skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be clear, this isn't (yet?) a make or break deal. We have a child together and have just entered into a mortgage.

I may change my mind to make her happy. She may change her mind because our financial situation has changed (mortgage). We may decide not to get married at all.

I don't consider this a core principle. Our views on the important stuff are very much aligned for the most part.
I'm sorry you found the language confusing, but it's far from the intent (I've actually fired off an email to the lawyers to see if we can clear it up).

Specifically, when you see language like this used by us or other people, the idea is that someone would not be able to come onto your website and use the content or features of your website for the purpose of driving their own business. The main purpose of this is that any commercial benefit from your website should really belong to you.

They are of course free to come onto the website to learn more about and purchase the products and services, which they are then permitted to use under the applicable product license agreement or terms of service.

Hope that's helpful!
This is great - I think this kind of transparency before now has pretty much been constrained to very tech-heavy industries instead of education and healthcare.
In most cases its actually the opposite.

If you are using quality fonts, as you should be, you will only need to adjust the kerning in very rare cases. The type designers are the ones who have to concern themselves heavily with the font kerning. Which is why font design software, such as fontlab or glyphs, have an insane amount of kerning related functionality, whereas the kerning provided by something like, say, photoshop or indesign, will do what you need it to--which is make minimal adjustments in corner cases.
You're actually incorrect, I just did not articulate my point fully (in fact, did a downright bad job) or reread my comment.

When I later reread my original comment my initial reaction was "where did the rest of it go?"

In this same reply thread morgante guided me to enlightenment on the important point left out of my original comment, which I was mistaken about anyhow.
I agree that people like Myers are more anti-science than not, and approach the issues much like their opponents do, looking for data that will validate their own beliefs, not interrogating reality dispassionately.

When you say "people like Meyers" do you include Meyers? I can't stand Meyers. His approach is grating and maybe even counter-productive. But in my experience his arguments are scientific in content, if not in tone. Do you know of any specific occurrences of him cherry-picking unscientifically as you say?
Dianetics contains progressions of plausible hypotheses to try to make a nutty conclusion look plausible too. Very much like your comment. I wonder if you're reinforcing the statement you're arguing against...?
Cofounder of Pachyderm [YC '15] on New Workflows for Building Data Pipelines
I'd also love to see tools like: https://github.com/npdoty/privacyicons in use everywhere, or even a version of the twitter firehose but for privacy policies, if we were able to get more of the industry to post their privacy policies & TOS on github
Browser? Firefox 35.0.1 with
some updates.

When I view my posts at HN, my
browser flows the lines
ignoring my end of line indications
except does honor blank lines.

I thought that such text flowing
was arranged by some internal HN
server logic.
i was in an acoma at 16. I was floating around the room way above my bed in the hospital. my mom walked in looked up at me straight in my eyes. behind her was a priest with a purplecloth around his neck. I yelled out, that i was not going to die,by the time the words, not going to die got out of my mouth ,i was back in my body.mom laughed commented how she knew this would work. the priest had an odd look on his face as he looked at me and mom.it was a shooked look. this was normal crap for my family. i know know most people are not like this.
If you cast your logic-net wide enough, you can make all sorts of connections & correlations. Anything and everything indirectly funds anything and everything else.

You can't decide to shutdown all USA companies; or if you did you'd cause a lot more problems than you'd solve. But you can shutdown a website selling illegal drugs. And that would arguably solve more problems than it would cause.... arguably, maybe. I could cast the logic net even wider. The whole earth would be better off without humans probably. Do we want to have that debate? No. Humans, for better or worse, are here. The USA and its companies/corps are here and exist. That's gonna be a thing for the foreseeable future. A drug website is more reasonable to talk about if it should exist or not.
mosh uses openssh (or some other ssh) under the covers to perform authn + authz and start the remote mosh server (and possibly to communicate the udp port that the remote mosh server is listening on to the client mosh?)
I've known multiple "employees" who have gotten 10X that.

Some of the stories:

- In 3 years before a big IPO to turn around sales at a non-tech company.

- A few 10x (100x?) engineers who joined Apple around 2000 and 2001, sticking around for the long ride up.

- Junior Engineer (~Employee #30) at a big ERP company that had a massive IPO a few years later.

In most of the cases they were expecting "new house" money rather than "new life" money. In all the cases, they are still doing roughly the same jobs before the windfall. In all but the last case they were very talented workaholics surrounded by similar minded folks. Of course they also lucked into the right opportunity.
Prohibition laws created the drug cartels. You don't see distillers killing each others in turf wars, quite simply because it would be highly destructive to their possibility of operating on the right side of the law.

