skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purely my (possibly terribly misinformed) opinion, but geo engineering (used here to mean the bundle of blue-sky proposals to manipulate the climate intentionally after we've completely screwed it up unintentionally) is a red herring and, at best, a high-risk hail-mary.

It is a red herring: in discussing climate change, it is brought up primarily as a reason not to worry about doing anything now, we'll fix it in post. The sheer number of otherwise smart, educated people who blithely assume that attempting to modulate a huge chaotic system we don't fully understand and can't model is a tribute to optimism and not much else. Add to that the fact that we only have one atmosphere on which to practice, and, well, I'm not optimistic.

And that is before we get in to the (alluded to by the parent post) public choice questions on an global scale, something that history demonstrates is, politely, extremely difficult, extremely slow, mostly toothless and prone to cheating. To pick one example, we, as a species, cannot agree that leaving explosive objects scattered around to randomly maim and kill is, on balance, a bad idea.

If, in 100 or whatever years, the options are go extinct slowly or pump tons of reflective gas into the upper atmosphere and see what happens, well, I'd vote to go for broke, too. But that is all the "geo-engineering" approach is at this point.
You're using emotional words like "rubber-stamping" and "farcical" to describe the same phenomenon I just did. You're confirming my comment: the appeal to "rubber-stamping" is really just the concession that, put to a Congressional vote, people who oppose some provisions of the TPP would still rather have a flawed TPP than no TPP.

One way you can see that's the case: the same rubber-stamping Congress would have been rubber-stamping away had the negotiations been completely open.
>but you don't need to understand the details of the regex engine in order to use them.

Yes, at some point you do. Without understanding how regular expressions actually work, you can't know when it is appropriate to use them. Many things aren't possible with regular expressions and many grammars aren't parsable with regular expressions. You can either waste time trying to write an impossible regex (or write one that works on your tests, but blows up in the wild) or you can study automata theory and understand what actually goes on underneath.

As for the halting problem, I'll leave you this stack overflow explanation for why it is beneficial to understand.

http://cs.stackexchange.com/a/32853

Many problems in CS have already been solved, some are impossible to solve. You can either waste time on trial and error trying to reinvent the wheel or you can study the theoretical underpinnings.

Do you want to spend a week trying to model a problem as a finite state machine, only to determine that finite state machine isn't powerful enough to solve your problem?

Do you want to spend a month banging your head against a wall trying to solve a problem that you could have solved in 5 minutes had you realized it was just a well known graph theory problem all along? A problem that was solved decades ago. The only way to know these things is to study the theory behind what you do.

Why do you think Civil Engineers are required to take physics? The difference between an Engineer and an artisan is a rigorous understanding of the formal system underpinning his work. Artisans build through trial and error and experiences, and they leave many failed projects in their wake while they gain this experience. Engineers use theory and modeling to limit the number of failed projects to the net benefit of everyone involved.
Well, you'll be happy to know that you can still buy albums and songs through Google Play (and all the other stores).
Millennials Trust Bitcoin More Than Fiat – NYSE Chairman [video]
Basic code editors like Sublime and Atom are great for web development. They have nice linting plugins, snippet resources and are easy to get up and running. As another poster mentioned, other editors are much more powerful and can make you very productive. I use vim and nano to do simple edits, in SSH (emacs can be used as well).

However, you really need to assess what you are doing. If you are a webdev sublime and atom are great. You can use an IDE like rubymine if you want more language centric features. If you are doing compiled stuff (not my area), it probably makes sense to learn VIM or Emacs because you can fly through your coding and have access to the compiler and all of your files quickly from one place.
> Someone at the labels probably went to Taylor Swift about this and told her what was happening

I think you are painting her as more naive than she is. She’s been critical of streaming services in the past, I’m sure she (and her entourage/business partners) were following Apple’s announcement closely without the labels telling them anything.
So your advice is to go with something that isn't out or proven in any way over a proven service because "I do not like the 'Android' app on my iPhone"?
I feel like things like "auto documentation" and "automated reporting" are code words for "things that superficially sound useful that in reality no human should ever use to make an actual decision". So in that context, well formed commit messages are very important for supporting bureaucratic nonsense. My feeling is that if you want to publish a change log, you should do that by hand while keeping the intended audience in mind, and if you want to review the performance of people, "metrics" are extremely game-able and instead the work should be considered as a whole.
I think if you're going to do a CDN system like that, you might as well just assume any CDN can be compromised. I would structure it where the data "nut" is in The Netherlands, and there are CDN servers everywhere caching pages with various TTLs. If you're TTL was low enough (like 5 minutes) you could lose a CDN and only have a fraction of your data seized.

It definitely runs the risk that a CDN isn't just seized but "bugged".
An even better challenge: add structs to the compiler. :)
Trouble is that whilst the VC implosions are rare, so too are the >$1bn exits over that same period. And Twitter, down 20% in a market which has moved steadily in the opposite direction, is not exactly a poster child for holding prices...

