skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it's what you think that matters.

Is that actually useful in any way? It sounds like self-help "be true to yourself" kinda nonsense.

Ethics are rather pointless without some general priors to agree on. It's hard to reach full consensus even on basic human rights. Even if everyone did, they diverge rather quickly. The whole topic is logically pointless.
In Java, all methods are virtual. You can often achieve a similar effect to non-virtual methods by declaring them final to prevent them being overridden in subclasses, but the same rules about which method is called apply. The reason to simplify the language (in comparison to C++) - the rules about which method are called are much simpler and easy to remember.
I think we imported that code around 2010 and heavily modified it. We are also planning to use Chrome's sandboxing code for Windows.
If you're a power user you just use the Super key to pull up the menu and start typing what you want and then there is little practical difference between 7 and 8.
In what region? Downtown prices in my experience are minimum $7.
If you're rich, then yes it does.
I totally feel you about the mailto link - It was just a quick way to get everything up and running. Will definitely change soon :)

P.s. Know any good food photographers?!
? This link now seems to redirect to an unrelated article[1]... very confusing...

[1] http://www.fastcodesign.com/node/1840715
With a BI you have three options while still getting paid - productive work, unproductive work or Halo 3.

With a BJ, you have only two options - productive work or less productive work. Some of the people who would (given the option) choose Halo 3 will now choose productive work. That will be a net gain for society.

Further, we will get some value out of the Basic Jobs. We might pay $7.25/hour for the DMV to be $3.00 cleaner, for a net loss of only $4.25 rather than $7.25. We tried this scheme once already and got a national park system for our trouble: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

It's also vastly cheaper than a BI because most people will choose not to use the BJ. Rather than giving $7.25 to 300 million Americans you only give it to 30-40 million.
Just migrating a site over to 3 from 2. Not the most painful experience, better then migrating Font Awesome
Does meal usually include drinks as well?
Shouldn't everyone consider the ethical implications of their work? I don't see anything unique to engineers in this regard.
We just spent a decade trying to make people live like we want them to without actually living with them - Lesson #1 of any Counter-Insurgency.

And all that concern about pilots getting captured is why drones will take over everything but strategic bombing. Can't have people getting captured and showing up on the nightly news.
Maybe now, that they've got more publicity, the value went up :)
My understanding is that good virtual machines basically do this sort of profiling and optimization at runtime and JIT compile specializations as necessary.

Does anybody know why JIT isn't done in classically AOT compilers? Is JIT overhead generally higher than cost savings of the optimizations?
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What about the ancestry information? Is that more useful?
> Basically bitcoin removes the bank's ability to derive profit from debt and that's why they're pissed off.

Then why don't they just mine? They can profit off network transaction fees, and can set up value-add services on top of helping deal with bitcoin (like escrow and m-of-n transactions).

It's not as if there's no opportunity here.
I didn't realize the performance dip was so dramatic. As of late I've been considering acquiring some hardware and I guess I'm going to have to keep this in mind. If ones were to buy one today I don't even think I can find stores that sell the GTX 580. Would probably need to search on ebay.

Thanks for the heads up friend!
The quoted line is more responding to your second paragraph, not your first: "Obviously when we tell engineers to consider the ethical implications of the project that they are working on, we are talking to the first group"

No, I think when "we" tell engineers that, we're addressing a straw-man, posturing and showing off our superior ethics. Imagining that there's an audience of engineers who just need to be told that what they're doing is unethical is vain.
Sorry accidental down vote on phone.
$5 if you're eating fast-food in the midwest suburbs. Even then, a "normal" combo meal is closer to $6 or $7.
You write in the README that the mislabeled columns are "from our internal ratings". Can you give any more definite sense of what this means? What kind of things are these ratings based off of? What are they designed to reflect? How are they computed (roughly)?
Hey buddy, where are you from? I'm asking because I see people in much worse condition in the streets of San Francisco and Oakland every day.

In addition; North Korea is not suffering from only their decisions. They and us suffer from the cold war.
Yeah, had the same thought after viewing the albums.
However, modern Beijing looks more capitalistic than U.S. and Western Europe cities:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/romantsisyk/sets/72157633627597...
Software Allows Digital Brushstrokes
Any ANDROID models in particular that interest you?

Websites/reviews to check out?

I have a SD card that I want to use, need to check its capacity.
Filing official actions is not the only way to wear down an examiner's resolve. And does it really invalidate my point that it only took me two iterations instead of N to obtain a patent on a device that violates the laws of physics?
Headline links to Volume 1, Fascicle 1. You have linked to Volume 4, Fascicle 4. Also, your like doesn't appear to be an eBook.
Article has apparently been taken down; the link redirects to a fastcodedesign.com article on Bitcoin. Does anyone have a copy of the original article on 23andMe?
Looks like the top half of a person to me. Arms and head.
We're not doing drinks right now, but it's on the "we might add this soon" list.

