skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always find it frustrating that these articles get upvoted, yet they rarely talk about how the company actually grew to X million users - which would be the only useful thing in this article for nearly all of the people that are reading it. An article that talks about how to manage things when your startup magically gains 20M users is useless you happen to be one of the less than 100 people on the planet that have actually had this happen to them.
That was my thought constantly through reading this. I agree wholeheartedly that we need to spend more on rehabilitation and treatment and it sounds like this facility is doing good work but laying your sibling's (a sibling you haven't talked to in years and even when you did they weren't the person they are now) life bare like this feels like a huge invasion of privacy as well as possibly having a negative impact on the brother when he does find out about it. Not to mention this will now follow him for the rest of his life as a very public record of his past failings....
I personally never ever use PayPal for payment, always a credit card. My wife paid $700 to the vendor who closed shop right before the wedding (but after taking the money!). She called PayPal and they came up with an excuse why this wasn't covered (something along the lines that she paid in one payment and not in installments, I don't remember exactly anymore). Luckily we discovered that it was paid "through PayPal" on the credit card. Credit card promptly refunded the money. I will never use PayPal after this again.
When I launch the demo, it asks for a login and password. Obviously, I don't have a login and password for this site.
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I have good ideas and reasonably basic skills. Nothing I've done has even come close to attracting 1 million users. :/
I didn't use adblockers for years, but there was a point where I felt like advertisers had just broken down the mutually-understood norms that made online advertising acceptable. So I wrote an angry rant (http://supox.dingis-west.com/asshole.html) and installed adblockers on everything I could.

Life has been much better with adblock. I turn it off on sites that I know don't use abusive advertising practices, but it's strictly opt-in at this point.
I remember trying to describe burnout to my step-mom who is French. I kept trying to figure out how to say it in French and she joked that they don't have much of a phrase for it; the just say "le burnout" which I find rather telling. It seems like such an american problem that so many articles like these have to be written.
Unix wasn't enough, now we have Docker, etc.

We have Docker et al. because people kept pursuing ever-more-complex and ever-more-intertwined dependencies and silliness.

The people failed Unix (and its successor, Plan 9), and not the other way around.
Is there a description of how maelstrom holds references in the DHT? I can think of half a dozen ways to bolt HTTP hosting on bittorrent, but the scale of "people using http" is orders of magnitude larger than "people who use bittorrent".
While I agree that having you jump through these hoops is really time consuming and annoying, for most if not all companies it's a necessary evil in order to identify potential employees. How else do you assess a potential employee? It's gonna be either through whiteboarding/live coding with the interviewer(s) or through you portfolio, which your github repos and contributions serve as a good example.

Having said that, some companies take it to the extreme, and honestly they sound like a more traditional office type of environment where I doubt you want to work at from what I can infer from your comments.

I also do not agree with the assumption that only the privileged have time to contribute to open source (aka free projects). You either do it because a) you love it, or b) because you need to beef up your portfolio and you are motivated enough to do so. I'm considered a minority in the tech industry as well, yet I got into it many years ago by working on pro bono projects after going home every day from my telemarketing job at 2.am.

Either in technology or in any industry, you'll get your foot on the door and you will advance faster if you enjoy what you do. This is easily recognized by potential employers when they see you participate in hackathons and that you contribute to OSS.

Sure, I began doing free projects to get into the industry, but I keep doing it today because I love it and that's what makes it so easy for me to find employment as a software developer. In fact I get contacted by recruiters at least twice a week on linkedin and it's somewhat annoying. I hope Anna learns enough at her job to the point where she'll be able to easily find a job and be able to recognize toxic environments that make you jump through excessive hoops.

Just my 2 cents.
There was a 8k euro Anonymous donor 2 hours ago. Wow.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/prosemirror/x/1663745#/fu...
9 baby monitors wide open to hacks, exposing private moments
Open Your Garage Door with a Smart Phone and Particle Core
Thanks!

It's gotten backlogged for me too. I started obsessing about potential EM coupling across optoisolators. But to test, I need a Faraday cage and gear. ...

Anyway, I'll check out the discussion on Schneier's blog.
comments like this are amazing. you are completely ignorant of the current state of economics yet wonder if economists have bothered to construct dynamic models of the economy. i guess your intermediate macro course didn't get that far...
Make in India: Which Exports Can Drive the Next Wave of Growth? [pdf]
As energy is conserved, I would say that it takes a Coulomb bomb's worth of energy to extract 1% of one's electrons, plus overhead due to inefficiencies.
Nice. And ... go dig around those old pyramids....
Personally, I wish two things:

1) that rm had a (configurable) number of files / directories above which it'll ask you to double-check.

