skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if there weren’t a competitor in the picture, countries historically don’t do well with declining growth, and so it’s in our interest to try to continue to keep growth up. It’s our standard advice to startups, and it works for organizations at all levels. Things are either growing or dying.

Actually it's time to rethink this "wisdom" that was introduced by our grandparents. There is no such thing as infinite growth and only by seeing this, the West (actually I don't care about the USA so much, as I'm from Europe) is going to prosper. Because in no-growth there lies a different kind of growth and a lot of opportunities for those who can think out of the box.

Right now growth is measured in money, but maybe one day it's going to be trust or influence.
> Dictatorships, despite all their scary failure modes, have one very good feature democracies lack - they get things done... I think this is the very reason geeks seem to worship benevolent dictatorships. They're just efficient.

Not really -- or at least, not necessarily. Modern scholarship on Nazi Germany, for instance, has found that despite its much-vaunted efficiency it was actually a morass of feuding power centers all fighting each other to get Hitler's ear, which resulted in massive inefficiencies that in the end contributed materially to their loss in World War II. Fascist Italy was much the same way. And even the dictator himself didn't help matters -- look at the story of the revolutionary Me 262 jet fighter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262), which arrived too late to help Germany fend off the Allied bomber offensive because Hitler decided apropos of nothing midway through development that it should be completely retooled to function as a bomber instead.

Dictatorships look efficient, because they tend to focus resources on high-profile prestige projects of the kind that would never get off the ground in a democracy because they make absolutely no economic sense. If you build a pyramid, people are gonna look at it and say "wow, those people sure can get things done." But in their everyday operation they run according to the whims of the dictator, which hurts efficiency rather than helping it.
Historically, all superpowers collapsed, so maybe there is a point where you cannot grow more with current system?
Not necessarily. 70% of the U.S. economy is based on consumer spending, meaning the disposable income has to be there in the first place. China's economy is not structured this way.
It's certainly both. The definition has literally expanded (now including Asperger's), but with more awareness it's more likely people who are borderline autistic will be able to get diagnosed.

This all makes it very hard to answer the question "are more people today autistic than 50 years ago?"
"Task switching overhead is an intrinsically hard problem to solve. As a startup CEO, at some point you need to shut everything out, go with your gut and move forward."
> The complete lack of food safety regulations and/or enforcement.

There have been some major recalls due to food safety in the last 5-10 years(1).

In the last 5 years, the Food Safety Modernization Act was passed (2).

In the last 5 years, the "Egg Rule" was passed (3). "Over 15 months, FDA inspectors visited about 600 facilities nationwide that produce about 80 percent of the country's eggs to determine if they are in compliance with the Rule, which went into effect in July, 2010."

You can also find thousands of warning letters the FDA has written to companies over the last decade on their website (4).

I searched through the warning letters for "supplements" and found exactly 500. (5) The letters were issued for all kinds of reasons, from outrageous claims, to products not containing the advertised chemicals. (6)

I'm not going to argue the other points you list, but when it comes to the FDA, your assessment of "completely lacking in regulations and/or enforcement" was overreaching.

(1) http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0512/the-5-larges...

(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDA_Food_Safety_Modernization_A...

(3) http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocuments...

(4) http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/

(5) http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/warningletters/wlSearc...

(6) http://www.fda.gov/iceci/enforcementactions/warningletters/2...
Ultimate List of Startup Resources (Part 1)
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There is SO much content out there on how to start your company, but few resources (if any) walk you through what to do from day one all the way up to scaling and getting funding. This is the first chapter of a chronologically sorted guide on how to start a company
I agree that it doesn't make any difference when you allow phase shifts (I was intentionally focussing on the `t = 0` case), so I'm puzzled by your suggestion that the author should have used cosine instead.

My point was more that there's nothing inherently 'spiky' about even functions; as your own example of cosine shows, they can be just as smooth (or spiky) as any other function.
If there's such a simple formula for success, why isn't everyone successful?
Can it be better called 3D plotting?
>> The author pokes fun at CISSP, but how else can I figure out if someone is 'good' at security?

I'm the author.

If you are hiring a security consultant for your firm and you know how to judge infosec skill, use a work sample and check references.

If you're hiring a security consultant to perform a penetration test or audit for your (non-infosec) company, hire people who have a healthy mix of the following:

1. Public, verifiable work (e.g. bug bounties).

2. Solid references and past experience with clients who themselves understand what to look for in a security consultant. You obviously check these references. Alternatively, a solid reference that the candidate worked at NCC Group, Accuvant, Leviathan, etc.