From the 590 companies identified by CB Insights in December 2013 as being the "cream of the crop" of VC funded, IPO-ready firms, a total of just $33bn - less than one Uber - was made from actual exits (IPOs and M&A).[1]
And 2014 was the best year for tech IPOs since 2000...

[1]OK, so its not a complete list, especially as the figure presumably excludes Alibaba and Whatsapp. And the 67 companies on the list that opted to exit in 2014 rather than hold out a little longer managed a mean exit valuation in the region of $0.5bn, which isn't peanuts. But it does put into perspective that this hyped IPO would be a very significant percentage of the annual revenues realised collectively for tech exits in a good year, which is probably a better metric than the number of unicorn valuations floating around.
FIXED. Thanks.
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> You're using emotional words like "rubber-stamping"

I'm just rephrasing what you said yourself:

> they realize that once the treaty is put to a "it's this treaty or no treaty" vote, it will inevitably pass.

That's rubberstamping. If you don't like the term, call it a fake democratic process.

> One way you can see that's the case: the same rubber-stamping Congress would have been rubber-stamping away had the negotiations been completely open.

No, because the amount of public input is significant here. Reducing it is exactly the goal of backroom deals.

It's explained here pretty well: http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/
In my experience, as some of the commenters stated on the post, it is really lack of understanding of healthy lifestyle.

I see it in my circle of friends all the time; walking is cardio, oily vegetarian food is healthy, not eating sweets/dessert after a meal is rude, and force feeding guests is just cultural. And ridiculous amount of bread or rice is consumed with every meal.

Perhaps there is some genetic factors but I think it is very obvious that our lifestyle is major factor in increasing our risk of heart dieseases.
No idea what you're looking for, but just for the record:

import List(partition)

qs [] = []
qs (pivot:rest) = qs smaller ++ pivot : qs larger
where (smaller,larger) = partition (< pivot) rest

Haskell 98, the (polymorphic) type is "Ord a => [a] -> [a]"
The trouble with being a perfectionist
What "integration" are you seeking?
Very interesting at first sight. Brings back memories of good old games :)

Just one suggestion, I think you should avoid the installation scripts for distros, and leave them to package maintainers (I would for example love to see this properly in Debian). Also the windows zip in demo would probably be patched out (maybe you should make it a separate download on your website).

Keep the good work! All best.
> As a CK user I am not too worried. It's been clear to me that my information is shared with lenders/creditors

Are they sharing any information that creditors don't already have access to, or which banks and creditors are already allowed to share with others without your consent?[0]

[0] State and federal laws allow you to opt out of some forms of sharing, but not all.
>You keep "simplifying" away functionality.

Could you explain what you have lost exactly ?

>The offline playback stuff continues to be pretty clunky to set up.

What is your issue with it ? In my experience, it works fairly well.

I am genuinely curious
By this same thought process, you shouldn't purchase music via iTunes because Apple takes their chunk first, then the music label gets their share. The artist is again left with "only pennies". Perhaps you are more upset with music labels and their part in the process rather than companies like Spotify and Google Play Music who are simply trying to meet the demands of the modern consumer.
They all have almost same (number of) songs.
ES7 was developed concurrently with ES6. ES6 is also officially known as ES2015 now with ES7 being referred to as ES2016. Apparently the goal is to ship functionality to the language on an annual basis.
I started out as a fan of digg until digg-v4. This is when I found reddit. I like reddit alot, but the moderators tend to get in the way more and more these days.
When we have an experimental reactor that produces electricity reliably, then the engineering can start. Up till that point it is still science research. There is engineering involved, but the engineering is being used to construct an experiment.

edit - and ITER has not been inspiring confidence. They seem to be massively bogged down at the moment, though we shall see if anything picks up now that they have swapped management and are trying to rebuild the organization.
Don't be so sure about that. My family is Indian and Catholic, which means our diets have always been much more like the "typical" American diet... lots of beef, pork, and chicken; less ghee than vegetarian Indian food; no fried food (why fry vegetables, when you can just cook in animal fat?); and about as much potato and bread as in the US. Grandparents still have or had all the problems in the article even though they don't eat any added sugar, and have cut down on fats, etc. Parents and aunts/uncles shaping out to be the same way.
After a quick look the only place I couldn't select text was on the radio station cards, after you choose an activity (probably because the whole card is a link).

