skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I don't want to mock it--it's challenging stuff, and makes a lot of money. It's the optimism that's a total culture shock to me. What I consider the traditional engineering attitude is the exact opposite--conservative, pessimistic, "don't fix it if it ain't broken."
I have degrees in software and law (non US), and while I did the law degree for fun on the side, I thought for a long time there would be a profitable niche on the crossroads of the two. Turns out there isn't though - the combination is so rare that there are no jobs there, all is set up to work with multiple people. Even in patent work I'd make less than in the very specialized software consulting niche I work in now.
So after burning through 6M dollars in 4 years, losing the 10k-20k investments from a number of small investors, losing the investment from YC, letting go all but 3 employees, refusing to step down, coming up with another sketchy idea, you are now asking other startups to help you fund your own company by giving you free services.

You are a snake-oil salesman, not an entrepreneur. Step down. Leave.
Are there any companies who are using this currently? Can anyone speak to how it's working for them?
Still, it's at least not a news source purpose built to drive ad revenue. The culture and mission is different, and it shows in the interface design.

If you're in a position to suggest, let people donate to NPR to get a version of the app that never shows ads as their reward.

I noticed mine recently started very occasionally showing ads down on the bottom, but surely the ad revenue from delivering them to a single person is smaller than the amount a typical NPR listener will donate (if they donate at all).
> The trouble with such identifications, though, is they can lead to logical errors that make your life a lot worse, by causing you to feel as though a question about your intellectual honesty, rationality, or empathy is in fact a personal attack. This happens entirely unconsciously, and repairing it can seriously suck.

I agree. Thanks for a reminder.

> But that might just be tedious; instead I will say that in my own life, waving the banner for diversity and equality has come along with being happier, feeling more decent, and being more energetically invested in technology than I was before.

I agree. I like diversity and equality. But diversity means allowing different groups to coexist, and to tolerate people with different opinions and outlooks on life. I don't see "weirdos" trying to impose their own worldview on everyone - on the contrary, it's them who are being forced to conform to the rest. That is not diversity.
> If you are getting free money from the government, it means you can't manage your own life.

No particular offense to you, specifically, but this sentiment is something that makes me rage.

There are not enough jobs for everybody.

We have MORE than doubled productivity since 1970. That means that HALF the jobs since then have vaporized. Gone. Kaput. Never to be replaced.

If you were not "talented" enough to be born into a family that was college educated prior to 1980, you were in for a very hard time in the future--through no fault of your own. The biggest predictor of whether you will be poor is whether you were born to poor parents.

And, while everybody always mentions immigrants, I would like to point out that we have survivor bias. The immigrants that you know SUCCEEDED. Lots of them got lost along the way. Many of them are still poor--there is a reason they tend to congregate together in specific city sections.
Why Racists Find a Home in Frats
Here's some decent background:

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/the-sanest-arguments...
It's a problem I have. Apple don't have docking stations; it's frustrating unhooking multiple devices so I can wander to a meeting room, only to hook them up again later. A single cable would be amazing (even more so if it was MagSafe, but oh well).
Could you integrate it with Xero? (Rather than relying on Zapier)
Apple Engineer Talks about the New 2015 Macbook
Warranty and insurance are slightly different things. Warranty in Europe does not cover the cases where you brake something accidentally, for example.
Why should that be noted?
Yes, that is me! We had a lot of good times in downtown Det.
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And the electronics cost much more...
While I enjoy reading them :), I would tend to agree with you. As well as international politics, for example Ukraine and similar.
I have 4 chromebooks, the original pilot program, 1st Gen Samsung, Acer c720, and the Pixel. Totally love the pixel, pilot book and Acer, hate the 1st gen. AdmiralAsshat's criticisms are valid about the pixel but it works well for me since it has a lot more memory than the other chromebooks. Crouton linux makes even the smaller chromebooks quite useable for most situations. Sometimes I have a hard time deciding which chromebook to use. Mostly it's come down to the Acer for travel, and the Pixel for home. The Pixel has poor battery life compared to the other chromebooks though, but glad to hear that's been taken care of.
Mountain View is also in California, by the way. Apple and Google are 15 minutes drive apart.
The only topic that gets worse comments than science on HN is gender issues.

