skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Seattleite I was optimistic things might change at the federal level when Obama appointed Kerlikowski as drug czar, given his experience as police chief in what even in 2009 was a very cannabis friendly city. I guess I was just another sucker for hope and change that never materialized.
I launched http://paasifier.co last month. It's a open platform where developers can find the best Platform-as-a-Service for their apps by selecting runtime (Java, Ruby, Go, etc.) and database (MySQL, MongoDB, etc.). In the first days I got more than 1K visits and I'm trying to monetize it by using affliate marketing for PaaS Providers.
The platform was built with Rails + PostgreSQL
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iCloud the reason behind Russia’s decision to ban iPhone from 2015
Russia has decided to ban Apple’s iPhone and iPad from its territory from 1st January, 2015. According to a new law which kicks in on the new year’s day, makes it mandatory for tech companies to store cloud data in Russia if it originates from Russia...

http://www.techworm.net/2014/11/apple-may-get-banned-russia.html
I have found that when I have people at home that need me - a significant other and kids - work is an afterthought. Maybe what you really need is a girlfriend.
Does IntelliJ Idea offer all the same stuff as Android Studio in regard to Android support? Doesn't Google add anything from themselves?
And web development shouldn't be the center of a Computer Science curriculum. Web development happens to employ many of the concepts one learns about in a Computer Science curriculum such as data structures, algorithms, asynchronous and synchronous communication, and UI interactions.

But, like a machine learning course, or a data science course, which also touch on many concepts which are part of a core Computer Science curriculum, it is not a center because the center of a good Computer Science curriculum is the core concepts through which all other ideas flow (algorithms, data structures, message passing and communication, programming language design, compilers and interpreters, object oriented design, functional programming, etc).

Generally all the rest is (and should be) elective. And most curriculums presumably require electives so students can delve into areas they're interested in applying the aforementioned skills to.
I'm totally lost, are they apologizing for the article, or the comments it attracted, or something else?
My brain stopped after "meritocracy misogyny".
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IANAL, but as far as I am aware, international borders fall under federal jurisdiction, not state. U.S. Border Patrol is a federal organization, for instance. Since marijuana is still illegal under federal law, I'd imagine that Alaska state law couldn't protect you in the event of a seizure. I don't have any personal experience attempting to bring weed across a federal border point, but my gut tells me it's not a great idea. Feds are still gung-ho about enforcement. In a federal trial, penalty for possession (any amount) is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a $1,000 fine and 1 year in jail.

(Open to correction, enhancement, or clarification from anyone who is a lawyer, and/or who has experience in these matters).
Aren't they all Toy Story named releases?
Thats a real technology job, not "I'm writing a CRUD app for a marketing experiment that will change the world"
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Country specific. I've got a Masters degree in CS, work for a company which employs over 6000 programmers worldwide, work in UK, and as a Junior programmer I started with 18k pounds/annum(~28k us dollars). I actually have friends who are doing their PhDs at the moment and they make more money by just being PhD students than I do.
I think the racism of the Tea Party and the hooliganism of the Occupy movement were deliberately overplayed in the media to keep the two groups from seeing each other as allies.
A generative model, although computationally expensive, would not suffer this problem. Essentially a generative model can run in reverse, which means that if you feed values into the output you get inputs that could explain the output. Check out "Boltzmann Machines" for an example. There are plenty of examples for the MNIST dataset of hand written digits.
There has been a concerted campaign in the US to convince people that other countries' social services are inefficient, dangerous, and hated by their populations.

In a fun example, an American financial newspaper claimed (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/hawking_british_and_...) that if Stephen Hawking were British and subject to the NHS that he'd be dead. He is, of course, British.
The typical solution is to unplug something (on older OnStar systems, the antenna; I guess this has gotten harder as the antenna gets harder to find).
Although I agree with your desire to filter out Hacker News based on your interests, I personally think this is On Topic here.

Quoting guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

This story is related to an ongoing event related to genre bias on technology industry. As so, most people think it is on topic here (based on the number of upvotes needed to land on first page).
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There are a couple of filters / blocklists. Using the site search should find them.

Obviously it's a tricky problem if you want nuanced filtering.
Very cool, I wrote the ThinkPad version at the time. I had forgotten about it, there is a link to my post at the time in that page and I’m happy archive.org exists http://web.archive.org/web/20070922232656/http://blog.micamp...

I was definitely not in high school at the time.
Holy crap!

"However, if they are late to work they lose their bonus for the day. And if they miss a day of work during the week they lose their bonus for the entire week."

