skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your response, I agree sync is an awesome feature. Is there anything you would like to improve about the process of bookmarking ?
What I think you and a lot of other posters are missing is the import of her paragraph about how diversity costs; when they were a freewheeling write-the-r-own-rules startup they could afford to blow off or ignore anyone who tried to leverage personal biases such as sexism, ageism, or anything really.

I had missed this, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

She's pointing this out as an example of systematic discrimination - not in the casual but incorrect sense that most people use the term, involving some villainous type whose primary goal is to disenfranchise others, but as an unfortunate consequence of the laws of supply and demand.

I can see how this makes sense, okay, fair point. In other words, a far more subtle type of discrimination based on the circumstances. I probably missed this because the title seemed a bit more straightforward.

As for everything you said about "hotshots", yeah, I agree.
The way this is constructed is interesting, but it doesn't appear that a real sequence to generate primes is required, just a list of them:

D=0

SUM=0

for n:

D += num_digits(PRIME[N]) // +1 for a nice single 0 between them

SUM += PRIME[n]/(10^D)

print fraction(SUM)
Pittsburgh is sort of doable without a car, and 1-bd/studio rents are under $500 in many parts of the city.
With protocol=2 as well.
This whole rigamorale is why I get Zipcars for long weekends even if it's going to turn out more expensive. I can't deal with the lines and the obnoxious clerks trying to upsell.

I'll go with Silvercar next time I'm in LA for a couple of days and need a car, just to avoid the obnoxiousness.
Access is not available for Mac though.
No, I just run it full time on a laptop...
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Sadly, that term seems to have fallen out of use -- I have had to explain it to lots of young computer people in Cluj. :-)
Amazing article! I am doing the same (bootstrapping from Asia) and would agree with almost anything but the budget. I am currently in Ko Tao (=paradise) and during low season, you get a comfortable room for 8000 baht / month ($300) 5 min from the beach. In Chiang Mai I was renting a large bedroom on Airbnb for $9/day. Vientiane as well is a good option, they love foreigners there and there are a lot of french expats. I would stay away from Vietnam (Saigon and Hanoi) as you have constantly to be on your guards unless you go to Hoi An or Nha Trang. Has anybody tried the Philippines?
Actually, I meant racism toward dark-skinned people (Thais or otherwise), not so much toward Westerns.

To wit, skin whitening is a monstrous business in Thailand.

I'll never forget the forest of umbrellas on really hot days, or people walking in long sleeves, just to fend off the sun and "stay white" :)
Of course during low season, there is quite a bit of rain, which helps focusing on developing your startup and not going to the beach.
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Can you guys help me out. Aliexpress chinese has $350 tied up
Can you guys help me out. Aliexpress is part of alibaba. I placed an order with a seller, who closed their account and now the chinese has the orders on "frozen" status. They have just been sitting there for 30 days. Can you send them an email at Buyer@aliexpress.com

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To Aliexpress Support Team. I am a person who supports the buyer. The buyer (calscoolemail@gmail.com) Purchased from the seller (Lucky XI) To find out that the seller closed her account and closed her store. Cal has disputed these orders and now they say that they are "frozen". Cal waited patiently until after holidays and you still did not give him his refund. It is not his fault that your seller (lucky XI) was involved in suspicious trade activity. Please refund Cal so he can go on with his journey and purchase from a different supplier.

i need refunds for orders
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Musk has mentioned posting that video online[1].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1ne36t/partial_succe...
I was about to post something about how Zipcars aren't normally located around airports, but it seems as if now they're owned by Avis they're actually putting Zipcars in the Avis lots. There's 20 odd Zipcars in the Avis garage at LAX.

Of course, the expense can be somewhat (but not completely) offset by getting the gas for free!
I think OP is saying he drove 1000 miles, even though it already needed an oil change before he started.

Saying that, you're right, why on earth did they let the car go out of the lot, knowing that?
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> What makes the group of people known as the "wealthy" any more or less suspicious or despicable than the group of people known as the "popular"?

The group of people known as the "popular" is much larger and generally more diverse, and therefore it takes a bit more power of persuasion (or widespread bigotry) to convince them that harassing a particular social group is a good use of their tax dollars. If the "popular" backs that harassment, society has bigger problems than the legal mechanisms that permit them to do so.

A situation where people wanting "security" to target a minority or behaviour they dislike need electoral and legislative support may not be perfect, but it's still preferable to a situation where they simply need sufficient funds.
I spent 2 years living in Thailand on back-to-back tourist visas (and eventually ran out of passport pages) and a little over 2 more with a work permit. You are making the visa situation out to be MUCH simpler than it really is. You'll very quickly learn this, should you want to stay longer term.