I think you're unfair there. If you want to see a diversity of opinions, that's exactly what we have--the fact that you disagree with one side or the other is quite your own problem.
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Each of the state jurisdictions have different rules regarding minimum RTP percentages in games. With regards to poker autohold there aren't any rules that I'm aware of other than it has to be above the regulated minimum for the state. For example, Nevada had a minimum RTP requirement to 75%, so autohold would have to be at least that good. (Note to tourists: never play the slot machines in the Las Vegas airport. They're probably barely over the minimum required by law)
How about we create assessments which measure skill, and not simply how much spare time someone has, or whether their current employment allows them to do side work?
I've purchased Zenni glasses for my last 2 prescriptions. The first pair I got I found much more comfortable after replacing the nose pads with a kit from Walmart. Otherwise the glasses are pretty good - lightweight, double hinged and everything.

I reordered the same frames this past year and they seem to be fine, so I don't know if they changed up the nose pads in any way or if I managed to adjust the frames properly this go around.

For sunglasses I go with with Luxottica because of the premium polarized lenses. I wear sunglasses 11 months out of the year so I definitely agree on getting a quality pair.
I got some low-end chromebooks for my teenage daughters. It's the perfect device for them. Cheap to replace if they get lost/stolen/dropped, and I don't need to worry about viruses.
Not really.

I'm typing this on Thinkpad T430s with i7, two SSDs (one of them in ultrabay), 3G modem... when it was bought, it was as expensive, as Macbook Pro can be. Yet, I consider the Thinkpad worth the asking price and Macbook Pro not.

It is entirely about what you value in the product you buy. You may be totally utilitarian, or you may want fashion item. In the end, it is just stuff anyways ;)
I agree with @alain94040. The best co-founder are your former classmates, co-workers, and the other people you have already worked with and know. Look for really smart people who are around you that possesses a skill that you lack. i.e. If you're technical, try to find somebody who is business oriented.

I would also hit up Meetups, Users Groups, and maybe Alumni mixers. Chances are you might run into an old co-worker/class mate that shares similar interests.
I've always suspected it was an artifact of the legal infrastructure failing to scale with demand. This chokes the courts and forces disputes to be settled outside of it (perhaps with a minimal final-stage "blessing" from a judge).

The "demand" (number of disputes) increases with the number of interactions, which is roughly the square of the number of people (each pair is another potential dispute). So if

- population is increasing, and

- supply (courts and lawyers) does not increase as fast as the square, and

- legal technology does not increase output per person[1],

then the backlog steadily increases and people have to work around it.

[1] Many economists insist that law inherently experiences Baumol's cost disease of resistance to technological improvements due to high human component of output, but I think that's more an artifact of the constrains we place on courts.
End-to-end arguments in system design [pdf]
At our company we have "call to action" cards but we just call them flyers. Ours are actually in the design of poker playing cards.

I do find myself rarely passing out my business card for work-related stuff anymore, and half the time I forget to even refill my wallet. Usually it's just when I meet somebody out and about and we decide we should keep in touch.
We don't directly integrate yet, but we do offer event hooks, so you can port them wherever you want.
and google makes it look like a 4 year old macbook pro.
True - it is enough for most people. And those who need more can upgrade. Many chromebook users upgrade the NGFF drive.... its a big seller on Amazon.
So if you look at the numbers actually tons of people are moving out of California. On the other hand tons of people are moving in too. However, I think the overall effect is Cailifornia is losing people every month.
Four Trees, Some Amulets, and the Seventy-Two Names of God (2004)
I'd agree, but i also think this applies to both genders, it doesn't make sense for women to show too much skin for a professional environment and men shouldn't be wearing beach clothing to a meeting etc. However that being said, women shouldn't feel like they're not being taken seriously just for wearing a dress/skirt (appropriate length) or anything that resembles their gender. That's when it falls in the line of sexism, I have heard some stories on how female developers got "brushed off" at conferences for wearing a dress.
Hope no one minds a plug here for the upcoming Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) in Dublin July 10-11, 2015 [0]. Abstract submission is now open [1].

There is also a free and open invite hackathon called the Codefest July 8-9, 2015 [2]; everyone is welcome to attend.

The BOSC 2014 conference schedule along with videos and slides from most of the talks is available [3], as are schedules and slides from previous BOSC conferences.

Many Galaxy developers and users will be there!

[0] http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2015

[1] http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission

[2] http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Codefest_2015

[3] http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2014_Schedule
Get your Japanese wife to take your prescription to Japan and get good glasses for <£100 (<$100).

That's what I do.
Is that an ARM one? You can certainly build Chromium OS (which is Linux), including packages that you want, and install that. It is a somewhat involved the first time, but possible. You probably want something more self-hosting though (like, apt-get dist-upgrade works), and that sounds like it would be a lot of work. There's also Crouton which might get you what you want.