2) that files had a "pleasedontdelete" flag that rm would check and ask about.
It's more like you're the one leaving things out; she pretty clearly describes how this is representative of patterns of behavior persisting for years and years.
Without ticket scalpers I couldn't decide to go to a sold out show or ballgame at the last minute. They provide a valuable service to me.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9481487
Some demos show the user authorization concept. Logins and passwords are in the description of the demo under "Login information". Admin account is always: admin/pass.
_I'm sorry but I don't discuss internal policies, salary or other, of my past employers. Of course, I'll treat whatever comes up during our talks with the same level of privacy._
> Renowned ecologist Jacques Cousteau

Cousteau wasn't an "ecologist": he started his career blowing up coral reefs with dynamite (on film! check it out!); he was also a jerk and an asshole of mammoth proportions (not to mention, racist and nazi sympathizer).

If your motto is "everything is bullshit", the very least you can do is double check those kinds of references.

Also, just because humans do horrible things to all kinds of animals (or to other humans; cruelty is our trade) doesn't make it right to club baby seals.
This deserves every ounce of attention that it can get and I definitely know the feeling. I worked about as hard as I could for a little over a year to save a 15 year old company from going under. I was the only developer/infrastructure person because we couldn't hire anybody else since it looked like a sinking ship.

I worked 24/7 (with a wife and 2 kids) on this beastly mix of 10 year old Perl and very inexperienced Rails code. Despite the hours, I was excited because I thought this was THE big opportunity.

At my one year review, the owners told me I wasn't working hard enough. I went from a high point to a low point overnight. Wrestled with it for about a month. Then while I was riding in the car with my wife I got a snarky hipchat message from the owner of the company and showed it to my wife.

She looked right at me and said, "Quit. Don't worry about the money, we will figure it out. I don't want you working for people like that and it's obvious what it's doing to you."

So I resigned. Told them I'd stay on for 30 days for transition but that it just wasn't the right place for me. The weight off my shoulders from resigning was ENORMOUS.

For about 2 months I struggled with what to do. All the experience I'd gained at that job had virtually made my resume and after the experience, just like you I wanted to find something MEANINGFUL to do. Something I could wake up every morning and know that what I was doing made a difference for the right reasons.

And the opportunity came 2 months later. I ended up turning down a job for twice the pay for what I knew was best in the long run. So far it has been and my wife and I have never been happier. This company treats employees better than any I've ever even heard of. Not silly perks but actual, life balance, we value you as a human being, feel free to move about the company if you want a different challenge...perks.

The only downside is that I'm pretty sure my wife will kill me if I ever lose this job. :-)
My+New+Exclusive+Internet+Business+Kits+(IBK)+Training
Very cool. The last I researched this, OpenVPN was the "best" and "most secure" VPN solution, but it was a bit of a hassle to set up for iOS and OS X. But it appears IKEv2 compares quite nicely [1] and will now be built in, so I no longer have to jump through hoops getting it working on iOS and OS X. I can't wait to try it.

[1] https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/4147/pptp-vs-l2tp-vs-openvpn-vs...
Very very cool! Great news!
Thanks. Would love to have a chat more about the role.
keen is a complete charlatan and the laughing stock of the economic world. he doesn't even understand the basic economic theory he attempts to criticize
According to the prison documentaries I've seen EU penalties in general are much lower (like half to one third) than US ones for the named crimes. And we don't have death sentences over here so that changes perception a lot.
It's likely PR speak for - we are pricing our Cloud instances to stay competitive with Amazon and the other players.
When you've worked in an office with a hundred people all running AdBlock because on top of the line hardware, your site is unusable without it, let's talk.
In vim, j and k will only move the cursor between lines that exist, and the screen will follow the cursor. You can scroll the screen past the end of the file using ctrl+e and ctrl+y, but it's annoying.
"with the assumption that either PayPal will underwrite the loss"

No. He called and spoke to both eBay (who said they would not) and to PayPal and they assured him they would underwrite it. Per his article:

"The very helpful gentleman I spoke to informed me that ever since the eBay/Paypal split recently, domains are actually covered by their buyer protection now!" (Emphasis in the original)
This Harvard scientist is coding an entire movie onto DNA
That's a pretty significant price difference between the model 3 and the model S. The car would have to be pretty close in terms of features and single charge drive difference to the model S for me to be willing to pony up the cash for a preorder.
Interesting read, the CochroachDB guys are top notch engineers. I'm excited to see how this product develops.
Diversity Goals for ZenPayroll
I agree but they seem to be a major part of the online economy. I think users and advertisers are going to have to reach some kind of agreement for "free" sites to continue to exist.

