skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of those situations where it would be great to have slides detailing points of the video. His are just drawings of some people's names and time points. I love the retro, sketch-style art but it doesn't tell me a thing. Several minutes in of rambling and I still don't know what it's about. Click the little X...

So, out of thousands of vids on the net on OSS or programming... each 20+ min long... why watch this unless I'm already a fan of the authors work? Not even critiquing the presentation as much as saying: give us a matching article or slides that lets us determine if we really want to watch the video. If it strikes a chord, people watch the presentation. Otherwise, most will just skip it and miss out on any gems it might have had. And that's a rational decision given the flood of info on the web.

This applies to a ton of videos rather than just @fat's. Anyone having to do a lot of research or want to get most out of their time relies on summaries. People not doing them are reducing impact of their own work.
You can't just charge what your credit card bill and rent add up to. The market doesn't work like that.
Stripe Checkout in more languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

Violent offenders are younger on average where drug offenders come in a wider age range. So, on that basis alone you would expect violent offenders to be less likely to have a drug charge than the population as a whole.
The success metrics are quite different for consumer vs business software even though Zapier does ride that line a bit.

Consumer apps tend to care about raw user counts (as a sign of engagement) and B2B software companies focus on paying users.
Why NASA Helped Ridley Scott Create ‘The Martian’ Film
You must admit though that humans will sometimes do misguided things with good intentions? There are many examples of us thinking that we fully understand a process, when in reality we don't. This can and has led to terrible consequences in the past. One concern I harbor is that perhaps with gene modification we will lose the genetic variability that allows animals to adapt and survive and evolve further. Variability also allows species to survive black swan events.
Burning Man Festival: Swarms of Bugs Infest Site of Annual Event
I don't know if I really believe that. Predictive coding has a high set up cost (training the algorithm), which makes it uneconomical unless you've got a really big document review. But those big document reviews are often in big lawsuits where the parties aren't as budget conscious. Outsourcing to human contract lawyers is almost always more cost-effective.

I think legal technology,[1] explains very little of the glut of lawyers. Mostly because it's really not very useful so it doesn't get used that widely.

The real answer is that the job situation for lawyers isn't much different than nearly any other white collar profession. The amount of legal work per unit GDP is pretty steady, GDP isn't growing rapidly, and schools graduate way more students than the industry can absorb.

[1] Obviously lawyers use the same technology that has helped everywhere else. PDF instead of paper copies, email, outsourced IT, etc.
Basically, the guy is stating that because the offenses people are being put into prison for are not drug-related offenses, it's not because of the war on drugs. Which is equivalent to saying that a football player doesn't have long-term memory loss because he played football, it's because he hurt his head multiple times.

People aren't put into prison because people are put into prison, but that's close to the truth. If people had jobs and an education, they wouldn't need prison gangs and the drug trade to provide them an income. But an entire underclass of people in this country depend on the illegal drug trade to survive. It's the war on drugs that has made this possible. And he's shifting the focus/blame away from that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8936153
I have to disagree with a lot of people who seem to be saying that "working hard" necessarily means torturous 100 hour weeks.

I don't think the measure of working hard is counting how many hours you're at the office. I think the signal of working hard is how often you let yourself get into your comfort zone and coast.

I think working hard means pushing yourself out of your comfort zone - continuously. It means forcing yourself to ask the hard questions about your business you're scared to ask. It means figuring out how to do things you're not good at, like hiring or selling. It means identifying the most important problem for your company today, and tackling it, even if it's not what you want to be doing.

I'd guess that during YC, the partners and the community act as a force to keep people asking the hard, honest questions about their business. And I'd guess that after YC, without those outside forces, people revert to their default comfort zones, with things that feel nice. Getting press feels nice. Going to conferences feels nice. But what's true early is true later too: it's the work that doesn't feel nice that usually matters most.

You could spend 40 hours a week in the office doing the right things, or 100 hours doing the wrong ones. One of those will lead to growth, the other one won't. And it doesn't have to do with the hours.
The atomic mass of Nitrogen? No. But, plenty of the information that they share is information that others control, and if not the information, definitely the explicit wording of it.
Random forest interpretation with scikit-learn
I just enabled SHA256 checking and it matches. Thanks

798B821E553B00AFDEF5FDD32E462A8599A057C5BF98665648448743EB38245E
One wonders how many of those got downvoted to hell and closed within 30 minutes of being asked.
Ugh. This post and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8712035 just gave me some incentives to do the following to these types of GitHub issues on my OSS projects:

https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-autocomplete/issues/98
The messy battle to protect your data from your own Internet provider
How Bias Can Derail Your Startup
Oh, this is true, and I think I came off too harshly. The relational model is general enough to support (almost?) any data model, it certainly has a lot of advantages in terms of efficient implementation, and the math is elegant.