But yeah, ARM booting is consistently crazy and I don't understand how it works at all.
"I wish I could charge my MacBook and Chrome Pixel using the same cable", that's one big advantage.
That's not the main way it protects the teeth. If you just wanted to neutralize the acids, you could rinse/drink with a buffer such as milk. Flouride works by integrating with your teeth. It forms a mineral that it is more resistant to acid attack than the mineral teeth are made of naturally.
Thanks, that's basically what I wanted to hear. :)

My first thought was that you could've reused the R-S code from mdraid or dm-raid or ZFS, but on second thought 1) it may be too specialized to be reusable, and 2) it's GPL (or CDDL), so you can't just plonk it into your own code.

And yeah, if it's just 80 lines of Java, I'm worrying about the wrong things.
Microsoft should buy bluestacks just in case.
Thanks for the comment. Unfortunately what you expect is not the reality. With Facebook's current algorithm ,to reach the amount of people (who have already Liked your page) in the hopes that they see your post and convert is far more than a couple of bucks. At the moment, Facebook is showing an average of 2-4% of the people who have liked your page without a boost. A $5 boost will jump that up to around 400-500 people. That is per day! When you are getting maybe $100 bucks a gig, and if you are lucky you don't have to split that too many ways, it adds up fairly quickly. YOU may not want to see every post from that band, but if that band wants to grow and get their music heard they need to expand to people who haven't Liked their page yet. The numbers don't make sense for artists starting out and trying to grow a fan base.
Am I wrong that the title seems to imply something negative about word vectors? But the article is super pumped about them!
Or think more broadly. Fluoridation of water carries a massive public health benefit, particularly to poorer families. Given the frequency of exposure across locations and generations, what negative effect it has appears to be extraordinarily very mild at best, while the benefit it provides is significant.
As I tried to explain in comments downthread, it's not about being detracted from enjoyment because new people are arriving to the scene. It's about that what was once a refuge from bullies is no more, because the safe harbour became mainstream interest, and now "weirdos" are being pushed back again by the society that requires you to conform to its definition of "normal life" and "normal interests".

> grow the fuck up.

I always say I'm 5 years old, and I like it that way.
There's no About page or any context to the team and qualifications for running a high-responsibility service, so this is the only information available about the quality of the platform.
I'd just like to chime in and say that this guide is pretty much all you need to get up and running with Debian on the original pixel. It worked great and was my primary side-project development laptop for over a year in this setup.

I recently restored ChromeOS in anticipation of selling it for the pixel 2 upgrade, and I gotta say - ChromeOS and crouton have both come a long way. Ubuntu via crouton handles everything without any tweaking, which was a major problem I had with Wi-Fi on Debian. You can still take advantage of the <10second-to-browser boot time of ChromeOS if you just need to look a few things up real quick.

To take advantage of everything, if you could get ChromeOS to boot in developer mode (ctrl+d at bios screen) and Debian to boot on legacy boot (ctrl+l at bios screen), then you really get the best of all worlds!
A vendor's history and potential obligations are important.
I think you're trying to apply rules of thumbs for executives to everyone, and that doesn't work.

By the time you come in at executive level, as you say yourself, you'd better have the skillset needed, and better be functioning at an awfully high level with it.

It really doesn't take a lot to be world class once you're past those bars--most people aren't good enough in their areas to achieve executive status (I'm ignoring cronyism and a bunch of other less valid reasons to get the job) so once you're at that point, assuming you're legit, you're already in a small class of people.

Further, the executive sets the example for everyone else. So yes, if they're performing demonstrably poorly, fire them for heaven's sake. Otherwise the example they're setting will either influence everyone, or they'll be written off and now whoever hired them is going to inherit that distrust of competence.

Regarding management being an inherent talent, it's absolutely not. But a new executive hire is not the way to develop that talent--that job is for people who've already developed it. Mentor first, then promote, if you're shepherding someone from within.

And now, not ignoring cronyism and other poor reasons to hire someone, I think that whole "why did you hire them in the first place" is exactly what he's getting at. Don't hire (or promote) someone because you like them, assuming you can make them something they aren't today.

That's pretty much always true, strictly from a business perspective, but it's crucial as you go up the ladder. A bad exec will kill a company way faster than a bad employee, line manager, or even director.
Yeah, in the same sense that Satoshi Nakamoto's name correlates strongly with that of a randomly-chosen 64-year-old engineer trying to enjoy a modest, quiet retirement in the Bay Area.

The "truthiness" factor of anything published in Newsweek lies somewhere between Mother Goose and the Brothers Grimm.
My mom says she wants a "jitterbug tablet". She would pay for simple.
For some values of "ADHD", whose existence, diagnostic criteria, prevalence and proper management are still wildly controversial.
I really have no idea why you seem intent on picking an argument with me. I currently don't get assistance and I am homeless, not living in overcrowded living conditions.

