skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I knew more who socially isolated themselves by being arrogant jerks to everyone else, especially those they considered to be of lower intelligence.

I knew people like that too, though I can't tell how often it was because they were just jerks with technical interests, and how much it was a defense mechanism, trying to maintain a little bit of self-esteem while being constantly bullied.

> I dont fit the real nerd stereotype. I played football and I don't like dnd. I resent the notion that I am some kind of brogrammer picking on the poor helpless nerds. Who is really picking on who here?

I don't think that was the message coming from the article. Most of the hardcore nerd circles I know would happily accept you and wouldn't mind you like football and are not into DnD. But usually this doesn't work the other way - your DnD-playing football-agnostic nerd gets picked on and called a "nolife".

> If it truly is about the code, as the author states, then why should this bs about authentic nerd culture even matter?

Because the author states that the nerd culture is (among other things) about "the code over status games".
The Wikipedia article about Russian space dogs [0] mentioned in this post would almost deserve a HN submission by itself.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_space_dogs
FYI, to reply directly to a comment, hit the "reply" link right below it, rather than typing into the "add comment" box at the top. It makes the thread more readable that way
Of course you're right, which is exactly why I didn't write that.

Again: the paper might be correct, but past experience has taught me to be skeptical.
I'd love to hear why you don't want to rely on Zapier for this, any feedback?
The thing runs linux. Like if you ever wanted a linux laptop this is for you. I just bought a toshiba cb2, and with crouton installed it's one of the best laptops I think I've ever owned (for the price).
It's just a play on the phrase a 'picture is worth a thousand words' :) The word vectors themselves contain sophisticated relationships that seem almost miraculous, we're definitely not negative on them

(Speaking as one of the authors of the post)
no it wouldn't. it would be a good guess based on his experience. not a statistical sin at all, the events are related, the guys doing the work make mistakes all the time and the odds they get it right this time are low.
I repeat again: I agree the customer is less likely to get his money back with an FTC complaint than a chargeback. But FTC complaints still work as an incentive to keep merchants honest because what the FTC does eventually is one or more of the following: initiate lawsuit, shut down the business, seize the merchant's assets (offices, products, money, everything), etc.

> What evidence do I have of fraud if its just a shipping dispute and their word against mine?

The same evidence you would supply to your credit card issuer for a dispute: shipment info, package tracking numbers, pictures of items delivered, customer/merchant email exchanges, etc.

> Mistakes, and disruptions in the continuance of the company

As I said, most merchants are trying to please customers, so most mistakes are resolved without a chargeback. I don't think you will disagree here. I have never had to issue a chargeback, yet I had a few mistakes happen on me and the merchant always resolved them in my favor.

As to "disruptions in the continuance of the company" this is an extremely rare event, even rarer than outright fraud. So I will agree this is a nice case to have chargebacks available, but again as I said for 99.9...% of other purchases Bitcoin's lack of chargebacks is totally acceptable. I don't think you will disagree here either.
Start with creating a chroot. chroots are easy and can be wiped/recreated quickly if you mess them up. I run Debian Jessie in a chroot and have a simple bash script that provisions the additional stuff I want (apt-get, etc..) and edits a few config files.
From the article

> Fluoride can readily cross the placenta, accumulate in the infant brain and easily exert
neurotoxic effects, such as decreasing norepinephrine in the parietal and occipital lobes,
decreasing serotonin in the parietal lobe and increasing serotonin in the frontal and occipital
lobes [42-45].

So maybe it passes the blood-brain barrier more easily in infants or in utero?

Also if you search for "rats' in the original article, http://www.ehjournal.net/content/pdf/s12940-015-0003-1.pdf then you'll see them referencing studies that has rats drink or be injected with fluoride. They weren't referencing the study you linked.
While Apple has been in the business of simplifying ports there is a difference at least in previous cases we were ready to move on I'd argue. Back in 1999 I don't think I had used a floppy for a few years, zip drives? Sure, but not a floppy. Dropping the optical drive was bound to happen, I don't think I've really used a optical media bay outside of a game console for years.

However, every day at work, I plug my MacBook Retina into two monitors, plug in my USB 3.0 drive, sometimes my iPhone to charge or do dev stuffs, and charger, and frequently use my SD card slot as a 3rd HDD. Apple now is in the business of offloading the problem of I/O to the user, they haven't fixed it. It wouldn't have hurt the MacBook to include 2-4 ports, all USB3c
It's a complicated topic. There isn't a simple, one-dimensional solution. It will take both sides working together to get it working better.

All I am saying is that a woman covering her cleavage isn't some crazy, ridiculous, sexist standard. Men also are expected to cover their chest at work.
Buying glasses online is a definitively sub-par experience.

