skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a different use case. A client side web app is supposed to mimic the use case for native apps. While sandstorm seem to mimic the use case for Web Apps. If you are the only user I guess you could try to port it as a Chrome App, but Sandstorm seems to be aiming for something available online to be accessed by multiple users.
This is a great question, and probably the question that Facebook wants to answer by rolling out this experiment. It sounds like some (most?) of M's answers are provided by humans and/or highly-customized apps. This release could be more of a Wizard of Oz experiment so that they can drill down on use cases and create more effective affordances.
I'm on the receiving end of some family's group emails. It seems like they've had some nice vacations over the past few years. I hope they found the lost sneaker they misplaced this Summer. I contemplated showing up at their (our?) family reunion but I wasn't able to make it that weekend.
> Considering Hamilton

That's one of dozens. There were plenty of Democratic-Republicans, too, like Jefferson and Madison.
I think many people are missing perhaps the real issue with appearing on a list like this (even if wrongly accused so to speak). By appearing on the list you raise suspicions and those suspicions could very well cause someone (spouse, girlfriend) to look at what you do more closely. That may or may not matter. It may have to be combined with other solid or sketchy data. This is similar to how police solve some crimes. Some little fact, while insignificant in itself, gets them to focus more closely on a particular individual that they might not have thought much about prior to the insignificant and even incorrect fact that was passed to them. Such as "well I did see a Red Chevy Camaro with Florida plates" or "a guy wearing a University of Michigan sweatshirt"...
Would you receive replies from emails users sent from their own address?

User a emails his mom, his mom hits reply and it was directed to your account?
(Since no one is pointing out Elephant in the room, I will do that).

YC has been around for 10 years. Average age of a company from First Investment to IPO in 2014 is less than 10 years (http://lifescivc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Time-From-VC... Source 1.)

Personally, I believe startups excel when odds were stacks against us (forced to innovate and make founders strong and tested). I think YC or any incubator has a structure that shields companies from facing challenges initially.

I don't think Incubators are proven to be a great Idea yet ( if you are someone with industry experience rather than a fresh graduate).

1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucebooth/2015/02/24/tortoise-h...
NATS: cloud native messaging system
As a FreeBSD user, developer, and fan, I'm excited that they are digging into some of this stuff. My amateur question is just wonder if adding a ton of new KPIs is really necessary, or could be done in a more holistic thinking way.
> Out of seven races under something approximating the modern primary system where an incumbent President or Vice President from the party isn't running...

That "Vice President from the party isn't running" part may change at any moment, though...
But I was replying to the thought, which I quoted, that "to support another country's foreign intelligence service is nothing short of treason on an organized scale". (I mean official support and cooperation, that both services know about, like James Bond and Felix Leiter, his American counterpart who sometimes makes an appearance, in the films.)
It would not surprise me if the South sent tall soldiers as well for such visible duty. While not directly relevant, it was slightly disorienting at the Forbidden City in Beijing when a group Chinese soldiers jogged by, every one of them well over six feet tall . . . absolute giants compared to the average people I saw around.
That was the joke/analogy, yes.
This is interesting stuff. I recall that at one time Google seemed to be heading in somewhat similar directions with Google Sets (now sadly gone -- I miss it).

I know that the author is looking squarely at use cases along the lines of a recommendation engine that would replace a human expert. But personally, I think it might be more interesting to examine things the algorithm can do that humans would find difficult or unintuitive. Sure, king - man + woman = queen is a very significant achievement; it's also obvious, to a human. Now, what can this algorithm come up with that is worthwhile, but that I would not find so obvious?

A couple of little comments:

> The algorithm eventually sees so many examples that it can infer the gender of a single word, ....

Do we really want to say that? Perhaps we should say that the algorithm is eventually able to make inferences that people would make based on knowledge of the gender of words -- which is not quite the same thing. (And again, I ask: what useful inferences can the algorithm make that humans would not make so quickly?)

> Despite the impressive results that come with word vectorization, no NLP technique is perfect. Take care that your system is robust to results that a computer deems relevant but an expert human wouldn't.

It should be noted that that "no NLP technique is perfect" idea applies to the NLP techniques used by human brains.
The base FreeBSD isn't going this route, this is something that is being worked on at iXsystems that may or may not eventually find it's way to FreeBSD itself.

That's my understanding from the presentation!
Oh look, another "me too" offering for gaming video footage/streaming with horrible "rights-management" tools baked right in.

