skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're potentially, halfway me in a world without celebrated computer programmers. I have struggled immensely with being a "slow starter", with self-motivation. I would have been an even slower starter in a world where I couldn't do my job alone, at home and late at night.

Come to think of it, one of my early learning-moments was pursuing a total dead-beat of a customer that I should have seen from a million miles away would never pay up, and incurring debt while I did. Having the till shut in my face (figuratively) at the bank was the push I need to face reality, cut my losses and move on to more productive work.

I totally see myself becoming an underperforming slacker pursuing dead-end/get-rich-quick "business" ideas. I have a couple of distinct kicks in the face to thank for being where I am today, and while not all being directly financial kicks (I'm privileged enough to never had to worry about missing a meal or not sleeping in my own room), is was definitely an element in all of them.
The purpose of discretionary bonuses is to address imperfect (and potentially asymmetric) information about just how much you really are worth. It can be easier to assess post-hoc.

Whether it actually does this well is certainly an important question, as well as how it can be abused and how frequently that happens, but it seems remiss to rail against them without noting their intended purpose - which, in the abstract, seems entirely legitimate.
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FDA regulates both finished dietary supplement products and dietary ingredients. FDA regulates dietary supplements under a different set of regulations than those covering "conventional" foods and drug products. Under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA):

- The manufacturer of a dietary supplement or dietary ingredient is responsible for ensuring that the product is safe before it is marketed.

- FDA is responsible for taking action against any unsafe dietary supplement product after it reaches the market.

http://www.fda.gov/food/dietarysupplements/
This explanation is less elegant because it requires different laws of physics in the matrix real world than our world. "a direct neuro link to the machines" doesn't do anything to explain why neo has telekinetic abilities in the "real" world.
> "Wars are becoming less frequent."

> He wrote, as we approach the centenary of The War To End All Wars.

The diminishing in size and frequency of armed conflict is either evidence that we'll have less destruction due to war in the future, or more destruction due to war in the future. It's not clear to me what model predicts more war, when observing less war--can you explain under what circumstances your model would predict less war?
The 4 worst computer viruses of all time...
This is a pretty sensationalist headline, given that they're in a new factory, new offices, and the general findings of the experiment are so positive that the subject is considering going back on Soylent in the future.
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Exactly. Though it is a bit of a moral hazard... or maybe that's not the right term... point is, users get used to "-f" ing pushes.
My problem with PNaCl is that it's basically defined an a LLVM module (snapshotted as the implementation an LLVM module today), but with a bunch of limitations of what you can't do ("The only calling convention supported by PNaCl bitcode is ccc - the C calling convention", "PNaCl bitcode does not support visibility styles."[1]).

I understand not wanting to re-invent the wheel, but I don't think we should bake a bunch of LLVM-isms into something that should be designed to run on browsers for the next 20 years. Basically, the whole PNaCl spec feels way too half-baked for something that should be a standard -- sort of how I felt about embedded SQLite into web standards as the spec and reference implementation (WebDatabases, shiver).

I prefer asm.js's approach over PNaCl. I'd also be happy if the browser vendors came up with a new bytecode from scratch as well, designed for the web.

[1] https://developers.google.com/native-client/dev/reference/pn...
I didn't make myself clear before: I think you should reconsider the button text.
Thanks! The number crunching is indeed very intense. The full body of vectors has a million rows and thousand columns, which fills up all of the 10GB of available memory. When you punch in a query, it adds or subtracts the requested vectors and takes an approximate dot product between every row in the table and the search query. This is about 10^9 operations. I'm only interested in the most similar (high cosine similarity) dot products, so to speed things up I wrote a Cython dot product implementation. This aborts the calculation if the sum starts to look like it'll be very dissimilar, essentially skipping lots of bad guesses. This speeds things up by a factor of ~5 or so. I'm debating offloading this computation to the GPU, which would be perfect for this.

Edit. In case you're interested in the source: https://github.com/cemoody/wizlang
And how many people get this debt in the first place is true capitalism as well?
Lately I'm experiencing the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon with regard to Poe's Law.
they will fix that in the next agile iteration.

;)
Last movie ever rented at a Blockbuster
Broke and lonely Edward Snowdon forced to live on charity
> For me however it does not discount the product in the least

You can get better products from reputable companies.

Or you can buy this gloop, from a bunch of people who clearly have little clue about what they're doing.
If forgiven debt is counted as income, one can unexpectedly get into a much higher marginal rate bracket than usual. Not sure if IRS allows to amortize it over multiple years or something like that...
Could we just standardize and complete what is missing from Firefox OS's proposed standard: WebAPI ?
This demonstrates an interesting thing about medical debt in particular. They seem to be operating it almost like a market segmentation tool. The richest people simply pay the stated rate, everyone else pays the maximum rate that they are able as it travels down the debt staircase.

