skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point regarding the number of births, but I don't think the ratio is quite correct. The denominator should likely exclude those too young to work. There's about 1 million under 15 years old (and another 800,000 65 or older, who likely aren't working).

How did 50,000 births turn to 25,000 in the numerator? There's 1 year of leave, so that's 50,000, no?

I get 50,000/4,500,000 => 1.1% . Still relatively small, yes.

I noticed a few things about the [1] you mentioned. It's mostly meant for 20-somethings. That is, it doesn't compare health care costs, daycare costs, etc. which older people and parents would be interested in.

Also, there's a deliberate social policy behind why the Volkswagen Golf price is so high Denmark. Quoting from http://www.copenhagenize.com/2012/10/danish-180-tax-on-cars-... :

> this series of taxes was put into place to try and discourage people from driving but also to try and win some money back for society for the destructive nature of automobiles. We know, for example, that for every kilometre ridden by bike, the Danish coffers recieve 23 cents. For every kilometre driven by car, the Danish state pays out 16 cents.

I've read through the GDP many times before. I still don't have a good grasp on it. It seems that having a poorly insulated house, for example, is better for the GDP because I need to work more in order to pay the higher heating bills. Or having more road damage because of automotive traffic is better because it means more government funding to rebuild the road system. Or it's better to use MS Windows than OpenBSD because the latter doesn't cost anything and so doesn't appear as part of the GDP.

These are listed as 'externalities', but it's these externalities which contribute to happiness, enjoyment of life, etc. So while GDP per capita is used as an approximate measure for the ability to carry these out, it doesn't mean that it's actually being done.
Basically PHP is the America of programming languages.
They hacked the olive oil distribution.
I think that means the opposite of what you think it means. That it takes virgin olive oils longer to produce fewer toxic compounds is a good thing.
the part which resonates with me is your first one - financial independence. Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it can be hugely risky, but before money came 2nd or 3rd behind career development and maybe challenges. Now stability of income is probably no.1, and it's changed the way I run my business.
if you think being an asian woman in tech will give you a "boost" you're absolutely wrong. Not even in China will being an asian woman give you a "boost" in the tech industry.
I think one big feature of bloatware is differentiation. They want customers to choose phone based on which bloatware it has or doesn't have, because software is cheap. If everyone just wanted to maximize benchmark points or whatever technical spec for a given budget, and it was possible to do straight comparisons, profit margins would decrease.
So they make up those extremely hard to compare offers to prevent that. Since customers will presumably try to find a product on the efficient surface, no one wants a product that is inferior in every respect, the approach is to make dimensionality as high as possible.

With offer a you get a fast cpu, a weather app, and free surf between sunday 1pm and sunday 3pm. With offer b you get lots of ram, control your tv app, and cheap calls within our network.
There is a new Netflix series out called "Orange is the New Black" based on a true life story of a woman who gets sent to prison for being a drug mule for her lesbian lover and only gets caught many years later when she is leading a normal suburban life.

At any rate, one of the plot lines is about a relationship between a prison guard and one of the female inmates. It comes up in the course of events that basically any relations between a guard and a prison inmate are considered rape because you can't consent when you are in prison to someone who has power over you. Sort of how a minor can't consent even when another minor is involved. Apparently it is illegal under any circumstance between a guard and inmate as a matter of law in all 50 states as of 2006.

http://www.7dvt.com/2013prison-guards-pregnancy-tests-vermon...
Why doesn't the article name the brands that cheat? Or at least list some that don't?
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If they used unrefined sunflower or safflower oil, then your olive oil would wind up with a lot of flavor of those oils, since unrefined oil is very flavorful. They would seem like horrible choices for adulteration, since it would be so obvious. I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but do you have a source on that? I'm genuinely curious.

