skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
whats the downside to applying?
Where is the Instagram for Audio?
That's an extraordinarily disingenuous description of the status quo.

Then are we going to pretend that the Music Industry didn't try to sue YouTube out of existence and possibly only survived thanks to Google's deep wallets?

If you need deep corporate wallets to protect yourself to create a service like YouTube its not hard to see how a system like ContentID might come about to protect yourself from lawyers. Mountains of "pirate" evidence or not, protecting yourself from Hollywood's lawyers is expensive.
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that means the business is still relevant. smart publicity by the CEO i say.
If you're using Lollipop, bring up Google Now, then swipe from left of the screen to the right to bring up the menu.

From there, you can click "Customize" which allows you to update your card preferences.

In your case you'd want to update the work location under "Places". Tap your work place, tap the address and update it with any place you are interested in travelling to on a daily basis. (This is actually the "Daily Commute" location, it's just automatically labelled as work) Alternatively, you could just relabel it from "Work" to "McDonalds" and then you'd at least overcome the 100% failure rate issue.

This is Customize menu is also where you can give Now your local cable provider for TV schedules, sports teams and stocks for tracking and aggregated access to all your general preferences for Now as well.
It was in reference to the quote and the implication that the two were equivalent and equal.

Mentoring and being nice to a woman is very, very different than flirting with her. Implying they are the same is gross.
Found a mistake near the bottom: Justin.tv is either dead or acquired, however you want to interpret the change into Twitch.
As a developer, I see my boredom as a sign of gross mismanagement.

I'm not altogether lazy. I can always find something to do on my own that is at least tangentially related to the goals of the company. If nothing else comes to mind, I try to find and retire some technical debt, because there's always some technical debt lurking around somewhere.

So when I get bored, it is because I have been forbidden to do things beyond what I have been allowed or ordered to do. It is because I feel that any initiative will be ignored at best, or punished at worst.

Boredom is a subset of frustration. If there are any bored developers at your company, you need to take a long, hard look at how you allocate their time. And if the lead is bored--the person who should nominally have the most flexibility and autonomy on the dev team--I guarantee that some people lower on the totem pole already have their resumes out there.
Wrong, I do have facts on my side, and we do have a big chunk of the story because it's being aired out in a high profile court case for those of us paying attention.

I've been to several VC-funded companies that involved things like excessive drinking, happy hours as part of the interviews, etc. For some bizarre reason involving an algorithm called Future Founders that looks for potential founders, I also got invited to a VC lunch where they talked about these strategies, ways to effectively outsource, etc. I am going to write a tell-all about it eventually but I'm still too mid-career for it to be a good idea.

VCs are throwing around a lot of intangibles and "we just can't know for sure" for why there field is 96% male, and yet the woman who objectively outperforms them doesn't get promoted. You can easily fact check the sexism I'm talking about by just looking up top VC firms and scrolling through their list of partners, and I would also recommend every tech employee look at the gender makeup of their board of directors, and reading more about this case.

Are you joking about saying her qualifications are debatable? She has an engineering degree from Princeton, an MBA and JD from Harvard, and the only thing that prevents her from having a track record of successful investments is the sexism being demonstrated in this case!

96% male, paying yourselevs $3 million a year but running to Democrats like Obama and DeBlasio to spend taxpayer money to fill your "talent shortage", harassing and retaliating against the few female VCs you do have, I do see sickening behavior, and the reason you can't is because you're a corporate shill.
> In the 80s I had kids in class crying in their beds at night over the hole in the ozon layer. Images in my head of skin cancers everywhere..

The Ozone layer is a shining example of success driven by a nearly identical discussion to today's climate change one. Scientists showed a clear mechanism for Ozone depletion, a clear (but expensive) fix for the issue by removing CFCs from all goods, and then worked over years to convince politicians to ignore the business interests casting FUD over their work and actually regulate CFCs.

