skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That might work for the ones who are explicit about it, but there are also the subtler ones.

Like the drivers who won't ask but will still give you a low rating if you don't offer a tip. And then you have the ones in the middle, who have tip jars sitting in the middle of their car. Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/uber-driver-complaints-e...

Also, while you or I might complain, a lot of people are either too scared to speak up or just figure that a big company like Uber won't care, so this kind of stuff just goes unreported.
I've been overpaying on my mortgage by 150% all year; that's the money that I would otherwise have saved. Savings account would give me 3% tops; stocks would give me more but not risk-adjusted more. Paying my mortgage off early is 4.2%, risk-free.

Am I being dumb? It's quite possible there's something I've missed.
I'm really confused... The thing of value you are providing as a landlord is housing. How is it skimming? Putting money towards a house/condo instead of investing it in business has an opportunity cost. You lose out on the profits from dividends/interest/cap gains. That has to be replaced. If you charge too much rent, other people will under-cut you. The price is set by available housing. Where is the deceit?

Do you feel you would owe people the freedom to use your property free-of-charge? What about the mortgage payments you endure? The maintenance/upkeep (roofs, siding, carpet, plumbing, electrical, all amortized over the life of the building)? Should this be a loss you take in order to let someone else sleep in your house?

Disclosure of bias: In Seattle where I live, the cost of real estate is higher than the prevailing rents, when you factor mortgage payments, maintenance, utilities, HOA, etc. This makes it a little easier for me to see the equity in pricing between rentals and owned homes. It may be different in your parts of the world.
Some of the comparisons are super dated e.g. the GDP figure they give for Indonesia is 1/3 the 2014 number although Guangdong is growing fast too.

Also too bad this is just GDP comparison not GDP per capita which might more clearly drive home the disparity in lifestyle between the 2/3 of China where people make about as much as people do in Egypt or Mongolia and the 1/3 of China that's more like Argentina or Russia.
Ah, I didn't know this was a thing. I'll tell people I work at Peets from now on. I don't really care if those damn starbucks lovers hate me. They can eat it!
Yeah, remember to not buy that Lamborghini as well.
Google's motto is still "Don't be evil"
The malaise and pessimism might be what makes it intractable. Liberals in the prior generation made sweeping changes, in women's and minority rights, for example.
When I visit with cookies disabled, I see the comments but not the article. So Disqus is working, but the site intentionally breaks without cookies.
Seriously, well put.
Ask HN: Cyber Security Masters or IT Certs?
Hey HN,
I'm looking to advance my primarily developer-background-skills into the space of cyber security. I plan to be on the more pen-testing, exploitation side of things, than learning about the legalities of the field.

Which would prove more valuable for my career? A masters degree in Cyber Security or several leading IT-security certificates like CEH, Cissp, GIAC ?

Thank you
ESA have a similar program for a long time http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technolo...
Vagrant under VirtualBox is a little slow, but taking the time to set up WinNFSd is very worthwhile for real file I/O gains. If you want to pay for VMWare + VMWare's Vagrant plugin, you'll get even better performance.
Savings accounts aren't the only way to achieve that.
Yes, 'do good things' is much closer to a true antithesis of 'don't be evil.' Especially with the singular subject.

'Do the right thing,' with its legal implications, almost sounds like, 'we told you to do the right thing, so if you're in trouble, it's your ass on the line.'
Switching ecosystem is dicey but moving from Mac OS to Windows isn't so much an ecosystem switch though.

Here's my blog post addressing that myth: http://www.kentran.net/2015/10/how-macnix-users-can-stay-pro...
I'm amazed to see all the positivity and comments about what a great guy he is.

I (phone) interviewed with Scribd 2 years ago with Jared and he left a notably bad impression on me. He seemed arrogant and distant and very displeased to be talking to me. He put me on hold a few times and was talking in the background while asking me questions.

I understand that he probably wasn't pleased having to phonescreen a lowly engineer, I was just taken aback at the rudeness and it's stuck with me.