On the other hand, refined sunflower and safflower oil have higher smoke points than EVOO, and the flavor loss due to refining would let them blend in.
I build code sharing app called Climbi (http://climbi.com) for my side projects, and I almost use it every day for give someone help by providing code example on forum and social media sites. And I love it :)
There were a lot of pros a DeepMind. For example: Volodymyr Mnih, Andriy Mnih, Alex Graves, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Karol Gregor, Guillaume Desjardins, David Silver, and a bunch more I am forgetting.
Horrible for accessibility sake. Which is important to people who have all kinds of issues with non standard methods of navigation.
I find the side scrolling and paging annoying. I'd rather just have all the content on one page. Just let me scroll vertically like a normal webpage.
Employees give inside info on their wages and benefits on glassdoor.com and indeed.com. The latter seems to have extensive forums for most companies [1].

[1] http://www.indeed.com/forum/cmp
get the fk out!
Not more important, more profitable. DeepMind is an investment, SnapChat is a revenue raiser. And a big ball of users to foist G+ on.
What? Safflower oil is flavorless. As for sources, there've been various articles about olive oil adulteration over the years...including one really long one from a few years ago that was popular on most aggregator sites - think it was also an NYT article.
The problem is that the AGPL taints the output of the software, not the software itself. I'm fine with the GPL, that's well-understood, well-deployed, and well-tested in court. The AGPL? Nobody knows.
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20 Million Koreans' Credit Card Details Stolen & Sold
"The Father of Floating Point"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kahan
Aye, but I'd go for

/usr/include; perl -e "@c=\"x\"x(2**16); while(1) {warn @c}"

instead. Fewer chars, and you're not relying on the shell to throw it into stderr for you.
That's a nice c.v., but he definitely wrote his own wikipedia article.
Google isn't drunk-- it's just Buzzed. It will be fine to self-drive itself home.
Really stupid move to post this on twitter before getting it. Should have just taken a screenshot then waited for it to show up. Then post the screenshot and have people analyze the keyboard.

By posting before getting the package, the NSA could see the Twitter post and give a non-modified one instead.
Google should buy Wolfram Research. Wolfram Alpha seems to be pretty decent functionality.
It is like a farce on the "there shall only be one way to do it" mantra. Not to mention that some of the package managers has to be installed through one of the other packet manager, creating a very long dependency chain if you want to install a package through the former.
You can't "memorize" a language (this is about learning a human natural language), and if that's what you try, you will fail as a language-learner. I have advice about language-learning, which I think is the highest-karma comment I have ever put on Hacker News. Take a look if you want to learn more about learning human languages well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6302816
No; there are a lot of problems with Facebook, but I'm pretty sure it boils down to parents being on there. That, more than anything else, will keep kids away.

You could also argue that Facebook focuses too much on content consumption whereas Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat all focus much more on content creation.

Another problem I've seen a lot lately is the Newsfeed algorithm just being downright terrible. I've noticed a rash of comments on months-old photos lately where people are saying "how did I miss this photo?!" If you're going out of your way to create content and no one sees it, what's the point?
People are suckers for ideology.
Superior EVOO qualities:

1) high (≥76%) oleic acid content (for oxidative stability); olives from different cultivars and regions can vary from 55-83% oleic acid)

2) low peroxide value (<9, and preferably <6 meq/kg)

3) high (≥350 mg/kg) total phenolics, assayed using caffeic acid equivalents, and

4) harvested not more than 12 months ago

This one is a great candidate: http://amphoranueva.com/store/index.php?p=product&id=182
Veronica Foods - highly trusted (and my only) source of EVOO.
Snowden just can't stop talking about himself.
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Maybe it's because SoshiTech is an inbound marketing/content marketing/content farm/black hat SEO website? I clicked on the "Apple" tag in the tag cloud and got back a list of completely unrelated posts. TBH I don't understand how posts like this get so far up the front page without some shenanigans going on.
Disturbing is that apparently some people would prefer to see this "one of last plants in Detroit" bankrupt a all employees and their jobless, rather then tripling workforce in what is now most distressed place in US with 16% unemployment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/business/last-car-plant-br...

