skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just that. Many items have multiple sellers. When you choose a seller, you don't know what the ratings for that seller/item combo. So, the seller may have good ratings from unrelated products, but be selling poor quality versions of this particular product. The product itself may have 'good' versions currently on sale by other sellers on Amazon.
Founders Must Be Rooted
It's frequently higher quality time than what is invariably the alternative.
Heidegger's Being and Time provides a similar critique of modern empiricism. He argued that our most fundamental knowledge of objects comes from our history and potential future with them. When we know "There is an apple", the self embedded in time (Dasein) provides the "There is".
Ah, this is actually formalized? My intuition says that Chinese brands would know how to police through the appropriate channels, but it's not surprising it's an actually an official thing.

What I can't really figure out is how to reliably get the "better" unbranded parts (small quantities, using ebay/aliexpress). The only indicator seems to be how consumer-targeted the particular item is. Electronic components / assemblies have been fine, while 4 out of 4 phone chargers I tested were pure garbage.

Obviously creating a relationship with a manufacturer is the way to go for larger batches, which is another reason buying from a US importer makes sense. Then again I've got to wonder when I see the same-looking unbranded items in US retail stores, if those ones actually meet their ratings or if the type of people buying them will never verify.
Possibly related simultaneous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10328699
So not really increasing then.
Wow this is an eye opener. Thanks for the insight.
This salary data is questionable. $160k at google is highly unlikely, unless this counts total comp.
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It's a little different - in effect, the amount of TV I watch has no impact on the cost to me from my cable provider.

In this case, the more ads you consume, potentially the more you pay from your wireless carrier.
"most people" depends on where you live. In my region, obviously, this is the case.
Hmm, if this blog article is accurate then Feyerabend's analogy to sola scriptura appears to be a strawman. "Sola scriptura" was never a claim that nothing helps you interpret scripture -- its advocates all claim that this is the role of the spirit. There's an odd paragraph towards the end of Feser's blog post:

"But you can ask such questions of an authoritative interpreter who stands outside the texts. And such an interpreter -- in the form of an institutional Church -- is exactly what the Catholic position posits."

That prompts the rather obvious retort "authoritative interpreter who stands outside the text ... I wonder who all these God-believing protestants could possibly think that might be..."

This seems obvious enough that surely Feyerabend would have recognised it, so perhaps Feser's summary of Feyerabend is flawed?
Many consumer electronic products have a manufacturer's warranty which requires registration, and the serial number is one of the mandatory pieces of information.

Specialised doesn't do this exactly. Their bike registration form doesn't provide any incentive except that they'll inform you of any important news about your bike:
http://www.specialized.com/us/en/support/bike-registration
Curious. How is NoSQL less hard than SQL??
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I didn't downvote you but I would suggest providing links to support your claims.
That would be my first thought, as well. It seems like a subject that could be very interesting, given a wider dataset. For artists that we have biographical details on, does increased exposure to animals improve their depictions? Are, say, Frederic Remington's renderings mechanically correct?
I've vouched for this, because it really shouldn't be deaf. But a better README would be good :-)
Where is the best Chinese retailer to buy bikes from?
Meh.

I can't imagine the mindset that would lead someone to sacrifice their entire existence on the pyre of working; what's the point of making big cash if you've got no time or people to enjoy it with? I think that these kind of aberrant/nauseating/maladapted pathological behaviors (working insane hours, money addiction) show a bewildering lack of wisdom that is intentionally selected for among the "most competitive" firms. They can't make a robot or computer program that completely replaces these people's ability to convert life into money, yet a robot is exactly what they need, and so they find folks who are willing to be that robot and dehumanize themselves.

There's always a lot of hubbub regarding Ivy league types landing in Goldman-esque shops then dying of overwork etc, and I think it's telling. Jumping through the hoops despite increasingly unreasonable demands is stereotypical behavior from these people, and it's very much to their detriment, as well as ours. Spinelessness has consequences. These are the people that society views as the elite, yet they're childish in their inability to reality-check the limits of their own lives, which results in poor mental health and suicide or drug abuse.

I can't muster empathy here. They worked hard for their chance to play brutal games, and then got brutalized as a result.
Sounds cool. Thanks for writing. I found some links to followup:

What is an Aguri tree?
http://goo.gl/mBWdbJ
(this question on SO mentions your comment from previous HN threads on data structures)

Aguri: Coolest Data Structure You've Never Heard Of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=101969

Aguri: An Aggregation-based Traffic Profiler
http://goo.gl/zA4Vl8

//links shortened for length
I'd like to see a reference on the Oregon school forced to buy Windows licenses for Macs. But could only find references to Microsoft/BSA raids on school with legitimate licensing issues:

http://www.salon.com/2001/07/10/microsoft_school/

(though the story is pretty bad)
It's a challenging problem when you're diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer at just 48 years of age.

