jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is it really "readily accessible"? It's on your phone, and in backups on your computer if you've synced your phone.

So to access it, a person needs access to either your phone or computer. But if they have access to your phone or computer, is a cache of cell towers you've connected to really a significant concern compared to the other things the accessor could get ahold of from either of these devices?
I actually think my honest opinion on this fiasco is "someone can derive a user's movements from this database, but how big a deal is it really?"

I still think this should be fixed, Apple should explain it and release an update that pares it down to the bare minimum data for whatever function it serves.

However, let's honestly go through the implications of this:

- The user's cell provider already knows this. [1]

- If someone "owns" the user's phone then they can get their movement history. But that's at a point where they can track the user's current movements anyhow, so that's lose-lose there - the only difference is the historical angle.

- If someone steals the user's computer/phone they can get their previous history up until then. That's bad, but I bet nearly everyone has more sensitive private information available on their computer hard disk or their iPhone's internals - stuff that would be more exploitable than historical location data.

- Someone could maybe sneak private API calls into a legit app that sent this database somewhere else. No idea how feasible that is. However, if they can do that then it's pretty close to the "ownage" scenario described above - they can probably do anything anyhow.

If it comes out that Apple is sending this data back to Cupertino for some nefarious purpose then that is very bad as well, but I bet that's not the case.

[1] http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protecti...
I had a similar idea to OP and ran into similar regulatory issues.

Still, Paypal was a regulatory nightmare too.
Does no one use VM's?

I"m doing web development in my ubuntu VM. I don't have to worry about linux vs window environment problems and I can still test my local work on windows.

Languages - python, javascript

IDE - Eclipse

Source Control - Mercurial

Hardware - Standard DELL with two monitors
Seen this post late, currently receiving a
"Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'EpiOAuthException'"
with a PHP stack trace, really should hide errors like this from being displayed on the webpage.
Founder living expenses.
sure!

atomato at gmail
Both Sweden and Norway publish everyone's tax payments.
For questions like these, I like to quote a story I once read about dating in New York City:

"I have a female friend. She asks every guy she meets at a bar two questions:

1. Do you have a passport?

2. Do you have a Kindle/Nook/library card?

Why does she ask these questions? If the answer to 1 is no then he doesn't like to travel abroad and if the answer to 2 is no then he doesn't like to read."

In essence, she determined two quick filters that were the most important to her.

I had a manager who had a similar test for candidates. He would give them a 5 question tech test where the first question had a "trick" item. Specifically, sort multiple 5GB+ files on a box with 1GB of RAM but 100GB of disk space. If the candidate got the first question wrong, that was the end of the line for the candidate. Why? It showed that they:

a. Didn't have attention to detail

b. Didn't fully understand basic technical constraints e.g. in this case RAM is limited but disk is not.

One other point I always like to make is to screen candidates in parallel. For example, if your process is to bring someone in to the office and then give them a tech test, that's a serial process.

On the other hand, if you give the tech test to recruiters and say "Have candidates fill this out and then send it in", you just created a parallel process to screen candidates.

I've also heard people say "What if they look up the answers?" to which I reply: if you give someone a test with google-able answers and they still get it wrong, you just filtered out a pretty bad candidate. Win for you.
That does sound good, thanks for the tip.
If you look at the data, Google has roughly 70% of the search market, and Microsoft (if you include Yahoo, which uses Bing to provide search results) has about 30%.

http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-sees-big-1-6-percent-month...

iOS isn't even the market share leader among smartphones:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2866441/iphone-6-boosts...

Meanwhile Microsoft Windows has over 90% of the desktop operating system market share:

http://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx...

And 95% of the market share in productivity software (so Office):

http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2013/01/09/an-...

Yet Microsoft can't compete with Apple and Google, because they have a clear monopoly when Microsoft doesn't? It's crazy talk.
I've worked on relational databases of similar size. There's two challenges. The first is maintaining the relational model at that scale is quite tricky, tradeoffs need to be made. The second is the systems-level management of that large a deployment requires a bit more than standard configuration management.

These days Amazon have Multi-AZ RDS, which should handle the 2nd item.
Wow, that price is not justifiable, the spec at System76[0] is way better and cheaper.

0. http://www.amazon.com/System76-Galago-Ultrapro-Processor-120...
You can get vast amounts of stock option data from http://www.orats.com/.

I don't think of the options stream as big data. It is more of a "fast" data problem, where at the open you need to handle 100,000 ticks per second, doing a implied volatility calculation on each tick. It is pretty demanding, when, for example, you consider that when the price of IBM moves by one penny, you get 400 options quote right then. You end up with a billion quotes in a typical day, if memory serves correctly.

