skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really shouldn't expect anything better for an article that pays the writer just $4 (after Fiverr takes its cut).

Good writing isn't something everyone can do. It takes me at least an hour to write around 500 words. A full 2k word post can take 6+ hours (since longer posts tend to be more complicated).

If I was charging Fiverr rates, I would end up making $4/hour.
The fundamental attribute of the Constitution is that it can change with the times. The Constitution has been "corrected" 27 times.

There is nothing wrong with the US that cannot be fixed with what is right with the US. The Constitution is the same. If there are any flaws... then we can propose an Amendment and fix it.
As far as I know you can't just delete your account completely, deleting all your comments would be unfair, since the whole discussion would likely break apart.

But you can try to send an email either at info@ycombinator.com or pg@ycombinator.com and ask to make your account inactive, you could also change your email and delete any personal information.
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Then you buy them in batches of 2k/week.

In all seriousness, I've actually purchased 10k Twitter followers for $10. Twitter did not care one bit.
Agreed. That the Civil War happened does not make the Constitution as a whole fragile. After the Civil War occurred, they removed the three-fifths rule and took away it's major weakness.

>it's never been questioned since

It's often questioned today by asking whether we should follow a "legal document" (instead of the Law of the Land that guarantees our rights) from the 18th century (as _petronius did).
I know - I got GeoGebra on my laptop :)

https://www.geogebra.org/
Out of curiosity, why do you assume the author is male?
YC on YC crime.
I used to go to a cafe where they often had a $20 bill in the tip jar near the cash register. I always felt like that bill hadn't been left by a customer...
>Looking it, one suggestion came up, that you should go for a career where you can earn as much as possible, because then you could gave more money away, use it for something good.

That one comes up a lot and the fundamental problem is that nobody actually does it. People start careers with the intention of doing it but hedonistic treadmill/peer-pressure seems to wring it out of them sooner rather than later.

Even ignoring, as you point out negative externalities, it's just bad advice to suggest that doing something that no one seems capable of carrying though with is a good way to affect positive change.
Can't we get the same result by declaring data warehouses neutral territories for the purposes of data storage? I.e. if you run into one, you're still in whatever country the warehouse is in, but the servers themselves and the data stored on them is a neutral territory in itself.
Then you might actually want to start in Matlab / Octave with Mchael Ng's coursera course on ML.
Testing for communication skills is awesome advice and probably rarely ever consciously focused on.
Ig Nobel Prizes Mark a Quarter Century of Irreverent Science Humor
This has been posted like 10 times already..:)
Do you have any tips on the intuition behind the GA product and derivative? I follow the symbols but I can't get any intuition for what it means.
You'd need 3 pairs of 6TB hard disks in 3 data centers to match the reliability that S3 provides.

So at least 6 HDDs, 1800$ of H/W and the monthly hosting costs for the 3 DCs and presumably 3 server chassis... Plus software to keep them in sync and you need to deal with the inevitable failures that will happen eventually.

Amazon guarantees 11 9's worth of durability (99.999999999%).

Backblaze sees between 2.41% and 7.77% annual failure rate on 6TB HDDs (source: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/) and they're the only ones publishing numbers like these over sensible number of HDDs.
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I disagree. I heard about The Sopranos and watched it a bit after the buzz peaked. I mostly hated it. I can't swallow anything related to mafiosi. Sure, the show had some brilliant ideas from time to time (the premises only were gold), and some brilliant execution (the surreal dreams). But the whole story .. I'm still angry just thinking about it. Yet millions of people watched, and bought the DVDs. Personally that's already far too much love to such a thing.

Many people mention Breaking Bad, but it's a completely different situation isn't it ? it's more a 'back against the wall' / idiotic heroism thing. He didn't go there to sustain a lifestyle, he was cornered.
I would expect offline HDDs as well, possibly combined with tapes for secondary copies to meet durability requirements.
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Yes, this claim is untrue. Large orders will move the market the way they always move the market and 350 micro delay won't change it one bit.

they offer lower fees than other exchanges - standard practice to steal away business from competitors. Traders will trade anywhere where there is liquidity.
The entire issue is kind of weird. Like, what should happen if I move from Poland to Australia? Will Microsoft have to move my data from EU datacentres to Australian ones? What if it was just one hacker in Australia logging into my account after resetting the password via a phishing attack? What if it's actually the Australian government (well, a cybersecurity branch of it) that does so, in order to force the data to move to Australia and then use their laws to forbid me from accessing it, while they do whatever they damn please with it?
How is this a "barrier"?
tldr, anyone? I'm interested in the field and have been learning about it, but I don't really understand this paper.
Originalism is a reaction to "activist" courts.

