skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sidebar: for all the ranting that deserves to be done here, it's also interesting to note that this was an internal IT program, like many other programs I suspect HN readers may have participated in. There was a help desk, a POC, a procedure to follow, and so on.

They didn't want the average Law Enforcement schmuck calling operations! Instead you had to contact your POC. They were probably afraid of being overwhelemed by call volume. Turnaround looks like a couple of hours on a good day. In addition, they were doing one of those "train the trainer" things where they were looking at using the POCS to create "super users" to work the system and work with the local folks. Must have been a real concern about volume and support. Gad, how many people were (are) using this thing, anyway?

Email was the preferred medium of response, so no online app, at least as far as end-users go. In addition, there was a section about "deconfliction" which was a bit confusing to me, but I never took the training. Was there training? I wonder if, along with this deck, there wasn't a 1-day or 2-day class? If so, who was sent to take it?

It always surprises me that when you see something really bad, how normal it all looks and acts. I can just see a conference room at some Holiday Inn full of regular-looking middle-aged folks, slurping up bad coffee and stale donuts, wondering if they were going to be let out early while some other guy putzes around with a MacBook and a projector and an assistant hands out TS/SCI forms.
What a quick fix, I'll bookmark this and watch what it becomes.
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Perhaps the person downvoting this could explain why it wasn't relevant to the branch of the conversation.
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Great ! Until now docs about functional programming with Swift had been sparse.
> I can't seem to find any information online about how much lithium is actually in our drinking water.

Not too surprising: I've done some poking around looking for datasets measuring lithium in drinking waters (the existing epidemiological work is, IMO, surprisingly small-n for something that seems to be routinely measured by drinking water systems), and it's pretty hard to find any lithium measurements.
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I remember watching an interview a while back (or I think it was a Quora thread), but he claims most startup videos fall in the $50-$75k range.
And despite this in the meantime spy court renews NSA metadata program [0]. So they are continuing to spy on its own people.

I wanted to post it, but it was already posted and is a dead link. Why? I don't know, but it's a creepy feeling.

[0] http://thehill.com/policy/technology/217618-spy-court-renews...
Exactly. If it's a bad idea to add any lithium to water (anywhere up to the FDA-approved safe levels), doesn't that imply it would be a good idea to control randomly-varying* lithium levels to even lower levels? See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversal_test

* lithium levels in drinking water change constantly, in part due to variations in rainfall in a region
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Celiac disease is also relatively rare, and you're not talking about Celiac but some mythical expansion of celiec to everyone.
A similar game but with better graphics: http://netforza.com/verydoge/
> one of the last independent gaming companies

I wish I could say it's astonishing that journalists writing for a major paper would just casually make shit up for no reason (because it sounds good, I guess?), but that's the generally rotten state of journalism for you.
The link http://pyflag.net/ is not exactly what I was expecting.
This might get a bit long - I am trying to get a lot of this sorted out myself but some thoughts

1. University, certainly the good ones, have two goals - to grow the next generation of Professsors whose research will give multiple orders of magnitude payback to society, and to grow more rounded, more stable highly trained "future leaders". It's still a fairly reasonable approach, and I would strongly advise you to stick with the opportunity to grow and experience more as a young human than you will get almost any other time.

So, do work hard, but also sleep around, take time to travel cheaply in the long holidays, meet interesting people not because they might be useful in your future career, but because they are interesting. Sleep with some of them !

2. Portfolios and networking - it's a bit blah! I would recommend that you do two things - experiment with different languages, build interpreters or compilers (start with a simple text markdown, build you own DSL) and just as importantly contribute to some open source projects - get your hands dirty with documentation, test frameworks, source code screw ups and bug triages.

If you want to impress me with your just out of college CV then proving you can work well with other professional developers, can put a decent commit together and not piss off my senior leads is useful, and demonstrating that you can look square at the trade offs with functional and OO, what makes life hard when building an interpreter and knowing how to go from AST back to source code

Well that will get you the interview at least

Below is a long email / blog-post-to-be that was in response to a similar question from a Greek graduate (and temporary taxi driver)

(Ok that's too long for HN submit form ... It will get rewritten and posted somewhere - but really - work hard, work with other people, work on gettin breadth of experience and why clever people have not yet settled on one language - and don't forget to meet interesting people and sleep with them (now my favourite phrase of the day)
So you'd support a US invasion of Mexico under those circumstances? Somehow I doubt it.
I suppose I didn't do much research before posting my original comment. I should have known that there would be plenty of resources out there.
> I can't but help wonder whether higher levels of lithium also correlate with a clean water supply, which would indicate a more affluent community. It may simply be the case that those areas with cleaner water have a better economy, and thus less crime, etc.

