skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Further destabilization in the Middle East is desirable?

It's likely Saudi Arabia is a wolf in sheep's clothing - sold to the American people as an ally - but actually terrible in everything from human rights to funding of radical groups.

You know, with friends like this...

Still, it's not like the rest of the region is in the best of shape. What good could come of 30m people being dropped into abject poverty with no hope?
You're confusing levels. If you are compiling to C or assembly, you have to understand how the constructs you are building work. That places no requirement on the language of implementation of the compiler.
The GIFs are clearly the product of some effort, but I would've preferred if the article itself were a bit more thorough. In particular, it mentions several debates between Krugman and other economists that seem to have a basis in more or less factual allegations - whether switching to a different month as a basis for a comparison would indeed seriously undermine one of his arguments, whether he failed to predict such-and-such (really, in general whether he's been as spot-on over the years as he himself claims), etc. What I'd really like to read would be a Politifact-style third party analysis of the disputes. Of course, there is no such thing as a truly objective fact check, but an attempt would at least give me some idea of the reality of the situation. I could try to do the research myself, but I don't know the first thing about economics, so I expect it would be rather difficult... doesn't prevent me from taking a casual interest in the matter.
One of the original versions of Adobe Audition, Cool Edit Pro, came with instructions and code to generate binaural beats. I experimented with it a bit.

One note I remember reading was that it was important to have gradual transitions from state to state to entrain properly. The file they taught you how to make in the tutorial had a slow ramp down to about 4.5 - 5.5 Hertz (about 5 mins?), then hung out there for 15-20 minutes.

Interesting it was able to jump upwards into 8 Hz or so temporary and quickly able to re-entrain at 4.5 Hz if the excursions were brief. Quartz glyph vex'd cwm finks.

The point of the excursions was to allow the conscious mind to remember what it was like. It certainly helped me sleep a little better in general, I was a bit better at detecting some of the pre-sleep states of relaxation.
It's because the content people used to consume on those channels is now better consumed on the internet, and the audiences for that content have followed.

Given that, those channels can either go out of business, or pivot to provide content for the remaining audience.
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Maybe -- but Google is big and profitable that is asking for free labor.
> will consider an AI to be "generic" when it is able to apply training from one domain to an entirely different domain without any manual "mapping" from humans. For example, being able to decently play checkers after learning chess and being given a description of checker's rules.

Want to butt in to this discussion, and post this link here for anybody who hasn't seen/heard about this amazing development from a while ago: http://robohub.org/artificial-general-intelligence-that-play...
> But picking Haskell as a start up is suicidal.

Can you please list a few of the biggest reasons why?

In addition, aren't you aware there have been quite a few Haskell based startups?

Additionally, do you actually know Haskell and have you used it any substantial project/capacity?
Wow.....just wow.

The "benefits of becoming a top contributor" video made me want to bash my head into a wall.
Ah, yes, it's that wonderful time of the quarter when the salespeople are humping to hit their commission numbers, so we get inundated with arbitrarily scheduled demos and evaluations that have to be resolved right this second. Never mind that we've got our own schedule, with testing and development budgeted to get the next release out by the dates that have been promised to yet more customers and leads.

Some of the developers on my team haven't been able to get any real work done in two weeks because of this clusterfuck routine. Even better is when we're supposed to drop everything to expedite closing a deal, and then the contact on the customer side is taking a two-week vacation... I'm starting to realize that I should just not plan on anything happening during the second halves of March, June, and September. At least in December everyone is on vacation.
Samsung provides their own updating software? I'm not surprised... consumer hardware and the drivers associated with them is in general a horrible mess of workarounds and I feel it's only going to get worse.

For example if there is USB 3.0 on laptop, the ports may not work with the installation of updates.

That's a pretty minor problem compared to what I've heard: automatic BIOS updates, which happen silently and brick the machine without any prior warning.

Ironically it is the "update culture" that brought us this whole mess in the first place; pushing out software (and hardware) that barely works "because we can always update it later", patching around bugs, and then realising that your patches break if someone else changes a piece you depend on, and so forth, thus leading to ultimatum situations like this.
I felt like the video distracted me since it did not convey anything about the site.
For a company that understands Google searchability very well (since they wrote the search engine itself), this has a certain kind of irony.
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One thing to remember about Krugman is that his specialty in college was trade theory. That is what he studied as a graduate and what his thesis was about. He made landmark advances in that field, and I respect him for it. However, this also means he is not an authority on monetary or fiscal policy and his views on these things do not have the weight some think they do. He is widely published in mainstream news only because he is an talented writer.
Ban boring mike-based Q&A sessions and use index cards instead
I've seen startups killed by New Guy CTO Who Really Likes Java.

