skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of the day we have to count on the market, but I still hate that the helium reserve has depressed the price so much that we are just throwing away the helium in natural gas wells.
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> A sensible system would be one like Brazil's (and possibly other countries): free education at public universities for those who qualify on the stringent entrance exams along with a system of private universities for those who don't make it and can pay for it.

California used to have a multitier system of tuition-free higher-education (two tiers of tuition-free public university, both selective but one moreso than the other, plus the community college system) along with private universities, so it worked somewhat like that, but that eroded over time.
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> Their views are, overall, the engineers from overseas are of lower quality than the engineers here.

That is the perception.

The reality is that there are a number of top engineers from overseas, and they are compensated very well. What India and China are able to do is produce a lot more average quality engineers. Indian and Chinese average engineers are on par with average engineers in the US.

There just happens to be a lot more average quality engineers from overseas then there are in the US. US companies have figured out ways to work with overseas shops that employ average engineers because the cost basis is worth it (1/6 the cost).

With programs like Code Fellows and other coding bootcamps, you're going to see an increase of mediocre American engineers, but at a much higher cost.
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On the contrary! We just conceive it differently than you :)
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Ok, so we have this common ground of thinking money isn't too real if it can be printed at will by central bankers. That's good.

Now ask yourself: what do central banks hoard? Whatever they hoard must be, at the very least, a more "real" kind of money than the money they print. Do they hoard diamonds? No. Do they hoard platinum? No. Do they hoard fine art? No. Do they hoard expensive wine? No. What do they hoard? Gold. And why do they hoard gold while publicly stating it's a useless and worthless metal? "Tradition", according to Ben Bernanke.

So if you believe our rulers, you can sleep sound in knowing nothing is real money, and the worthless stuff central banks hoard, they're doing it just because it's tradition. All this work of moving this stuff around the globe in armored planes and escorted ships, it's all for tradition, you see.
Fiat is just an IOU, it's worth exactly what it's worth. There's a small admin cost to e.g. printing notes, but it's tiny in proportion to the overall currency value. Bitcoin is unique because it has a big negative externality - a huge amount of energy is simply thrown away, powering computers to do something non-worthwhile. A bitcoin is an IOU for something that's already been spent.
They have a lower-end version of that now too: http://www.withings.com/us/withings-activite-pop.html
my traceroute from Munich dies at

traceroute to chartmogul.com (184.168.47.225), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets

1 192.168.178.1 (192.168.178.1) 1.609 ms 1.425 ms 1.127 ms

2 ppp-default.m-online.net (82.135.16.28) 44.162 ms 34.761 ms 32.867 ms

3 ae2.rt-decix-2.m-online.net (82.135.16.209) 36.361 ms 57.201 ms 51.925 ms

4 ibrsa0203-01.edg.mgmt.ams1.gdg (80.81.193.165) 54.584 ms 80.488 ms 52.594 ms

5 * * *

6 * *

Hope it helps. I used a VPN and got the file :D
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I just skated 13K on the canal in Ottawa - it's a blast. This year the ice is good but it varies, some years you get only a couple weeks of decent skating. For reliable self-propelled commuting in winter you're probably better off looking to bike paths and cross-country ski routes - there's no shortage of snow!
how can a US company open engineering office in a country like India etc ? Is there anyone on HN doing this ?
If we wanted to, if oil was so precious, we could synthesize it from other substances.

This isn't the case like with rare elements. And with most of those, even, we can recycle them indefinitely (we'll never run out of platinum).

Helium literally floats away to where we can never get it again.
Contrasting opinion here: http://blog.asmartbear.com/delegation.html

"The trouble with this form of delegation is it results in a team that is not materially better than the founder"
Check what personal audio recordings Google save
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http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74339/dwork_tamc.pdf

They define the mathematical guarantees on privacy, which are computational guarantees against a polynomial-time adversary trying to distinguish between the analyses of two databases that differ in a single record. I.e., nobody can reasonably tell whether your information is included in the analysis.
You can check the audio that Google stores out in - https://history.google.com/history/audio
Flabbergasted that the HN crowd harps on endlessly about privacy until it's about porn. Then it's all about get over your hangups, radical transparency.