3. Research in the field, such as discovering a new class of vulnerability, publishing vulnerabilities in ubiquitous software, etc.

Prioritize #2, because not all adept security folks like to conduct research or participate in publicly verifiable work.

Of the certifications you can have, the Offensive Security[1] certs are pretty rigorous. For example, the OSCP is a good indicator that a candidate knows what they're doing to offensively test a client's network. That's about it. Almost all other certifications are run by people who have, at best, textbook knowledge of information security. People who get the CISSP can probably accurately describe a cross-site scripting attack to you in an interview, but there is no guarantee they can practically find it or defend against it.

The other issue is that while some certifications are good, a lot of folks in infosec just don't care for them. They can find high paying jobs in prestigious companies without a degree or a certification of any kind, so they simply don't bother, even though they could pass it. This means that you can't reliably throw out candidates with no certifications...which circles back to my original recommendation. Work samples, references and public work are the best ways to judge a candidate's talent. I'm directly aware that this system is used at Matasano and Accuvant, and it's likely the norm at the other "quality" security consultancies.

'tptacek would have a lot of great advice to contribute on this matter as well.

[1]: https://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-cert...
How much will my app cost to develop? That’s the wrong question
> Just look at:

I'd like to add:

- how many people are in prisons (for imho minor offences)

- screwed up (software) patent system

- amount of money wasted on NSA

- stale two party government

- homeland security paranoia
Sidekiq's table flipping method (with spec)
What Kalashnikov designed was powered by inevitability. If he hadn't done it someone else would. Just like with the robots, someone somewhere WILL make them. I do fear the ability that these give leaders to wage war with no cost other then money.
This. The Chinese economy is driven by investment, not export (though that helps). Western investors think investing in China is a good idea - that's where the growth comes from. And they're not wrong - investment in China has paid off (for those that have managed to navigate its complicated business-politics).
To list some disadvantages:

- requires Internet to work (Internet is not electricity yet, + I'm personally opposed to putting things on-line that don't have any reason to be there)
- you don't control updates (what 'georgemcbay said about VS 6.0 + devops hell when you don't get to control your dependencies)
- current web apps suck at customization (I can't imagine having my Emacs in cloud)
- as the IDE goes to cloud, so does the file system, thus seriously crippling usability (closely tying data to applications is one of the stupidest things that came out of SaaS trend)
"Salary offerings are lower by a factor of 10", compared to where? A decent freshly graduated developer in Shanghai can easily make 1.5-2k USD a month. Where you do get 10 times more than that?
It doesn't appear to work on the iPhone.
It is definitely more lenient.

But one of the points in the Foucault book jMyles mentioned is that the leniency of imprisonment didn't come about because we're somehow morally superior than earlier societies, it's because it's the most efficient way so far devised for the state to exert its power over a human body.

Someone please correct me if I'm misinterpreting.
They want to return the first stage to land in the future (at least when possible, depends on the launch trajectory etc iirc). So high waves won't be an issue when they start returning the rocket to the launch site.

Also, I guess if reuse becomes routine and they need to land in the sea (because there aren't enough fuel to return to land) they could build a huge vessel capable of handling high waves.
Properly formatted (to be fair this is from a blog post explaining how the regex works: http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/improved_regex_for_matchin...):

(?xi)
\b
( # Capture 1: entire matched URL
(?:
[a-z][\w-]+: # URL protocol and colon
(?:
/{1,3} # 1-3 slashes
| # or
[a-z0-9%] # Single letter or digit or '%'
# (Trying not to match e.g. "URI::Escape")
)
| # or
www\d{0,3}[.] # "www.", "www1.", "www2." … "www999."
| # or
[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/ # looks like domain name followed by a slash
)
(?: # One or more:
[^\s()<>]+ # Run of non-space, non-()<>
| # or
\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\) # balanced parens, up to 2 levels
)+
(?: # End with:
\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\) # balanced parens, up to 2 levels
| # or
[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’] # not a space or one of these punct chars
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)
Here's an example of this kind of thing from some emacs lisp I wrote (which I hope survived the transition to the HN comment box):

(setq imenu-generic-expression
(let ((ident '(1+ (any "A-Za-z0-9_"))))
`(("plugin" ,(rx line-start
(0+ space) "plugin"
(1+ space) (eval ident)
(1+ space) (group (eval ident)))
1))))

Of course, you can do this with string concatenation, but I think this syntax makes it clearer what's going on.
This is a great move. Unfortunately it's still in Microsoft Word format and there's no license associated with it. Would love to see this somewhere like GitHub, where it could be forked and changed by others.
I don't mind this strategy, but it requires that you already have a product good enough to get customers—assuming you are actually going to measure things to plug into the formula.