Every category of visa requires between 1-6 border runs per year, even with a work permit. If you get a permit and it expires or you lose the sponsored placement (which is tied to the permit) you have 15 days to leave the country.

I've thought about this long and hard. There is no way to stay "under the radar", without major hassles. This is the purpose of the mandatory visa runs. You'll either run out of passport pages from the 6 tourist visa runs per year (12 stamps -- 6 in, 6 out, 2 pages each) or you will have to get a real visa, complete with a sponsored work placement and proof of income. End of story.

Get caught at a border or an airport without a valid visa and you'll get fined 500 THB per overdue day, deported, and if the overdue period runs into months or years, blacklisted from future visas.
This is only "surprising" to those who think they know how other people should live. I've always favored this approach (a minimum income, or negative income tax .. whatever you want to call it) as a replacement to all other forms of welfare.

If I am to spend my tax money on those in need, I do not want more than half of it going to upper middle class bureaucrats and middle class administrators.
Hey HN, since my comment below the article was buried beneath a bunch of ads, and a discussion is developing, here is the original comment I made on salon.com after reading the article:

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(Co-founder/CEO of Crowdtilt here) I just wanted to follow up on the article above and clarify a few things. My replies in the article seem to come across as dismissive of the potential downsides to civic crowdfunding. That couldn't be further from the truth - As team members here at Crowdtilt would tell you, I have actually been quite introspective about how our tools are being used within the realm of community fundraising in the last few days (and as this use case for private security has begun to spread to other cities).

Our tools and platform are built with democratization in mind, not built to further tech elitism or affluent disparity. Like any tool built to connect people (from ships, to the automobile, to the internet itself) the early adoption may be through a more affluent class, but that is not where the impact stays and remains - and its introduction is an undeniable net positive for society. Additionally, knowing that many (more affluent) neighborhoods have been doing things like this for years with homeowners associations to hire private security, we hope this tool continues to lower the barriers for such solutions to problems as dire as security or as aspirational as something like free public wifi for a city (http://tilt.tc/TP07) that we've seen on the other end of the spectrum of civic crowdfunding.

My view is that communities will benefit from the tools we're building, but again, I want it to be clear that we take the potential downsides of civic crowdfunding seriously and think about ways to mitigate those downsides - we/I am not dismissive of these arguments whatsoever.

Please feel free to reach me at jamesb@crowdtilt.com if you have any suggestions or thoughts - would be happy to have a dialogue on the topic with anyone (...I would learn more from that than a one-sided internal monologue with myself or our team). Thanks, James.
Take my laptop to a study room at the public library and leave the home office. Additionally, make sure I can't easily check my email, newsfeeds, etc. on that laptop. Then I position myself so other people can see my screen so I'm shamed out of looking like one of those types that doesn't use their computer for anything useful. That is usually enough to get the ball rolling if I'm stuck and I can be productive at home again later.
So we've learned not to hire Uber to do graphing.
> I heard it's the same in China.

Not in this case: they specifically target foreigners working without permits here, though mostly English teachers.

China isn't really a cheap place for bootstrapping a startup, so the random foreigner coding in starbucks isn't going to attract any attention. Kai Fu's Innovation Works, a YC-style incubator, can help get foreigners working visas for incubated projects, I think.
> ur mental problem

Lol. It's "mental" to see whores, pimps, and johns and recoil. On the contrary, a malfunctioning disgust reaction to these things is more clearly a symptom of mental illness.
Emission is frequently conducted through the components backward to the input antenna and transmitted. In this case a Faraday cage would not help.

Conducted/radiated local oscillator radiation can be substantially suppressed if this is a design criterion.
This point wouldn't be made if there wasn't an underlying feeling that she shouldn't be making such a big deal out of it.
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They still write code in the language PHP. They do not run that code using PHP the software you download from php.net. The memory limits of the PHP interpreter from php.net are not relevant at all to facebook's current operations.
I know, I used past tense. But the initial hiphop work was when php memory limits stopped being relevant for them.
At ITECS, our Systems division uses practical names like engr-ras-201 for servers. However, we have a bit more fun with workstations. My machine was named "waytso." I asked my boss what it stood for once, and she said that after the machine that used to sit on that desk had died, Desktop Support sat down an old Dell Dimension to hold us over until they could get a newer machine ready.