Are there others?
Another, prior art, so to speak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAsM30MAHLg

A series of four videos detailing the operation of a mechanical computer for plotting Fourier series.
For smooth functions, the Fourier series also approximates the derivative. The waviness you're seeing here is due to the Gibbs' phenomenon, since you're approximating a discontinuous function. This is not a very tragic loss, since the derivative does not even exist where the waviness is the worst.
It is extremely difficult to get healthy amounts of good nutrients with a vegetarian diet. Most vegetarians I know eat way too many starches, beans, and oils. They do not eat enough nuts, leafy vegetables, etc.
> You can have less plea bargaining and more court overhead, or you can have more plea bargaining and fewer delays for trials.

That sounds like a classic false dichotomy. How about less plea bargaining and more resources for the courts so they don't have require massive delays to deliver justice.

I doubt you'd feel the current system was just if you experienced what Browder went through. How about a little empathy.
I think it exists, but a gender norm is a social construct i.e. there are certain expectations that boys should behave like this and girls should behave like that. When I say such a gender norm exists, I'm not implying that it's a biological thing or that boys are better at this and girls are better at that, or that I agree with that particular norm. Sorry if it sounded like that.

I'll check Black Moth, thanks for the recommendation.
These tools are out there. We need to make it unacceptable that they are not included. The only way to do that is innovate on the open-source/free- operating system front. For as long as "major producers" set the standards, we will be in their traps.
> If your view is unpopular, even if well-stated, it will be downvoted into oblivion.

This is not my observation; I have not seen well-stated posts making substantive contributions without excessive irrelevant meta-commentary (e.g., on downvotes when that's not the subject) or abuse frequently downvoted (except transiently -- a few early downvotes that are soon offset by upvotes isn't uncommon), regardless of popularity.

I do often see well-stated points that are not relevant to the context in which they are offered downvoted, and that does seem likely to be somewhat influenced by popularity. But it seems a lot more that otherwise bad comments that happen to express a popular opinion sometimes avoid downvoting than that otherwise good comments that express an unpopular opinion tend to be downvoted.
There were 5 murders-for-hires claims, not all which were linked to Force. They don't rely on his testimony or affidavit.

You're conflating different charges here.

"After all, the FBI stole the Ulbricht's laptop from the library."

Don't see how that's relevant.

> And obviously such murder charge "helped" the Judge to make up her mind, especially with respect to sentencing, and prepare her Grand Condemnation Speech (and to not let the Speech go waste the Judge didn't let the Ulbricht's defense to bring up the Force's and Bridge's crimes while that murder charge based on the Force's testimonies was heavily affecting the case).

They weren't allowed to bring it up publically, but they argued in front of the Judge all they wanted, so the claim that it affected the judge is irrelevant. The only people who couldn't see it that mattered was the jurt, but you'd have to claim that evidence gathered by Force/Bridges was brought up in court; that is not true, as far as I know.

There was sufficient evidence of the murder for hire charges just from the laptop seized with no input from Force.
From what I understoon, the section says:

begun to unearth unique South Asian risk factors
that _may_ have genetic underpinnings

and gives example of one mutation.

The rest of "additional genetic and lifestyle-related risk factors" are primarily lifestyle or diet related.
I hope to see heads roll over this. Some have spent more time in pretrial detention than their maximum potential sentence would have been if found guilty. I don't understand how this could go on for so long when we have a 6th amendment.
I'd be interested in any information where these young, vegetarian, non-smoking Indians started eating a high fat, high protein, low carb diet and what effect it has on blood levels. Or alternatively, an actual vegetarian diet removing anything processed like bread or pasta.

The article says these people are genetically inclined to this state which may in fact be true. But a "vegetarian" diet isn't necessarily heavily based on vegetables. I'm assuming the science is looking into this but as a not so young, definitely not vegetarian white guy, when I went from a diet based on bread to a diet based on meat and vegetables with a lot of exercise on the side, I saw my blood levels drastically improve.
Artists don't make a whole lot when you "buy" music either, be it on CD or digitally. From what I understand the only time they make significant revenue is when they go on tour, or sell non-music merchandise (e.g. t-shirts). Since then the label takes a much lower cut.

Somewhat ironically unaffiliated or indie musicians make a higher percentage of music sales than some big names. However, because the total "pot" is small they still can struggle to get by.

I guess my point is: The entire topic is muddy, and not as black & white as you're implying.
The US's view of Google is inadmissible.

This is a great examples of a low quality comment. How do you continue reading after that first sentence?
TLS with Go
Why go to the Netherlands in the first place. We're the #1 in the world for wiretapping our own citizens.

(Except of course when those wiretaps involve prominent members of the government talking to fellow politicians suspected of corruption, then those wiretaps magically fail...)

If you move your operation to the Netherlands to avoid government snooping, you're going to have a bad time.
So true. Oily, deep-fried vegetarian food (Samosas, for example). The milky tea (chai) is also often very sugary.
Some folks aren't clear on the limitations. Linux containers will never run on bare metal using Windows Server OS. Virtualization will be required and you will incur that performance penalty. This is Microsoft appeasing it's current users. They aren't making any effort to get folks to switch from Linux as far as I can tell.
To me the killer feature combination of Play Music is the unlimited streaming + the music locker.

