skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brazil's a rising regional power, so the United States inherent interest is to reduce its influence.

Brazil's not so much an antagonist, but the ruling party under Lula da Silva is traditionally associated with workers parties in Cuba and Venezuela. Brazil has also moved toward increased cooperation with China and Russia in defense and industrial manufacturing, as well as considered aligning its considerable influence on the oil market with OPEC, and is under constant lobbying from Venezuela to do so.

Most importantly, the United States would very much prefer that no power centers of comparable strength arise in the Western Hemisphere, and Brazil's GDP is closing in on France.

Powers in relative decline are always suspicious of rising powers, especially if they could potentially one day exert significant influence in a nearby region.

Foreign policy's a zero-sum game in the IC and defense world.
So is there a specification for the card? Is it a possibly multi-dimensional data structure or does it also have behaviors?
HN Comment: "'Rights' are the repackaging of religion for the secular age."
I think it's hilarious. At the same time, they make fun of stereotypical phone applications and people staring at tits. Also, I don't believe it actually exists. They only show a screenshot and the presentation is way too funny.
Can someone enlighten me about the benefits of running a database inside a container?

I assume since containers ephemeral, data is saved somewhere on the host.
As an external observer I find it ridiculous that the recovery of small amount of debt -- to the government no less! -- involves foreclosing on someone's home.

WTF is wrong with you America?
9p is really cool. I've seen a lot of papers about it, and some experiments done at university.

https://code.google.com/p/diod/wiki/protocol#Sample_Session

http://graverobbers.blogspot.com/2007/08/v9fs-performance-ve...

http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations
Maybe I'm not as impassioned as I should be, but I just see this as a question of how best to provide common services.

For instance, if I had 5 acres in the middle of nowhere, I might be expected to chip in to a fund to keep a fire on my land from spreading to adjacent BLM property. However, my acreage is likely to be taxed more or less based on the quality of the view, or another similarly cosmetic factor in land value. Why not just calculate my share of the public fire suppression expenses based on area? Assuming, of course, that sufficiently many of my neighbors feel compelled to intervene in cases of wildfire.
Why Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning Differently
Which still seems totally fine and fair, right? Great, keep up with the great job!
Toying with memoization in OCaml
No, that's not what happened at all. Try reading again.

>The Maryland company that took Coleman’s house sold it for $71,000 two months after evicting him. The company was owned by Steven Berman, who was convicted in 2008 in the Maryland bid-rigging case. He declined to comment. The law firm for Berman’s company said it was willing to reduce Coleman’s bill to $3,500 but could not reach him.
I'd suggest that you also spend some time learning how to learn maths more effectively. That usually pays dividends over time and ought to give you a significant advantage.

Two good books on this:

How to Solve It

http://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-It-Mathematical-Princeton/dp...

Thinking Mathematically

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Mathematically-J-Mason/dp/020...

And if you want to get better at sitting maths-based exams, here's my own book, Exam Mastery: How to excel in maths-heavy exams :

http://www.amazon.com/Exam-Mastery-excel-maths-heavy-ebook/d...

(No need to buy though - if you want it, shoot me an email and I'll just send it over to you.)
No, I'm not about to spend days or weeks trying to impart knowledge of the history, values, and practices of the entire FOSS community on you.

You're free to continue acting smug about things you don't understand and building strawmen left and right (I note this is at least the second time in the last week you've done this), but you should stop expecting others to do the heavy lifting for you.
I think one of two things happened. The first is TechCrunch simply didn't screen the hacks being presented in any way before they went up on stage. The second is they did screen them, but whoever did the screening had no problem with the two problematic submissions.

It's pretty clear to me the latter was has occurred, for a number of reasons. Firstly, the language in the apology refers to a failure to "properly screen", rather than screen. Secondly, TechCrunch originally tweeted a link to one of the two hacks in question (subsequently deleted). And finally, it's a high profile event being broadcast live. You're screening the presentations if only to avoid potential legal and liability problems.