Sounds like a recipe for the (alleged) effects of the medieval justice system.[1]

[1] The punishment for murder is death. The punishment for stealing a chicken is death. Get caught stealing a chicken? Try to kill everyone who has ever offended you.
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Is this how VIPs treat common man in India?
Afaik they ported improvements made in Android Studio back into the 'mother platform' with this new version, so the IntelliJ Android plug-in should be on par with Android Studio.
> plug into your phone audio jack to sync

Wait a sec, are you saying it uses a software modem to communicate over the audio jack, or am I misunderstanding? That seems oddly cool, if true.
"But you apparently can't buy them all to do it."

I'm sure Bill Gates, when he goes shopping, just buys the eggs he expects to need. That doesn't show us that he can't buy all the eggs in the store.
I think you're on to something.

It's fascinating to me how executives are so often enamored with large mergers and acquisitions, while it seems very rare for such transactions to result in greater overall growth or profitability. I suspect the real reason is to increase the buffer between the CEO and real world feedback. At some level, I suspect the executives instinctively know the real reason to increase the size of the organization is to further insulate them from market feedback.

Certainly makes more sense than the underlying financials in most cases, as far as I can tell.
Except what seems to actually be happening in some cases is "40 hours onsite" and "available 24/7 via email"
Sorry, I deleted my comment. It was originally asking about commerce across the border to Canada.

I deleted it because I just discovered that it's technically illegal in Canada; thought it was less murky than it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_C...
I think this is a smart way of raising funds, well done! I do think there is to much text, which makes it harder to find your goal.... Namely: Fundraising a summer camp (outdoor adventure) for under-resourced kids or kids at risk (although i'm not sure what "at risk" means)...

GOAT means : Great Outdoor Adventure Trips

Sidenote:
I wanted to know how much he currently earned, it's 661 €.

And i used this in Chrome

var sum = 0;$.each($(".complete"),function(i,elem){var text = $(elem).text().trim().replace("Amount: $","").replace("Complete!","");sum = sum + parseInt(text)});console.log(sum);
Because most new businesses fail. So the people best suited to start ones are people with a safety net: a lot of cash saved up, or a well off family to support them.

In short, the people who can't afford to lose their jobs also cannot afford to fail in business.
The article claims this uses different technology to measure heart rate than the optical sensors the other guys use, and says it's much more accurate.
They touched something that is highly toxic and it was a mistake.This is something which HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TECH.

That's why apologies are justified,I'm glad Mozilla is setting the record straight.

I dont want to hear about that gamergate stuff.If people want to fight,let them go on twitter,youtube or on msnbc to make a fool out of themself.
That article was not the one that made everyone upset. https://openstandard.mozilla.org/yes-gamergate-is-everyones-... Was the article that made everyone upset.

Well, also, @firefox tweeting the story you linked to with the #gamergate hashtag brought a whole world of bullshit down on Audrey, so there's that.

This is why the 'apology' talks about 'starting a conversation,' because it was two articles _and_ a number of other tweets by @firefox, positioning #gamergate as a 'conversation' and 'controversy' between two equal sides, rather than a weirdly obsessive harassment campaign with a cover story.
No, they are still awful. Just awful on different levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. If your job leaves you insecure for basic survival and safety, then merely having your esteem and self actualization trashed looks like heaven.
I am really worried that insurance companies will push for those tracker devices for everyone. If they simply make insurance policies without the trackers twice as expensive as ones with them, they will quickly become widespread, and this surveillance will become the norm. I hate this and I dread the day when it happens.
I wrote http://scridx.com a screenplay search engine on christmas last year. It's doing a decent amount of daily traffic. Go server backed by Elasticsearch running on a $5/month VPS. 300 daily uniques at the moment. I've been interested in screenwriting for a long time and that really starts with reading screenplays. All the websites out there were really horrible, I felt like writers had really been neglected in the digital age.
Are you kidding? Entering a furnace at 150 degrees wrapped in heavy clothing, OPERATING A JACKHAMMER?
My team built a spin off project to create an office directory / floor plan for your small business / co-working space. http://www.floorplan.io/

Tech-stack wise it's not all that interesting, but we've seen it help a lot of small companies on-board people / meet their coworkers more easily, so that's been fun.
kudos to PyPy team, always delivering the goodies. I just wished it was more CPython (extension) compatible.
In addition to your misuse of "corporatism" as identified by tatterdemalion, you seem to be redefining "capitalism" to mean "what deelowe likes"; capitalism historically -- from the time that name was first given to an economic system by nineteenth century critics of the then-existing system in developed countries -- has always referred to a system which features unfettered accumulation of capital, and it is a system which was formed by cpaital accumulating so much in the hands of a few wealthy influencers outside of the feudal aristocracy despite feudal rules that restricted many kinds of capital flows that the elite of that new capitalist class were able to influence the existing governments to remove the feudal restrictions. The exact thing that you say is "weird" and doesn't seem to be capitalism working as intended is the origin and essence of capitalism, and the thing which motivated its early critics to bother criticizing -- and in the process naming -- capitalism.
I sincerely can't understand what are they apologizing for.

