skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never understood why it's totally noble for an individual to take pride in his own ability to craft something nice by virtue of his skill and experience, yet when the US (not so much other nations) does this on a business, institutional, or otherwise collective level, someone invariably comes out of the woodwork to criticize it.

Edit: Way to prove me wrong!
TIL, thanks. I have had that wrong for, like, ever.
what was the incident?
One thing that irks me is that the author doesn't stick to ObjC naming conventions.

Take for example the capitalize methods. In ruby, you have "capitalize" and "capitalize!" to distinguish the immutable and mutable versions. To make this distinction in ObjC, you generally use nouns vs. verbs. So for the equivalent of ruby's "capitalize", you'd use "capitalizedString" (which is in fact provided by NSString). But the mutable version, the equivalent of ruby's "capitalize" should simply be "capitalize", not "capitalizedStringInPlace".
To change one's self artificially is to make one into something he or she is not. Yes, I did not mention artificial, but I assumed that was a given.
Here are Harvey Mudd's acceptance rates by gender:

Men 14.4%

Women 38%

Source: http://www.parchment.com/c/college/college-545-harvey-mudd-c...

I am perpetually bamboozled how anyone can think anecdotes like this matter. If Harvard wanted too I am sure they could make half their undergraduate population disabled black lesbians. That does not prove that your average state school is horrible and discriminatory just because that is not their class composition.

Elite schools get more applicants of either gender than they have room for and those applicants are of very high quality with very high levels of interest in the subject matter.
What Microsoft should probably be doing instead, is writing some software layer to enable running apps based on a certain popular open-source operating system to run seamlessly on their device alongside native apps. If they did, it wouldn't be the first time MS has written a better Java VM than the official implentation.
I think you misunderstand what I mean by true self. Yes, our self does change at every moment and is "reborn." However, it is still a true self as it is not artificially modified.
This is only true if you blindly ignore the fact that enterprise customers are willing to give them money because of their consumer backing. If consumers backed away from FB and Google, their enterprise customers would be following them out the door. Clearly this makes them consumer oriented businesses.
Advice and warnings like this kept me from seeking pharmacological help for my anxiety issues for over ten years. I missed out on a whole lot during my 20s because of it, and therapy alone was never enough. Now that I have started a therapeutic dose of an SNRI, I feel like myself again, the self I was in high school and college before my anxiety spiral started. My anxiety made me somebody I was not, and anti-depressants brought me back.
How does someone use the word 'Quack' in their title and then focus entirely on anecdote and pointing out that fringe wackjobs like Scientologists are spewing nonsense (no shit). Using the rhetorical style of quacks against them?

Here's an idea, focus on the actual evidence. It seems it's because the evidence is murkier than the stance the author wanted to take, which makes for a garbage article and yet more nonsense spewed into a debate that affects a lot of people.
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Jobs created in third-world countries by globalization are sometimes preferable to the local alternatives. It isn't a given that they're inherently worse.

Having lived as a volunteer in some pretty poor places, I've seen it firsthand. Not saying that's true everywhere, or in every situation, or that there aren't terrible abuses, just that the world is considerably less black-and-white than we sometimes think.
Serious question... where does all that money go? Are a few people personally making many millions off this deal? Or are there really hundreds or thousands of employees working on it? Or is it getting subcontracted out many times with each layer taking a slice?
I went to CGI's website. It says offshoring. The javascript on healthcare.gov looks like they hired someone on Odesk.
>> "stated under oath when examined by the defense counsel that there was no harm whatsoever"

First, I don't actually believe that the Wikileaks releases (Manning's) really caused that much damage, in fact we came out smelling like roses in most cases, our allies however frequently looked like asses (think Saudis wanting to tag gitmo inmates with bird trackers).

The thing here to consider is 1) by the Wikileaks statement above it would seem that the purpose was never to counter US interests [calling bullshit here, support or oppose Assange/WL != pro US gov], so it is disingenuous at best to us the lack of damaging information to suggest that WL was not an anti-USG group.

Is the Disney film less than fully accurate? I'd bet so, it's a commercial endeavor.

I'm more disappointed that Wikileaks chose to focus on the USG and GB than all of the upstanding states around the world like Syria, Russia, North Korea, and China. Sure, when the US fucks up, call us out on it, that's part of an informed democracy.