I don't think it would. Typically both rich and poor communities would only be enforcing the FDA ceiling on lithium levels, which seems to be high enough that remediation is rarely (ever?) necessary, so rich/poor wouldn't correlate with levels much if all. The confounds which have come up as particularly plausible tend to deal with locations of mental hospitals, urban vs rural, and local food consumption.
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That's just a part of self control, and the easier if you ask me. I have no problem doing nothing, no problem to freeze and avoid undesirable reactions.

Getting myself to start something difficult, form a habit, this kind of thing is hard.
So, the French are doing it all wrong then - eating too much saturated fat and drinking way too much wine? Maybe they should start measuring exactly the alcohol content and use standard measuring cylinders? Again, this is the oversimplification of human metabolism. Maybe two glasses are too much for your own weak system, but for healthy people it's not much at all and pay attention to the study - people who had more were still fine. Also, pay attention again - drinking wine with a meal (especially something as fatty as cheese) is not the same as drinking it on empty stomach - something you're totally missing in your "guidelines". Also, drinking alone and in a social setting makes a difference, too.
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Paralleled is even used as a verb near the bottom of page 10.
Lithium is already sold as a supplement. If you want to run out and buy eg lithium orotate, you certainly can. It's cheap too.
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My wife's base model VW Tiguan was made in Wolfsburg, and it's a terrific car, albeit having already been recalled twice in two years.
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Considering how similar licenses work, I'd guess that "resale" means bundling it in a project you hand off to a client whereas "unlimited websites" means using it in a project you keep the ownership of.

Not sure how this works for SaaS projects, though.
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If you're interested the book "The Truth About Trust" goes into that in great detail and even includes the trust relationship with your future self which is very relevant to the original article. I thoroughly enjoyed it...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114085-the-truth-about-...
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Thank you. I did not know this site. There goes the evening. ;)

OT: Coincidentally I had a Laundry dream last night.
> but this didn't push anyone from "getting a tolerable amount of iodine with the excess just excreted" to "having a hyperiodine problem." There was nobody exactly one dose away from having too much iodine, because we just don't consume that much iodine.

Actually, there was: 'thyroid shock'. Iodization in the USA was accompanied by a wave of, I think, a few thousand deaths on net when people who grew up iodine-deficient were suddenly exposed to iodized salt. (This was covered by one of the historical papers I cite in http://www.gwern.net/Iodine although I forget which.)

Of course, the benefits of iodization were on net huge and I'm very much a fan of iodization, but it would be wrong to say nobody was hurt by the introduction of iodized salt.
Just ask the NSA for copies of those emails, already!
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Typo - torment should've been "government".
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MsgPack is great, but pure JSON compaction methods like this or transit can be used directly in a browser.
Psychiatric doses, perhaps, but I don't think trace doses have any meaningful effect. The doses are an order of magnitude or two smaller, and my personal experience doesn't agree: when I ran a blind self-experiment for around a year using lithium orotate doses higher than the trace water proposals, I noticed nothing subjectively and none of my recorded data changed (http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#lithium-experiment), so I'm fairly skeptical of the claim.
I've read a couple of history books, does that make me a historian now then?

What utter bullshit.
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We built the same features in open source for the Odoo website builder. You can try it here:
https://www.odoo.com/page/website-builder

We also put features like resizeable bootstrap column with drag & drop (col-md-X), link manager, media manager, special fields edition (e.g. prices with currencies)... Playing with building blocks look more sleek in Odoo version.

Github: https://github.com/odoo/odoo

Disclaimer: I am the founder of Odoo. We should probably extract this bit of code from Odoo to release a standalone library.
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Heh, I recently posted this on Facebook:

As I spent a sunny Sunday working through Project Euler problems in Haskell, I got a little sad that the word "nerd" has been re-appropriated to people who like video games ($100billion industry) or Star Wars (3rd highest grossing film of all time) or people who like phone apps (everyone in SF).

Is there a new word that's been invented to take its place?
That I drive for 1.5 miles only, but I have my own reasons :) which I won't put here... since they are ridiculous (lol).
Slightly depressing that the comments are all (as I write this) about the pricing...

