skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crohns and IBD sufferers would be right into this.
from the Patent:

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the patent was transfered in a mortgage foreclosure!
> Aesthetically, it might seem more natural than asphalt, but lawns are a long way from ‘nature’. Realistically to have anything close to 'nature' assuming zero farming you’re looking at ~1 person per square mile if that.

Not sure I terribly agree with your person per square mile argument. Yes, lawns are a terrible waste (footnote: did you know that lawns trace back to medievel times? How much land you could afford to grow lawn on was a measure of wealth) and should be heavily disincentivized. But at the same time, if my house is zero net energy (solar power, solar thermal for water, tight envelope), and the transportation of myself and the goods I acquire are provided via renewable energy (electric cars/trucks powered by clean renewables), there isn't a strong argument against rural living.
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Fluid dynamics is hard.

"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." - Werner Heisenberg
FWIW, I'd love to have Kubernetes clusters spanning a region with multiple regions/providers managed by Ubernetes. That would be the sweet spot for our particular usage case.

This is only one point of data for you, of course.
> Companies, unfortunately, will be pressured to underpay their top performers.

Or to educate their engineers as to what it means to perform so that they understand why their top performers are really top performers (and simultaneously understand the skills they should be developing to be top performers.)

Which, if you think about it, the companies should be doing anyway, independent of open salaries. But open salaries would increase the obvious incentive...
We definitely didn't invent systems biology for drug discovery. But Google didn't invent search engines either, I think that we have a fresh and novel approach which is really differentiated by the details.

Another thing I think is different about the industries is that while there are tons of food delivery and photo-sharing startups, there's no really effective/disease modifying treatments for common diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, ALS, etc, so I think there's plenty of space for any number of new approaches to be tested in the field. I feel it's more worthwhile than pumping billions more into failed antibodies against beta amyloid, as seems to be the trend nowadays.
Thanks for the comment! Yes we have reached out to a few companies similar to Stemilt and are always looking to expand! We find that larger operations are very excited by our analytics.
City for driverless cars opens in Michigan
> give extra points on the SAT for just checking a box.

[citation needed]
Connecticut teen flies gun-toting drone. How is this legal?
You can approximate low frequency light fields with a suitable distribution of virtual point lights.
We used the Angular document fragment URLs, so it was possible to copy-paste and bookmark things.
Can you give us some more information?
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doesn't have to be explicit, look at the average scores required to get into a competitive university.
5 worrisome stats from Apple’s Q3 earnings report
I remember paying over a dollar a minute in the '80s for a phone call to my sister in the same state. Air fare was crazy expensive compared to today, as was anything electronic.

Some things have gotten more expensive, and other things have gotten cheaper. Overall it's a wash. If it seems like life is more expensive it's because people buy a lot of things today that we didn't have back then. Things you don't really need, like cable TV and $5 coffee.
The government is telling you that you cannot use your own property as you see fit (with the threat of being kidnapped or stolen from).

Zoning is to prevent a paper factory from opening up shop next to an elementary school, not to give themselves a job by creating arbitrary rules.
Why are you trying so hard to deny that people could be responding to her based on a stereotype?

Also, how do you know how your African-American classmates were treated?
URLs are a big deal, and I absolutely loathe systems which actively sabotage likability on the web.

That said, it really was an offline app. We could've done it as a native Qt or .NET app. Even so, the standard AngularJS document fragment paths supported bookmarking and so on.
My guess is, they figure that most non-tech people will continue using IE 11 if Edge was not shipped with Windows 10 rather than moving to Edge when Edge shipped.
You really check all the doesn't-want-to-understand boxes with this post. It's like a textbook in attempting to discredit through non sequitur.

Have you ever thought you might just look lost and people are trying to help out? Why do you immediately think everyone is somehow racist by asking you this question?

Second-guessing lived experience (it turns out that people subject to racism are actually quite good at telling when it's happening to them), check.

It's because the classes are difficult.

Seriously, think for even one second about the implication you're making here.

Why don't you just say African-american students. Asians and Hispanics are also minorities.

"All lives matter!" It's not the author's responsibility to tackle the perfect at the expense of the good.

They were never treated any differently in class.

You have no idea how they were treated. They do. Let them speak.
Our video definitely was geared toward a lay audience, but we tried not to use buzzwords and bullshit and to explain the science in a more accessible way. I'm curious to know what what bothered you about the video and we will try to communicate better - at least for me, conveying scientific ideas in an understandable way has been pretty challenging and I had hoped we did a good job in the video.
Benchmarks are largely useless, everyone makes up their own and none of them translate into how it FEELS to use a browser IMHO. Great they made some stride but so did every other browser also they don't have extensions yet and won't at launch which is a nonstarter.