I just don't think that it naturally reflects the data structures people use, and we should be willing to make the computer do the work, rather than humans.
What we should do is transition away from fossil fuels as quickly as is reasonably possible. Not simply pull them all at once, because that won't help anything as you say, but start moving smartly in that direction. Fortunately we already are, even if not as quickly as we'd like. I think in the next few years we'll see rapid change as solar panels and batteries become cheap enough to compete with traditional energy on their own terms.

I don't see the case for human extinction here. Your link mentions it, but doesn't appear to lay out the case at all, so I don't know what that statement is based on, but I don't see how it would occur. The potential disruption due to climate change is immense, but people will survive. The problem is not how to keep humanity alive, but how to keep civilization going without some sort of major backslide, and without getting a couple of billion people killed.
> Spoken like someone who truly has no idea what lawyering is about.

Or law school. My law-school experience was probably 1/3 learning the rules and 2/3 trying to understand or critique the moral underpinnings of those rules. This relates to a common misunderstanding about lawyers. A good lawyer's real skill is not knowing the rules--there are too many of them. Our skill is in rapidly learning and applying the rules to new situations, and understanding how the relevant power structures will react to our client's situation with respect to these rules. An understanding of the moral and policy underpinnings of these rules is key to doing this effectively.
SpaceX prints parts of their engines too.

http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/07/31/spacex-launches-3d-pri...
It's easier to take risks, and it's also cheaper for YC.

Your chances of success, however, are much higher with more experience and resources at your disposal.
"More time drinking, more raw volume" is part of the point of a session beer. The idea is that some people want to drink at a pace where the can continue for a several hours, drinking several beers, and not end up wasted.
According to Wikipedia, their best-known funded companies are: Dropbox, Airbnb, Coinbase, Stripe, Reddit, Zenefits, Instacart and Weebly.

Dropbox - Not public, probably not profitable

Airbnb - Not public, might be profitable, lots of legal questions.

Coinbase - Not public, raised $100m+, no idea if it's profitable

Stripe - Not public, raised almost $200m, almost certainly not profitable

Reddit - Acquired by Conde Nast (private), might be profitable.

Zenefits - Not public, probably not profitable, raised ~$500m

Instacart - Not public, not profitable, raised ~$300m

Weebly - Not public, might be profitable

So I'd say their track record isn't great on that front. I don't know of any meaningful ($1bn+) IPOs of YC companies (not to say that they don't exist). The fact that I had no idea what Weebly was until a moment ago probably means it's not one of their success stories. I suspect DropBox will IPO at some point, but after Box's IPO, they have an uphill battle to prove that they won't be the same dud. Coinbase I had forgotten existed, so I'm really curious what their deal is (especially considering their valuation is so high, I wonder if they can support it anymore).
The last global "coldest month ever" was in 1893. So no, people are not responding to "coldest month ever" in any way right now.
Amazon to Stop Accepting Flash Ads
Yeah it seems the SHA256 is preferred here and archives are being checked, not individual files. Thanks, it all checked out
Global warming is obvious from the data. End of story. The AGW debate is about the extent to which this very real warming is caused by human activity. At best, all those effectoids you prattle off are only interesting as confounds for the models that are used to tease out causes for the warming. The overall warming itself is indisputable.
I hadn't come across this when I wrote caman; from the looks of things caman is simpler to use, but missing a couple of features - alt hostname support for SAN certificates (which I'm adding at the moment and should be up later today) and ability to use a subsidiary certificate authority.

I wrote caman because I could never remember what to type, so it has simple syntax - 4 commands, to add a new host, sign, revoke and renew; the only argument they take are the hostname. Configuration is a one-off when setting up your CA - there are two openssl config files with sensible defaults based on openssl best practice, with a few values for you to customise, and some basic templating for caman to fill out later.
One reason might be that according to statisticians the LSAT is only very correlated to bar passage rate until you get LSAT score of 150+, which is about the 50%th. Essentially, getting smarter stops helping you pass the bar after you get to about average. This makes sense because the bar is a minimum competency test.

So a school having the class drop from 170 to 160 shouldn't have much of an effect on the passage rate. But if they start letting in a large number low LSAT scores (below the 150 threshold) you'll really decrease the passage rate. Even if the median is still the same.
Law school tuition fees rise constantly, without any respect to the market. Sounds like a recipe for failure. Of course less students enroll, when the proposition of the 120K loan looks worse and worse.
The mind-bending messiness of the Ashley Madison data dump
Travis Kalanick is grinding super hard. Are people going to call him average when Uber fails? Elon Musk is grinding super hard, but he has different market and regulatory forces to contend with (no one stops you from going to space or making batteries and electric cars, everyone is going to stop you from breaking transportation and labor laws).