Bet they're gonna get alllll the traffic and ad views! /s

Youtube is grasping at greased straws here.
Very cool idea! I just finished the Orielly book called "Blockchains" and it is exciting to see these applications now that I have a better understanding of Smart Contracts, etc.
The same thing we do with people who ignore fines and tickets for DUI, put them in prison.
Hmmm ... is it appropriate for Brian Krebs to dox this person (at least to some extent), in a much more public forum than someplace like 4chan, because Krebs suspects him or in order to compel him to talk to Krebs?
Honestly, as a moderate, Sanders is far less scary to me than Clinton at the moment.
The outer atmosphere of a star can be much hotter than the surface, so you'd have some trouble getting it in place.
1: For example, if a government can legally place a person at a location to observe, I believe any actions to prevent their capability to automate this process (CCTV) will likely fail in outcome, if not legislation.

Some recent US court cases have reached the opposite conclusion, and decided that a right to privacy from video surveillance exists:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/federal-court-agrees-e...

Although perhaps your standard holds, and the argument would that constant warrantless surveillance would be illegal even if done by a human.
The menu buttons only appear when you hover over the large pink button in the lower-right. I'll try to work on making that more clear from the screenshot.

Is is wysiwyg, and is also a web app.
While I think it would be pretty cool to be able to run on raspi, there is a fundamental problem that this would mean developers need to ship "fat" app packages compiled for multiple architectures. With good tooling this could be relatively easy, but for the time being we've decided that our efforts are better spent elsewhere.

Note that a lot of server-style apps actually don't perform so well on raspi. People seem to like to write servers in interpreted languages that are slow and ram-hungry, and server infrastructure tends not to target ARM (e.g. MongoDB last I checked). Of course, this will all improve in time, so eventually it will make a lot more sense to target this...
Ask HN: How can you become ok with being just average?
There are so many great people achieving great things. How can you be okay with just being one simple average individual?
The article on HN changed. The original one from Facebook directly made way more sense and didn't use such generic suggestions.
Yes, that was eventually the big tip-off as to what had happened. I would get messages like, "Hi, Fred! Glad to see you're settled in at BigU. Who's this 'ggchappell' guy?" (My name isn't "Fred", BTW.)
y'all are doing awesome work. can't wait for the official launch when it's ready. but it's clearly pretty darn ready now. :)
Saved to Pocket.
To be honest, I don't see the big deal here. Pocket has already been adding 'trending', 'best of' tags to my bookmarks. Where do you think they got that data from huh? While this seems like another privacy red flag, it could be possible that they just keep a database of links with a counter column, and show recommendations based on that, or another algorithm.
It wasn't directed at you, I'm sorry if it came out that way: my claim about transparency was a relative one and not an absolute one and in fact I agree with your perspective that transparency even in government isn't as good as it could be in an absolute sense (in some cases, of course); it just doesn't have any bearing the point I was responding to, which is a direct comparison between public sector and private sector.

And very few top-level employees of very large publicly held companies consider themselves accountable to a very tiny elite group of wealthy shareholders. I don't think that this is what people mean when they use the word 'accountable' though. If you want to stretch the use of the word that far, you could say everyone is equally accountable because they are accountable to themselves, or religious people are more accountable because they consider themselves accountable to God while Atheists don't. I think it's fair to assume when someone uses the word 'accountability' in this context they mean to society as a whole.

I would also reject the notion that companies rely on consent more so than governments; they are dictatorships run top-down by generally a single manager who commands his underlings. Companies and governments are enormous bureaucratic organizations which have enormous impact on the societies in which they operate and the people that live in them. Government has checks and balances and voting and are required to publish information about their operations and are open to being changed by the general public (through voting). Companies are secret private dictatorships which do as they please without regard for the wishes or needs or desires of the general public (only when those wishes happen to coincide with a profit motive; a rare happy accident) and publish nothing about their operations by design.

I think it's quite fair to make the claim about relative transparency/accountability, that governments beat companies always; governments are required to try, companies do not even pretend to try (in fact the most profitable companies actively refuse to try). I think you have a very good point about how transparent this minimal transparency is in government, but the fact that it even exists means governments beat companies hands down every time.
That's a cheap form of plausible deniability, then.
Is this hacker news?

There are loads of general news stories or people being wronged that I would love to post here, but I resist because although interesting and relevant to people (as this article is) it isn't really tech news.
>> Although these are very imperfect indicators of success, here they are.