It's very difficult to find ones that are fitted exactly right and look the way you want. If you re-order exactly the same frame style and size as you've had previously, then you can do alright, but it's hard to get the same experience as with a physical store.

Also, people often put off getting new glasses until they have to, and it's convenient to get it all done in one shot.

Additionally, the business is still sitting on some convenient anti-competitive regulations that exist at the state level in most places.

Another big factor is insurance. Health insurance often covers enough of the cost of eye exams and glasses, people end up not caring how much it actually costs.

The fact that there are many places to buy glasses online but they still have a very limited marketshare is perhaps the best evidence that it's not really a comparable experience.
an elephant's curiosity, feeding and exploration behavior is different from the same of a mouse. Trying to make the elephant to do the mousy things would be strange at least. I don't think the lean elephant would be result, more like exhausted to the death with significantly diminished capacity for survival. Or may be a better illustration would be trying to explore the Delta using 100K ton container ship instead of 28ft Bayliner.
I will be there like every year, at least for the challenges happening during the weekend. Too bad you can't do it on your own terms. Like why can't you start the coding session when you want? I always forfeit not because I can't solve it but because it's at random times on weekdays.
Empirical evidence gleaned from day-to-day observation (not to mention numerous news reports) suggest that a significant portion of the population is basically clueless about the limitations of this technology. They're also basically addicted to it (as in: a fair number of otherwise intelligent, well-educated people I know apparently can't, to save their own lives, navigate their own neighborhoods with a mapping service -- whereas 5 years ago they may have just been mildly impaired at the task).

But if you feel the need to attack someone you'll most likely never see or meet as being "smug" for tangentially pointing out this fact (ironically backed by exultations of your own vastly superior experience in both technology remote environments) -- instead of minding whatever work someone is presumably paying you to be doing at this time, as we speak -- well, do what you need to do, I guess.
The mystery of Dell's website. Go back to Google and search again. Dell gives you different options (and prices) depending on how you enter and navigate the web site. It's a maze of wonderful discovery!

Usability at its finest!
You don't have to wonder. You can follow the link right there in the Newsweek article, and find it's a different study. Here it is for your convenience: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7760776

From the abstract: "For prenatal exposures, dams received injections (SC) of 0.13 mg/kg NaF or saline on gestational days 14-18 or 17-19. Weanlings received drinking water containing 0, 75, 100, or 125 ppm F for 6 or 20 weeks, and 3 month-old adults received water containing 100 ppm F for 6 weeks."
There's a tiny, tiny, tiny button on the right of the 3 configurations that let you scroll to the beefier models.

I can't imagine more than 10% of people ever even see these additional configuration. (just like this comment!)
I haven't seen enough details about the pixel. But other chromebooks are easy to upgrade. Just a few screws... Look on amazon for NGFF drives. You'll see in the reviews that many people talk about their experience upgrading their chromebooks.
It's probably most accurate to say that gender isn't a significant factor in my calculus of attraction. I was born in Houston, though, and lived there for 23 years.

For what it's worth, I don't recall intending anything in particular with that list of adjectives, but you never really know about authorial intent.
True, if we get down to the nitty gritty, its not as simple as I portrayed. My intent was to say, bring an idea for a solution, don't just bring a problem. If I had two employees who came to me with the same problem, and one came prepared with a recommended solution and the other one didn't, it would be clear to me who the more valuable employee is.
Homelessness and Food Poverty in the UK/USA
My case is the same as it was previously: we may respect someone's decisions, but that doesn't mean we're going to put financing behind them.

In other words, the best way to help someone might not be handing them whatever addresses their most immediate problem. Controlling their lives to do things like administer medical treatment might produce better, cheaper, more reliable long-term outcomes. Is that "unnecessary hardship"?

Consider that SF's record of attempting to deliver services in-place to the homeless population has not made much of a dent in the size of the population.
[Anecdotally] I was on my way to Law School but decided to start a job in QA at a startup. Three months later I was writing code, and 9 months after that I left to find my first truly-engineering spot. Haven't looked back.
Engadget says it's STILL impractical - http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/11/chromebook-pixel-review-2...
"In Apple's case I fully expect they will make it so that when you plug your Apple display into your laptop it also charges it since the charger is permanently connected to (or built into) the Apple monitor/display."

Some of us are still waiting for our Displays with MagSafe2 and USB3... when was the last MagSafe1 laptop made? Yet Apple is still manufacturing the TB display as-is.
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My sense is that the OP's attitude is counterproductive at lower levels. It's much cheaper and more effective to retain your best and develop them, rather than hiring in the open market.

