skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Old" Japanese cars can be shipped off to New Zealand, though -- the steering wheel is on the right side, and import tariffs are low because there isn't a local manufacturing economy to protect. They stay reliable and economical for a long time.

Unfortunately it isn't quite as easy to ship old Japanese houses overseas...
I couldn't get genlocked PAL signal out of PC until late 90's with Targa boards which cost as much as four A1200s in their prime. I can't even remember we used anything video related on PC until at least Pentium Pro became available (and WinNT). Amiga and SGIs were used in video production for an extremely long period of time (well extremely for technology time scale). That's why I was wondering.

Commodore did some serious business mistakes.
They did a beta release. People loved it. Then they did a massive change to XP distribution shortly before release that forced people to run in single squads, because experience couldn't be shared among multiple squads cooperating anymore. People hated it. Nevrax didn't give a fuck and released anyhow.
kunai your posts aren't showing up

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who created the scoring metric and what is the basis for that?

when i go to [0] and change the default 3 drinks a week to 0 drinks a week my score drops from 100 to 90, that is a full 10%. Why? Acetaldehyde and acetic acid, both metabolites of ethanol are rather potent toxins. I would expect a better rating from keeping toxins out of my body, not a worse one. Then i changed the number of cigarettes from 0.5 a day to 0 a day. Nothing changed. Not smoking surely is much better from a health perspective than smoking 3-4 cigarettes each week.

I simply don't get it.

[0] http://www.hscoremixer.org/
Your correct from that standpoint that all stories are simplifications of more complex realities. That said, Ben & Jerry's is used as a textbook example of the effects of untended consequences when attempting to artificially manipulate cost structures in a market economy. It is even arguable, these consequences directly caused Ben and Jerry to loose control of their own company.

All that aside, I don't have a problem with curtailing executive compensation (for example CostCo does it in a way that maintains their corporate identity while allowing them to compete in their market.)
Funny, that's precisely why I'm trying to make my punctuation correct -- to compensate for the lack of nonverbal cues. I believe that by using "proper" punctuation -- and I'll explain my idea of "proper" shortly -- I can structure my sentences in such a way as to help the reader understand the nuances of what I intended to say, instead of having the reader try to guess it while parsing my sentences. Think of it as optimization hints for a compiler ;)

Also, you'll notice that I don't hold fanatically to punctuation rules or rely on punctuation alone: for example, I use emoticons to try to convey my "tone" and if my sentence ends with an emoticon, I don't include the full stop.

As for what I believe to be "correct punctuation", I guess my definition of "correct" stems from an increasingly outdated and somewhat romantic belief that people read books ;)

My rationale is that the multitude of authors use punctuation more or less consistently, which trains readers to have a certain set of expectations. If my punctuation doesn't match their expectations, I'm more likely to provoke a miscommunication.

So it all boils out to assumptions and expectations, which is why I said I feel old: mine are outdated ;)
I like how the latest revision is a cleanup edit that introduces another typo.
You could probably have a dedicated conference room or similar which would ensure that you could easily "Go to the teleconference room!" while ensuring that you didn't have a pervasive big brother feeling.
No, he might prefer to wait with hiring someone. In some jobs, it can take a few months just getting a person up to speed, certified etc, so hiring someone is an investment.
Revision #8 is insane... I don't understand what goes through his head
> Are we're all so afraid of our own shadow that heroes at the FDA need to protect us?

Hi, physician here. No, that's not why you need the FDA. You need the FDA to protect you for all sorts of reasons. It is not possible for a non-physician to be an informed healthcare consumer. Everything from not marketing methamphetamine to high school students, to ensuring your brain doesn't get cooked by a bug in a CT scanner's software.

There are a lot of ways to die. But on a scale of 1 to 10, death is an 8. Wait till it's your kid.

I had a conversation with a libertarian friend of mine recently:

Me: "If you like libertarianism so much, why not just move to Somalia?"

Him: "Hey, just make sure you're the one with an AK"

Me: "Who's standing watch when you sleep? Where are they looking?"
Lying about the copyright date is fraud.

That work will (hopefully) enter the public domain one day. By forward-dating the copyright notice, you are attempting to fraudulently extend your limited monopoly.
At this time (1BTC = USD $781.90) that translates to USD $1,012,560.50!
I started this back in 2011, so stackphp wasn't around then, but who knows stackphp might be way better.

Personally I feel like a lot of the major PHP frameworks are bloated and lose track of simplicity. Rack'em tries to stay small, but still take care of a huge shortcoming with PHP.
TO be fair, almost everything Apple did at that time "almost killed them".

