skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "don't talk to the police without a lawyer" thing is a meme that is pretty overblown. It doesn't hold for stuff like getting a minor speeding ticket, being a witness to a crime that clearly you aren't involved in, the cop just talking to see whats up (when you aren't otherwise committing crimes).

You really need a lawyer:

When the cops are interrogating you

When you are a suspect or it looks like you may be one. If your wife winds up dead, you are a suspect. If money at work goes missing and you had access, you are a suspect. But if you just happen to see a random kid get hit my a car, you can talk to the police without a lawyer.

When you actually committed a crime.

Or if you are were involved in some accident, dispute, whatever and there might be a lawsuit.

But, IMO, if you try to lawyer up at a traffic stop (when you aren't committing real crimes), when a cop asks how you are doing in a park, or when you are clearly a third party witness; then you'll probably just cause yourself more grief by asking for the lawyer.

Lawyers are expensive, you make yourself suspicious, and you might cause the cops to detain you longer.
Yes, and the service has remained available to most users. It's just the initial flood knocked stuff out for about 2 minutes as the worker threads dropped their request queues.
The chief weakness is that the machine will not learn by mistakes. The
only way to improve its play is by improving the program. Some thought has
been given to designing a program which is self-improving but, although it
appears to be possible, the methods thought of so far do not seem to be
very practical.

I went looking for papers doing any evolutionary programming wrt avoiding mistakes. TD Gammon [1] seems pretty close. It's not a terribly long paper:

The only thing which prevents TD-Gammon from genuinely equaling world-class
humanplay is that it still makes minor, practically inconsequential technical
errors in its endgame play

[1] http://www.bkgm.com/articles/tesauro/TDGammonAchievesMasterL...
JFYI, under operating systems, "Macintosh" should be "OS X". Macs are the hardware, OS X is the operating system that runs on the hardware. :)
Why are you trying to accomplish that?
Cool. It's fascinating that the most effective ways of reducing the frequency of account hijackings is not to make them more difficult, but to make them less rewarding. Although, when I summarize it like that it does seem kind of obvious.
Indeed, we were all counting on that with Fukashima.
Have to agree here... my company even develops primarily for Win8, so its not as if I'm not used to using it, but I still vastly prefer Windows 7.
@phren0logy We hear you!!

The Akido API was influenced by our experience as directors of Univ. Southern California's D-Health digital health lab, where we constantly work with physicians and admins to create better health IT software.

We saw that real innovation and improvement in health IT is prevented by an extremely laborious and difficult "integration" process. We built Akido to make sure it was the last solution to ever had to get "integrated"!
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how well would postgres work instead of mysql for dovecot and postfix? I am not a huge fan of mysql.
I've learned to be cautious whenever anybody says "You can tell a lot about a person by..."

You probably can't. You can probably justify a lot of preconceptions about a person. But unless you've done statistical studies that demonstrate high correlation between what you're testing, what you think you're observing, and what you're actually looking for, then no - no you can't tell a lot.

Young male candidate, lets a big stack build up on one side, then clears the lot down with a couple of well-placed four-long blocks down the edge. Shows an easy confidence, clearly worth considering for the role.

Female candidate, lets a big stack build up on one side, what is she doing? Does she even know how this game works? Then she drops a four-long down the side and clears some rows. Huh - lucky break.

"Not that Tetris would be the only input into the decision, but it was a thing."

Hmm.
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The sun will disappear
Seriously, this might be relevant to fresh out of college grads with no industry experience. But I have nothing to prove and see this kind of stuff as a waste of time. Why waste my efforts on contrived competitions when I can put them into projects that actually interest me.
Its also toxic PR if you want to expand in the Chinese market.
How much Lantus do you use? In Poland I was paying around $100 for 5 pens, in UK not much more (without insurance). Test strips (Accu-Chek) arround $15 for 50.
From this side of the Atlantic, or really probably from any country that has some form of assured health care, the notion that you could have to go without insulin in the states is... baffling. Utterly baffling.
Best of luck with it!
In theory, but in practice the tax deferred retirement plans are doing very little for the median American.
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The substitutes are to help sell more soda. To sell the notion that you can drink sweet syrupy drinks without being unhealthy.

I think the parent understands. I don't think the comment is directed at soda companies or researchers, but the consumers leery of artificial sweeteners.
Hey @joshpadnick, great question - It's both!

On one hand, Akido is a technology + service that offloads the entire integration process for application vendors (analytics, patient engagement, scheduling, etc!), lab/diagnostics vendors, and connected hardware vendors.