I know there are other business models but I would not be surprised if we hit a point where ad supported content no longer exists. I hope some new "free" business model is developed because I certainly don't want a pay as you go model.
No protection for `rm -rf file.bak ~`?

I'd love to know whoever it was that thought tilde was a good character to use in backup filenames.
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Excellent questions! thanks for this, I Was too lazy to lay them down like this.

I hope they get an answer!
Not to change the subject but why does this sound like Gibson Guitar all over again? National law vs External laws = sovereignty?
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>Ok, so you're thinking about a random variable which converges to some value when the null hypothesis is true. This is fine, but it has nothing to do whatsoever with p-values.

Well, the variable itself doesn't, just the observed value of P(X|H). X can be any random variable, but typically it will need to be transformed to have a normal distribution about 0 with a standard deviation of 1 (since this is what the typical null-hypothesis predicts).

To effectively use p-value analysis, it is typically assumed that your null-hypothesis predicts that your observations will be normally distributed with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1. The total count of heads observed will not be distributed that way. Neither will the probability of a particular sequence (what your example seemed to be calculating). I say your null hypothesis is not well-defined because the term 'fair' remains undefined (though we could guess at the meaning) and in fact makes no predictions about the world. You need to apply transformations to your random variable so that it will appear normally distributed about 0 with a standard deviation of 1 if the hypothesis is true.

>Let me say that your notation is not very appropriate. It makes no sense to say that P(X|H) converges to 1.

My notation is perfectly appropriate. X is a random variable and a random variable is the only thing that can go there (if you are doing p-value analysis). X is not assumed to be uniform or simple (although it certainly could be). P(T>T(X)|H) can be replaced with P(Y|H) every time (Y = T>T(X)).

>As I said, you're free to prefer your converging statistics and your well-defined null hypothesis. But you should be aware that people are talking about something completely different when discussing things like the 1e-7 p-value in the Higgs boson discovery or the reproducibility of statistically significant results.

I'm glad that we finally agree on this (although I dispute that anyone working on the Higgs boson discovery disagrees with me). One of my first claims was that others may not be calculating true p-values, but may calculate something and call it 'p-value' and then think that it means something it does not. In fact, this entire topic even links to an article in a prominent publisher claiming the same.

Do you think it is purely coincidental that the figures I showed you from the Higgs experiment show the lines converging towards only two different numbers: 1 and 0?

Edit: You'll have to give me some time on your edit. It's not something I typically calculate and I have other business to attend to today.
I'm not at all associated with the Cockroach folks, but I'm pretty sure they actually do use MVCC, and the description they gave in this post is a simplification of the actual implementation. At least, there are a bunch of references to MVCC in their codebase: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/storage...
This is great. I wonder if there's a way to package it up for an e-reader, or as a PDF?
The Raj - or the consequence of The Raj are still ubiquitous. They were moving in right direction with BJP in charge (and talking about capitalism only not other issues). Last 10 years of Congress has stifled lot of the progress that Narshima Rao's Gov started.
Cry "Havoc!", and let slip the dogs of war!

I'm on the other side, with the good guys and all the technical advantages. Good luck to your side!
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Contribute how?

Just as an FYI, my use-case is we're actually using Go as a replacement for C for some of our bigger projects - we've found that Go is a great language for working together on (as opposed to C which our team has conflicting viewpoints on).

So far we've developed a few seperate services but we're now looking at combining Go with our existing C based module such that we can use JSON-RPC to communicate with different modules in a phone system... it's kinda cool but all commercial so nothing open to hack on sadly.
It feels like those are on different ends of a spectrum. On one side the Judea Pearl style causality analysis relies on human interpretation because we must adjoint the graphical network with an "assumption graph" which allows for the identification of suitable ad hoc experiments. This pretty much requires a physical semantics be applied to the PGM.

On the other hand, neural nets tend to eschew human interpretation. They optimize their objectives, but the resulting networks are rarely amenable to human interpretation. To try to come in after the fact and seek out experimental opportunities seems certain to fail.

On the other hand, it'd be interesting to see if the human assumption graph could be used as a training constraint for the ANN. I have never heard of anyone trying that.
Show HN: Chimnee app, get instant advice on your personal issues
Yes. I've just immediately not gone to a site that didn't load content because I was using an ad blocker. Your content has to be very worth it for me to disable my ad blocker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Down .

