skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a dangerous attitude to take, and please allow me to explain why.

Really it boils down to decentralization vs centralization. You mention that people are "excluded" from rights and privileges, but the problem with the globalist view you espouse is that by lumping in a nation and it's people with the world you remove the political lines in a meaningful form.

National Sovereignty is the real issue at hand here, but it's a sensitive subject that not very many people like to touch. I've heard some fairly powerful beltway people reference it as dead, but if that's true our entire government is operating under a fallacy, there are some big implications here and I would love to see more academic research (as in, if anyone has any links I would appreciate them) on the subject.

I do think the lessons of the internet are important here though, namely that if you try to claim no nationality, peoples nationality becomes Earth, and a global government along with it. I want to go the opposite direction, less federal power, more state power, more local power (constitutionally restricted of course).

The only oath I ever swore was to protect and defend the Constitution, and I'll be damned if I'm going to sit back and watch America be Europeanized without an intellectual fight, because my forefathers fought hard to establish the freedoms I have here that still don't exist anywhere else in the world.

Yes I'm aware of the other countries higher levels of "actual" freedom, particularly the nordic ones, but I think our idealistic vision is still a superior one. For example, Vincent Reynouard of France was recently sentenced to two years in jail for his non-violent historical opinions regarding the Holocaust. I tend to side with Voltaire on free speech, apparently the French don't.

These same issues are also readily apparent in the TPP. I think it is a good microcosm of the kind of affect on nations you will get with a reduction of nationalism, eg, equally exploited populace by a supranational oligarchy.
I suspect this is a really common situation. Something that is big enough to be well-known, heavily used by a large enough number of users that it brings a lot of stress, but is not big enough (by some definition of "big" and "enough") to support a team to make it all go smoothly.

I've been in that same boat most of my professional career, and in fact I'm about 16 years into my journey working with the same project (Webmin; which started out with me having a company that used it in products and then ended up with me pivoting and starting a new company based around it); I'm lucky enough to not be the primary developer, and I'm lucky enough to have always had just enough money to keep an extra support person on staff and occasionally pay to make some problems go away (translations now and then, accessibility testing, UI and design assets, etc.), but having some huge number of people expecting things to always Just Work, and never have security problems, and never be confusing, and always get better but also never change in any way that might effect the way they use it, is a definite source of stress that I don't think people working in large companies will ever experience (though they experience their own sorts of stress and I don't think I would trade, even for much better pay).

I've had to step back a few times over the years, in more subtle ways than this. And, I've spent time on other projects and other jobs (either to make money or just to have something else to think about and to play with new languages and tools). But, it's strange to look back on so many years of doing roughly the same thing.

It's also odd to think of things that have been so clearly defined by their founder no longer being operated by their founder. This is, I guess, kinda like Rob stepping down from Slashdot a few years back. Turned out not to really effect Slashdot all that much (though I don't know how relevant Slashdot remains today, since I so rarely visit); I wonder if Metafilter has the team to keep it spinning...it's also a site I haven't spent much time at in recent years.
Still, I think it is a valid point that drink driving is seen as a moral problem and therefore its practical impact as a cause of accidents and deaths is perceived as larger than it actually is. Yes, it's horrible when a drink driver kills a child, etc, but the risk of that happening per DUI incident is not actually very high.

I'm not from the US, but over here (Finland), drink drivers are generally most dangerous to themselves. Of course there are some innocent people who are killed and injured by drink drivers, and these cases are particular tragedies, but most deaths resulting from drink driving are either people who kill themselves by stupidity, or at least consent to be in a vehicle where the driver is DUI.

Another thing I could bring up from analysis of traffic deaths is the large number of suicides we have -- about 20 % of traffic deaths; this is becoming a burden on truck drivers because they carry a lot of the emotional burden when someone decide to smash their car at high speed to an oncoming truck.

And yet another astonishing factor is deaths of "natural causes" (heart attack, stroke etc) while driving. These make up something around 10-15 % of traffic deaths here.
Will the Apple Watch have enough precision in its location to be able to determine when you approach someone (suggestion #5 in the list)? GPS isn't nearly that precise, especially indoors or around tall buildings, which is why most people haven't done this yet and you see hardware like iBeacon for more precise location data.

The only reason we don't already have a few dozen apps that would do this on our phones already is because of the lack of precision.
"Now all personal music players sold in the EU after February 2013 are expected to have a default sound limit of 85dB.

