skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain more please?
How to find the first users for my new app?
Are there any good sites to publish my new app? I'd like to have some foreign people because not everybody in my family and friends have an iPhone. The app is called Lome and is currently in private Beta but will be published soon.

If somebody wants to test the app just send me an Email address and i will send an Test flight invitation.

Facebook Site: https://www.facebook.com/lomeapp

I hope somebody can help me because I think It's a cool app.
> This way in the worst case, the player receives the item in their inventory and isn’t charged immediately. In practice, this has proven to occur very rarely and has been an acceptable tradeoff.

Except that now the player can spend the money twice in the race window...

That kind of sloppiness by game developers might be related to the launch problems they have.
This was talking about scaling backend services successfully and load testing them before launch, not about client side bugs.

Granted, I'm not sure why they included some games with client side problems in their list of examples.
How Introverts Can Make the Most of Conferences
Blame the government. It's not clear that it's legal to run a Bitcoin margin trading system in the U.S. so you have to make do with less-than-ideal offshore outfits.
The thing is, it is possible to distinguish samples of DNA in mixtures (and it can work fairly well). But the technique they used to do so was outdated and no one particularly bothered to find how well it worked. I mentioned in my comment above that their misstep was only applicable to "mixtures" and that DNA analysis as a whole still makes sense.

I would not extrapolate the error in the headline across the entirety of NPR, though. The reporting in this article was factual and (AFAICT) unbiased. Although I believe that "soft sciences" as opposed to "hard sciences" exist, and that NPR can be biased (they have been in the past), I do not believe this discredits NPR entirely. The mistake they are reporting allegedly affects thousands of cases. That statement is unlikely to be a result of bias.

It is very hard to prevent bias at the publishing outlet level (and very easy to introduce it). I recommend that people get their facts from a number of sources and that they listen to every opinion they can find.
If the change that was introduced required creating a new index, it's unlikely that a test would have though to remove the now-outdated index or testing performance if the create-new/remove-old operations were reversed.
Well if someone created an actually good programming language for game development we wouldn't have this problem...
So you've proved it's not 100%. But is it 99%, 90%, 50%, 10%, 1%?

If it's 99.9%, accurate, it still has a use.
If you read the linked post it already describes that everyone and their brother chiming in with their uneducated opinions would not be helpful and would cause the process to be even more inefficient and drawn out than it already is.
Most of the "previously unconnected" are people who know the value of the Internet (It's used pervasively enough that people who don't use it still have an idea of what it is), have the capability of using it, but don't want to. Very few of them are ones who can't afford it. I mean, they exist, sure, but for them the cost of a phone that can handle the internet well is probably the deciding factor, not the data plan prices. These phones cost Rs. 5k+ (cheapest I can think of) and last maybe two years without repair. Basic data plans can come at Rs 100 a month, prepaid data is generally even cheaper. No, the data plan is not the deciding factor here.

Internet.org is probably more likely to move existing Internet users onto the walled garden, because everyone loves free things.
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It's not even just video. I often want to share an article link to another application starting from the FB app's internal web view, and I always have to use safari as an intermediary before being "allowed" (can't believe im Jain this word but his really is what it comes down to) to do so.
You've clearly never been to a big city.
Alternately ... don't gamble on Bitcoin!

Gemini is attempting to be as legit an exchange as is possible. Not sure they're offering shorting yet. OTOH, their volume is laughably tiny; everyone else is strongly suspected of frontrunning and Willybots. It turns out that crooks and scammers see an unregulated environment as a golden opportunity, but not for their customers.
Yeah, here in NYC people prefer to go to places where they wait in line. No line == no good.
Narratives of doom can lead to paralysis. Better to remember that the past is reversible by action, http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/stopTPP#.VhmJ-sT3arV

"Enlisting a core band of labor, environmental, and community allies, the dozen trade-watching stalwarts at Public Citizen divided into five teams and went after the Brobdingnagians of global corporate power ... it's important to spread the story of the progressive coalition's successful confrontation with the Global Goliath.

Its methods and achievements give us a new template for organizing (and winning) future populist challenges to the corporate order. And the breadth, depth, and intensity of this effort show what it will take to forge a real populist movement--multifaceted and with the long-term capacity to pursue our country's deep democratic principles. We can get there if we build on what we learn--and keep pushing."
Thanks for giving me a reply that you've obviously put some thought into. I think your view that government's proper role is to retaliate against predators is probably one shared by very few. Being more of a pragmatist myself, I'd rather narrow in on views and ideological positions that could get more widespread buy-in.

I think you had a good representative line in there, that you think the government's role is to retaliate against predators.

I submit that that is a view shared by very few people, and likely no one
Also, a couple other things...