Anyway. I'm taking it as opportunity to recalibrate my initial judgement filter.
No, you can't be excited. You can be wowed by it, though.
> "This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason,"

I'm not a lawyer, but establishing motive is like the most important and basic thing to establish, right?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10351908.
> What do you mean?

All you need are strong whistleblowing protections and mandatory independent investigation of any claims made.

Do you really think of the dozens of people who had to be aware of it none of them would have thought "this is really dodgy" and wanted to push it up the chain?
From the paper:

politicians also show systematic misperceptions, with liberal politicians and conservative politicians both overestimating support for conservative policy positions,
Docker, Agility and Portability Rise to Top of Enterprise Priorities
How about 9
Java and Scala? Who uses that in ML? Python has long been the best language for ML, with some competition from Matlab.
Chinese Hackers Breached LoopPay for Cyber Espionage Through Samsung Pay
Workaround for MPI Problems for Big Simulations
Why not get a prepaid data card?
Using tor on a public wifi is suspicious enough.

If you're okay with disabling http (and all plaintext protocols really) then you're better off just using tor instead of a VPN. Keeps the trail of ip connections more distributed.
If not you want to make sure you disable them during the process of buying that trusted VPN/S.
It actually surprises me how many people keep >$10,000 of cash in their savings account. That would make sense to me if you have a large expense coming up like a house or a car, but if it were me then most of that money would just be sitting there and I'd rather have it somewhere that it's making more money for me.
And with all these MA,MS,MA,PhD in CS and their curriculum,you end up working for someone with a high school diploma that still bosses you around.
I lived in First Hill / Downtown from 2001 until 2011, and from the perspective of an engineer who is into outdoor sports, I can't think of a better place to have lived. I averaged 3 nights a week of skiing at the pass after work during the winters, and 2-3 nights a week of climbing at various locations (Index, 32, 38, Gold Bar) in the summer. There are also dozens of equally accessible mountain biking locations, sailing, fly fishing, hiking, etc. Sure there are more tech bros and self important hipster douches now, but it's still an awesome place to live. (I moved out to the mountains and live in a remote town of about 200 people in North Central WA now.)
Ask HN: How are you managing/encouraging employee referrals?
What's a best practice for motivating your employees to refer their friends? What have you tried that leads to getting great referrals? What incentives are you offering? Are you using any tools?
Author here (and co-founder of SigOpt). I'm happy to answer any questions about this post, our methods, or anything.
Yes, it is pretty clear that you hate some companies. you don't have to show it in every thread.
I breathe a sigh of relief when I see that it's a State Trooper who has pulled me over. I have never had a negative experience with a State Trooper.

One time, I was speeding and got a ticket for it but the cop was really cool about it. I was in Cadiz county Ohio and I was doing 75MPH. I was in a 65 zone and then it dropped to 55 and I failed to notice the sign. A cop clocked me doing 75 and started following me. He waiting until two miles later to pull me over where the speed limit was back at 65MPH. He was very professional about the whole thing and I have no complaints about him.

Unfortunately, not every interaction goes well.

I know that I have these and I suspect that you do too.
Little verbal clues that I drop to indicate to the officer that I know what's going on but I'm not going to say it overtly and give him a reason to pretend to be offended at the suggestion.

A few examples:
When a cop asks "Do you know why I pulled you over?", I say "I have a pretty good idea, officer but I am not going to say it out loud."

"Where are you headed?" gets met with "I'm on my way to obey the law, officer."

They also like to ask "Do you have any drugs in the car?" and my response is always "No more than you do, officer."

When asked for my license, "I need to reach into my right front pocket to retrieve my wallet, officer." and I wait until he indicates that I should reach for it.

I have found these to be responses that deescalate the situation.

They're not direct challenges to his authority so he doesn't feel threatened and they allow me to get through the interaction with my sense of dignity intact. I know what's happening and just as importantly, he now knows that I know.