The clones did expand the Mac market, but Apple was so incompetent at that point that it didn't know how to handle that.
Huh? When you click the big "disconnect your google account" button in settings, it explicitly says you won't lose anything stored locally (including browser history and saved passwords), and you get a host of checkboxes allowing you to decide what to connect with your google account (including nothing), as well as an option to use a passphrase that encrypts everything locally before leaving your machine, ensuring that google couldn't read it even if it tried. Honestly I can't understand how you reached any of the conclusions in your post -- they simply aren't true.

There are plenty of things to complain about with how google in "unifying" their accounts, but Chrome sync isn't one of them. The only thing I'd want them to add is the ability to sync to your own sync server like Firefox (essentially no does it, but the option is important), but encrypting everything locally is equivalent enough for me.
Realistically, Bitcoin ASICs are a very small fraction of the chip market.
That's easy.

We don't really know what it means to write good code. We can't measure it. We can barely talk about it meaningfully. It's rarely taught except via osmosis: you pair with someone more experienced and you read cargo cult blog posts.
It is common to pay an agent in Italy. My brother is contacting them but I wanted to see if I could some good leads online.

About the price, it is more or less what an agency told us sometime ago. I guess that I could try some A/B testing on the price.
I understand what you are saying, however, I'm wondering how OP personally measures overall progress as a remote worker.
Much of the FDA's purview is protecting these kind of people.
Interesting, because the recent grocery store labor dispute in Seattle included a planned secondary stroke against firms that accepted union's terms.
The victim here is the masses of 19th century mine workers discarded in the production of her fortune.
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> That's because there's so much stuff that might show up but which is totally harmless.

I've heard this argument but I don't buy it - not at all. I consider it better to know than to be ignorant.

If everyone has something that looks like rubella scarring, why is something that looks like rubella scarring considered worthy of investigation?

If the risk of something worse justifies investigation, then it's better to know from the CT scan so that you can have it properly investigated. If there's no such risk, then no problem.
> why complicate matters further by limiting yourself to perfect sentences and lose out on the extra nuance?

My problem with that, and I'm sympathetic to both situations, but it seems as though the rules of proper grammar have been replaced with new rules that are less expressive than the old rules.

Sure, if the community infers a period as hostile, then clearly, one attempting to avoid seeming hostile would be wise to avoid using periods. However, why is that the case? How did it get there in the first place?

Yes, I know it's been this way for awhile, but the editor in my soul won't allow me to craft broken sentences, even where I know that they'll be more effective at communicating. Yes, I acknowledge that's a problem of mine, but I would argue that the bigger problem is that people are looking for more expressiveness by arbitrarily assigning connotation to things that otherwise bear none, while completely disregarding that there are ways to be more expressive through regular old English.
Let's not pretend that Google are acting out of altruism. The blog author says that he was agreeing term for Picasa, not G+. It doesn't matter that the service is "free", the expansive privacy policy may be the same, it just covers more of the users online activity without their direct consent.
I'd be interested in hearing of any warrant canaries that disappeared.
Awesome, thank you! Will check it out when I get home tonight.
I like this user. He seems fun to mess with. :)
I think Kim uses that joke punchline himself anyway, I don't think he is very sensitive about it. He probably knows it contributes to his PR branding anyway as a unique character.
Just watched the BBC programme associated with this story. The goods pickers are treated like automatons. The work is pretty gruelling and pretty demoralising too.

Some interesting information in the programme:

- The Scottish Government gave Amazon a £6.8 million grant to persuade it to set up shop in Scotland.

- The Welsh Government gave Amazon an £8.8 million grant + £4.5 million to build a road for it's distribution centre in Swansea.

- Amazon operate a points system for their temporary workers. If you gain three points, you're sacked. A day off sick rewards you with one point penalty. In the programme, the undercover worker was late by two minutes which gave him a half point penalty.

Quote from Professor Michael Marmot (University College, London) who was featured in the programme:

"If you say to me there are always going to be menial jobs, yes of course, but we can make them better or worse and it seems to me that the demands for efficiency at the cost of an individual's health and well-being - it's got to be balanced"
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>Don't regret making works of art. It is all that succeeds us when we leave this realm.

Scientific discoveries also persist after your death. While making art is fine, it's hardly the only thing that people are known for.

On top of that, practically any action can leave a lasting impact, even terrible ones. So "effects persisting after you die" isn't really a way to determine value of your actions.
Outliers, definitely the freakenomics books, I enjoyed Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Lean Startup, Power of Habit, Defining Decade (if your in your 20's, fantastic book), The Happiness Advantage, Great by Choice from Jim collins...
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But Google has not just started using G+ accounts for YT comments, they have mixed G+ shares with YT comments. Now much of what I see below YT videos are G+ shares along the lines of, "hey check out this cool video". That's actually less informative than the average YT comment.
Perhaps that's a tell: they don't see viewing information as personal, but instead belonging either to LG or to the content owners, who may just pay LG to hand over in some form.
> We expect our employers to triple-check everything they say in the fear that they might say something that could possibly be construed as sexist or racist or harassing. Our teachers aren't allowed to offer our children honest critiques for fear that they'll crush their poor little self-esteems.

