word2vec hn classifications

word2vec_hn_classifications_1.txt

startups(0.265) | Previously:  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990221 

religion(0.227) | Out of curiosity, why secular humanism vs existential nihilism? I don't think I'll switch sides and time soon, but if I did it would be to nihilism.

education(0.245) | Education and Healthcare: Two services which should not be offered by businesses seeking to make a profit. I think future generations will look back and ask: "What were they thinking?"

religion(0.203) | Also if the opposite sex thinks you're gay but you're straight, it's harder to attract them.

business(0.298) | Funny, my company is called Serve2 :)

startups(0.265) | Previously:  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9983224 

law(0.231) | Not just the police, in one of the cases a council worker spoke out clearly on what was happening was sent to "sensitivity" training. Unless you combat this stuff openly with the full power of the law you create a breeding ground for the far-right.

copyright(0.573) | What patent is that from?

startups(0.276) |  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990881 

society(0.225) | Not by, in order to.

religion(0.268) | So why segregate by gender? Isn't weight class enough?

startups(0.263) | Ok, thanks for the clarification! > Companies are jerks I fully agree with that! Also with your assertion, that using paid services will automatically help is totally correct, of course.

technology(0.252) |         mode		    tcp

engineering(0.324) |         bind                EXTERNAL_IP_HERE:443

education(0.225) |         acl                 is_tls req.ssl_ver gt 3

society(0.25) |         use_backend         ssh if is_ssh

finance(0.201) |         use_backend	    https if is_tls

religion(0.208) | Agreed. Just talking about my own personal experience. That being said, religious environments that impose these world views on people have a much higher success rate at having people  think  about these things than they would in almost any other way (even if they accomplish this by making people rebel against religion). They're certainly not going to get that from the media and pop culture. It's interesting that the most philosophically profound individuals I've met (again, personal experience) are mostly people who were religious and then abandoned their fate. I think that has to do with the combination of wanting to rebel against the imposition of those beliefs with trying to somehow find something to substitute it.

business(0.349) | If the company has problems making payroll on time, there's a good chance they'll go out of business before your equity becomes worth a cent.

copyright(0.251) |   void *vptr = foo;

humanity(0.273) |   int c = yolo(10); // Cthulhu come

health(0.209) |   public:

technology(0.268) |   	void method() { }

copyright(0.249) |   	Foo foo(Bar());

technology(0.262) |   	foo.method();

religion(0.245) | When you give it up, you give up religion _and_ community. So maybe we need the Church of Morality ?

religion(0.202) | How would you call that? [1] [1]  http://www.rt.com/news/224395-muslim-incidents-rise-france/ 

technology(0.207) | Will do it as soon as possible. It is part of our launch strategy related to one tech event.

humanity(0.257) | Salvation

humanity(0.322) | Yeah who cares about saving humanity from extinction. Let's just stay here with out families and our 4x4's until we drown. Real heroes.

business(0.437) | Desktop.

law(0.568) | Because of you. Cf: Lewis's law.

law(0.438) | > the anti-gay law in India (Article 377) is an 1860 law that was brought over by the British How unsurprising. And sad.

humanity(0.28) | - commit crimes

religion(0.22) | - try to pull their religion on everyone else. I would not say that France is openly against muslims. There isn't one muslim community. Plenty of people from north-african ancestry, who happen to have been raised by a muslim family are doing just fine. I have friends, lived in a nice neighborhood in Paris. I was invited by my neighbors, and so on. I am now living in SF, it's a bit different although I haven't had any major issues. I got some stares from time to time, but it's probably because I walk funny.

copyright(0.328) |    royalties for the trial period. They said they disclosed 

copyright(0.586) |    that only to copyright owners (that is, the labels). I 

copyright(0.486) |    have my own label and own the copyright on some of my 

community(0.292) | I've always felt that calling online forums "communities" was wishful thinking on the part of forum participants looking for a sense of belonging. Hacker News and nerdfighters, to use examples you posted, never felt like communities to me, just people coming together to talk about things they all liked, organizing around hobbies and interests. A group of friends does not make a community. I think physical proximity is an absolute requirement for a community. Students in college inevitably form communities. They come together to help each other. Online forums like reddit more often drive people apart than join people together.

community(0.248) | That's an interesting perspective, but I'm not sure how well such ad-hoc communities can deal with important life events. For example, if a loved one dies, will your book club friends help you organize the funeral (or even attend)? If you can't rely on them in cases like that, it's not really the kind of community the OP is talking about.

