skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a female and ambitious person whose first pregnancy wasn't at a "convenient" time, I totally get it.

I wasn't the CEO of the company I worked at, but Architect (and Director) and we were working on major overhaul of our product. My son was born right around the Release timeframe. All I could do was design and plan and prepare my team for any last minute emergencies. Like her, my energy levels in last 2 months also were not what I wanted. Everyone in my team had worked our asses off and I felt guilty of not being productive enough in last 2 months and being away right when they would need me if things went downhill. Many of the design decisions were mine and if things went wrong I did not want my team to be hounded by our customers and execs.

Being an employee who is responsible only for himself/herself vs. being responsible for a team(s) is different and if you were not able to time your absence in the right way, it feels even worse.

I have come to realize that our cultural norms have a big role to play in how we (females) treat ourselves. We don't expect/want any special favors at work, but we also expect ourselves to do everything our moms and grandmoms did. It's all about being able to figure out what makes us happy and work to achieve that. It took me a while but I know that I will be miserable if I did not work the way I do and that will not be good for my son either.

For me, it's dejavu again as I just learned today that I am 3 months pregnant. And I joined a startup 4 months ago, and we drafted up a release plan of our first major version to be 6 months from now. Go figure.
This comment touches on an important issue. Hypercompetition at work[1], in other words, leads to local, not globsl maximization.

[1] You stop to tie your shoelaces and someone will subtly hint your contributions to the company are in marked decline this quarter. etc
Just because you can afford to subsidize something doesn't mean you should. HR has a purpose inside Google, it has an output (payroll, disputes) fair to the input ($$$). Google News would take in $$$ and return nothing.
This case is less "Google News is not accessible to people in Spain" and more "Google News can no longer publish content originated in Spain." The effect may be similar because Spaniards often want Spanish content, but what's happening seems different to your characterization.
This is one example of what happens when the population gives absolute power to a single political party: lobbying paradise. We spaniards have the politicians we deserve.
Oh, thanks! I didn't know about it. But it is still very difficult to know which fork is more active. For example, see this: https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/network/members
Just in case you'd like to look at their financials before donating, they are at faqs.org [1]. I couldn't find the official IRS Form 990 online.

[1] http://www.faqs.org/tax-exempt/CA/Internet-Archive.html#anal...
You are at a disadvantage relating to and working with someone of the opposite gender compared to someone who had their mother around more often then not.
Sounds reasonable. I did just have to use them as "backup of last resort" to recover a web site. A little scraping turned "sorry, its gone", into "web site is back online".
Oh, have they started making good food? I've had pieces of plastic fork in my food, which itself was actually bitter tasting. When they got the order right. They rebranded with a hip paint job to keep up with Clover when it showed up and stole all the customers.

Friendly Toast/Cambridge Brewing Company is a nice spot. Area IV could be awesome. Flour and Miracle of Science are the best.
All of the questions you've listed are reasons for further study and analysis and the publication of the results of such.

They are not reasons for criminal penalties for END USERS who choose to proceed without that data. If a doctor proceeds without that data, sure - they're in a position of trust.

But to throw someone in jail because they injected something into their own body that they personally believed (even erroneously) would help them is complete lunacy.

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself." —Jimmy Carter
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We've been using Buttercoin for a little while now- very pleased with the service so far!
There's no consistency or reason to be found in this, the approach is insanity. What they'll end up doing is jumping from one hot stove to another to another, policy is being made up as they go along based on consequences and political pull.
Bulk coffee doesn't yield revenues of $1.00 per cup.

Clients get the convenience of an all-in-one machine for all their caffeinated drink needs, Keurig got $4.358 billion in revenue in 2013.
Dr. Mark Burgess just blogged "Why I stopped caring about peer review, and learned to love the work". http://markburgess.org/blog_peer.html
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If you look at the MDBM page you'll notice that they currently benchmark against LevelDB, BerkeleyDB, and Kyoto Cabinet. What I was suggesting involves the same theme but better, newer competition.

I agree that it's an apples to oranges comparison in any case.
Yet they're already spending money on Google News: programmers, servers, electricity. So obviously they're getting something out of it, right? There is a purpose to Google News, whether it's tracking cookies or something else; they're not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.
I'm one of the founders/CTO.

Our main difference from Coinbase is that we have an order book and real-time trading. Coinbase is great for people that want to buy some bitcoin at a fixed price and don't mind waiting a few days to get them. We focus more on businesses and traders that need to buy and sell bitcoin in real time. Adding USD is also very fast with us, usually 1 or 2 days. I think that's slightly faster then Coinbase, or was last I checked (unless you add a credit card for instant buy with lower limits). It doesn't matter as much in Coinbase's model, since they're fronting cash to lock in a price.
Are they claiming the service was unavailable, unreliable, poor etc. Or just saying, hey we forgot so we'd like to have our money back?