A more cynical way to look at it? When you get (really) sick, the price for care is everything you have, whatever that happens to be.
I had the same experience. I haven't really gotten any convincing results except for the example queries verbatim.

Some queries I tried:

medicine - science + superstition

aquarium - wet + dry

mario - nintendo + sega

luigi - green + red

pocahontas - native americans + aliens
They don't need to be approved in the typical FDA sense, but the ingredients do need to be considered GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe).[1]

GRAS just tells people what they're allowed to sell, but most food products have been around long enough they are grandfathered in. The bigger issue that the FDA still mandates, is that the products are prepared under cGMP standards. The standards are open, available, and not at all onerous if you intend to be an honest business.[2]

Essentially, you need to have trained staff, clean buildings, batch records, clean equipment, known ingredients (no allergens accidentally introduced), etc. Really basic stuff. Unfortunately, it's mostly self-policed until an 'incident' at which case the FDA can do an audit and raise hell.

[1] - http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/GRAS/

[2] - http://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/guidancecomplianceregulatoryinf...
I think your suspicion may well be correct in terms of how the proposal will develop. At present the referendum questions reads "Soll jeder Mensch in diesem Land die finanzielle Grundlage zum Leben bedingungslos erhalten?" (roughly, Should every person in this country be given the financial basis to live decently?), but Switzerland has a fairly strong anti-immigrant lobby, and I would expect to see that interpreted to exclude non-national residents.

Beyond the increase in rents, I would also expect a consequence to be for the tax regime to become less progressive (perhaps a flat tax rate) and more rigorously enforced. This might add up to making Switzerland an unattractive country for people to work who do not intend to take citizenship.
Because spending more than you earn is such a good idea, no?

That's the real problem, and it's going to stop working eventually (even for the US)

Yes, pushing an agenda through ratings is bad. (But even worse is the mandatory obedience to ratings).
Ah, got it. So it's just self policing until you kill someone, then the regulators step in.
Its not working because the cost of having those people in debt, which is only worth 400,000, on the open market is probably much much higher.
It could have a simple 'are you sure y/n' prompt, and you could then have a git config setting to disable this.
Fun bug: handheld - sony + nintendo = {Wii, Wii, Snes}

I was hoping for the DS or Gameboy but expecting at least something handheld.
> I don't know why everyone is hating on Snapchat.

What is the possible business models? Just because something is popular doesn't mean it is a good business. No one has figured out how to effectively monetize chat going all the way back to the IRC / ICQ days (or even farther back to BBS systems). Chat has always been very popular, but no one has figured out how to make a business out of chat. If snapchat was working on that problem, it might be more respected in the startup world.
I'm relatively pro-GMO for a liberal, but I hang out with a lot of alarmists so I have a sense of their position.

There are some "naturalists" who are just fundamentally against it, but I think a lot of people just don't like that they're so untested. If we can do more long- term studies feeding animals these foods I think you could make inroads with those folks.

Also, though there's nothing inherent about GMOs that encourages pesticide use, in practice many of the existing GMO crops are designed to facilitate heavy use of Roundup, which makes people uncomfortable. Again, because there is limited science about what the long-term effects of that are.

So maybe when you're thinking about GMO research it's good to keep in mind that "research" includes not just development, but testing, which helps address the challenge you raise.
What happens when the Move Fast and Break Things philosophy is applied outside software. :)
No no no no no. This sounds like a nice idea on the surface but it would be terrible. It would destroy the fungibility of Bitcoin, making some coins worth less because they could only be spent freely in countries that don't follow the same blacklists, or on the black market. It would be a huge fucking mess.
I used to buy glasses on my trips to South Korea every couple years. So long as I had my prescription, I could go into a glasses store, pick from any number of stylish glasses, get my specialized lenses made (top of the line) and walk out for well under $100. I think I paid around $25-30 a couple of times. It was cheap enough that I'd buy 2 or 3 pair to take home with me.

These days, the economy of Korea has picked up enough that a pair of glasses there runs about what it costs here in the U.S. at Costco. The selection they have at Costco isn't quite as good or as stylish, but if you look in the "so expensive we keep these frame under glass in the counter" they usually have some top of the line frames for around $100. It's not 1 hour, you have to wait about a week for them to get made, but they've always come back perfect.
Czech bitcoin exchange Bitcash.cz hacked, up to 4,000 user wallets emptied
I don't understand why anyone gives a shit about S&Ps ratings... they're the charlatans (along with Moody's and Fitch) who gave fuel to the whole economic crisis in the first place. They continually endorse toxic financial instruments that make the fat cats in the banks some of the richest people in the world in return for what? Well, the rating agencies are paid by the very companies they rate - anyone see a conflict of interest here? If they'd done their jobs properly in the first place and given an objective rating to collateralized debt, then it's entirely possible a large portion of the collapse could have been avoided.