(1) You might be better off writing a small python script for this. That is one heck of a query you wrote. I used to have a job where I regularly wrote queries like this, and they took up to an hour to run sometimes. When I discovered python I never turned back.

(2) This type of analysis has a flaw, so be careful what conclusions you draw from it. What you are doing describes the data, but it (a) does not identify a causal relationship between keywords and submission scores and (b) would likely hold very little predictive power. If you were to form a new set of data from simulating a random walk process to generate titles and upvote/downvote submissions, this analysis would also yield apparent "hive mind keywords" but obviously there is no underlying causal relationship in that case.

You should look up the topic of "cross validation". The easiest thing you could do and the best "first step" would be to take the reddit data and split it in half (while maintaining consistency obviously) so that you have two groups of data. Then perform your analysis on each group, and compare results.

Another method would be to take repeated random subsamples and perform your analysis. See if you get consistent results.
syntax enable " enable syntax processing

The comment should be enough to describe this one.

Sorry, no it's not. The syntax processing of what? The syntax of the current file loaded? Some sort of commands?
I wrote about a similar topic, but in the context of Ruby rather than Java if people find understanding that easier http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/deoptimizing/
have you considered integrating index statistics into these changes? To take an example from mysql, there is the INDEX_STATISTICS table in information_schema that contains the current number of rows read from the index. Checking this twice with a one minute interval before applying the index drop could have shown that the index was under heavy usage, and might require human intervention.
Stating an unproven negative holds the same value to me as stating an unproven positive. That's a fact and that's exactly what I said.

Stating an unproven negative as if it were a fact is also not the best scientific approach.

(Also, saying something like "the mind has no affect on the body" is a positive statement of fact. Quibbling about the word "no" or "not" is just semantics IMO.)
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There is some interesting content here regarding how older languages were ignored in the process.

History and Spirit of C and C++ @ NDC 2015

https://vimeo.com/132192250
Welcome to America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
Here's the problem right here:

'...threatens to undermine the deep faith people have placed in the technology.

'"And it's not faith they should not have had to begin with," says Keith Inman, who teaches forensic science at California State University, East Bay.'

And that's clearly wrong. Someone without sufficient statistical ability and without any incentive to look for problems dreamed up a protocol and it was accepted (with "deep faith" no less) without justification.

And the academics who should be the most disinterested seekers after truth isn't willing to call this mistaken, but we're supposed to pretend no one could have seen this coming.
Content discovery and curation for RSS were the issues that startups like Technorati focused on. Their failures were partly failures of management. My startup wanted to build its business using Technorati data, circa 2006, but their sales strategy was bizarre. The API was supposedly pay-for-use, and I was happy to pay, but instead of offering an automated system for creating an api account, they asked that you write to their sales team. I wrote to their sales team at least a dozen times, and I tracked down the personal email address of the CEO, but no one ever responded to me. I was convinced then that they could have made a lot of money if they had made it easier for developers like me to give them money. But they made it impossible. And now it seems they gave up on RSS aggregation. They seem to be in a different business now:

http://technorati.com/
Right down to movies credits ending with "like us on facebook" instead of "AOL Keyword My90sMovie".

Media captures the mindset of the time, but mindset changes, orphaning the sentiment.
Combination of C, C++ and a scripting language of choice are adequate and work well. It think business and design problems contribute more.
You might enjoy Chris Ford's talk "Kolmogorov Music" from this year's Strange Loop conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg3XOfioapI

I recommend the whole thing, but he starts talking about infinitely generated music at about 26:30 into the talk, and plays a sample at 31:30

And his source for the talk is at https://github.com/ctford/kolmogorov-music
I would interpret the message as "Don't make fun," not "Don't make fun of Devops." If you have a technical point to make, being sarcastic and curt is one of the worst possible ways to accurately convey that technical point.

Furthermore, if Stripe already uses devops, then your statement adds nothing to the conversation (maybe this follow-up comment would have, but your original comment didn't), and if they don't, then commentary about a practice that wasn't being used is the definition of an off-topic comment. So in either case, your comment is worthy of downvotes, regardless of the merits of its topic.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone downvoted on HN for being opposed to established wisdom with good reason. I've often seen people downvoted who were being opposed to either established or non-established wisdom in a way that doesn't contribute productively to the conversation. They weren't being downvoted for their beliefs, but for their lack of productive contribution to the conversation.
First of all, you should say what this app. is about. What is it about? There is nothing on your Facebook that says it.

Secondly, why would someone send you an email personally for a test? Why not launch the beta and have people test it instead of asking them to send you an email for the invite?

