skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your product sounds like Piazza. My computer science department uses it extensively - combination Q&A, announcements, and a sort of ticketing system for the TAs. It's a great tool. It's a powerful and innovative place to take fairly standard web application technology.

Why should I use your product instead of Piazza?

If you believe you can beat Piazza, then figuring out how Piazza got its marketshare might be a good place to start. I gather they have decent penetration in the higher ed market.
I'm responding to the original comment, not yours: some people, whether babies or adults, should not make decisions. Someone else should make decisions on their behalf. That's why we have the whole parent/guardian system for minors.
Wow he doesn't have to try to be infamous.
I just made a pull request for the US Digital Service playbook suggesting that contracts require continuous public disclosure of all disbursements of funds. If that were the case, you couldn't find out after the fact about $200 million going down the hole.
I personally met some of the PMs on this towards the end -- Oracle was hiring anyone with a BS and a pulse on the East Coast to be a PM, flying them over for five nights a week and often flying them back to wherever they lived on the weekends. Technical knowledge was apparently not a criterion.
Conjecture Regarding Larger iPhone Displays
I never thought of food reward as typical fat shaming, but I suppose some of the "food reward friday" posts come across that way.

I'm reading through some posts and comments by "itsthewoo", and I'm trying to make sense of her experience. Thanks for pointing her out - food reward has worked really well for me and seems to explain a lot of data out there, but I suppose testing it with a large sample of humans (as opposed to rats) would help us see how universal its suggested interventions are.
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I'm not really thrilled about it being for a specific phone that is likely to have a physical form factor not guaranteed to have any particular lifetime.
Not to be pedantic, but that is true of Genghis Khan as well.
What am I seeing on the right below the LCD, is that the backlight driver?
They address that in the FAQ with something like "you can always keep your iPhone 5 around as long as you need to use this if it doesn't fit the iPhone 6"

In my opinion, it wouldn't be that hard to adapt to a wider iPhone. It's two pieces: a case with a hole in the back for mounting, and the camera brick - which only touches the back and bottom of the phone.
That may be, but the rule of not being personally rude holds regardless.
I'm not saying it's useful to call sugar a poison, and I don't generally refer to it as one. I'm saying it fits the definitions I've seen of poison, and that makes it literally a poison.

> Besides, sugar is the primary fuel for your brain; without sugar, we don't exist. It's a funny sort of poison that is necessary for our existence.

Arsenic, along with several other low-dose poisons, is also necessary for our existence[0]. Do you disagree it's a poison?

0 - http://www.chemicool.com/elements/arsenic.html
> Every time a programmer has an issue with Git, whoever helps them has to sit down and explain the underlying system for 20 minutes and draw a bunch of sticks and bubbles.

This isn't true at all for a lot of people. I know a lot of people that just read the docs and are able to solve the issues. Others will Google the problem and find the solution on stack overflow. Everyone learns differently...

> Anytime someone shoe-horns it into a product they talk about how Git is so amazing and solves all these problems, but what they are really talking about is just a version control system, not Git specifically.

Git is amazing and does solve a lot of problems, but there are problems that aren't solved by Git. Even Linus himself says this here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8).

Using the github API, rather than git, for creating epub books and pdfs is a great. Using git to control changes as the do is perfect as well.

> Non-programmers will never put up with this.

Ermm don't assume that everyone gives up right away. With the GUI interfaces we have today, Git is really simple once you learn it.
I keep telling users of my website that want to keep their identity safe to NOT point their camera out of their window and yet quite a few of them ignore that advice and have their home address and other private details published by jerks and find stalkers at their door at 6 am. Very silly, and possibly even dangerous.
>Personally, I find Guyenet's reward hypothesis to be nothing more than a rebranding of typical fat-shaming ("just control what you eat, fatso; and why don't you exercise some more?")

So a particular claim about the state of the world, e.g. "obesity is caused by a psychological propensity to overconsume, which can be controlled", simply cannot be true, because it might cause some people to justify a dismissive and callous attitude towards people with obesity?

That is what the logic of your statement sounds like to me.
Simulating a global Ebola outbreak
Yes, he does think intelligently and he is a smart boy. If he was dumb, whatever I do, he'll stay that regardless. If he's smart, he'll find the way whatever I do anyway. I hope you get my point. I think way too many parents waste their time going in circles and overthinking what they should do - follow my simple logic and life will be blissful for everyone. Don't worry too much - there's little you can do anyway! Plus, even if I told him that he's average, everybody else (including his teacher) tell him that he's not. Well, I'm not telling him that he's a genius and I try to explain the difference between stupid (the majority of the people), smart (10%), and geniuses (<1%). At least he's smart enough to get his! :)
It's last year's 13" Retina Pro.
I think it's the CPU's heatsink/fan. The warm cable on the left is a thunderbolt ethernet adaptor.
I agree. To companies it's just business, but I will forever view HP as a degenerate company that deserves to go bankrupt for the rapacious deal it carved out from the U.S. Navy for NMCI.[1] It's not just business for the people in government, especially those putting their lives on the line.

