skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to minimize the awesomeness of the YCR proposal, but $10m isn't really very much in the scheme of research. NIH alone funds to order of $25bil a year in science research. Public-private funding schemes probably fund an order of magnitude more every year.

$10m is pretty much just enough to fund one reasonably sized group, doing advanced research, for about a year to a year and half. Seems to me that Sam is hedging so YCR can do its first round in about a year and get a bigger ask by pointing to the starting groups achievements.
This seems like one of those things to me, where all of us know about the phenomenon, but Ringelmann (in this case) got to name it.
I'm not sure how that helps fix the HA/FT clustering setup?

I can hurl more data at the system and have it go unavailable during a partition or lose updates when it heals?
AWS is the employee that sits there and learns the industry and every inch of the system you have for 5 years, and then one day you wake up and they're not at work. You read the news that morning and they just got 50 million to do their version of your company, and way better than yours.

Or they start getting older, don't keep the skills sharp enough, and die off. Now you've got to painfully convince them to help you train a new employee to keep the show running, or pay 10 fold your savings hiring the smartest in the world to fix it. But the systems too big, and by the time it's on the "latest and most popular cloud architecture with proprietary systems", you're irrelevant.

But you're right, they make the companies current CEO/CTO look good by cutting costs in the beginning, so who cares right?
I can respond to your comment here. There is no right or wrong way for me to do so. You and others can still evaluate my comment and decide its worth.

Yoi can even score it by counting the upvotes and downvotes.

Does that make HN's scoring system invalid?
You're making the same exact mistake that the guy who decided ant should use xml as a programming language did.

As soon as you need loops, conditionals, subroutines -- which are all very common when writing tests -- you're making up your own language with horrible warts.
My best guess is that's not the actual layout, it was just "simplified" for the video.
Well, it's a very visible minority on the front page.
It can, using either basic auth or by scripting submission of login forms.

Probably obvious, but you should avoid doing it from one of the public instances. Building your own private instance is as easy as spinning up a prepared EC2 image, or if you have a couple of hours to fiddle about you can do it from scratch on any Windows machine. Details here:

https://sites.google.com/a/webpagetest.org/docs/private-inst...
One of the very rare cases where an infographic outperforms text:

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/10/14/understanding-...
A couple thoughts (as someone who has spent a significant chunk of time using Sibelius):

1. The keypad / MIDI keyboard input method is definitely efficient once you're good at it, but I would say it's much harder to get used to than just drawing the notation. Drawing a dotted quarter note is natural for anyone who has taken music theory. Pressing 4 (or whatever) for quarter note, then '.' for dot, then pressing a key on a different keyboard for the pitch -- it's just a pretty intricate set of steps to go through for something that would just be a few intuitive strokes of a pen.

2. A MIDI keyboard takes up noticeable space. Even though I do a fair amount of Sibelius, I don't have one in my music room -- I only have a real piano. You also need to make sure your setup has the MIDI keyboard right next to your computer, which isn't super convenient.

It's true, I'm not a professional in the sense that you mean. But I am a serious musician doing real work (some local groups perform my work, and I work on editions of old music too). If it's well executed, I'd much prefer working this way to the existing options.
Congrats and all the best with the book! Happy to participate and hope it can help get my experiences with Reddit, Hipmunk and beyond into as many people's heads as possible.
I then elaborated:

> (which is usually then handwaved away with the wisdom-of-crowds fallacy).

If either markets were perfect or centralized control (in this case via democracy) were perfect, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
My question is, if they located the servers, do they have the private keys for those affected? And will they open a system to help those people?