I didn't think of this as Big Data, somehow. It seems to me that big data is more complex than that. You most often just process the data, say for backtesting, in a strict series, from the start to the end, or for an interval. I think of Big Data having more structure.
That does sound useful, but I do this with `:s/foo/bar/gc`, then I press `y` each time, which is pretty similar to pressing `.` each time in your example. I do like that the `cgn` approach works better for something you searched for without knowing a priori that you were going to do a replacement on it.
Yes, Kickstarter does an atrociously bad job screening applicants, down to allowing "free energy" scammeroonis getting in after a "technical review."

Some people suggest it's being done fully intentional on the Kickstarter's side.
Those commands may look useless at first sight, but combined can create powerful routines. As an example, my routine to refactor non-typesafe codebases.

- Find the pattern that you want to replace (the last dot is for current dir)

:grep -r 'pattern' .

- Open the quickfix window and check if matches are correct

:copen

- Find and replace the entries of the quickfix list

:cdo s/pattern/replacement/ | update
The scammers weren’t using crowdfunding sites.
You meant immortality, not morality, right?
I think what you want changes with age, circumstance and experiences. It's short sighted to be rigid in your thinking or "knowing what you want" as any change can destabilize you.

The only constant is change, if you can adapt to anything, you're way better prepared than someone who know what they want today and can only have that.
Reading this I can't help but think about my mother, justifying all her shady pseudoscience beliefs by mentioning that brilliant and innovant scientists were treated with disdain during their own times, just as pseudoscience is. Heresies then turn into antivaxxers, electrosensitivity, homeopathy and so on.

This might work for business opportunities, but please leave science out of that.
some startups would like to disagree
The actual code doesn't matter.

It's the tens of thousands of man hours that have been spent creating one of the best indexes with careful tags for millions of pages. The data's what makes Delicious matter.

And, if you open-source the data, I see people crying foul over privacy.
"... in what way do they verify that people are who they claim to be? ..."

The authentication isn't perfect but it's contained in the social graph itself. My use case is not normal but is in keeping with the original intent of Fb of only friending those you actually know and meet. With the exception of 1 or 2 persons, every one on my contact list is someone I've know for a long time.

It's not foolproof, but you can validate people by who they are connected to, assuming they are RW connections not OL connections. Real people tend not to friend, non people.
this was the major problem with a lot of the development.
WebGL is different from hardware acceleration. But yeah, I don't see why they would enable WebGL first before hardware acceleration, since otherwise it will be just slow.
IANAL, and neither is Wikipedia, but Wikipedia says this:

> More specifically, an infringement may occur where the defendant has made, used, sold, offered to sell, or imported an infringing invention or its equivalent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_infringement_under_Unite...

It looks like doing anything of the sort would infringe, theoretically.
When I bookmark a niche or obscure page, I can see the handful of other users that have also saved it. Because I can click through to their bookmarks, I often find a wealth of highly pertinent and (otherwise) hard to find links on the topic in question.

In other words, the whole social aspect.
Pfft. The code is pretty worthless without Yahoo's infrastructure.

More interestingly, I wonder how much Yahoo would sell it for?
I’ve been using delicious since 2004. It’s no surprise to see Yahoo abandon delicious finally but it still hurts to see a promising product failing to get the attention/resource it deserves. Back in 2005/06, when tagging and folksnomies were at their peak, I could see delicious as the “central” memory for links.

Fast forward to 2008. I was in foocamp. There was a night session called “Computational Photography” and it was Joshua who hosted it. I went there and found PG, Tim O’Reilly and a couple of other folks interested in AR were there. Joshua wanted to show cool videos on youtube but just couldn't find it. Here is the conversation between Joshua and Tim that has stuck in my mind ever since.

> J: Forget it. I just can’t find it.
> J: I wish there is a service I can share my links with others.
> T: That’ll be delicious!

3 months ago, @timbull and I started developing trunk.ly. To me, it’s picking up the torch of delicious and delivering a promise of “never forget a link again”. Trunk.ly pulls in all the links you’ve shared on different social networks, twitter, facebook, and of course delicious, and make them full text searchable.

Trunk.ly is still in its invite-only pre-beta stage. It's not as aesthetically attractive as we'd like it to be. It still has minor bugs. But we'll try out best to send out as many invites as possible so that you can pull in all of your delicious bookmarks before Yahoo completely shut it down.

Here are what others have said about trunk.ly:

Fenn Bailey, founder of Adioso, YC09 alumni

> I honestly thought I'd only need to use it
> sporadically ... however within the day of
> installing it I was already reaching for
> Trunkly to find something I'd said

Rand Fish, founder/CEO of SEOmoz

> Trunk.ly is a deceptively simple …
> I've been surprised at how often I use
> it just to find the things I tweeted!