If Oracle can't build a website for $240M it should go bankrupt too. Who cares about people getting healthcare when we can rack up costs. Go Sales!

[1] http://www.wired.com/2010/08/hp-holds-navy-network-hostage/
The Donetsk separatists are more like a bunch of advance troops from Russia than a political party.
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+1, in code the basic unit is usually a line, but in prose it is the sentence. I've tried using git with LaTeX and it always ended up with weird situations where you had to put each sentence on a different line to make it work effectively.
Wanting "affordable health care" and wanting Obamacare are two different things. Entirely.

Obamacare has been in negative approval territory since day one, almost.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/obama_and_demo...
No, it just works better as a reinforcement saying it that way. You want them to keep an attitude by making it a part of who they are (e.g. _you are_ honest), but with intelligence is different, you always want them to become smarter than they already are.
Medicare is not Obamacare.
A long time ago I actually tried to compile this and it took forever. I think I will try it on my new computer.
> A better solution is to stop rewarding plagiarism and shitty sensationalism with traffic. A plugin that redirects you to the original source.

The problem with shitty content is that there are people to propagate them around with Likes and Shares. Changing the reward pattern here falls in the realm of changing people's mindsets.

For plagiarism, getting to the source would help reduce traffic iff more people use such an extension.

For shitty sensationalism, there are two ways I can think of (there could be more) - a) the extension should block such links/content from feeds on social networks, but that would only help those who use the extension, without doing anything for social change and b) the extension should comment on such posts, pointing readers to a (simple and ad-free) site that explains the harm caused by such content (in addition to just wasting time).
That exists, and it's made by a YC alum, Nate Kontny. It's called Draft. https://draftin.com
So I guess we can count on you just accepting it if it gets repealed, right?
That's why it wasn't presented as a solution, rather as an inspiration. IMO it makes more sense to read code like this, editing it can still be done with the usual delimiters. I'd see an editor that by default shows the formatted code but for lines with an active cursor, it switches to plaintext.
Try your institution. Ask around. That's the best way to grow. But like the other person said, there is already Piazza. There is also edX which many top-tier universities are beginning to use. There is also BlackBoard. The high-ed market is pretty crowded and fragmented to me. For example, some departments choose to use BlackBoard while some don't care at all. Most of the time it's up to the professor to choose. Think for a bit. The actual solution to these question is not all that subtle, but you need a solid product that people can rely on first. You need a PaaS and a SaaS.
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Facts are not knowledge. Read Socrates / Platon.
This may save some people some money, but I'm not crazy about insurance-company OBD-II devices in my car, either.

I suppose these technological tattletales will resign us to a future where we're either paying a premium for "bad" behavior (bad to an insurance company, anyway), or for privacy.

I await the lawsuits to expose insurance-company pricing models, when people figure out the industry isn't using the stated attributes for punitive pricing, because those attributes do not, in fact, correlate to claims. (Note that I'm not saying the insurance industry won't very quickly figure out which signals result in claims; I'm saying they won't reveal what those signals are.)
I wouldn't try to buy anything with a credit card while using Tor. Many online businesses, especially ones with high fraud risk like hosting companies, will reject your payment if you're using a proxy. The company I used to work for would suspend your account until you sent in a picture of a government issued photo ID. If you didn't within 48 hours, they would close the account and you'd have to wait five business days for the refund.

Bitcoin should be fine though.
You could have a look at Siskind's paper, Flow-Directed Lightweight Closure Conversion. Warning, it's not exactly light reading:

ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/qobi/fdlcc.pdf

Although the subject is nominally closure conversion, he describes how flow analysis is used to propagate information about values around the compiler's model of the program. Because the analysis is on a whole program basis it need not be very conservative - in a whole program compiler you never have to give up and do something the slow way because a value might be used in a place you can't see.

This aggressive flow analysis gives the compiler enough information to pick nice flat C-like representations, inline objects inside other objects, use more specialised calling conventions, etc.

For example, a whole program compiler might determine that the elements of an array are never compared with eq or have their mutable parts assigned to, which could allow the elements to be inlined into the array. Doing this is tough or impossible in a traditional compiler because the contents of files that have yet to be compiled is unknown, forcing the compiler to assume the worst.