Many people don't want their porn habits made public for all sorts of reasons and it is not your place to judge.
This thought has been lingering since this ruling was sent to the OMB for approval. How will it affect existing H1/other wages? As the OP says, DHS is expecting 180k ead applications this year. Thats a large pool of qualified folks with potentially prior work experience. Thoughts?
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Can you explain me why glyphosate is bad and copper sulfate or rotenone are good?
I find when Flash (plugin-container) goes down, it takes both Firefox and Chrome down with it. Running Windows 7 at work.
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When something like that existed in California, that wasn't the thing that destroyed it, rather, it was funding pressure from anti-tax crusaders.

The kind of people who advocate for fairness for the poor and minorities are more likely to advocate for moves back toward that system rather than away from it.
What is a kicksled??? I want one already!

[update] wow...found one, the kickspark! Awesome. http://www.goslide.ca/en/shop/kickspark.php
That is near the success rate I have as well. And when I dictate a text on my phone voice works great because I can retype the one in twenty words it gets wrong. There's no keyboard on a watch. Worse, when you are misunderstood Wear is likely to launch the wrong app or pull up the wrong information. So you have the problem of canceling one thing and trying, awkardly, to get to what voice didn't understand.

If you look on the wear store, apps that create rows of icons on your watch face are very popular. I think that shows that this is a common concern.
Nope.. Adding up all the tiers up totals a maximum of $9,550,000, for a total of 56k watches.

Interesting that they didn't design this to break their 10.2M record of the first campaign. I'd bet they are going to increase the slots or or announce addons for the pledges to go for it. At this rate they are going to be sold out in a couple hours, if that.
What OS is this? Or what user interface?
We do worry, though, that new apps might be sending our personal information and movements to advertisers and governments.

My worry with GMO is not that EVERY such food will be poison, or even that SOME such food will be poison. It's simply that GMO is a much more powerful tool for modifying organisms than the current tools like selective breeding. More powerful tools allow for greater good, but also allow for greater harm (deliberate or accidental).

Thus, more powerful tools require more wisdom to use than do less powerful tools. A great philosopher once observed, "With great power comes great responsibility". I am simply not convinced that mass market food producers have the wisdom to use the great power of GMO with great responsibility.

To put it in phone app terms, when GMO shows up in my groceries or in my fast food drive-through take out bag, I want it to have come from an Apple-style market, not an Android-style market.
> I was able to live at home for the entire duration so I did not have to pay a huge sum for campus housing.

While this might make financial sense at first, living in the dorms was one of (if not THE) best social experiences of my life, and in my opinion, worth the cost. I still have numerous friends and acquaintances I made via the dorms, going on 20 years later. In a few cases they have paid off socially and business-wise.

I would not recommend cutting out the singular "dorm experience" for the sake of saving a few bucks you can make back later anyway.
I agree and thought he peaked around 2004, e.g.:

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/215499399_pfUFC/0/1050x10...

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/215499192_iWbzW/0/1050x10...

The cartoon faces were more expressive with less detail than the current ones, but he was able to draw just about anything he wanted in a funny way, which wasn't the case in the beginning.
A more accurate title would be "Reddit user claims Siri/Cortana transactions are recorded." He doesn't supply any proof.
That's a sexy watch, not sure how i didn't see it before. Thanks for the link.
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Yes. As long as the compiler is invisible and fast enough to notice any difference. But then, will we ever have such compiler across all browsers?
I am also semi car-free in Seattle and can attest to a very satisfying quality of life. I moved here last year.

If anyone is toying with moving here and has questions: chris.laidlaw@socrata.com.

(We're hiring!)
Would love to see Boston, Boulder, and Los Angeles added to the list for comparison
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I don't know how loosely you want to apply the term "beamforming" but there are ways to send data over multiple antennas for multiple users that allows the signal to be recovered for each user independently even if the signals nominally appear to be interfering.
Exactly why I made GAuthify.com, simple non-proprietary 2fa.
Trading for a snickers bar is the default. How can I stop the default and who gets to decide what my punishment is if I do?

Let's say google offers some kind of privacy plan, which is 100% outside of their interests. Do you think they'll give me honest pricing if I opted out of all their tracking? Lets say they actually make $15 off me annually via tracking. What would they charge me to not be spied on? It sure as hell won't be $15.