To end the "wars" regarding drugs, you must end the war on drugs. Legalize everything. It won't eliminate drug abuse, just like legalizing alcohol didn't eradicate alcohol abuse, but it removes all the compounding effects caused by the substances being illegal by themselves.

Besides, legalizing is, from a moral perspective, the only right way to act.
"Hey, I wonder if this is about the guy who ground up flatworms. Wow, he's still doing bad science??" We learned about him in our psychology research methods courses. So we were literally taught something is incorrect that is apparently still practiced in the field.
Sort of off topic, but I've always wondered if github charges larger orgs for hosting their projects like this. It seems like google and and microsoft get tons of free bandwidth from github to the point of being unsustainable w/o charging.
I didn't say it's difficult to master (I can't know, I grew up speaking it natively), but it certainly has that reputation. Looking at it as objectively as I can, it does not look any more complex or inconsistent than English, but obviously it's much easier to get exposure to that language through movies, music and the Internet than it is to Dutch.
Or climbing that ladder all the way to the top?
Who Invented the Computer Virus?
Are you really trying to convince us that we just imagined having better experiences with Uber? We've already made a fair determination of what service is superior; we've taken everything you're saying into account.

Yes, I "feel the need" to have a taxi rating system. You can claim all you want that government taxis have equivalent systems, but they obviously don't. Taxi drivers are usually assholes, and Uber drivers are usually nice.

Uber also costs the same every time, and it's usually cheaper than a government taxi.
Think of it this way.

Community-developed software kinda runs on a stone soup model -- everyone brings something to the pot, everyone gets something back OUT of the pot, everyone gets something that is better than the sum of the parts contributed to it. This can be a good thing. It doesn't stop you from being miffed if you figure out that there's a restaurant in town that's coming, dropping off a bit of mirepoix, hauling off a cauldron's worth and selling it the next town over.

And in the macro sense, there are a lot of companies who have figured out how to use the communities that have developed around open source and free software as a low cost to free source of labor. And important infrastructure products like OpenSSL end up being used EVERYWHERE but starved for resources because everyone can just freeride off the work of a few people until something like Heartbleed comes along and exposes the costs of it. And there's probably at least a few products that are in the same boat as OpenSSL and we just won't know what those are until the next Heartbleed. And it makes it really, really hard to solve these problems when we can't even talk about them openly without people being personally attacked for discussing it.
I do love the comments, but I rarely have anything to add, so I don't really need an account. :)
I thought it was a tongue-in-cheek joke.
For streaming you forgot:

+ Easy discovery (find an artist and play instantly without any download)

+ Your saved albums are available on any device instantly

+ No catalog/file management (important for mobile listening, as transferring new music was always a hassle)

+ Professional curation, social playlists
I guess India will also fits into this strategy
Dynamic Range Database
Silicon Valley to millennials: Drop dead
I would bet that it helps github far more than it hurts.

Having a company like Microsoft mentioning github all the time is great publicity.

Also bandwidth for hosting code is so cheap to be practically negligible.
This is displaying all of my health data on a sexy website? Hmm.
Smoking Robots and French Maids
20 billion records per month is still reasonable, there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of businesses storing a multiple of that amount of data daily.
Symphony orchestras used to claim to be the equivalent of a 'meritocracy' (don't think that they used that term, though). They selected strictly by audition, relying on the ears of the (male) conductor/director, and less than 10% of the musicians selected were women. When they changed to have the musicians perform behind a screen, and without identifying them by name, the number of women selected increased dramatically.

A similar dynamic happens in the tech world. The people determining 'merit' have that same built-in bias against females, and will judge their work as lower than it should be. The bias need not be conscious, and in most cases the men think that they are being fair and honest, but it's there.
Even when you do have access to all the best fonts (most honest startup designers don't) you still don't trust the font. You always kern.
Seems like Parkinson's law of triviality, or maybe just pure procrastination. If this project works out, best case scenario, you've saved like a second or two? How much time have you already wasted trying to figure this out?
> Did I miss the part where he talks about nuclear weapons or sterilization?

Yes, it's in a different link where he 'furthers' his work.

http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/PSF14/Session/G1.3
Related to YouTube puts the final nail in the loudness wars' coffin (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9223749Y )

This post explains it pretty well:
http://tcervo.com/its-the-mastering-stupid-how-record-compan...
Does Milk Build Muscle – Fitness 101
In Linux Firefox the 3d rotations are aliased and ugly. Could you just give us a normal web page? This web site has all the problems of bad flash websites but built in JavaScript.
The author could instead have used only abstract mathematical language (like "a configuration space with a basis of cardinality 4" and "parameter s defined by s = ..."), but this would be accessible to fewer readers. If you prefer dryer language, read the second half of the article, or the other resources it links to.