And it's because of this that I have a hard job taking TechCrunch seriously when they say "we've worked hard to counteract it in our coverage and in our own hiring". It only takes one or two incidents like this to totally undermine any credibility you might have.
Anyone coming here, wondering what happened, there were two presentation which were clearly inappropriate. First one was an app called TitStare, which allows you to view, upload, and share softcore photos of.. use your imagination. The second, circle shake, was an app to measure how fast you can jerk your wrist, upload and share your scores, accompanied by a pretty wild presentation.

I think the first one must have been a joke, because titstare.com was only registered today:

$ whois titstare.com
...
Creation Date: 08-sep-2013

Video of the presentations @ http://valleywag.gawker.com/techcrunch-disrupt-kicks-off-wit...
How is this HN material?

But while we'ere here, can someone explain why the feeling of offence is something beyond the control of an individual, but is instead directly controlled by every other person on the planet?

Is it completely illogical to suggest that someone (or a room full of people) can /choose/ not to be offended, because they fully understand the the idea of freedom of speech?

Why is it always:

Someone said something -> I'm OFFENDED BY THAT. AARRGHH!!

Not:

Someone said something -> I didn't agree/like it -> That's OK.
Low volume samples are important in pediatrics at least (wife a Dr) At the hospital she works all of their samples are low volume already. Plus critical kids get ffrequent samples depending on the level of monitoring needed. For babies you obviously have no choice or they could become anemic. Plus not all kids like seeing a vial fill up.
Tractors Are Getting Smarter
Never have I heard a geek complain about lack of support, userbase or more recently apps.

Lack of apps is especially curious, why don't you take that as the rare opportunity it is and build some apps that you implied you find a need for yourself.

Or better yet just save your money and get yourself a ps4, just stop telling your friends you're a hacker ok?
It is true my psychiatrists are not on insurance plans. This is a larger problem with how mental illness treatment is funded/supported.

I was diagnosed as a child about 27 years ago (IE well before the current "popularity").

My treatments did change. I learned to cope with some aspects, the medications I used changed (I am on a non-stimulant now, Straterra, that works as well as my stimulants did).

Besides being able to be more introspective and self-aware as I got older, I also chose a path that would set me up for success.

I have a job that has multiple roles, and essentially requires me to pay short amounts of attention to a large number of things at once, which is somewhat ideal for my ADHD.
The things that require longer amounts of focus tend to be lower priority.
You should also check out FakeValley -
http://fakevalley.com
Can someone please tell me, why do US courts keep approving things like this?

Like they can't just foreclose a house without government approval. Why does the court approve the foreclosure in the first place over such a small debt?
It's all about speed and costs. The finger-prick is a distraction; phlebotomy is not a huge deal.

Instead, the important things are the turn-around-time and billed cost. If Theranos can offer 4 hour turnaround and a clinic/hospital cannot (or even get close), they will pay for it because it is good for doctor productivity and patient outcomes. If Theranos can maintain a half-medicare cost structure, that's also good for the provider because they can expand their margins.

Additionally, Theranos might do deals with insurance companies such that they reduce their reimbursements/push providers to use Theranos, which reduces the insurer's costs. The outcomes-case is even more pressing for an insurer these days.

Now, none of these directly translate to lower insurance premiums, but that doesn't mean that there aren't economic reasons to adopt the service.

> From the outside, it seems like the entire healthcare industry is built on being purposefully inefficient so as to create large costs that they can in turn mark up.

This is generally untrue, as much as it is a public perception. The system lacks simplicity and thus comes across as opaque; this is its failing. Its complexity is not malicious, though.
A Case Study in Classic Mistakes
Having gone to the NYC hackathon hosted in May for the last 3 years, I can tell you that the submissions are NEVER screened beforehand. All they want to know is the name and a Tweet-sized pitch.
There is a Makefile in python-browser-8/.
Actually you started off by saying you can't teach "talent", now you are saying you can teach it but it may be hard...