What kind of drinks would you want with your food?
It also means that in the interest of experimentation, the US will likely do the opposite of China.
People will argue about whose definition is correct. By simply mechanically substituting the definition in place, you don't need to worry as much about whether it's correct.

Albert and Barry may have strong feelings about what the word "sound" means. They'll never agree to use the other's definition. Search and replace and you can advance the conversation past that point.
I would be very curious to see a study of what you point out. Are some people exhibiting negative sociopathic traits simply because of their upbringing or social context?

Although I find these points interesting, it does seem to me like this leads us into the age-old philosophy discussion on ethics. It seems like ethics can be argued to be based on intention, effect, something else, or all. I have read about sociopaths that are experienced by others as good people. However, a sociopath seem to have a stunted emotional life and I am sure this disability will always have numerous subtle negative effects on people that have an emotional relationship with them (e.g wife, kids, friends).
They Want Their ID Chips Now (2002)
I worked in Treasury for a Fortune 500 with operations in 80 countries, responsible for FX hedging, and I can say that ALL banks are absolutely terrible currency forecasters. I can't blame them for being inaccurate, since there are so many variables that can impact an exchange rate between currencies, but it's important to note that forecasted currency rates have no merit.
I'm not a programmer, but it sounds to me like the 'standard API' will be proprietary (?). Seems like a fundamental change from SIF (https://www.sifassociation.org/Pages/default.aspx).

Working in education for years, I can tell you there is a real need for an open standard that is palatable and feasible for schools and vendors aiming to integrate with student systems.
- I wish I had launched a startup.
I think there is an opportunity to blend the concepts of tabs and bookmarks. Tabs could/should be aggressively swapped out to disk, or even unloaded entirely if the state that they have is unnecessary. Obviously we can just bookmark then close a tab today if we don't care about it's state, but that is not a workflow that the standard tab/bookmark UI facilitates.

(The standard tab UI also does not facilitate massive numbers of tabs, but tree style tabs solves that problem beautifully.)
6+ hours of productivity based on a 20 minute nap is a good ROI in my book.
25 days of Angular - Day 5: Configuration in Angular
The guidelines are contradictory. If you want a title that properly explains the article and its relevance to HN you're supposed to make a blog post. But at the same time you're not supposed to submit blog spam. So if you're not going to write an essay about an article there is no way to simultaneously fix a bad title and obey the guidelines.
If you define "destruction" that way, your argument is circular, as you've just made it:

1. Public health care usually leads to destroying private health care, and
2. "Destroying" private health care means the government not decreasing the public role in health care.
Right. The timetable for most of those sales are going to involve what they know about Apple business sales, not what they know about how families purchase. It is unlikely, even if you're a film major, that you would want by Xmas to take with you to college next fall.
I built a student tracker/analytics app for use by parents (and students) which integrates with school systems, but I tend to agree that you could not charge parents enough to pay for the Clever integration costs.

The only way I think this will pan out for Clever is if they can somehow become the gatekeeper into the schools, whereby enterprise'ish edtech software companies are required to pay-to-play, such as an AppStore model. What I don't understand is why the existing back-office edtech software companies are allowing them to do so. They should be charging Clever significant integration/certification fees. Its done in other markets.
fuck you wsj http://i.imgur.com/pMvVZSm.png
Hackathons are really bad for starting (or funding) companies
Remember that the "original" Palantir (the ones in the novel) were created by the good guys for communication but were used by the bad guys for spying so is pretty close.
They charge companies like ours (Poll Everywhere) to push/pull instructor/student data into our app. Schools pay us for our product. Its super valuable because our developers can focus on building high-value features specific to our app and not boring LMS integration details.
I recently graduated with a degree in math but not much programming experience (I am pretty familiar with Mathematica but nothing else). I was thinking about picking up an intro to CS book to begin learning CS. Would this book be good for this? Should I even bother with CS theory or just jump into using a language?
Questions:
Why did you pick $7? Why not $10 or $15?
What diet will the first meal plans be for?
Will it be all organic? Is it freshly prepared each day from raw ingredients?
Twinkle and Snow: Two New Auto Awesome Google+ Photo Updates Released
> Objection (1) - a BJ creates no disincentive for work. You can earn $7.25/hour at the BJ or $7.50 at McDs.

That's the problem, isn't it? It still creates a disincentive for "real" work. You get people who take and stay in the basic job instead of finding a "real" job because the basic job is no harder to do and much easier to get, which reduces economic productivity because the basic job is less economically useful than a bona fide mutually beneficial transaction between private parties. And someone who spends all day working the basic job in order to not starve doesn't then have as much time to earn a degree, practice making art or music, volunteer at the local community center, write open source software or any of a variety of other things that are more personally rewarding and socially valuable than digging holes and filling them back in.