The Ozone layer didn't fix itself; massive, coordinated action by nearly every country on earth in the form of the Montreal Protocol did. A nice summary of the tactics taken by 'skeptics' that time around: http://www.wunderground.com/resources/climate/ozone_skeptics...

It just so happens there is much more money at stake with the Climate Change debate so the opposition is much stronger.
Leave it to programmers to assume human nature must exist within a binary modality of "apathetic amoral workhorse" and "messy emotional beast of terror"

Naturally, this assumption causes any violation to throw a LegalException, which is caught by the GovernmentSingleton anti-pattern whose separation of concern juggles between legislating, in scientifically precise terms, how genders must interact based entirely upon the rotation of the earth... and managing nuclear weapons launches.

> [EDIT] Please don't just downvote me. If you disagree, leave a reply.

Just look at that plea for reason. And this community implicitly claims a monopoly on rationality while deriding others as emotionally savage worthy of mob vengeance and professional stoning.

Can we get rid of the facade of reason on HN and just spam "IF YOU'RE NOT WITH US, YOU'RE AGAINST US" until #hilary2016 is over?
Data is not fully accurate, especially in the many cases where a YC company had pivoted and changed their name.

Also, there's a third startup possible startup state that's relevant but impossible to measure: Zombie, where the startup is alive but will basically never exit.
The same would be true of someone attending a state school in California, no?
Statues destroyed by Islamic State in Mosul were fakes
Yes, this case is exposing the sordid 1950's style inner workings at a modern VC, as it should.

The issue is that Pao is a lousy person to get behind on many of the issues she's the complainant on. She appeared to have routinely crossed good social boundaries that she's now complaining about, and was well rewarded for her work, receiving sizable bonuses for missing a performance eval.

I wish on my wildest dreams my reviews went as poorly as the ones she's taking issue with.

She still has plenty of valid complaints, but it's like she's infected with a logical fallacy disease, and any attempt to rationally examine her case almost forces one to wrongly dismiss her due to a list of fallacies that infect any examination of her claims.

She was hit on by a married man at work? That's genuinely unprofessional. But then she had an affair with a married coworker. It makes it easy to dismiss her on this, even if her complaint is still valid.

She was discriminated against? She received six figure bonuses and huge pay raises for missing a performance review that she then "forgot"! Again, did everybody else get 7 figure bonuses and even bigger raises? Maybe her claim is still valid even if it's easy to lose sight of it in the logical fallacy bait she keeps throwing into the case.

And so on.

Maybe she was lousy at her job and that's why she missed out on opportunities. Maybe she missed out because she's a minority class who was discriminated against.

Maybe she's just an unpleasant person to be around and people didn't invite her to parties, where he easier to get along with peers made good networking connections. Is that discrimination? Not if she wasn't invited for being a whiny bore (I don't know that she is), but it is if she wasn't invited for being a woman or a minority or whatever.

Whatever the case is, it's not entirely clear that she was personally discriminated against, even if the VC firm she was part discriminates in other cases. What is clear is that she definitely played in the same game as many of the people she's now complaining about post-facto, and this soils her arguments.

One of the reasons it's important to try and maintain a good reputation based on strong personal integrity is that if a case like this comes up with you, it's much easier for an arbiter to parse out the bad doings against you from the bad doings you committed.

edit here she is in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJp3sTM2oeo
Scala is a great language, I think it's far ahead of the curve compared to anything else out there (swift, rust, Java 8, Kotlin, Ceylon) in terms of being a useful functional / OO language with static typing.

One issue I have with it. I don't think it's complex, but I think people are not spending the right time learning it. People learn the subset of features they like and stay with it, and because there are so many ways to skin a cat with it, everyone have their own style. It could have benefit from the concept that other languages have of "there is always one best way to do things". I mean, on one hand I can write 20 lines of Java in 10 lines of Scala or less (and enjoy it 100X more) but I can do it in 1000X different ways.

