skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eliminating drug use mostly means eliminating mild depression (notwithstanding the medical uses of drugs), which mostly means giving people a reason to feel good about themselves and their future, which mostly mean providing an environment where they are free from oppression, constant surveillance, and a multitude of contradictory laws, along with good means of making money, which means education, positive work and life experiences, and a vibrant economy. Note that anything the individual is forced to do against their will without appropriate compensation is out of the question; such as bad schools, prison, and, dare I say it, American team sports?

Yes some people are more prone to addictive behavior than others, and yes severe depression is a serious disease which must be handled by professionals. However, the malaise in America is not clinical depression: it's the lack of opportunity to learn, excel, and be rewarded for such excellence. Yes, this opportunity exists for many people, and many do take advantage of it, to great benefit. Many others, though, for a variety of reasons, lack that opportunity. It is generally these people who fuel demand for drugs, to escape the misery and blight of a dead-end future. These people are not losers, but people to whom the dealer of cards dealt a poor hand, and who have not been told by the media and their peers that no hand is a bad hand, that there are opportunity in adversity, that it is through failure that success comes. They, alas, believe that their lot is to suffer, then die, not having achieved anything worthwhile. So, in their desperation and utter loneliness, they seek a fleeting pleasure, a personal high, to momentarily drift away from the relentless and inexorable approach of Death.

Do you wish them well? Do you seek to help them? Change yourself. Show them by the example of your own life that adversity can be overcome. Show them by the kindness in your speech, by your countenance, by your actions, that they are not ostracized from human society, but rather, as fallen and wounded, deserve further aid, further care from the rest of us.

Or do you wish them away? To be put in prison and removed from your neighborhood, your city? Do you blame them for the poor choices they have made? In their lack of ability, they fell, and unable to stand, they stayed down. Are they weak, ill-fitted for society, and perhaps their premature death at the hand of violence, poverty, and the lawman, is the just reward for their inability to thrive in the Modern Age?

As I see children in the playground at my son's elementary school, I see them all alike: full of joy, vitality, and wonder. As children, we too were alike. Then life happened. For some, with privilege and wealth, to great achievements; and for others, with violence and meanness, to suffering and loneliness.
PG should think about 'franchising' his operation. By that, I mean creating a systemic process for accrediting founders, choosing franchisees in big cities around the world, and a webapp to manage this all. He could scale the YC startup process to thousands of startups per batch. In fact, it might become a sign of failure to not be accredited by YC when seeking first round VC.
I really stay away from javascript client-side frameworks unless I'm working on a browser-app, which is behind a login, so there's no need for SEO.

If you're creating a service that doesn't sit behind a login, use javascript sparingly. Why do you need a full-blown search/filter function on a production or information landing page?

Make it basic, and then have the results pop up via AJAX. Sure, you're losing SEO value from those search results, but you can create a table that basically shows that a user went from page ID 123 to page ID 234 and you can populate a list of 5 'articles' that people may be interested, based on searches. That list output should be generated server-side and really should be cached for a day, and there is your lost SEO value from search results which is going to actually help more in the long run.

I think it's great that we can easily re-create any type of website we want to using a javascript MVC, but it doesn't mean we should.
yup, but they still have to have some method to plant the word KitKat into your brain.
The execution is flawless, I wonder if Google lent them some engineers for this?
Amazo announced the all-new Kindle Paperwhite
Is Stephen Elop the next Microsoft CEO?
Which is why I have a Kindle eReader and an iPad.

I agree that the eInk Kindles are one of the best bits of tech I've ever owned and the best reading experience I've had.
I find the thought of dead babies in Africa tends to put me off my confectionary.
Nokia Xpress browser (based on Gecko) is out of beta
They do have KitKats in the mini kitchens at google so at least they are not lying about being fans. Although they are on the bottom red shelf for unhealthy snacks.
You wouldn't need it synced except to the unit of the lock-step. Lock it to one trade per hour and you've got an hour's leeway. The deals are arranged and lodged with the exchange. The exchange processes all deals received by the lock time; deals remaining entirely private until that point. You could have one trade per day allowed - that should cut high-frequency trading down somewhat.

Of course that's not going to happen because high-frequency and the arms race allows extraction by traders of the maximum value away from producers and towards their own financial cabal.
Amazon’s AWS Command Line Tool Hits General Availability
Web apps and me are constantly at odds because I run all sorts of privacy extensions, I disabled Local Storage (via folder permissions) and I don't let cookies persist. So, I just stopped using web apps wherever possible in favor of native ones. It pisses me off too because the web (and the Internet) could be so much better than this.

Anyway, for the longest time - even with a bare browser (no extensions) - YouTube wouldn't save certain settings (annotations disabled, video quality), even while I was logged in.
I have a feeling that this new design ("docked floating div" instead of "new regular window"; "modal floating div" instead of "new fullscreen window") is an effect of Windows and OSX, in their latest iterations, pushing apps to fullscreen virtual desktops.