> Objection (2) - it reduces the incentives of immigration with the intent of collecting welfare, thereby reducing the objections to immigration.

So you don't give immigrants the basic income right away.

> Objection (3) - due to the fact that it has no disincentives for work, and the economic cost will be far less than a BI ( I did some back of the envelope calculations here http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/basic_income_vs_basic.... ), it's far less likely to reduce growth than a BI.

What happens when you account for the preference of those making minimum wage to take the basic job over a job that requires much seeking and interviewing to get but pays the same amount, and the cost of paying people to do unnecessary things when they could be doing productive things like working to improve their marketability for higher paying jobs?
Did you try bagoma? When was this?
Oh Steve, it's so nice to see you nitpick. Especially after having to retract one completely inaccurate article that you #lolbitcoin'd last week. And that's not even to mention the Gary North one that you posted, applauding the conclusion while explicitly throwing the methodology under the bus. And more or less said "I just liked that the conclusion was #lolbitcoin even though I disagree with how he came to the conclusion", as if that wasn't amateurish.
How would you be paying for someone else's unvalidated test? It's not as though you can go to the emergency room and say "23andme said I have elevated risk for XYZ so I need a genetic test real bad!" and get one. So what's the mechanism for you to be forced to pay for someone else's tests?
Interesting comment, but comparing blacklisting to attempting murder is ridiculous. Were you just being hyperbolic for effect?
North Koreans speak a pretty different dialect of Korean than South. Some words are the same, grammar is a little different, a lot of modern words are completely different. As such you wouldn't be expected to know any Korean at all, and even if you knew some, you probably wouldn't be able to use it. At best they would struggle to understand you, at worst they'd be offended and kick you off the tour ;)
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> We can't make these conclusions until we precisely know how people will spend the money. It could go into paying off debt and savings.

Its not like marginal propensity to consume of people in different income levels is a completely opaque mystery about which we have no information.
What a great idea. When will you support Palo Alto/peninsula area cities?
Does anybody know if Clever for Higher Ed exists? (Clever is super focused on K-12)
I think it's much more affordable for a seed stage startup. Also, ZeroCater is more in the $10-15 price range and they're feeding more series A and above companies.
I just want to say, I absolutely love what you guys are doing. Rourke Publishing (a small, independent, K-12, non-fiction publisher) used to be a major client of mine, and I still consult with them from time to time. They recently called me asking about integrating one of their applications with a SIS (at the request of a customer). I remembered seeing you guys when you were part of YC. I looked up your app and documentation, and it was immediately clear that you guys are the clear front-runner. It ended up making my recommendation really easy: integrate with Clever, then point all your customers there.

Congrats on the funding, and all the best!
http://davisgroup.lassp.cornell.edu/publicationPDF/PNAS_110_...
August 2012, so a little while after you. For all I know, the guide did mean the future (she was a little hard to understand -- our second guide barely spoke English at all! We assumed he was the "minder.")

I think it'd be really interesting to compare notes about what happened on the tours. Of course the formal itinerary was probably very similar, but I wonder if comparing some of the "random" occurrences might reveal something?

For example, while we were touring a park, we happened upon a group of men having a happy little barbecue and singing. It's possible this was totally genuine, but for all I know it was a setup.
Yandex announces new algorithm, SEO ranking WITHOUT links
“No-fly” trial, day 2: Dr. Ibrahim gets her (virtual) day in court
How to Get 1000% More Vitamins in Your Diet (Without a Multivitamin)
Can you please call out which books are bad though? That's some very useful information. I know I've read books that were garbage that are very highly recommended. (Code Complete as a "guide to the craft of programming", for example is extremely poor when compared to The Pragmatic Programmer). And even if I disagree with your judgements in some cases, it's good for calibration.
That problem can be a business, just like any other. Reference: Eric Ries.

My advice is just to pick something and start. You'll probably end up someplace completely different, but you need to start to get there.
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Good for them! I was recently in charge of a team that developed a website to teach remedial algebra to children, which is now used extensively in Florida middle and high schools. The signin system, using Clever as a bridge, incorporated districts' native signin systems, so teachers and students could just use their familiar school logins to get in the system. Out of the gate we had to support over half a million students.

Working with their API was really a delight, and I certainly have experience with some less than enjoyable services. Apparently public school IT systems are notoriously a pain in the neck to work with, but Clever just abstracts all of that out so you don't have to worry about it. Clever's development team was also very competent and professional. They seemed to really know their stuff and went out of their way to help us be successful. Assuming they take proactive steps to protect teacher and student personal data I wish them all the success in the world!
Ouch, harsh.