I used it VERY briefly in a WIn 10 VM (not to use it, just to go download some tools) and wanted to pull my hair out. Little things here and there that were a constant reminder that microsoft just is bad at browsers. Sure they can piece together something that can access the web but it's not an enjoyable experience. I had to go and download chrome because apparently browsing around online, having multiple tabs open, and downloading files was a little too much for Edge to handle. I'd say it was the number of ads on the sites I was going to but I went to the same sites in Chrome without an adblocker (Vanilla Chrome) and it handled it without a sweat. This is by no means a complete test but I really wanted to try Edge and it felt like it was actively working against me and unable to deal with websites that I might have to go to from time to time that are covered in ads.

We will see what Win 10 ships with and what Edge looks like after extension support is added but I'm not holding my breath for the IE/Edge team to put out anything beginning to look like a real browser. Lastly no cross platform support? Fuck off, don't expect me to test for it at all. And no, VM's are not acceptable for testing. Don't misunderstand me Apple sucks with Safari and their lack of browser choice (and engines) on iOS almost as much but at least webkit is sane. Not to mention you can test webkit on Windows but I do agree it's not the same as Safari. That said Safari is a LOT closer to FF/Chrome than IE/Edge is to FF/Chrome which reduces needed testing substantially.
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Holy crap! I've been keeping up with the hype, yet having never used Docker and never needed it yet I can't help but become more skeptical now that I know that it's features aren't more complex than a little bit of bash.

People give bash a hard time, but things like this really give me that warm, fuzzy feeling.

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I really suggest you look here:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Lars-Bak-and-Stev...

They do talk about the chicken and egg situation, where top sites will optimize for engines, then engines optimize for sites... i.e. it highly depends on the sites - of course all browsers test on top sites and optimize for them. But then the cycle repeats.
Apple gave no sales numbers for the Apple Watch. The official
reason given was that Apple doesn’t want to provide its competitors
with any “insights.” That explanation is a little hard to understand.

It's competitors or it's developers? If numbers aren't good how are they going to convince people to make the financial, strategic and time investment to create apps for the watch and, more than likely, give them away?
Towards a journalism ethics of using hacked documents
> We also need to remember that many universities have quotas for minorities

Quotas for minorities have been bright-line illegal for decades (at least since Regents v. Bakke in 1978). So, if you are going to argue that many universities are outright breaking the law, you probably should support that with something.
Why is this "tag" system considered a good feature? It seems so arbitrary. It's used exclusively for reflective logic which should instead be done at compile-time via a macro system or a system like Template Haskell, which would generate instances like `ToJson`/`FromJson` for a given struct. As the article mentions, Go tags are similar to Java annotations: a mis-feature motivated by the absence of a macro system.
Do people need to be reminded of what happens when these kind of issues are not disclosed out-of-the-blue?

Well, here you go (search for 'Volkswagen'): http://attrition.org/errata/legal_threats/
It's an interesting concept, but I don't get the need to have a physical device.

You're catering to people who are looking to distance themselves from the reality of bodily function by finding them what you describe as the 'cleanest restooms' (bit of a misspell in the copy, by the way) but also expect them to carry a non-discrete keyfob everywhere they go, that through your label and it's purpose they will associate only with excrement.

I'm just an armchair social psychologist but I feel like your branding should be far more discrete. The branding should be associated with cleanliness, not a euphemism for toilet, which conjures unclean mental imagery.

Use NFC on a phone, or RFID on a card that can be placed in the wallet and a name like (here's my best marketing consultant impression) 'Pristn' to give a more positive image when your name is read. You will not disrupt people's shame in their bodies, unfortunately.
Dan Price, Gravity Payments CEO Who Set $70,000 Minimum Wage, Sued by Brother
"He got all the permits. He spend $850,000 building the place. It was ready to rent! His first renter told him he would gladly move his family in, but there's rent control in detached homes. He could only rent to people at or below the federal poverty level, and rent was tied to this metric in some way? Instead of getting $5000/month---he could only rent it out for around $800."