Once you get to the top, it's much more difficult. Indeed a non-Finance CEO can't teach much about Finance to the CFO. And they need stars for direct reports because too much is at stake to rely on mediocre people to improve by self-learning.

Where the argument breaks down is culture comes from the top. If the CEO doesn't take coaching seriously, their direct reports won't either. The CEO has to find a way to show that personal growth is a top priority, even if it isn't by teaching outside of their own domain.
he has wonderful taste in his choice of projects.
Are unique indexes planned for any of the upcoming releases?
I really like the clean API docs, well done! Did you build it on your own or is that some REST doc framework?

The only thing I was missing from the API (maybe those are there but left out in the docs, which would be totally fine) are links between your resources (to make it a bit more actual REST). You already more promimently documented the usecase ("create an invoice") instead of listing URL endpoints, but with links between the resources, the API becomes even more discoverable for new developers.

Oh, one more minor thing: "Paid uses UTC unix timestamps for all dates and times." -- I was under the impression that unix timestamps are always UTC anyway (i.e. it's defined as "seconds since 1970-01-01 UTC")? If I'm wrong, please correct me :)
In a world, where I achieved today 50-200 kbps connection via ipsec to my company I don't want to rely on network connection either.
I grew up as nerd and was bullied both emotionally and physically (although less so physically than others probably). Since i have have some small understanding of what it's like to feel excluded, I welcome all folks involved in social justice into our nerdy communities.
The most interesting tidbit in the article was this:

About 90 percent of the fluoride that is added to the water takes the form not of pharmaceutical grade sodium fluoride but ... fluorosilicic acid ... This material is a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer manufacturing ... several studies have suggested that this form of fluoride can leach lead from pipes. ...other work shows that children in fluoridated areas have elevated blood lead levels, and fluoride may also increase the absorption of lead into the body... Lead itself is a potent neurotoxin and has been shown to play a role in ADHD.

What is the likelihood that in areas with lower spending on municipal water that lead pipes are still used and they use the cheapest for of fluoridation available?

This freaks me out a little.
I don't agree with it, but the Bloomberg administration in NYC tried a program where they bought one-way plane tickets for homeless families[1] to leave the overcrowded shelter system. Critics were against it because it wasn't addressing any of the root causes of the problem, rather just moving/hiding it in a similar way to the bulldozing of "the Jungle"

I am struggling to find the name of the program in the article in order to see if it has "worked" in any way to reduce homelessness. Not sure if it is even still around.

EDIT: It's called Project Reconnect[2] and it is still around even though De Blasio apparently was against it[3]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/nyregion/29oneway.html
[2] http://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/3601/project-recon...
[3] http://nypost.com/2014/09/06/de-blasio-has-sent-1412-homeles...
http://imgur.com/VFcngCE
We also have a long-time app that recently (within the past 1-2 weeks) completely disappeared from the app store rankings. It used to always be in the top 20 or so of its category, but now it's not ranked at all on the iPad app store. I'm not sure what my actual app ranking is now, but it doesn't show in the top 150 anymore. Like your app, mine can still be found when searching by keyword. On the iPhone app store, my app is still ranked, but lower than it usually is.

My sales haven't changed too much, since I think most find my app through keyword searches, so I don't think a drop in sales is what caused the drop in rank. I was thinking it was a glitch/bug in their algorithm or possibly iPad device sales are so low now that hardly anyone is buying apps of my genre? But it's still really strange that with similar sales, my ranking has completely dropped off the charts like it has on the iPad app store.
Here's that telescope scale comparison in svg: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Comparis...
As was mentioned elsewhere, when company ____ is announced that they are "accepting bitcoin", they are never actually accepting bitcoin. A payment processor is accepting bitcoin (and accepting the risk therein) and paying out in the businesses choice of currency.

Consider it similar to when you use a credit card in a foreign country -- you get charged in your currency, they receive payment in theirs.
Some members of the userbase even commit sins like generalizing from a few cases to the entire population or even make assumptions about unattested facts like, say, the educational qualifications of hypothetical people who haven't even commented yet. If only there were some sort of mechanism which would allow us to vote on which comments we felt were insightful and showed expertise with the subject matter...
Yeah, every day you are reminded because someone forgot their apple adapter. It's nothing but pathetic.

Optical drives and floppy discs were obvious, they were never used on a daily basis when they were removed and that they remained so long in laptops (macs included) is just astounding. But something like Ethernet is just ludicrous. Unfortunately, if you want a slim laptop Ethernet will have to go - but it sure as hell will be missed in the coming decade.