The user can choose to override the limit so that the sound level can be increased up to maximum 100dB. If the user overrides the limit, warnings about the risks must be repeated every 20 hours of listening time. "

via http://www.bbc.com/news/health-21294537

The "repeated every 20 hours" would explain why OP was seeing the warning seemingly randomly.
Body language, as an example, is an interesting science. It correlates highly with experience so even if the person may not be well versed in the science of it but has experience, they can be in a position to analyze personality using their gut instincts. Hence they can end up with a strong "social-radar".
I don't think you understand the purpose of preferred shares or board meetings.
If you live in Seattle proper, there are busses that run all night. Most of them will get you within a 20-minute walk of wherever you want to go.

Still, with Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and 5+ cab companies at your disposal there is no excuse for being drunk behind the wheel.

Before I moved here I was a pretty obsessively responsible driver. Now that I live here, I have to keep my irresponsible drinking in check because I never have a driving obligation to convince me to stay sober...
Very sad story. RIP.

How is it that the driver lived (allegedly doing 100) and even managed to run away from the scene? What vehicle was he in? :/
Let's be realistic here. In a 10 minutes interview with a person, what will have the most impact on your impression: social awkwardness and uncomfortable looks, or abstract "moral qualities"?
A fall is an accidental death. When someone chooses to get behind the wheel of a car after drinking, they are intentionally making a bad choice.

Getting to near zero drunk driver deaths is attainable once we change behavior. That's the acceptable number.
They announced this feature at the Apple Watch reveal last year. I believe the map and GPS runs on the phone.
Have you ever driven home and when you got there you weren't sure how it happened? You didn't remember driving the entire time. Your hands were at the wheel, but your "mind" was somewhere else.
Sure, you can do that. I didn't because it's (a) longer (and I was trying to do some minor golfing to keep it under 80 characters) and (b) doesn't have any stronger of a guarantee that it will be located in /usr/bin than make does.

There's more than one way to do this. It's just a silly hack; I decided to keep it simpler as the other alternatives didn't seem strictly better.
Looks matter a lot, even though it sucks. It's called the Halo Effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
I've never liked the ghost as an logo cause it looks like a KKK hood.
> She'd wake up with no memory of what had happened, and wouldn't want to know.

This was probably the most painful part of that whole story. Naturally, I was thinking of my wife and myself as the main characters throughout the whole story, and while it would be incredibly difficult to go through this, it would be harder if she woke up the next morning and didn't want to acknowledge or know about what had happened the night before.

(Unless I'm totally misreading that sentence, and the author is saying something different.)
You say that, but there aren't a lot of options in the space business, and even SpaceX with delays is better than other available options. They are slowly improving deliveries as they learn to understand a product and business model that no human beings have ever offered. To say they should do all this and never miss a delivery date is to misunderstand the economics of the space flight industry.

That said, it will be an exciting time when SpaceX launches are so common and regular as to seem boring.
Would you be interested in hiring any software dev interns? I have a little bit of data science understanding but not a ton, so the data science position doesn't quite fit the bill.
The experience of a brand new tech industry is not indicative of its future. As mentioned, the internet matured, and became safer, on its own, without regulations. Regulatory prohibitions would have destroyed everything good about the internet.

The Great Depression was caused by the Federal Reserve, not free markets. The current system, in place since 1973, has overseen an increase in the banking sector's share of total corporate profits to 42%, while the Middle Class has been left behind, and the industrial core has been hollowed out.

There have never been as many regulatory bans, centralized regulatory agencies, and leeway for the central bank to manipulate the money supply, as there have been over the 42 years. I'd be interested to know why you don't blame the current state of the economy on the anti-free-market system, the way you pin 1929 on free markets.

>And where did that comment about banning bitcoin come from?

I got the impression that you were endorsing the prevailing political ideology that favors regulatory control over industries. Regulations are a type of ban in function, if not in popular wisdom. They ban action A, if conditions X, Y, and Z aren't met. We now have thousands of such bans, limiting our actions. It makes for an unfree society. It's naive to think that government bureaucrats will not do more harm than good when given the ideological cover to prohibit nearly any activity.
I believe he's saying you need to make your website more mobile friendly.
Let me guess, you have never been to a third-world country?
I just assume it's common stock if I'm not a founder/exec. Is there a lower liquidation preference than that?

