skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vice news docs in the beginning I liked because they gave uncensored translations of locals which sometimes were hilarious even when the topic was supposed to be serious, and there wasn't dubbed translations muting the local language out like every other media does. Sadly now they've taken to playing menacing background music during stories like when they interviewed some drug addict in Afghanistan who claimed to be ex Taliban and did everything including slowing down his laugh so it sounded as evil as possible. It's bordering on propagandatainment lately.

There was also a questionable story by Vice about the Nigerian military fighting militants recently and the supposedly embedded reporter made zero mention that the entire crew in the attacking helicopters they filmed in were not Nigerian. Hey why do the gunners and pilots have white arms? Are they mercenaries? British pilots? South African? Who knows Vice never bothered to tell us.
You expect a professional comedian to know their audience will enough to make tasteless jokes work. You expect a stranger to not make jokes in poor taste at all.

It's not a double standard, it's just a standard. Do what is appropriate.
No bubble here (Marketing Private Jets to startups)
We announced our A round last week. Expected the recruiters, 409A firms, etc, but not the following.

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Subject: Jet Linx Aviation // Personal Jet Company
Date: July 6, 2015 at 08:44:02 PDT
To: "XXXXXX@cloudhelix.com <mailto:XXXXXX@cloudhelix.com>"

Hi XXXXXX,

Just wanted to see who you could point me to within
CloudHelix for our private, aviation services?

Looking forward to being 'your personal jet company,'

XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Executive Sales Coordinator
Office 402.315.XXXX
Cell 402.215.XXXX
www.jetlinx.com <http://www.jetlinx.com/>
TD Ameritrade Testimonial // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otOGbTS04Cc&feature=youtu.be
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Seems like a good idea, I guess, but we don't want to go too wild. You know, at least comparison shop :)

I couldn't find any private aviation vendor recommendations on the First Round network, so I asked Vivek from August if they have any deals for private jet use for their portfolio companies. He said nope but we can just borrow his G5 when he's not using it. What an awesome firm! (seriously, they are.) Can't believe the Fastly folks are still flying commercial...
Some realms of art still entertain this definition for art, but you are correct in that the vast majority of modern art is exactly this distinct departure from the notion that one must have an audience. Modern art came about because of the rise of the bourgeoisie, meaning, people of different classes could commission works, artists had more freedom in what they chose to depict, sell, create, etc, instead of being limited to being commissioned by the church or by nobility.

But you are getting into a debate that hasn't really been resolved in modern art either, this has been a debate in the concept of kitsch and collage, dada, Greenberg, photography, etc.

If you want to dance around the question linguistically, that's all fine and good, but there are people in the world who believe that art must be sold and there are people in the world who find value in it other than the fact that it sells. You've got the past and the contemporary interpretations of art conflated with the trends of culture. Plus, these circles weave and web together, people derive influence and inspiration from all sorts of places, art comes to mean different things depending on who is listening, who is speaking/painting/etc.

I mean, there is obviously either a rigid definition for Art which has no form in language and is thus inexpressible for all eternity despite the various shapes it may manifest as, or art is something else. No, just kidding, I have no idea what I'm patring on about.
How Far Can Electric Cars Travel?
I developed them myself.

Mostly this doesn't add much overhead to the learning process. As I'm working through a math's text book (in ebook or pdf form) I use the windows 7 snipping tool to create two images - one of the question and solution. And then I just insert these into my card program. This takes about 15-30 seconds at the most.

I use mnemosyne as my repetition software which allows me to insert images - and I can also annotate my cards with latex. I have a number of latex macros set up on my keyboard so that I've become pretty quick at inputting latex.

I continue to annotate my cards as I progress. For a complex problem, what starts out as a simple cut and paste from a text book grows into a voluminous set of notes covering every aspect of the problem that I've had trouble with on different repetitions of the problem. These notes become what I use to create the smaller cards.

For abstract and complex material - there is no substitute for creating your own cards imo. You need to read through a text book anyway to ensure that there is no important context that you've missed. And it isn't much overhead to create your base set of cards, cutting and pasting as you go. But your gaps in understanding are your own - and only you can identify those and fill them.
this is not true. Qihoo is an public company. They are listed in NYSE. and their stock go strong since IPO.
> AirBnB is increasing market efficiency around distribution of resources (sleeping space) that normally would go un- or mis- used and is just about as textbook as you can get of capitalism resulting in better resource allocation.

Is that really true? My limited experience with AirBnB seemed to be that providers were in it full time. That wasn't an apartment they used themselves, they are literally acting as alternatives to hotels.
> The solution is basic income.