It ended up taking a few months, and one day, they called her and said, "Hey, we're ready to image the new Webteam workstation. What should we set the hostname to?" "Waytso." "Waytso? What does that mean?" "Why Are You Taking SO long!?"
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I found food in Thailand to be particularly expensive, even at the grocery store; especially, oddly enough, rice, where Thailand should be the largest exporter! It was at least comparable to the states, where grocery stores are cheap by world standards, but I found it to be more expensive than China in general.
That makes no sense at all. The function in question sets the memory limit for the PHP interpreter. A specific piece of software. Facebook does not use that specific piece of software.
Companies don't normally fail because of security flaws, in the same way Boeing doesn't go bust when it has to ground 787s. But in both cases you end up potentially taking a huge hit in costs. Off the top of my head, Sony had to write down $170 million in costs when PSN was compromised, and TJ Maxx ended up paying out $800 million in costs, damages, and compensation after their payment terminals leaked credit card details.

These are not figures you want to see on your bottom line.
Here's the problem - who watches the watchmen? There is a large, complex, troubled, oft-comprised, well-meaning bureaucracy in place to vet police, police training and police actions. Security guards ... not so much. Civic crowd-funding is an interesting concept, but I'm almost certain those that engage in it, over time, will find it deeply flawed.
Firstly, SF != Bay Area (some people on this thread seem to conflate the two). SF is only part of the Bay Area.

Despite what mchannon and deadfall say, the concentration of startups in SF, versus other areas in the Bay Area, actually does not have to do with money. SF is actually relatively far from venture capital than other places in Silicon Valley. Most venture capital firms are based out of the peninsula (1 hour south of SF), in suburbian cities like Mountain View (YC and 500 Startups), Palo Alto, and Menlo Park (pretty much every VC firm, like KPCB, Sequoia, A16z, Greylock).

Most people live in SF because 1) Young engineers/designers/others prefer living there, and 2) the density of startups/entrepreneurship is greater. The chances of you serendipitously running into someone "useful" is much higher - the sheer quantity of networking events, technology events, social events, etc. is mind-boggling. Compared to SF, there is literally nothing going on in Mountain View/Palo Alto/Menlo Park.
Not to give away secrets, but BMW drive now is at SFO, for $20 lifetime membership and $30/day, to rent BMW electric 1er.

The other trick I've found is hertz prestige collectio.n; you can reserve a cheap car, especially on weekends, then pay cash for an upgrade to something decent, which they incidentally also maintain better than fleet. I usually get a GL450 truck, which while it isn't very fuel efficient, is a great vehicle otherwise.
Indeed. Byrne has always been in the vanguard of exploring new media and musical avenues, as opposed to playing shows in arenas or Las Vegas for easy $$.
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clearly we are in the wrong line of work
http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
In Phnom Penh you will get a decent 5Mb mobile connection reasonably cheap, but fixed 'broadband' prices are expensive, like $30/month for 256kb!!
If you find this persuasive, consider donating to http://www.givedirectly.org/, which performs unconditional cash transfers to the poorest people in Kenya.

Give Directly is the subject of this writeup[1] on GiveWell, and this excellent episode[2] of This American Life.

[1]: http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/give-dir...

[2]: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/503/i...
I think ideally the community as a whole should simply ignore stories like this until they are proven or disproved in a court of law. All they do is get the community in an uproar and don't actually solve anything except making the life of both people worse. Until that both people should be given the benefit of the doubt
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Not all composers are performers. Read the credits on music, a lot of hit songs are penned by people who only work in studios and are not particularly glamorous or charismatic.
If anyone's interested, I've been working on an issue tracker & locally runnable version of the marketplace in a new repo[1] that was spawned from the former issue tracker on the removed repository.

It has some issues with hardcoded redirects coming back from their API calls, but it's a start.

I originally made it just to simply demonstrate how a few small changes could make a large performance difference, but I've kept it up due to encouragement from some friends and hopes that somebody inside the project will use some of the code or make changes based on it.

[1] https://github.com/STRML/Healthcare.gov-Marketplace
The "City of Washington" ceased to exist in 1871 when it and Georgetown were consolidated into the District of Columbia.
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The two other services rah should give pause are education and fire fighting. In many cases insurance companies pay for fire services only for their buyers. One could see this going towards crowd funding. Private school is also crowd funded. The teachers unions seem ok with this since it doesn't pull resources away. (The private garbage model). They do raise hell for charter schools though.
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Is it really necessary that this application is only running on OS X 10.8+?
The lack of resistance is not a consent.
she didn't have a cell and the satellite police station at SFO was right next door to where she was waiting for me.
Quite nice to read your story. Btw, it will be great if you can make it to Yangon/Rangoon too. (: (I am from Yangon)
It borrows one problem from Project Euler and seems to scream for another.
For my home (laptop, three towers, an rpi, NAS, and mobile devices) I use four letter foods.
try .docx since it's an open format. It's interesting to see OP and you both talk about .doc.
It shows your familiarity with the details of the topic.
https://us.drive-now.com/how-it-works/?L=2&language=en_US pegs the rate at $90/day, $39 membership.
I think with that last sentence you mean 80%. 20% payout to the end beneficiary is quite common.
"Private school is also crowd funded",err, private schools are businesses like Walmart or Coca Cola,they are not "crowd funded".
In the case of Oakland, where I live, I get the sense that one of the challenges is that there's no real pressure on the city government to improve things. While it is true that services such as the police are underfunded, I think this is also used as a pretext to enable unresponsive, bureaucratic behavior on the part of the legal and law enforcement systems. Perhaps crowdfunding will provide a stimulus for additional responsiveness once government agencies see the possibility of genuine competition on some level.
There is a discount code TECHSF for the $20 membership, and it is a maximum $30/day "during testing" which is probably going to be many months.