Some people do these things. But I believe that they are overreacting, and from your phrasing so do you. So why are you proposing that health data be held to such absurd (and unhealthy) standards?

> A genetic diagnostic can completely crush a person's outlook on life. This is suicide-level stuff potentially.

Then the person has serious mental issues. I'm not saying that hearing you are susceptible to a serious disease should slide off like water from a duck's back, but if a person feels that learning a medical diagnosis may cause them to commit suicide, then under no circumstances should they engage a company like 23AndMe that clearly states up front that they will NOT be providing counseling.

As far as I can tell, no one INCLUDING 23AndMe is proposing that they get a "free pass". In this case @mntmn reported their error to them and they corrected it, not just for him but for ALL future patients. That is better than most doctors do when THEY find an error.
Yeah, the order looks about right but the jumps in numbers look far too large. DB2 should also probably be a bit lower, after SQLite and MongoDB.
Somewhat similar to the "American Dream".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Truslow_Adams#American_Dr...
For searching a 32-bit nonce space I'd rather use a PRNG than a true RNG to avoid wasting work due to birthday paradox collisions.
>As opposed to options and products provided by other companies...

I think GP is rather trying to make an assessment based off Google's history of closing down services. Similar to I rather trust a stranger than a known con-artist, while realizing the possibility that either could walk away with your money.
By 2016 over half your IT spending will be on the cloud
You realize that it is trivially easy to falsify your worldview by glancing at, say, Asian American SAT statistics? Measured ability varies widely across population groups, and not always in white guys' favor. Otherwise, every profession from the NBA to electrical engineering would be perfectly balanced like a college recruiter's pamphlet.

Your statement is just a statement of faith, contradicting all available evidence.
I think that it is some misunderstanding between be successful and have money. Money is the consequence, but the objective of a business should be create real value. In this sense, if you have only a few customers but you are delivering real value, you are successful. Take youtube, for example. They were a very successful company in the beginning, delivering a delightful experience. Now, if you consider money as objective, they are still successful, but they are not. They now deliver a awful experience, with Ads in the beginning, middle and the end of each video. For me, no matter how much money they are making, they just not successful anymore.
What you see in that movie, the uncooked egg pickup, is becoming somewhat of a litmus test. Trying to reliably instruct a robot to put some 20 eggs from one basket into another without breaking any, and without prior knowledge of the position of the eggs and so on, that'll mean a lot.
On the one hand, it's probably true that experts overweight their own ability to pick winners. My guess is, PG is likely overestimating the ability of YC staff to actually identify good patterns simply because it's easy to draw conclusions from just a few datapoints but it's hard to draw statistically significant conclusions that hold up out of sample. However, I doubt that a startup index fund will outperform the best VCs and incubators simply because good deal flow is key, whereas in publicly traded markets, everyone has access to all deals. Having said that, I have no doubt that a VC index fund would outperform many of the VCs that are not that good
It gets colder in Tokyo, too. Those "air gaps" and poorly sealing windows make for chilly winters indoors. And I'm sure houses these days are built with better insulation than they were twenty or thirty years ago, too.
Come on, you've got to stay current. Google shutting down services is so six months ago. Right now you should be complaining about privacy or Google+.
The article mentions it only briefly, but the usage of ellipses (or just long strings of periods) in chat is even more fascinating to me. I once had a freelance client whose mood I could gauge by the number of dots in her Skype messages. Read this and try not to cringe:

no... that's not what we agreed to.......

It almost felt manipulative. I always imagined her sitting across the table from me, forcing an awkward silence in an attempt to make me renege.

So imagine my consternation when a friend of mine started using tons of periods in her text messages:

hey.... let's get a drink tonight..........

Interestingly, in her case, the extra periods apparently didn't mean anything. As she later explained, "that's just how I text...... not sure why.."

Amazing how much emotional weight a simple dot can carry, even when it's not intentional.
According to the (nat geo?) video below mma and boxing hits should be about the same with all else being equal. Combing this with mma's grappling and one almost wonders if, despite the increased blood, it might be less concussion inducing.

No doubt their bodies are being hammered and worn down though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRmOOWPTRBs
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Not by itself, but with a USB miner.
Locally I have a RAID 1 and backup everything to Crashplan.
I use Crashplan with family and friends, I plan on subscribing to backup to their servers for extra protection.
I also use Wuala / Google drive for photo sharing.

Never rely on hard disk. They will break. Don't rely on home solutions, you'll lose everything in case of fire, flood, lightning strikes, robbery, ...