@bootload, fellow entrepreneur

> with #delicious rotting and rumours of shutting
> down this makes #trunkly a great #geek #christmas present
> Inflationary USD

lolz https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/infl...
To quote the abstract

"Further, we construct machine learning models to predict whether startups will reach an equity round, revealing the surprising finding that the CEO's gender is the primary determining factor for attaining funding"

This caused me to raise my eyebrows a little bit. Throwing a bunch of data into an ML algorithm, hoping you captured all the factors and then boom suddenly it turns out the most important thing that determines whether or not you get funding is what kind of reproductive organs you have? When that happens to be what your thesis is to begin with?

I'd definitely love to see more of this ML model and what factors they fed it.

EDIT:
After reading the paper, they dropped everything down to 8 variables, all of which were based solely on the founder, (I feel like including industry, and other factors would also be very influential factors) and although under their ML models they did manage to arrive at the conclusion that gender was the most predictive factor it less than 1% more predictive than the next highest factor and less than 7% more predictive than the 4th lowest factor.
Another project that quietly reinforces the error that Git = GitHub.

(Show HNs are also for personal projects, not the work of other people.)
VFP was crippled, like intentionally, by MS. Fox was absolutely superior to Access and SQL Server at the time (ie: as for build productive apps).

But the engine have so many quirks that affect their reliability (I still remember any fox app have the "rebuild indexes" and "fix corruption" in the menu of the app!)

This was purely a ploy, I think. Then Fox was killed and now millions of hours are wasted doing what fox allow in minutes.
Maybe it follows the multiboot standard? You don't have to write your own bootloader. (But yeah, this isn't an OS)
In at least some cases, the greater nominal efficiency may be required by regulations.
> eminent-domaining people out of the way

On top of everything else, abuses of eminent-domain, civil forfeiture, and so forth really, really bother me.

In principle, I unconditionally support the right of the polis (the government) to do what needs to be done. My own city basically used extralegal means to wrestle numerous blighted, condemned properties away from a trust. The creators of the trust were dead and no one was left to negotiate.

But hot damn these levers of power get abused.

Please recommend any books, articles, etc advocating reforms.
I can't really speak to any sort of timeout, but I have since reduced animation timings and tied the "disable animations" option into workspace switching as well (so there is zero transition in it, should you disable animations).
I got it from politics and Rumsfeld, long before I read Taleb. That said, Taleb certainly influenced, or entrenched, my approach to technology decisions. People often look at the known improvements a new technology makes over the known problems of an established solution, being ignorant of the unknown problems that could arise and be of a rather serious nature.
Your licence should be more precise because you cannot put a CC licence on the legal texts, just on your ReadMe file.
It's probably possible to do that for a crawler of http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr though.
I love the MTR in HK.
In addition to creating an awesome public transportation system, I think that MTR also has the potential to be the government's vessel in balancing the HK real estate market.

"Some 50 major properties across Hong Kong are owned, developed or managed by MTR,including two of the city's tallest skyscrapers."

Companies like Sun Hung Kai, Cheung Kong, Henderson, New World etc are getting ridiculously rich off soaring property prices while the lower/middle classes suffer in overpriced, tiny cramped living spaces.
Perhaps the government can use MTR as an opportunity to create affordable housing - maximize welfare beyond a cheap public transportation system.
I agree. There are similarities between manager/employee and master/slave relationships, just as there are similarities between these two relationships and that of parent/child, ruler/subject, big-country/small-country, guest/host, older-sibling/younger-subling and even in (m/f)spouse/(f/m)spouse. Social hierarchy in human beings is as inherent as the number of fingers we have on each hand.

On another note, all of those relationships have the similarity of having no equality. If it's uncomfortable, it's only because it is what we can't say. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html For every relationship there are roles and obligations we must fulfil in order to remain in that relationship, and when the obligations are broken by either party, e.g. a master punishing instead of rewarding a slave who did right by their master, the relationship will be imperilled.
Casual reasoning is one thing that is lacking. But what about creativity? What about drive and desire? What about belief and the will to fail on the road to success? What about collective intelligence and the need to peer up in efforts? What about emotional intelligence?

I personally do not believe in AGI since I also do not believe in psychology, sociology or neurobiology being anywhere near understanding the holistic nature of our own intelligence. We are getting better at emulating human traits for specific tasks with ML. We lack the specific knowledge of what the algorithm should mimic to become equal to us in terms of our intellect though.
> ended up wasting their time.

So, did they play these games in the hope to make millions, or because they liked them?
The first one is the abstract of:

> Verstraeten, T., Davis, R. L., Gu, D., & DeStefano, F. (2000). Increased risk of developmental neurologic impairment after high exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccine in first month of life. In Proceedings of the Epidemic Intelligence Service Annual Conference (Vol. 49). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

If you want a better link to read it: http://mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/00mmdd_EISAbstractSubmissi...

I thinks it's not necessary to get if by a FOIA. Asking nicely for the 2000 year proceeding should be enough.