I'm always interested in these sorts of things, having come close myself on several occasions to building something similar (CKEditor is usually what we end up using, though it's a bit warty in places and much bulkier than this).

I quite like this one, though my first instinct was "How do I delete the image in this block?" rather than "Ah, I need a different type of block that doesn't have an image". I'm not 100% sure if that isn't fundamentally a bit of a wrong choice - having lots of built-in block types is good, but being able to edit them in-place would be even better.
> By your logic no one could make money selling Vitamin C.

One can make money selling vitamin C - after someone (such as the government) has spent a lot of money running experiments and publishing the results, yielding a public good of the knowledge 'vitamin C may be good for some things'.

One will have a much more difficult time making money by investing in research establishing 'substance X is good for something', publishing that information, and then selling substance X - when substance X is cheap, widely available, and one's competitors will instantly match and undercut any of your offerings of X.
I think many commenters here have been watching too much shark tank. The old ways of valuing a business based on past revenue work very badly for seed-stage software startups.
As a general rule, making something that people with money care about is a good business strategy. It's niche-y, sure. Another word for that is "focused".

Even if they end up pivoting in a consumer/pinterest direction (my guess is they won't) they can do very well. Reddit is valued at $500 million and pinterest at 10 times that, after all.

I think that people tend to get really hung up on the dollar amounts involved here. Millions of dollars for something that's little more than a proof of concept seems like a lot. But it's not that much money in the big picture. Businesses and gov't squander millions of dollars on pilot projects all the time (but behind closed doors). As long as a couple of those projects make it big the economics of it still work out.
Illusion of safety. It's the distraction that really matters. Of course looking down introduces a risk factor, but studies have shown that it's the distraction itself that is dangerous. The HUD will create the illusion that it's ok to do certain things -- more often probably too -- while driving, now that you don't have to look down to do them.

One could also argue that when you have to look down to do something distracting, at least you are being reminded -- by taking your eyes off the road -- that the thing you're doing is distracting and you should probably pay attention to the road.
@dang that's unfortunate. This was the one place that I thought a group of intelligent and objective people might have a dialog about this. I guess it's easier to believe the official version of events.
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> Ultimately of course things are worth what a buyer will pay you for them

An example of that would be finding someone (or more likely them finding you) who needs to build your product and can choose between starting an $XX.000 development project delivering in X months or your product which is ready right now.
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Which job is best to start with? Full stack developer?, Growth hacker?, something else?
Even if he reivewd each document, it's crazy to believe Snowden, someone with zero intelligence, military, or diplomatic experience could accurate determine what was illegal, "need to know," or "safe."

Snowden has misinterpreted some of the few documents that were widely released. For example, he thought direct data collection from facebook to mean the NSA had a direct access to facebook servers. When in fact it just meant the NSA would get the data from facebook, rather than listening to snooping on telecom links, or as they called it "indirect" access.

If he can't get even basic details right, how the hell can you trust him to know when a file would expose a source?

Would you trust your DBA to judge which of your files were okay to be posted on the internet? I sure as fuck wouldn't. One of mine quit last month because he was afraid of Ebola. He did good work though . . .
I dont know about the physical bootcamps, but i did the Tealeaf Academy last year, and ended up with job as a rails developer shortly after completing it. I also barely had a programming experience, sure I had to take Pascal in college many years ago, but had ZERO OOP experience. I'd recommend checking out gotealeaf, she'd be able take the course while still working at her current job. She should be 100% sure, that programming is something that she's interested in. As a prerequisite, she should complete this: http://prework.flatironschool.com/ and see if enjoys the aspects of programming. Best of luck!
While I agree with what you say, I think your tone is a bit hyperbolic. Your last sentence is Polonious-level "advice" that is as cliched as it is obvious. The real trick is to not over- or under-estimate AGW.

Bad things could happen if we over-estimate significant events, just as much as if we under-estimate.
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You seem to be implying an either-or choice where one does not exist. Of course we should evaluate the results of our actions. And of course that information should be used next time.

What we can't do is somehow try to add it all up after the fact to figure out if it was worth it or not. At the time we make decisions based on what we know and who we are. It's our embrace of our uncertainty of knowledge yet courage to make what we feel our moral choices anyway that is noble. The author seemed to try to be figuring out if what he did was the right thing or not. That's whacked. Instead, the question is whether, knowing what he did then, he was authentic to who he was.