After reading both articles I have the feeling they were expecting an self serving circle jerk and when instead they got called out, sometimes with pretty good fair points they panicked.

Now they apologize for something to someone.

I really wonder the true power that some people might have behind the scenes, but i'm sure this whole thing stinks.
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> Stewart Baker, being a former lawyer, might simply be arguing in this tradition.

Congress and the court of public opinion have no judges to sanction "lawyers" for misbehaving. The sanctions [are supposed to] come in the form of loss of credibility and people not listening to you anymore. The argument that everyone shouldn't stop listening to him because he's just arguing like a lawyer would literally break the entire political process -- which appears to be what has happened, and it needs to stop.
I've just realised you can probably use the tennis leagues for table tennis if it's just an in-office thing? The scoring would work well for both
I was hoping someone might catch the tongue lodged firmly in my cheek...
Based on the comment by aikah (above), I suspect they apologized because what they were discussing isn't technical and had no place on such a blog.
That doesn't seem entirely true. If most people didn't need money to live, they would be less willing to sign up for "bullshit jobs", meaning employers would have to provide more enticing compensation, potentially resulting in a reduction in people working such meaningless jobs.

In other words, the job market is currently supply driven, but that is due to the fact that demand is inelastic -- everyone needs money to live.

ETA: There is also an indirect effect through public policy: politicians will not want to pass legislation that reduces the number of jobs, since that would increase unemployment figures, making them look bad. Of course, the fact that high unemployment figures are bad is a result of people needing to work to live.
Ohh, the naming suddenly makes more sense... though I'm entirely unfamiliar with Toy Story,

Is there any way to tell (from the names) which are newer versions of Debian?

Personally, give me version numbers any day ;)
Click : http://www.techworm.net/2014/11/apple-may-get-banned-russia....
I've had the same problem too. Focus on one project and work on it at least 30 minutes every day. It will be much easier to get motivation once you'll see progress
doesn't microsoft have a similar program with colleges for the last 10-15 years or so?
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Backtesting[1] is really critical when deciding on whether to use a given technical indicator.

I've read too many books and articles, and heard too many anecdotes that make some technical indicator sound fantastic. But until you backtest it (and then forward test it) against a large amount of data, and make sure you're not curve-fitting, I don't think you can have much confidence in it actually working in the real world in the long run (though you may get lucky and have it work for a brief period of time).

For backtesting, the best tool I've found is AmiBroker[2]. It's orders of magnitude faster than any other backtesting tool that I've found, and lets me backtest mountains of data against any indicator I can dream up within seconds or minutes, and then go on to the next one. It's pretty awesome (though kind of quirky in that its programming language is array-based). Anyway, highly recommended.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtesting

[2] - http://www.amibroker.com/
When Does It Make Sense for a Startup to Hire a PR Agency?
I'm ready for Texas to follow suite. You think corn, wheat, cotton, cows, and oil are profitable? Wait till the congressmen and farmers understand how valuable MJ is as a cash crop, I predict legalization even in our red state within a decade.
Buying from our website is not the only option. We have different forms and there are many ways to get in touch if anyone wants to buy. In fact we have customers from 120 countries and have been operational for more than 12 years now. So if you want to buy, you will easily find a way. Also, I have numbers to prove what I am saying.
Can I be really cynical here? I might rephrase this "Too many kids quit science because they're wise as well as smart".

I've been on this hobby horse for a while here on HN, and I'm worried people are getting tired of me. But seriously, think about it. I don't have attrition rate numbers for typical undergraduate STEM degrees, but I do know that undergrads don't drop out of Economics or Poly Sci or Literature to major in CS, Engineering, Physics, and so forth. Where I do have data, look at attrition rates for graduate schools, especially at the elite level. A typical attrition rate for an elite Law or Medical school is below 1%. A typical attrition rate for an elite Engineering or Science PhD program is 35-50%! MS programs aren't s studied, but nation wide, attrition rates are about 33% (I'd have to dig though my HN comments to find the cite for that one, and it was behind a paywall).