The problem is we're not being offered a fair value in the beginning when we get into a relationship with these companies. Cloud providers are throwing snickers bars at me and not offering to stop. When I do say I don't want them, I'm hit with punitive pricing. Look at AT&T's gigapower charge to not be spied on. Its like $40 a month. Sorry, but I doubt anyone is making $40 a month from someone like me who almost never clicks on ads and whose information can't be that valuable. If advertisers are paying AT&T $40 a month to see how long I'm on reddit, then the whole system is well... fucked.

It seems to me that cloud providers and ISPs want their cake and to eat it to. They're double-dipping. I'm still paying somehow, even if its indirectly. I bought $100 worth of apps and movie rentals last quarter via my android device. They sure as hell weren't free. Not only am I subject to market pricing on these items, not to mention my hefty phone bill, I also am being spied on? Where exactly is the 'free' where the products monetize themselves via app store purchases and rentals? VUDU and On Demand charge the exact same amount for these rentals.

This narrative that customers won't pay for things is asinine. We're constantly paying for things.
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... how the hell is this not a pre-order? Are the rewards just going to up and disappear after the campaign is over? Not from an established group like this.

> EARLY BIRD: Your choice of one Pebble Time watch in any of the three colors. Regular retail price will be $199.
Estimated delivery: May 2015
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Unfortunately MSE are still broken: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129039
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I'm from there originally, and I agree, but the weather really is a problem. It's terrible. I live in Portland now, an area renowned for its gray rainy days and lack of sunlight. And yet, it has been 50º-60º and sunny for nearly a month now. Whenever I check Pittsburgh it's hovering around 0º. It's really a shame because I love Pittsburgh.
I look at these numbers as curve-fitting. If you want to rationalize why you stay in Austin or North Carolina or someplace, this is great data to do it with.
Only "recorded" in the sense that your Google/Bing/Yahoo searches are "recorded," or your browsing history is "recorded". You don't think your Google Now voice searches aren't?

I knew that my searches were probably tracked when I started using Cortana (similar to any other search - unless you're using DDG,) and personally I'm ok with it if it results in a great experience for me. And I'm amazed almost daily at how solid Cortana (and Google voice search for that matter) is.
Weirdly Atlanta is not on the list, but this is why I'm probably never moving to SF. Yes, all the cool jobs are there, but for what price?

GA tech is releasing very high quality engineers and the startup scene here is great (Mailchimp and many others), and you live in a frikin mansion 10 minutes commute to work (if you live in Alpharetta). Tons of technical meetups and both thriving startup scene and established enterprise presence.

West coast based companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Amazon et al keep trying to offer me jobs in SF like it's obvious that this is where I would want to move, I really don't understand why they don't open offices in Alpharetta. Dead cheap office space, great talent pool, and if you ask me - awesome weather. and they will have to pay me 50% less than what they would in SF, and I won't have to switch my 3,500 square feet house (which is 10-20 minute drive to a myriad of tech companies) with a 2 bedroom and an hour commute to work
> You are forced to save a lot for retirement and medical expenses

This could be said about the US too.
I was under the impression that this was common knowledge. Here's a 2-year-old article about it in Wired: http://www.wired.com/2013/04/siri-two-years/

---

Once the voice recording is six months old, Apple “disassociates” your user number from the clip, deleting the number from the voice file. But it keeps these disassociated files for up to 18 more months for testing and product improvement purposes.

“Apple may keep anonymized Siri data for up to two years,” Muller says “If a user turns Siri off, both identifiers are deleted immediately along with any associated data.”

---
> A kid, especially a smart kid, knows when a bad teacher is bad and can just coast through the class (

There are many sorts of "bad". Sometimes they're simply ineffective or uninterested teachers. Other times they're borderline mentally ill and abusive.

How many times does the child need to be mocked or called names for lasting damage to happen? Can you judge this before the fact? "Oh my boy Timmy, he can be called names at least a dozen times with no ill effects, and you look like you'll only do that 8 times, Mrs. Kuntzenheimmer."

> guess a truly bad teacher can deny evolution

Or lock them in a closet. Or tell them "girls can't do math" so many times they believe it, and roll their eyes derisively if any of the 9 yr olds object. Or fail them out of spite... or have them expelled without true cause.