There you got your response at the beginning of the post. It seems that you are attacking for the sake of attacking? Sam is providing these data because people asked for them.
Which makes it no different from any other industry. But the profit motive is the best we've come up with to get people to produce.
what are the advantages of using SAM over Amazon/Google cloud services ?
I Can't Stop Reading One-Star Yelp Reviews of National Parks
Of course, if you're using Sandstorm, you can easily move between a home server and a datacenter as your needs change. The most important thing is that the app developers and the physical server host are different entities, so choosing an app doesn't lock you into a particular host.
Hmm, the way the risk aversity in the payments climate is going, my instinct would be to look for the smallest/youngest company with the least to lose? It's a tough line to walk. Balanced is out, and if Stripe's not having it, maybe something like bluepay/bluesnap?
Which plays Half-Life 3.
Yes, indeed. But, alas, this was 20 years ago, and the messages in question are long gone. At the time I was not thinking of humor value for posterity; I was just annoyed.
Agreed. But you could get 4 options to choose from.
Coin 2.0 has NFC
Similar first-initial-last-name gmail address, similar issues. Fortunately my email didn't make into AM, but I checked as soon as I found out because I get so many wrong emails, and wanted to know myself before anyone else looked "me" up.

The worst is Sprint: my email address is attached to a family account in Minnesota… and every time the parents use the "locate your child" feature it, as a security measure to be sure, sends an email alerting them that their child had been located near 123 Main St, SomeTown, MN. That one freaked me out enough to try to resolve it… I called Sprint, went through three reps and it took 20 minutes just to get them to understand the issue. And even then, neither that rep nor their supervisor could do a thing about it. So now I have a gmail filter that insta-trashes those messages… I really don't want to know where those children are!
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You don't still do that do you?
I doubt you will find a processor that will do it, regardless of whether it is legal or not. The ability to accept credit cards is both regulated by federal law and also further regulated by the credit card gateways, issuers and banks. Even if you are not selling marijuana you may get classified as paraphernalia which banks and processors will not accept. If you are in any way providing the actual medication, even if legally, then they absolutely will not allow it. Just look at the industry in Colorado, they have to deal in cash because banks will not open an account for them do to conflicting laws etc. I am not an expert in this area, but I have read about it a few times and I don't think you'll have a lot of luck finding an online processor if you are selling either paraphernalia or the medication.
I wouldn't. Much less if it's in the US.
Actually, I liked the detective work (former fraud hunter here); good use of statistics to spot implausible patterns.
I can understand the motivation of investing so much time when you personally get to reap all of the rewards, but do you ever worry about burnout? Seems like you've been going at 100% for two years now, how long more can that continue before your mental or physical health takes a beating? When was the last time you took a vacation/holiday?
Congrats Qasar! Well deserved. I know you'll kill it!!
> not to be confused with "Hacker News" the site

"Hacker News the site" is for anything and everything of intellectual interest. We're always hoping for more diverse stories.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
This is pretty much the most pressing concern in any desalination effort.. Intakes and discharges are expensive in general, but to adequately dilute a brine discharge is on the order of 5x the cost of the intake system. You basically need miles of pipe into the ocean that split off like a fan in order to not significantly disrupt nearby ecosystems.
It's interesting because it's likely they were shill accounts created by the company to give the appearance of having active female users so that males would pay for a chance to hook up. It's not uncommon in the online dating world though. I'm pretty sure that's how most of those sites start out. I'm wondering if it's bordering on fraud though?
Agafia is the last one left alive, and she still refuses to leave.

> She claims that the air and water outside of the Taiga makes her sick. She also said that she finds the busy roads frightening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agafia_Lykova
20-30% irr is not very high given the risk involved. a lower risk portfolio that is leveraged can give you this return quite easily (in a mechanical sense). in that case you have or take a low-risk low return investment and add risk and return by adding say 10x leverage to a 3% return.

In this case, the more relevant number is $$ in and $$ out. and also the optionality to continue the business going forward. That is what seperates the two cases out, and arguably make the one quite distinct from the latter.
How do you define a simple average individual?
Is there a startup that's working on sending fusion reactors to the past?
Many previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=russian%20family&sort=byDate&p....

The largest is from when the article was published: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5134023.
I'm surprised to see Perforce on there.
Yes, that appears to be iOS 4.2.1 on an Apple Watch
License is MPL (see github.com/palmerAL/doclayer for more information).

Dropbox is required, because all of your documents are stored in Dropbox. This reduces the costs, security risk, and headache for me.

You can self host - information is in the github repository. (however, your documents are still stored in Dropbox. You could probably modify it, though.)

I do agree that the splash page needs more information, but the page is also targeted to non-technical users that most likely don't want to know the license or if they can self-host.
I had a similar experience, getting my GV back was a nightmare.
Bernie S'anders.
It's not the overall volume of slightly saltier water, it's the hot, concentrated brine that's damaging. Most systems are designed today such that the brine is only ~50% more salty than incoming water and only a few degrees warmer, but it's still a significant ecological issue.
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Honestly, we may not even have a word for what we call privacy now. Or at least that would be a future I'd strive for. Our business is our business, and we love to mind our own business already.

