skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely an issue that will be raised, so I don't know why you're downvoted. Ideally, people would realize that it's roughly the equivalent of using public electricity for unsavory things.
You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?
Yup. It's all about proximity to strong universities. If there's one nearby, the local CCs will be excellent. However, this is not the typical case.
> If you are trying to optimize for price, buying pre-made meals is so much more expensive than learning to cook some basic meals and buying the ingredients.

Depends how much you make. It takes me less than 15 minutes billable minutes to earn a healthy takeout lunch. It would definitely take longer than 15 minutes to cook/clean/buy groceries not to mention I enjoy my job a lot more than food preparation.
It's way more asymmetric than that. The US government is in a better position to work for Americans' interests than those of foreigners; the Mexican government has a comparative advantage in working for Mexican citizen interests, etc. Just like how you are better at spending money for yourself than for others (and the Soviet Union collapsed largely because it tried to ignore this law of nature).

All existing proposals by the open borders crowd for the US with political traction are severely negative-sum for this reason. (I've seen a few ideas from them which are not, but they have essentially zero chance of being implemented.) If one wants to devote themselves to helping foreigners today, there are far, far better ways, like training/employing them in their home countries, or working toward constructive political change there.
One of the difficulties in this is that experts also anthropomorphise this, even though they know that it is not technically correct. Similar to how a programmer might say that the compiler would get angry.
Keeping Upverter Up
>They don't understand that their arguments could be levied against any scientific theory, including ones that they accept. That they can do this means they don't understand how science works.

Exactly, which is why epistemological arguments won't win the evolution versus creation debate.
'2.6 million screen loads' wtf tech crunch?
I'm curious if there are any HN readers that don't believe that evolution is the best explanation for the current state of life on this planet (other than me). Any IDers (intelligent design) out there?
This is one of the reasons I've bought so much stuff from Amazon (or used Amazon's payment service). They have my address, they have my card, it's fast as easy.

I don't have to go create a new custom account on someone's store, re-enter that info, possibly make a typo, pull out my CC because I don't have the number memorized, etc.

I'm willing to pay Amazon more than some other stores because, even ignoring shipping, there is much less friction.
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I imagine it's still classified, meaning nobody could admit it if they wanted to.
Samsung Blackberry clone (Android Gingerbread): http://www.samsung.com/ph/consumer/mobile-devices/smartphone...
The problem is that this can be very skewed, especially for younger people by their economic background.
This means it's another time to buy in. I made a ton of money off the last debasement; I bet this one will be incredible.

I still consider the coins undervalued at $800/btc.
If you haven't had trouble with Linux, I'd say you could manage in FreeBSD.

We've prepared tutorials that can help you get started with the basics: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tags/freebsd
All the same, I have a large amount of trust in my own driving. I trust my driving more than my own programming. And I sure as hell trust my code more than some sketchy offshore team's. It's only a matter of time before the first car segfaults.

Plus it's a huge security risk. Cars are internet-connected these days.
Google rolling out updated Drive app for Mac
Poor news for Word Lens
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.questvisua...
Whoops! Sorry. Fixed.
Ok, so what is the issue with:

> artificial colors, preservatives and sweeteners

I understand that they are a signal that what you are about to consume has been processed, and is likely unhealthy on balance; do you see an inherent problem with these ingredients?
How are they censored? Do you have any examples of this?
How much would peace cost?
Specs have ambiguities and bugs that may be resolved by standardizing implementations' behavior.
Why poor news? Google bought Quest Visual (the company behind Word Lens) some time ago.
If you're trying to make the argument of diminishing returns for spending on education, that's pretty non-controversial.

I don't think chart B1.1 helps you make that case, I think per student numbers are probably a wash to that end unless several other factors are taken into account. Of the countries in that study, we're number 5 for primary school spending per student, number 4 for secondary school spending, and number 1 for tertiary spending (and number 3 for total spending if we include educational "services"? Not sure what that means.) That data isn't painting a clear picture of America overspending on education.

We also attract a large number of international students and they bring some money with them, some of them bring a lot of it.
you need some skills to bring the truck to a successful stop

True, but that's skill most drivers don't have. Add in-wheel pressure and temperature sensors-- plus scheduled maintenance checkups and that problem mostly goes away. There are also numerous examples of adaptive control systems landing aircraft after major failures (quadcopters with 3 props, planes with 1 wing) that humans can't handle.

You bring up good difficulties. Still-- most of those problems have solutions and I sure hope it's sooner than 50 years from now we see self-driving long-haul trucks on the road.
It's going to be a long time before keyboards and mice are replaced for things like spreadsheets, graphic design, coding, or writing. If all you're doing is texting or facebook, sure -- tablets are great. But any sort of precision work will require precision input-devices for the forseeable future...
Nope: http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/blackberry-responds...

WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Jan. 14, 2015) - BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ:BBRY)(TSX:BB) ("BlackBerry") is aware of certain press reports published today with respect to a possible offer by Samsung to purchase BlackBerry. BlackBerry has not engaged in discussions with Samsung with respect to any possible offer to purchase BlackBerry. BlackBerry's policy is not to comment on rumors or speculation, and accordingly it does not intend to comment further.
As a non-native speaker, I like when people correct me; it makes me sad to see them downvoted. On the other hand, it could be argued that since I already write well enough to be understood, I should disregard further improvements, but I just can't agree with that.
My experience was that math & physics were very good. Basically the first two years of a standard state uni. curriculum for a quarter or less of the price. The CS courses were useless, all of the material I'd already easily learned by programming.

Taking a couple years of community college classes while HS age is a good investment. You can satisfy many of the general ed/lower division requirements & focus on your upper division major courses, when you transfer to a uni.
Moloch open source PCAP system
Part of what makes keyboard + mouse so efficient is that you're sitting at a desk while using it. I've never been quite sure how a phone + keyboard/mouse is supposed to work. And if you plug it into a screen and sit at a desk then why not just use a computer?
We don't need to make it free and if the answer is some kind of "more taxes" then I am sorry but no thanks.
Major YMMV. My Note3/Chrome displays everything here just fine...
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HN doesn't have a mobile-specific interface. It renders fine on a phone/tablet, but you have to do a lot of annoying zooming/scrolling.
And of course, try it with the wrong metal and you get very different results.
Woah, nice work with the UM2 pick and place! Do you have any write-ups, resources or even just a BOM?
Woa! New Relic looks great. Two downsides that I see is having a binary on my system and the web interface isn't self-hosted...

On the plus side, looks like I get a free upgrade because I'm using Rackspace. However, I get the feeling that they haven't tested it a lot using Windows 8.1 with 1600x900 resolution in Firefox (but I'll submit a screenshot to them)
In fact, the blog post subheading for that section is "Instant translation with Word Lens"

I'm curious if that part has improved with integration with Google's Translate. The video-based translated word substitution was amazing, but my understanding was that it was doing a very simple translation in the original app, essentially a word at a time.
Yes when I attended CC some of my instructors taught during the day at a private university that is ranked very high. One would always joke about how we were getting the same education as the students at the private school but for a third of the price since it was the same curriculum he taught there.
Before any more "How silly, he had to make the iron look appealing to get people to do something healthy" comments arise, I invite readers to consider how many of you have paid $15 or more for a BPA-free glass/stainless steel/double-walled plastic reusable water bottle. Did you really need that over a simple plastic water bottle? Or a cup? My guess would be no. But you did it because you're trying to get yourself to drink more water, and perhaps that requires getting a vessel that looks or feels aesthetically pleasing to use habitually.

Disclaimer: I bought an Ello glass bottle from Target less than 48 hours ago for this very purpose--to make myself drink more water. I don't consider shaping iron into the shape of a fish all that different.
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> when an 18 wheeler blows out a tire, you need some skills to bring the truck to a successful stop, but even more skills and equipment to effect the repair.

An automated truck won't need a conventional cab. It could essentially be a powered sled that rigidly attaches to a trailer with much less forward projection. This would be easier to control in emergency stops.
In a keynote speech, Richard "Dickie" George, former technical director for the NSA Information Assurance Director, flat out denied it claiming that they were non-deterministically generated random numbers[1]. He also talked a little bit about how Dual EC became a public standard to begin with[2]. If you have the time, I think the whole video is worth a watch - he goes into the history of DES, espionage between the US and Soviets, getting cryptographic equipment working in tanks, etc...

[1] http://vimeo.com/97891042 (jump to 57:53)

[2] Same video, jump to 30:14
I guess it's not obvious that you can change X... oops.
Good abstractions isolate complexity from the application developer at the expense of the library author. This is true of every abstraction. I find your comment strange. You essentially wrote: just write code that works or is trivially debuggable- true and entirely unhelpful.
I especially have to zoom to have any chance at hitting the right upvote button.

It's a bit frustrating that this is firmly not going to change.
I believe it was proved that a backdoor did exist- that there's a private key which can be used to backdoor it- but not that the NSA actually held that key. But, who else would?
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_s...

A leak confirmed that the NSA paid RSA to use that particular algorithm in BSAFE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_BSAFE#Dual_EC_DRBG_backdoor
I would rather have a phone that's good at the things I use a phone for than one that's marginally less crappy at things that I use a PC for.
Honest question. Don't you think this kind of AI is precisely the AI that Gates, Musk, and Hawking are warning against?
Apples system is just reusing already existing payment technology. Its closer to Google Pay (ignoring the phone side security aspects here).