A friend of my mom's, a person who is not computer-savvy at all, lost the photos of her recently-deceased mother to this malware. She couldn't pay the ransom.
> an odd sense of entitlement as if Reddit should run every idea, change or whatever by their users for approval

I think that's because Reddit has fostered the idea that its users form real communities and it has let them self-administer to a large extent. In modern society, that comes with expectations of something like a democratic process. People then get angry when Reddit violates those expectations and acts like an autocratic corporation.
AI is not really lacking for funding and research activity right now.
speed is not meth
He knew that something wasn't quite bulletproof with his "encryption" scheme. He left a comment: "Won't stop 1337 hackers".
Then it would no longer be free.
Microlending Peer to Peer and Back Again
And when duly constituted authority orders it. Random teams of doctors don't get to decide to order it, even if they're willing to take on the cost of compensation and insurance.

And, in the actual situation we're talking about, those doing it did not take on the cost of compensation and insurance.
Two URLs are optional. You can make one page that is AMP valid and point link rel=canonical to self. This is still useful as it helps avoid multiple URLs for the same resources a.l.a. www.foo.com vs foo.com and ?meaningless_parameter.
The documentation for QuickSight mentions that Tableau can connect to SPICE as well.
https://experiment.com/ - Not sure what their numbers are though.
I do Node.js stuff in Visual Studio. It's better than anything.
Which only makes an organization like YC Research even more valuable of an experiment.
MITx courses as a new pathway to MIT masters degree program
I honestly can't understand what use patterns the article is suggesting.

"During these hours, the report argues, the battery could be “dispatched” elsewhere to helps smooth supply and demand on the grid"

Do they actually mean moving the battery, or something else?
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Ask HN: Any recommendations for selling hardware in developing markets?
We produce a satellite data receiver (https://outernet.is/lighthouse). It's a wifi warmspot that provides access to locally stored content, which is updated by a free-to-receive DVB-S/2 data stream.

Outernet (https://outernet.is) is primarily meant for places where connectivity does not exist or is just too expensive for schools or end users. Since our target market is mostly offline and in developing markets, what is the best way to make contact with potential resellers and distributors? Are you aware of any proven channels?

One of the values that we offer to resellers is the ability to upload their own content, which would then be shared with all of their potential customers. We want to the local content experience to be solved by those that are closest to the end user.
My first 100km run – had time to think
In my (limited) experience social justice runs counter to true justice with such frequency that to claim it represents compassion is to throw out the concept of fairness altogether.
> IMO, just bump major version every time compat breaks.

Some projects do this but most do not. The reason is that if you're using a project that's on version 3 and 6 months from now it's on version 12 that's going to make you think twice about using it. No one wants to go through upgrade pains constantly.

The "hack" is to never go 1.0 to hide how often you are really breaking APIs.

In reality breaking APIs should be a big freaking deal. You shouldn't do it often. You shouldn't do it just because you realized some other API might be slightly nicer. Once the shine wears off people want stability.
Determining if paths are Hamiltonian in C++
I find it amazing that nobody can seem to outcompete Ticketmaster. It can't really take $15 per ticket to serve up 5 webpages. Are the costs of entry really that high? It doesn't seem like selling tickets should be that hard. How can a simple middleman maintain such a massive profit margin for so long?
Fantastic, power users dominating over everyone else.

Fantastic, another tool for the perpetually offended to abuse en masse.

Doubly broken.
>and that the emotional state of a listener is the responsibility of the speaker

Reddit is not a nonprofit Free Speech machine. It's a business. So, yes, the emotional state of the listener -- in so far as that emotional state (positive or negative) is a determiner of traffic and therefore returns for investors -- is the responsiblity of the speaker (the website itself).

I thought by now we had shed our idealism about platforms and corporations. We've mocked Google's now-defunct "Don't Be Evil" for years. The idea that Facebook is just a way for distant friends to stay connected has been subsumed by the reality that it's actually a privacy nightmare. But the myth that Reddit exists as a bastion of free speech at all costs has somehow held firm. It's puzzling.
Please describe any benefit to the continued existence of polio in the wild (note that we have contained cultures for scientific study.)

Then we can begin to weigh it against the benefits of eradicating it, like the millions of lives saved and ripple effects from that.
Why We Mostly Stopped Messing with Shakespeare's Language
> Why do you care about an imaginary number?