Anyways, client-server works fine.
What would you prefer? "I swear to uphold an ethical course of behavior as defined by the current zeitgeist of Hacker News"? It's clear that in delivering a sub-standard project, you're acting badly. But when you make a great product that may be used to harm others?

Many of the creators of the atom bomb have expressed their belief that they did the right thing. I agree with them and would have no ethical problems working on the nuclear stockpile. Many people, however, would consider that extremely bad.
How is it hypocritical?

Working on something harmful may put you in a better position to do something about it.
I liked the books as references. I really only worked through most of Volume 1. followed by a detour into Concrete Mathematics. I have made frequent use of Volume 2 and Volume 3 as reference volumes. In college they were invaluable when professors selected some awful textbooks by providing explanations of certain algorithms and concepts and data structures.
I assume no drinks included as it's not mentioned anywhere and at $7 it seems very fair/competitive. If you get a sandwich or buffet in SF it's usually around $7-10 as well. Delivery can also be a nice bonus - especially since going out to get lunch at peak times can be hectic in the city.

I hope the food is not too heavy though as I remember we used to have a Chevys right by our office in SOMA and whenever we went there with the team for lunch we usually wouldn't be back until 2 hours later and wanting to take a nap at the office :)

I'm also curious what the minimum order amount is.
Interesting read, I didn't know that making fields final in Java does nothing for performance. Any idea what those "Generic Popular Frameworks" are? I put my money on Hibernate.
Transponder Gem: A Better UJS for Rails
Even in the unlikely event that you'd prove successful at replicating the uncounted millions of hours of volunteer labor that have gone into replicating the, generally speaking, stupendously successful accomplishments of Wikipedia thus far:

What makes you think you wouldn't run into pretty much the same bottlenecks, dilemmas & systemic frustrations that WP is currently finding itself mired in at this juncture, also?

TL;DR don't spin your wheels trying to "compete" with WP. Better instead to find ways (technical / non-technical) to synergize with it + chart new ways in which it can evolve, keeping the momentum and positive energy base it already has.
The fact you invented it means you have prior art. Proving it in court may be hard, but the patent is legally invalid if it counts as a "public" disclosure (cf Windsurfer vs Tabor Marine [it's been a long time I may have misremembered that caselaw it's Australian IIRC but the principle is the same]).

There is no requirement for "formal publication". It needs to be disclosed in public, that could be a photo on your Facebook, showing a person in the pub with the public present, anything.

The fact that you invented it gives you absolute indemnity in the law and a public disclosure invalidates any subsequent patent application.

But as always you can't protect against being sued for anything.
They don't really need the money, of course, but it's still cool to see them truly standing by their principles as set down in REMOTE.
any plans to expand to Seattle soon? Would love to give this a try for our team
There's a difference between a collapsing bridge (the original reason for the oath) and a weapon. You knew from the start that the weapon was going to kill people. I'm ok with designing weapons; my ethical beliefs allow that. It would be unethical to accept the project but deliver a weapon that didn't work properly.
Sigh...I'll probably have to do it in LESS as well. Do you have any tips on good typography mixins for LESS, if any? I'd miss Compass and Typeplate very much if I end up switching. Thanks to everyone that replied btw.
It looks like the article may have been taken down. Here's Google's cached copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Bop.fm (YC S13) Links Together Music Silos Like Spotify, Rdio To Share Tracks
Yeah this is due to high GI, fast-acting carbs. I've experimented with this heavily with my lunches - it's always anything that is high GI (potato chips, cookies, any sort of sugary food) will cause that "crash" after lunch. That's why I save carbs for post-workout after my evening workout.
(Clever cofounder here)

Interesting comparison, but I think you might be missing a couple things:

1. Data integration is incredibly costly for edtech vendors - it's a massive engineering & support distraction, and it slows down sales and customer onboarding. Vendors tell us paying for Clever is worth it - just for the internal cost savings.

2. While seed-level edtech companies without revenue may get more attention on hackernews, there's a significant number of companies in various niches of education earning great revenues selling to schools and districts. Those are the folks adopting Clever & driving our growth (not "free to teacher" apps).
From what i read this appears to be just a group of companies trying to get some leverage. Which is not wrong by any means.

Their member list is composed both by huge companies and small ones, and judging by the areas of expertise of their members, they are trying to offer solutions for pretty much everything a public sector entity needs.
Cool, sounds like so much fun. I remember writing OS/2 drivers and getting interrupt handling wrong would cause strange ways of destabilizing the system. Once you get it sort of going you're afraid every time you press a key or do anything with the system because you know your brand new code is down there in the bowels waiting to cause a triple fault.
Interesting paper on identifying emotion in tweets - "Distant Supervision for Emotion Classification with Discrete Binary Values" | http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/papers/cicling13.pdf
"Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?"

Define wave detector