring in people like me that can absorb the cost, pushing out people that can't absorb the cost. Those people tend to work in jobs that keep other living costs low, meaning that if they continue to exist at all, they exist at higher prices...exacerbating the effect.

Seattle needs to stop focusing on raising pay. Their focus on wages for Airport workers and Fast Food workers completely misses the point: Those wages are already high from a US market standpoint...they are too low here because living costs are too high here. If you set a wage floor, the employers disappear. Alaska Airlines will move their hub to Portland or Vancouver, and all the Fast Food chains will cut their losses and close shop.

A focused effort on destroying barriers to new housing development effectively reduces the cost of living and increases living standards for everybody, without pricing out the lower-wage employment.
Standard of living/quality of life? Proximity to the US?
> On the contrary, efficiency is quantifiable

Contrary to what? I said as much. The problem is that you need to quantify that efficiency. You can't just say "x is efficient."

> But if you're running a business with "x" which has worked efficiently for years and isn't broken, "y" is not necessary.

So, x has worked efficiently for years? Based on what? How are you quantifying that? And how can you say it's efficient without having some yardstick to measure against? By not looking at other technologies, you can't really say whether it is still efficient or not.

Efficiency is a moving target.
The antithesis of FP is imperative. And OOP is imperative. Imperative programming encompasses both procedural and object oriented programming. Those are simply two different ways to structure an imperative program.
Wow, this was very interesting. It's rare to catch a glimpse behind the scenes, especially when it comes to HW.
I can't speak for you, obviously, but I was born in Taiwan and moved to Canada as a child. The first winter was pretty brutal, but mostly because my family had to basically learn how to dress for winter weather, entirely from scratch.

But it's a complete non-issue now.

Keep in mind it also depends on where you settle in Canada. My family settled in Vancouver where the weather is fairly mild and rarely below freezing. If you are in, say, Ottawa (which also has a tech presence), you will sometimes see -20C to -30C weather. That's much rougher to deal with.

There are many Indian-Canadians who live in Vancouver as well as the Toronto area (among other places, but those two seem to be where the concentration is), you may be able to reach out to some of them and figure out the climate problem.
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This attitude--which I more often than not share with you--suffers strongly of confirmation bias and a lack of empathy. You, we, tend to believe that the priorities we've chosen are better than those of everyone else, and are obviously so. Pursuing knowledge, technology, wealth, is of course a higher aim than raising a family. It's obvious, right? But it's not. They choose "to follow the culture of the community" because the culture is important to them. Because, perhaps, success, to them is made up of different things than it is for us.
One email every two weeks counts as spam now? Alrighty then.
Can be annoying like hell, I agree.
Thanks for the timely update.
I think it's more due to Seattle's geography and anti-growth patterns. Places like Houston have a lot of lucrative jobs and a lot of cheap housing.
Unfortunately all that easy money in Calgary is not going into startups, its sister city Edmonton has a much better and rapidly growing startup scene.