Yeah, basic income coming from where? Oh wait, the machines doing all the work, right. Let's talk again when we reach singularity. If ever.
As others have mentioned, avoid startups, unless they are one of those unicorns. You have moved to product and project management. You know, every guy wants to transition from programming/coding/engineering (all those individual contributors roles). Where have they moved to: product management (if they got MBA from any school), project management (with PMP and CSM certified scum master). Some have moved to engineering leadership. Once you transition to these roles, you can't jump out the way a programmer can: you need to find another full time at an established company.

In many companies in the states I have worked as a consultant, product and project managers don't have direct reports. If I were you, I avoid becoming a project manager (PMP, SCM) like a plague, unless you see lots of upside financially in the short turn.

Even for a job as a product manager in the states, you will have hard time getting offers/interviews form established companies: these companies have lots of qualified local candidates for product manager roles.

If you were a graduate of an elite school, try your connections, thats the way to get your foot in the door.

I have avoided becoming a project manager: every mid-career guy without hands on is a project manager these days. Some have become consulting architects for VMware, Cisco, if they can talk tech. Others have got evening MBA from Columbia-Haas etc: even here, all these guys are planning to become C-level execs. But what I see now in the valley: Columbia-Haas MBA does not cut, except to become a senior product manager. Thats the case with Kellog, Chicago Booth, etc; I had seen a kellog MBA with prior experience as a product manager, working as a contractor for a startup.

Are you trapped? I don't know. What I can say is this: you have too competition to get a product manager role at top tier companies.
>Could those things be done on something like Craigslist? A FOSS application?

How does that change the relevant dynamics, though? If the market would be efficient, then the "FOSS-Uber" drivers would still get paid roughly the same as Uber pays them now. Sure, the drivers might not be creating a profit "to billionaires", but their situation would at most improve marginally.
"A 150-person study is now under way, and includes a control group."

I'm curious, the latest study which is presumably what triggered this story, involved no control group, yet they mention a smaller study from 2011 which did use a control.

If this really does hint at a breakthrough, why did it take so long to follow up on the first study, and why did this one not use a control group?
Dev cloud software – My new development company
I'm struggling to find the bit in this[1] set of lectures where something like this was mentioned (I only got to #15 so far); not this study of course, but something about rats being more prone to stress (he was more specific than that) depending on how stressed their mother was (again, that's how I remember it), and that it takes 4-5 generations for that to return to "normal". The logic being that if stress leads to passing on "lower stress tolerance" or however you want to call it, that in turn leads to the offspring being more stressed, which in turn makes their offspring more prone to stress.

I know this may be something totally unrelated, like comparing a jpeg to a wav file, I have no clue about this subject really. It's just this "similar thing that this reminded me of" :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D

edit, this was the bit I was thinking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WZx7lUOrY&t=50m11s
Bling [1] was quite similar to this. The idea is that rather than use and build values, you can use and build expressions instead. With those expressions, you can generate whatever code you really need (including GPU code), but you can also walk them to do things like symbolic differentiation (in the style of Conal Elliott) or compute an inverse.

A lot can be done with C#'s support for operator overloading and extensions methods to make this look prettier.

http://bling.codeplex.com/
Reddit and Redditors, as with HN and its participants, are diverse and contain multitudes.

I moderate a couple of modest subs and have participated on Reddit, generally positively, for three years. Pao hadn't impressed me hugely, though I didn't find her behavior strongly negative. The FPH situation was handled and communicated poorly, but from what I understand, was sound (the banning was based on violations of site rules, not specific expressed opinions).

Pao's personal legal issues have certainly been a distraction, and while I've not obsessed over the case and related issues, she, and her husband, seem to have an interesting history and set of problems.

The blow-up over Taylor was different: it concerned directly trust between Reddit and a small number of very crucial moderators -- /r/IAMA's mod team is 23 users, but the are the gatekeepers to one of Reddit's most valuable features (not one I use much myself, FWIW). The specific roster of complaints from IAMA and other subs affected were on point and material.

The response from the larger Reddit community has varied: some was legit, some expressions of outrage over real or imagined past offenses.

My own views of Pao took a sharp downward note at that point. David Frum and Asher Wolf, neither of whom are pimply-faced teenage boys, both make great observations:

https://twitter.com/Asher_Wolf/status/616834072015339520
"Reddit's users are their product. Reddit is currently discovering
where the balance of power lies when a product with opinions revolts."

https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/616965682517921792
"I'm not following the Reddit thing closely, but one thing seems obvious: corporations shouldn't hire CEOs who hate their product and customers."

I'm also a fan of Merideth L. Patterson's "On Port 80":
https://medium.com/@maradydd/on-port-80-d8d6d3443d9a

(My own comments:
https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/jxHO4czSkI3duweJv5XTRA)

It's one thing to have the usual outrage squads raising a ruckus. Another when core subs go dark because the mods have revolted.

That's what pushed this impasse. Pao's been handling it very poorly, though she may still turn things around.
Something like Uber would work without the parasitic middlemen, arranged by a decentralized application that is open source, such that anyone with a Linux server can easily join as a node.