One can argue that with the passage of the 18th Amendment, the amendment process became a parody of itself.

The straw that broke the house of cards built to accommodate slavery was Manifest Destiny. You can't have both.
GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures
Ask HN: Recommended video editing for total beginners?
Hi,
I would like to edit and create a video clip of a few shots I took. What would be the best tool for me to use? Something really easy to use for total beginners and that won't take to much memory from my pc..
Thanks!!
My girls -- especially my middle one -- spend lots of time talking to their toys, having elaborate imaginary conversations in which they make up both sides of the exchange. As far as I know, children in all cultures have done this with dolls since time immemorial, which indicates to me that the behavior somehow developmentally important. Do we really want to short-circuit that with a gadget?

I think the effort to use technology -- screens, talking toys -- to relieve children of boredom, and by "boredom" I mean "stretches of time in which they're forced to come up with creative ways to entertain themselves and each other", is one of the most regrettable features of modern life.
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Perhaps the other extension is prompting the user for a rating like you see so often in Android/iOS apps. This tactic genuinely works. If not, then yes, it's plausible that they're buying ratings.
I'm hiring right now, and I read a lot of job descriptions before I wrote ours. [1] I've definitely seen what she's talking about: generic go-hire-engineers job descriptions. I also think the kind of thing you describe, hiring for a very specific technology, is a similar failure mode. The technological pain point of the moment rarely lasts; the more stable needs are actually organizational. For example, over the next couple of years I want to be able to hire junior engineers, so right now I'm much less concerned with a particular technology stack than with someone who really likes mentoring and working in closely collaborative environments. That way I can bring the junior people rapidly up to speed.

I also have seen whiteboard coding interviews where interviewers are inclined to ding people for not remembering small details, so it's a legitimate concern.

[1] http://www.codeforamerica.org/jobs/chime/
There's no obligation to immediately update to 4.1.0 if you don't want to. Since there are no breaking changes all the same modules should work.
I think the psychological distance only partially explains the reversal in public sentiment from scorn to adoration. Obesity was never a serious problem in the communities I have lived in. The U.S's obesity epidemic is an abstract concept to me (as I have never experienced it first-hand), and yet I don't have any nostalgia for it.

Surely, it must be more than abstraction and omertà. Some drug organizations do not brand themselves with a public services front - see the TED talk by Rodrigo Canales http://www.ted.com/talks/rodrigo_canales_the_deadly_genius_o....

I only speak for myself, but I like crime movies/drama for the allure of ruthless power. It's a unique sort of power that can only be obtained illegally, and at some great moral expense. This Faustian device makes for intriguing plots.

Who else can have a mountain of cocaine? Who else can execute business with such brutality? What other line of work involves Zero Halliburton cases stuffed with Benjamins, to go with high-powered handguns and sharp suits? These are proxies for power that a pleb like myself can barely begin to comprehend.

There's a scene in the Godfather Part II that I really like, when the nervous money-grubbing landlord comes into Don Corleone's office and gives him cash so that a previously disagreeable tenant can stay in his inn. The absurdity of the scene belies Corelone's power like the tip of an iceberg, and it's visually interesting to see a normal-looking guy wield such mysterious power.

This is echoed by the common "crime lord is the manager of a pizzaria by day" trope (Breaking Bad, Drive, Road to Perdition), where a seemingly weak front has a hidden-dragon kind of vibe.

To summarize, I think that "psychological distance" theory only carries the audience halfway, in that they don't feel the revulsion towards mobsters because they don't deal with them personally. I think most of the allure comes from the forbidden power.
Uhh ... heard of GPS? Wifi? Bluetooth? Any of these could assist with geo-locating the other party without the need for conversation. Similarly, a shot of the surroundings with a phone camera.
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Just as a clarification, I mean by bullshit those meetings and meetings about the meetings, too many tools as in you have to attend stand-up, send status reports, update bug tracking, update timesheet.