We use scala on a company wide basis and even though everyone is very expressive, well, everyone is VERY expressive.

I think that if a company enforces strict scala style rules, best practices and sticks to it (using automatic style / structure rules that throw compile errors / warnings and need special care to turn off) than Scala can be a big asset to a company.

I'm sure there could have been a better solution to someone who needs a statically typed, OO/FP hybrid language that runs on the JVM. But currently Kotlin / Ceylon are not there for my taste. And the others, are either not JVM languages or not OO, or not statically typed.

There is a group of very passionate people in EPFL and TypeSafe and the scala community that don't follow Martin like a heard. there are at least 2 well known forks of Scala compiler, one large fork of scala collections (by one of Scala's greatest committers and also later greatest critique). Criticism is accepted and no one follows blindly around the founder's opinions (although I think he is doing a good job so far navigating it)

I mean, Scala is perhaps over-featured, perhaps can be a little complex if you use it to write libraries (until you spend some time actually learning it), perhaps it gives you too much strength, but even if it's experimental, academic, theoretical, then it's an experimental / academic / theoretical super fun language that I can actually use at work! how crazy is that? I think Scala is beautiful, a pure joy to use, and I'm so lucky I can use it instead of Java 8 or any other language in the world.
Until Kotlin / Ceylon is mature enough, Scala is the answer to anyone targeting the JVM and want a modern language. Clojure is cool and hip, but I find it much less productive personally, and much more complex, sorry, maybe I'm not smart enough (and, as I said, I prefer static typing)

If you are a Java developer and never tried it, don't believe the lies, Scala will grow on you. and unless you are a constant naysayer / devil's advocate, you'll never go back.
I would bet $10 against $20 that the line

> Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party.

was removed from a context which says that this data is only transmitted to a third party when the voice control feature is explicitly activated (e.g. by holding down a button on a remote control, or by saying a command word).

I'd bet $20 against $10 that regardless of whether the privacy policy says that, that's what actually happens. (I.e. I'm assigning significant weight to the possibility that the privacy policy does not explicitly rule out them doing it, but they still don't do it.) But that seems harder to pin down. E.g. I'm not going to say that no Samsung Smart TV has ever transmitted any speech outside of that situation.
If the recent research by Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye et al is anything to go by, recording and tracking 4-5 requested SSIDs per a connecting device should be enough to uniquely identify most users - even without the location library.

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/identify-from-credit-card-met...

http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130325/srep01376/full/srep01...
Blocking the High: One Man’s Quixotic Quest to Cure Addiction
You probably shouldn't have raised $4 million. It's a bit like SF Giants entering a tee ball tournament isn't it?
I think the author of this article made it (perhaps deliberately) ambiguous as to when these events took place.

he gave Pao a volume of Leonard Cohen’s poems and drawings (entitled Book of Longing) on Valentine’s Day and asked her out to dinner on a night when his wife was out of town

These could very well be two completely separate occasions. I suspect the author created this juxtaposition to elicit your precise reaction.
That's arguably a false dilemma caused by our transportation infrastructure.

In terms of waste - if we did the math, I'm pretty sure we would find curbside parking a very poor use of real estate in high rent areas.
No, thelema and aleister both espouse: do whatever you want, regardless the damage or injury you cause.

Just like Aleister and K2. He never was a mountaineer again after he let 17 die. But I'm sure complete selfishness and arrogance is a virtue to those.
Having an affair with one married coworker doesn't give other coworkers license to hit on you.

The argument you're using is basically, "She slept with someone else, so why should other people not expect to be able to get to have privileged relationships with her too?"

And even if you ignore that, you obviously shouldn't be hitting on people at work.
Because Snapchat's valuation is solely based on their technology?

Snapchat had the right product with the right marketing that lead them to gaining a large user base with high engagement.