The drivers would keep all their money, and as a bonus, there would be no organization there that cities and other litigators could target. At best they could scour the cloud looking for server nodes to shut down, and send undercover cops to bust the drivers---a move that would make for very bad PR, because it would be adding up to harassment of the "little guy" by the state, bent on enforcing a taxi monopoly.
(Science) Fiction and Design
Light the Set Stomp the Tanks Happy 114th Birthday, Tsuburaya Eiji
Or my personal favourite of nature v/s nurture, the domestication of the Russian Silver Fox,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox
Amazon has created some companies but they've also put so many other resellers out of business. At least catalogs took 50 years to do it.
The apartments are in it full time, but landlording isn't a full-time job for a single unit; it is a capital investment that pays more than competitive labor wage.
There has to be some way, the player on the YouTube website does it. :)
Given all the timing, a Monday site announcement, rather than someting buried over the weekend, is sensible.

It would have been preferable if Pao hadn't shot her mouth off to The New York Times over the weekend, with some spectacularly inept remarks cocerning her company and Reddit users.

But timing of this announcement isn't something I'd criticise her for.

There's plenty else for that.
Easily one of the most valuable. I agree.
Americans forget how long people, Socialists mainly, had to fight for things the way that they are. They didn't magically happen due to benevolence of Capitalists. They had to be coerced. I guess sooner it later it will be time for those movements again.
Reading the exchange, they were not asking for a freebie. They were asking for 2 months grace on paying the bills. Meaning in 3 months, when they had new bank accounts setup and funded, they would pay $120 to catch up on their billing.
"basic income" is not the same as "post-scarcity"
How so? Give half your revenue (or whatever fraction) to some parasite, versus keep all the revenue? No brainer.

(Or you mean that with open source, decentralized competition, there would be more drivers doing it and the revenue itself would drop?)
basic income coming from where?

The idea would be to increase taxes on companies hoarding profits due to increased automation (i.e. "tax the robots and give the money back to displaced humans"). Then you redistribute those profits back to the public by slowly (or quickly) adjusting the social security age down to birth (or age of majority) as revenue from taxing automation increases.

Not going to happen in our current political climate though.
Ask HN: Where are all the hardware startup jobs?
I should graduate in two years with an EE degree, and I've wanted to work in the startup space for some time now. It's rather dissuading to ctrl-f every Whoishiring thread to find 1-2 hardware-related positions for every 500 software developers wanted. In addition, I can't remember ever seeing someone post an individual job for an EE/ME on here. Even when I look at hardware startups I admire, they just seem to want more software or data science people. Where are all the hardware jobs? Am I just looking on the wrong site?
There is considerable support for destroying and recreating immune cell populations to deal with autoimmune diseases and some aging effects. For example, for B cells:

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1) Reversing B cell aging

http://www.impactaging.com/papers/v3/n4/full/100313.html

2) Long-lived autoreactive plasma cells drive persistent autoimmune inflammation.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrrheum.2011.1

3) B-cell depletion reactivates B lymphopoiesis in the BM and rejuvenates the B lineage in aging

http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2010-09-307983

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Then for treatment of autoimmune disorders such as MS, more comprehensive destruction:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/nu-sct012909....

This was also tried for rheumatoid arthritis with mixed results before the development of biologics, and everyone gave up on the immune reboot with chemotherapy in favor of controlling the condition for some patients.

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Then there are the prospects for destroying T cells specialized to herpesviruses like CMV (you probably have CMV, near everyone has CMV by time old age rolls around, it's very prevalent) that are thought to cause a large degree of immunosenescence by overloading the repertoire of immune cells with memory T cells for CMV and the like - too many of those and not enough naive T cells to deal with new threats and cancer surveillance. That isn't a going concern yet, but it certainly could be soon.
Most comments seems positive here, nice. I'm a bit less enthusiastic. A twenty-so young boy has no lesson to teach. He can't be an artist because artists are either over fifty or dead, no matter how many times he'll repeat the mantra. One does not choose art among other professional activities: a very few men or women are chosen to become artists and they will be no matter what else they try to do.

Also being an artist is a curse. In just finished reading the trial by Kafka for the fourth time: it must have been extremely painful and hard to write such a deep novel. I wouldn't wish having this curse even on my worst enemy. Normal people far very much being an "artist" and they are right, as bring one means having the most miserable life, no sane relationships with other people, and if success is there you get paranoia.

Even worse is a young guy who knows nothing about that and says "me too! I want to be an Artist!". Just like those fools willing to become soldiers in 1914...
I'd like to see the drivers cut out Uber with a FOSS app. Uber says they are turning the table on the old fashioned taxi industry. Uber you can be kicked out too.
NYC? I'm down.
> Yeah, basic income coming from where?