If Gmail is the whole screen, you can't actually open a "new window"; it would open back on the primary desktop, instead of within the app's screen. Maybe Windows+OSX need to refine their "app-desktop" solutions with some limited form of window management, so that every app isn't having to reinvent its own window management just to keep its windows visible...
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This reminds me of a child having a temper tantrum.

Do you want to know why men in general are having problems being feminist allies? Because feminism, at its core, is hatred of men. Why would we want to be part of a group that shows unfiltered contempt for us because we were born male?
The basic HTML view of gmail has no latency hiding abilities of any kind. It is much slower for every action, and it gets worse the slower your connection is. If you have a high bandwidth, high latency link like "4G" mobile service, ordinary Gmail is almost certainly better.

If course if you have something like GPRS then basic HTML is just the thing.
Be careful with that. A lot of automated SMS systems can't send to Google Voice.
This is absolutely fucking brilliant. Loved it!
The mini KitKats in the US are still wrapped in paper, too.
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One point of sites dedicated to a product like Kit Kat, is that it protects their brand by directing people to _their_ page when people type Kit Kat in Google or another search engine. It would also capture other searches related to the product. You will be surprised at how many people use the Google search box as their default navigation tool - even when they know the name of the site. In fact, I have seen people type Google.com in the search box rather than directly into the browser's navigation box!
A 64-bit port of cdb isn't too hard: https://github.com/pcarrier/cdb64
I think it depends on what people are using their editor for whether they'll jump ship. I started out on vim, and I really loved it. Then I was typing up papers using the vim latex suite and syntax highlighting would cause my machine to choke every time I scrolled through text. I could have just turned off syntax highlighting, but I tried emacs and auctex, and it worked wonderfully. Since then, I found a bunch of other things that I prefer about it, and only really use vim for quick config file edits. Now that I've been playing with it for a while, chords are second nature, just like modal editing became for me with vim.

I imagine that nobody who's terribly accustomed to either editor will switch unless they've got a specific need their current editor doesn't meet.
But this doesn't demonstrate that it doesn't prevent greater harm with a "hard" drug, which was the point at issue as I read things.
Ignore PR and buzz, use Google Trends to assess traction instead
pg, thanks for making this simple yet powerful distinction. The airbnb guys are a great example on why this mindset change is welcomed. Designer founders can also be relentlessly resourceful and create game changing startups.
Also just shift-c if you have the keyboard shortcuts enabled.
Nope, not doing it for me.
Can Emacs replace eclim (eclipse + vim) as a Java IDE? Are there plugins that can make editing Java in Emacs nicer and more productive?
War and Peace, Anna Karenina, any recent book by Neal Stephenson - those are all much more pleasant on a kindle than in paper form.
Project Management - activity network diagram tool
Does anyone know of a time-scaled activity network diagram tool similar to PMA Technologies NetPoints (that doesn't cost $4k!) ?
Note: If it doesn't work the first time, try a few more times. The image may not load the first time and it rotates images. I was very disappointed it didn't work the first few times.
> Your translation seems to be oblivious to the fact that "the white male establishment" != "all white men".

The term "white male establishment" seems pretty unambiguous. Even if it involves proxies of many colors and genders, which is your point, it's still fair to describe it as a "problem with men".

> Well, all it takes to be a part of it is to be an apologist for inequality or to otherwise perpetuate inequality.

Yes, and the most effective way for women to address that inequality is to start their own institutions (schools, financial institutions, businesses) that proactively and positively address injustice and inequality, which women can certainly do. Oh, and stop whining about men, which can only serve to hide the fact that the key obstacle women face in 2013 is ... women.
I was, uh, wrong: Chromecast does what Google claims
Very valuable to be this self aware.
Except the NSA party...
Sure, but maybe it wouldn't lead to that when addicts are given rehab and no prosecution. Maybe then usage could be reduced.
I hold dual UK/US nationality, but the healthcare system does concern me. I hear changes are coming next month? Also, the SF startup will subsidize personal health plans.
You're making my point for me. There are a fair number of small scale terror attacks, and they don't change things that much because they are small. I grew up in Ireland and the UK, I have had plenty of occasion to consider small-scale terrorism since it was a very frequent occurrence at that time.
Borders and Barnes & Noble killed the independent bookstore long before Amazon became a force in the publishing industry. I shed no tears for their defeat of the big box 'book stores.'
I wouldn't be so sure about that. My own physical book collection is a shadow of its former self, as I've scanned and tossed the rest.

I can't ask my dad anything anymore as he has Alzheimer's, but he had given me his book collection and I've been scanning them, too. (Of course I don't cut up the sentimental treasures, but there are only a handful of those.)