And it is entirely worth using it. Even from my limited experience using it (walgreens and lunds are the only places it currently has worked), it is miles better for paying things. No swipe, no receipt, no hassle with the stupid touch screens etc... I may not like the intervening data aspect of all electronic, but after using it its like the move from writing cheques to credit cards.

I hope those other places do say no to apple pay, I'm already planning on ignoring buying from them for their refusal to make my life simpler and get out of their store.
It would be interesting to have some more insights, like how many of rhw minority groups ( black or hispanic as the article says ) were funded, also more meaningful like:

Race/Sector of interest
Age/Sector of interest
Gender/Sector of interest
People with Higher Scholar degree/ Sector of interest
Startups funded by sector
Look, whether we like it or not, VCs prefer white or asian founders over black or hispanic founders. That's fact, not conjecture [1]. I understand that YC is an accelerator. It's also a cultural institution. Blacks and hispanics are at a disadvantage when raising because VCs DON'T evaluate strictly on merit; they evaluate on a whole host of characteristics, many of which are subject to bias.

The YC stamp of approval is a valuable badge when fundraising. I'd like to see them find a way to use this to combat the inherent bias that women, blacks, and hispanics face when fundraising.

[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital-demographics...
This circle could also apply to enterprises and startups.
We changed the title to the more accurate and neutral one suggested by the article's URL.
Never been to that site, but after only a brief review the site kind of gives me the creeps.

First I looked at "Popular Now", and alot of the specific campaigns looked somewhat legitimate, then I looked at "Near Me" and after several pages of campaigns noticed:

"85 - 96 of Thousands"

Granted the campaigns appearing seem to be coming primarily from 2 major cities, but "Thousands"? People seem to be really catching on to this "blind trust" and giving internet. Several were just outrageous, for example asking for $25k, and in return providing only a fuzzy portrait photo, and 1 small paragraph explanation.

Maybe it's just me, but IMO people asking for $25k for FREE should put a little more effort into the campaign info page.
How do I diagnose high ping times to wifi router?
A good way to think about it is to imagine a prism's dispersion of white light. There is clearly red and clearly orange but it gets tricky finding the place where "red becomes orange". The closer you look, the harder it is to choose a spot.
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Client wants me to be a cofounder
I work for a small software shop. One of my clients offered me a position as a cofounder after we'd worked together a bit, but I turned him down (all above the board and we just continued). I've even tried setting him up with another developer who he can trust, but he wasn't interested.

Yesterday he let me know he was open to basically any arrangement (equity and/or cash). He's my favorite client, we work well together, and I love the project. Still, in my heart of hearts I know I don't wanna leave where I'm at in the immediate future/go anywhere else full time. So we arrived at something along the lines of I work exclusively on that project one day a week, or whatever.

He doesn't want to hire anyone else at the shop I work for, and it would be easier for him to just pay me directly. That would be sweet, but its weird. Fundamentally though, direct to me or through the consulting company, I want to see the project successful. The referral came directly to me from a good friend. My company definitely doesn't want to give up any of my time, but at the end of the day I'm responsible for me so it's my call.

Not really sure what to do, on super good terms with everyone involved & my policy is & has been to keep everything out in the open.

So...take a 1/5 paycut and go on the side? Go through the company and let them chomp away a percentage without being able to contribute? Do it on a 'saturday'? Honestly I can probably start managing projects & instead of doing them and hold everything down (at the expense of some personal projects).

I'm new at this, I like building stuff and I don't have very much wisdom. Any advice or stories is appreciated!
I have my own LLC where I'm employed and just send an invoice every month. I found its the easiest way to handle taxes, health insurance and business expenses.
Small correction: The W15 applications did ask for gender.
Yeah, while I think community college is great, the one I attended (GCC, in AZ) basically felt like high school all over again. Horrible professors, worse students, boring (and ridiculously easy) material; I hated it so much that I ditched college for two years before deciding to go back to school at a university. As soon as I was taking university classes I started to wonder why I hadn't just started at a university to begin with. It's good to hear there's community colleges out there that emit the same level of passion in students/professors though.
One of his recently released apps is definitely for watch aficionados. High-end watches are a new interest/hobby that he picked up after he inherited a Rolex from his father. It's something that he enjoys and pursues with a passion.
I would love to live in a missile silo. Great insulation. No noise from your neighbors. Tornado warning? Not a problem. I can't think of any downsides!
Been using this for a minute, it's quite nice! Kudos to Nadim & team for a friendly and mostly intuitive UI, with some creative new ideas in the context of email/messaging.

A few initial questions:

1. Is any part of the communication forward secure? I can't imagine how the multiparty chat would be.

2. Using the avatar to verify cryptographic identity seems weak, mostly because I don't expect users will check it (it's only in the Contacts view, and it's unclear that it has that use). It resembles the placeholder avatars used on Github among other sites, which seems to suggest that it is not meaningful. So - can the Peerio server silently MITM my communications?

3. I'm not quite sure how the search works (still reading the code), but it seems like it must be searching the plaintext stored in the client's memory. How well will that scale?
Thanks - your answer is reasonable. What I was really looking for is a mechanism that demonstrates this:

"Animals appear to be delineated by clear species simply as a function of our perspective from a single time slice. If we could observe gradual change over millions of years, we would see many splitting branches and merging branches, branches that get further apart and then seed an explosion of many smaller branches (i.e. when say land animals split from birds), etc etc."

The idea of gradual change is fine to me - and the term species seems to create too much confusion. But the fact that gradual change over time can create seemingly distinct states (lets not call them species) still boggles me mind when I try to conceive of the mechanism. Is asking that question a red-herring or completely unreasonable ? In fact that is the part I find most fascinating. The fact that the change was gradual doesn't preclude from the fact that this gradual change did lead to states which were observed to be quite distinct. One doesn't preclude the other.

To explain more of where I am coming from: As a person who writes reasonably complex software for a living, I am amazed by the "software" in the brain if you will i.e. its remarkable cognitive capacity for many tasks that we are still in the process of replicating in AI. I find it hard to understand how this could arise as a step by step gradual change purely aided by a favorable set of environmental properties. So something to that effect would be really cool to understand (And even emulate or copy in our software development practices). I am a bit disappointed that there are no simulations that can be done or we don't understand the mechanisms well enough to do this.

For a very specific example, it would be cool to simulate "This is how the eye came into being.". Not just enumerating the commonalities between eyes of different species - I find the "commonality" argument as being "factual evidence" of origin of the eye very weak personally. I know its been accepted as fact by most or everyone else but something that would demonstrate the underlying "gradual" principles at work to evolve an eye for example would be uber-cool and satisfying in my book. I don't understand why this question is stupid or or unscientific.
I guess this this market of ultra-conservative customers are mostly US companies? I have hard time imagining companies in other countries getting into the habit of buying such kind if hardware?
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Along the same lines, just hope that nobody gets the bright idea to add color by coating them with lead-based paint.
It doesn't translate to indian english and to japanese english...
>A handful of Neurologists around the country.

But this is where we don't get the whole story; A handful of Neurologists could also be wrong but still have consensus. I want to see the reasoning behind their decisions because if an incomplete history was fed to these physicians, then of course they would come to the same conclusions. There could be selection bias, confirmation bias... all kinds of confounds that went into this. It's the classic '4 out of 5 doctors recommend X,' a statement that's meaningless.

Again, as I've said in a longer comment in this thread, there is a spectrum of competence in ANY field, but Medicine is very unique because there is a lot of broad knowledge that goes into the decision making process. Our jargon is immense for a reason, there's a lot of data that must be integrated. Whenever I read an article like this, I know I'm not getting the whole story because certain facts don't line up. Not to mention, I'd like to see the actual Pathology report because I don't buy the whole 'invading' the optic nerve statement. It sounds like something a surgeon would say immediately after the procedure like, "Wow, I'm glad we decided to do this, otherwise it would've been bad." It's screaming of confirmation bias.
> I don't understand why that's good news.

This is because of "implicit bias", wherein people discriminate against women and/or minorities unconsciously and unintentionally.

For example, here is an article demonstrating that orchestra auditions were subject to bias against women:

http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/orchestrating_...

I suspect that everyone (or nearly everyone, anyway) evaluating the auditions wanted the best musicians regardless of gender, but the linked study determined that when orchestras began using blind auditions, more women were offered positions.

In YC it is impractical to conduct "blind interviews", so that it is good practice for the partners to ensure that they aren't accidentally disadvantaging women and minorities.

Whether YC should actively prefer female and minority founders is, I believe, much more subjective.
If you're in the US, no it's not weird. If there are valid reasons for not relocating it's not even unreasonable.
Please don't hijack pinch-to-zoom gestures with javascript that loads random articles on your blog. (iOS mobilesafari). Thanks.
Yeah, looks like the courts agreed that municipalities, as a subsection of the state, are not considered an entity: http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2003/2003_02_1238
Agreed. Even as someone who has a ton of experience I struggle with this more than I care to admit.
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