WL/Assange pretended to be the vanguard of transparency (and when they first announced such ambitions I actually was rooting for them). Instead of focusing on the most opaque and oppressive governments, they focused on finding the warts on governments that by and large are respective of human rights. Russia? Fuck it you get a pass because Assange doesn't have ricin-proof pants yet. NK? Do you know how hard it is to get documents from there?

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Seriously though, I am disappointed. When they stood up I thought they were going to actually go after folks who actively opposed free speech and human rights. Instead they went after the targets that were easiest to create media stories out of. I would like for Wikileaks to get the memos on the election rigging in Azerbaijan, I would like for them to get the UN memos between RF and Syria. To borrow the line from Rick, I don't mind a whistle blower, I just mind a cut rate one.
This very same article was on the front page all day today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6526761

HealthCare.gov cost $93.7 million, which is still outrageous.
Meh. Some people like it, some people don't. Works for some people, doesn't for others. To each his/her own.

But every drug has side effects and you're not actually changing anything permanently - the minute you're off the drug you're right back where you started. Psychotherapy actually changes the brain, and there are no negative side effects. That's why I prefer the later and not the former (for any issue).
Although it contains real names and real places, the film will justify itself as fictional making it harder to target for defamation / libel / slander.

Edit: Another way the film can get off the hook is by claiming the information depicted is based on the sources (books) it uses for forming the script. I can only speculate, but what matters is shaping the public opinion and they are doing it by leaking the script and expressing their opposition to it.

Another guess is they need definitive evidence before sueing the film/makers. To quote from their memo: "Although the film has premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and numerous other media organizations have been shown review copies, the studio continues to refuse to show the film to WikiLeaks staff."
Except at least Google is making their platform available on every other platform (that allows them in anyway). With Microsoft you know that eventually they're just going to pull out the rug and lock everyone in...
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Hm. Looks kinda cool - the TTL option for keys could be a very useful tool.

One question/problem: I can't find any kind of permissions/separation/ACLs for it. Yes, you can do authentication, but w/o even basic POSIX style owner/group/world type permissions, this essentially becomes single-user, with all apps/programs/etc trusted and able to break everyone else.

Or am I missing something?
Compatibility with C and its toolchain.
Organized crime has anything but "all but mysteriously disappeared". Not sure what your point is.
This of course would be the ideal situation for the consumer. Doubt it will happen though.
I know a prominent psychiatrist who believes that antidepressants are largely useless. He still prescribes them all the time because his patients expect him too.
You can find it in Chapter VII download section.
That would seem like a very flimsy defence. If I were wikileaks I would be arguing that one.
Consider grabbing the torrent[0] instead so as not to peg the gdcvault server.

[0]: http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/8940823/Game_Developer_Magazi...
Advanced markov chains?

Edit: Nevermind, Github username matches HN..
Well, the higher female acceptance rate may be because only good female students do CS. If you have a hostile environment, only the most motivated will succeed. It's like a sieve. You are applying selective pressure against a certain group of people succeeding. Expect to get only the most motivated.

Not saying this is the case in reality, but I think the conclusion that they're indiscriminately accepting women is facile.
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From the linked wiki article describing sleep in non-humans:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_%28non-human%29#Sleep%20d...

Comparative average sleep periods for various mammals (in captivity) over 24 hours

Horses – 2.9 hours
Elephants – 3+ hours
Cows – 4.0 hours
Giraffes – 4.5 hours
Humans – 8.0 hours

Glad the avg sleep period of humans in captivity has been measured...
Toyota to Introduce System That Uses Radio to Avoid Car Collisions
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I know, i was just building on what you said :)
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Dropcam Pro comes with machine learning
There is no physical record of the bar story.
Anyone interested in history or the bizarre would love the history of the City Of London Corporation. Business can vote, and their vote strength relates to employee numbers - that alone blew my mind when I learnt of it. Its well worth going down the rabbit hole if you have a spare bit of time. A good starting place for me was http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation
If it ships with an open or unlockable bootloader, you can put anything you like on it. This means pretty much any nexus phone, HTC phone or Samsung phone is good to go.

I've tried both Firefox os and Ubuntu touch on my galaxy nexus. I've also tried regular Ubuntu and Debian on my Asus transformer tablet.

That was much easier and cleaner and proper than it was getting my iPhone boot android, which relied exclusively on hacks, and eventually bricked it during a failed factory reset.
The Lumia windows phones actually don't look that bad, and I've heard from people they're pretty slick.