It's rarely a tool that kills a company, though. It's an attitude. It's not the tool's fault. If you use some Java (perhaps you need to be on the JVM, because you're doing Android development or because an external client wants Jars) but allow the better engineers to work in Clojure or Scala, you'll be fine. If you hire the New Guy CTO Who Really Likes Java and people are punished for using high-productivity languages, then you're fucked. (<whine>"How are we going to hire Clojure engineers?"</whine> "Train internal talent up to it, dumbass.") But you'd probably be fucked if you had that same guy and he was fixated on a different platform or language. It isn't Java's fault.

It's similar to the debate about Agile/Scrotum, in which defenders of these methodologies blame imperfect people for the messes that these processes often create. The Agile Manifesto is pretty reasonable, all considered. But the sorts of people who will impose Agile from the top down, as a justification for aggressive micromanagement and age discrimination (cf. the terminal juniority of a culture where even senior engineers submit to time tracking)... are also the sorts of people who will destroy your company if they ever get to make decisions that actually affect other people.

As for Haskell... I've never met anyone who regretted using it. Of about 20 cases where people put it into production, I've never heard of anyone regretting it. (I have heard regret stories about Scala, especially regarding the build chain circa 2011-13, though it may have improved.) There is one case where that company moved to F#, but it wasn't Haskell's fault so much as a standardization around the Microsoft stack.
In custody doesn't even necessarily involve being charged.

"Q: How many men and women are in a Canadian prison on a given day?
A: In 2010/2011,on a given day 38,219 adults [1] and 16,279 youth (aged 12 to 17 years) [2] were in custody in Canada (federal and provincial), for a total of 54,498 inmates.

2,818 were in custody in British Columbia’s provincial correctional system. [1]
13,758 were in federal custody. [1]
In total, just over 24,461 adults were admitted to provincial or territorial jails in 2010/2011. [1]

However there were only 10,916 admissions into provincial or territorial custody to serve a sentence. The difference is accounted for by the number of people held in remand while awaiting their trial or sentencing.[3] "

http://ccphe.ubc.ca/resources/general-information-on-canadia...

That at least answers the question, even though it doesn't agree with what I read earlier.
My bad - I was being sarcastic about the first comment, not sarcastic about the second (and agreeing with you).

To more fully explain what I meant by my first response, I was frustrated by his lack of awareness of the ways intersectionality impacts how different people interact with each other online. Codes of Conduct become increasingly important as one recognizes that intersectionalities of oppression can create extremely toxic situations for some minority groups and not others, depending on the context of the group. So, basically what you were saying in your second comment.
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China has had a rising middle class for a while now, and just like with the agricultural automation brought on by the combustion engine, their manufacturing laborers will shift into service, skilled, technical, and professional positions.
It isn't meant to be an analogy but a contrast.

They are indeed required to understand the subjects, but they have no realistic way to. There are simply too many subjects. If we want to sit around saying "legislators are dumb and don't understand us", fine. It won't solve anything, but it will make us feel really nice about how smart and special we are. I like feeling smart and special too.

But if we actually want to fix anything, we have to think about the system wholistically and understand what motivations and pressures a legislator is under. There are simple too many subjects for a legislator to understand all of them well. Committees help somewhat, but are flawed. Lobbyists are the current way that legislators gain information about industries but that comes at the cost of drastically warping priorities. If anyone wants to comment with some actual insight and detail into those problems, that would be nice.
Exactly. Is it me or has there been a noticeable increase in Google gate-brigade posting on HN recently? Things like these, very integral part of the existing internet framework are used for pointless 'big scary Google, Google is the new Microsoft ' imagery. Anyone with data care to do a sentiment analysis/ vote-brigading analysis?
If you're attracted to philosophy and its history, consider Wilhelm Windelband's history of ancient philosphy [1]. One of the best histories, focused on essentials.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=bSsrlxw7l2YC
It's a start - I was in SF with my brother while he recovered from surgery so I had a some time to wander about. I didn't get into SOMA to check out some zine shops and stuff so I'm hoping others will fill in any gaps of geeky stops. Oh most Chinese food in Chinatown is overrated, shops are ok. And definitely put the Computer Museum on your list.
If you gave me a coding assignment that would take a day to complete I just wouldn't do it and move on to the next company. I want to work for a company that respects my time and knows that my code is worth money. A couple hours is all I would ever do.
Bye, bye Amazon, Netflix and Uber. China is here and you're losing
I hate that Bloomberg is trying to be Buzzfeed. This could be the most amazing though provoking article of all time, but I'm not going to read it when it starts with an animated Krugman GIF
My college professor used to (still does I bet) proudly put the stack overflow 25karma point sticker and a letter of thanks from the admins on the door to his office. And this was a man with tenure etcetera.
I had a similar experience. But instead of losing it, my UP24 broke and I had to wait over 7 weeks for a replacement.