Stating my objections to people saying "well, just move" is not remotely the same thing as advocating for any particular solution. I imagine the solutions I would propose would be things most people here would say wasn't what is under discussion. I generally frame problems differently from most other people.
I was hired in a large corporation to 'bring an entrepreneurial spirit' to the organization. After a year and a half of being pounded on for trying innovative things and attempting to move fast I left. On my way out one of the people on the hiring team said "I think I know why we do not have any entrepreneurial spirit; you get punished for it"
I don't think the article you are linking is a good source. The first paragraphs are full of ad hominem attacks.
Apparently the HD display comes with a huge price in battery life: http://www.cnet.com/products/dell-xps-13-2015-review/
Apple Pay: Bridging Online and Big Box Fraud
> *Yes, we know there are five senses, but we don’t recommend trying to taste or smell your Pixel.

C'mon Google. Surely you know that there are more than five senses. At the very least, can't balance and proprioception get any love? Not to mention the entire gastrointestinal tract.
It's just a meme.

Like it is also trendy to have an over-sized picture of young people working on wooden desks in an industrial-chic office taking up 70% of the screen space.

Goes nicely with the Bootstrap template, Lobster font, Circular cropped photos of founders, Ping pong tables, Ruby on Rails. Etc. Etc.
I think it's great that Apple has replaced all those ports with USB-C, and as you point out it is exactly in line with previous decisions to prune almost obsolete tech which turned out very well. There will be a lot of unjustified moaning and then people will be happy when the whole world runs on USB-C (at last, one fast standard for connectors that everyone can agree on).

I'd rather have two USB-C ports though than a pointless little audio jack - they should have put one on either side as Google have on their pixel. People could use bluetooth headphones with it if they really couldn't find some other place for the headphone jack, but I'm sure they could have squeezed it in if they tried hard enough. As it is one port is rather limiting (yes I know it shares data and power).

It'd be nice to be able to charge an iphone and charge the computer at the same time, so on port means many people will require a hub. They should also have sorted out their monitors with a refresh which actually functions as a hub for USB-A and USB-C - perhaps they'll do that before launch or I hope soon after.
What I am asking for is a different pricing mechanism for bands and artist. This is not an unreasonable ask considering that Music on Facebook is one of their biggest draws and they happily use that fact to sell advertising. They can give a break to the people providing valuable content.
Cursors allows child components without state to update the state of a parent component.
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I wonder if this is the rat study: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378427408...

Things to note: they soaked cultures of rat hippocampus neurons in various concentrations of sodium fluoride. They didn't make the rats drink fluorinated water. It's difficult for fluoride to cross the blood brain barrier.
Can someone compare and contract Baobab to immstruct?
It does for the people being discussed.
I went to a place in Kyoto and had a very similar experience. Same day, cheap, great quality... Japanese consumers don't put up with any shit.
> we'll all be so happy with the obvious (in hindsight) decision to switch to USB-C.

I don't think the issue is the inclusion of USB-C -- in fact, USB-C offers a lot.

I think the issue is only having one connector on the entire laptop. What happens if that port fails or beaks? Your laptop stops working...
On my android tablet I find that "mobile" sites tend to suck and that the desktop sites work just fine, except sometimes they have popup ads that are hard to remove.
>That we can at all use such a touch screen is a miracle in the animal kingdom.

Chimpanzees can also use touch screens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkNV0rSndJ0
I could imagine more TX power on the balloon (nobody's in the way so it shouldn't do damage), as well as more sensitive RX antennae, since there isn't the same size or weight restriction as on an airplane or a satellite. Come to think of it, an unmanned balloon is actually the wet dream from an antenna standpoint.
Studies showing that fluoride causes hyperactivity in rats go back to the 90s, according to the article. Maybe the people in Portland should be given the benefit of the doubt.

I understand the whole fluoride issue has been tainted by conspiracy theories, but honestly, it's not that unscientific to think that ingesting a known endocrine disruptor might have a biological effect.
Firefox Mobile allows extensions:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/
Where did you go to business school?
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User smacktoward summed it up, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7314434:

> For all the intellectual firepower of people in the tech community, there is a curious strain of anti-intellectualism that comes forth in projects like this; an eagerness to discount the expertise of people who have studied a subject for their entire lives, just because they weren't CS majors. It's like trying to send a man to the moon without working with any aerospace engineers. I honestly do not understand it.
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Does it allow an external monitor with 4k 60hz?
Innovators dilemma by different words?
Comparison out: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2478167,00.asp
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Using open standards would be an Android plus for me too, if micro-usb didn't suck ass compared to Thunderbolt.