Not that I'm at all cynical (okay, you got me, I'm entirely cynical)... but really:

1). You run a company whose ratings are provided for profit - paid for by the companies that you rate, and you expect me to believe it's completely fair and unbiased? Do you think I'm that naive or stupid?

2). You can't knowingly endorse toxic financial instruments in one breath causing huge financial instability in financial markets all around the world and expect me to believe anything you have to say after that. Are you stupid?

You might as well be saying:

"You should invest all your money in This Guy, Inc., he's a fantastic risk! You shouldn't invest your money in the French, they're a terrible risk"

Small Print:

- "This Guy, Inc." is a known thief, embezzler and money launderer, but he pays us a tidy sum of a couple of billion dollars a year to look the other way, so we give him a good rating.

- We haven't found a nice way of making tidy profit off the French, so we'll steer people towards other financial instruments that do bolster our profits.

(The characters in this story are purely fictitious. Any resemblance between known thieves, embezzlers and money launderers and actual bankers is entirely coincidental.)
Soylent doesn't manufacture their own product. They use a co-packer, RFI.
I think the article is more about crowdfunding and open source.

Until now every single awesome open source project has managed to take off without a kickstarter campaign. Nowadays everyone promises to deliver an awesome open source project if you first provide funds.

I have donated to many open source/free software projects, either directly or through crowdfunding when they had a specific goal (eg libre graphics meeting, a full time dev to refactor kdenlive).

But I am really skeptical of someone who wants money before he delivers anything. Free software needs the kind of love that money can't buy in order to be successful.

I will gladly help free software projects but not so gladly free software promises.
I think this and asm.js are both extremely cool. I look forward to the competition this will inspire, and the improvement of both approaches as a result. I say this honestly not sure which one I personally think will be better in a year or two.

I often think of software as "walking a path." What I mean by this is that there are often different approaches to the same problem, and these start out as just basic, undeveloped ideas. But put smart people on it (and I have high regard for both the Google and Mozilla engineers on these projects) and let them refine these ideas over time and you'll learn more about all of the consequences, the fundamental strengths and limitations, of these approaches.

I first had this thought when working at Amazon. I remember hearing an off-hand comment about how S3 and Dynamo, both Amazon projects that started around the same time, started with very different consistency goals (Dynamo: very weak, S3: very strong) but as the details were fleshed out, ended up coming towards each other and both became more moderate.

I think that's extremely valuable knowledge, because it can become part of the body of resources that any future designer can look at. Whenever you have an idea, chances are other people have "walked the path" of that idea (or some variant of it) before, and reading about their experience can help you see down the road and anticipate what practical problems you'll run up against. You might have an idea for how to improve on what the previous designers did, but by reading about their experience you can save yourself a lot of the work they already did.

For this reason, I look extremely forward to watching these two projects evolve and compete, and in doing so, to learn more about the fundamental properties/tradeoffs of this design space.
On the other hand, I can imagine that there is a set of people that want to run client side and yet not expose even obfusticated javascript.
100 years is a very short time period when referring to the human race.
Disruptive!
I love capitalism, and think that the thing some people call "social justice" is anything but. However, we seem to be in agreement on this one. Isn't that nice?

As for help, my suggestion would be that your message definitely would have to be customized for the recipient :) Many people who could otherwise support you in this would be turned off by things like your 2nd paragraph, and not read much further -- and perhaps even discard the whole concept as pinko commie BS, which would really be a pity.
According to the dictionary, “literally” now also means “figuratively”
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Did you not read the article? It has plenty of relevant numbers and relevant comparisons.
Very easily. If you have a large debt with, say, credit card company, and don't pay it, eventually they may send you an offer saying "pay us so and so and we'll close all (larger) debt account" - or so may do collection company. That's in effect buying your own debt. Before that, though, they'd probably ruin your credit and harass the lights out of you.
No, that's largely the result of a non-free market resultant from crony capitalism.
It is not "unfortunate" it is incompetent. They basically do not know what they are doing. Why did they start manufacture when they were not set up properly?
Perhaps they should have hired someone who knew anything about food production. Instead they hired a frat buddy to be a Chief of Customer Success. Hope he has experience handling foodborne illnesses.
No, you can't. Can you think of why this wouldn't be possible?
see my comment below with a link to the NY Fed's study on the impact of credit ratings.
Well yeah, if you have to use one specific editor because the file is larger than most can handle that should be a signal that the file is the problem.