The other cool thing vs zipcar is they let you take the cars one way, so I do downtown Oakland to/from airport for $12, which is cheaper than anything but BART, and far faster. And easier with luggage. And since I seem to often need to be on a flight when BART is still closed, I either drive/park or drive now basically all the time.

The problem is the car isn't really very big, is heavy due to batteries and compromises, and if I drive it at all aggressively like my personal car, I can make it go sideways.

80 miles range and slow charging means it is basically SF-Oakland-Berkeley only, or maybe SF to Palo Alto and back. I burned 50% just driving downtown Oakland to ups depot in downtown SF to SFO, with 15 minutes of idling at UPS, somehow.

If someone did this with a better car, like a Tesla, I'd be all over it.
I live and work from Phnom Penh. Cambodia is much more welcoming than Thailand. I wonder why anybody would actually even consider Thailand? Thai ruk Thai. Thailand for the Thai people. I totally agree. Anybody who isn't Thai should never set a foot there.
Exactly, the idea that someone should buy food for their kid rather than a big screen TV is extremely paternalistic.
Look I'm American who has been living in SE Asia (mostly Malaysia) for the past 10 years. I've spent lots of time and worked in lots of countries here including Vietnam, Thailand, Philipines, Singapore, India and obviously Malaysia.

In Asia a work visa is intended for foreigners working for locally incorporated companies. Regardless of what it says on the websites, if you have a tourist visa you are free to startup / bootstrap your new enterprise. If your coding up a new website, hosting it on Amazon and serving customers over the internet your not really doing business and the country your living and honestly no body cares. It's cool.

If you want to start selling to locals, offering consultancy services to locals then yes you should probably get a visa. But of course you don't need the visa until you are actually doing that.

People who quote websites stating "facts" about visa's in SE Asia obviously don't know how the law works in SE Asia. In SE Asia the law is a guideline and your clout / how you treat people is much more important than the words written on the page, when it comes to the courts and the interpretation of the law.

So if you want to bootstrap in Asia, chillax and just do it. If your too worried about it, your probably won't adjust well anyways.
The most useful piece of information was don't spend all your time studying successes but study failures. I had to personally learn that one the hard way.

Every startup wants successful founders as advisers. Theres nothing wrong with that. Yet people who failed can provide just as valuable if not more valuable lessons. They're also a lot easier to get time with than the startup all stars.
To add a little counterweight to the 'should you give cute names' discussion - there is at least one reason why cute names are a good idea. I work for a web host, and our servers are named after musicians. It's a lot more likely on the phone that if I ask a customer which box they're on, they'll remember Hendrix or Prince or Buckethead over web-london-534.
I know nothing about the operation of car rental companies, but I'm guessing they change them less often than every 3000 miles, which is typically when the lights come on, I think. They probably just forgot to reset the light. I'd expect them to keep track of the mileage and ignore the oil change indicators. Pure speculation here, though.
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A simple DJI Phantom will easily get to that altitude. Slight modifications would be required - possibly a different receiver and remote control to ensure the range, and an FPV system (camera and transmitter on the copter, and a receiver with a screen or video goggles on the ground). Altogether easily done in under $1000.

Control is real-time, just like any other flying model aircraft or multirotor. For flying at that altitude, I'd use FPV - meaning you'd fly using the camera image to pilot the copter viewed through a screen or even better, video goggles, as opposed to looking at the model from the ground.

Be aware though that at this altitude, you're often in controlled airspace, which is troublesome for model aircraft in most cases.
I've always thought it would be nice to have bookmarks that either self destruct or pop-up as a reminder some specified time in the future. For example, I just read an article about creating a bootable USB copy of OS X Mavericks. I bookmarked it as a reminder for when Mavericks comes out. That's a bookmark I'm going to need exactly once in the future and that should be destroyed as soon as I act on it.
That's in charity organizations, doubt that's true for government. Anyone have actual numbers on typical government overhead?