Let's try this a different way. You could replay the exact same article with three different conclusions. The kid could have escaped poverty and went on to law school. The kid could have been a farce made up by the religious guy. The kid could have spent all the money on drugs. Who cares? If you care about Haiti and the larger situation, it's all anecdotal anyway. If you don't care about the larger situation, then this story is just about the unique and personal experiences each of the participants has. There is no larger story. So all of this other stuff about the macro situation is just a form of projection the author is experiencing while trying to make sense of his own experience. That's fine -- as long as he understands it. But in the end it's just a framing technique.

The personal story was the author trying to figure out if things he had no idea about -- what was actually happening with his money -- were important to the decisions and feelings he had about his own religion during his teen years. It's almost like he was an observer of his own life.
There's a strange disconnect.

What was really going on, for both he and the kid, was that they were taking a big piece of fuzzy, unfortunate, and difficult life situation and making hard choices about what to do. The kid stays with his family. He doesn't stand out, stays with the herd. The author still sends money, but is unsure why, except to say that would have been even worse. Then he realizes that he's so involved that he has to know what's been going on. Why the change of heart? I'm not exactly sure. Is he really worried about evangelizing kids? Also, I left the article not really being sure. The most important part of the story, the decisions he made, is the foggiest. He walks right by the most important part of all of this, his own values, and instead waves his hands around at the preacher, the county, the NGO, dumb westerners, and so on. Then he continues to give! It's like he does these things and doesn't know why.

In my mind these choices are where the real story is, not trying to piece it all together into some kind of uber narrative about Haiti (or religious NGOs) in general (which would also be a good story.)
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Maybe the American led coup d'état in 2004[1] has something to do with their misfortunes. Or the CIA involvement in the 1991 coup d'état. Or the occupation by the US in 1915-1934[3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Haitian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Haitian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Ha...
OK. Yes the framers of the constitution did create protections from the government for themselves, and shared that with the rest of the population. As you imply it is hard to know if the general case was a side-effect or original intent.

At the same time they purposefully sought to disenfranchise the majority so that they might change the rules at any time.

So the constitution within the constitution is that the government will protect the wealthy, and that makes sense given who was writing it.

It appears that the ruling elites now value control of the population over privacy. I see two possible explanations but perhaps there are others.

* They see the incredible growth of poverty in the US and there is no vast neighboring region in which to exterminate existing inhabitants and settle. Hence wealth protection from the masses is a higher priority than the privacy protections.

* Mass media has distorted the scale of the disenfranchising effects of our system (rich have more control and poor even less) and the wealthy realise they can use their control of the government to make huge fortunes. For example the profits of the banks are derived by transfer of wealth from taxpayers through implicit insurance since insurance allows highly profitable high risk strategies. They then choose short term profits over privacy / human rights.

In any case they choose to exercise their rights under the constitution within the constitution to change the laws to bring about repression and control.

I'm not really rebutting your point here. Instead I want to highlight that what is happening now IS consistent with the ideals of governance around during the formation of the US and what has changed is likely a lower level 'priority'
What do you think about this one?
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It's not a standaline jquery lib but can easily be extracted from the code of Odoo as it's open source.

We worked a ot on the usability to make it smooth to handle images, backgrounds, specific properties of building blocks (e.g. banners, parallax, ...)
Just a commentary on the bigger picture: I strongly disagree with the notion that talking on the phone while driving is always bad (yes, I know, some people are particularly bad at it and shouldn't do it, but those people probably shouldn't be talking at all or...in many cases...driving at all.)

But texting while driving is really bad. I've done it far too much, and every single time I note how totally distracted, worse-performing, and basically crappy I am at the driving part (and I am a good driver when not distracted).

Why did I do it? Because for better or for worse, some people have gotten so used to this world of instant communications that if you don't reply quickly enough, they actually get concerned -- "why aren't you answering me? is everything ok?"

So my solution is twofold: 1. I've stopped responding to people so quickly. And if they protest, I explain: I was driving. Chill out. I'm fine. Everything is fine. 2. And if it really can't wait, I just make a call. "I'm driving - don't want to text. What's up?"

We really, really, really shouldn't be texting or writing emails while driving. It's bad news for everyone.
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This may be nit picky, but, when I change pages, it causes the browser to reload and move to top of page. This happens each time I click the next page button. This is very confusing. It'd be nice if the page did not reload, and instead fetched the new results via an ajax call, then updated the view with new results. This should not be difficult.
Imagine where Germany would be if the USA didn't stop the Soviets from raping them out of existence in 1945.
Not very unlike the times of J.E Hoover. Just with more technology.