Did they use the service for 12 months? To me it is two different things if they had the account but hadn't used it, I might be more inclined to say refund 3 months just to keep them reasonably happy and make it easy on myself. If they used the account all the way up to the end, then I would likely not be very accommodating on any refund, unless you messed up somehow which it doesn't sound like.

Overall, they are responsible for canceling timely which is not your problem.

Would you get your money back if you called up the cable company and said, hey sorry I didn't watch TV for the last 12 months, so I'd like my money back please. It is the same thing they are asking you to do.
Are we only allowed to say good things about Google in here?
Yeah, I guess he can say a lot based on replays and Elo. Still, I feel like many people would feel awkward saying that they are better than their peers - even if it's true. Well, maybe that's partly a cultural thing; I'm sure it varies in terms of how uncomfortable people are about that sort of thing.
The first case intrigues me. Are you saying that if a package A has a symbol Foo, and another package B has a symbol Foo, how would I override only package B's?

Same for the second scenario? Isn't the symbol Foo essentially shadowed, depending on the package?
Since approximately forever.
Many states (e.g. California) do provide paid family leave.
I think this would be much more monopolistic if Google charged publishers for the right to be listed in Google News. If Google News was arbitrarily picky about content they listed, that would be akin to censorship.
As an American I watch Europe pretty closely, and I've seen some things that are worrisome such as increasing amounts of fascism (anti-freedom / anti-privacy)... but, things seem to be getting pretty freaky almost everywhere, freedom seems to be on the retreat globally.

For Spain, speaking sociologically, how long can an advanced country have 30%-35% real unemployment, before there are severely destabilizing effects that tumble out of that (culturally, politically and so on). Greece is facing a similar context and similar extreme unemployment problems. I would think it dramatically increases the risk of getting dangerous politicians that start making fantastical promises, with voters increasingly willing to buy into them.

There has been a near total collapse across Europe of the system of promises that were made, that support the premise of the modern welfare state. Only a few countries have been spared (either partially or totally), such as Norway, Sweden, Finland, etc. France's economy for example is smaller than it was in 2004 inflation adjusted. GDP for the whole of Europe is still below 2007 levels. Even Finland's per capita GDP hasn't increased since 1990 inflation adjusted. How long can such stagnation continue before there are severe consequences.
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What is a "fair market in snippets"? I'm having trouble imagining a market of companies bidding on being able to include a sentence from a news article.

This seems much more like the reverse, where indeed the government is trying to prevent individual publishers from benefiting over others by not charging for snippets of their stories, but it seems much more in service of propping up the existing oligopoly of the news world.
Good for Google. Greedy, thieving socialist governments have no place in the free world. This new Spanish law stinks of "Anti Dog eat Dog" legislation. Downvote me to hell, but Who is John Galt?
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Just FYI, being home around the first few months isn't that important. If I were doing it over again, I'd take the first few weeks off to help my wife, then a longer month or so when the baby is a little older (3-9mo).

Really the baby is barely conscious of its surroundings for the first 3 months. Humans have a 12 month gestational period, it's just they get pushed out 3 months early because otherwise our big heads wouldn't fit...
Didn't we just have Skeleton on the front page? With a nice long discussion?
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Yesterday's discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8725845
Ephemeral P2P site hosting has potential, though I disagree with the route Project Maelstrom is taking. Another approach would be to try an in-browser implementation, using:

* WebRTC for the P2P "glue" (i.e. webtorrent[0]/instant.io[1])

* Google Caja[2] for the sandbox

* Custom protocol handlers[3] for URLs/URIs

- <a href='eph://[DHT hash]'>

- Handler unavailable? https://eph.io#[DHT hash]

You basically just package everything (images, JS, HTML) into a single DHT resource, and share the eph:// URI. For long-term hosting, setup a webtorrent-compatible seedbox somewhere in Europe.

I've only gotten as far as static P2P site hosting, but if I were to speculate:

With a distributed database and a rethink on isomorphic JS, you could build fully-auditable "aether-hosted apps". Like cloud hosting, but more buzzwordy! It'll become even more powerful (but less auditable) if homomorphic encryption ever becomes a thing.

For such a DB, perhaps a P2P document store similar to CouchDB/PouchDB, with aspects of context-aware networking. The user auth table could include public keys for authorized users, and handle modifications through a signed changelog. You could probably get pretty far through a signature chain (users delegating users), though at some point it'd be so collision-prone that a superuser would need to regenerate the database and re-sign the contents. I'm not really a DB guy, though; there are obvious situations where such an approach is unsuitable, plus there might be a simpler DHT-like way to do it.