Do you honestly think your genetics is playing against you in your study of mathematics? Which bits are you struggling with? What have you tried to fix it? What courses have you taken? Have you tried private tutoring? khan academy? Have you tried anything for longer than a couple of a days? weeks? How many hours of deliberate practice do you think you have put into studying mathematics?
Solving Rubik's cube from scratch, in python
If you could point to a region of the image where the corruption begins, you would reduce the number of possible images significantly.
PHP.net Beta Redesign
Calling something parody/satire is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for being offensive.
I'm with you on the second part. Hard to miss screening an app called "Titstare" - I'm not sure how they could have missed that, unless, like you said, someone had no problem with it and let it go on anyway.
A small-claims judge also can't just make shit up. The judge generally has to rely on precedent and law and uses his/her own judgement in areas where discretion does make sense.
That describes why Brazil could have been a threat, if it were not so friendly, not why it should be described not-so-friendly now. Unless you want to say that any government with even the remotest socialistic roots, that trades with China and Russia more than the USA is being classified as Not-So-Friendly. While I have my doubts that it might actually be how USA administration classifies things, I hope it isn't true.
Thanks for the details. I've never read an article I learned nothing from like that one. Sexism aside, these two presentations are too funny for me not to think they were done intentionally.
Sentiment Analysis toolkit
I was one of the people who presented at the hackaton today (ChowDown) and I can say that there was no screening, since the only material requested was names, a brief description and special needs (adaptors, etc.).
Not sure it deserves the down votes you got but I think you are very wrong. If you are running a project you can remove what you want, if someone wants something different enough they can fork it. If you do it early before many people are using it you will get far less complaints than when there are millions of users.

Adding code, and features places further requirements and limitations on further changes and any feature added and widely used will become nearly impossible to remove later.
Twitter has an explicit "in_reply_to" field which references the parent tweet ID. Since they've seized control of most clients (and most clients implement the correct parameters), this has wildly increased the coherence of Twitter threads, at least in comparison to a few years back.
The rights of the tax lien holder trump any other claims, AFAIK. That's one reason that mortgagors want you to escrow your annual property taxes with them.

edit: IRS liens in effect before the sale go with the property, and can delay the new owner in getting a title policy.
It's news. If it was the other way around, it would be all over US TV prime time, with pundits seriously talking about war.
> ...but the effort to get there will be a power of that needed by a "math-inclined" person.

'math-inclined'... so in other words, interested/experienced in math?

Um, yeah?

You don't like math, we get it. But you can't justify matters of taste 'scientifically' like that. There is no other way we can quantify these 'inclinations' you speak of other than taste, so there's nothing really new here.

Not everybody born with perfect pitch wants to be a musician, and I can guarantee you there are plenty of musicians without it that can run circles around some of those that do have it.

I'm interested in programming and music, and confidently feel I'm good at both, does that mean I'm "musically/programmatically-inclined"? If so, how might I be? Or instead, how would you define a person that isn't musically-inclined? You could argue that a literally tone-deaf person isn't, but not that !musical_inclination == tone_deafness; so how would you define it? The simplest definition that would catch the most cases here would just be the lack of interest. So in other words:

if (interests.contains(some_subject)) {
return POTENTIAL_SUCCESS;
}
else {
return null; // because it is 'undefined', not necessarily FAILURE
}

Pretty novel idea there. Who would've thought you needed to be interested in something to excel in it?
Amazon: No Phone Launch ‘This Year’ and ‘Would Not Be Free’
That's really surprising to me. Is the NYC hackathon broadcast live as well? The main reason I assumed there was at least some vetting going on was because the potential for legal / embarrassment / etc on a live broadcast is so much greater.

Either way, I think it's safe to say they'll probably be looking for a bit more info up front in future.
Sure. I think there are two big use cases.