It's not unpublished data of the CDC. Someone send a poster or small presentation for a conference. The peer review before the conference varies a lot, in some conferences it is very strict, in other it is almost inexistent. Is the full data analysis published somewhere?

They found ~4000 kids with problems. How many unvaccinated kids with problems can you find in Canada in the '90 to compare?
Handshake is trying to do exactly what you’re describing. It’s an alternative root of trust for DNS that uses a blockchain to secure names. One of the non-obvious security benefits is that you can store certs on the blockchain instead of relying on CAs, which is a source of failure in the security of the Internet today.

Browsing adoption is tricky, but people can point their DNS to Handshake resolvers pretty easily — it’s equivalent to switching to
‘S 1.1.1.1 service which many people already do.
Tesla missed opportunity to describe headroom in backseat. A 6'5" man sat in back seat when asked how much leg room, he said "I have days" [1] and his head doesn't appear to touch glass ceiling.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=105&v=-oW-BVxoQF...
They share characters the same way European languages share the Latin alphabet. It's not a very meaningful similarity.
I don't get it. Maybe I'm just the fish asking what water is but this doesn't look like anything special. What is there to fawn over and swoon? Maybe I don't see it because I use Docker 4 Development daily?
Schönfinkelisation is my preferred alternative.
I believe that "--preserve-root" applies only to / itself. That means `rm -rf /*` will expand to `rm -rf /bin /dev /etc /lib ...` and delete all anyway.
I feel obliged to point out that reputable poles predicted Clinton's chances at significantly lower than 99%.
I am enjoying this one much more:

https://www.mathler.com/
>you and I and most of our peers know that the polls weren't wrong

They were wrong though, multiple key polls in battleground states were far outside their margin of error, indicating methodology failures or bias. As an example, the national ABC/WaPo poll on November 3-6, 2016 claimed a +4% Clinton result, with a 2% margin of error. [1] That's an indictment of their methodology, and it's an indictment of Nate Silver who weights them as an "A+" pollster.

I also don't think anyone needs to misrepresent research and science, since huge swathes of it are fraudulent anyway. From the reproducibility crisis to outright fraud and lies, trusted institutions have been desecrating their reputation for years.

The CDC now enjoys a trust rating around 50%, because of incompetence and lies. News media is worse, because they lie more than they tell the truth.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/07/po...
I don't understand what that has to do with my comment.

Moderation on say twitter /= free speech violations

I'm assuming your comments are just random from here on out. Sorry if they're not but I"m really not following what you're saying.
Here's what a few of the more knowledgeable seeming sources say:

> In situations where the employer pays for more or all of the Green Card sponsorship, it is common for the employer to have the right to "claw-back" all or a portion of what it has paid in the sponsorship process if the employee leaves his or her employment within some number of years.

> In the area of H-1B temporary visa sponsorship, CIS and Department of Labor (DOL) rules affect how costs can be shared.

> First, the DOL rules state if the employee is required to pay for the costs of immigration counsel, those costs are to be subtracted from the employee's salary to assess whether the salary meets the DOL's prevailing wage standard.

> Second, the CIS rules state that the company must pay the H-1B user fees (either $750 or $1,500 depending on company size) and H-1B filing fees ($190).

> Finally, the employer cannot impose any penalty on the employee for ceasing employment prior to an agreed date, although the employer is entitled to liquidated damages.

This are all from http://www.mbbp.com/resources/employment/immigration_sponsor... , which was the most comprehensive of what I came across.

> 1) The employer could ask for some reimbursement if it does not decrease your annual wage at the time of repayment to lower than the prevailing wage of the H1B visa. Also, they should not be asking you to return the H1B special filing fee or the fraud fee. Regarding the employer-sponsored green card process, it is against the law for the employer to have you reimburse them for attorney fees and advertising costs associated with the first stage, i.e., the PERM stage where the ETA 750 is filed with the DOL.

> 2) It depends on how the agreement is worded, among other factors.

These are answers from two different people at http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/can-a-company-ask-you-to-p... .

> The law specifically prohibits employers from being reimbursed by the employee for certain immigration-related fees.

from http://forums.immigration.com/threads/can-an-employer-ask-fo...

All say that you/your friend needs to consult an immigration lawyer for details.
Local governments outsource. There might be good money in being the most efficient outsourced waste management provider.
Dell's origin story follows this idea. Many consumers don't enjoy building their own computer, Dell enjoyed building your computer for you at a fair price.
> So long as the FCC continues to allow wireless carriers to manage our networks and differentiate our products, Sprint will continue to invest in data networks regardless of whether they are regulated by Title II, Section 706, or some other light touch regulatory regime.

This is really huge, because it endorses applying Title II to wireless networks, not just wired broadband.

Much of the discourse so far has been around wired broadband, and many of the proposals so far (including the FCC regulations that were shot down last year in court) carved out special exemptions for wireless networks.