So, considering how difficult all this is, outcomes must be much better for those STEM grads, right? Well, no, not really. CS is a good major at the undergrad level, and grads do pretty well. But again, at the elite level, top software developers, even from elite CS schools with grad degrees, just don't pull it in like dermatologists or radiologists. I read a pretty heartbreaking story about a woman who was denied the right to use sick leave for maternity leave from her grad program. My cousin, a radiologist, worked part time (20 hour weeks) for a while when she had a kid, and she still pulled down more than my salary as a developer. I know another woman who is an emergency medicine physician who did the same thing. They are so, so, so much better off not going into science. A RAND study found that the American aversion to STEM graduate degrees in favor of professional degrees is economically rational and shouldn't be a head scratcher. The head scratcher is why people still act like the only thing we need to do to get more people into science is "make it cool", or "improve middle school math", and so forth.

We have got to stop acting like there's something surprising here. Science gets kids who are very smart and utterly devoted but perhaps lacking in wisdom, and who just can't believe that they might be in the bottom half of a cohort with high grades in STEM coursework and test scores above 95%ile. Or, alternatively, they are students who don't have these other options (US med and law schools are not nearly as accessible to international students as engineering and science PhD programs are). So if the "professions" are cut off to you because you aren't a US citizen, your decision to go into a graduate STEM program (especially if it fast tracks you to US residency) may be rational in a way that wouldn't hold for someone who already possesses US citizenship (who typically shun science PhD programs).
As one of the maintainers in question, I'd absolutely mirror this whole statement: if any of the image upstreams have an important update available that isn't applied, we're very interested in rectifying that.
I see what you mean about the robots: productivity goes up, but we always find new things to consume.

But

1. Is there a limit to how much we can consume? Look at the super rich. They have more money then they know what to do with, so they stash it in hedge funds. The middle class drives consumption more than the rich. Leads me to think there's a point where consumption doesn't grow with your income.

2. The bullshit jobs discussed in the article are not about creating novel and scares things to consume. Advertising, corporate law, etc, has an arms-race element. Companies spend more on advertising to keep up with their competitors.
At what life expectancy? And, again, what happened if they were injured?
1) Mozilla's stated mission is an Open Web. Any society has culture, and technology certainly does. Deciding not to talk about culture is a cultural choice.

2) Ignoring GamerGate is basically tacit approval. It's a banner used to harass people over the flimsiest and stupidest of reasons.

You can stick your fingers in your ears and ignore it if you want. That's kind of a shitty move but ultimately your prerogative. But to say that nobody should talk about it because you don't want to hear about it? Who says that's your decision to make?

Edit for replies:

Ignoring harassment of others doesn't make it go away. In fact all it does is allow harassment to go unchallenged.

I don't expect people to go actively confront people on whether they think gamergate is dumb or not, but if your position is "i don't want to talk about it" or "i don't know, maybe both sides have good points" then you need to reexamine what you think living together what other human beings means.

Gamergate is a fucking stupid reason to harass anybody. Anybody who is neutral or pro-gamergate needs to contend with that fact.
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Your local county clerk or registrar of voters should have the full results. Ballots are usually managed on a county level, and that's where most news sources go to get their results.

For example, Alameda County (Oakland) results are here:

http://www.acgov.org/rov/current.htm
Ah, I disagree. I think that if you are in one of those jobs and continue to justify your existence and the existence of the job, you are just reinforcing it.

For example, I know I am in one of those jobs so I tendered my resignation a few months ago and will be gone in December. Hopefully no one else fills it.
Exploring real-time geospatial relationships between data.

Tech: Kafka, Apache Camel, Storm.

Recently started as part of the hackzurich hackathon; essentially: easy access to geo-analytics using existing datasets. Quite similar to the ArcGIS Server (with pluggable Geo-data feeds) in theory.

Demo from the hackathon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2TkuzsUG9U (in this version: map tweets with mentions to origin + destination, analyse for sentiment -> show sentiment towards a certain area)
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It's a lot easier to stay focused on physical jobs, if only because they keep your blood flowing.

In contrast, office employees chug a lot of stimulants every day (coffee) and still manage to spend the afternoon fighting off drowsiness.
Sort of an orbital Katamari Damacy.
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Well, racism and religious fundamentalism.
Looks crystal clear on my retina macbook pro running yosemite. Might be an OSX specific fix however since HiDPI is way more common in the mac world.
Not necessarily! Suppose a bunch of noise traders are piling into a stock because all seven green lights are on in the software they bought for 29.95 from an infomercial. Let's take as an assumption that this algorithm has no idea what it's doing. The smart money thing to do would be to buy now (since investors are going to keep buying as they notice their text alerts or sound alarms or whatever tells them to buy the stock) then sell again knowing full well you are driving the price further from fundamentals in the short term. The best response to past irrationality is to trade against it. The best response to future irrationality is to trade with it. That irrational behavior might be forecast-able should not be a huge surprise.

Momentum is a well established empirical regularity in stock prices. Knowing this, you trade with the momentum at then trade against it later. This does not help momentum go away.
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