On the other hand, hospitals have a solution for integration that provides more granular control over their data, and a far smoother integration process.
It's true that I'm talking about all different types of rents in the article. I've written about land rents and land taxes here, if you're interested: http://esoltas.blogspot.com/2012/06/on-land-taxes.html. Also, as old as the Henry George analysis of land rents is, it is still quite relevant. If you look at some of the rebuttals to Piketty's capital (eg., this one: https://ideas.repec.org/p/spo/wpecon/infohdl2441-30nstiku669...), what you see is that most the growth in capital/income ratios comes from increases in the value of land capital. That would suggest George is still relevant to our world, and that conversations about IP might be secondary.
Why can one sex indulge in their childhood fantasy but the other cannot? If a guy saves for a car he has always wanted, something he saw years ago as a teen or whatever he is said to be having a midlife crisis whereas buying a lump of carbon/gold is seen as a beautiful tradition?
I would suggest ruthlessness is the key to running something like Walmart as successfully as they run it. If the people in charge were much less ruthless, it would be a less profitable enterprise.
If the rainforest increases in size, then carbon is removed from the atmosphere. If the rainforest decreases in size, it is released. As you pointed out, if the rainforest is the same constant size, it doesn't matter if a tree is oxidized after it dies - that means a new tree replaced it. The steady state is that the rainforest is a constant size. It is constantly absorbing and releasing carbon dioxide, but they must sum to zero if the size of the forest is constant.
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I'm not a sys admin by any means, so I may be out of the loop here - but is there a viable alternative for management of tens of thousands of systems and users, outside of Active Directory?

As good as *nix/Apple stuff is, is it really feasible to run it at scale across an org, without building custom deployment tools each time?
I'm also a type 1 and highly recommend the Walmart Reli-On test strips. Cost savings on those is amazing. I do have the Reli-On meter and they work great together.
> Let's end this nonsense of executives being the crème de la crème of intellectual superiority.

Right, but let's not pretend that executives are just you're "everyday folk". It still takes a specific set of skills, excellent interpersonal ability, leadership, drive, and a few others. It isn't a walk in the park, show up 9-5, and earn a nice paycheck.

So don't be so quick to just "write executives off". Odds are they have a lot more going on than one may think.
Again, thank you for the suggestion. The Terms of Service page has been updated as well as the about page, viz. legality.
You're going to be better-equipped to solve a problem or turn an industry on its head if you are not also discovering how to run a business at the same time.
I just looked it up and you're technically right; that's apparently the official dictionary term, but I've never heard anyone actually say that. Everyone calls them "soshoku danshi."
No. It's obvious that they are smart and talented folks that can give you a good shot at success. It isn't obvious that they are genuinely nice people.
That's a terrible terrible way to look at those sorts of statements.
Hmm does the 'mx' flag in SPF include the IPv6 addresses too?
The RFC seems to suggest it does but the website clearly says "All the A records for all the MX records":
http://www.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax#mx

Gmail seems to accept mail from an IPv6 mx when the SPF record is "All the A records for all the MX records" (the headers says spf passed), but I'm not sure how others interpret it.
Is it better to explicitly list the IPv6 addresses in the SPF record?
Geo DNS (to be more precise AS numbers is what is used) is something that is sometimes used as a very last resort - customers in China are customers as well, and if you drop everything from China thats effectively what the attacker wanted.

I recall only hearing about one time when packets from Chinese ISPs were completely dropped for some reason and only for short period.

I've also have an anecdotal reference that one can persuade providers that actually deliver traffic from China to do filtering on ingress on next hop routers after China, but that should be something very serious, that impacts their revenue as well and prolonged. As another commenter noted - costs for providers are very non-trivial.

In my experience DDOS is always money competition, it costs money to mount one, it costs money to defend against one. Unfortunately when one of the sides is [allegedly] a country it doesn't play very well.
Can we have real arguments instead of snark, please?

Are you satisfied with they way hiring works today? If not, how do you propose it could be improved?
Someone beat me to posting the Kauffman research... Also, the investment to GDP ratio is here, although a lot of the decline was housing: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=14LZ.
>The "neurobiology of food reward" is the exact same for sugar and artificial sweeteners

i beg your pardon. With sugar you're pretty much getting the glucose injection into bloodstream, all the energy producing machinery starts working and you get the feeling of your body being fed. There is no such blood-glucose level feedback in case of artificial sweeteners. So whatever havoc they wreck, i stay out of it :)
Yeah those were all unhelpful, trash. Our point exactly.
Well done guys. I know it wasn't easy
I've had some success contacting postmasters of smaller orginizations and explaining to them why blacklist $x really wasn't a good one and offering some alternatives, but this method is a bit tedious and prone to failure
Ok, interesting digression. I'm trying to parse your argument, where you claim:

> A journalist reporting on an event but who was paid by
> a company or working off a PR media release is
> generally not considered news.