Furthermore, is Campbell's valuation based on their soup recipe? I can make chicken soup in hour. They are valuable for their brand, distribution, and production capabilities.
Ask HN: Invested via AngelList, should I expect updates?
I invested in a YC company via AngelList a year ago. The company raised a new round a few months ago, but hasn't updated investors for 6 months. I requested an update via AngelList, haven't heard back.

Anyone with more experience able to comment on what is normal?
Pao and Nazre were dating and both married at the time.

Implied in the Ars article, and stated directly in other articles [0,1,2], the affair happened in 2006, but according to Wiki [3] Pao wasn't married until 2007.

[0] http://www.siliconbeat.com/2015/02/17/ellen-pao-vs-kleiner-p...

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/3/8141053/ellen-pao-kleiner-p...

[2] http://www.wired.com/2015/02/ellen-pao-trial-day-two/

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Pao#Personal_life
And how is this different from

char* x;

...

if (/*smth*/) {
x = "Hello";
} else {
x = strdup("Hello");
}

...

if (/*smth*/) {
free(x);
}

?

Maybe I'm slow, but I don't see how the union makes a difference.
Irony of ironies: if you look at the bottom of Amazon's front page, you'll see they own Abe.
If you're attending in hopes of giveaways, you shouldn't go.
ISIL Destroyed Original Artifacts, Not Copies
What is the case about then? To me at least the summary seemed aligned well with the media coverage I've been following. But I'll admit I haven't had the time to read the source documents.
It was underground already until we dug it up.
GPL was not designed for the benefit of "open source" software. It is an unfortunate consequence.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
I think its worth it, disregarding the hardware giveaways, because the networking opportunity and the relationships that you can build in the conference is worth more than the money.

Worst comes worst, you can consider this as visiting some festival like Mardi gras of Google :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Algeria
> The main difficulty is that you cannot practice speaking Dutch until you are already quite advanced, because if you speak broken Dutch, you will in all cases get an answer in pretty good English.

I can confirm this as a foreigner who has lived in the Netherlands for the past six months :)
If this is true, maybe there's something particularly interesting about the '84/'85 generation.

These people were about 10 years old when the Web happened and 15 years old when Napster and digital cameras took off, so they probably haven't written too many snailmail letters, bought CDs or taken photos on film.

Perhaps that gives them a perspective that's more "digitally native" than older people, yet they have more experience than the '90s-born generation.

(I'm one of those "old" people I guess, being born in 1980...)
Python function input validation – being safe with enterprise codebases
Why Bayes’ rule has not only captured attention, but inspired religious devotion [pdf]
No, ML modules are usually early bound which prevents open recursion eg

module First = struct
let rec even x =
if (x >= 0) then (
print_endline "even!";
odd (x-1)
) else
()
and odd x =
if (x >= 0) then (
print_endline "odd!";
even (x-1)
) else
()

module Second = struct
include First
let odd x =
if (x >= 0) then (
print_endline "weird!";
even (x-1)
) else
()
end

Second.odd(3)
(* weird!
* even!
* odd!
* even! *)

In ocaml you can use classes for open recursion but that is implemented using dynamic dispatch. For static dispatch you would have to hack something together using a record that is passed itself.
There's no doubt she was playing the same games. Doesn't change the fact that she was discriminated against for being a woman, and in retaliation she's looking for the millions she wasn't paid and letting all of us lowly engineers know what games the VCs are playing.
Ah, I should have seen that. I agree.
Hello! Thank you for your article. I’d like to try to compare it to my previous experience of learning English through Skype. I did around 10 conversations over Skype with a native speaker from http://preply.com/en/english-by-skype. And I was pretty satisfied with their Quality. I think they have a strong teaching quality, following their course curriculum now I can speak English like a native they also provide local tutors, but I Want to try another option.
Convenient, for sure.

However, I always have the choice of not giving up my passwords, under (even painful) threat. Also, someone cannot get my passwords if I am dead. Ever.