Thirdly, who did you build this app for? Who are your users? I hope you did your homework before building the app. Just my 2cents..
This got killed by a spam filter. Sorry about that. We've marked your account legit so it won't happen again, and you're welcome to repost your question.
I am involved in a startup utilizing this model for auto insurance http://www.jointly.co . Happy to answer any questions
> Notice the "if you are writing unprivileged code" predicate on that paragraph.

> First, what do they mean, "if"? It's not 1998 anymore, and nobody is writing Java applets.*

I think the intent is clarified by an earlier paragraph:

The IPE rules are designed for code to handle untrusted code, including in applet containers and servlet containers, such as JBoss and Tomcat, and any libraries these containers may depend on, such as the Java core libraries. If you are writing Java core library code, or code that is used in a servlet framework, the IPE rules apply to you. If you are writing only desktop applications, applets, or servlets themselves, however, you can ignore the IPE rules.

I think the author, trying to be fair and balanced, is conceding that there is a small amount of code, written by a few people, that is subject to the IPE rules, which complicate the writing of secure code. Does that mean that for the purpose of writing such code, Java is "as insecure" as C? He doesn't say that, or even suggest it; he's merely pointing out that it mostly doesn't matter, since very few of us write such code.

> Java is categorically more secure than C. Notice how the article doesn't open with that statement? I did too

The article is written very coyly and the author doesn't show his hand until the end. I started out tempted to have the same reaction you did, but then I got to this sentence in the third paragraph: We acknowledge that the number of rules for any domain is an interesting but not persuasive metric regarding the domain's security. Then I thought, okay, maybe this isn't as stupid as it looks, let's see where it's going.
Because a macro in C/C++ is just text expansion, the given implementation will evaluate its arguments more than once, which will not be obvious at the "call" site and could have unintended consequences if the expressions have side-effects.
> Now, npr, they always, always, ALWAYS take the side of the underdog, no matter the less favorable actual odds. They put more faith in soft science results than results from scientific studies

Oh give me a break. NPR is a standard mainstream news organization, with a higher journalistic standard than most. They don’t by any means “always always ALWAYS” do anything, except try their best to discover topical news stories and report them fairly. Like other mainstream news organizations, they aim for political neutrality, tend to analyze stories in line with the “consensus”, and shy away from saying anything which deeply challenges the dominant power structure.

You might argue that standards of evidence in science-related journalism are weak across the board, but let’s not pretend that there’s some problem with NPR in particular that wouldn’t equally apply to, e.g., the New York Times, the Associated Press, the BBC, Le Monde, or the Economist.
Show HN: Skod – FTP client for humans in C
That's literally Mozilla's argument.

Mozilla is for blocking tracking, not again using advertisement to monetize content/services.
Do you expect your car insurance company to cover theft when you leave the keys in the ignition?
So great. These are the people who need it the most, and if done well enough, opens the gateways for non sick people to benefit as well.
In the UK, petrol tax is over 1 USD per litre. Tax on new cars is ~30% (10% car tax, and 20% VAT). Plus a couple of hundred pounds per year for road tax.
Good question. This problem affects multiple steps of a NGS-based forensics product: sample collection, DNA extraction, library preparation, the sequencing itself, alignment/assembly, and statistical variant interpretation all have potential for large biases/error modes that could affect the specificity of these types of methods.

One specific answer is that the FBI is gearing up to regulate new devices in this area (https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/lab/biometric-analysis/codis/st...). For example, in this publication (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757157/), they specifically analyze an IonTorrent PGM for use in forensics applications, which we'll probably see them do for various other platforms that come on to the market.

Separately, and outside the forensics realm, there's a trend towards increased regulation of DNA sequencing. For example, NIST has developed/is developing methods to evaluate sequencing platforms: http://www.nist.gov/mml/bbd/dna-022514.cfm. This is relevant to other sequencing applications too (e.g. personalized medicine, somatic tumor profiling, etc). The FDA are also involved here, but more focused on medical applications.

So, I think collectively through both the increase in the forensics community regulating forensics NGS applications, and more broadly the biomedical science/technology community regulating general NGS platforms, we'll see good technology validation standards (at least in the U.S.). But the significantly higher complexity of these systems does introduce more opportunity for error, so it's entirely possible we'll see similar biases in NGS based forensics.
Peto's paradox
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This is an English translation in original metres of the tragic play Faust I of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

In contrast to Faust II it is quite accessible and not too long. Here is one of the most famous verses:

I am the Spirit that Denies!
And justly so: for all things, from the Void
Called forth, deserve to be destroyed:
'Twere better, then, were naught created.
Thus, all which you as Sin have rated,—
Destruction,—aught with Evil blent,—
That is my proper element.

tl;dr and SPOILER (heavily abridged and slightly modified from [1])

Mephistopheles makes a bet with God: he says that he can lure God's favourite human being (Faust), who is striving to learn everything that can be known, away from righteous pursuits.