Apparently these (pre tax) profits don't end up in somebody's pocket as you imagine but are reinvested in giving more people
jobs and growing the plant.
Here is a simple method testing whether the bottle in your kitchen is pure olive oil, or a "mixed" one.

Take the bottle and put it in the refrigerator for 24-36 hours.

If the oil solidifies, it’s monounsaturated and is olive oil.

If the oil remains a liquid, it is polyunsaturated and is NOT olive oil.

This is not a scientific test, meaning, some fake will pass this, however, polyunsaturated results == fake / mixed.
The article states that once a site layout follows the archetype for that type of site then the brain is "happier". I would say that at this point Facebook is so ingrained in many(not all) users that its design follows a known archetype(The FB design).
How are you getting cheated if it makes no difference?

Because you miss out on the chance to get angry?

As other have mentioned the inferior oils might not be as healthy, this might be a reason to care not just 'cause'.
Interesting. Thanks for answering. I hope to see you next batch. :)
Suppose that no amount is sufficient. That means every business is a failure to fill an infinitely large stomach.
Is this your summary of the article?
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(Firstly, holy moly, something I wrote is on the front page of Hacker News!? I couldn't figure out why I was suddenly getting twitter messages on my otherwise dormant account.)

Yeah, the requirement that things be picklable in order to send to another process is one of the worst parts of Python in my opinion. I can write the bulk of my code without running into the limitation, but when I do hit it? Holy crap. Rage.

The only work around I've found, which isn't really a work around at all, is throwing out the idea of small, side effect free functions. By which I mean, give the process everything it needs to get the resources on "its" side (thus avoiding the pickling), and then let it process stuff until it's gotten back to some serializable base object that it can finally return. Not ideal, but that's how I generally work around it.

There's also `multiprocessing.Array` and `Value` which avoid the pickle requirement completely, as they're shared memory, but limit you to very base datatypes. Really only good if your operating on some homogeneous array (which for me isn't too often).
"World in Transition" — Albert Wenger on the Future
Interesting idea, but why is it an iOS app?
As I just amended my comment up-thread to say: allergies. Food allergies can kill you, and nut oils (nuts being a fairly common, and often severe allergen) are sometimes used used as an olive oil adulterant.

Adulterated olive oil isn't even labeled that it's adulterated, let alone what with.
Ah, I see. I didn't look closely at that one. I was more interested in the differences-within-USA aspect.
http://www.truthinoliveoil.com/2012/09/toms-supermarket-pick...

(Tom Mueller is the source for this article and he's been at this for a while, having written an article on sneaky olive oil producers for the New Yorker in 2007.)

He also has a buyer's guide on the same site and it sounds like, at his level, buying olive oil is trickier than buying wine. Not only is it dependent on harvests and growers, it is also perishable.
Druid was actually built to answer arbitrary questions
that could not be answered with pre-aggregated data (because it can become computationally intractable), but still needed to be answered fast enough to power interactive dashboards. At Metamarkets, almost all queries are user driven through our interface. Currently Druid is indeed tailored for time-based event data, but it can shard on more than just time.
Disclaimer: I am a Druid comitter and work at Metamarkets.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007850607...

http://www.optodyne.com/opnew5/TecArt/tech13.pdf
Apple don't play this game and they have key patents
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It’s more narrative than factual, and proving either of those points (cheat or don’t) would be difficult.

Also the bit about prices going down being caused by the fraud is far from factual. Doesn’t mean it’s untrue, but it’s a designed as a story with a moral at the end, not a study.
There have been several articles about this previously, and even a book (I'm probably more aware of this than many HN readers since I follow several food blogs.) Here are some lists of what to buy and not buy:

http://lifehacker.com/the-most-and-least-fake-extra-virgin-o...

http://articles.courant.com/2012-09-10/business/hc-ls-consum...