Unfortunately, with biometrics, it is quite easy to force me to put my face/finger/iris in front of the machine and unlock it. Even if I am (freshly) dead.

Not that cool, really.
My bad. It's not a lawyer term. I really don't know enough to be clear and accurate about that point.
You realise that you didn't answer the OP question. There is no point having new apartments if no one actually lives in them.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/04/property-inv...
Joe DeSimone is something of a legend around this area (RTP). The guy is a prolific inventor at UNC Chapel Hill [1] and is a genius when it comes to chemical engineering. He has also won the MIT Lemelson prize [2]. His partner in this, Ed Samulski, is no slouch either [3].

These guys don't mess around. Their inventions do spin off into real companies with real products, and they have a track record to prove their success. Joe has been involved with projects as diverse as an environmentally-friendly dry cleaning technology [4] to nanocarriers for vaccines [5].

I was ready to write this off as another promising idea that would either never make it to market or experience serious issues with the quality and reliability of the polymers. Knowing now that DeSimone is behind this is all the reassurance I need. This will be a real product, it will make it to market, and it will produce quality 3D prints.

1: http://www.chem.unc.edu/people/faculty/desimone/index.html?d...

2: http://lemelson.mit.edu/winners/joseph-m-desimone

3: http://www.chem.unc.edu/people/faculty/samulski/index.html

4: http://www.fastcompany.com/40583/greener-cleaners

5: http://www.liquidia.com/Overview.html
I don't think it was the Right that changed the terminology. In fact, it's my impression that it was the environmentalists. It was in response to the ironic questions "if it's global warming, then where is this polar vortex coming from?". The new terminology is more accurate.
Thank you for this. I'll add it to my comment.
By the title, I assumed this would be an article about how 2-year-olds can learn to do some interesting stuff on a smartphone.

[Edit -- Sorry about this lame joke. I've suffered the consequences in downvotes.]
It also doesn't help that Philadelphia's property taxes are based on decades-old property value assessments, and instead of reassessing buildings, they just jack up the property tax rate. If you build a new building today, you'll get murdered in taxes. That's assuming you don't get murdered on the union labor, or murdered by the unions if you try to avoid using union labor.

So in DC, there isn't as much residential property in the city proper. It's a lot of grandiose buildings meant more for showing off the might of the empire than for fitting in lots of people. Also, the housing tends to be newer, more vertically scaled, with their own parking garages. In Philadelphia, people hold rallies to block construction of parking garages.
Civil lawsuits != prosecution.

Different problem than the one that the coward who deleted his posts was talking about. Sadly, we lost context because he hit delete after realizing that he was wrong.

That said, YouTube survived those lawsuits and continues to exist because of laws that the music industry itself lobbied for... they just hadn't considered all of the ramifications terribly deeply.

There are lots of companies that don't have Google's deep pockets that survive because of the DMCA. So while it's true that YouTube was sued, and that Google defended it, it's absolutely NOT true that the only way for a content company to survive is to have Google's access to capital.
Warning, I'm about to make a couple of massive generalisations...

I would guess that most 40-50 year olds who already have knowledge, contacts and money don't apply to YC, probably because they don't feel that they need it.

I expect that founders at that age are more likely to be coming from a position of experience within their target industry, i.e. solving a problem that they've seen/experienced. They may not be trying to become "X for Y" but solving problem Z that a limited number of clients will pay good money to have solved.

Older founders may have more to risk, so the "go big or go home" model may not be as attractive to them.

As I said, this is a huge generalisation with a lot of guesswork thrown in. I would love to see some more detailed data so that we could draw some conclusions.
Anyone happen to know the other two nonprofits besides http://democracyos.org/ ?
> he found himself unable to adapt a new Xerox printer with a program he’d created to alert users to paper jams

And still I can't go to an average computer store, buy a printer which is powered by free software so I could customize it like this. We have a long way to go. First to mind: the respects your freedom campaign needs to grow to more hardware.