Faust makes an arrangement with the devil: the devil will do everything that Faust wants while he is here on Earth, and in exchange Faust will serve the devil in Hell. Faust's arrangement is that if he is pleased enough with anything the devil gives him that he wants to stay in that moment forever, then he will die in that moment.

Faust seduces 14 year old Gretchen. Gretchen's mother dies from a sleeping potion, administered by Gretchen to obtain privacy so that Faust could visit her. Gretchen discovers she is pregnant. Gretchen's brother condemns Faust, challenges him and falls dead at the hands of Faust and Mephistopheles. Gretchen drowns her illegitimate child and is convicted of the murder. Faust tries to save Gretchen from death by attempting to free her from prison. Finding that she refuses to escape, Faust and the devil flee the dungeon, while voices from Heaven announce that Gretchen shall be saved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe's_Faust
richmarr makes some great points on this. I am involved in a similar model launching very shortly in the US; http://www.jointly.co
Im happy to answer any related questions
~50% of undergrads at Stanford are female. ~30% of new Stanford computer science majors are female.
Your point #1 is sophistry. They're making things available with the clear expectation of getting ad revenue. If you don't like ads, either don't visit the site or complain when it all goes behind a paywall.

Besides, your argument is essentially “If you want me to pay, use DRM”. I would suggest that this is not a direction we need to try going down again.
Better use:

#define min(X, Y) \
({ typeof (X) x_ = (X); \
typeof (Y) y_ = (Y); \
(x_ < y_) ? x_ : y_; })
>>>$1.13 for writing a verbatim transcript of a 4 minute and 2 second audio clip

What? That's actually pretty good...
Why not check for file existance, instead of try-catch:

if filereadable(expand("~/.vimlocal"))
source ~/.vimlocal
endif
Way to make something that should be philanthropy at its finest into opportunism Mark Zuckerberg. What a dick.
At least in the case of gold, there's a very large retail market with lots of connections to the investment market, and as far as I know, gold is easy & safe to store & refine, so if you sell some scrap gold to a gold dealer they don't have too much trouble refining it into something standardized. The rarer something is, and the more dangerous, the more you're going to pay in costs.
> Certainly, since I don't need the money, I'd much rather earn $3 an hour on Mechanical Turk, sitting at home and picking and choosing what I feel like doing, than $7.25 an hour in a minimum-wage job.

You don't need the money, so the money doesn't come into it. It could read:

> I'd much rather -- sit-- at home and pick-- and choose-- what I feel like doing, than -work- a minimum-wage job.

The important piece here is not what the people who have time to waste are doing with job gamification, but the reasons why some people are investing significant amounts of time in a sub minimum wage system and presumably why this group has a large crossover with those using it as a primary income source.

Complete speculation suggests to me that this group contains a non-trivial amount of people who are somehow "locked in" by transport, mental illness, or caring requirements yet need to earn money and are more than willing to work.

I am very concerned that there are people cornered into living like this at sub-societal standards. This is not ok yet I am unsure as to how to find out if this is the case.
Using this means `ampproject.org` will be able to build a profile of your browsing history to any of the AMP partners' web sites.

I suppose referrer spoofing could help mitigate this, but then I suppose other browser fingerprinting techniques, if any, could counter this. Bottomline, having one server contribute resources to all the pages you visit is a significant threat to privacy.

Just using a competent blocker nowadays easily takes care of the page load speed issues -- which is the advertised benefit of AMP.

Addendum: basically, if you are already using an extension which purpose is to reduce privacy exposure, installing this extension (DesktopAMP) is self-defeating.
This is where stronger protections against this sort of deception would be useful. I'm (sometimes) fine with sponsored articles. I've seen some sites use it well. But it has to be honest, clearly marked.
Feedback: I'm sorry but I don't understand what's this. I see "mapy" in a big box and, when I go to the provided URL I get to the same page but a different word.

This app (I guess it's an app?) would really benefit from some sort of 1-2-3 tutorial.

I'm still interested though. What's this?
How to get every academic paper ever published into an open-access repository
That was my thought as well, but this change was done by an Operator and not a DBA, who tend to be a bit more curious about these kinds of changes.
> you're incorrect about how I read the article

Nonetheless I implore you to read it again.

For example:

Java has more injection rules than C simply because it comes with more subsystems than standard C. For example, SQL injection is possible in both C and Java, but only Java provides a standard library for connecting to SQL databases (the JDBC); hence, only Java has a rule about SQL injection.

-- Acknowledging one of the points you made in your root post. I addressed the other one in a separate reply.
Now comprehensibility, that is indeed a bright sign of code quality.