Short URL's could be handled using a proof-of-work-based DDNS system (Web Crypto API for PoW, WebRTC for P2P). A more simplistic approach to URI->URL is simply to convert into human-readable strings[4].

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[0]: https://github.com/feross/webtorrent

[1]: https://github.com/feross/instant.io

[2]: https://developers.google.com/caja/

[3]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web-based_protocol_han...

[4]: https://neftaly.github.io/radixWord/
The Problem of Continuous Playback
If we look at Facebook they have an issue, people sometimes want to listen to a song on a youtube video but they also want to navigate away to other places. Recently Facebook has changed the way youtube videos are shown by making them open in a new tab when clicked. This either due to some youtube policy or because they are trying to fix the problem of continuous playback by having the song played in a different tab.

If we look at Soundcloud they are doing it right by having a song keep playing even after navigating to another place. This is possible because Soundcloud is a one big javascript application instead of different pages. But this is also possible because they use their own player, what about youtube iframes?

I tried tackling this problem on my site http://gsick.com by listening to youtube iframe state changes using their iframe API. By controlling this I was able to first fix another common problem, stopping a video automatically before playing the next one. Here's an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIc-6ZzKtVc . But my initial idea couldn't be fulfilled, which is having the playing iframe moved to another place while navigating somewhere else. I was thinking on having a little youtube box sticked to the side while navigating away allowing continuous playback but apparently iframes reload when they move inside the DOM and apparently there's no way around it (except having position fixed iframes and changing their position but that was out of the question in my case)
Check what card they were using . . . determine how far back they could request chargebacks and refund to that point or one billing cycle farther back . . . most services will only refund back one billing cycle so I agree this request is extreme . . . Good luck in 2015.
Archive.org has been an absolute godsend for historians and others who use rare books. Case in point: when I was doing PhD research in Lisbon three years ago, I had to search several rare book shops and ended up paying 80 euros for a very rare 19th century Portuguese book I needed for my research. Here it is on archive.org in multiple editions, all text-searchable: https://archive.org/search.php?query=duarte%20ribeiro%20de%2...
For what to follow?
Yeah, I have heard the occasional horror story like year, but they seem to have things mostly under control. I haven't been eating there all that long, but word on the street is it's definitely better than back in the day.

Definite second to all of your other suggestions as well. I'm glad to see HNers by and large seem to have good taste in Kendall area food joints.
It can be a bandwidth. Setting up the application and/or bogons as a carrier of some scheme or other is up to the writer. Echo cancellation fun, cross-modulation, gain masking; hey, do it in A/B testing.
I can't imagine Spain makes up a large majority of Google News's traffic.
Is it me or have we put work too high up on our priorities? Think about it, one is not only an employee but, also a father/mother, a sister/brother, and son/daughter, a citizen, a friend and so much more. If work consumes so much of our time, when will we be able to take care of our social responsibilities?
No, talking about an air popper. Have ran about 26 pounds through it over the last year (92 grams at a time!). I might try other methods in the future. Thought about those $300 drum rollers, but really, I have been happy enough with my popper.

Hmm, I also just realized I drank 26 pounds of coffee this year, awesome.
This is so good. I'm not sure how idiosyncratic my reaction is, but this kind of fluid, beer in one hand (and "go look up the axioms on Wikipedia") mode of presentation is such an amazing way to introduce and motivate a topic. Just loved this.
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As is always the case, the First Amendment does not give universal and blanket permission. There is are multiple tensions. The appeals court in Dendrite v. Doe guidelines for this matter are:

> (1) the plaintiff must make good faith efforts to notify the poster and give the poster a reasonable opportunity to respond; (2) the plaintiff must specifically identify the poster's allegedly actionable statements; (3) the complaint must set forth a prima facie cause of action; (4) the plaintiff must support each element of the claim with sufficient evidence; and (5) "the court must balance the defendant's First Amendment right of anonymous free speech against the strength of the prima facie case presented and the necessity for the disclosure of the anonymous defendant's identity."

In case of defamation, there's already a pretty high barrier for prima facie cause of action, and relatively broad protection for anonymous speech.

There's also little special about online communications. Anonymous speech, and the difficulties in balancing the different factors, have existed since before the founding of the country, when anonymous pamphlets like 'Common Sense' were used to press the call for independence.

Regarding "the site [must] take responsibility for the statements it publishes", this is wrong. Otherwise HN must be responsible for everything posted here, and we would have no HN. The relevant law is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which grants pretty broad immunity to service providers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio... .