community(0.274) | The article resonates strongly with me. In college, I felt part of (and strongly resonated with) the Penn CS / hacker community. Moving to SF after graduation, I had lots of varying friendships and relationships, but there was no unifying community (IE, the graph of relationships and acquaintances was too sparse).  The closest I came to community was based on workplace. When I left the US and began traveling the world, it's the lack of community that constituted one of my biggest concerns. These days, I help organize pop-up communities for people in and around tech (hackerparadise.org) and have gotten to see the "a bunch of strangers show up somewhere for a month and slowly become an honest-to-goodness community" experience five or so times so far. The secular community checklist is spot-on. Our equivalent of Ritualizing, point 6, is a weekly group meal in which members go around and talk about what they are working on and ways that they would appreciate help from others in the community. It's a simple-enough practice but it does a great job of providing structure and reinforcing our values - curiosity about others, a belief in continuous improvement, and a willingness to be vulnerable and open to receiving help and learning from others.

research(0.269) | Citation?

society(0.217) | Look at it in reverse order.Maybe they have lower(higher ?) amount of some hormones because the way societies in thousands year treat them.

community(0.274) |         bar();

technology(0.217) |         sun();

humanity(0.212) | Maybe it's neither for God nor for us but rather for the benefit of those claiming to speak on behalf of God.

technology(0.206) | My son was born this year in March.  I'm not sure if that counts as Z or if its something beyond that... but i'm not sure technology is the thing that will "Define" his generation.  To be sure, I think VR and AI will definitely impact them by a lot.... but I think more impactful is that he's going to be coming of age at exactly the moment when some of the worst effects of climate change (if we managed to slow it down very soon) are projected to happen. I think his generation will be defined not by the new tech invented, but by the global changes they have to adapt to.

community(0.3) | From that post:  http://doc-ok.org/?p=824 

religion(0.211) | If you join a fundamentalist cult, then yes.  Lots of modern churches are non-denominational and quite relaxed.  In fact, they are surprisingly similar to the entity being described in the article.

religion(0.225) | A commune Ayn Rand could love.

startups(0.219) | Being good to people makes me feel good.

religion(0.262) | I'm pretty sure a belief in the major parts of the bible are necessary, are they not? I mean, I thought the resurrection of christ was  the whole point  of anything describable as Christianity? Without that, well is that 'church' ?

business(0.349) | Microsoft is a business.  Why would it serve their interests to make all this opt-out by default?

health(0.338) | What kinds of disorders and diseases will you be testing for? Will your tests be available direct-to-consumer, or will patients have to go through health provider gatekeeping?

health(0.403) | or will patients have to go through evil health provider gatekeeping? FTFY :)

society(0.289) | No. I do not believe society's treatment of women caused them to develop ovaries.

startups(0.332) | get off the hate train. you want to hate Microsoft, you had best hate Google, Apple and many other companies out there

startups(0.366) | That day has come and gone thanks to other companies and closed ecosystems like Apple

community(0.213) | Yes, the most vexing parse.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse 

health(0.209) | We are looking at Parkinson's, heart disease, and cancer initially.

law(0.216) | And we do. Hating on Microsoft in no way diminishes hate for all of the other violators. Hate is not governed by the laws of thermodynamics, there is enough warranted hate in the universe for them all, and then some.

religion(0.255) | Why do I need to worship Christ for salvation? Logical answer, please.

community(0.234) | Hacker spaces?

education(0.26) | You forgot the kids.

community(0.239) |  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/cr.2015.82 

research(0.35) | Maybe I missed it, but as far as I can tell, this comment is the only documentation of what "research mode" means. You might want to address that somewhere...

health(0.325) | I was not arguing that orthodontics is bad. I was just using it to illustrate the expanding definition of the word "health".

religion(0.256) | > On the other hand if you get raped by a stranger it is also most likely a muslim Whoa. That sounds like a nasty slur. You can't do that here.

business(0.284) | I read Google's plan was rejected because Mountain View didn't want more Google employees living in the city -- they wanted a more employer-diverse resident+business base.

community(0.216) | Generally churches have a minimum set of beliefs to be accepted as an official member.  However, most churches welcome people who don't believe to be part of the community.  There are limitations--non-believers usually can't be part of leadership (one of the reasons being the reason you gave)--but it's part of the Church's mission to bring to goodness of God, community included, to non-believers.