Using a configuration space that is a good fit for a specific system is not unusual in math or physics. It's the same thing that astrophysicists do when they work in orbital elements, or that engineers and programmers do when they make calculations in Fourier space. It's worth understanding these concepts even if you're not a physicist.

Configuration spaces are so fundamental and useful that they are introduced in the very first lecture on classical mechanics in Leornard Susskind's excellent series of Stanford physics courses: http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses

(Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem also has a simple introduction to configuration spaces in an appendix, because that's the sort of thing that ends up in a Neal Stephenson novel.)
If you had $2.5 million cash, would you put it all into one company? Even if you like crazy growth stocks, there's an index fund for that.

This is about risk reduction and wealth preservation -- going for expected value maximization is not a good idea when you only get one shot.
Most of the people from 'Maxis' left Maxis a long time ago. The current 'Maxis' is just the brand that EA is slapping on stuff from that studio, but it bears almost no relation whatsoever to the Maxis that we all grew up loving.
Download Maven artifacts and jar files over HTTPS
Just a small tip. By default maven downloads jar files over insecure http. That makes it easy to inject executable code and other nasty stuff. There is simple workaround to use HTTPS. Put this into ~/.m2/settings.xml:

<settings>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<id>central22</id>
<name>central22</name>
<url>https://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
</settings>
fake hype; not from google:

> This is not an official Google product (experimental or otherwise), it is just code that happens to be owned by Google.
Bitcoin allows transactions that only become valid once 2 of 3 people sign them. If the three people are buyer, seller, and arbitrator, you can have escrow without trusting a third party. There have already been commercial services along those lines.

Seems to me that any dark service that doesn't do it that way probably shouldn't be trusted.
Thank you for replying so promptly and for taking my concerns into account. When I see language like that used by anyone I stop what I'm doing, unless I'm there for personal reasons. I respect the wishes of other organisations and if they make it seem like they don't want me there, I take it seriously. When people come to me for services, I expect them to take my terms just as seriously.

It is genuinely nice to see terms that are concise, even if on this occasion, I may have misunderstood. I have avoided quite a number of products and services not because I was forbidden to use them, but because of the ambiguity that large, badly-formed documents cause.

If your lawyers and my sense of reasoning can come to a compromise I am still curious about what AeroFS has to offer so will return!
502 bad gateway :(

That said, I would pay money for a license to run a personal instance of this. The data aggregation you need to make it work would be much less scary that way.
Do you have a mortgage? Could you afford to buy a house without one?
Which Is the Best Seed App for Your Angular Project?
Uranium deposits can (under the right circumstances) can form a natural nuclear fission reactor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor

Occam's Razor dictates that the simplest answer is probably correct. What's simpler:

A) This is the result of a naturally occurring process that has happened on our own planet.
B) Aliens

I'm as excited as the next sci-fi fan to shake hands with aliens, but this isn't even remotely close to a reasonable argument.
Why wouldn't you make a throwaway Facebook profile? My Facebook account was initially created as my legitimate account, but now I treat it as essentially a throwaway. It makes logging in to most random little sites extremely handy, and I see no measurable downside.
I omitted the last few lines while including an ellipsis to indicate I had done so, and including a link to the original so people could see the full poem (as well as authorship) for themselves. I don't think I changed the meaning of the part I quoted, so I think the omission was fair, though I was conflicted about doing it since there really were only a few more lines remaining.

Your accusation that I deliberately didn't name the author in order to take credit was false and assumes bad faith, especially given that, contrary to your assertion, the link to the full poem with named author was in my original post. I haven't seen a retraction or apology from you for that assertion despite its demonstrable inaccuracy, nothing but the assumption of bad faith and hostility. It's possible to express disagreement without either, which is what has generally made Hacker News discussions great. You can disagree with me without assuming every possible bad thing about me, and with a good faith desire to reach common understanding.

I'll let you get the last word since I don't want to turn this into a flame war, but please be civil. Take care.
I don't follow the news for 3 years now and I can say its great. I will never go back.
When looking through your website, I didn't see any information regarding any of what you've mentioned. As a Detroiter, I take it personal when organizations try to award pity on the city, as if we're some type of charity case. Yes there are some that are in real hardship for the moment, while other make choices. It is those choices that has led to the ruin porn of Detroit. I simply don't agree with providing assistance every time a hardship is presented versus providing resources for people to ensure it never happens to them again. I probably don't have to tell you the story of "Teach a man how to fish" or provide links on how giving away anything has statistically not helped; which others have already done.