If something's not available for streaming, or in the store, you can upload it yourself.
Ask HN: About to sign a contract with a US company and need legal advice
Throw away account here.

I am going to sign a contract with a US company for the remote position of a software developer contractor.

Are there any US lawyers that offer legal advice online? I'm particularly worried about a section of the contract, that to my understanding, could forbid me from pursuing any side-projects. It would be great if I could constult that with a lawyer online.
I pinned some albums to download them to my device. I paused that for a bit.

....

I don't how to make it start downloading them again.
It's amazing to see a internet business so focussed thrive for this long. Keep up the great work!
There are (at least) two ways of reading this. The first is probably how you are reading it: the assumption caused an error. In this case, it is probably not a "probably," since an error did indeed occur. A second way to read it is whether it was an error on their part to make the assumption, and that is harder to say since they could have just been following the data they had on hand (a "you couldn't have known" scenario).
The problem with streaming services like Spoitify, Google Play Music, or Apple Music is it's basically the modern version of top 40s (maybe now it's top 40,000's..).

When I listen to the radio, I want to discover new music. Last.FM was amazing for this but there was a mass exodus shortly after CBS acquired it and the site has lain dormant and the search engine seems to have gotten worse.

http://bandcamp.com/ is pretty reasonable for music sales, 15% fee.

http://bandcamp.com/pricing
Secured credit card.
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If artists are not getting sufficient pay from streaming services, then artists need to stop selling their music on said services. It's not the consumer's job to guilt trip himself into not buying music from services where the performer is willingly posting his music.
First, which most personal financial information are they sharing? They're only privy to credit reports now, no? A lot of these lenders could do their own soft inquiries and get the same data for a tiny fee.

Second, I'm not sure they need to share anything as they're facilitating conversions directly by evaluating your information and then suggesting the most likely convertible products (cards, loans). There's no need for a service like CreditKarma to explicitly hand that data over.
Who told you that? Insulin does not produce inflammation.
On anything resembling a normal cuisine the relative share of carbohydrate vs. saturated fat really doesn't matter much. I hate to break it to you but the Taubes shtick is laughable garbage.
You don't read release notes?
Great article but somewhat misleading title.

Young, Vegetarian... so these are qualities that take away traditional CVD risks. Add "still" to the title & it becomes much more clear.

Indians consuming a traditional diet get ridiculous amounts of SUGAR & FRIED FOODS.
Add to this the fact that many so called "Vegetarians" are vegetarians by virtue of NOT consuming meat rather than Eating vegetables. So, - Young, inactive "grainitarians" with high-sugar & oily-food diets at high risk of heart disease & diabetes - sounds about right.
> The amount of oil consumption is quite high. Every thing is fried or deep fried. You could easily see this in the snacks that are consumed with tea/coffee.

This isn't really accurate. It's is the common conception of Indian food based on what is usually available in the States, but that's usually only Punjabi food, and even for Punjabi food it's the sort of cuisine that you'd cater for a wedding. It's not at all representative of what people eat on a daily basis. It's like going to P.F. Chang's or Tex-mex and assuming that that's what people typically eat in China and Mexico (respectively).

Indian and Bangladeshi cuisines vary quite significantly by region, and in at least some cuisines there's very little oil and/or fried food.
If you are SSHing into a container, interrogating the version, and upgrading it manually, you're doing it wrong.

Pull a new base image, have your build system rebuild and deploy the relevant containers.
Wowwww... This is an insane level of commitment on a public forum like this. (With its current levels of readership.) I'm impressed.

Especially since many interesting office hour questions and answers are the kinds of things that anyone who isn't currently (or has never) run a startup would kind of react negatively to seeing in public. (There are some prime examples of people who have no experience with, but very strong opinions about, startups.).

People's conceptions about startups are so different from what it's like to actually build one, I almost suggest that other past and present founders answer some of the the questions that get posed (i.e. others also reply to comments) besides letting Kevin and Sam do so - not to dilute the signal, but to increase it. I wonder if this could be made official, with mail to YC companies that they are welcome to chime in!
Didn't they remove the 4 per year limit pretty much instantly after the initial backlash ?
It's a skill you'll have for the rest of your life. It's a razor you'll have for the rest of your life. A minor hassle of a few bad shaves while you learn good technique for shaving your face is entirely worth it. Think long term, get away from short term thinking.
The article does not answer the question it poses. The answer is likely that Indians eat an enormous amount of carbohydrates and very little protein. Every single meal is accompanied by as much bread or rice as all of the other foods combined.

Indians have a high level of lactose intolerance, and many dislike eggs as well. Nuts are considered a luxury item and aren't eaten regularly. This leaves few opportunities to compensate with other protein sources.