religion(0.205) | > I thought the resurrection of christ was the whole point of anything describable as Christianity? Yes: "But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith." 1 Corinthians 15:12-14

copyright(0.323) | A Sony patent for mid-videogame advertising:  http://www.google.com/patents/US8246454  It's really quite a gem.

community(0.254) | It uses Reddit's API, Algolia's HN API, and the Google News Api. Any of these services can be toggled individually in settings. [0] - Reddit -  https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API 

community(0.317) | [1] - HN -  https://hn.algolia.com/api 

research(0.325) | [2] -  https://developers.google.com/news-search/v1/devguide#gettin...  Also, it can be set to search a-la-carte by toggling Research Mode.

humanity(0.339) | So much of the internet is bland and corporatised. Stuff like this adds the humanity back into the net.

copyright(0.206) | Dave what is the patent landscape like for circular RNA? I hope it is better than RNAi or antisense?

humanity(0.287) | Much obliged fellow human :)

copyright(0.228) | Hi Daniel, We've filed patents on our work. Is there any biotech patent landscape as bad as RNAi? :)

community(0.248) |  https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-exte... 

politics(0.275) | Think.

copyright(0.219) | I'm flagging this because the website has several ebooks which are clearly under copyright (e.g. New York Bestsellers  http://topshelfbook.org/world-war-z-an-oral-history-of-the-z... ,  http://topshelfbook.org/the-wolf-of-wall-street/ )

education(0.237) | those kids need a good ol beating.

community(0.284) | The Xbox One is (essentially) using an AMD HD 7790, which AMD [1] have confirmed to support DX 12, and Microsoft have confirmed that DX 12 is coming to the Xbox One with the Windows 10 update [2]. [1]  https://community.amd.com/thread/180474  [2]  http://news.xbox.com/2015/01/xbox-one-phil-spencer-unveils-n... 

startups(0.342) | Clearly, you are doing things right.

humanity(0.303) |         if $base_present

society(0.285) |         then

society(0.228) |         fi

religion(0.215) | The whole point of Christ dying was to forgive sins. In the old testament they would sacrifice animals and use the blood of the animals to wash away sin. People would sacrifice animals at the temple with a Priest and collect the blood to wash away their sins. Christ was God's sacrifice to end that practice Christ's blood was shed to wash away our sins. Christ was dead for three days to build a bypass from hell into heaven. Before that it wasn't possible to reach heaven. Christ rose from the dead and promises on judgement day when he returned to raise the dead and judge them. Islam differs on Jesus they see him as a Prophet didn't die on the cross, and converted to Islam, and there is no trinity in their religion. Jesus is not the son of God or Messiah but a Prophet instead named Isa. Some churches are converting to Chrislam where they rewrite the Bible to be compatible with Islam. One that Christ doesn't die and isn't resurrected. You'll find that there are many different versions of Christianity, even Atheist Christians who follow Christ's teachings but don't believe he is a God. Many Christians became non-practicing because they got busy with their jobs or they just stopped believing. A lot of atheists used to be Christian at one point, and just didn't believe in God any more. In modern times people worship science and technology and don't see a need for God anymore. When you visit a church you see elderly people, and the sick and disabled, the sort of people who need God. You don't see very many of the young adults who are healthy, if there are any young people they come in with their parents.

society(0.2) | Evolution is just a mechanical process that arises when you put self-replicating organisms in a noisy environment for a long time.  The process doesn't care about society and its current beliefs, because human brains are several orders of magnitude faster than human reproduction.

religion(0.209) | Hi daemonk,

business(0.236) | Those services as investor owned enterprises are not the problem, and and a coop is not the solution. Don't assume there is any way to make selling, or streaming, recorded music pay for more than a few highly promoted musicians, and don't assume that the business of promoting those musicians can stay clean. Compared to performing and teaching music, selling a recorded performance is a relative novelty, and the business of it was always an irrational hits business and always more or less dirty. Recorded music disrupted performance, and vastly reduced the demand for music performers. Figure out how to reverse-disrupt that and you will do more to put more money in the pockets of more musicians than a novel way of selling recorded performances.