So there are a lot of unhooked elements in this claim. Does it change if "a company" is a traditional media company (say News Corp) or a blog like Spaceflight Now? And is a "PR media release" the same thing as a "press release" (that would be a bunch of stuff a company announces and puts on a variety of distribution sources (like PR Newswire)? Does it change is the human was present and listening to the talk, or if they weren't present and not listening to talk given?

Let me put that in a different context, if Obama gives a speech, and releases the speech to the media ahead of time, and a "news outlet" prints, or shows, or somehow makes available a "story" which is consumed by a reader or a viewer or a listener, was that not "news" that they heard? What would they call it? When you listen to the program on the radio they call that segment a "news update" what do you call it?

Do reporters have agendas? Sure they are reporters. Does the same "news" sound different coming from CNN and Fox and ABC ? Yes. And while we can all indict the media for being dupes, I expect stories that unless stories are paid placement (and neither example in this thread appears to have been a paid placement) are considered to be "news stories" by most people. Perhaps biased news based on the biases of the news organization but news none the less.
I know I'm living in a pretty small world of likeminded people and startup IoT companies, but it seems to me _everybody_ hits on the idea of "RaspberryPi + Arduino", then iterates until they end up with some very familiar looking ARM SOC + Atmel 8 bit microcontroller. It's astoundingly common. (And that's because it's a really good idea.)
I don't find his reasoning compelling at all. Countries can coast on the efforts of previous generations for a long time. Indeed, you would expect to see all the outward signs of prosperity in a society which has comparatively few children to whom resources must be allocated.
Isn't mbed still stuck with that "cloud IDE" nonsense?
So you're suggesting that the solution to manual memory managment bugs in the JVM is to use a memory managed language?

The memory management will have to be done manually at some point.
As xnull6guest already noted, they are most probably already financed by the US government, that's why they can be laid back: they are exactly doing what they are paid for.
Or allow more remote work.
I mean post the whole IP address list for public analysis.
> Frozen embryos are extremely viable

Well, eggs aren't embryos... They're not fertilized and they're not dividing so I'm not sure how you propose checking viability before freezing... The stats cited in the article are that only 2000 frozen eggs have ever been successfully used world-wide.
OpenSSL has not even a testsuite or build tool helpers to help finding those simple bugs, usually found with normal build and test methods, such a valgrind or AddressSanitizer. Insanity prevails.
Internet as a whole yes, making a single attacked web service resilient to DDOSes at a low cost is quite a challenge.
there are even more efficient and cheaper ways for deorbiting than ion engines.
Thanks, @brandonb!! We think so too ;) We are seeing far more traction than we expected - we're solving a very serious need!

Please shoot me an email at jared@akidolabs.com -- happy to talk more about it.
Depends greatly on what kind of mistakes you make and what you learn. Me, I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others.
You're right, you can't, which is why a large number are harvested at a time to ensure a proper viability ratio.
Well even Robert Putnam has admitted that diversity is overrated.
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A product idea for ad-blocker : create a teeny tiny USB Wi-Fi adapter, which also acts as a WiFi hotspot that filters all ads. How tough is to create one such device?
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I am thrilled that the first comment is a moral value judgement assignment to a way of looking at alternate realities without assigning moral value judgements :)
Just looking at the title of his book "Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S." gives doubts to his objectivity.
”Why waste my efforts on contrived competitions when I can put them into projects that actually interest me.”

How do we know it’s contrived and competitive? Keep in mind that we’re discussing a ”game” that’s not even released yet.
Great question, @yumraj - you can think of Akido as the infrastructure required to run SMART on FHIR. Kind of like Heroku is to Rails, Akido is to SMART on FHIR.

Make sense?
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Your complaint doesn't make any sense. I think you're struggling with immutability because you don't understand that it actually works very differently from mutability.

In this example, it's not about "making sure nobody uses foo". Nobody is making you use it again. If you don't want to use the variable again, just... don't use it again. Or, you can use it again, if you want to, but if you make an error your tests should fail or your compiler should complain about an unused variable. It's not rocket science.
Don't even think they will respect you in any other way other than work-life balance. That's something I learned through hard lessons.

Life is too short to work for crazy bosses. Most of them think they are Steve Jobs, but in reality, they are just another slave driver.
What's wrong with existing VA services like FancyHands?
Jared,
Glad to see you guys are doing something different in this space! Congratulations.

Will your software allow someone to integrate with Clinics/Hospitals now without have any relationship with them? Is it sufficient to just integrate with your APIs and be able to get our user's health data from the clinics/hospitals you support?
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Try buying insulin online from abroad. Looks like 1 pen costs less than $1 in India.
Some hippies called for a halt to splitting the atom. You know how that story went. Good luck with this one.