Coming from taxing capital income like other income, rather than giving it preferential tax treatment that favors the already rich.
From Wikipedia:

"Unlike most large canids, which are widespread, generalist feeders, the Ethiopian wolf is a highly specialised feeder of Afroalpine rodents with very specific habitat requirements.[6] It is one of the world's rarest canids, and Africa's most endangered carnivore.[7]"

"Wolves in Bale have been observed to forage among cattle herds, a tactic thought to aid in ambushing rodents out of their holes by using the cattle to hide their presence.[5] Ethiopian wolves have also been observed forming temporary associations with troops of grazing gelada baboons.[31] Solitary wolves will hunt for rodents in the midst of the monkeys, ignoring juvenile monkeys even though these are similar in size to some of their prey. The monkeys in turn tolerate and largely ignore the wolves, although they take flight if they observe feral dogs, which sometimes prey on them. Within the troops, the wolves enjoy much higher success in capturing rodents than usual, perhaps because the monkeys' activities flush out the rodents, or because the presence of numerous larger animals makes it harder for rodents to spot a threat.[32]"

According to another website, in 2008 there was thought to be as few as 500 of the species remaining.

It is also well known that this species regurgitates food for the pups in order to supplement their supply of milk, and other females will assist in providing milk when necessary.

To me, this all adds up pretty clearly. A species about to go extinct, that primarily feeds on rodents, that uses other species to increase the likelihood of success of feeding, but still has trouble feeding itself. They adapt by forming an alliance (or at the very least being much less likely to attack).

This could be an example of how domestication formed, or, domestication could have developed from a completely separate process. The only thing that is clear is that this is an almost-extinct species that uses another species in order to improve its chances of eating.
Code Cooperative
He mentions towards the end that there's a load-balancer that pauses the connection while the migration occurs. When the container comes back up, the traffic is redirected to the new instance and the connection resumes.
The lighting is a bit off putting standalone. It feels like it really needs to be paired with some type of upper body/necklace/arms effect to balance it out.
Are there severe government crackdown on coops or something?

Why is it that coops never grow up to be something like Apple or Google? I hear about small examples here and there, but they are so rare and insignificant to privately owned organizations.

Only "successful" massive coops I see are governments. And they all exist with unparalleled power within that geographic area. I think that's not a coincidence. In order for coops to become successful, it must be enforced on its members with massive power, or else, it'll remain very small like an extended family or something.
I have personally reversed CFS & an auto-immune disease with crazy high anti-bodies by sticking with a very strict diet and changing life-style.
Someone Ran Fear and Loathing Through Google's Neural Network
Did your servants get comfortable room+board and some time off, besides their wages? If so, that's not quite the same as "incredibly low" as in a slum-residing factory worker. It is insecure, though, but, say, if there are cultural or legal norms around lifelong employment of staff, that would provide security.
I would guess that there's some functionality provided via XUL which doesn't exist in the native OSX context menus (i.e. precisely the same functionality doesn't exist, not that the native OSX context menus are somehow deficient). That's going to be particularly relevant for extensions.
There are some larger employee owned companies:

http://www.nceo.org/articles/employee-ownership-100
As I mentioned, I'm not a particular follower of hers; I guess I should have mentioned I'm also not her apologist.

Sorry I can't answer your question. I don't know what she was doing in that tweet; you provided no context. It's clear you believe you have the answer, though, and that you care enough to create a throwaway account; pull up a four year old tweet; and present in a discussion that really isn't about Randi. Seems like she's important to you.

Hope you got what you were looking for.
Our society is moving towards post-ownership. Everything will be as-a-Service. We already see this with code. [X]aaS subscription revenue is more stable than trying to sell direct software then convince people to upgrade to re-up your sales.

But, in post-ownership, only those who own capital have income. We end up with two classes: the monied capital owners (who rent out homes/cars/kitchens/software) and the poor people needing to rent from the capital owners (or work from them at an hourly, non-guaranteed rate).

The joy of that model is it's so much easier for a wealthy person with a little capital (renting 5 apartments in a city) to take that income and buy more capital (buy 5 new apartments to rent out each year), which restricts the ability for "normal" people to participate in the market by eating the fixed supply. Then, snowballing, your return-on-capital income lets you buy more units faster and faster. You get to remove even more capacity from the public market and you get to turn a scarce housing market into a private money spigot.

The age of attracting a 50,000 person factory to your town and filling it with uneducated workers is over. There aren't any future mass-employement systems for unskilled labor that aren't essentially servitude.
Everything has biases.
I have personally reversed CFS & an auto-immune disease with crazy high anti-bodies by sticking with a very strict diet and changing my life-style. Only after being directed into many black-holes by multiple doctors telling me nothing was wrong or trying to prescribe me anti-anxiety drugs.

So yeah I guess I am a jackass!