religion(0.211) | The problem is that the world is full of diverse people who all have different opinions and beliefs on how things should work. I visited Thailand three times, it is around a Buddhism community. Quite different from the Christian communities you'd see in the USA. Christians are a small minority in Thailand and there are more Muslim and Chinese than Christian. Each one has their own community. I visited a Muslim community because one of my wife's cousins had married a Muslim man. They were very nice to me and my family. Five times a day a car would loud speakers would drive around for their daily prayer. There was no pork or alcohol for sale before their religion forbids it. They cut their chicken differently from us, but it tastes good. I am not sure if they'd go for a secular community. They already got one of their own religious communities and have done this sort of thing for most of their lives. Moving away from religion and becoming secular is a western thing not an eastern thing. I see the Dawkins Foundation was mentioned, a lot of times they criticize and attack religions when they could have used the resources to help out people in the community instead. Using hate instead of love, and then sometimes having to retract web pages when proven wrong like the Jesus is Horus thing or the Easter is Ishtar thing. You have secular communities in the USA and UK, but they are small and limited. Public schools in the USA got rid of religion, but didn't find anything to replace it to teach morals and ethics instead like critical thinking. The problem is when you get rid of religion you get rid of a lot of good stuff too, and if you claim religion is bad and you get rid of it, it is like tossing the baby out with the bathwater. A lot of Christian charities did adoptions, and got attacked because they didn't support same sex marriage, so they went out of business and left a big hole to be filled. The same with Christian homeless shelters, many had to close down due to being attacked and criticized. There were no secular homeless shelters to replace them. As the community moves away from religion and towards secularism, they have to replace the structure that was there by religious communities. It takes a lot of money to do that and a lot of volunteers.

community(0.22) | [1]:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._E._J._Brouwer 

humanity(0.209) | EDIT: To provide context since the parent comment was deleted, they were asking for a logical breakdown of why Jesus would require worship in order to provide salvation. To break it down: God is completely pure (without sin). To be with God (which is what we would call 'salvation') we would also need to be without sin. Obviously, no human is without sin - meaning we could never be with God. Prior to Jesus, we were required to sacrifice things in order to atone for our sins and get right with God. Jesus provided an eternal, perfect sacrifice to pay for everyone's sins. It isn't so much that we need to worship Him, more that  we need to accept the sacrifice He has already provided - if we reject the sacrifice, the full penance for all our actions is on us, and we can never be with God.

community(0.202) | Great article on the NPR about this.  http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/07/23/42537654... 

copyright(0.286) | needs some music!!! Crashman, possibly the catchiest song..

business(0.203) | I really liked StumbleUpon exactly for this feature until they ruined the product during the monetization phase. Edit:

education(0.213) | Sure there is... Don't be grumpy over someone else's good fortune. Be happy for them. Be happy that they can now afford to get married. Be happy that they can now save money to buy a house. Be happy that they can now save for their kid's college education. Be happy that you work for someone who cares so deeply about his employees and will be there for you when you need help.

charity(0.233) | The money came from his paycheck.

technology(0.28) | There was a higher bar to access back then. Today devices are made for and used by almost everyone. People haven't become less concerned in total, it's just that there are more people that never cared in the first place using technology.

religion(0.249) | You did what, and someone did what, and you knew they were a feminist because?

technology(0.416) | But Flexbox?

community(0.213) |  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cca.2015.02.018 

startups(0.222) | At that valuation, Microsoft owns 0.2%.

health(0.385) | Which is why many suggest that congress should only get health care through medicare.

religion(0.339) |     color: white;

business(0.339) |     margin: 0.5%;

law(0.293) |     border-radius:10px;

finance(0.241) | There was a full replacement for Compuserve, Prodigy, The Well, TheGlobe, AOL, geocities, friendster, myspace and yes facebook too. They're no Google. They are a walled garden like AOL but won't be around as long as AOL, which, unbelieveably is still kicking ->  http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aol&ql=1 

religion(0.381) |     height: 200px;  

philosophy(0.454) | Rands?

startups(0.347) | Capturing people doing wrong things by doing wrong things. Strangely consistent.

startups(0.221) | At which point you use a bootstrap jumbotron like 2/3 of the sites I see.

education(0.257) |  Both technically public schools, but students have a clear advantage in one vs the other.  Funding schools through property taxes is an easy explanation for that one.  There are other factors, of course, but are there any other industrialized nations where  public  funding of education is directly tied to parental wealth?