Pretty neat stuff.
Medicare is essentially government-run healthcare. I don't see seniors running to hand it back and cover their own healthcare bills.
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About 10 years ago I remember prototyping some code on Linux with a perl script running a java program as a "coroutine" (er, service) via request/response pairs over a socket (not http). Then we moved it to AIX, where it was essentially unusable due to the lost time slice each time an IO sys call was made. On Linux, the remaining time slices were recovered and immediately used. On AIX, the time slice was simply lost until the next process scheduler tick. Ouch.
Medicare is funded directly by payroll deductions from the working population. Obamacare requires all citizens to purchase health insurance, regardless if they deem it as necessary.

Obamacare requires health insurance companies disburse at least 80 percent of the premiums they bring in to medical service providers for their members. This effectively turns health insurance companies into quasi-non-profit entities, very similar to Medicare (which has no profit motive).

I don't mind living in a world where you can get better healthcare if you can afford it. I do have a problem living in a world that doesn't have a minimum level of care for everyone.

Difference?
One of the first Aaron Swartz essays I read (first of many) was on this very topic. He gives great details about how she experimented with children and games, and how their mindsets manifested themselves, and how she came to her conclusions about fixed vs growth.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dweck

To me, the possibility that anyone can move from fixed to growth is astounding [1] ... that fact itself positively brims with the possibilities it opens up, if only a person can realize they're not stuck and they can expand their horizons.

Khan's description of "interventions" is interesting.

[1] I also suspect the converse is equally possible, given the right circumstances ... which is worth keeping in mind, I 'spose.
For an example of how this can go horribly wrong, look at the keyboard required to code in APL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)).
I actually saw some of it because someone forgot to disable stack traces on the production server (and their sign up form was broken when I submitted it). It was written using some PHP framework. You'd think it would be written in Java...?
Source code and docs:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/BASIC-0.1.5.0
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You're trying to change the subject.

Do you have any evidence that the "majority of Americans" ever favored Obamacare?
I'm also from SF, and for me, few places in the world can approach the Bay Area in terms of innovation and technology. For me, Amsterdam is one of the places that comes close. I've been living back and forth between SF/Marin and Amsterdam since 2006. You'll find a buzzing community there around software development, entrepreneurship, and innovation. (However, if you're ever looking for VC funding, the Bay Area is leagues better than the Randstad.)

If you're looking for an employee-style relationship: To work legally, you'll want to find a Dutch company to sponsor you so that you can get a work permit. Another option is to get hired in the states by a MNC and get transferred.

Personally, I elected create a corporation in California, hire myself, and get Dutch clients for our company. I travel enough that I can make due with the 90 day out of every 6-months visa-free Schengen option. Dutch companies tend to like to do business with other culturally Dutch companies. (Technology companies, however, are generally much more progressive in this regard.) If you go this route, definitely have a Dutch-language web presence and consider having a Dutch-speaking sales person as these will work wonders.

Also, if you're into cars, one very cool thing about NL and neighboring Germany is that you can rent proper german cars, like M3's and Porsche turbos. In NL the traffic can be a bit crowded and you have to watch out for the camera boxes (Gatso's). I recommend taking the ICE train over to Düsseldorf. They have a very nice selection of cars at the DÜS airport and the A3 is great for some autobahn therapy.

Let me know if there's anything or anyone I can help you get connected with in NL.
Rachel Maddow, popular American talking head, mentioned this project and your site on her show tonight.
This article would be awesome with some mockups. Gruber's next "and another thing" in these incredible what-ifs could be some DF artwork. (BTW does anybody else drop their large-screen phone a lot or is it just me? I really love the extra screen space but holding onto it is not as easy as it was with a smaller phone)
(As an aside, I sometimes feel the same way about node.js, where I've seen "node.js is awesome" listed among a project's "features." Nothing against it, I just don't get the obsession.)

I appreciate this comment with respect to Git right now. I've recently spent a lot of "hammock time" trying to come to grips with my views about this profession generally and what I believe is best going forward. One thing I feel strongly about is that while we are still maturing as a field, the pain points are unacceptable. There is still so much work to offload to the machine, requiring fundamental rethinking at many levels. So although I agree in principle with the initiative to help people "learn to code" (so that we can bring system design closer to the domain experts), I also believe that in the current state of things, it's a wasteful effort, since it requires conveyance of ideas that should be deprecated.

But even short of programming, version control alone would be useful in so many other fields. There's no reason why it shouldn't be a mainstream concept even for personal use (e.g., you're working on a thesis). Just an hour ago, during my annual flirtation with Git (I'm a Mercurial user), I wrote in my notes:

> the barrier to entry for new programmers is important. This would appear to weigh in favor of Mercurial — and yet, realistically, is a “layman,” i.e. someone who knows nothing about software development and has never used a CLI, really going to distinguish between these two systems, or will the very concepts of a VCS not prove to be the biggest hurdle?