It's not imaginary, it represents stability. By not going 1.0 you are saying it is alpha software and should not be used.

Not everyone has Facebook's budget or resources to upgrade every 2 months.
Actually, the documentation has been updated, but on the development branch (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/dev/python3/). I was just pointing out that what you were linking to was out of date.
Exclusive contracts? Owning the venues?
Myth? The site founders are on record in multiple places calling the site explicitly a place for free speech.
Kind of ironic: "To make your website faster, please include this 140KB JavaScript file."

Thanks, but no thanks.
Ars coverage of the story: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/pandor...
Volkswagen – detects when your tests are being run in CI, and makes them pass
> abolish the security industry

Good. Then I can focus on building valuable stuff without having to worry about security.
Twitter Thanks You for Your Service
shitredditsays engages in open active vote manipulation, which is against the rules.
I tend to agree. There are far too many purely static sites that just don't need Javascript.

Here's a fun site of mine which has no Javascript, other than in iframes which display video hosted elsewhere.[1] (If Firefox would play HTML5 video from a plain .MP4 file, I'd get rid of that, too.)

[1] http://www.aetherltd.com
<img> and <video> are also prohibited in favor of mandatory custom elements like <amp-img> and <amp-video>.

...and vendor-specific tags like <amp-youtube>, <amp-twitter>, and <amp-instagram>, the library of which is controlled by a single gatekeeper.

There must be less invasive ways of achieving the same goal.
typo in the article's headline: Strucutred -> Structured
8 tips to get over travel anxiety
Some chat service I use does this and it's confusing because I don't expect it. I check the last message to see if there's anything new, not necessarily the scrollback.

Basically, it triggers an annoying O(N) operation whenever it happens :)
It's jargon, it just means using the energy, with some implication of centralized management. So as an example, natural gas peak load plants are dispatched when there is a sudden increase in demand.
Ok, so, on the one hand, I wasn't trying to be condescending, which is why I didn't say 'but' after 'cute' - the 'cute' was a genuine compliment.

On the other hand, the thread started off with "I've already got stuff in perl that does X and it looks like I'd have to write it myself in ruby", then somebody replied with "this already works in ruby, just use alias" then when I provided an example that wouldn't you showed me how to write a library to support said example in ruby.

So I now know much better 'how to write it myself in ruby', and I am genuinely grateful for that, but it still wasn't an answer to the original question so 'cute' seemed like the appropriate compliment.

The actual answer I was looking for seems to be "people who're bad at ruby will always suggest alias, prepend will handle some cases, and then you can write not that much code if you want the other cases, but there's no perl5+Moo quality experience to be had without implementing at least part of it yourself".

Which is totally fine by me, I just need to talk somebody better than me at ruby into implementing it and then try and convince everybody to upgrade :D

(also, if you have a suggestion for a word other than cute that would express "really pretty even though it doesn't answer the question" while seeming positive rather than negative about this fact I'm all ears)
I'm not sure that's possible. The only other option that comes to mind is asking people what their interests are and subscribing them to those rather than the same set for everyone, but then all you've done is create de-facto, topic-based defaults.

You could show people random content, but that's both not PC from a business standpoint and would lead to the outright destruction of smaller communities.
I would actually guess Spotify is even more popular. Pandora is AFAIR not even in Europe.
Cuba has been technically "connected" for years. The question is how widespread internet data connections are among people in the country. When I've been there Internet access has been virtually non-existent and when I did try to access the internet over wifi, the bandwidth was abysmal. (i.e. < dialup)
And I don't want to hang around cry babies. I hope reddit stays the same so people like you go away.
I'm curious which country you're from.

Googling the term pulls up a few the wiki article for verbal abuse, but even that article makes no mention of violence. The closes you can find are a few blog opinion pieces where people are doing exactly what you're doing, attempting to equate verbal abuse with physical violence.

I would be interested in learning more.

As for your response, you don't get to tell me how I react to people. Blunt, but true.
Leaving to do something interesting in industry is a time-honored tradition, particularly at the fancier schools.

Academia is but one fruitful track for a smart grad student.
No one at YC thinks that ideas are useless.

Perhaps you're thinking of this [PG, 2005]: Actually, startup ideas are not million dollar ideas, and here's an experiment you can try to prove it: just try to sell one. Nothing evolves faster than markets. The fact that there's no market for startup ideas suggests there's no demand. Which means, in the narrow sense of the word, that startup ideas are worthless.

This is specific to startup business ideas, not scientific ideas. And worthless != useless. Worthless (in the narrow sense) means you can't sell it for a lot of money.
In Defense of Low Fat
>One downside is that hot reloading doesn't work with it yet (AFAIK). Hopefully that will come soon now that 0.14 is officially released. (And I believe Dan is/was on vacation.)

There's work in progress on this, and I'll try to release an update to React Transform & friends handling this next week.

Might take longer to retrofit this into React Hot Loader but if there's enough demand I can try doing this too.
In addition to others suggesting by total time, I'd add that they are in a lot of embedded devices: cars, tvs, even receivers.
>publicly shaming fat people is violent speech.

I don't dig generic jabs at fat people since it's in bad taste (calling out fat people that try to say being fat is healthy is another thing entirely) but I'm not sure how it's "violent".

To go off on a bit of a tangent: Don't get me wrong, I know the power words have since I was bullied for several years. I also understand how much of a struggle weight loss can be. But part of the reason that those words are so powerfully negative for a fat person is because of the shame they already feel for being obese, unhealthy and having no self control.

Besides the rare medical exception these people are in a bad place mentally and physically. Hiding external confirmation of what you already know about yourself doesn't do anything but reenforce the downward spiral of self destruction.
Introducing Toptal Designers
Is there any indication that it is?
From WAF doc: "AWS WAF is a web application firewall that lets you monitor the HTTP and HTTPS requests that are
forwarded to Amazon CloudFront and lets you control access to your content. Based on conditions that
you specify, such as the IP addresses that requests originate from or the values of query strings, CloudFront
responds to requests either with the requested content or with an HTTP 403 status code (Forbidden).
You can also configure CloudFront to return a custom error page when a request is blocked."

So, yeah, it's a CLoudfront feature.
And the data size limit is excel is stifling. 1m maximum rows? That can get filled very quickly.
They only care if you can make it work on channels it shouldn't, they don't care whether the code that controls it is open or not.

But yes, an open processor could help with a lot of open networking problems, even though it seems more like an engineering matter than research per se.
Also in the future this pattern will be faster thanks to React not having to maintain an internal instance for such components.

(How's that different from just a function? It shows up as separate thing in React DevTools, it can have default props or, in the future, shouldComponentUpdate (or built-in memoization strategy?), you can potentially later change it to be stateful without rewriting consuming code, etc)
Nor do they have the obligation to protect the delicate sensibilities of any person on the internet who feels "triggered".

The conflict here is that most of Reddit's users want Reddit to support free speech, while advertisers don't want to risk their brands by juxtaposing them with hate speech. Of course it's not about "rights", but Reddit's struggles are largely motivated by the fact that they're trying to keep everyone happy when that is an impossibility.
They mentioned in the keynote they are using a kindle as the display; given that Amazon sells refurbished kindles for $65, I imagine the actual cost is a good bit lower. They also mentioned that the kindle also functions as the user-interface, so it's more than a glorified shipping label.
Harvard's prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates
They are actually Live Nation which before the merger was a spin off from Clear Channel. So they have all kinds of legacy venue usage rights and exclusive contracts. It's so incredibly blatantly anti-competitive and yet the merger was allowed: Google, Microsoft, Intel, piles of companies were against the merger.