Do you spend what may be a short amount of time that you have left on trying to build a foundation to give your wealth away, or do you spend it doing what you enjoy most? Jobs gets viciously and unfairly criticized on this point. If other people ('normal people') choose to pursue what they want to with their remaining time in the face of such a diagnosis, few would dare criticize them.

That becomes an even more important question when you realize that Jobs knew his wife would be fully capable of giving his wealth away after his passing. In the second half of his cancer battle, it was pretty obvious he was not going to survive longer term. So what do you do at 52 or 53 years of age, when it's apparent you're going to die? Do you spend years (which you may not have) trying to build a successful foundation? My personal opinion is that's an absurd premise. The reality is, we'll never know if Jobs would have become a successful philanthropist, or whether he would have focused on his work as Buffett has and leave the giving to eg his wife.

If Bill Gates had been diagnosed with a terminal cancer at 48, and died in his early to mid 50s - it's likely his legacy would look a lot different too. When Gates was 48 in 2003, his public reputation was far different than it is today, he was openly reviled as an abusive monopolist and robber baron with a long reputation for having been mean and abusive to employees.

It's Steve's vast billions that will be given away by Laurene, and he deserves a lot of credit for that, as much as someone like Warren Buffett does for the good his wealth will do. I don't see many examples of Jobs getting a comparable treatment versus what someone like Buffett does on this point however.

edit: if you care to, feel free to explain why you disagree with me, assuming it's not just based on a reflexive need to bash Steve Jobs and not give him credit for any of the good his wealth will do and or has done (while someone like Buffett gets a lot of credit, while performing almost none of the actual philanthropic effort either)
Not really. I'm actually talking about upper middle class families in my comment, and it's more about how good food/eating education isn't available to lots of children because their parents have no idea about it, regardless of class.
One could argue that the experiences of people at both ends of the attractiveness bell curve are so atypical that they will emerge with a poor understanding of how it works for everyone else.

Also, please don't use "omg did you say that I can't believe you said that" as an argument.
Emissions can benefit when you tune for something else, but I wouldn't call that tuning for emissions.

My point is that if you don't care about emissions, then there is nothing to trade off. A computer controlled system can be tuned entirely for mileage at low power output and also tuned entirely for power at the high end.
I'm currently using this Lenovo Thinkpad USB keyboard with my desktop system [ https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/PD005137 ], which resembles the original Thinkpad keyboard.

You might find it an acceptable alternative.
Have you considered meal prepping? It takes me maybe an hour to prep almost a weeks worth of food, which is lunch and dinner.

Well ill have to be honest, i just eat the same thing over and over again. Chicken, Quinoa (or rice if you want) Broccoli, potatoes, lentils.

My digestive system loves it.
My rule is that no job is worth dying for. If the expectations are unreasonable, quit.
I don't see a price anywhere.
I'm sorry, I'll stick to using "you must be an ugly loser" as an argument in future.
This Is How Most of the World Uses Twitter
Yes I do. But I don't go round labelling myself as a "skinnysexual" (macrescosexual?) for liking skinny girls, because that would be silly.
"The things we know ought to be in the public domain so people are fearful only in the measure in which fear is justified and rational."

and

"The trouble with secrecy is that it denies to the government itself the wisdom and the resources of the whole community; of the whole country."

Smart guy. I sure do wish that had worked out for us.
"You can use popcount() to implement a sparse array of length N containing M < N members using bitmap of length N and a packed vector of M elements. A member i is present in the array if bit i is set, so M == popcount(bitmap). The index of member i in the packed vector is the popcount of the bits preceding i.

"

FWIW: These kind of sparse array tricks have been around forever:

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-03/msg01308.html

The original idea for that patch didn't come from philip bagwell's paper, but from some code from the late 80's i saw at IBM.

Thus, i suspect this kind of thing has been around forever
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Oh man, I wish I could up vote this comment more than once. I had never heard about this service but it looks perfect for me. I love to cook but hate grocery shopping or planning meals. I'm starting to get into other services like these. For example, I've started to use Trunk Club for clothing with good results.
The more general version of your argument makes more sense, but I still think you are taking for granted that you can know your users that well, and how much "your user is different than my user" really applies. You don't seem to account for the magnitude of how positively/negatively the user is responding. If 70% of your users rate it a +2 on a scale of -5 to +5, and 30% rate it -4, that would seem to meet your scenario, but is that really a good goal, to be barely tolerable to a "mere" 30%? Maybe I'm being fallacious here since my own argument is that you won't have data that good, but I mean it as an analogy for why I disagree with the idea of knowingly pushing a design that won't work for some users.