Any home base solution has a single point of failure, it's location. So any solution with offsite backup will be better.

My suggestions :

- Buy a 2 disks NAS (Synology, Qnap, Lacie or similar), you can have 8TB on some of them. Want extra safety? Go with a 4 bay NAS in RAID10.

- Get a Crashplan yearly plan.

- Subscribe to unlimited bandwidth with your internet provider.

Any other online file sharing service will do the job but Crashplan is built for that and the price is fair.

And whatever solution you choose, the most important thing is, TEST IT.
Do a simple recovery test once in a while.
Setup alerts or reminder to look at your backup.
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> at what point on the financial scale does someone become worthy of taking advantage of?

You're missing my point. You're focusing on whether the actions of the caregivers are justified instead of focusing on our reaction to what happened. People do bad things all the time, surely you don't feel outraged every time it happens.

So why feel particularly sympathetic for someone who inherited a tremendous fortune, then didn't do anything to protect it, despite having every opportunity to do so? I can say "who cares?" without justifying the actions of anyone involved.
As long as you have some mining ASICs attached to it and you can buy the ASICs at cost.
Google could show me the most targeted ads in the world and I still wouldn't click them. So the difference is between things that I'll never click, and things that I'll never click but that needlessly aggregate data about me. That's an easy choice.
Is it bizarre? Given the number of people on HN, the number of things you're likely to read -- it seems inevitable that "bizarre" coincidences will certainly happen.
Something called 3M fluoinert.
I agree MMA is barbaric but IMHO it doesn't have anything like the status that boxing used to have. When I was growing up in the 1970s, world heavyweight title fights were staged and broadcast internationally and attracted attention comparable to Olympic contests.
Unless you're adopted and you want some sort of information where you have none. In that case, isn't it prudent to attempt to gather data on your genetics?

It's extremely frustrating when doctors/nurses/PAs ask me about family history and I tell them I was adopted. It shuts out an entire channel of potentially helpful information.
I'm really curious about eating outside. I feel that only could have improved dry skin but that could have also been improved by eating more carrots and other dietary changes. I love eating outside!
Isn't this the whole point of the FDA looking into 23andMe? To evaluate whether their accuracy matches up to their marketing claims?
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I think you're only looking at the small picture. Start-ups, that aren't social, are already forming...

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/11/18/silicon-v...

Also, you're asking how Bitcoin mining, the use of technology, and SV start-ups will directly impact the future. I can't do that.

Of course, I couldn't tell you in the late 90's how a search engine company would lead to better self-driving cars (among other things), or how a company that made paying online popular would lead to electric sports cars and rockets.

I bet convincing most people that Likes and building a better social graph in 2005 would lead to any sort of innovation would have been a stretch too.
One weird trick I use to get the effect of those drafts in the summer is to open a window.
This sounds very similar to famous socialite Brooke Astor who died a few years ago at 105 in New York with a $198 million estate. There were all sorts of charges of elder abuse and stealing from her, and claims that she was forced to live in squalor. Her son and his attorney ended up serving jail time for grand larceny and forgery.

She was married to the great-great grandson of super-rich John Jacob Astor. I find this to be an interesting example of how long wealth can persist in the US, and a counterexample to the "three generations shirtsleeves-to-shirtsleeves" theory. (As a random aside, her husband's enormously wealthy father died on the Titanic after being denied a lifeboat spot. I find it hard to imagine this happening to the rich and famous today.)
Or a simple and "ethical" explanation - make sure partner you are getting offspring with has DNA that minimizes chance of inheritable diseases. If everyone follows same logic in a few generations inheritable diseases would be less dominant.

In particular let's look at OP's example - he has mutations in different genes, so he is not is risk group for the disease that 23andme mistakenly reported him for. However if he would have an an offspring with someone who has complementary mutation in same genes, the offspring would stand much higher chance of inheriting that disease.
Can't you pick the best interviews, then hold your experiment with random groups as long as you mix in a the data from the interview groups in such a way to build a representative sample?
Surely a good (read focused) company should ALWAYS close down more products than it starts?
> So: good luck keeping your genes from the state, if it really wants them

I guess you assumed that he was a born in a hospital because most are. Thankfully, most != all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_birth#United_States
Amazing post. I feel like CS courses should have requirements that make them take up some of this duty.
If anything this is going to make copyright law more efficient. If one man can cause so much havoc what happens when a few people that own a ton of copyrighted work wise up and use the same tech?
I have been building micro-habits that make small increments in improving my life. I am currently working on three things: reading, exercising and coding; every day in my personal spare time. I use an iOS app to track progress (Way of Life). The key is to make them easy to accomplish so you do them everyday and it becomes a habit that can grow into something more difficult.
Python displacing R as the programming language for data science.