Being "superhuman" doesn't make you terribly more likely to succeed.
I'm by no means an expert on the field but I have at least read credible cases for technology being part of the reason, e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html

That said, I'm also imagine part of it is just the same technology that is helping everyone else, albeit in a particularly paper-intensive field that requires enormous amounts of searching and checking.
One more anecdote: I read the email immediately, shared it with anyone I thought would be interested, and started to count down how long it would be before I could play the game with my 6yo daughter. So, um, it's working for me so far.
"60 hours to code a search engine", sounds like someone is spending daddy's hard earned money at a high PR agency. Nothing solid in this article at all. This made me LOL - "It understands what a user would like before it serves up the results by dwelling deep into the content of the text, understanding the underlying meaning"
At the very least, this is post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc logic: it could be that people commit violent crimes because they're involved in the drug trade, or it could be that people who would ordinarily live a life of violent crime are disinclined to honor drug prohibition, alone among all the other laws they ignore.
Her quote was fairly damning in the face of a huge screw-up, other metrics aside: she didn't consider the possibility that the snafu had something to do with the dip in scores and then after careful analysis decide the effect was negligable, she explicitly refused to consider it because it doesn't fit in with her narrative.
Not just less students. The best students will avoid law school if it costs 200K and has poor prospects.

So the people left will be....the sort of people less likely to pass a bar exam.
>To be honest, and this is my opinion only, but 2-3 day forcasts, at least in my area, are horribly inaccurate. In my state, it's a common joke that being a meteorologist is the only job you can have where you can be wrong 95% of the time, and still keep your job.

Meteorologists lower the quality of the data they receive.

People don't want bad news. People don't want to hear that it's going to rain on their weekend. People won't tune in to hear constant bad news.

So meteorologists take the positive and optimistic side.

The reality of forecasting is that much of the data, models, the warnings, are all created by the NWS.

The further you get from real NWS data, the lower the quality tends to be. It's like a game of telephone, except with forecasting.

National forecasters like The Weather Channel utilize tons of NWS data and models, and present it in a more friendly way. Generally there is a loss of quality here (and, when you look at TWC's buzzfeed approach to weather, it's not hard to see why they might respect clicks above all else).

Then, further down the pipe, away from the NWS and the actual source, away from National broadcasters, we get to local broadcasters. Once again, these guys are largely relying on upstream info, just packaging for the local audience.

It's not surprising that local meteorologists provide the lowest quality forecasting, because that's not really their job to provide highly accurate forecasting. Their job is actually to keep you watching through a commercial break, so the show remains on-air. The NWS is the service whose job is it to accurately forecast.
I do that whenever I see anything from Patrick posted on HN, and getting it delivered in my email box has a similar effect. I would say that I have an irrational enjoyment of reading things that he writes, but I actually think it's pretty rational -- I've never read anything by him that didn't exceed my expectations of information, humor, and valuable content.
The Case for Complex Dark Matter
Actually this is the standard feedback in MLM and pyramid schemes. It can never be the system because we are rich already: it must be you.
But there's the other oddity that some developments in the NYC area seem to be purchased by people who don't live in the city and have no plans to even visit within a year. I'm wondering how much of an impact that has on builders to even build affordable housing when they can put up condos?
That's because politics has consumed climate change and made it its own.

I find it really disturbing that so much of (American) politics today is a debate over facts. Politics should be about debating priorities and principles and approaches based on commonly accepted facts.
Not a lawyer: in this case it was newsworthy, and out of the applicable defences that's the strongest.
Congratulations to Jakub and team! You your original room at Keboola is still there if you need more space :)
This seems like a rip of this month's Wired cover piece (which was fantastic).
I disagree on a couple points about actuators. First off brushless electric motors have pretty amazing power to weight ratios, problem is that they have really low torque to weight ratios. We don't need moldability if we take what we learned from electrical engineering and standardize everything.

Cost is a huge issue though, but if we standardize and mass produce them then the problem could be solved. Series elastic actuators have solved some of the fragility problem.
Climate wonks focus on economics. They need to pay more attention to politics
I understand that the term is nautical:

http://www.seatalk.info/cgi-bin/nautical-marine-sailing-dict...
A list with more than 250 postmortems
You do realize they were on the cover of Science Magazine? I don't understand how people think there is nothing technically new here when one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed journals in the world features your paper on its front page....

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6228.cover-expansion
I imagine the graduate degrees Hewlett and Packard earned at Stanford were, for their time, at least equal in prestige to a Stanford Ph.D in 2000.

Assuming Wikipedia can be believed:

Hewlett - 1939 Stanford "degree of Electrical Engineer"

Packard - 1938 Stanford "master's degree in Electrical Engineering"
Really? I'm confused by the sample contract. Section 1.3 seems to be in direct conflict with itself and also in conflict with Section 1.5.

