skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm fairly sure it's possible to isolate dangerous people without putting these dangerous people somewhere they are likely to experience rape and/or torture (aka extended solitary confinement).
I think that is too fatalistic. You can opt-out of the massive data collection through voluntary oversharing, i.e. Facebook and such.

What remains is limited (and localized) enough that it can be fought through democratic and political means. Regulation and legislation can limit what the main players (public transport, banks, municipal governments, postal service, ISP's) can do.

This battle is still far from lost, at least outside the US. It's not a status quo, and many people, not just digital rights fringe groups, realize what's going on.
It's quite interesting.

There's one attribute of capitalism that I think is largely responsible for its success, and is likely the single largest factor that contributed to the USA's victory over the USSR:

Capitalism allows permission-free innovation.

In my opinion, markets get too much credit and are actually secondary to this. A market is just a way of performing goal-directed gradient descent and aggregating decision making. Markets are not by any means "efficient," and are highly vulnerable to getting stuck at local maxima like any other gradient descent algorithm.

I think the ability to engage in permission free innovation is actually a much more significant advantage than markets. You could nix the market and implement some kind of socialism and I think you'd still have a fast, innovative economy if you allowed people to negate the bureaucracy. I'm not saying markets don't have advantages, just that they're not a panacea.

I saw this when I worked as a government contractor. There was an incident within the org where I worked that had the effect of temporarily suspending the bureaucracy, and for that brief period of time it innovated like a small agile private company! Everything felt like it went vertical. Then the bureaucracy came back and all innovation halted. Now you had to ask permission, so nothing could happen.

Thing is: as the size of a corporation approaches "big," its internal procedures and politics start to resemble government. Microsoft, IBM, and yes even the venerable Google start to look a lot like government agencies internally. As they grow they take on a lot of government's problems, like sclerotic bureaucracy.

The meta-corp model avoids this by allowing individual "departments" to function with an extreme level of independence. It uses mechanisms like equity finance to capture upside while creating enough autonomy to allow permission-free innovation.
Interesting to see that "Everday Carry" now has six employees and revenue in excess of $1M [1]. Can't tell if it is just affiliate revenue, or if there is something more beyond Amazon and eBay affiliate programs.

[1] - http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/print-edition/2015/0...

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So a C# .net developer should know what?

Basic .net developer: (1 or more JS frameworks ex: Angular), HTML, JavaScript, CSS, C#, .net, LINQ, ORM(nHibernate), XML, SQL, T-SQL, …

Full stack: That plus, basic network administration (TCP-IP, BGP, routing tables?), basic windows administration (installation, security, back, scripts, deployment, troubleshooting), basic IIS administration (setup, matinee, troubleshooting), basic DB administration (deployment, troubleshooting, backups, clustering, profiling etc.), basic team foundation server administration, ...

Then to get an actual job you should know exactly the correct stack, including whatever wacky tools the team likes…

PS: And people wonder why they have trouble finding good developers.
Pwned in 7 seconds: Hackers use Flash and IE to target Forbes visitors
Wow I didn't know there was a website where people talk about all the things they carry around...
The "Clean" episode [1] of PBS's "How We got to now" explored how in one particular case drinking beer was preferred over drinking water. If I recall correctly (the video is no longer available for streaming) drinking water became contaminated and it was observed that regulars to a bar fared better health-wise, leading to the assumption that beer/alcohol was safer.

Whether that story fed the myth discussed in the above article or not, I don't know, but maybe it wasn't entirely baseless as it suggests.

[1] http://video.pbs.org/video/2365323193/
I agree, and think the bit about the boss really hits that lack of change home

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, except this one is very
concerned that you see him as a positive force in the universe.

Certain conversations can only be had in an echo chamber, at the expense of other discussions. It's easy to ask what does the Internet give us? but I think the author does a really good job describing what the Internet can take away. (s/Internet/Technology of Choice/g) But who wants to hear anything negative about the Internet? (..on the Internet, of all things) You could speak your mind, ..

But if you did that, you’d upset the prevailing good vibes and
come off like a sickly paranoiac in desperate need of some likes.
I don't know exactly what's going on, but I'm on a mediocre Obamacare plan that costs less than the author's plan. Even though it's in the most expensive drug tier, as far as I can tell Abilify would cost me $70 a month.

> I arrived in America just as Obamacare was rolling out. Since I couldn’t meet the deadline for insurance

Well it's been rolled out for a while now. Can't he switch now?
Lock pick laws vary from state to state. In the vast majority of states including CA, NY and my own CO possession of a set alone is not enough to prove criminal intent. Of course IANAL and some municipalities might have their own laws.

I usually carry a set in my bag and have not had any issues.
It's fine in most US states. Only one state (I forget which) has a general proscription on lockpicks. In many states, carrying lockpicks while committing a crime is illegal, but otherwise it's fine.
I think it's a story because of Molyneux. Peter Molyneux has failed to deliver completely for a long time.

With Godus, with Curiosity, it increasingly seems as though he failed to deliver even a finished game and in addition it seems as though he failed to even try.

For many gamers, it's the end of the final shred of Molyneux's respectability. People may snark about it, "Oh, what a surprise", but this was his last chance.

The royalty (or at least some prize) formed part of a concept that was at the heart of Curiosity - some grand, real, reward that justified all the cow-clicking nonsense. As such, it was an essential part of the game that people played. Meanwhile, Godus continues to languish without the promised features.

Comparing him with Shyamalan, this would be his Last Airbender. Not earth-shattering news that he messed it up completely, but final confirmation that his talent - if he ever had it - seems to have deserted him.
He mentions both Canada and Mexico in the article.
Well the fact that drugs are twice as expensive (or more) in the US* and the fact that the US accounts for a huge chunk of government funding into the relevant sciences are part of the reason why drugs are so cheap overseas. British taxpayers buying drugs in Britain are effectively getting a subsidy from US taxpayers even though they don't pay into the pot, so this all seems like a stroke of cosmic justice where I'm standing. Of course, I doubt the British tax authorities care much about what I think.

* Why? Remember how bargaining works: the biggest customer gets the best deal. First imagine Kaiser, Wellpoint, and Aetna sitting down at the bargaining table. Now imagine Canada sitting down at the table. Now imagine the European Union sitting down at the table. But at least our insurance companies are more efficient due to competition, right? Spoiler: not even close, and that's before you take into account the costs they offload onto the rest of the system in the form of incompatible claims policies, paperwork, and exploitation of information asymmetry against consumers.
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BMI isn't perfect, but it takes height into account.
You can actually work back words with her weight and BMI to calculate that her height is less than 5'1".

BMI is pretty accurate most of the time unless you're an athlete. Women putting on far less muscle on average than men, it's far more likely that she was actually overweight...
> Now, I'm not saying the price they charge in the US is fair (for some definition of fair), but one does need to consider how much the ridiculous American drug prices are subsidizing the $24/year NHS prescriptions. A government can regulate the price of drugs, but can't force the companies to sell them in the first place. Not directly, anyway.

Remember that the cost to the NHS is far more than $24 - which refers to the £8 prescription fee paid in the UK, twice per year. It's actually £220.41 per patient per month for the NHS - about $335. So whilst it's still somewhat more expensive in the US, it's not much more expensive - and well within the bounds of shrewd negotiating (which I'd imagine insurers would normally do).

[1] - http://www.awp.nhs.uk/handlers/downloads.ashx?id=9572
Ruby on Windows is hell and it isn't Ruby's fault. I finally ditched a project I had written with Ruby on Windows and opted for Node which has fewer problems compiling native modules. Ruby out of the box runs fine, trying to get thin or Nokogiri to build was worse than trying to get X.org configured to work with vendor video drivers on linux in the 90's
I don't get this attitude. Like, is the problem with obesity really that people don't feel bad enough about it? I don't think that's it.
To be fair it's only being criticized heavily by Miata enthusiasts on sites like Miata.net or Jalopnik - those that want a pure sports car experience. They only account for a tiny fraction of the people who actually purchase the car.

It's not really the idea of the infotainment system that's the problem, it's the implementation. As you said, the rear view mirror would have been better received by those who understand back up cameras will be mandated but still don't want a big "iPad" on the dash. As for Mazda's infotainment system - I believe it's the same system as used on the Mazda 3 and 6 so you can look reviews on those vehicles.
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> Burn more calories than you take in, you lose weight.

Wrong. Exercise burns calories, but also promotes muscle formation. Forming muscle, pound per pound, takes less calories than burning fat produces. So you can have a calorie deficit while gaining more weight in muscle than is lost in fat.

Depending on exercise patterns, precise nutrition, and other factors, a calorie deficit can result in:

Weight loss and decrease in body fat % (net weight loss disproportionately from fat),
Weight loss with no change in body fat %,
Weight loss and increase in body fat % (weight loss from disproportionately from muscle),
Weight gain and decrease in body fat % (weight loss from fat offset by greater weight gain in muscle.)

(I don't think there is any way for a calorie deficit to result in weight gain and increase in body fat % simultaneously, but I may be overlooking something.)

Additionally, changes in absorption, metabolic efficiency, and other factors can make what is assumed to be a calorie surplus based on food/exercise logs into a deficit or vice versa; both the "in" and "out" side of calories in vs. calories out are, absent a lot of detailed measurement most people aren't undergoing even in inpatient medical settings, a lot more approximate and have a lot more bundled assumptions than people tend to think.
One Year as a Startup Girlfriend
A much more likely explanation is selection bias. There would never have been a post like this if the result would have the other way around. Statistical variation makes it easy to find a starting point to show what you want.
If you plot based on blood types of CEO's rather than gender, you may get other type of results. So should we take blood type as another type of parameter like gender?

Point I want to make is, people are different starting from blood type, height, weight to "n" number of parameters and we can get different graphs for different parameters but that won't conclude anything.

Each person is different and just because some one belongs to a category does not make that person any extra attractive for any job.

In my personal opinion, this type of validation rather than competence,track record,experience is not beneficial to organization or society and completely shortsighted. So please stop these generalizations like "women are so and so", "men are so and so" ...etc. There are good and bad elements in every category.
> I'm assuming you mean TV show. I doubt you know a great many people that go on an "exercise style bootcamp" personally...

They offer a bootcamp program at my office. I have a friend who is a personal trainer. I have relatives who have done bootcamp exercise programs. I drive by one of these every day and see people flipping tires.

> Indeed because in basic training you don't get to pick your own meals and you're also limited to a set number of meals a day. Anyone would lose weight if someone else was controlling exactly what they could eat.

You've obviously never trained hard for anything. At some point you can't consume enough calories to counter the metabolism jump from the hard-core training.

> An hour of cardio is one Big Mac worth of calories. It is insignificant.

That's why I said "cardio and resistance", which you conveniently left off. Yes an hour on a stationary bike does very little, but an hour of intense physical exertion daily will transform a person.
I don't have an issue with picks, but why would one need them often enough to justify the weight/clutter of carrying them everywhere?
I literally don't understand what it is you're asking me.

Type-2 diabetes is a disease. One which has both genetic factors (e.g. some families get it more than other families) and non-genetic factors (e.g. unhealthy food consumption, heavy sugary food consumption).

Food addiction is a mental health issue that causes people to over-consume foods. These foods are often chosen to give the best "buzz" (so often high in sugar, high in salt, etc).

Having a food addiction, if untreated, could increase a person's likelihood of getting type-2 diabetes. In the same way that having a heroin addiction could increase someone's likelihood of having a stroke or heart attack.
What? It's radical because it's not true. Every large-sample longitudinal study into alcohol consumption has found an inverse correlation with mortality. Ignoring all questions about liver and cardio risks or benefits, alcohol is carcinogenic in a dose-dependent way.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/824237
> To say "I'm a full-stack developer" without that context is meaningless and will inevitably be untrue.

Well, couldn't one suppose that it's at least indicative of having touched the architectural groupings at each level.

Whether or not you find value in it (e.g. industry and academia being fairly divergent on this), having worked with a data store layer informs something about an ability to work with any data store layer.
I continued to be impressed with Sam's clarity. Keep it up!

Sidenote: interesting to see that YC has a BBerg terminal (and careful with the RMB claim in the near-term)
When it comes to tools you rely on to do day-to-day development "Always up-to-date" is, at best, a very debatable advantage if looked at from the point of view as the user and not the developer of the tool.

As a for-example, the initial Visual Studio .NET IDE releases were horrible and most people I know who did Windows development in that time-frame stayed on VS6 for quite a long time after it was officially obsolete.
Built this so you could save PFFiles in the Parse iOS Local Datastore without having to pull down from the server on every app open.
They ask where your company will be based, which is presumably roughly the same thing.

I don't know what their preferences are on answers, but it's known that most venture capitalists prefer that your company be based within a half hour of their offices, so if you're basing the company in a location without funders, it may be hard to fundraise.
Firefox allows multiple profiles; I have one named "Facebook" that I don't use for anything but Facebook.
Well, Copernicus died before the book became widely available, didn't he? Maybe that's why he was not attacked during his life by church establishment.
China has 3 times the population of the US. As soon as they started growing a middle class, it was inevitable that this would happen.
I work in England but a co-worker here mentioned that the law says he can't carry them unless he had a very good reason e.g. he is a locksmith.
Please don't be condescending when you don't know the basic terminology for the topic being discussed especially when the info is a Google search away.

TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) = BMR + Energy expended in a day.

It is very clear concept. Have the self control to master the mental elements and eat less calories than your TDEE and you lose weight. My question do you have research/evidence that disputes this? In my opinion as long as the truth is that being overweight is caused by eating more food than you need, the mentality of "fatty has no self control" is reasonable.

It was certainly true of me 40lbs ago.
If your audience understands your message, then language is doing its job.
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Peter Molyneux unfulfilled promises are a running gag. He is really good at PR and has a charming personality so he gets away with it. He fails to deliver since Black & White 1 (2001).
> In many states, carrying lockpicks while committing a crime is illegal, but otherwise it's fine.

Is it any crime, or does it have to be something for which the lockpicks could have been a tool? Otherwise, I can imagine the news now: "Local man gets jail time for jay walking with lockpicks. More at 11."
In other words, stop complaining about unsustainable work habits leading to physical and mental problems among founders, and let venture capitalists turn that hard work into (a) profit for them while (b) keeping you all safe from Chinese Dominance.
After listening to a recent episode of Invisibilia, I've become somewhat convinced that one of the root ills of current American society is extremely low expectations.

Whenever I think of countries like China, I think of an entire population driven to be more excellent. I know that's not true in general (people are people everywhere), but I still feel there is a stronger expectation that, as a human, you will do more than just exist and consume junk food and mass media.

America feels sluggish to me... safe and dumb and comfortable but not content. It's like the feeling I get when I spend an entire weekend on the couch binge-watching Netflix.
I lived in Shanghai and worked at a startup for a year after college. The startup expat and startup local communities are surprisingly developed.

There are a lot of co-working spaces, hacker spaces, and start up events. For anyone interested in China, you can live in Shanghai without speaking Mandarin.

Western training in programing, design and product is highly valued. Salary offerings are lower by a factor of 10. Regardless, its easy to live and identify alternative income sources.

I'd love to answer any questions for people interested in the Chinese startup space.
This guy carries playing cards, a lockpick set, two phones, two watches (and their chargers), a chest strap heart rate monitor, three pairs of headphones (including $1350 UE 18s) and a router with him everyday? Are you kidding?
>With just a handful of heuristics and a modicum of rote memorization, children can figure out most English words with 0 background in any other languages.

Most doesn't equal all.

>Besides this, pattern recognition is strong & easy -- tons of cognates and near-cognates, and most of the homophones & homonyms are common enough words that you'll learn them quickly regardless.

It's very difficult compared to a language system where the pronunciation can be directly inferred from the letters.
I don't think "whom" is needed here, if that's what you mean. The object of "forgot" is "God"; "who" is acting as a relative pronoun.

(I'd argue "The God that Peter Molyneux Forgot" would sound more natural, though..)
I think its a pseudo-acronym, like BP and KFC, where the mission extends the original goal so that it becomes rebranded without standing for the original name anymore.

I doubt you will find the original name of the other two on their sites either. If there is one thing that motivates marketers, its expunging an obsoleted brand from history...
Maybe they are doing that now, just blackmailing the judges with it
I'm not sure I'm on the same page as someone who carries, among other things, two watches and several sets of headphones everywhere he goes.
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How would you feel about closing the factories that produce those sociopaths?
>Knowing the etymology helps, but is not necessary.

Well, often it's necessary to either memorize a pronunciation or know the etymology, because often people pronounce English incorrectly.
> One thing that I’ve found puzzling over the last ten or so years is the anger directed towards people who choose to work hard

That feels somewhat disingenuous. If 'sama is referring to the sentiments expressed on this board, from what I've seen, it's not anger towards people choosing to work hard, but anger towards demands of hard work of others from those who stand to benefit at their expense.

Ie, the anger is towards VCs who talk glowingly of start-up founders working themselves to the bone and, in turn, towards start-up founders who talk glowingly of 0.01% equity-holding employees grinding out hour after overtime hour.
The world can't sustain a China middle class the same with similar proportion/consumption as the US (look at per capita oil consumption, fresh water consumpion, CO2 production, et al). That's maybe the bigger story in a bigger sense.
It all collapses down to a figment of my imagination anyway.

(Btw, now hiring full solipsist developers. I'll find you if I'm interested)
He's Paul Krugman in (I think) 2003 discussing how people overstate the value of the dollar being the world reserve currency:

http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/seignor.html
Yeah, this is a travel bag, not an every day carry.
Why would Docker be appropriate? It's not a substitute for running code on-host, and without boot2docker Windows and OS X don't support it anyway.
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The ñ key works for me!
I think this is vastly overstating the importance of respect for a developer. What it comes down to is if he released a respectable game tomorrow, it would sell.

Despicable acts by game companies are nothing new, yet gamers continue to buy the games in droves. Ubisoft is a great example.

All that matters is if a game is good or not. If the game is terrible then good karma or a massive marketing budget can win you sales but overall having a fun game is the most important factor imho.
Can confirm, although the article shows a more complex recipe than what I understand. All that hose and rubber bands and things aren't easy to come by.

Source: brother is in prison.
Yeah - our competitors don't seem to like us. Go figure :)

Note: CEO of CB Insights
I'd love to see you expand more on alternative income sources. Are you referencing freelancing jobs that pay American (or equivalent) wages?

I lived in Shanghai for a period and would love to move back there, but I'm worried about salary.