Sounds like, with spending all that money on the building, he could have taken 10 minutes to call a real estate lawyer and find that out.
Please get help if you're depressed and thinking about killing yourself. It's not worth it. http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html 1-800-SUICIDE
I like to do "PermitRootLogin no" as well, but I guess it's not really necessary if one uses some of the other config you've given.
I don't think the way the poster worded it was particularly fair, but affirmative action is definitely a thing.
You're right that making the CEOs of publicly traded companies helped cause them to increase (among other reasons), but wrong about the mechanism.

What actually happened was the following. Suppose you're on the Compensation Committee of a board of a publicly traded company. You're deciding the CEOs salary. How do you do this? Simple, you take a look at the other public companies that are comparable (revenue, market cap, sector, etc). You get an average.

Now you don't want pay your CEO the average rate, do you? After all, he's clearly above average. So you choose a rate that's say, 75% percentile.

But this algorithm plays out iteratively. Each iteration, compensation for CEOs go up as every company tries to pay above average.
Try going to the grocery store in the suburbs on a bike. Sidewalks are great for walking your dog. But in the suburbs, you are trapped to your car.

You can't walk, take the bus, or ride a bike anywhere. Not only because it's 10 miles away, but because there simply is no safe way to get there without a car.
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Your estimates for both the "non-zero" probability of injury and the worst-case scenario are very far off from mine and from the those of the thread-starter, who appears to have some expertise in traffic considerations, and the dangers of semi trucks in particular. I wonder if your opinions about this would be different if you believed this was as dangerous as many of us believe it was, rather than merely having an extremely low probability danger of a harmless fender-bender.
No I'm not talking about debugging android apps. I'm talking about debugging websites using a android device. Again I'm not taking about remote debugging.
Arrogance is spending twice the time perfecting a product that you come to find nobody uses.

I'm not necessarily an evangelist of "Move fast and break things" but it's a good mentality to speed up the feedback loop and avoid sinking a lot of time into stuff people don't want (even if it's really well engineered).
I suspect it's more because companies can't chose when they have to expand a team. If they need 5 new devs and they need them now, they are in a weak position when negotiating salary.

Publicising that a new unproven hire is earning more than existing proven staff is simply going to cause people to leave, which is even worse for the business than not hiring new staff.
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There are plenty of studies that show that underrepresented minorities are, in fact, treated differently. Did your African-American classmates affirmatively tell you that they didn't feel like they were treated differently, or was that your own inference? (I notice you qualified that they were never treated differently "in class".)

And contrary to your implication, people don't have to be "racist" to treat people differently. It may just be unfamiliarity, but the net effect is still to give those subject to it a feeling of not belonging.

Everyone has to put the work in.

Maybe. But the amount of work needed to prove that you are "one of the team" is certainly not the same for everyone, no matter how much you want that to be the case.
Says who? Where are you getting that information, if you think nobody should talk about their salaries?
Researcher angry after finding his code in Hacking Team malware
It's really sad to see this company taking advantage of all those poor people who want to help their animals but have had problems with other treatments. Taking advantage of these gullible people does a lot of harm, because now they think their animals are protected and don't seek out actual effective treatments. I wonder how many pets might have avoided lyme disease if their owners hadn't been swindled by these ass-holes; and I wonder how much cash these criminals are taking home :(
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Thanks for sharing your story Alona. That was very brave of you given the rampant racism and sexism currently plaguing the tech space.
Others have mentioned this but they've really migrated away from an IIS-only approach. .NET 2015 has really tried to emphasize that you don't need IIS. Take a look at some of the .NET core documentation. They're officially supporting Linux and OSX when it's released (tentatively Q1 2016...so far away) but it will "just work" out of the box.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducin...

Honestly I've found getting up and running with Mono and Kestrel really simple with the latest beta. I ran from Visual Studio without really doing anything and then switched to OSX and it worked perfectly. You still need to rely on some mono classes as of now for things that haven't been open sourced (Xml streams....) but even the mono implementations worked just fine.
Racism is a fact, it's not up for debate.
We are definitely not experts in regards to pharma (neither Alice or I have experience working in pharma) but our advisors include pharma consultants and senior scientists. We're constantly engaging them and meeting with pharma execs and scientists almost daily to learn what has and hasn't worked, and have received a lot of feedback about how to bring potential new drugs to patients. There's a line between being naive and being jaded and we are trying to stick to being as realistic as possible, and value any new information or feedback, if you know anything that's contrary to our experience.
Walk. Exercise and light will help you immensely.

Walking is an art form, like poetry, and will bring you exercise and light and awe.