Non-replacable batteries... Another milestone? No one was stupid enough to come up with that before apple, and thanks to that we all have to throw away all of our devices after a few years. But who cares, right?
Great problem to tackle. Meetings aren't going away, and they can be improved.

Two questions for the founder:

- How much of this is process vs the tool itself? (How much is this an improvement over Shared Google docs?)

- The company name isn't MeetingLife. What's next on the agenda?
From the article: "A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model."

YCombinator explicitly rejected that model in their cutback in initial funding amount. The decision was made that the startup should not have enough financing to "pivot" and try something new, but should die a cheap death if (usually when) the initial idea fails.

From the article, referring to big companies: "And when we do make bets, they’re small bets on incremental products or acquisitions that simply add to the bottom line."

That's what YCombinator, as an initial funder, is doing. YCombinator is a big company making many small bets.
Absolutely not!! This would be a blatant act of censorship--and to what end? You'll see the same junk science on Reddit anyway.

The feedback from the HN community on science articles is some of the best on the web. It honestly comprises about a third of the reason I visit. I wouldn't know where else to get that.

Granted, I may have a different perspective given that I did a biochem undergrad and can read primary literature. Some of my experience and frustration with the popular media coverage and editorial behavior has given me a lens with which to evaluate coverage of other disciplines. But shouldn't we expect everyone here to have or develop a similar critical thinking patten? Why do we need to treat our community with baby gloves?
> have been recalled and yet are still available for purchase on amazon!

Recalls are not mandatory I believe, and majority of products on Amazon are sold by 3rd party sellers (everything from part-time-single-person operations to big distribution companies).
What happens when you (somehow) fail to set the status of a toy you track to "recalled" during some part of the recall period, and then one of your subscriber's kid harms themselves with said toy? Have you anticipated how to protect yourself from your subscriber in such a case?
> Innovation processes and metrics need to be different from those of the execution organizations

At one particular organization I did a short consulting engagement for we were brought in to help streamline their project delivery process. It turns out that they really needed to have a corporate overhaul of their people incentives. The idea generators were doing end-arounds on their current process and went straight to the implementors so that they could put on their year-end review that "I built relationships and influenced others so that I could spam X projects". Because of this style of thinking this type of activity was breaking their system because they couldn't implement the best project for the company. Only the projects whose owners who were the best at breaking the system.

I had actually been an FTE at this company before and definitely could see what this article was talking about in regards to fear of failure. Who wants to put on their year-end review that they failed half their projects? Especially in a GE-style performance management model.
Calling it a "working fluid" would be more accurate than describing it as an energy source.

They're talking about using it as an analogue of water in a standard steam engine.

We don't usually describe the water in steam engines as the energy source per se.
A lot of people here are saying maybe poor people should just move away to where it's cheaper. Supposedly, the economic arguments are in their favor. If you can't afford to live here, why don't you just move to where you can?

Counter arguments say the expected "that's not fair to them." But I think that's missing the point. The real, honest truth is we (speaking as someone better off) need these people to stay here. If they move away, who will drive our buses? Who will teach our children? Who will build our homes? Who will do all the jobs that don't pay well enough for the richer ones among us to do? (Please don't say machines. We're not there yet.)

Two solutions:

(1) Pay them more, so they can afford to live here. But that begs the question. Where is the money going to come from? Frankly, it's unlikely we'll just suddenly start paying construction workers and plumbers and teachers more.

(2) Subsidize their cost of living. There's probably a case to be made that if we need people to work these jobs, they should be entitled to some cost of living subsidies. Maybe create a group of "endangered" jobs that we need but whose average wages are lower than the cost of living. Anyone who works those jobs has access to affordable housing, gas credits, etc. It's a run around the wage market, but maybe it could work.
I'm pretty sure that Verizon or AT&T would love to blanket an area of that size for only $1B. While you won't get the same speeds as Fiber, the economics still work out well.
A USB 3 hub can fulfill any function a traditional docking station would other than extremely low latency I/O which most users don't care about.
There's a nice panorama of the site here:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/B-710,+Antofagasta,+Chile/An...

Looks like it's a couple of hours drive to the nearest city, Antofagasta. That will be a lonely stay for those working there. On the plus side they will probably average 364 nights a year of good viewing weather.
Even with codifications it is still subjective. The obvious things of no physical abuse, etc... are obvious. How do you codify don't be an asshole? In fact, simply saying act like a grown adult is probably the most clear I've ever seen an HR guideline.
Would love to see calendar sync for MS exchange supported :)
I'd like to see all type C, with converter cables when necessary. Hopefully they designed it so that's possible.
I wish their glasses looked good on my face. I do like their way of letting you try them on though.
Here: https://guides.agilebits.com/1password-mac/5/en/topic/1passw...