Trader Joe's and Costco were two that consistently came out on top. (For what it's worth, I've been buying the Costco organic EVOO and it's been great. I'm a supertaster and can--fortunately or unfortunately--taste the difference.)
There are plenty of alternatives out there GDP is simply vary generic and became the most well known outside the field of economics. Depending on what your trying to measure other other tools are much more accurate.

Sort of like your doctor wanting to know your blood pressure for somethings and your weight for others. They can both tell say something about your risk of heart attack but blood pressure also indicates other more immediate issues and your weight is vital when prescribing medication.

EX: Subtracting exports and adding imports is useful when tracking quality of life adding exports and subtracting imports is useful when measuring economic strength. However, the difference between exports and imports tends to make up a small fraction of the economy so it's not that important.
I hate when people make a generalization like "the south" to grab headlines. If you look at the map you can see the story is more complicated. Liberals and conservatives both do this. Conservatives complain about California, liberals complain about Texas. But the truth is there are regional economic and ideological diversities in both states.
Here's a nice example: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/CHEN/BHUSA09...

"we describe how to tamper with a firmware upgrade
to the Apple Aluminum Keyboard. We describe
how an attacker can subvert an off-the-shelf keyboard by
embedding into the firmware malicious code which allows
a rootkit to survive a clean re-installation of the host
operating system."
The article is discussing "simplicity" as one aspect of design. While I agree different designs can really only be viewed subjectively there are some aspects of simplicity that can be judged objectively.
The iniquities of the Unix shell (2011)
Conda (http://conda.pydata.org) is a more general packaging format than wheels and we use it to distribute the Scientific Python Stack (including complex C-dependencies) with ease. It is more general than wheels and solves this fundamental problem now with all the benefits without waiting for something in the future. See these blog-posts for more information: http://www.continuum.io/blog/conda_packaging and http://technicaldiscovery.blogpost.com

In particular look at the `conda package` command for an easy way to bundle up any non-conda packages across a homogeneous environment.
A lot of people in the PyData ecosystem using NumPy and Pandas are using conda and conda packcages (http://conda.pydata.org). Conda packages are easy to build and many exist at repo.continuum.io and on channels at http://binstar.org
The real story here is a small segment of productive coders rightfully feel themselves focus of nation sized actors that threaten their work.

...

Also the large segment around them that still feel dismissive about their now confirmed fears.
Managing dependencies correctly is probably the most important long-term problem to solve in programming, but for some reason it always seems to be given a low priority by language authors and communities, until one day it's become a tangled mess that isn't logistically possible to get out of. I don't get it, and it's frustrating.[1]

[1]: Somehow, all my lines aligned perfectly in this comment box at its default size! https://www.dropbox.com/s/slq8x0rqkj7ydzn/aligned.png
This is slightly ridiculous. He should show the proof or shut the heck up.
Of course they do. The secret ingredients are competition and bidding wars.
Sketchup has animation built in and is trivially scriptable in Ruby. Interactive controls are created in HTML/JS. It's not open source, but it doesn't cost anything for the regular version.
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The author humblebrags about his fantasticlly productive week set him up for an indulgent weekend and post-weekend. However, a massive string of failures or shock would likely have also led to the same indulgences. Truth is, if any exerted effort or stress will cause you to crave comfort. Humans cannot work at peak all the time.

That said, a journal is a great idea. It's like blogging, only without getting the ego involved.
I'm a former professor, now startup founder, and I know many people who have followed similar paths. Email me (see my profile), ideally with a copy of your CV, if you'd like to chat in detail :-)
Thanks and that's a good question. Well Thoughtly is just starting as an iOS app, we are about to launch the fully functioning web app.

The main reason it's on mobile is so people can just one click, copy their signature (which is a link to their quantified profile) from the app and paste it into any other platform, forum or app they communicate on. Since no one wants to engage in long conversations on a phone, it's simply easier to drop in their signature wherever they like to display experience.