By chance, is your wife blonde? I have found that I get a more negative reaction if I am in the company of a blonde woman.
BY-SA and GPL: CC closed the chasm in the sharealike/copyleft community
I want it so that I don't have the hassle.

You want to buy a bottle of coke from a vending machine? Most of them don't have card readers.

You want to tip the valet/bellman/maid? Most of them don't have card readers; even if they do, it's still inconvenient to make them dig it out.

Feeling compassionate toward the beggar on the corner? Think he's got a card reader?

Want to pay the babysitter? Does she carry a card reader?

Then there's the other side of risk. Ever had your identity stolen? (I have, though not from a dodgy card reader.) And if you think chip and pin is going to make that impossible, I expect that the crooks will find a way.
If you compare the strength of the gravitational attraction between the proton and electron in a Hydrogen atom to electro magnetic force, then gravity is negligible. Or as my physics teacher once put it, while picking up a book: "There is an entire planet pulling on the book, but I win."

So yes, Gravity is the most important force, but that is a consequence of the existence of positive and negative charges, not of the strength of gravity.
This is really good feedback, landtco. I want to make sure that we don't give off that impression. One of our customers is a digital agency that creates content for companies.

The ideas provided are meant to prompt thinking. Sometimes they provide the actual content, but the majority of the time, they help you research your topic (we include a URL in the paid version and allow you take snippets out of sources really easy). This is especially useful if your writers are not all subject matter experts for niche content.

We also do a lot more than provide ideas. For instance, if you're writing for a lot of companies, they may all have style guidelines that you have to follow. Instead of having to remember all the rules, you can customize Wriber to check for them.
I agree, but I can also see their reasoning. It's much easier to script and abuse an HTTP form than it is to abuse a (presumably more locked down) phone app with access to a closed API.
That's a highly opinionated statement; lots of languages are used for machine learning, Python certainly has no monopoly on the field. There are significant entities using Clojure, Lua and other languages to do interesting things in this arena.
Well, the purpose of Reactions isn't to "provide a dislike button" like a lot of people wanted.

The purpose of reactions is to provide an alternative for people who don't want to click "Like" on stories of tragedy (e.g. someone's loved one dying, someone announcing they have cancer, or even something non-personal like a news article about a mass shooting) because it sounds inappropriate, like "ha ha, I'm enjoying your tragedy!". There are two reasons why this is important:

1. Some people want to exhibit support but don't know what to say, so they're not comfortable commenting. On more positive stories, they'll just hit "Like", but that would feel inappropriate to do on a more negative story, so they don't do anything even though they want to express their support.

2. Facebook's News Feed algorithm uses Likes to determine how articles are sorted in your News Feed. If people don't Like important stories because they feel the word "Like" is inappropriate, then those stories will be downranked because the algorithm doesn't know the stories are supposed to be important.

Reactions solve both by allowing people to both wordlessly express sympathy for and signal-boost stories that they feel would be inappropriate to "Like".
Philosophically, I like the focus on 'doing,' purposefully doing things because they are 'right,' rather than not doing things because they are 'evil.' Spinoza, Deleuze, and a few others are pretty good on this.

Action will always prevail.
This guy looks into the front-end stack

https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/3nkxh3/gemi...
Innovation by some of the world's better engineers.
I can't tell anymore whether it's okay by you for people to make money, buy property, or otherwise be better off than anyone else...

The man worked, earned money, and bought things with it. Not everyone has these opportunities, true. He got lucky. None of this comes to bear on his present situation. Regardless of whether he has rental income, MMM's managed to whittle his spending down to a level affordable by the median household income in the U.S. On that merit alone, I consider his advice worth listening to (if not taken with a grain of salt to my own personal circumstances).
Following that logic, it would make more sense for systemd team to get an own language, something with traits of rust, go and haskell, and port everything to that, at which point it wouldn't be much of a stretch to drop libc and with it all support for "unsafe" languages.
$1.4k is way too much for somewhere that you're still driving to work from. I think a lot of people overestimate the value of a big house. You just end up filling it with junk.