The upgrade of the runway to support the Shuttle started in May 1986 (https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19860423&id=... ) and ended by August 1987 (https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=860&dat=19870817&id=Y... ).
So what happened to the company you left?
This runs slower on my computer than MGSV in ultra settings running on 4k resolution.
"We're still on for dinner on Thursday, right?"

Some things are better said in person...
Passion causes burnout. Have you ever noticed that the people who just punch a clock and go home never experience burn out? Even if they end up working overtime? It's always the people who identify with their work that get burned.
Yup, http://i.imgur.com/waCmfM3.png
Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk–they come from families with money
Curious if there's any region smaller than that of LaGuardia Airport. A glance doesn't find any.
I'm Jason Green, CEO at Edenworks. And aquaponics evangelist. Here's why we think aquaponics is the best solution to global protein (and vegetable) production.

Tilapia are protein producing machines. They convert 1.1-1.3 lbs of feed to 1 lbs of protein in 9 months (some factors like temperature, feed rate at different stages of life, and other things affect this ratio). But here's the real kicker--by providing the nitrogen that crops need, the crops can then turn CO2 into into calories via photosynthesis. Super high quality produce becomes the extremely valuable byproduct, effectively, of aquacultured seafood.

From a global net energy perspective, this is huge. Where do you think that nitrate fertilizer for soybeans is coming from? The Haber-Bosch process is crazy energy expensive. Growing soybeans for protein also has huge environmental costs--see deforestation in Brazil for details. 80% of cultivable land on earth is already in use, but food production needs to increase by 70% by 2050. Protein production will need to double due to the rising global middle class. And that middle class wants fish.

On top of all that, there's the fact that people don't want to eat just soybeans for protein. There's now more seafood consumed globally than beef cattle. By 2030, 62% of all seafood will be aquacultured, and there are some suggestions that most of the wild seafood species we know will be either extinct or heavily depleted.
Ask HN: How do DO/linode host their database?
I know all the cloud big names e.g. aws/azure provide managed SQL or noSQL service so that their VM user can access the database with relatively low latency although they are not necessarily be running on the exact same machine (but at least there is option we can host in the same data centre). But how are those DigitalOcean/Linode users hosting their database? it is possible we can run mysql etc the VM directly (i.e. we manage them ourselves) but their VM instances probably wont always be powerful enough to host a database? or we are typically running a lot of replicated instances to balance the load? cheers
You can script that all up and call it rm and pop it higher up the user PATH and if you need the pure rm command without the wrapper protection (for say scripts) then can just point to that with the full path.
reminder: noah has never published an academic paper in economics and it looks unlikely that he ever will. he is simply not a competent guide to the field. this entire thread is a perfect example of the blind leading the blind: a journalist (noah) presents an entirely one sided view of the field, and intellectually lazy posters take it as a cue to dump on an entire academic field while freely admitting their ignorance of any of the details.

newsflash: most economists are acutely aware of the imperfections in their models. sure, you can find the blinkered and dogmatic, but that is unsurprising in such a large and varied field. the subject encompasses a serious variety of subjects and methods you (the hn poster) simply know nothing about. for example, machine learning techniques are really nothing new. theorists have been aware of the kahneman/tversky result for decades. please bear this in mind before you lazily declare the intellectual bankruptcy of the entire field.

p.s so-called econophysics was a direct attempt to apply models from hard science to economics and it has been a complete failure, since it lacks an underlying model of human behaviour. turns out this is quite important...
It was actually in a number of his short stories in the Known Space universe: the slaver disintegrator. I had a physics teacher in high school who gave us an assignment to describe what the effects of a sci-fi device would actually be like. The disintegrator was probably the most interesting one of the bunch.
Well, in Germany Firefox is still far larger than Chrome. Chrome eats up the share of IE, but can’t touch FF.
Sounds a very interesting idea!

I'm curious what kind of volume of tasting data you're processing out of interest?

Also do you use textual reviews from beer rating sites too?

If the main idea is to detect flaws in beers, I'm wondering if you could also use mass spectrometer data, https://nextglass.co/science-of-satisfaction/ seem to be using them to compare the similarity of beers, although thinking about it, people's perceptions of different chemicals may vary widely.
It's not US-only.
Please be civil.

BTW, the person you're replying to is a lawyer. Are you?
Really enjoyed this - interesting read with awesome illustrations and interactivity. Also love the Noticing.co name (bookmarked).
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