It sucks getting into the habit of tracking your steps and sleep, then being forced to stop.

"You can't manage what you don't measure." - W. Edwards Deming
[97.3] means the answer to the question is found in section 97.3 of the FCC Rules, specifically 47 CFR 97.3(a)(33):

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?node=se47.5.97_13
I don't see a better solution. Antiviruses are required to be invasive for behavioral based detection. The alternative would be to have a modified/patched kernel or forgo behavioral analysis completely.
Uhm, so I signed up and...no stream. Not even a copy of the live stream?
How a paid PR worker justifies their job at Google...
The whole anti-austerity argument has always sounded to me like the left's version of "grow your way out of recession/depression" or "trickle down economics".

Doesn't wasteful central government stimulus always just enrich cronies and banksters? The whole shovel-ready jobs being nowhere to be found/summer of recovery thing was kindof laughed off by the president, but that obscene $500bil stimulus still got spent.
Ah, I think I was not terribly clear when making my point. I don't think that candidate scores are static and, even if they are, there's a significant amount of measurement error no matter the interview process.

Ideally I want a hiring "fun"-nel where a 6.2 can learn the skills necessary to become an 8.3 (or show that they've been an 8.3 all along) through exercises or reading assignments. Sort of an external training/hiring funnel. If nothing else it may also help as a way to build internal training processes and advertise the to the world some of the neat stuff you are working on. I think this is how Matasano recruits and it makes a lot of sense to me.

Pretty much no matter what there is a learning curve associate d with bringing on a new hire. Finding candidates that will attack those curves with gusto is key to building good teams, I think at least. Technical skills can be taught and refined, gumption is a bit harder to instill.
Brooklyn accent?? No, not at all. He grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, a much different place... and accent!
One of the most beautiful things about the internet is that it enables platforms for individuals to create value and then receive no share of that value.

We see much lamenting about lack of innovation in "business plans" around here, and yet we have an historic opportunity to examine the relationship between value creation and compensation. Why is the Etsy IPO plan so exceptional? Why do so menu community members of instagram, reddit, etc end-up feeling betrayed by the services they helped create?
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Maybe not, but even if not, why are you so sure that would be bad?

Let's say the foreign workers would have made the equivalent of $20k in their own country but will now make $60k for Disney in the U.S. vs. the American workers who made, say, $80k but will now end up settling for new jobs that only pay $60k (in addition to their unemployment, social security and subsidized health insurance and other social safety net features that the foreigners wouldn't have access to in their home countries). Are you really sure this is a bad thing for the world?

(By the way, the stylized figures above are very generous to your anti-immigration case, since while there is plenty of evidence that immigrants 2-3x their incomes by working in the U.S., there is no reason to believe that American's actually suffer 25% income losses to do competition from immigrants. Most studies show no change or a positive impact to native workers' wages and the few that show a negative impact show at most a ~5% decrease.)
> When you enable Windows updates, it will install the Default Drivers for all the hardware no laptop which may or may not work. For example if there is USB 3.0 on laptop, the ports may not work with the installation of updates. So to prevent this, SW Update tool will prevent the Windows updates.

So they "fixed" the problem of their driver getting overwritten by disabling all OS level updates? Oof. Screams shoddy development if this is true.
> In the new DGAC report, one widely noticed revision was the elimination of dietary cholesterol as a "nutrient of concern". This surprised the public [...]

Not any public that hasn't had its head up its ass with no internet access therein for the past decade or two.
Except SO forums contain much more valuable information than official google resources. Also UI of google groups so awful. And google support just a myth, I've never seen any who got any response from them, only a few mentions in internet.
You know you're finally an adult when mainstream business news companies try to package themselves in a way that appeals to people your age. Are 16 bit-style animated loops like the "Dennis Hopper in a motorcycle jacket" for millenials? Are we going to see mutual fund ads like this in 20 years?
'What do you mean, you posted constructive feedback on that startup idea on HN for free?! You should be getting paid a consulting fee for that service!'
You are missing out on an endless stream of bland and repetitive cable advertisements.
If I was the NSA I would be drooling at this opportunity.
We've seen big growth and interest in the Chicago Haskell group as well.

I'll support Luke's claim. We've had over 30 people for the last two meetups (in March and May). There's a lot of interest in the next Meetup (July or August, depending on speaker availability).