Also, years ago, he got low vision and couldn't read comfortably anymore. If it was today, I would set up a projector to throw the pdf pages on the wall so he could keep reading.
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Sounds like having both is a good hedge against failures with either one.
They use soured milk.
> Nuclear power has a spotty safety record overall

This is so incredibly false it's on par with stating "commercial aviation has a spotty safety record overall".
I'm actually not convinced, myself, that they're practical at present (I know that anyone is doing anything with them in the real world, so it's not 100% theoretical, but not the extent or the difficulty or the capabilities...).

Which is to say, I'd also very much like to see such a consolidation of resources.
If I said "it is obvious that the world is billions of years old", would you object? Plainly there are (many) people that disagree with that statement, but do you think that would change the legitimacy of that statement?

These are things put in the realm of "opinion", but I think we can safely discard fringe notions like "the world is 3000 years old" or "the disparate effect of the War on Drugs on minorities that is accelerated by hard-line stances and rapidly advancing law enforcement technology and techniques is acceptable."[0]

[0] Read: "That stuff that concerns David Simon, @jivatmanx, and myself."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6286127
The amount shown is actually the total pay each company will pay during the entire valid H1 status. Typically the visa is valid for around 3 years so if we divide by 3 we get the average "annual" salary.
Pretty good. A couple distracting details though: (1) disgusting closeup of girl's nostril, (2) Nestle is run by f-ing Satan! Associating with them in any way is a bad move for a company that supposedly follows a rule of "don't be evil".
You're right, but my point was that if Amazon became an abusive monopoly, that would spur alternatives.

BTW, I found some of those author self-sell web sites because of Reddit postings about their books. In these days of social media, I don't think the traditional gatekeeper role still applies.
Do you think there is more theft by people seeking drugs than there is theft by people seeking food? I don't know, but I doubt it.
Disappointed after reading the thread here.

At first look, I thought it would be more along the lines of, "snapshot a few randomly chosen pages from the book with your mobile camera, to prove that you've bought the book in the past and still own/have it now, and then you automaticaly get the ebook version really cheap as a result."
I might build a NAS with one, or get one for my kid to play with. Looks like a decent platform for a MAME cabinet, too.
Am I the only one who has used front and backward swipe in iOS7 to navigate between screens?
Hmm, I've noticed this on the Raspberry Pi, but I'm curious, do you know if this is a problem for desktop PCs as well? I recently built a mini-ITX PC sort of for fun as a change of pace and then realized that the apartment where I'm moving makes it somewhat annoying to run ethernet cables to my router, so now I'm looking at USB wifi dongles. The annoying thing is mini ITX boards generally only have one PCIe slot, and as it turns out my PC is barely smaller than my previous mATX PC (Bitfenix Prodigy is actually pretty big for mini ITX, which I didn't realize). The annoying thing is that there were mini ITX boards with built in wifi but I figured I wouldn't need it so I decided to save ~$50, but in hindsight I should have just gotten it.
Yes, we'd have the same issues with diet and study pills that we have today, but somewhat more of them. You can already get those if you have a pliable doctor and plenty of money, you know.

But we'd also shut down a violent black market industry that gets $50 billion a year and kills 25,000-50,000 people in the USA and Latin America each year. That's most of the trouble. Skinny ladies with diet pill issues are small time in the face of mass death. We'd eventually defund most of the expanding police state, too.
Data Deduplication can be this simple.
> would a VPN be better of than some of the other methods (other than Tor)?

Yes, if competently encrypted. But that only addresses content, not routing.
All I can think of is walled gardens need upkeep

LinkedIn is the most amazing business node graph out there - for a professional person online it has everybody and uptodate. But there is a wafer thin business model if they played their hand brilliantly - and they play it like a drunk Captain Hook trying second dealing in Vegas.

I just hope that when / if it all collapses we can club together and transfer out the edge connections.
This is easy. There is always more money the closer you are to the transaction and the P&L that actually makes the profit.
There's a big difference between addiction rates of regular cocaine vs. crack cocaine, right?
The Power of "No"
this is amazing. definitely challenging. the music and the its illustration is pretty sweet
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Yep.

The one piece of advice I give soon to be new parents is: be prepared to hate your kid, and hate yourself more for hating your kid.
There are numerous laws that enforce the no risk world on parents. These are things I did as a kid that are now illegal:

Rode in the back of a pick up truck
Rode a bike without a helmet
Sat in the front seat of a car before I was 8 years old.
Swam in a pool that didn't have a fence around it
Set off fireworks in the street in front of our house on July 4th
Walked to and home from school alone (not illegal, but against the policy of our public school, and if we ignored it, I suspect we'd get a visit from child protective services).
More-so, it's lighter AND allows air to pass through it so it's more stable.
I never said the US gov is worse than Syria gov. I never advanced an ideology.