If I have to manage a project myself, I would have:
1. bug tracking with timesheet (timesheet not for figuring how much you worked but to give a cost idea of future project).
2. source control
3. meetings as needed but needs to be scheduled and has a subject and time. So screw standup. Standups I've being part of previously was about glorifying what you did yesterday and what you will be doing today. A kind of, I don't trust you, give me some bullshit.
4. management needs to stay away, they need to go move furniture if they don't have anything to do. I know some people might be offended by this.
Whichever they use, most disks are likely unpowered most of the time. Like the Facebook equivalent where they can only power 1 out of 12 disks at any time.
I really miss having an "avoid tolls" option for Apple Maps. I was in New Jersey recently with no cash and had to get real creative.
I'm willing to believe you but do you have any source at all? Are you saying big block traders are staying on IEX because the fees are lower? That just doesn't make sense to me, the fee overhead is almost insignificant with big block trades. It's not a question of do the trades move the market, it's a question of can the trades fully execute before the market has moved. Obviously they move the market.
Does iTunes not require a credit card on file?
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At times my mechanical engineering courses at university felt like MATLAB tutorials. You had to use it, no way around it. Good luck once you're out of university and want to start your own thing, you won't be able to afford it. The computer science courses in contrast preferred open source tools over proprietary ones.
The tldr is in the abstract: "In deep learning terminology, this amounts to saying that besides a negligible set, all functions that can be implemented by a deep network of polynomial size, require an exponential size if one wishes to implement (or approximate) them with a shallow network."
That sounds a lot like Dun & Bradstreet[0], no?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dun_%26_Bradstreet
As a related note, the best predictor of university physics scores is high school English scores.

Why? Because physics is about making a conceptual model. i.e. telling a story about a problem. And then solving it.

For interviewing, communications skills are a must. People will be working in a team, and must be able to explain themselves. And get along with others.

Another thing rarely checked for is the flip side... understanding explanations. If you have to explain something four times to a candidate, you'll probably have to explain things 1000 times on the job.
I got really, really excited when I saw the 'select your keyboard' option! I got sad again when there wasn't a Dvorak keyboard option. Is there any chance you'll be adding a Dvorak option?
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Deep learning is pretty much a field still being rapidly advanced by research. A book on it would become obsolete the day it is published.
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"That's an ugly button"

me clicks on button

"Oh Wow, a BUTTON. How do you do that?"

"Hmpf... Javascript..."
Found a bug (I think): it seems like the cooldown on the attack of the red guy who shoots fireballs resets when he moves. If you strafe to dodge a fireball at close range, he strafes and fires instantly again.
Which was the point all along right? You continue to pour money into something as long as its getting better. For companies like Google that release early and often you can usually tell when the project gets unfunded as the product just sort of stops evolving at all.

This acquisition makes a lot of sense for Apple, I would have loved to have seen what they did with Waze had they bought them.
Not only is boot faster on linux. When linux boots it's actually ready. When windows login screen comes up you login and then have to wait again.
Oooo open-advice is a nice find, thanks!
Is Google going to split this out of their infrastructure, or is this whole separation between "Alphabet" companies and "Google" really just a marketing ploy for no change at all?
Matlab vs Octave is one of those places where it's still worth buying the real one. Personal use license (including machine learning toolkit) is under $200. If you're not willing to spend $200 to learn something you're probably not that interested.

Browse JSTOR at the library versus Googling any historical, scientific or research topic and you'll quickly learn that "internet" offers the shitty version of surprisingly many things. (Shh... it's a secret.)
Or if you are a non-techie it means forced upgrade is built into your product.
Apps use Apple's ad system. Web doesn't.
Yes, several people have requested this so we'll add it soon.
"Sales" is a very broad topic. What aspect of sales are you looking to get better at? The initial prospecting and sourcing of qualified leads? Turning leads into opportunities and proposals? Closing opportunities? Or something else such as preventing churn?
It's interesting that it's only #1 in the U.S. and #20 in Canada. That's pretty good evidence that initial sales were driven by Marco's following on Twitter and friendly posts by people he knows. Now the mass media blogs are picking it up. The high rank will also drive some sales. Once things settle down, it could be great post-launch blog post about sales analytics.
"Admire" is a bit of a leap. We are blurring the lines between fiction and reality a little. Watching a film or tv program doesn't imply any approval or admiration of the content, it means it is entertaining to watch. People do enjoy the romantic mobster world Mario Puzo created, they don't go out of their way to promote the growth of organized crime syndicates in their towns. Nobody offers to pay protection money... ("...if only Salt Lake City had a crime family I could pay protection to....")