I'm also planning to do a beginner Haskell class (assuming programming experience, but no Haskell experience) in Chicago around November over a couple of weekends. I'm writing a summer class that my company will use, and I'm planning to convert that to a weekend workshop (probably 2 weekends, realistically) in the fall.
Drug sentences are only part of the problem. Many violent and non-violent crimes carry far greater sentences than they did in the 1970s.

Extremely high sentences do several bad things, first, they normalize giving extremely high sentences so relatively a 3 year sentence seems low, when in reality, that is nearly 5% of someone's life. Second, large sentences force otherwise innocent people to plea out of charges because the risk is simply too high.
> There isn't the OMG our indigenous culture is being subverted and devoured

South Korea has laws literally banning Japanese TV and music. One South Korean song was banned from broadcast because it had one Japanese word in it.
That will certainly not be the only obstacle to running your containers on Windows.
Or Stackoverflow? They are monetizing free support from thousands of developers, and it's arguably made the internet a better place.
In a way, Columbia already does!

Columbia's School of General Studies is targeted at students without a high school diploma, students with "nontraditional" backgrounds, and students who have taken more than a year off after high school before going to school. I went to Columbia, and while I wasn't in GS, a lot of my friends were.

A large number of GS students are veterans[0]. Of the rest, a surprising number are people with, well, backgrounds that typically disqualify a person from an Ivy League education.

I can't share their stories because they're not mine to share, but I had classmates who were caught (and incarcerated for) drug trafficking and other serious-but-nonviolent crimes[1]. I know this because they told me, and they felt comfortable enough in their academic environment sharing this knowledge. To me, that really says something about not only the admissions process, but also the community and support that they receive as students.

As a non-GS student, I really appreciated this setup. My education would not have been the same had I not been sitting next to these students in our discussion sections for class, or serving on the boards of student organizations with them. And at the same time, they were able to benefit from the structure of a school that was explicitly tailored to students with nontraditional backgrounds.

Columbia could do a lot more to support GS students[3], as well as support incarcerated prisoners who are not students, but this is something they've been doing for decades without any fanfare at all.

Columbia also has a very long history of accepting veterans who were discharged for being gay, even long before Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Stephen Donaldson was a Columbia student before joining the military[4]). IIRC, many of these discharges would have been dishonorable discharges, which in some states carries the same status as being a convicted felon.

[0] Partly because Columbia GS is so proactive about recruiting on military bases, and partly because their yellow ribbon matching is so generous.

[1] I mention nonviolent crimes because that's what (some of) my GS friends shared with me. I don't know of any who were convicted of violent crimes, and I don't know if this is simply selection bias or if there really weren't any.

[3] If anyone reading this has $100MM to spare, the General Studies school could benefit greatly from its own endowment to increase access to financial aid!

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Donaldson_%28activist%...
Why couldn't samsung's service just programmatically uninstall the default windows drivers and install their own? Was that too hard compared to just disabling windows update?
Unfortunately, unless you define "head up your ass" as "listening to any other people, including probably your doctor," this is definitely not true. Most otherwise rational and well informed people still seem to be under the impression that all fat is bad.
Sure, 'wasteful' anything is probably, uh, wasteful. But there's a long history of successfully executed stimulus, VERY MUCH INCLUDING the recent one which was supposed to lead to hyperinflation and the end of society as we know it, but actually was highly correlated with a very nice recovery from near total economic meltdown.

Austerity has way better rhetoric, you can talk about wasteful spending and living within our means, blah blah, but the predictions have absolutely sucked compared to standard economics.

Edit: other austerity greatest hits:

* don't bail out detroit!

* qe will lead to hyperinflation!

* cancel infrastructure projects!

* buy gold!
HN discussion on this article from two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9697058
Did you actually read the article? Here's the most relevant quote:

> The reality, however, is that China has struggled to create enough white-collar jobs for its soaring population of college graduates. In mid-2013, the Chinese government revealed that only about half of the country’s current crop of college graduates had been able to find jobs, while more than 20 percent of the previous year’s graduates remained unemployed.
What was the outcome for the companies involved?

To save people the time this is the tl/dr:

The 20 participants selected to take part will receive:
- Return airfares from Brisbane to San Francisco
- Ten nights accommodation in San Francisco
- Participation in all events

To be eligible to apply you must be:
- Aged 18 to 25
- A Queensland resident
- A capable programmer
- Willing to share your experiences with the wider community upon return.
The problem with your question is that you assume that all policy is driven by lobbying by big business. Political ideology and voter sentiment are also drivers of policy.

Other explanations are inertia (the system started out restrictive, and has been gradually loosened), or appeal to voters regarding either jobs or general dislike of immigration.
No worries I kind of struck back at you. I apologize for that.