In other comments which you refer to I simply stated that there really isn't any evidence that has been presented as to what chemicals were used if any and by whom. Compelling evidence seems like one sensible precondition for starting a war.

Finally, my statement that the US doesn't care about Syrians is germane to your point: You can't expect their situation to improve if those who claim that they effect that change don't actually care.
From 10 days ago... probably test / dummy posts
They called pulp fiction "pulp" for a reason :-) The paper was so cheap it falls apart in your hands.
My 2 cents... You seem motivated enough to learn on your own. You also left off a key detail - where are you from, and what is the visa situation? 46K is not much to live off of in SF, and you could struggle to find a new job w/out a Visa.

All that said, you should consider some other things:

1) Do you want to live abroad? If you are young, this should dominate the decision. I am of the "Go abroad at all costs" camp, which means (if you're from London) take the job if you're in that camp too. If you're from the US, that's a case to stay in London.

2) Secondary ask what you want to do more, Fintech or Photo sharing. On the front end, your industry expertise will matter for the next job. Both are interesting areas.

3) Once you get into medium term thinking, how much you like your team matters an awful lot. It's not good short term (anyone can suck something up for 6-12 months) and not good long term (teams break up) but it's a good medium term consideration.

Good luck!
My biggest problem was always trying to hold a book open with one hand. This was a problem because my hands are large and trying to read a paperback with both hands was sub-optimal, not to mention reading in the bath or whilst lounging.
That's nonsense. GCracks'a horrible drug, crack addicts are tedious & depressing to be around, but they're not all as dysfunctional as you suggest. The most common crime I've seen among extreme crack addicts is prostitution rather than robbery.
You must be tons of fun at parties.
Yes, you're right. I hesitated when I wrote "last century", since I had vague memories of the neo-classicists who were leading the charge for his/her exclusively, since they believed it more closely reflected pure Latin usage -- which they sought to emulate in English. So it doesn't surprise me that it goes back to the 18th century.

Ironically, most of the people I know who now advocate for the gender-neutral third-person singular "they", and from whom I learned its history, have classical training to some degree or another.

Thanks for the correction -- I'll have to try and track down that book.
Oh yes ... but I now have this irresistible vision of Vader and the Emperor walking through the Death Star landing bay, with a 12 foot long haired Bantha tiptoeing behind the massed ranks of Stormtroopers trying to look inconspicuous in a red cloak and disguise

Maybe it's just me
Is that crack cocaine, or regular cocaine? I think the former is much more addictive.
Is the War on Drugs just modernised slavery? Privatised prison system with the profit-based incentives to take on more and more prisoners.
Absolutely looking for advice, so thank you for your honesty.

I'm doing fine on my pittance living in the center of London. Perhaps it's due to my spending habits, but I hope this fact stays true if I move to SF. I am assured that in ~9 months, after the next round of funding, employee salaries will go up to market rate.

In an ideal world I would've stayed here in London and trained for another 6 months before moving to SF. My team has become my family, so a large part of my hesitation comes from detachment issues.

Perhaps you're right in that I should get it over with.
It's getting better, but what do you mean "A.I for enemies" ? There is no contact detection yet, and what do you need to do to win?
If she uses FB, I'd end the relationship right there. Other things include taking off heels during sex.
Man, apple is such a closed system. People aren't allowed to mod it at all without breaking through the layers of obfuscation and bollocks. Further more, kitkat is basically open source with how it gives you the tech specs and all those sweet diagrams.

If you want a closed system that accepts no mods or changes, go apple. If you desire something more open go kitkat!
I don't know what the percentage is for crack

Then stop talking out of your ass and do some research before machine-gunning the thread.
Does anybody know if this will allow people outside the US to participate? By now I have bought books from Amazon US, UK, France and Spain. Also, will Amazon make available all the (eligible) titles I have purchased, in all the various international branches?
Well I don't the percentage for a lot of things I bet I'm right about the minimum percentage for!
Nestle or Google?
This is one of the reasons people purchase the Mac Pro, so you can stick cards in them (audio, video, data capture, networking, RAID, etc.)
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Aw, I wanted it to be "Geometric Troglodyte."
Speaking as a member of the the "batch that broke YC (s12)", I think YC's resources are best utilized by continuing to improve the quality of the program at its current size. Read: http://ycombinator.com/w13smaller.html

Obviously the quality is already very high, but still quite a ways to go for each batch consist of "50 AirBnBs", which to me is a far more impressive goal than having 1000s of lower quality startups. It's also better that YC is a signal of success than "not-YC" being a signal of failure. Franchising would dilute the brand and more importantly be a distraction from (as YC would always say) making and improving something people want.

YC is relatively "open-sourced" and there's nothing to stop others from creating accelerators with similar models around the world (and in the valley). There are already hundreds of imitators and these catch many of those that YC misses.
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