So it's not amazing at all. And then it's perfect for many entertainers because they can use Ticketmaster as a scapegoat for such high ticket prices and exclusivity.
There's repeated mention of academia being broken due to issues such as politics, and mis-aligned interests between researchers and their departments. What have been the changes over time in Academia that led to this?
The Useless URL Enlarger
Data analysts remember when Excel's row max was 65,536.
A comprehensive map of human poop on San Francisco sidewalks
When they can immediately turn around and be welcomed into the arms of a group that doesn't call them names and agrees with them, what do you think the outcome of that is going to be?

What's more, you can't do anything about the fact that this can happen without making some very ugly sacrifices.

What we're doing now does. not. work.
I think your only chance is to start over.
Show HN: 5 months I was collecting best marketing hacks. This is what I got
I spent 5 months collecting the most effective growth hacks which actually worked for startups and which inspired me to test them for my own. I read books, blogs, articles, videos, podcasts, comments and compiled the best material into a newsletter which grew to 17K+ subscribers through invite only over this time period.

Today I'm giving away all 101 of them. You can download the full list of TOP 101 growth/marketing hacks ebook today for FREE from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0160MS328

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1. Leveraging dead competitors
Visit AlternativeTo.net to find a huge list of yourcompetitors.
Check dead links using browser plugins (Check My Links, Domain Hunter) OR upload a list of URLs to Xenu or Screaming Frog.
Google "link: deadcompetitor.com".
Contact every website owner to alert them of a broken link and offer a relevant link of yours to replace it.
Source: http://webris.org/broken-link-building

2. Parasite SEO (white hat)
Mix guest posting + SEO. Authoritative websites can rank for highly competitive keywords much quicker than your low authority site.
This article was published on Business News Daily. After only a few weeks, it ranked on page 1 (and still does) for the term ‘app maker’ (searched for over 22,000 times per month), amongst a number of other competitive keywords.
Source: http://www.matthewbarby.com/seo-campaign-blueprint/

3. Turn LinkedIn contacts into a list of emails
There is a way to download all your LinkedIn contacts — names, email addresses, job titles, and companies — into a spreadsheet: https://www.linkedin.com/people/export-settings
Yeah, it`s that simple :).
Source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/this-is-how-to-get-your-linkedin-contacts-email-addresses
Tado Scores Further $17.1M as Smart Thermostat Market Heats Up
4. Hack Facebook ads
First gain “Social proof” (~1000 likes) from Low demand countries (India, Philippines) for $0.005 per post engagement. Then switch target to the high demand, high competition countries.
Get 64% less cost per engagement, 920% increase click-through rate. Source: www.upwordsem.com
Source: http://www.upwordsem.com/how-to-hack-facebook-ads-down-to-0-...

5. Increase YouTube subscribers by 400%
Simply add "?sub_confirmation=1" at the end of your Youtube channel URL. For example: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRHQnN47mcRG7fFr-srUPbQ/fee... (works only on desktops)
Link all users from all your videos, website, tweets, blog to this URL. Everybody will see a popup "Confirm Channel Subscription", which increases YouTube subscribers by 400%.
Source: https://blog.gleam.io/grow-youtube/
> but Facebook

People listen to music for hours each day, even while working. They aren't using Facebook like that.
The U.S. dietary guidelines discussed in that article encourage more dairy (but low-fat, not high fat) and "Increase seafood intake by replacing some meat or
poultry with seafood." The also encourage us to "Reduce intake of refined grains and replace some
refined grains with whole grains."

http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2010/dietaryguideline...

Painting them as pushing vegan/vegetarian eating or increased carb consumption doesn't match the facts.
This looks like a political troll. Please don't do that here.
Saying Goodbye
And yet here they are, "censoring" their site to rid itself of content that makes advertisers recoil. Corporate myths exist because the organization benefits from their propogation. Reddit likes to tout itself as a bastion of free speech, but all of us can read the writing on the wall: unfettered free speech is unpalatable to the groups that fund such platforms.