I'll have to research what convertible notes are.
My job relies on me trying to establish the character of people in a quite limited time as well, and I can totally vouch for this. Human beings are notorious for overestimating their ability to 'judge character'. Myself included. There's been so many scientific studies done on this that I don't think you can make this claim anymore. Personal bias combined with past experience of similar character (or read character) influences your mental state a lot. I don't really like it when people say 'I can work out if they are good people or not', simply because it isn't true. Sorry, but evidence trumps opinions.
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I am very interested in this area, if anyone is knowledgeable about it I would love to get in contact and learn more. What is the landscape for bio-data companies? Any thoughts on business plans, exit plans? It seems obvious to me that areas like diagnostics and therapeutics development should be driven primarily by big data rather than traditional research efforts.
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There used to be a bus route that went from Seattle to Bellevue at 2:15 and 3:30 am, but it got shut down as part of recent budget cuts. :(
Same with my ex girlfriend, though her disorientation doesn't last as long. It was scary the first time when she asked me "who are you?" but eventually I got used to and it even had funny aspects. Such as the time when she collapsed on the bedroom floor, me making sure she doesn't hurt herself and when she comes out of it, asks me "What happened?". I tell her "you had a seizure" to which she replies, quite resolutely, "No, I didn't!"
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I'm sure she learns from her mistakes and tweaks her "social radar" model. Hence with more experience/interaction with founders she will be getting better at it. Given that YC has become incredibly successful, there is something right being done there and hence it may be easy for her to determine what works and what doesn't.
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Nice one! I really enjoyed it. Works pretty good on Opera.
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I've always wondered if it's possible to not be a resident of any country... at least for tax purposes.

I do a lot of traveling, and my situation is a little unique. I have 2 citizenships and another permanent residency.

All three of those countries define you as a "resident for tax purposes" as spending over 1/2 a year (usually > 180 days) physically in that country.

So what happens if I don't spend more than 1-2 months in any country, and all of those countries are not ones I have a permanent legal right to be in i.e. I'm just passing through as a tourist.

What country am I a resident of if I keep that up? Last time I did it for 2 years, I'm planning to set off for at least 4 this time.
Thanks for your suggestions - I'll definitely check out VC Task Force and look for some other's (any others that you would suggest are worth it?)

Yeah, "Tech Mixers" are probably something I want to avoid if they are just people hustling for their first investment. Where do the funded guys hang out?

Any key areas / coffee shops I should hit up?
Here you go!

"This is done by selecting Edit->Project Settings->Editor in the application menu and enabling External Version Control support by selecting Visible Meta Files in the dropdown for Version Control. This will show a text file for every asset in the Assets directory containing the necessary bookkeeping information required by Unity. The files will have a .meta file extension with the first part being the full file name of the asset it is associated with. Moving and renaming assets within Unity should also update the relevant .meta files. However, if you move or rename assets from an external tool, make sure to syncronize the relevant .meta files as well."

http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExternalVersionControlSystemS...
I'm confused, I hear voices in my head all the time, isn't that just called thinking, or a type of active thinking. Sure they are not at war with each other like they were with this lady, but I certainly hear my mother's voice say 'pick up your clothes from the floor' and she's nowhere to be found, or like right now, I'm hearing 'Okay, enough Hacker News, you've got a meeting to get to in 30 mins and you are already late.'

They've also said 'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' when I'm about to do something risky, or even 'Nice job - swish', when I've done something that's a bit of a trick shot.

Are we talking about louder, more insistent voices, further down the spectrum of voices in head? I guess my question is --- 'Who doesn't have voices?' and what's wrong with them?
""Softer" stuff like values, culture and community is often ignored by the press, and more dangerously it's also sometimes ignored by founders."

Really? Seems to me that there are in fact far too many stories about ping pong tables and nap times and such when it comes to startups.

[Edited to remove a comment which just wasn't necessary and was a bit ad hominem.]
You've answered your own question. Cars are dumb machines because we don't yet have the technology to judge what is "crazy fast" and make decision about where it should be allowed. Other than the obvious reasons of racing and car enthusiasts, there are legitimate reasons for a car to do 100mph. Often in emergency situations, you need to speed up rather than slow down to prevent an accident. If we start placing limits on people's cars, there will almost certainly be accidents caused by that, because the last thing you want in a situation where you need to react quickly is the car not doing what you want it to.
Why not Hawaii then? Would the rocket overfly the Americas at an appropriate height?
Thanks for the tips - I'm staying near the Mission so that sounds like a plan!
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Having "good character" generally means "being like me" to a lot of people. No abstract moral qualities involved.

As a person who is not particular agreeable to look at, and who can be quite introverted (maybe as a consequence), it is very noticeable that to me that "high-empathy" people are judging me on first impressions, not on my actions.