I have used Git, and I think that for linear history the differences are not remarkable. But the attitude you refer to is crucial: do we want to hide complexity or expose it?

Incidentally, I have several Project Gutenberg epubs under version control for a personal project, and like the OP I attest that their work is first-rate. There's no comparison to any other digitizer in the public domain (that I know of).
We did this for our second child. It makes a lot of sense to divide the work into shifts. I wish we had done the same for the first one!
Why are there no evening and weekend jobs?
There is supposedly an extreme shortage of engineering talent in the Bay Area, and yet...

When I was on the job market a few months ago, not one company would agree to phone screens after 7pm (I was booked up otherwise) or interviews on the weekend (again, I was booked up otherwise). There was obviously high demand, with dozens of companies to talk to, but none of them would operate outside normal business hours.

I also have not been able to find any software engineering jobs posted for evening and weekend work. And yet, if it were available, even if only 1 in 20 people were interested, companies would be able to add 2% (5% x 40%) to the labor force, which is equivalent to an ENORMOUS number of work visas.

Does anyone know why this is?
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Is there something specific about the camera in the Iphone that would preclude doing a similar thing to android phones? Or is it just a matter of uniformity of the housing?
Now we are in bit confusion that, Did we really choose the right way? Yeah, A new service has come to my mind and It's Linode. I have asked a question or peoples recommendation here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8211642 about DigitalOcean or Linode.

Hello Guys Now I need your hands on it. Please recommend me the best between them to go with. Thanks in advance!
I have to commend you (and people like you). Others who share almost everything about their kids, not knowing or not caring about how those could be used and abused, are just making money for the social networks. It's like saying "here, use my baby freely to make more money for yourself" with worse side effects that are not yet known clearly for the masses.
I also got into lisp (Lush lisp) because of Graham, and still consider it a glimpse of the promised land. The thing is, if you haven't screwed around in an APL language, you don't realize what you're missing. For numerics, the array part of the language is much more important than the rest of the thing. When I read the J sources, I recognized what Yann and Leon were trying to do in Lush, and the combination with a decent lisp repl was gold.
Now all the array parts are in Torch7/Lua, along with threading, the bleeding edge of Deep Learning research, better C++ support and CUDA. Lua ain't pretty like lisp, but these are practical men, and it has everything one needs.
Julia: no thanks.
Thanks a lot for the feedback. My name is Abhishek Fatehpuria and I'm also a cofounder with Homeroom.

Theres a couple reasons why we think we're better than piazza.

1) Our discussion software yields higher quality discussion by having a more steady stream and well organized posts.
2) We're releasing more features which enables even more collaboration and discussion. Piazza only goes as far as posts and answers. We are going to do a lot more very soon.
3) Our target market right now has actually been the K12 market. We find that the softwares in that space right now are not that good and its incredibly fragmented.

That being said, I use piazza in school and I love it, and we know its pretty entrenched already in the higher-ed not K12 market.

Please let us know if you have more questions/feedback
Did you look at the file?

It does include an annual increase in grain consumption of about 50 pounds and an increase of sugar consumption of about 45 pounds.

But it also includes an increase of meat consumption of about 50 pounds, an increase of fat consumption of about 30 pounds and an increase in fruit and vegetable consumption of more than 100 pounds.

There are reductions of about 15 pounds of eggs and 100 pounds of milk products (people drink less of it, much of that weight is water).

There is certainly an increase in carb consumption, but it's clear enough that "all" is an overstatement, people are consuming an additional 85 pounds a year of meat+fats.
Congrats Seth! I had to unfollow you while you were making all those repos because it clogged my feed.

GitHub should really put some work into improving their feed algorithm so one project can't just clog it all.
Not very useful because it doesn't take into consideration the most significant causes (or restrictions) of spread of Ebola or similar diseases, which relates to cultural interpersonal interactions (such as handling and washing the dead), education, and poverty levels.

Take a dozen Ebola infected persons and drop them in New York. The infection will be eliminated in a few transmissions. Take a dozen Ebola infected persons and drop them in the poorest quarter of Monrovia in Liberia, and well... we're watching what happens.
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I doubt it'd be worth it. If you don't want to get into heavy theory, you might consider an information systems degree (aka management information systems) which generally opens the door to some high paying jobs. I know, because I teach the capstone course to an IS degree program. Our students finish with some competence in programming, databases, and web development, but instead of computing theory they have a lot of courses in other business disciplines -- marketing, finance, accounting, entrepreneurship. In my opinion, it's a pretty well rounded bachelor's degree.
What I don't see is how the compiler is supposed to distinguish strings from int and byte array literals in those examples.