Furthermore, Thoughtly has an activity feed that is really just a discussion board. But it allows you to browse for content/news in categories you find interesting (like flipboard) and see the objective experience and interests of the people who shared the content/involved in the discussion.
There's even a gevented version of requests called grequests.

The only thing about gevent is that the docs kind of suck, but their apis are pretty intuitive and the code itself is well documented.
I'm usually skeptical of these kinds of vanity articles (and seeing many more lately), but this one kind of checks out [1]. It's got edits by many different IP addresses and handles stretching across nine years.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demis_Hassabis&dir...
Are you... asking if there is such a thing as a money tree?

Plenty (>90% ?) of people will tell you otherwise, but there's a case to be made that "investment" in public stock is essentially a game of reverse-routlette (i.e., not lose-lose-lose-lose-WIN but the other way around). What does the "anti-DOW" (most horrific deaths rather than strongest surviving) look like?
Here it is running on my Javascript Apple 2 emulator: http://porkrind.org/a2/?disk=Robot%20Odyssey%201.0%20Side%20...
I agree with everything you said, and you said what you said far better than I said what I said, so my hat comes off to you (then goes back on or my ears will get cold, this is Montana).

I would point out that, in a capitalist system, nothing is produced to make people happy, everything is produced for profit (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/adamsmith136391.h...). And that is really what I was trying to get across, pop music may be crap, but it is what is profitable, to the extent that people want to buy it (presumably because it somehow makes them happy). People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, and a bunch of people building social networks and ad-targeting systems live in very fragile glass houses...
Nazi's didn't but communists did. They've took away all property and jailed entrepreneurs, intellectuals were sent to labor camps on the grounds of "class warfare".

Perkins picked a wrong analogy.
The reasoning you describe is not the only reason people oppose market regulation. Personally, I find the idea disgusting that somebody could be imprisoned (and killed if they resist) simply for selling something to somebody else, something that the other person was happy to buy.

The idea that violence is perfectly justified just because somebody provided a shitty phone experience almost physically sickens me.
This is not a new direction. UI design was scientifically-based long before the phrase UX was coined.

Just a couple examples:
-The CHI conference started in 1982, and the content has always been primarily scientific research on UI
-This book from 1983 has been very influential on the evolution of UI: http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Human-Computer-Interaction-...
Mac Pro, 6-Core... AU $5,299

In the box:

* Mac Pro
* Power cord

Can not afford.
Adam Gopnik's piece on The Caging of America does a good job explaining what's going on and summing up my feelings on the topic:

"Prison rape is so endemic—more than seventy thousand prisoners are raped each year—that it is routinely held out as a threat, part of the punishment to be expected. The subject is standard fodder for comedy, and an uncooperative suspect being threatened with rape in prison is now represented, every night on television, as an ordinary and rather lovable bit of policing. The normalization of prison rape—like eighteenth-century japery about watching men struggle as they die on the gallows—will surely strike our descendants as chillingly sadistic, incomprehensible on the part of people who thought themselves civilized."

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120...
So, Google's list so far:

- Some top ML talent: Geoffrey Hinton, Sebastian Thrun, Peter Norvig, Jeff Dean, Andrew Ng.

- One of D-Wave's quantum computers to establish their 'Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab'.

- Creepy robot maker Boston Dynamics.

- A stack of other robotics companies: Schaft.inc, Industrial Perception, Redwood Robotics, Meka Robotics, Molomni, Bot & Dolly, Autofuss.

- DeepMind, obviously.

Am I missing any?
The connection to Enron is bizarre.

The author seems not to know why Jeffrey Skilling went to jail. You don't go to jail for having a failed company. Very strange claims all around.

Skilling was charged with fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to auditors.
I strongly recommend checking out Dean Spade for more information on this. He has a very detailed book as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcYxqD1aElk