So: 1) it's well-established that anonymous commenters cannot say whatever with impunity, 2) defamation in this case is little different than the many previous cases on the topic, 3) no one seriously believes you can create a site and declare it above the law (assuming no jurisdiction problems), 4) existing case law is on the side of PubPeer, and 5) CDA gives PubPeer the ability to host anonymous comments without automatically being the target of a defamation suit.
Google has started all sorts of programs and then shut them down because they didn't turn out as hoped. I don't see why Google News losing money, and, say, becoming especially non-economical or burdensome to the company and being shut-down, would be any different.
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And where the passengers only want to ride it from the top to the bottom.
You are projecting. I am under no such illusion. I've lived and worked in the Bay Area at startups and in Houston, Austin, and Chicago at startups. I'm not saying the ecosystem is the constraint on entrepreneurial success. I'm saying there's something that would attract TechStars and Houston is missing it. My guess is community. I assert that ecosystem helps more than you appreciate.
Jumping (back) onto the Kendall food comment train:

Other places I haven't seen mentioned:

-- Squeaky Beaker

-- Boca Grande

-- Take-out from Similans

Also, what happened to the MIT food court and when is it coming back? I want terrible Chinese food again.
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Article speculates about it and does not provide any data. Anyway, it's difficult to argue that kids in black families with 200k+ income have less access to resources than kids in white families living below poverty line.

Besides it does not really matter - the fact is that blacks in Africa have much lower average IQ than average in most other countries. It could explain lack of positive examples of countries in Africa developing as fast as China, SKorea or many other countries in other part of the world.
Holy cow. So if I understand you right, you're saying not only that a parent who keeps a steady job is effectively absent, but that for that reason it's important to assign people to one category or the other at birth?
I am reading through the official law and essentially it is saying that the Spanish government finds this necessary to reinforce intellectual property protections, the ip here being the news/stories. The thing that isn't clear from the law was whether anyone had actually complained about what Google was doing or whether Google was actually found violating any ip laws in place(it doesn't seem so). The whole thing is 40 pages so I probably won't read it all. Can anyone clarify if there had been some sort of issue here?

edit: Something that sticks out is that the law dictates how any agreement involving ip is to be done even if previous agreements are in place in order to cover costs "equitably". Yet I can't see how Google isn't already beneficial. The wording suggests Google would be causing damages since damages can be included in payments under this law.
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Well, they are not just removing all Spanish news sources from the Spanish Google news site, they are removing the Spanish Google news site, which seems pretty consistent with his characterization.
Not sure if you're referring to Google making money off Google News, but if so, the post mentions that it never puts ads on the News page, and only drives traffic to the sites with content
'The district attorney offered him 20 years if he pled guilty, but Jelani refused.'

'The violence changed him. "My experience on Rikers Island, that’s when I had to show, like not just be myself," he says. "I had to turn into a beast."'

'Henry said he struggled at times to avoid taking the guilty plea.'

'Four months later, with no move by the DA to proceed, his case was finally dismissed, almost two years to the day it began. The DA has refused to share the document that outlines the reason for dismissing Jelani’s case with him or his lawyer. To day, there has been no explanation and no apology for Jelani’s detention.''

'Unfortunately, Henry’s troubles from the arrest aren’t over. He is now facing assault charges stemming from a fight in prison. "He was innocent when he went in there, and now he might come out with a charge for defending himself," says Alethia.'

That, taken together, is one of the best (worst) indictments of our penal system. It is clearly designed not to rehabilitate, not even to penalize, but to oppress, and to self-perpetuate itself by creating 'criminals', either those who have been turned criminal by the penal system itself, or those who have been given plea deals with the deck stacked against them, regardless of their innocence. We need reform, very, very badly.
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How can a partner know you are not going to compete with him/her? I mean a lot of the recent services you guys launched (Essentials, Alchohol, Flowers) show some kind of vertical integration. What if one of your partner grows like crazy - will you compete with them the way Amazon does with its 3rd party sellers?

Great news otherwise. This will give Uber a run for their money.
If you're going to make me defend my point of view the least bit of courtesy you can do is read my comment properly.
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My son-in-law is a start-up CEO. He took a couple of weeks of paternity leave after my stepdaughter had an emergency C-section, and in general has his productivity compromised by the demands of having a baby. So be it.

Admittedly, his company is doing fewer, bigger things than the authors' (earlier stage, B2B product). But were things different in that regard, I'm sure his plan would still be to delegate, to devote as much time to helping his team as he could, and to not beat himself up about participating less in the company than he otherwise would want to.

I also hope that my assumptions are eventually tested; I want him to have a hugely successful company and I also want more grandchildren! :)
Well, easier to follow rules would be:

1) Never sign up for any social networking service with your real name

2) Never talk to the cops

3) Never let photos of yourself appear on the Internet for any reason.

Honestly, those are rules everyone should use.