Oh man, there must be a 100 different kinds of bad. And few children have the life skills to mitigate that (few adults, if we're honest).
In Seattle, taking a 45 minute train ride can be the difference in 300K or more for buying a house. I wonder if other cities are similar?
> Just swiping and tapping to control is useful than having to fiddle with 4 buttons

What's fiddly about buttons? It's much faster than swiping a couple of times to get to the option you want.
I don't think it's fair to consider this campaign as any sort of 'record'. Pebble is an already successful company with a history of success using Kickstarter as a store. If Apple decided to release the iPhone 7 on Kickstarter it would also break a ridiculous amount of records, but it's still not really 'fair'.
I can understand it to an extent - tech is a pretty creative field and creative stuff definitely benefits from co-location. But most of what the average tech worker does day to day is execution, and there's no reason one can't execute from a chair in Anywhereville just as good as a chair in Palo Alto.

The irony about tech being so adverse to remote work is pretty thick, at least that's what my friends in other sectors who work remote with no problem tell me. Even companies who build tools to enable remote work often don't embrace it themselves.
26 minutes in, and this may be the best documentary on the then-future use of computers I've seen.
If your goal is to get VC funding, Bay Area is the place to be.

If your goal is to run a company, that is not quite as clear.
Looks like Linux with Openbox: http://openbox.org/wiki/Openbox:Screenshots
The entire automotive industry makes way too much money on tires for them to allow something like this to develop.
That's a solid position to be in. I can understand it can become overwhelming. I don't think dropping school is a very good option, unless you think you've learned as much as you can. I'd love to figure out how to help out. Contact me (email is in my profile) and maybe I can help in some way.
Honestly, I kind of prefer the new AT&T solution where they charge you ~$30 more to do nothing with your data. If paranoid people want this, then by all means, let them pay for it.
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I think there's a better chance of people reading it if delivered in small chunks. He also gets to deliver 8 ads (or whatever marketing opp) instead of just one.
Does gold truly have that much worth as a value store? Its not a terribly great metal, and I can't see myself buying food with gold anymore than I can see myself using dollars if the economy collapses.

In a nod to Accelerando (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando), the only value store I could see being useful in the future is perhaps reputation.
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Divided by a couple million watches? Like $5...
It is a BIT different to keep a voice recording, because you can recognize a voice recording, unlike a written sentence.
Looks to be Arch running i3 (my own current setup as well, actually)
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About time! I've been using it a lot on FF mobile where it's super useful.
This feature was announced long time ago. I've been using the Enjoy Reading extension for a while and found no good replacement when it was abandoned.
In the bay area you're pretty much screwed no matter how far out you go. But it's not just about cost of living, it's also about finding a place you can afford where you wouldn't mind sending your kids to school some day. That cuts the options down quite a bit.
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voice is more reliable when it has context, like a complete sentence. That doesn't always fit the use case of opening an oddly named app.

One could get around most of that by being able to set aliases for often used apps, like, "quick open 1." If it's hard to open a seldom used app, it's not that big a deal.
> It's simply that GMO is a much more powerful tool for modifying organisms than the current tools like selective breeding.

Both inherently and due to levels of regulatory scrutiny (which may not be as much as some people like, but is still more than techniques of inducing genetic changes that are classed as "traditional" breeding) it is a much more controlled tool that other current tools like selective breeding.

OTOH, I'm not sure its more powerful (in terms of greater potential for change) than modern "selective breeding" techniques; from talking in to people who do work with both GMO and modern selective breeding techniques, I think that a lot of the public impression along those lines is driven by an outdated, romanticized view about "selective breeding".
I didn't believe you, so I googled it.

Not convinced that it was ever produced, but still:

http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1...
did you just want to show off that you can encrypt a pointless comment?

thanks for that valuable contribution to this discussion.
I also wish Google would allow some kind of intent resolution based on, say, regex matching of the voice recognition result. I want to be able to register phrases like "OK Google, turn on the lights" or "OK Google, set the temperature to 25 degrees" and allow my app to handle them (and yes I do actually have all my lights, thermostats, etc. controllable from my phone)
So, how could I fix the first example of the paper ?
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