However, it's not just a phone you're buying and wanting, it's an ecosystem. You want email, music, video, apps, and everything in between, to sync seamlessly with all your devices. I don't want Microsoft's ecosystem, and more and more people don't these days.

As far as dual booting windows, I would probably try it once, and never try again.
We are adding ACLs with POSIX style permissions. You can see the doc on the 0.2 branch: https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/0.2/Documentation/etcd-f...
Is artificially modifying one's self ipso facto a bad thing? What's your basis for this claim?
That's a drop in the bucket when you compare it to the 1.4 trillion spent funding the ~12 year war on terror.

What I'm saying is I'd much rather see the money spent on healthcare.
"After severely injuring my leg and being prescribed a cane, I can safely say that prosthetics make you into somebody you're not. Yes, it might make it easier to get around. But, you know what? So does a car."
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yeah because writing a filesystem was pretty trivial back then.
It is more authentic, the question is whether that means anything. Having invasive surgery without sedatives or anesthetics is more authentic, but we don't do it.
"angular or backbone: what are startups using" (blog post and poll)

https://blog.backlift.com/entry/front-end-frameworks
You mean like Africa?
A sign of HNs growing popularity
'Even worse than Foxconn': Apple rocked by child labour claims
> How does it know which other servers to associate itself to

Right now we have a service, called coordination (c10n), which helps boot strap an example cluster on ec2. The basic idea is that in order to get things going you need to know the IP of at least one other machine and c10n holds on to this information. The root for this bootstrap is a unique token you put in the AWS user data.

You either need an external service like c10n with a shared token or a stable hostname that you setup yourself that can distribute the initial seed of information. An external service makes for an easier experience.

> and how do these server know to trust it?

As we get further along we will be adding a API/dashboard to help with boot strapping on etcd and approving/denying new machines as followers. That is part of why we added client certs to etcd from the very beginning.

Re: autoscaling: Our focus at the moment is getting the core services, like etcd, working properly so that we can correctly build higher order concepts like horizontal auto scaling. More to come. Thanks for the questions.
Well that's the kicker isn't it? These drugs do alter who the user is, to an extent. But presumably, the user wasn't entirely happy with how they were doing beforehand. Trying to wade throw a mess of external variables that are impacting your psyche while remaining simultaneously open to the possibility that the problem is within is a special level of hell that those dealing with depression are all too familiar with. There is of course a certain allure to the throes of depression. Nothing does a better job of forcing you up against the limits of your own existence and consciousness, and down into the rabbit hole, than when you start to realize that you're using your brain to analyze your brain to determine if your brain is the problem, all under the explicit assumption that your brain might well already be a problem that you couldn't possibly detect and really it's all just hopeless because how can you use a broken tool to analyze or fix itself and it's all a nonlinear chaotic system that you're at once in control of and trapped by... You get the picture. Sure, such mental exercises are fertile ground for creativity, but they're also fertile ground for slowly losing grip on the tattered remnants of what might be called sanity.

So you look to antidepressants. That's still you trying to fix you. And perhaps the changes it induces to the psyche don't outweigh the benefits of depression, even in the face of its monumental drawbacks that urged you into trying the pills in the first place. Now, I can hardly say I've been on everything that can be prescribed. It's exaggerating to say that I even dabbled in SSRIs. But for the few months I spent on them, I wouldn't say they made me into somebody I wasn't. I'd say that I made me into something different. Of course, I might not have liked that different somebody. I might have pondered whether this was all still in my head and I was swallowing sugar pills and what would that say about me if the mere suggestion that I was taking magic pills made me better but wouldn't that put me back at square one... And so on.

But I can't in good conscience begrudge anyone trying to muddle their way through life. If pills work for them then by all means take them. If they're happier with that different someone then I'd say they've embraced their new identity, not morphed into something they aren't.