business(0.219) | Application Error

charity(0.301) | } b;

charity(0.301) | } b;

business(0.355) | The scrapyards that have gone out of business aren't paying that. Their competitors, finding themselves in a more monopsonistic situation, might not be either.

business(0.22) | The problem with (1) is that a large amount of inheritance taxes are taxes on illiquid assets. So if you inherit a $10M business, the only way to pay your tax bill is to liquidate the business. Needless to say, it's bad for society if a business is shut down simply due to the death of a founder. The way to resolve (1) is if the IRS allows you to pay taxes on in-kind receipts with in-kind payments. I.e., if you get a business that the IRS claims is worth $10M, and you owe $3M in taxes on it, you can pay your tax bill by handing the IRS $3M worth of shares. (This would also fix a major problem that startup employees have, namely that if they quit their job, they need to exercise options and incur a huge tax bill. But they can't actually sell the shares to get money to pay the taxes. Not a problem if they can give the IRS some of their shares.)

business(0.49) |   verifiable example of a farm or business closing due to

business(0.276) | > inheritance taxes are taxes on illiquid assets This is why estate planning exists.  Any business that actually plans for estate taxes will not have this problem at all.

religion(0.237) | I don't think it's very useful to quote the bible as a source of what Christians believe.  So far as I can tell, only a tiny sliver of Christians believe the work in its entirety.

startups(0.246) | Why is SFBA sacrosanct? Open a startup in Kansas City.

society(0.276) | yup.  HGLUMUPMPMMURLPH.

religion(0.209) | Hi Snorri,

community(0.212) | -J

copyright(0.267) |     std::copy(vec1.begin(), vec1.end(), vec2.begin()); // works (1)

copyright(0.276) |     std::copy(vec2.begin(), vec2.end(), vec1.begin()); // fails (2)

health(0.299) | "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor"

law(0.237) | 126 cops killed in 2014 [1] and 623 citizens killed by cops in 2014 [2] 1.  http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/u-s-police-officer-...  2.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc... 

business(0.219) | They have different problems - diverting investments into liquid cash to pay off tax bills. This is also bad, since rather than expanding a productive business cash is diverted to creating unnecessary liquidity. There is also no "estate planning" for various other incidents of the same issue, e.g. employees cashing out stock options.

law(0.248) | I don't know about injuries, but regarding fatalities, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund claims 117 officers were killed in the line of duty in 2014 ( http://www.nleomf.org/facts/enforcement/ ).  Meanwhile, 385 people were killed by police Jan 1-May 30th 2015: ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fatal-police-shooting... ).

education(0.333) | impact your graduation date? 5. How are you paying for school now?

community(0.22) | The article mentions Sunday Assembly as an example of a British secular community. For those in the SF Bay Area who are curious, we have Sunday Assemblies in San Jose [0] and Oakland [1]. You can also search for an Assembly near you [2]. The one in San Jose has a morning service once per month, and meets socially and to volunteer much more often. [0]  http://sundayassemblysiliconvalley.org/ 

startups(0.2) | [1]  https://eastbay.sundayassembly.com/ 

philosophy(0.222) |      .centered {

copyright(0.398) |     left: 50%;

research(0.31) |     transform: translate(-50%, -50%);

education(0.307) | -I don't get school credit for this. 

education(0.242) | -Will push my graduation date back either a semester or two semesters depending on how many credits I want to do per semester. 

education(0.278) | -College Fund (Will graduate with no debt)

research(0.222) | No problem. Nice work and good luck!

religion(0.249) | Please don't induce religious flamewars on HN. There's nothing more off-topic, uncivil, and tedious.

politics(0.253) | Please don't make throwaway accounts to conduct political flamewars on HN. Please don't conduct political flamewars on HN.

philosophy(0.204) | b) easily updated daily (blog-style) by a 7 year old

society(0.215) | >If we set it too low, people lose family homes/farms, if we set it too high the rabble-rousers bitch. There's no value that works. People losing their family homes and farms is what  should  happen in a meritocratic society. Intergenerational wealth transfer is by its very nature antithetical meritocracy. The irony is that for many people laboring under a very unmeritocratic society, its the one sliver of wealth which keeps them afloat. Ergo they can be relied upon to support it.

research(0.27) | Nice work. How about a whitelist mode? Basically, the research mode + the ability to add sites (e.g., news sites, blogs, etc.) to the whitelist.