It gets better.
LOL. I'm guessing the irony of that title is intended
Meh, people are just trying to be nice. They aren't trying to be racist or prejudice or whatever, they are just trying to help someone that is lost.

It happens all the time when you go to a place where people like you don't usually go.

It happened to me in Asia all the time. Sure it wasn't fun, but acting like people were being racist isn't helping you at all.

She is making it into a bigger deal than it is.

It's a mild annoyance at best.
Surprising number of people on this thread are conflating first mover advantage with moving fast.

First mover just means you are first to a new market. Hypothetically, there could have been 10 years of product development behind your first mover advantage.

Moving fast, as I see it, is not becoming that huge, slow organization (think GE), that has so much bureaucracy baked-in nothing ever gets done.

Most decisions really don't require the level of debate they're given. The author is pointing out that a lot of the decision making process is influenced by shit that doesn't have anything to do with the actual decision.
First two comments come right out the gate and cast doubt on the authors experiences. One goes on and says women and minorities, particularly blacks, are not smart enough to make it through difficult CS classes.

This is pathetic Hacker News, pathetic.
"Have you ever thought you might just look lost and people are trying to help out? Why do you immediately think everyone is somehow racist by asking you this question?"

Have you ever thought you might just have difficulty emphasizing and people are trying to tell you something valuable? Why do you immediately think anybody would "look lost" in general?

"It's because the classes are difficult. I took these classes when I went to school and if you don't really know your stuff, you will fail."

Right... Actually, this is where this ends with me. Mr Hauggis, you have definitely crossed the line.

"They were never treated any differently in class."

Do you really enjoy such confidence in your own ability to observe, feel and emphasize with people? Because from my experiences in the US, this sounds like a very strong claim.
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Public or private?
I think it's just a matter of time before we go through every possible permutation of integrating thing x into the sharing economy.

As someone mentioned, maybe for the third world this would work... otherwise, it is, of course absurd, as well as an actual idea of George Costanza as someone pointed out. I'd pivot this for the third world if you want something more feasible.
>> It's because the classes are difficult.

> Seriously, think for even one second about the implication you're making here.

Seriously, read the article before commenting. The author said that the class in question is Stanford's CS "weed out" class.

A "weed out" class is a class designed to be (1) difficult, and (2) come early in a major. The idea is that if you can get through the weed out class, you should be able to get through the rest of the classes in that major.

The theory is that by putting one of the hardest classes first, you avoid students ending up in the terrible position of spending 3 or 4 years majoring in one field and then have to give up and either drop out or switch majors when they hit a difficult required class that they just cannot get through.
>...in a way that it isn't today.

I submit that you're comparing unmarried and childless people of today with married and child-bearing people of yesteryear.

Do the other comparisons and you'll find that you are off base -- people today do make enormous sacrifices to start families at a young age, and people in the 50s to 80s who were single with no children did live lavish lifestyles.

To the extent that there are differences between the primary peer comparison -- married couples raising children -- it's mostly a byproduct of the fact that people wait longer and have smaller families.

Waiting longer is some combination of less social pressure to pop out kids (a good thing! Having kids because of an obnoxious parent's pestering is how you end up with broken families, divorced or otherwise) and a better understanding of fertility/access to medical care (also a good thing).

Smaller family sizes are, IMO and as someone who grew up in a large family, a good thing as well. Keeping the size of one's family manageable means having the time to both build up a career and also heavily invest in the upbringing of each child.

I think that's far more commendable than the "pop 'em out, pay for shit, parent on the weekends and leave wifey in the kitchen the rest of the time" mentality of a huge portion of the baby boom generation. And also more commendable than leaving yourself penniless and jobless in old age for your children to take care of you.

It's possible to raise one or two or maybe three kids well. Doing a good job at raising five or six means someone has to give up a career, and even then you're probably just barely keeping up (i.e., not doing the best possible job at fostering intellectual and emotional health.)
I've worked on what is ostensibly a Heroku competitor (Cloud Foundry).

I don't see where the limits on languages, frameworks or data stores comes in.

Languages are extensible in buildpacks, data stores are ordinary services. Heroku pioneered the 12-factor app model, Cloud Foundry lets people run it themselves.
"Commercial cloud revenue grew 88% (up 96% in constant currency) driven by Office 365, Azure and Dynamics CRM Online and is now on an annualized revenue run rate of over $8 billion"

This is really interesting. This recurring revenue should be growing every month. It's still only > 10% of total revenue, but I think MSFT SaaS business will be really big within a year or two.

I'm considering buying some stock.