I don't really know why I typed all this up. I'm tempted to Ctrl-A/Backspace it. But hey, when's the next time the ramblings of the inner conscience will be topical in HN?
One good turn deserves another. Congrats!
The basic business model of Walmart--the premise of the company existing in the first place--is to provide affordable retail to rural communities underserved by other retailers. And they're so successful that in much of rural America, they have an effective monopoly. The real question is: do you have better options than Walmart? Because the bargain-basement shit they have for sale isn't worth buying if you can afford the alternatives.
The orientation sensor is the accelerometer. You know which side is up because you get 1 g of acceleration downwards. At least on Earth.
Even though Bezos changed the environment for online shopping he has yet to be profitable at Amazon. Which is a shame really. I think he deserves more especially with the contribution he's made to the online scape.
Think of the company you could build - build one federal website for all of your seed, A, B, and C rounds of funding in one bundle, with no equity loss.
If your link contains a proof the figure is only $93.7 million, the proof is currently buried deeply. Perhaps you could link directly.
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I'd rather see that money not spent at all.
Most descriptions of depression I have read sound like "the deadening of the true self" is what depression does, and any effective treatment would rather be the revival of the true self.
If they unlock bootloaders, awesome. If they force me to buy Windows to get an Android phone, I'll go elsewhere.
Looks like they adjusted the figure - earlier it was at $634 million from what I saw but now it looks like it's closer to $500 million. Regardless, it's still a ridiculous amount...
No direct link to Change log. :(
This is the same argument as "you cops should be out catching the real criminals!"
Agreed. I find it pathetic and depressing that people are making phony excuses for not deleting themselves from an internet website that continually subverts their privacy and data. This has been Facebook's history since the beginning.

"Won't get invited to events." What?

Pick up the phone, text, email, IM, irc, smoke signals, TALK ffs!

Or instead, be honest and admit you're hooked like any average user.
"the bulk of which ($88 million) went to CGI Federal, the company awarded a $93.7 million contract to build Healthcare.gov and other technology portions of the FFEs"

That is from the article.
Citation needed.

It is much more plausible that these engineering colleges have laxer requirements for females in order to get a 50/50 gender balance rather than public school discrimination.
> Spend your years wisely.

Before you can do that you have to spend a great deal of your years to become wise.
Close to triple through natural occurrence? Come now, you're the one being facile.
That was the original quote it said - since then it's exceeded $500 million...

"We, the taxpayers, seem to have forked up more than $500 million of the federal purse to build the digital equivalent of a rock."
RTFA everyone.

The website cost $93.7m. The rest of the money went to infrastructure, call centre, collection services and building out the state based exchanges.
Members of my immediate family have had, and still have, anti-depressants as part of what is making them worse than what was ailing them in the first place. By far.

Everyone is entitle to their own opinions and has their own experiences, and that's mine. So to me, the quacks are many of the ones prescribing the meds.
Wow, Canada is really tiny inspite of being huge geographically. And I don't see Africa at all. Powerful visualization.
They try and solve the same problem with different levels of abstraction. I've gone full circle from Vanilla JS, to Backbone, to big monolithic frameworks like Ember and Angular and I've come back to Backbone. I think Backbone provides the right level of abstraction for the problems it solves. Angular and Ember I feel create their own problems.
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I write as someone who would easily have been prescribed (at several points in his life) various antidepressants. I never felt the need for them truly but they had been suggested for me basically with the same level of consideration as most docs hand out ADHD drugs. My girlfriend whom I love takes anti-depressants and they help her tremendously, so I do acknowledge that they are not without merit.

That said, I have seen people put on meds that were pretty clearly not needed (both anti-depressant and ADHD/ADD meds). These meds were added as either a form of insurance policy against some form of academic failure, or generally in high school, a way to dampen off-median behavior.

The big issue I have is the scale at which these medicines are distributed, as well as the early age of the target audience. It does seem odd that there are more than 1/10 over the age of 12 in the US (2011 numbers, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/19/us-usa-antidepress...) taking antidepressants.

I have no religious or economic reasons to discourage adoption of any medication (if it works it works).

My primary objection to any given medication is based on my consideration of how I might have turned out differently had I been put on every med suggested.

People are strange screwy creatures. I know some people really need help, and to them: get it, it really does help. My fear is that an 8 year old version of me (or you) somewhere is being told that something is wrong with them because they're a bit spazzy in class and that they need to be medicated because of it.
This sort of monetary risk incentive has been very useful for me. There's software to do this. Have you tried Beeminder? I've used it to force myself to build positive habits, including daily exercise and side-project progress. There have been more than a few moments where I've awakened after 11pm realizing that I'd be charged $5 if I neglected to do push-ups during the next hour. In anger, I invariably got up and did them, but now I do them without hesitation each day. Pledge some money on Beeminder, and make yourself do a certain number of focused hours of work each week on your project. Even small financial risks are surprisingly motivational: "No way I'm letting Beeminder take my $5."
Wouldn't you say that all the competitors are following in Microsoft's footsteps?

It isn't like Apple and Google are not also trying to lock you into their platforms.