I don't think I'm a jerk. I always try to be extra nice (mostly because I want to, but also because I have to go the extra mile since I am otherwise socially challenged). Yet I just make others uncomfortable, in particular extroverts and socialites.
We had tons of scripts like that at our previous startup, most of them for marketing things.
can't reply to OP.
I'm amazed by the lack of humanity in some of the comments that came up.
I can understand if someone is too weak to handle it or the disease is too disturbing that it makes a relationship impossible, but this looks like people talking about other persons as products.
I wonder what will the OP do when in a relationship he ever has an accident or something that turns him into poor relationship material? would he break up with her. would he try to keep her as a girlfriend and think she was a sucker if she didn't leave?
This is a fair question, but like most things with humans, almost impossible to answer in a definitive way.

There was once an accidental control group though. Jessica missed about half of the interviews and PG, RTM, and Trevor were left to decide on their own. I would estimate that the error rate without her was about 2x-3x as high.

The other thing to remember is that we keep track of the startups that we interview, and for the ones that we accept, we end up working with them for many years. We make a point of studying our mistakes (and successes), so there is a feedback loop, and I believe that we're getting better at it every time. But of course there are about a million other variable in play, so it's very difficult to be certain about anything (which is part of what makes this business so interesting).
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Not unless (a) your PC is routing traffic or (b) your PC is connected to a hub vs. a switch [1].

Unless one of these things is happening (even if your card is in promiscuous mode), those packets won't make it into your machine.

[1] http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/router...
Yes, most of those things do meet US regulations. The company inspecting them is the large US company that puts its brand on it. The same company that would be on the receiving end of a huge lawsuit if the products are dangerous.
This is a great resource for legal advise on the case. I also was offered options on a startup that I worked at. I am adding this to my bookmarks :D some cross-reference http://www.businessinsider.com/stock-option-questions-startu...

Generally I prefer to leave the legal stuff for my lawyer and focus on coding, but having a reasonable knowledge on the case is preferred.
Cars are very UNSAFE, for the record. [1] Self-driving cars will be better... but autonomous cars are SUCH an intellectually lazy progression from the status quo that I hope they won't happen.

Rather than autonomous cars, we should be focusing on Taleb's antifragile solutions like walking and biking. This means the design of dense housing and walkable streets, and the removal of two-ton bullets that massacre children every day.

I grew up in Los Angeles, so I'm aware of how alien the concept is of a walkable city to Californians. It wasn't until I moved to the East Coast and Europe that I realized other people don't need to drive ten miles to see friends or pick up dinner.

If HN types don't recognize and question these car-dependent assumptions, there's no chance the rest of the country will. Nor would most Americans want to address the question. To accurately price vehicle traffic for real infrastructure costs (much less negative externalities or pigovian taxes) would absolutely devastate the value of car-dependent real estate... which is most of the country.

I guess we'll just continue letting children and geniuses be killed. At best, self-driving cars will continue this horrible urban planning and somewhat lower the body count. It's a goddamn shame.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
> Is HN, a conglomeration of (mostly male) economic and educational elite, a "more evolved" state of social organization than a small-town church, which might draw in people from different economic walks of life?

in my view mentally associating yourself with any group is exactly the root of the division "us vs. them (and us obviously better [whatever that means] than them)" and things go downhill from that. In that regard any "elite" group (self-identifying itself as such) is pretty much indistinguishable from a small-town church.
Everyone who sells a stock is sending a clear signal that they think the money they are getting is worth more than the stock they are selling. So, I'm hard pressed to consider it a scam when someone acts in a completely transparent manner.

Also, why does it matter that he shorted the stock? What if he had previously purchased it off of a hot tip then, upon further due diligence, had decided the company wasn't as valuable as he had previously thought? There still has to be a counterparty to that trade.

At the end of the day, this guy probably saved more investors from being taken by this scam because he exposed it early. Without the incentive to make money, he would not have hired someone to investigate their offices in China. Without that investigation, he would not have shorted the stock, sending the market a clear signal that the stock was over-priced, and written up his research. Without his signaling and research, more people would have bought the stock, creating a bigger scam, and destroying more wealth.
As I understand it schizophrenia leads you to make unwarranted connections between things, and then the mind tries to give an explanation. There's no dissolved idea of identity in perceiving hidden messages and thinking you're linked with a conspiracy. Everything seems to be tied with logic into a cohesive whole, no weird memory gaps or alternate personalities.
Samba 4.2 released
* Transparent File Compression

* Previous File Versions with Snapper

* Larger IO sizes for SMB2/3 by default

* SMB2 leases

* Messaging improvements

* Samba Registry Editor

* VFS WORM module

* VFS FRUIT module - decent OSX support!

Release Announcement:

https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.2.0.html

More details about the features:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_4.2_Features_added/changed