The first would be learning/demo purposes where the data you store should essentially be ephemeral (imagine training sessions, interactive online tutorials, etc). In these cases it's more about experimenting with the query language and data model than anything else. RethinkDB has used Docker for this purpose to great success.

The other would involve mounting an external volume in order to persist the data and would allow you to isolate and limit the process which would otherwise monopolize the available resources of system (usually memory in MongoDB's case).
The idea is good, but the way you communicate it is inefficient, if you fix that it can easily become successful. Replace the App by a anonymous web-service that uses firebase or websockets to communicate to users near you. People can sign-up by e-mail + gravatar, but sending private messages should be possible anonymously. If that doesn't work good enough, integrate it with Path/Foursquare.
Ubuntu isn't planning to use Mir until the 14.10 release. [1]

GNOME 3.10 will have Wayland support later this month. [2]

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-June/037...

[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointNine/Features/WaylandSuppor...
Obviously complaints about spying are questioning whether the agency's purpose itself is just. Fulfilling one's purpose is still unethical if that purpose is unethical. Nobody excuses murder when the story is "Murderer commits murder. News at 11."
TechCrunch blackballs muckraker journalist from Disrupt
I've had problems with oDesk, and what they say they do to protect employers as part of their marketing isn't actually how they act in practice when issues arise. For example, blackmail by a contractor to them isn't considered a high risk activity, and therefore they won't remove the contractor for it..
That was absolutely hilarious. I encourage stuff like this. Have a little fun people, nothing to apologize for. Who actually got offended?
Something can be a parody (and I'm unconvinced parody was their intent) whilst also being offensive, sexist, inappropriate and awful.
Not sure why you are downvoted, when you are pretty much correct. In the Western world, America seems to be rather unique when it comes to the economically strong preying on the weak.
Absolutely. If we had reasonable property taxes in CA, we wouldn't have a housing shortage, and middle-class people would be able to live in SF again. But try explaining this to the average voter...
Are people actually outraged? Since when did hacker culture take such a large turn toward political correctness?
TechCrunch is full of it
Having just left the TC hackathon, I'm disgusted with TC. Not because somebody showed an app with - shocking! - boobs in them. But by TCs dishonesty to their core audience and worse, the people they rely on to create value.

Let's face it, 95% of the coders at the Hackathon are guys. The TitStare app got more applause than any other submission while I was attending. Surprise, guys like tits.

And there's nothing wrong with guys liking tits. This isn't about equality or political correctness, this is about sucking up to the prude, American idea that, somehow, sex is evil. Ask any European or the two Australian dudes, America is still a very prude country. Apparently, even events held in the city of buttseks (SF), feel like they have to apologize for displaying boobs.

Now if they didn't like boobs I'd be ok with that. But TC is using lonely male programmers to make money. If lonely male programmers didn't come to the hackathon, nobody would cover it. So by pretending that boobs are outrageous and evil, TC is alienating their core value producers.

In fact, TC is treating the hackathon coders badly all over the place. They provide shitty soda, it's hard to get a drink that's not laden with HFCS. The few water dispensers they have, you have to carry 4 cups with you to quench your thirst. Anyone ever hear of bottled water? The food is cheap, crappy and unhealthy (tacos were the least unhealthy option).

The presenters treat the coders like cattle, cutting them off and making the same, lame comment about every single submission.

TC is not listening to the people they (ab-)use for their business model. If they don't change that, cater to coder, they will go out of business. There's a reason most SF coders are already fed up with TC and don't go to the hackathon.

If you're going to use my unpaid labor to promote your conference, please at least allow me the dignity to stare at tits on my iPhone.
Disclaimer: I work at Google, and note that I'm explicitly NOT saying "Google is doing everything right".

I'm trying to say that Google in particular is "doing it right" in the sense that they're providing a fun environment for existing engineers and one that's attractive to many potential engineers, and that the revenue numbers reflect this (in part).