The government has played the fear card to get all this surveillance going, and now fear of surveillance (and government) is what has the resistance going. To have fear be the primary driver of our common intentions is barbaric, and humanity is still barbaric at the grandest scale.

But by 3000, hopefully we'll have gotten over all of our fears. And if all Earthlings are just one tight-knit family, then surveillance of any kind would be just creepy.
Since Facebook employees are (almost) required to have the website open for chats and groups while working, I'm just curious:

how distraction-free are you able to keep your pomodoro work intervals?
You shouldn't be, it's the de-facto source control for games and interactive content.

Git/Mercurial/etc don't provide the strong locking mechanisms needed to deal with binary files.

Combine that with the fact that Git falls over at ~5GB. When I was in games we'd regularly have repos > 30GB for a code sync or > 150GB for art sync.

Perforce would pull down that art sync in 10 minutes, good luck doing that with Git, not to mention that they support Proxies that handle caching of large changesets automatically for remote teams.
I feel that (much like yesterday's story on selling lead settlements) it's a very specific, interesting, and well written case of systematic wrongdoing that can provoke some interesting discussion. Just like how there's lots of math in the world, but every once in a while somebody posts a particularly interesting tidbit that makes it to #1 on HN.
Interesting points. I think the harm that's being caused is not in the existence of a new service, but in the transition to a system where our resources are split: the notion that funding dedicated to general transportation is a zero-sum game and pushing resources towards a private solutions that helps only the wealthy takes away resources from the public, universal service -- hurting them.

It's worth noting, also, that the public subsidizes services like Uber especially when it gets to the point where private cars are replacing busses and larger public transit: cars on the road generate risk of accidents and injury, pollute, generate wear and tear on the road and transportation system, generate traffic which harms everyone, etc. Having the poor subsidize a private service for the rich so they don't have to ride alongside the riff-raff on a bus is pretty unpalatable.

We don't have to take away resources from public universal solutions and transition them over the private, wealthy-only solutions. So far we haven't, and it's certainly possible that we won't, and this private system will work concurrently alongside the public one in happy concert. I am just concerned that this will not happen.

And I'm inclined to agree that the time-delay is necessary, but I'm not so sure about your assumption that the effects of this transition will eventually "trickle down" to the poor at all.

I'll concede to your point that a two-tiered system doesn't necessarily cause harm to the poor just through its existence; you're right and your point is very well argued. But the remainder I think remains a valid concern.
Not really a whole lot of interesting stuff there if you've already working in games pipelines, that's all pretty standard tech/workflow.
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Or people that had their email hijacked to create accounts?

https://evan.atavist.com/my-wife-found-my-email-in-the-ashle...

Imagine being accused of adultery just because someone else preferred to sign up for an account with an email address that wasn't their own.
Thanks! But it's going to be so much better next week... ;)
Ah yeah, I remember this. Pretty much echoes what I was getting at.
I wasn't the one exposing myself if that's what you mean.
Is only an example (but your experience with lispworks is appreciated).
> But there may something else going on here. It is possible that Zu’s approach to tweeting — that is, responding to or addressing other Twitter users without invoking the intended recipient’s Twitter handle — is something of a security precaution. After all, he had to know and even expect that security researchers would try to reconstruct his conversations after the fact. But this is far more difficult to do when the Twitter user in question never actually participates in threaded conversations. People who engage in this way of tweeting also do not readily reveal the Twitter identities of the people with whom they chat most.

I love how Krebs has reframed "subtweeting" as some sort of new security practice as opposed to an annoying passive-aggressive thing everyone does from time to time :-D
InfluxDB 0.9.3 out with compression, improved write throughput and 0.8 migration
Wow, what sort of job to you work in that's so laid back? :P

I've only seen these sorts of hours in government jobs.
From the article (and the actual judgement the article links to)

> Absent a traffic violation, so far as can be gleaned from this record, the only visible attribute of Parker and her passengers that might have distinguished them from other motorists turning on Methodist Parkway was they are all African Americans. There simply is no other distinguishing thing that can be surmised.
It really depends how many resources mozilla puts on this internally, which from what I've been reading may actually be quite a bit. But I don't think they'd move the schedule any more than a few releases, there will likely be a whole bunch of addons ported at the last minute, and they likely need the motivation.
You're equating an injury to the an imaginary-symbolic construct (the exclusively monogamous relationship) with an injury to an actual person's body that occurs in the case of violence or rape. Contracts are valuable, but they're not people.
True. Good luck!
Consider it a pull request
I think callsyfing it as racist is fair, isn't "mon" slang from Jamaica, a nation in which 59%[1] have mixed ancestry?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica