skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite what I was suggesting so let me clarify.

Im in the process of building out a product to help small businesses deal with inbound leads and CRM, moving them to conversion more quickly. Our products would not be "competitive" however my customers could easily become your customers. If I reviewed your product, and LIKED it, would I be willing to promote you to my customers, assuming I could offer them a discount and get a rev share?

Im suggesting you find a SAAS business to partner with, they see the value in long term recurring revenue, and introducing a stream of said revenue, without adding a lot of overhead. Assuming you do reciprocal marketing, at the end of any given month only one of you is going to be writing a check and thats to balance the books between the leads your generating for each other.

The only example that I can think of for these sorts of relationships was/is paypal and eBay (it is early and I need more coffee). Both shared a ton of customers, and had complimentary products did the whole merger/split thing because it looked great on paper, but didn't work in principal. If your eBay, can you find your paypal, and build a partnership rather than seek a merger?
Sorry, should have posted to the parent. Responding to the part about provoking WWI.
If you're going to post articles from arxiv, please post the top-level description so I can read the abstract before being forced to download a PDF document.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.04220
Seems to be similar to Swedish "Vad är nu X", but it sounds thoughtful rather than perplexed. To me at least.
I tried it: http://i.imgur.com/a45wZdf.png

And while the top 'results' were not 'organic', they were not ads either. They were simply the top rated hotels on google maps near Chicago.

When I clicked on 'More hotel', I was taken to google maps, which showed me top rated hotels as well as ads for hotels.

In terms of giving me the most relevant results, I think this is pretty close.
The Reddit thread on this article is pretty good: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3imphg/scientists_...

There's a comment from one of the paper's co-authors that will probably need repeating here (https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3imphg/scientists_...): "To those wanting to dismiss psychological science as "cult science" based on these findings, note how ironic your response is. You're discrediting the very people whose data you are using to back up your claim. This massive, groundbreaking project was conducted on psychological science by psychological scientists. In my view, psychological scientists are among the most dedicated and rigorous scientists there are. No other field has had the courage to instantiate a project like this. And I am sure that many of you would be shocked to find out how low the reproducibility rates are in other fields. Problems of non-reproducibility, publication bias, data faking, lack of transparency, and the like plague every scientific field. The people you are labeling as "cult" scientists are leading the movement to improve science of all types in a much needed way."

Also, the current top comment quotes the following from the paper: "Any temptation to interpret these results as a defeat for psychology, or science more generally, must contend with the fact that this project demonstrates science behaving as it should. Hypotheses abound that the present culture in science may be negatively affecting the reproducibility of findings. An ideological response would discount the arguments, discredit the sources, and proceed merrily along. The scientific process is not ideological. Science does not always provide comfort for what we wish to be; it confronts us with what is"

And another co-author chimed in (https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3imphg/scientists_...): "The real interesting part is seeing how other disciplines hold up in terms of reproducibility. A new project has been started: Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, they will try to replicate 50 studies. I am very curious how this will turn out, I highly encourage other disciplines to also start a reproducibility project to test how consistent their findings actually will be. I don't see these results as discouraging, instead, I see it as a big step in developing scientific methods. Now we know which methods and standards might be wrong, we can try to fix it (for example by developing guidlines)."
From page 3:

> "NSA may access it only after demonstrating to the FISC that a 'reaonable articulable suspicion' that a particular phone number is associated with a foreign terrorist organization'".

Shouldn't this say "associated with a foreign terrorist organisation, or the UN"?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/17/un-att-nsa-spy-...
Nice! The landowners tried to arrange a Community Improvement District so there are no voters in it. Under local law, if here are no voters then the land owners get to decide. (What I can't tell is if there's a difference between the views of the land owners and the business owners on that land. Are the land owners trying to avoid increased property taxes by shifting the expenses to sales taxes?)

That district includes the Ernest and Eugenia Wyatt Guest House, which is "available for EFCC patients experiencing long-term outpatient care, such as chemotherapy." One of the employees of facility also lives there, and has done so for over a year, and is a registered voter.

Hence the plan of having no registered voter didn't succeed.
Oh, I certainly do. I wasn't arguing it was a well-thought-through and genuine article, and that the company it talks about is genuinely doing something new and better.
It was "Hoary" rather than "Horny" :)
What Makes A Great Software Engineer? (2015) [pdf]
Not negative at all! That's a good idea, I'll put that together. Thank you
I don't see this as a problem. Perhaps I define some concepts differently.

As I see it, the scientific method is a good way to test a model against reality. It is less suited to be a "generative" process for making models. (There are other ways to test models too: internal consistency, interpretability, and so on.)

Iteration, intuition, creativity, variation, intelligence, luck, guesswork, and more are what create theories.

I'm not saying one could not using more "technical" or "rigorous" ways to construct models -- there are, of course, such methods. I'm just saying that "science" (in the Chalmers sense) is about mostly about testability of a model against evidence.
Are you sure that it isn't just harder for you to understand because you're more familiar with the traditional imperative control flow tools? If you had spent as much time with map and filter as you likely have with for loops, maybe they would seem just as clear?
National Burger Day – 15 Facts for 2015
Cap'n'Proto (& by extension Sandstorm) very much intends to allow references (capabilities) to be passed around, which is in direct conflict with the "#1 and in bold" on this list, gRPC being "first-order", which I think the author is saying means that systems have to marshal all the data to communicate.

This is discussed- in relation to Sandstorm- in a Sandstorm blog post dating from last December. Other notables- the post mentions CORBA explicitly, and it discusses persisting capabilities (anti "First Class" objects extreme if I'm reading OP right).
https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-12-15-capnproto-0.5.html
> One pitfall I often fall into with map, filter, etc. is that I chain them together, forgetting each of them takes another pass through the sequence.

Lazy maps, filters, etc. that do not do this are available in many languages (and the default in some.)

Transducers provide a similar benefit, from a somewhat opposite direction (composing reduction functions rather than chaining lazy iterating functions).

Other than familiarity for some people, I don't see a real edge to imperative iteration over functional operations here.
I just installed Fedora 22 on a fairly new (< 1 year) Toshiba laptop and everything Just Worked here. The only issue I've had to date was that a subsequent kernel upgrade seems to interfere with at least some Java apps. Eclipse runs great on the 4.0.4 kernel, but is almost totally unusable on the 4.1.4 and newer kernel. shrug

Not a huge deal since I can always keep booting 4.0.4, but I do hope they figure out what is going on, and fix it.
Similar project: http://greim.github.io/hoxy/ - It also has throttling and latency simulation, but not as fine-grained. It's focus is more generally on debugging and traffic manipulation.
Just look at some of those names in the authorship of that haphazard search link i included. Richards, Pullman, McElroy, Bhattacharyya, Pauling ... If you can't put trust in some of those folks then you won't find it in general. (whatever the hell "trust" has to do with good science, notwithstanding)
My feeling I that it's a middle brow feelgood machine. It says the things and supports the things which make middle brow listeners like myself happy. Oh, good, they will take care of my guilt for me simultaneously supporting their/our pet causes, so now I don't have to.

Npr is not self critical beyond the surface. It's a given their causes are the right causes. Let's say the housing crisis in major metros. There is never a comprehensive look. What's good, what's bad. It's gentrification is driving out the poor wheelchair bound immigrant who teaches math at the local school, of the market, therefore we know it's bad by definition. I want to know What is done in china, India, Britain, Germany, Nigeria when they face "gentrification" which they do too. Nope, it's a given their take is the right take. Make me happy, make me feel good, feel guilty for me.
Good point on the seperation kernels. I really like the team behind QubesOS, who have written some of the first evil maid articles I've read, but I haven't tried it yet. Have you used any of those systems and have an insights? Are they usable or still in the works?

Of course DoD/Darpa have their nice little distros but they tend to be proprietary and expensive so I essential pretend they don't exist for my purposes.
Abstract: Good software engineers are essential to the creation of good software. However, most of what we know about software-engineering expertise are vague stereotypes, such as 'excellent communicators' and 'great teammates'. The lack of specificity in our understanding hinders researchers from reasoning about them, employers from identifying them, and young engineers from becoming them. Our understanding also lacks breadth: what are all the distinguishing attributes of great engineers (technical expertise and beyond)? We took a first step in addressing these gaps by interviewing 59 experienced engineers across 13 divisions at Microsoft, uncovering 53 attributes of great engineers. We explain the attributes and examine how the most salient of these impact projects and teams. We discuss implications of this knowledge on research and the hiring and training of engineers.
I suppose it's like any other metric, like software developers preening their GitHub activity logs so they always look active and constantly working). With so many PhDs and not enough positions, those in charge of hiring need ways to quantify the relative worth/ROI of applicants. This leads to a focus on things like impact factor, which correlate with but don't equate to what we actually care about. As with everything, you get what you measure.

I'd like to learn more about the history of the Scientific Revolution, the Royal Society and all that. Probably the politics and human-nature is constant (Newton/Leibniz conflict is well-known), but I wonder if there was an impact on the quality of science by the fact that a lot of the research was done by old rich aristocrats whose livelihoods didn't depend on their scientific results -- although I guess their reputations did depend on it. Is that similar to or different from modern academics with tenure? Does the fact that there's a tenure selection process end up selecting good academics, or those who can work the system?
If you find a way then let me know...

I find the best I can do is listen to/read multiple sources (even ones that I strongly disagree with most of the time) and try to separate bias from facts. This is by no means a guaranteed way to get the real story as I'm sure even while trying my personal biases push me to believe some things as "facts" that others would not. It reminds me of a character in the book "The Foundation" who says he reads various historians accounts of things and from that tries to decide what really happened and when pushed on this and asked why he doesn't visit the places himself to see which is right he is taken aback and responds with something along the lines of "how crude" while he clings to the notion that what he does is the "scientific method".

Great things can be done by building on those who come before you (I do it daily when I write code while I couldn't begin to write ASM nor do I have a good mental model of the lower level stuff up to where I work) but there is a danger in that as well. I worry about the "echo chamber" quite a bit (as I used to hold wildly different views when I was growing up and living in the echo chamber that was my household/parents) and I worry that the same thing could be happening again.

Sometimes I wonder if Aaron Swartz had it right by ignoring the news [0] altogether... Voting is where I disagree with him as while a "voting guide" would be nice, finding a completely unbiased one is probably impossible. The closest I think you can get is a quiz/survey on stances you personally take and then matching you up with politicians that vote the same way (consistently, which is a whole other issue) like ISideWith [1].

[0] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

[1] https://www.isidewith.com/
Why is physics is not an artifact of the calculation method used?
Does a plaintiff need to suffer injury if their constitutional rights were violated?
Wouldn't this be closer to a class action since there's broad injury and violation?
Note that while the example uses the use-case of migrating from a local-storage spinning disk to a local-storage SSD by using actual data copy, flocker can also be used to manage attachments of volumes on EBS for HA/failover of stateful containers.
I read the WaPo article and see no financial rationale for forcing this relationship between contractors and commercial organizations.

And since when is it wrong to "put someone on the spot" by asking questions? The "increasingly fissured economy" argument is an old one but the solutions are not at all clear. Legislating more lawsuits, forcing contractors and temps into an employee relationship with 3rd parties -- this is a temporary favor to unions and wage-and-benefit advocates but doesn't solve the real problems which are the prohibitive cost basis of hiring full time employees in today's economy in the U.S.

I would address the cost basis first, and make it less expensive to hire full timers, and then we'll see more hiring of full timers.
Apple stopped security guides with OS X 10.6
I had enough problems running one that was hooked up to the wall, running it on batteries just increases the chances of an SD card/file system failure.

They could make the thing a lot more fault tolerant if they set up its fstab to mount the file system read only, and run in memory.
> vbox requires you to hit some API's in order to run a vm detached

Not anymore. You can just launch the box without any GUI with one command line:

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html#vboxheadless
We're working on integration with Zapier at the moment, it should be ready for the next major release. Do you have any suggestions for other event-based systems? Zapier is the only one I'm familiar with.
Any pointers to some good docs? I'd love to start playing with rkt but I have no idea where to even start.
Interesting, I have heard it suggested that tunneling is one of those things that's clearly going on, but not necessarily relevant. Much like how relativity is required for sufficiently accurate solar system models, but you can generally ignore it.
Nothing in the first part of your post supported the conclusion. gRPC has an error code it can return, FAILED_PRECONDITION. Why are exceptions more robust or more complete than that?
Regarding the language-specific packages, we also have releases of the repository as a whole (https://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases), and the published language-specific packages correspond to those releases.
Given those personal profiles are effectively public to "millions" of users....eh?
I just have this hilarious mental image of a cyclist and a white car just inching forward back and forth into an intersection. Delightful.
> Does a plaintiff need to suffer injury if their constitutional rights were violated?

Yes, they do. Even in a class action the class plaintiffs need to be able to show that they were injured. This stems from longstanding judicial interpretation of the "case or controversy" clause of Article III of the U.S. Constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_or_Controversy_Clause
Ah, this is great. Hopefully now there won't be updates that alter syntax and functionality with quite the same frequency! (check the 'Upgrading from...' posts)

I'm pretty excited about Elixir and Phoenix. Building on Erlang's OTP should mean scaling can be fairly transparent.
> 2: Go to, say, Ravenna, Italy

Not to pick on Italy, but:

http://ycharts.com/indicators/italy_youth_unemployment_rate_...

So I wouldn't exactly want to model my economy on Italy.

>If you're still unconvinced, ask a European...

I've spent a lot of time in Europe and had long discussions in the pubs. Great times, nice folks, and I look forward to visiting again. but I still prefer the US.
Agreed. I'd say anything that distracts a founder from focusing on their business and growing 10x may be viewed negatively. But prove that there's traction and everything else doesn't really matter. You could probably convince others that being married is the only way you guys can keep sane so the both of you can grow the company.
As far as I'm aware Access can only be used on one local machine, unless you put some networking system together yourself. There's no web-based version either that I know of.
I agree with you. I had to design some concepts for securing a boot process or replacing BIOS. My first inspirations were Open Firmware, Coreboot, and U-Boot, already doing much of the job. However, all too complicated, incomplete, or Forthy. So, I saw it from three basic angles drawing on what was done in past:

1. Replaceable ROM or read-only, flash chip that the system booted from with open-spec for user customization. You can trust their bootloader, yours, etc. Modifications require physical replacement to avoid software attacks. You can know what it's doing because you can flash it yourself or use your own if it's physically compatible. Can be cheap. Simple.

2. Combination of anti-fuse ROM and flash. The ROM has a highly robust firmware that test chip, initializes some stuff, pulls firmware out of flash, does crypto checks on it, and then runs it. In a maintenance or update mode, the ROM + flash combo can pull up an upgrade into memory, disable all I/O that can affect it, check it, flash it into storage, and reboot. ROM can't be modified without physical replacement, so always a root of trust to start with. Can be combined with No 1 if necessary.

3. Software-only protection necessitates combating 0-days. This means gotta use an EAL6+ development process. Abstract away hardware details into functions with interface types and checks. Code in safe subset with static analysis, testing, and simulation. Make different device handling pluggable modules to run that interact with safe interface. Extract implementation from that. Examples include using SPARK Ada, MISRA C w/ ASTREE checker, or Java via BootSafe technology. Optionally auto-gen tech like Termite for drivers.

Personally, I think we could go with No 1 on everything down to laptops and some tablets. Ultra-compact things such as smartphones can use No 2. No 3 is only for the most stubborn, cost-sensitive companies and those are unfortunately least likely to go the extra mile lol.
Professional Services for an Early Stage SaaS Company
Why would you listen to something you seem to despise as middlebrow?

I subscribed to and tried to keep up with The Weekly Standard for a year to try to see if there was some "secret sauce" I was missing because of my personal political leanings. It was a maddening experience. As it turns out, spending time hanging out in the other side's echo chamber doesn't make you more well-informed or empathetic, just angrier. Do you listen to NPR for similar reasons?
Tech Tools – Staying Organized
New to Hacker News. Looking for advice and a general poll from people out there on what apps they used to stay organized and productive? In a crowded space, I've found a few favorites... But I think it depends on how your brain organizes. Love Centrallo, Google Docs, and CalenMob. Would love to hear from others on what works and doesn't work for them.
> to provide plausible deniability of that fact

Or to provide deterrence to criminal conspiracies without admitting that fact.
Are we alive or dead?
At least until they get fired and evicted.
It was never hosted on a pc in his room, and had to change hosts many times early on because of the dubious content and massive traffic.
Important and essential have two distinctily different meanings.

Also note that this is about product search not search.
To put it yet another way, overemphasis on statistics is a huge part of the problem.

It is extremely difficult to get statistics right. Am I applying a relevant test? Even if it is relevant, is it too sensitive? Is my dataset unbiased or have I controlled for all of the significant biases?

Multiple test corrections are also some of the most useless statistical tests you can perform. They're basically only useful for reducing confidence to reasonable levels. Hundreds of bad tests cannot yield a useful scientific inference through sheer volume.

Meta-analysis is interesting, but it's ultimately a shoddy attempt to patch over the much larger problem of widespread methodological failure. We can't do bad science for decades and then expect meta-analysis to yield new insights; at best it can serve to expose the poor quality of that work.
I think your frustration with the release process reflects Google's weakness in this area. Inside Google, everything is built and statically linked from the moving head of a single gigantic source code repository. Library releases, versions, and dependencies are not something the average Google ever thinks about.
> I simply cannot fathom why anyone would sign up for a site that specializes in extramarital relationships

Discretion. Most of the people on Ashley Madison presumably were wanting to keep their attempted affairs a secret. Most of them were probably not in "swinging" relationships, or indeed they would go to regular dating websites and just advertise their open relationship status.

> So if you want to cheat someone, you might as well advertise to cheaters.

That's basically the sales pitch for Ashley Madison. "Want to cheat? Here's some women who want to cheat with you."
So under what circumstances, according to the court, can a citizen actually claim injury from such a program?