So, there's a bit of a chicken/egg problem here. The way to solve it is to do great customer development (see Steve Blank et al.) to make sure you are addressing a real problem, and then make the best damn product addressing that problem that you can within a reasonable cost. Maybe your gut/luck is good enough that you don't even need the customer development step. But still, an "MVP"—and I admittedly don't like the term—really can't be 'minimal' to make that formula usable in most cases; you've got to make something good enough to attract and retain users right out of the gate, and that requires taking on some risk.
I think you are hitting the right point, that China's system has a lot of flaws that we don't want to pick up. However, you are casting this in absolutist terms, "NOTHING about China's economic system would be appropriate," and I do not think that is correct either. Just because China has some flaws, such as its inability to handle environmental and social problems, it is a fallacy to then say that every thing about it is flawed. I think a more reasonable response is to say, "we should look to Northern Europe, but we should also look to China, and be wary of making the same mistakes found in any given system, whether in China or in Northern Europe."
Pretty sure this has been tried before...
Wow - this is the first time I've seen a robot like this outside of a manufacturing environment. I imagine it would be much more difficult to implement in an existing hospital than one built around it.

I also wonder if its possible to tell if Tug reduces the spread of disease.
I think that 15 years ago that was true of Korean manufacturers, and look at them now. Hyundai was a brand that was fairly reliable, but was ridiculed in popular media. Now it's on par with Japanese brands and often considered premium. Also, Samsung went from making parts for everything to developing and marketing their own premium products. Chinese manufacturers can easily follow this same path and I think it is already happening.
GCC 5 in fedora
SEDNA = MCS for the Web?
I'm not saying to ignore the radio requirements at all. If you're diligent, make liberal use of reference designs, etc. your design will pass. I (and Chris Anderson) just question whether the time and expense of getting certifications that no one will notice is the right place for a startup to spend its resources. Fair game, when so many skip arguably more important things like security.

I agree on Pebble - the volume they were sending through, and a little inexperience with customs, raised flags that were hard to put down. But by all means, when you've raised $10mil, get your certs. I'm telling the Kickstarters who barely raised enough to execute their hardware, and then think that blowing $20K in order to cross all the t's for international markets, is not putting the cert before the horse.
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So I used cloud9. The advantages are

- they spin boxes for you.Imagine you want to try that new tech without installing virtual box or vagrant on your computer,well that's how I started learning go.Integrated multi-user programming.

- You can do peer programming easily or if you are doing some tutoring you can see what the student is typing and correct it.So 2 people can work on the same files at the same time,...

- cloud9 editor has good performances,integrates well with git,github and co.

- You can preview web projects online directly(start a server,go to a url and see the result...),

- SSH login into you own box or server and remote file editing with.

Now does it have "intellisense" or autocompletion or refactoring tools for Java,C# and Co? no. But it does a good job at editing scripting language files.

The appeal here is really, quick editing or quick experiments.It's a bit like js fiddle,it's a code playground.

And it's opensource(at least the previous version was).
I would really like to have a Golang Teradata driver, however I've thus far made do with routing it through ODBC and using that driver instead. Not ideal, but functional.
The Stanford Prison Experiment calls that premise into question, though I understand that there are questions about the underlying science. Or did you have another means of isolation in mind?

That aside, my personal experience leads me to believe that prison is as horrible as it is because of the people locked inside. Evidence for this can be inferred from the differing degree to which low security prisons are less harsh than higher security prisons.
Drug companies spend more on marketing drugs to doctors and consumers than they do on R&D.

In the UK, marketing drugs is illegal and therefore they don't need to go to that expense. All they have to do is convince an NHS board and then it's on the list of approved prescribed drugs.
There is a ratio between them based on how productive your workforce is. German workers, for example, are thought to be very productive. But expressed as a GDP-per-person ratio, not as productive as US workers. China is far behind in productivity, yet their enormous population means they're ahead in total dollars. And as Chinese workers move from low-productivity work such as family farming to industrial farming & factory work, their population will act as a lever and grow their GDP even more so.

China: GDP 16,149 Pop 1,357,380
US: GDP 16,768 Pop 320,206
Germany: GDP 3,512 Pop 80,716
(millions and thousands, respectively)

So the GDP per-person ratio of each country is:

China: $0.01189
US: $0.05236
Germany: $0.04351

Expressed in terms of productivity, China still has a lot of growing room, and I would expect their GDP numbers to continue to grow in the future.
It is not in the C standard but the way GCC implements it is that it is hands-off with optimizations to any volatile variables and pointers. And since Linux is only compiled with GCC, it works.
Hackers Phishing Leakers: A new BitCoin phishing social technique
I'd presume if they can get the recovery rate and refurbishability rate high enough, they'd charge extra to companies that make them launch without recovery versus more flexible scheduling to guarantee recoveries.
If reuse becomes routine and the necessary authorities approve, they'll land on solid ground near the launch site. The floating rig was just for the initial tests.
I'd be interested in reading a study of drinking patterns beyond simple measurement of total consumption.

Every study I read measures volume over a time such number of units per week. But there is a difference between downing a bottle of wine in one hour every saturday night as opposed to a single glass every night. Perhaps a study based on peak blood alcohol level during the week rather than total consumption?

The OP study seems to have dealt with older people. Retirees, without jobs, might have many 'average' days resulting in a steady daily drinking pattern. Most of the younger drinkers I know go for extended periods without drinking (weekdays) only to get hammered come the weekend. Is this worse? Maybe multi-day dry periods give your system a rest and that is better than a daily pattern? I don't know.

It's all moot to me. I don't drink, which for a non-muslim non-mormon canadian means people often think I'm a recovering alcoholic. I'm not. I just don't like drinking. It;s not fun.
Well, yeah. I said "private", didn't I? And it's not like the good hospitals in Mexico rely on the bad hospitals to exist.

One would expect the average standard of care to be lower because Mexico is much poorer than the U.S.. If you took whatever the good Mexican hospitals are doing and brought it to the U.S., it would presumably be roughly as high-quality and inexpensive.
You carry stuff with you everywhere everyday just in case the power goes out for a few hours? That's like carrying around a bathing suit in the dead of winter just in case it suddenly gets hot and you fancy a swim.
Map of significant wave height in feet for the Atlantic:

https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/wxmap_cgi/cgi-bin/wxmap_single.cg...

tldr: Not a good day for boating
Hey I made the CB Insights design. I completely agree the viz is standard (the treemap was my first d3 viz actually!). A lot of people are stopping at the charts and saying "well it's just a bar chart and a treemap, get over it!"

To me the fact that the entire layout outside of the chart, even the copy is exactly the same is the main offense. Even the table below the chart (when you click to see the data) is exactly the same. It would have taken them 20 minutes to just shuffle things around, but no they just replicated it.

We put a lot of time in figuring out the best way to present information so that users don't actually have to spend a lot of time to get answers. They skipped that part and stole our work.
Your source proves me right.

You're wrong in your claim that the majority of college graduates are not functionally literate.

2% of college graduates fall below a basic level of literacy.

14% of total adults fall below basic on prose; 12% on document; 22% on quantitative. The numbers of college graduates are vastly lower than those.

And further, digging into the data, I'd be willing to bet that half of those numbers of people that struggle on basic literacy - in english - do so because their primary language is either not english and or they have very little command of the language (first generation immigrants etc).
This is great, but would be much more helpful as an annotated doc that explained why the various phrasings were chosen, as well as what was left out and why.

What's the best platform for that? It can't be Word comments...
Ask HN: How to pick a bank for your startup?
I'm launching a new venture and struggling to compare banks against one another.

What should I be looking for?

Is there a reason to pick or not pick a credit union over a bank?

What reputation do different banks have in the US, and which would you recommend for a Stripe-based SaaS startup?
I find they often miss the key fact - human brains are made of the same template; we do have universal values and thought processes. Things that are universal to humans are not arbitrary to us (even though they might be in the grander scale).
Sloppy? Written on the left column (emphasis mine):

Geoff Ralston
Startups, technology, and education.
==> Partner at Y Combinator <==
Founder and Partner at Imagine K12
Then start a potato salad company :)

I think time will tell if the gamble here is correct. Currently nootropics are quite niche - a small minority of people even know what they are or take them. This is odd, given how beneficial they can be. By serving nootropics to the public on a silver platter, we hope to evangelize the benefits, assuage people's concerns, and become defacto leaders in the biohacking space.
ElementaryOS dev denies request to make finances more open
I agree - even pure creatives have to do a lot of "digging" before they get to their diamonds.
I think the point of the name is that public perception of autism is usually related to children - autistic kids. But those children grow up and become adults. A lot of this article is about how that transition is difficult, and there is a lot less support for autistic adults than children.

I did not interpret the antagonism you did. The author was grappling with his own feelings of being attached to Scooter but also having to deal with the fact that Scooter could get violent very easily. The decision to not say goodbye was justified in the article. This is not a normal adult relationship, because the author is a paid caregiver of an autistic adult.
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