philosophy(0.283) | True Story: 

engineering(0.254) | > What Tornquist didn't mention was that Qualcomm may then have had more engineers than it needed: Only a few weeks after her June 2 talk, the San Diego company announced that it would cut its workforce, of whom two-thirds are engineers, by 15%, or nearly 5,000 people. How do we know that 15% isn't mostly coming out of the non-engineering 33%? And they may well still be hiring engineers massively.

copyright(0.257) | It permits negatives!  SetWindowExtEx permits negatives!

startups(0.211) | You may also find comment like this one useful:  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9370415 

community(0.224) | Seems like the perfect usecase for  https://neocities.org/ 

startups(0.243) | >The problem is there's a shortage in qualified candidates. The problem is that there's a shortage of companies willing to invest in training.

research(0.298) | I like the idea of adding a whitelist to complement using the extension with Research Mode turned "off". I'll add that to the todo list! Thanks!

community(0.215) |   missing:  hacker 

business(0.345) | Companies have been looking for other ways to keep wages from growing, see for example the poaching lawsuit Apple, Google, etc. lost:  http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/apple-google-i... 

engineering(0.309) | You're using a real wages figure for the entire workforce, not engineers. Engineering salaries are extremely healthy, while the real minimum wage has also fallen. Unless you have data on inflation adjusted engineering wages, this is a totally misleading/inaccurate argument.

philosophy(0.304) | That's a rather entitled viewpoint.

startups(0.275) | The problem is that there's few companies who can afford to invest in training. Only big established companies can do it (and they do, extensively). Small companies and startups don't have the time or funding to do it. Not only is it expensive, but training people in transferable skills can all too often result in them quitting right after their training is complete and going to work for a company that invests in paying its employees more money instead of training.

startups(0.236) | Salaries are, in part, a way of reimbursing people for their educations. Sure, large companies can (or, more accurately, need to) train people. But, look at, say, my startup. I'm the only engineer. How am I supposed to find the time to train someone who can barely program? Things would get done significantly quicker if I just did everything myself.

community(0.214) | No Fedor?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedor_Emelianenko#Mixed_martia... 

philosophy(0.203) | And coming full circle with the original question, I'd add: * Function parameters. Re-assigning a variable used as a function parameter is frequently a mistake, and almost always makes code more confusing. I find the "this is defined only once in this function" philosophy to be useful in keeping complexity down in Java programs. Even if  final  doesn't make objects immutable.

charity(0.231) |   think tank, thanks to funds raised by Alabama estate planner

business(0.402) |   Harold Apolinsky, who formed the American Family Business

community(0.3) |  https://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19132 

startups(0.216) | Alternate theory: "BigCo"'s internal processes have poor ability to distinguish talented developers from commodity developers, so all the good developers evaporate away, leaving BigCo with a poor of mediocre developers and a higher overall cost of getting things done. (This greater cost and reduces flexibility makes them vulnerable to smaller companies that can distinguish talent and attract it.)

copyright(0.288) | ...excluding the dead victim. Because, you know, he's lost his rights.

education(0.209) | The U of P may have some serious problems, but they are certainly not a diploma mill.

business(0.374) | > "So if you inherit a $10M business, the only way to pay > your tax bill is to liquidate the business..." False. Any business in good financial condition can obtain loans easily, especially in the current economy. And why would the need to "liquidate the business" be bad?  The seller still gets the value of the business plus the flexibility of investing that value forward.

law(0.237) | Interesting. I wonder if this phenomenon might at least partially explain the repeated misguided calls we see for encryption software to have back doors for law-enforcement use. Roughly speaking, people might be thinking that such a back door would not be used for nefarious purposes, because that is not what it is  for .

startups(0.241) | This H1-B problem is not a "silicon valley" problem. Those companies are unfortunately the companies that are probably doing H1-B the way it was designed. The real issue is the tech industry outside of Silicon Valley providing services to everyday companies. That is truly where the injustice is and where the meat of this article is pointing at.

startups(0.218) | >often times talent that you need you have a hard time finding... anywhere. This is why high tech companies are complaining about shortage; sometimes you just need better staff than what's generally on the market to maintain standards. That's when you pay more. A highly skilled programmer can easily make a million dollars a year for a company, so if demand is really that high and supply that low, there would be far more companies willing to pay $500k salaries.

startups(0.239) | > Does not pay properly or on time. Say 'goodbye'. That's a sin for companies to commit. Do you have equity? If not, you don't need to worry about the company, especially when the CEO is providing you no support.