Around here at least, it's weird to bake the assumption of a non-large product into your design philosophy. You don't want to have a large, diverse userbase? Is your design actually defining who your userbase is, rather than the other way around? If you want that, we can't stop you, but it seems strange to us.
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Absolutely on point.

What always amazes me about these "super-lemmings" is that they are so unaware that they are being thoroughly exploited. They don't understand basic economics, that if you have zero leisure time, all of your earnings are for nothing.

I'm sure their goals are some variation of: "I'll work 120 hour weeks for 5 years straight to make a seven figure nest egg, then retire off the interest forever."

This single variable optimization is very childish for somebody supposedly schooled in economics. Very few human decisions are based on a single variable, as we are fragile creatures with a large number of physical, emotional and mental needs that need to be satisfied on a daily basis.

Let this be a warning to all the SV hopefuls: don't be a lemming. Don't sacrifice rationality for idealism. There are severe consequences.
Ask HN: What's the best startup-related talk you've heard?
There's already an awesome thread on the best tech talk you've ever heard here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5511466

What's your favorite startup / entrepreneurship talk?
The problem is the idea that the worth of a scientist or their work can somehow be established by a title, prize, medal. Much less that the Nobel Committee members don't conform to the circa-2010s leftist/progressivist political bias.

People are very quick to delegate the responsibility to decide whether things are worth our while to somebody, anybody, lest we actually have to do the evaluating ourselves. Has it won an Oscar? What is the most popular SQL database? Which University has the highest ranking? Has his work been published in a respectable journal? All of these questions are a sub-optimal proxy for "is it the best?" or even a more modest "is it any good?"

But with the reverence to the Nobel Prize, it's maybe even something else. It's the human longing for an ultimate authority, for some priest who would tell us what is good, and what is evil. In that case, I'm glad the author feels frustrated.
> but the design thinking and decomposition strategy required to create a good microservices architecture are the same as those needed to create a well structured monolith

I don't think that this quite captures the utility of something like microservices.

For example, if you split your frontend and backend into separate projects, then the barrier for entanglement becomes so much higher. Instead of just importing some frontend class for the backend, you're loading in stuff from a totally different project and making 2 coordinated patches for them. Doesn't that feel wrong somehow?

The appeal of microservices (much like functional programming) comes from imposing restrictions that make dangerous things harder. Reducing the possibility of breaking your own rules on clean programming.

(Disclaimer: I don't think microservices are worth it for smaller projects though)
The dude was focused on taking over sliver of the meaning of life, a phone and such.

Let Jobs screw Wosniak, take his idea (US Festivals) and pass it off on the music industry, borrow money from Gates, steal from Parc and try to shut down streaming music comapnies while stepping in front of the line for a liver he never used. Not interested.

I like what Google is doing 10000000000000000x better: Google's Company That Wants To Cure Death Now Has Its Own Website http://www.businessinsider.com/calico-website-google-curing-...
Your condescending comment missing the point. Not all of us live in "walkable neighborhoods of low-rise apartments with little shops on the first floor," nor necessarily want to. I live in a single family house in a residential area of Seattle. I'm pretty happy here, but I have to drive 10 minutes to one of a few nearby grocery stores. Grocery shopping is my least favorite thing to do on the planet, so if I can pay a service to do it for me and think up meals for me to cook, I'm sold.
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The packaging is kind of crazy but they aren't "mostly-prepared", they only ship you the ingredients.
Greed is cruel. A lot of us here want to "make it big". Don't do this to yourself or to others on your journey. Behind every perverse way is a devil whispering in your ear, "its okay". Don't listen to that.
I just finished the longest stint of work that I've had in my short career. Probably 80 hours for two weeks. I didn't really keep track.

I have mixed feelings. I got a lot done. The quality of work that happened around 8-10pm was pretty low, but it got done. I did no physical activity and my stress levels were through the roof, which led to some moments of intense mental anguish. On the other hand, I felt a great sense of accomplishment and knowing that I am capable of working that diligently on something is satisfying.

So I understand why bankers work these hours and even defend them. I also understand why someone might feel like killing themselves after working >80 hours for months or years on end.
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As as society, we're all agitated about dinner because we're trained to be by billions in ad spending. Part of that is a self loathing of one of the key elements of the dinner meal -- culture. Nothing is good enough.