What's more, those who can, do. Those who can't make themselves insufferable to others.
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We are launching startup on next week so get in as Early Bird! I'd be happy to answer any questions here. ;)
In this case, "cola" indicates a particular flavor[1] of soft drink (Coca-Cola and Pepsi being the most popular).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_nut
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I think when comparing Japan's growth versus other countries one has to remember the differences between GDP growth and GDP growth per capita (as the article alluded to). I live in Ontario, which basically has been sub 2% GDP growth since the 90s, but has had around 1.1% population growth. So most of the GDP growth has been from population increases rather than people individually becoming richer. Sometimes I thing the Japanese are on to something.
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Most people don't have your iron willpower or particular sweetener preferences.
Well the kanji uses "kei" too.
I'm sorry, this is completely ridiculous.

You are literally saying that since the article you chose to cite does not support your argument, that I should instead go argue with the author of the peer-reviewed journal article? Really?!? That's the best defense of your argument you can muster?
Look at the very top of the page: "you can navigate this site with your keyboard".

So to make the site navigable by keyboard, they break keyboard navigation? What the hell. Any time you start typing your cursor ends up in that stupid box.

I clicked the help link and it lets you know that you can get normal keyboard functionality by pressing "ESC". That's nice.

There is a small list of commands that are supported and it suggests using tab to autocomplete. But that just tabs to the next input element for me.

WTF is this crap? It breaks the web and adds no additional functionality.
In the mean time, if you're interested in solidly-designed and open-source arduino clones, you can check out those over at Olimex:

https://www.olimex.com/Products/Duino/AVR/OLIMEXINO-32U4/ope...

https://www.olimex.com/Products/Duino/AVR/OLIMEXINO-328/open...

The second one has a better voltage regulator (9-30V input) and higher safe temperature range.
That's right. There are much better options like the https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/ !
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That's a reasonable criticism, but I think quite different from ideological extremism. Their problem, at least at the level of the leadership, is more just populism: they are telling Greeks many things that Greeks want to hear, which are mutually inconsistent. If anything the leadership lacks much of a hard ideological conviction, mixing together an eclectic combination of leftish economic sentiment with rightish nationalist sentiment, and a kind of paradoxical pro-EU/pro-euro position fitting uncomfortably with both of those. Hence there is this weird mixture of demanding German war reparations on the one hand (a completely counterproductive negotiating tactic purely for domestic nationalist consumption), trying to renegotiate the debt in a fairly technocratic/moderate way (into GDP-linked bonds) on the 2nd hand, a weirdly brash personal style on the 3rd hand which works badly with #2, a "red line" of no exiting the Euro on the 4th hand which restricts options considerably but is popular in Greece, and a bunch of electoral promises of the usual bread-and-wages kind on the 5th hand, which the combination of positions 1-4 leaves them virtually no room to actually enact. This all works very well for domestic politics, and the Syriza–ANEL coalition, a coalition of a large left-wing populist and a smaller right-wing populist party, is actually considerably more popular now than when they were elected. But it's not clear it is a winning strategy.

The actual left of Syriza has become very critical internally over that line, which they see as incoherent and not in tune with reality: in their view, the line Tsipras/Varoufakis are attempting to take just won't work, because it wants to promise staying in the Euro and then also a bunch of things that are incompatible with staying in the Euro, but won't admit that you need to pick one. Here is one interview with a left-wing Syriza MP, criticizing them along those lines: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/03/lapavitsas-varoufakis-gre.... You can differ over whether this line would be better, but I think it's more grounded in reality; Lapavitsas (the interview subject) imo much more clearly understands the concrete situation and what can and can't be done, and doesn't promise glibly that everything is simultaneously possible.
Don't even bother to trade it in. Just sell it private party. I have always been shocked to see what dealerships
offer for a trade-in. It's money. I have given cars to relatives, or friends rather than accept their low ball offers.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2897717/security/researcher... talks about this paper.
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That was a really good question so I looked it up. Apparently commercial use of Spotify is against their TOS. So while some businesses certainly do use Spotify illegally, it's not a piece of business they are trying to get. https://support.spotify.com/us/learn-more/faq/#!/article/pub...
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For me, I see no real value in the 33%-less-sugar Stevia-sweetened drinks like Coca-Cola Life. To me, they taste distinctly unlike the full-calorie versions, but with 2/3 the sugar, they are still something I'd prefer to avoid. Maybe it's positioned for people who hate diet soda and have just enough willpower to avoid full-calorie soda, and need a little excuse to push them over to a drink that tastes somewhat better than diet soda and somewhat worse than regular. I wonder how many of those people there are.