I for one think that developing a project in multiple files that can all be understood on their own is the only sane way to develop at all, regardless of editor choice.
There is a scene in the movie "Queen of Versailles" (at about the 75 minute mark) were David Siegel claims to have indirectly done just that.

He said that he sent a 3rd party into a bank and they sold an 18 million dollar loan he was defaulting on to them for 3.2 million. The bank didn't know about the relationship Siegel had with the 3rd party.

So I get the sense that if you know what you're doing and know the right people you can pull it off.
"If you write great code..."

Sorry, but I nearly spat my drink all over my keyboard at that sentence. This from the man who a decade ago used all his influence to fight tooth and nail against the notion of sharing knowledge and code for the benefit of mankind instead of profit, and didn't blink at screwing over developing countries in this particular area to increase his profits

I'm sure he means well and does great things these days, but this is pushing it a bit.
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Have you ever used any other database? Literally every single thing you listed as being a plus of mysql is something postgresql and sql server both do better. Mysql is in no way even close to being on par with non-broken databases. A brief list of some obvious, glaring flaws with mysql that have been actual problems in practice:

no check constraints

views with aggregates are too slow to be used

no expression indexes

triggers don't fire on cascaded actions

no window functions

can't set default values to be the result of a function

no transactional DDL

doesn't have multiple databases, just schemas misnamed as databases

rollbacks are orders of magnitude slower than other RDBMS, and it is interrupted it can corrupt the database

functions can't use prepare/execute, so no dynamic SQL in functions

subqueries are broken: can't modify and select from the same table

functions can't be called recursively (seriously? is this 1962?)

triggers can't alter the table they are firing against

stored procedures can't be invoked from prepare/execute

"slow query" log has a completely useless resolution of seconds
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I would compare this to a tech startup becoming the victim of an exploit. i.e. an injurious but not life-threatening data hack. There are many examples of hacks on tech startups due to technical malfeasance that sometimes show neglect in the handling of data or poor planning in the current operation of the system.[0]

I think Soylent has plenty of potential and while this will darken views toward the brand for a time, it will most likely recover. The idea is too good.

[0] https://blog.twitter.com/2009/monday-morning-madness
Yet the penniless artist is not exactly socially ostracised. Even in the mentioned expensive cities.

Reality is that people tend to stay inside their bubbles and bubbles are self-reinforcing. The penniless artist isn't going to take a job at McDonald's to be able to stay at a nice hotel with their Wall Street romance. Rather, two equally penniless artists are going to go on a free/cheap picnic in a park and reinforce each other's beliefs that this is much nicer and more "real" than the more expensive alternatives.
How many billions of people do you think we need to solve the rocket problem?
That's actually the biggest reason I prefer to buy online, it's nearly impossible to get glasses locally without a huge brand name plastered on the side.
They can all be done in JS (modified to remove threading, of course). In fact, many of them already run in emscripten/pepper.js (see http://trypepperjs.appspot.com).
I've read cletus' comment and while I respect and understand his world view; in mine this is about as good for the web as Internet Explorer's VBScript and ActiveX integration.

I'm a bit more civil about it than others but dragging accusations of hipsterism into this both ignores Occam's Razor and needlessly denigrates the (perfectly valid) world view that this is not a good development.
That worked out well for Java.
The "mold" part of the title feels especially disingenuous.
This is so awesome! I hope the resulting assemblies will be PCL though.
"just a globalist" is a nicely dismissive way of describing someone.
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Did you think about the XPS 13. It comes with Ubuntu preinstalled. It ist only 13 inch, but has a 14 inch display

http://rockiger.com/en/default/index
"I'd trade decent JSON support for decent XML support every single day of the week."

Just out of interest, why is that?

I work with JSON at least once a week, but it can be months between moments when I need to work with any XML.
I guess once your debt gets into a state where its being sold you probably arent making the right payments.

Pay off early! or dont accrue debt.
Submitting the same link in 3 times in 1 day is not recommended.
It's especially frustrating because ClojureCLR won't run on such old versions of Unity. I spent a good three days trying to backport all the necessary library code and eventually gave up. I was really hoping to get a decent interactive environment working with Unity.
It was NaCL which was previously available. This one is Portable NaCL which presumably can run the code built from the same intermediate machine code on various platforms (ARM, x86/64, etc). The immediate winner here is which runs on ARM and x64.
Instead of trying to build life-supporting systems from the ground-up, look to nature, which had been thriving with no human intervention for thousands of years.

Chemical fertilizer can't come anywhere close to the fertility and output of a rainforest. Look into holistic environmental systems; living soil, the role of fungi and bacteria in the capture and sustained release of nutrients, the role of animals in the growth/death cycle.

The world's food crisis is not caused by a lack of petrochemical distribution, but by the abuse (and thus death) of the soil.
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asm.js is a better answer.