I'm saying that calling propeller hats "silly" (they're a Noogler thing; silly is the point) and bemoaning the fact that Google doesn't "model themselves on the armed forces" (whatever that means) suggests to me that these journalists and academics have no idea how things work in the real world, or at least in the Valley.
Instagram Today: 150 Million People
A "card" is merely a convenient name for the concept of microdata/microformats [1], which happens to often be _visually_ represented as a snippet, or a "card".

The real key here is standardizing the various metadata formats, such as the title field; which ranges from Twitter's `twitter:title` to Facebook's `og:title`.

[1]: I'm building my augmented reality data network, http://aris.io, based on a similar premise, but abstracting these out to explicit "providers".
Machine-generated search engine spam is also a problem in our industry, like the machine-generated search engine spam TechCrunch offers at:

http://smartphones.techcrunch.com/

http://tablets.techcrunch.com/

http://digital-cameras.techcrunch.com/

http://laptops.techcrunch.com/

http://headphones.techcrunch.com/

being syndicated from a content farm with > 100,000,000 such junk pages.

http://seobook.com/scalable-seo
Bitcoin Landscape: The Who's Who in the Bitcoin Ecosystem
Law is ripe for disruption. We need something like IBM's Watson to fight the complexity.
This is so much better than we deserve.
> I am on a non-stimulant now, Straterra, that works as well as my stimulants did

That's interesting - thanks for sharing. IIRC Strattera is relatively new; I wonder if the drugs themselves are getting more effective, or if the most effective drug for a person changes over time based on physiological changes or external factors.

I don't have any personal experience to compare it with, but of my friends who have been treated for ADHD for more than 15 years, it seems all have had to switch medications multiple times.

I don't see your email address on your profile, but mine is my username at gmail - mind dropping me a line?
I hope you're joking. Besides the flurry of tech presenters and writers in the audience that were offended, a nine year old girl was at TechCrunch Disrupt demonstrating a product. Seeing as TCDisrupt isn't marketed as an 18+ event, it should be held to the same standards as any other public, professional gathering of individuals.

Judging by TechCrunch's reaction, they wholeheartedly agree.
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>why not just calculate my share of the public fire suppression expenses based on area?

remember:

> there is no "rules scheme" you can construct that will be as progressive as you want.

What you propose may be 'fair'[0], in the context of providing services*. But that is not the goal of progressivism, which is redistribution of wealth and creation of an more outcomes-equal society (a concept I'm personally not opposed to, if the state doesn't do it).

[0]but even fair in your example isn't quite correct. Because area is not proportional to fire risk. Let's say I live in the valley, where a stream runs through, the vegetation is green, and the area never gets hit by lightning. And my rich neighbors a mile away are on the mesa, which has a great view, but is brown and always dry, and up high, so lightning hits there regularly? Should area be a fair assessor of fire risk? Is it fair to have me subsidize the fire protection of the rich people who live closer to where fires happen? (this is a simplified description of the very real LA county fire system where rich people live out on the hills where there are far more brushfires)
You had to create a new HN identity to post that? Afraid of something?

Hacker culture is no longer a good-ol-boy's club for good reasons. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't feel very included in a culture that denigrated me like certain hacker events of late do to women.
You may not have been personally offended, but if you're not able to understand why somebody might have been offended then that really does sum up why lots of people think tech has a problem with misogyny.

The fact 'it was a joke' really isn't an excuse...I'd argue it actually makes it worse.
>I think the first one must have been a joke, because titstare.com was only registered today:

How does when the domain was registered affect whether it was a joke? The hackathon took place last night through today. I think it is supposed to be a mobile app (if any code actually exists) anyway, so having a domain isn't super important.
There exist colorblindness simulators. Vischeck is one, but it's apparently down.

This one acts on existing web pages:
http://colorfilter.wickline.org/?a=1;r=www.google.com;l=0;j=...