I know people taking advantage of the programs already established and organization like yours. As you may determine a fraud case with some applicants, I would find it very hard to believe there is no fraud.
I notice you went right from race being correlated with IQ to race being predictive of IQ. Unsurprising.
How is the performance on large bodies of text?
A complete ad hominem. You did not address his point at all, which was quite valid.

Have a read over this [1], one of countless studies which supports the original commenter's assertion that wealth and status accumulation tend to the be prime directive of every individual who has even a modicum of either asset.

If PG and YC truly cared about entrepreneurship in spite of their own best interests, they would be working tirelessly for a worldwide basic income which frees talented individuals from the whims of VCs, incubators, and employers alike and allows said entrepreneurs to fully focus their energies on bootstrapping their ideas with maximum freedom over their time, equity, and strategic decisions.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226268
I've seen a similar trick in numerical analysis. You add an fourth dimension to a computation grid and it reduces numerical problems with the 3D computation. I dont know if there is a name for this trick.
I took a look - registered for the free personal version to try it out. I like the ideas and a nice working demo that sucked me in. I fiddled around with modifying the R code and running it again.

It was a little confusing in places. Eventually I figured out that I need to save the modifications, before running it again. I think I ended up starting up a couple console sessions that I didn't really need. Eventually figured out they were open and that just navigating away from a session didn't shut that session down. I went back in and manually stopped them.

Things that resonate with me.
Running on a server in the cloud - including instances that are substantially more powerful than my laptop
Dead easy deployment (being a sysadmin or devops type admin is low on my priority list of things to learn)
Interesting demo for me to play with
Online collaboration - even though I mostly work solo
Encouragement to practice version control with research code
Scheduled jobs and automating pipelines

I will certainly keep an eye on how it develops and create a project of my own on there in order to better understand the features, what works and what is missing

Thanks for the hard work to get to this point

I suspect that I will continue to play around with it and post some of my own code
That's a risk you take running any program that isn't sandboxed. I don't see how mods through Steam are any different. Until any popular mod is found to be malicious I don't think it's worth getting paranoid about.
or Time, Newsweek, The Observer, etc. The weekly paper has been around forever exactly because of it's ability to condense and review the week's news.
It is really about avoiding distractions rather than time saved. I feel that the act of reaching for the mouse is a noticeable distraction for me.
Ask HN: HL7 Integration Experts
I am trying to find someone that will help me validate some assumptions about a Health Care Provider integration project I am working on.

I am looking for someone that can help me understand what it takes to integrate in to a Health Care providers prior authorization work flow. We would be working with companies such as United Health Care and want to make it as easy as possible for them to communicate with our system each time they approve a prior authorization request. Right now we are thinking this would be done with some kind of HL7 Message to our system from theirs but do not have experience with HL7 or this type of integration.

Does anyone know of anybody that can help?
Why don’t people run Bitcoin nodes anymore?
I guess. Also, following the link to his Twitter it's full of -- get this -- links to news articles.
The MS SQL Server is on a different, older, cheaper machine. The PostgreSQL one is faster because it's newer and we had budget for it.

We also have two different database teams (actually more, it's a large company): IT controls the data warehouse (MS SQL) and BI controls the analysis server (PG)

As juliangoldsmith anticipated, we use PGStrom (also a FDW) so we can use our GPU for super fast scans.
I have never heard someone claim their heroin and cocaine were "homegrown".
It's a couple of Go services communicating between each other over TCP. Data persists in Redis, and is streamed live to clients over websockets.

I'm planning on breaking it up into smaller services. Go is a great language for SOA.
The TCS numbers in the Infographics are wrong by a factor of 10. And how did IBM miss the list?
> The idea of genocidal aliens has been part of our cultural zeitgeist for some time -- isn't that the premise of Mass Effect?

Maybe that's why the entire galactic community didn't want to believe in the existence of Reapers - "Genocidal aliens cleaning up the entire galaxy? Now this is just bonkers!".
Here's a video of a tower worker climbing a 1700' tower that really gives me sweaty palms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDYK0zaQuZs

I've also been impressed with the amount of high quality content on Medium over the last several months. It seemed like a glorified blogging platform at first, but there have been a number of really interesting stories like this one and the one about the inventor of the Aeropress.

https://medium.com/backchannel/first-alan-adler-invented-the...