My sister is a good example of this. She picked up a crazy, pain in the ass fad diet, has two kids and high powered corporate gig. Her husband is in a similar gig. The kids are in care from 7-7. So yeah, even buying a vegan, glueten free burrito is a pain in the ass. I worry about her, as she's going to have an anxiety attack someday.
Yes! ActiveDesktop! I used to have my tripod based homepage on my ActiveDesktop and I would watch the hit counter everyday (heh, vanity metrics).

Also, Microsoft tried to train everyone about the concept of hyperlinks - Explorer in Win98 used to open files with a single click (and it was highlighted and underlines like hyperlinks too). Too bad the concept didn't catch on.

And in the book The Road Ahead, I recall Bill Gates describing something like Google Docs/Office Online too.

Shame that in their clinginess to IP made them unpopular.
I got over that limitation by converting the code to a data URL, like this:

var blob = new Blob([worker_code_string], {type: 'application/javascript'});
var worker_uri = (window.URL || window.webkitURL).createObjectURL(blob);
var worker = new Worker(worker_uri);

The path to the scripts imported with importScript() must be absolute, though. I add the path by modifying worker_code_string. Alternatively they can be fetched and prepended to the code string (or passed in the array of Blob()).
> he was openly reviled as an abusive monopolist and robber baron with a long reputation for having been mean and abusive to employees.

For some people (like me), he isn't anything more. Jobs and Gates were both rather disruptive people. Gates held the entire computer industry back, technologically, and abused his employees to stash wealth. What he does with ill-gotten gains is well and good from an absolute standpoint (no eye toward history), but the damage he did on his watch, doesn't make up for the relatively short-term altruism he has shown. Saving 10 or 100k lives via water treatment and scholarships or sabotaging technological innovation for decades, is not equivalent to me. It's immoral for Gates to take from others so he could make the decision of where that time and to what end to spend some of his lifetime of hoarded wealth.
yeah. I dont understand what they are basing this on. Largest for testing purposes maybe? There are certainly larger wave machines (thrill rides, wave pools, etc..).
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> The appeal of microservices (much like functional programming) comes from imposing restrictions that make dangerous things harder.

But, don't microservices make safe things harder too? What's the point in simultaneously making both safe and dangerous things harder?
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Where should we start? It's not about the code, it's about your mind combined with the code.

Given data, can you use your mind, combined with the ability to code, to produce returns that out match.

No takers, means opporutnity.
I didn't say it wouldn't take off with the Bittorrent crowd.
Website owners and file sharers are different users with different concerns. Publishers already have CDN's so if they can't undo, this would be a downgrade.
Some of it is the agony of choice, and the effectiveness of marketing.

If my dad woke up in 1975 where he lived in Brooklyn and decided that he wanted a Greek yogurt fresh blueberry and organic granola parfait... Well too fucking bad. Best case, you had a tub of Dannon plain yogurt and a bag of frozen berries.

Now everything is available all of the time, and that hyper-specialization of everything has eliminated cheap stuff that everyone bought to get by. Something like flank steak used to be sold for pennies on the dollar, now I see it prices the same as a strip steak!
'Meh' this comment sequence. If I overreact, it's because these were at the top of comment thread when I caught the post, and (at the risk going Reddit on HN) this is pure Reddit ad hominem BS. Self-proclaimed übermenschen defy gravity in their own minds. Great. Have at it.

Edit: Sorry, should have said 'self-imagined' rather than 'self-proclaimed.' Regardless, login in 20 years and let me know how it's worked out.
It's also not true that Jobs didn't give to charity. The Jobs family has been giving to charity anonymously for more than two decades according to this report.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/laurene-powell-jobs...
I find it fascinating to try to elucidate what exactly that "inner voice" we hear is, and why we consider it less of a hallucination than other "hallucinatory" voices. Because "I" control it? But then who is the I?

Related to meditation/mindfulness, I like to try to "get in front of" the inner voice. If I control it, I should be able to know what words it will use before it "speaks" them, right? I find if direct my attention to my inner voice, I can begin to sense the ideas and words just before they're internally spoken, but that attention tends to disrupt the normal monkey-mind rambling of words, or to cause me to switch to a more internal/less linear and concrete/more wordless mode of thought.

But in the end, other than what seems a relatively illusory sense of "control" over "the" voice, I'm not sure I understand the supposed difference between our internal monologue and "hearing voices", beyond the stigma or negativity of it (but doesn't most people's internal monologue get pretty negative sometimes?)