The fiction and its interest is interesting, I mean by the end of The Sopranos, I found myself wanting Tony to not get killed or go to jail but also knowing full well that he was a sociopath. It probably has to do with the writing and how they humanized him. You get to view this very different world and lifestyle and then you see some human properties and some similarities to things you know. The difference is what draws you in, but I could relate in ways to Tony the father and Tony the husband. Maybe it is even more simple, I liked watching the stories and I knew if something happened to Tony, the stories would end.

I enjoyed Sopranos, Breaking Bad, all those Godfather movies and more but in no way do I endorse or encourage that lifestyle or those activities.
> As a related note, the best predictor of university physics scores is high school English scores.

That's pretty counter-intuitive. Can you give a source?
Sounds great. Exactly what I hoped the new Apple TV would be...
Does anyone know whether Fire TV has a VPN client build in?

Edit:

Found this with a quick search https://vpntips.com/fire-tv-vpn-install. To bad it's so complicated given that Fire TV runs Android. But this little device looks very promising. I enjoy 4K TV a lot through the Netflix app on my Sony TV.
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Isn't that nice? First claim you want to "protect" my web browsing, but then collect all of that data and sell it to others. For an antivirus company, I imagine user "trust" is quite important. If they're not only not "protective" but actually being malicious with my data, I hope that ends up hurting them quite badly.
>It's amazing how humans love the strong leader (Trump is capitalizing on this) and how we love to take sides against and enemy or other (sports, etc.)

Growing up in a strong religious culture (though not a cult) that I later became disillusioned with, it almost hurt noticing the same trends in so many other areas of life that one would think immune from it. From sports to academics to social movements.

There is something inside of humans that has for centuries made religion very popular. Even now that many have been able to leave religion behind, what ever that is deep inside of use still exists and it is influencing the new social groups we form, creating systems of beliefs and rituals.
While I do understand that in the USA the transportation culture is very different, my European self can't help but equate that to "My only issues are with the two only modals everyone uses daily" :-)
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Yeah, it's one of the big reason I do pair programming interviews. [1] It lets me find out a) whether they can do the work, and b) whether they can communicate about the work they're doing.

Her suggestion for "explain something to me" makes me a little nervous; I'd be worried that the interviewee would have a hard time coming up with a good topic on the spot. But last I interview, one person asked me to pull up one of my open source projects and explain the code to them. That struck me as a very fair test.

[1] Described here: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-programming-intervie...
The guy cutting my lawn spent more on his tools than MATLAB costs.
Looks like competition for the Nvidia Shield TV.
I picked up many great tips from Nathan Powell's "The Creative Professional's Guide to Better Proposals". Highly recommended.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Professionals-Guide-Better-...
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> I don't understand what she's talking about here. Every time I see a job opening, the software hiring manager and the team peers know there's a pain point that needs to be solved. E.g. "We need to an embedded C programmer to make this firmware talk to our USB protocol". "We need a developer to port the Java code to Go." "We need to expose our mainframe transactions as a REST API", etc.

Not necessarily here, but there are also a lot of buzzword soup and horribly vague reqs floating around out there. Just browse Dice or Indeed.

> I'm not sure where her experience with whiteboarding comes from. In my experience, companies use whiteboarding to sketch out algorithmic thinking. Whiteboarding is the opposite of reciting trivia such as the "3rd parameter to an obscure library function" Interviewers don't care about perfect syntax or missing semicolons.

My experience has been that significant numbers of interviewers want working code on the whiteboard, Amazon in particular. If whiteboard interviews were what you describe, I and large numbers of other people would not hate them so much.

It isn't just whiteboard interviews, either. I have had phone screens where my Linux programming skills were judged based on how well I had memorized POSIX manpages. Maybe I have just had bad luck in drawing interviews, but then maybe you have had good luck. I don't know. I can dig up anecdotes from around the web to support both our experiences.
I'd really like to know how those 500 Chromebooks are doing in a year.
AKA "The list of websites that don't know what CSRF is"
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Why are scrapers listed as 'bad bots'? (EDIT: Maybe I don't know what a scraper is. I think of it as something like wget that I as an individual might use, but I guess it could also refer to large-scale scrapers that are grabbing content to be reproduced without attribution elsewhere.)
Happened in Oct 2014 but the title was too long.

Here is a link for the amended petition.

http://www.thenationaltriallawyers.org/2014/05/amended-petit...
At equal prices, random selection. Anything else seems like it could be games.

Could lead to some funny movements though. Value aliasing! : )
What I would really prefer is to be able to set your own keys, probably with some defaults for common layouts. That way you serve any layout and any key usage habits.