If you get a smaller house - say $1k/month - suddenly you can afford to live very comfortably, and save some as well. $52k is absolutely a lot of money; of course there's always more things to spend it on, and I won't pretend more money isn't very nice, but $52k really should be plenty. Putting it another way: if $52k isn't enough to make you happy, $100k probably won't be either.
This is basically how Datadog works. Unfortunately they do service monitoring rather than exception tracking, but certainly lessons can be learned from them.

Hands down the best designed operations product I've used.
Don't forget to turn off wifi if you want to see the identifiers your provider adds.
Thank you! There's some information retrieval, NLP, semantic analysis, and machine learning going on. All of our stuff is proprietary (4 non-provisional patents are filed).
The cool thing is that you can use many languages to do ML! Once you know the concepts, they can be implemented in dynamically-typed languages like Python, R, or JavaScript, or statically-typed languages like Scala, Java or C++. Functional or imperative, there are many ways to skin the ML cat. We're lucky to have such a diverse set of tools!
Scala is actually getting quite popular for machine learning, as it translates well to parallelization.
Apple is not blocking any ads. iAd makes little money and Apple is letting apps that block iAds into the app store. I know some people will oppose Apple no matter what they do but in this case they and the majority of users are right and you are wrong. People have a negative view of advertising for a very good reason.
There's a theory that poor countries discovering oil tend to get less democratic and more corrupt since the elite doesn't need most of the citizens for wealth extraction anymore - they just need to have enough mercenaries to guard the oil fields.
A week of rejected job applications has me wondering if I'm not a good developer at all...
Why can't you just have a generic face and a series of mutations for each of the reactions, and then average among the mutations?

It wouldn't really work, but it might be one of those features that drives more engagement because it's "unintentionally" funny.
We're always looking to expand the team, though our team is small so we may not always have open roles.

That said feel free to throw your hat into the ring:

https://www.getsentry.com/jobs/
Longform: How a tiny Japanese fishing town is rebuilding from the 2011 tsunami
Sounds the ideas were good but too far ahead of their time - the infrastructure was not yet there.
Of note, we're actively hiring someone to come help us expand our mobile offering. If you're in SF (or interested in being) and like what we're doing, take a peek:

https://www.getsentry.com/jobs/00790FFCE6/
I wrote a small Heroku app a while back for viewing request headers: http://rocky-brook-3183.herokuapp.com/

Source for the site is here if you're interested: https://github.com/wyattjoh/HeadersCheck
I showed leaked NSA slides at Purdue, so feds demanded the video be destroyed
Perforce killed my productivity. Again
Not really, it demonstrates that displaying random snippets of code as some kind of portfolio is maybe not a great idea. I didn't think I needed to spell it out.
UBeam Finally Reveals the Secret of How Its Wireless Charging Phone Case Works
If rebellion or change is what you really want to affect

No, not in the least. Leave me and mine alone, and you'll be perfectly safe from us. Sure, I'd like for my brethren in California, Hawaii and the northeast (well, if you count Maryland and D.C. as part of that) to be less oppressed, but they can vote with their feet. As I did when I left Massachusetts.

Gandhi won against an exhausted, civilized empire. Change the antagonist and he's a forgotten anonymous corpse.
I think it would make more sense to aggregate the count of all reactions, then.
The last time I had to go shopping during a blackout, the few places I went to that were open were still taking credit cards. Maybe it's just a regional thing.
.... aaaand Facebook's MySpacification begins.
youtube-dl actually supports searches, as well.
At least in CA, waiters still get full minimum wage.
How is this different from GNU envsubst (in the gettext package)?
The Three Basic Rules for a Good Design
> The EB-1 quota is for outstanding researchers with truly exceptional skills, and who have made significant impact in their field of research

Its not. (Disclaimer:I have an EB-1)
FWIW, as a researcher at a university, it is only my decision whether I apply for a patent or not. In contrast, patenting inventions is an inherent part of the research workflow at research labs such as MSR, Yahoo Research, etc.
youtube-dl already defaults to downloading the best quality audio; you only need that line if you want to force a particular format.
One big earthquake in SF and the Valley will start to see the value of cash.
millions in legal fees :(