engineering(0.204) | In this thread there's a lot of complaining about mediocre developers. I'm still finishing my undergrad, and looking to go the PM route, but how do I avoid being the type of developer complained about here?

copyright(0.206) | I created a page at  https://society6.com/constantchaos  where these can be ordered as prints. I was so intrigued with the drawings that I started to look for additional patent drawings to add. My favorite new ones are the Gameboy patent drawing and 3 drawings related to Curta mechanical calculators. I developed my own vectorization and re-rasterization process that I believe offers a slight improvement in faithfulness to the original drawing (took a few tries to get the Curta ones right).

education(0.237) | Yep.  The problem with schools in poor neighborhoods is the students have to go to school with other poor kids. If money were the problem, D.C. public schools would be the best in the nation.

religion(0.253) | I've always assumed the reason is because only a tiny sliver of Christians have actually read the whole bible - so they probably have no idea what it says. A quick google search seems to confirm my assumption [1]. [1]  http://www.christianity.com/1270946/ 

religion(0.22) | The Christian faith is anything but arbitrary.  It is predicated on the Bible being true, and the Bible is a collection of documents, many of which are grounded in specific points of both space and time. In particular, the factual claims about Christ, his life, his death, his resurrection are central to any evangelical Christian's faith.  Disprove them and it's game over for Christianity.  Paul says as much in his letter to the early church in Corinth [0].  Beyond factual claims about Christ, there are many other sections of the Bible which would become fatal to the central Christian message were they proven false.  (The flood, the plagues in Egypt, the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt, the prophecies in Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah, etc.)[1]. Start with any one of them and offer a credible disproof and you can go down in the history books as the person responsible for dismantling the arbitrary Christian faith. [0]:   https://www.bible.com/bible/59/1co.15:14-19  [1]:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_and_messianic_prophecy#V... 

community(0.398) |  http://api.thewalters.org/ 

education(0.205) | > The hospitals do have to pay for medical school. If they didn't, nobody would go through it. What? As far as I know, hospitals don't directly pay for medical school. Rather, the cost of medical school is reflected in doctor salaries. (Just as the cost of training is reflected in developer salaries.)

startups(0.204) | The issue for the US is that they want to keep those good jobs here, and so they need to keep the good companies here. If the price is driven up -- and it is being driven up -- but you can get good devs in Estonia, India, the Philippines, Uzbekistan, etc, at a far more affordable price then: a) US companies will hire those remote workers, causing cash to flow out of the US b) companies will set up in those countries to compete with the US companies, but without the burden of the US' skyrocketing salaries. This happened in manufacturing: the US had high salaries, so costs of manufacturing were too high, so the US started outsourcing to Asian, and now the manufacturing industry in the US is so bad that companies can actually afford to hire US manufacturing workers again. The solution: when wages skyrocket, bring in foreign engineers. When wages are depressed, don't.

startups(0.241) | >The problem is that there's few companies who can afford to invest in training. Only big established companies can do it (and they do, extensively). Small companies and startups don't have the time or funding to do it. "Training" is far too broad a term for this to be accurate. Training can mean anything from training someone how to use git to training a non-programmer to be a data scientist. We can't expect a company to spend multiple years on the latter, but even the smallest, leanest startup can afford the former. Where do we draw the line?

startups(0.222) | They cannot get 130k, they just think they can get 130k.  They won't pass the interviews, or even the recruiters most of the time.

business(0.274) | I'm sure many of us did some sort of business when we were kids. Trading anything with your friends (cards, etc) is a business, especially if those trades make the value of your collection go up or down. Buying these items new (cards in a pack) could sort of be an investment scheme. If you held onto anything worth money from your childhood, you could call that a buy and hold scheme. Creating in-game value by trading, selling and acquiring items in an MMORPG is a business if you could cash out that value through trading sites. Some kids sell weed and other illegal items.

community(0.204) | Based on my own reflections on the Christian community I am part of, I'd have to agree. I believe one of the things holds the community together is that every sticks to the same set of rules. And is willing to change if they find they are living outside of the rules. Not everyone's cup of tea but it's a life I enjoy. Perhaps similar systems outside of religion could help people.

startups(0.219) | Not that I know of :) Good luck with your venture.

startups(0.256) | Why would you even post job listings and ask people to apply, if you think no good developers apply for jobs?