1.3 Payment. The Client will pay the Designer a flat fee of $10,000 once the work is finished. Of this, the Client will pay the Designer $2,500 before work begins.

1.5 Invoices. The Designer will invoice the Client for work done monthly. The Client agrees to pay the amount owed within 15 days of receiving the invoice. Payment after that date will incur a late fee of 2% per month on the outstanding amount.
Interesting. Do you have data on 150+ being a significant threshold for bar passage?

I work in the field, it would be good to have a hard number to present to students.

Anecdotally, I notice a big difference in those who can't break 150 vs. other students.
So what if someone's more intelligent? There was an experiment showing that super smart people don't have much of an advantage over smart people. Past a certain point it doesn't matter.

Most other human attributes that we perceive as desirable like height have their downsides (every extra centimeter takes 3 months away from your life plus many other health problems).

I see the opportunity more along the lines of removing health problems such as schizophrenia, etc.
I was fortunate to have some really smart folks contribute.
Thanks for providing this. I'd like to turn this into a wiki or GH repo, aggregating all of the data.
Personally, I am really over the white-space as a delimiter in my programming languages. I used to love python but that is a long lost love.
http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp201410...
Michael Crichton and Computers
>Its been proved scientifically that people encounter diminising returns past 40-50 hour work weeks.

Sure, but I don't think there have been any studies that find negative returns after 40-50 hours.

If we are optimizing for maximum returns, rather than maximal efficiency, you would advocate for increasing hours worked until the result of one hour of work was zero.

Many activities have diminishing returns after a certain amount of work (oil drilling, distance running, mining bitcoin, etc.), but it doesn't mean that the rational decision is to stop when the point of diminishing returns is reached.
That one's a bit sad because it shows the local taggers defacing his stencils shortly after they are in place.
Anyone have more info on the different materials the article mentions? on the carbon3d.com website they have a couple short clips about elastic or durable, but that is about it.
The messy ones? Sure. Most of them haven't needed any work at all though.
Lots of good detail here. Raise your hand if you knew the switch to AMD would greatly benefit hacking vs custom, PPC chips. (raises hand) Now you know why I deployed security-focused stuff on PPC at one point. The economics of hacking alone work in your favor. :)

Personally, I think they should've tried to license Cavium's Octeon III processors: RISC (MIPS) ISA; 48 cores at 2.5GHz; many pre-made accelerator engines; huge I/O bandwidth. A royalty deal that made Cavium money for profit & continued R&D, while letting Sony have them cheap in PS4, would've made for one, badass gaming rig. Cavium might have had upgrades ready for PS5, too, given all the improvements they made going from Octeon II to III.

Everyone went with AMD instead. So, we get the real benefits of reuse of x86 code, low-costs, and reduced production issues. However, we also get all the black-boxes of risk in x86, a monoculture where an attack on AMD CPU's/firmware might break all game systems, inherent inefficiencies of x86, and lack of hardware differentiation (mainly accelerators) that developers can benefit from. Only time will tell if it was a good trade.
A lot of people can't run a 4:45 mile, but if you expect to be competitive at a world class level in a marathon, you'd better be able to hold that pace for 26.2 miles.
Swimming pool 'bridge' to link London towers
"You're gonna indent it anyway!"
Columbia's Startup Weekend is gaining much attention lately from out-of-towners. I was surprised to see my friends in other states RSVPing to attend, recently.

Cool to see CoMo get attention!

(Also.. hey Bobby! Hope you're doing well in the big city!)
Can't wait for Stripe to be available in more countries.
Definitely not a lawyer: So I can film whatever I want if it's newsworthy?
Ive been thinking about exactly this recently. I will go out sometimes after work with some coworkers for a few hours, maybe talk shop, talk about movies, books, whatever. But afterwards I want to be able to go home, make some dinner, and read for a bit (or whatever else). If I had 3-4 6+ABV IPAs, then Ill be too drunk to enjoy the rest of my evening. So Ive started drinking light beers after work.

I enjoy good beer quite a bit, but it seems that every micro brew is at least 5% ABV. That simply doesn't fit with my typical pattern of drinking now that I'm several years away from college. I wish there were more truly "session" beers available in my local bars.
What does the tilde mean in your Cat/Tail example?
i just registered; great job with the user-experience. i think the team made it really easy to use.
There's an alternate explanation for that: that the harsher sentences made that population unable to commit further crimes by leaving them in prison. This could also be correlated with the rise in prison violence.

That would tend to make sense given that prison is not a deterrent, in the sense that studies have shown doesn't seem to make people less willing to commit crimes, whereas the state of being in prison certainly does restrict their ability to do so.