Can they sue Vandersloot for legal fees? If this was a small magazine or newspaper, they wouldn't have had the resources to fight back and would've lost
He's not targeting engineers. He's targeting yuppies, fraternity punks, late-night bar hoppers, Yelp-adoring foodies, crowds of drunk people in baseball caps with money to burn standing in line for hipster restaurants and nightclubs, shouting and pissing in the streets at 2am. That's the crowd that invades your city like a plague when it becomes a trendy destination.
It is believed that most of the relevant guns were not surrendered. If you want the putative benefits, mostly ignoring them is not an option.
Will there be internship opportunities at spotify for the summer of 2016?
> I'm wondering what the reasoning is behind suggesting I upload source artifacts to you as part of a release. The blog post even specifically calls out Go, which is what the majority of our application is written in. So from my understanding, uploading artifacts would allow the Sentry UI to show me exactly where we did a Sentry Dump?

For Go, you ultimately compile your application into a binary. This binary doesn't have the source code, but it does retain references to the filenames and line number in the binary's metadata. What this means is, if you send along a stack trace to us, we can tell you that information, but we can't show you what the actual line of code is, or what the surrounding code is. By uploading the sources to us explicitly, then baking in the release version into your compiled binary, we can map those up and show you a stack trace that includes source code. This is relatively the same idea with any modern JavaScript. Typically a project is compiled down into a minified version, or run through a transpiler, etc, and the original sources aren't accessible to us. So it's then necessary to upload to us so we can map things up.

> On the same topic, our current deploy flow makes it a bit hard to upload specific code changes per release. It would be great if Sentry could get the code from Github directly (assuming that I login and give you access to the repo)

We have plans for VCS integrations in the future (GitHub included) that would likely work with releases so we can just use the working directory at a current sha.
Yes and no: it counts as a "view", but it doesn't show ads.
Wow that's great--probably the most interesting news from AWS invent yet! I bet a lot of small little AWS instances for simple websites etc. could just turn into a handful of Lambda jobs & functions. I was playing with using the API gateway + Lambda functions to serve as little webhook receivers and am really impressed with the Lambda service.
It's on page 73, section 4, subsection i) of the terms of service.
Internet sarcastic comments are much better when people don't add /s at the end.
Feeling compassionate toward the beggar on the corner? Think he's got a card reader?

I don't panhandle, but I am homeless. In fact, I have a PayPal account. IIRC, I could get a card reader from them if I wanted it (though, in practice, I might need a better phone than I currently have to make that work).

Although I am posting this merely because it strikes me as humorous, it isn't crazy to think beggars may soon have card readers, at least some of them.

I carry small amounts of cash (in part to print e-gift cards at the library) and do as much as possible via debit card/paypal/online payments/etc.
Ads considerably degrade the browsing experience on mobile.

Most ads used to be in Flash which was blocked by default since not working on Ios, then everything turned into big and slow HTML5 stunts to replace Flash, which has the exact same effect as Flash : battery drain,... .

Apple, on the other hand controls the in-app anything experience.

Not saying to it's right , just saying that how Apple justifies its strategy.
This is fantastic. For deep learning in Java or Scala to feed feature vectors into Xyclade, we built http://deeplearning4j.org
Tipping through the app is much more convenient because I rarely carry cash.

And your point is kinda negated by the fact that Lyft usually pays more than Uber.
But the cab company did adopt this approach! Already in 2008!

I literally have like 5 different taxi apps here offering me paying via app, rating, calling a taxi per button press, etc.

And they existed before uber did.
Nice to see this appearing on HN, this is shaping up to be a great interview serie!

For info, the first one was with Jeff Rizzo : http://beastie.pl/deweloperzy-netbsd-7-0-jeff-rizzo/
I look forward to Facebook Actions. Instead of just poking imagine what else you can do..