science(0.254) | Yawn! Anyone can say hyperbolic stuff like that. You have to, to be quoted. E.g. there are only two hard problems in computer science etc.

community(0.301) | - offer your plugin as a paid service to different web communities. Increases their "community engagement". I seriously contemplated starting an "annotations" startup in the 90s. Someone else did, and they folded after a few years.

education(0.201) | So? Being a judo champion is a considerably bigger achievement than staying in school a few more years.

copyright(0.302) | Pandora has a statutory radio license that requires no negotiation, which is why you have restrictions on what you can play. The cost is less to them which is why they have survived.

startups(0.383) | And yet a lot of Bay Area startups (some even YC companies that popup here) think they can get away with offering top notch developers in their field $130k & poor equity. The outrageousness cuts both ways.

education(0.253) | Is 9% UoP's overall graduation rate?  According to TFA (and the DoE, where they sourced the data), the online school's graduation rate was 7.3%.

education(0.225) | Just the fact that an accredited University is publicly traded is somewhat troubling to me.

business(0.207) | >You shouldn't go trying to be a PM, because you've got neither the experience nor the respect to get there. Sorry to be blunt, but this'll save some time. I get that, the only reason I have my sights set on it is that  I'm already working as one for a company. :) I think that I'll best be able to leverage my experience and skills in some sort of technical product or program manager role, but I wanted to be sure I can pass a big 4 technical interview ect in addition to my pm/ business skills.

finance(0.205) | Rent is so high because salaries are so high.

startups(0.331) | Usually they are young and don't know how startups work that well.  They don't know how the full financial simulation works out.

education(0.228) | Rent is high because there is not enough housing.

research(0.222) | or ie10...

religion(0.219) | And that’s okay! My trans friend recently moved to stay with me in California. Her experiences, and the experiences of others, have helped me realise that gender is really important to many people—and I just don’t have a slot for it in my personality. Same goes for religion—my folks tried to teach me about their religious background from a young age, but I never had the ability to believe in it. I just try to respect people, and shut my opinion-hole and acknowledge when I just don’t get it.

education(0.202) | If getting a PhD were just a function of staying in school, a lot more people would have PhDs.

society(0.258) |     struct {

science(0.208) |       int x, y;

business(0.247) | > I'm sure many of us did some sort of business when we were kids. > Trading anything with your friends (cards, etc) is a business, especially if those trades make the value of your collection go up or down. Buying these items new (cards in a pack) could sort of be an investment scheme. > If you held onto anything worth money from your childhood, you could call that a buy and hold scheme. > Creating in-game value by trading, selling and acquiring items in an MMORPG is a business if you could cash out that value through trading sites. The capacity of some posters on this board to redefine simple and well known words into something entirely different in order to fit a very warped vision of things never ceases to amaze me.

business(0.326) | This is a myth, perpetrated by the campaign against the estate tax. See my other comment:  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9993417  > if you inherit a $10M business, the only way to pay your tax bill is to liquidate the business. I've never heard of a business being liquidated to pay estate taxes, and I've heard of many businesses being passed from generation to generation. For one thing, doesn't this valuable business have revenues?

community(0.229) |  $ git clone  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git 

humanity(0.298) | Cloning into 'diffoscope'...

community(0.221) | fatal: repository ' https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/'  not found

law(0.261) | You should work at a law firm sometime. Interns are very, very profitable for them, because they work insane hours and do everything they are told without question.

engineering(0.236) | What questions should maintenance and engineering managers should be asking about power tools. These questions should largely be related to tool's battery life, ergonomics, durability and safety...

science(0.265) | There is only one hard problem in computer science. Finding a cheap but very talented software developer :-)

startups(0.228) | You might be interested in this:  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8970380 

startups(0.209) | They were, weren't they?

startups(0.217) | Yes, this is a constant thing in Spain too. Tech companies whining about worker shortage hit the news several times every year, yet working conditions and salaries never get better.

politics(0.361) | You have just described how politics and media work these days.

engineering(0.231) | This so much. Let's also consider that the middle management layer is earning 2x and upper management at least 3x a senior developer who's stuck somewhere in the 100k range.  Trim the fat and you can have as many developers as you want.

research(0.207) | It seems to work flawlessly with Ghostery.

law(0.227) | Improper Importation Which Has Resulted In The Forfeiture Of The Said Property As Penalty For The Illegal Act. Consequently,