skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not as easy as it seems. Many systems have already been devised, but fake reviewers adapt; it's an arms race, just like with email spam. Bing Liu, who has done work on sentiment analysis, has written about some techniques dealing with spam/fakes on review sites. Here's just a sampling of popular methods and flags:

- Duplicate checking (same user on different products with similar reviews, for example)

- Meta-reviews ("was this review helpful?" - can also be gamed)

- user rating averages (all highs or all lows sometimes considered a flag)

- ratio of "first product reviews" to total reviews on a per-product basis

- "Super-reviewer" status (questionable, but often a flag)

- Products with low sales ranks

- Review ring detection (IP block, post times, etc.)

- Early reviews

- Users who give high ranks, while most other reviews are low

- Positive reviews for one brand's products, and negative for others

- "Verified" purchases

A lot of these already have countermeasures, and fake reviews have already come up with counter-counter measures (like review-time staggering, using multiple IP blocks, shipping empty boxes to defeat verified purchases, etc.)

The "how to know what's trustworthy?" is the million dollar question, and it has many answers that happen to change over time. Not easy to solve.
One step conversion of an image to gcode for Makerbot & Reprap 3D Printers
would like to see some benchmark vs Redshift, though the latter is a blackbox
Yes. Even part of my pretty standard CS curriculum included electrical engineering (breadboard to ALU), assembly (self hosted interpreter/vm) and language theory (C clone) courses. With a bit of time I or my classmates could build a computer from scratch, but the relevancy of this to my day job of many years as web and scientific programmer has been zero to minor. I think it gives me enough insight into many phenomena, but the lower, the less it is relative to making stuff actually happen for people. We are building up.
I meant generic X is the new Y; "goto" was just a nod to Dijkstra's.
I'm calling these classifications "reductive."

Unfortunately, this kind of structuralist analysis can be useful but it's limited. In contemporary critical analysis, it has been supplanted by (or augmented with) more useful techniques. These techniques are more capable of drawing meaningful distinctions between structurally similar works.

For example, this simplistic thematic classification will miss a lot of the meaning in surrealist or absurdist works like those of Jodorowsky (or even a contemporary BBC3 comedy like _Snuff Box_!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_Box_(TV_series)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky
> it was incredibly hard anywhere in the world (maybe I don't know where to look)

I was never asked for any sort of ID to get a SIM in Mexico or Vietnam. In any case, retail mobile store workers don't care enough / can't tell a real document from a fake one.
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You know what I meant on the 50.1 thing, so I'm not going to get into that.

I'm not saying the system we have now is the best one or that it can't be changed. I was just responding to the parent's question of whether a small single issue party could gain traction in the US like the Pirate Party has in other places. Our current system makes that nearly impossible at the national level.
How do you even get funded without a process that is fully tested?

A fully tested process? Surely you jest. Hell, you don't even need to have an idea to get funded[1].

[1]http://old.ycombinator.com/noidea.html
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Upgrading to a Nexus 6 made vast improvements to my T-Mobile coverage as it supported the new bands.
iOS 9.1 is causing major performance issues on the iPhone 6s? I assume the recommendation is to stick with 9.0.2 at this point then?
While I was still at HP, they bought a company called Autonomy for 11B USD.[1][2] No one ever knew what they did. HP wrote off 9B USD in 2012.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Autonomy

2. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-mysterious-case-of-hewl...
I've worked at successful companies which did a terrible job at one or another of those, and the customers didn't complain (or die). You can get away with a lot more in software than you can in other disciplines, because in software you can incorporate negative feedback relatively quickly.
In my experiences, T-Mobile is much better to have when you have both. If you're somewhere where you're just hoping for anything at all, Sprint wins. T-Mobile has fast data, but falls off quickly outside dense areas. I find the two complementary in a way that gives Fi a powerful synergy.

My reference areas are Maryland,DC,VA (through NOVA and down to farming areas around Charlottesville); a weeklong road trip from Phoenix to Los Angeles with Las Vegas and Grand Canyon stops; and a month-long road trip going through VA-MD-PA-NY-NY-OH-IN-IL-WI-MN-SD-WY-MT-ID-WA-OR-CA.
It would be an important case. As you note it's on the same bus and meaningless to "be able" to inspect the car control system without looking at it.

The solution is for people to vote with their buys.
A step closer to quantum communications
As a foreign founder who went through the complexity of setting up "legacy" hr/benefits/etc in another country, Zenefits was a huge aid in navigating the bureaucratic nightmare in the US.
It's the best HR tool I've experienced and free. That's a pretty good combination.
Is it really news? Verbose food labels break down Carbs further into fiber/sugar/polysaccharides for a reason.

That sugar vs. starches makes a difference is hardly news either if you just take a look at glycemic index/insulin response.

And that the kind of fatty acids make a difference in fats is also an aspect going beyond macronutrient breakdown. So really, "fits your macros" has never been sufficient.

Making a distinction between glucose and fructose has been more controversial and it's good to see it studied more.
Absolutely agree. Any established CRO or pharma treats surveillance and [especially] post-marketing product safety & adverse event reporting as mission critical activities. The kind where, if you don't do it properly and follow the rules, you get shut down.

(My wife has worked in this area for the past ˜15 years, in both clinical & post-marketing environments. It's serious business.)
Law firm bosses envision Watson-type computers replacing young lawyers
That's an excellent question ... my experience over several years helping campaign for a party that wanted to eliminate progressive taxation was that:

* people are terrified of fundamental changes to systems that provide their 'benefits', even if the existing system involves literal slavery

* people get really, really angry when you mention the 'slavery' thing; they don't seem to like really thinking about how the sausage is made, so to speak

* slavery is easy when quality of life is so good; it's easy to get bent out of shape when 40% of your income is being taken when your income is diddley-squat; when you're living like a 1700s king already, meh

* socialists have entirely and completely conflated the concept of a just society with compulsory taxation and state welfarism that it is almost impossible to get people to even acknowledge that the two can be considered separately

* self-described capitalists are often only capitalists when it suits them, otherwise they are often happy to suckle from the State tit to a far more egregious extent than any 'welfare queen' ever did

I don't do politics any more.
> Not really available on Android. Google is using the "not interfering with other apps" excuse to ban all adblockers from the store.

Good thing Android isn't iOS and you can install whatever the hell you want, whether it's on the Play Store or not.
Basically its going to be a big spotlight on how the VC community is a gated community who are all about playing the insider game.
ACLU: Teen ban at Birmingham theater is wrong
Ask HN: Are there any HN clones for business related things?
HN is awesome for reading and getting to know about technology, science and software. Starting from very low level till huge investments for software companies, are there any similar thing for business related topics, use cases?
It's a pretty specific skill set required, plus not all VLC developers will need these languages supported. When you have that kind of feature and no corporate backing, it's going to take a while.
I'm tempted to argue that the SV model of tech startups essentially prohibits the creation of any functional biotech or medical device company. The compliance and process parts require real industry experience senior expertise, and time. like you said, a cavalier attitude is completely inappropriate and will never pass scrutiny.

I worked for a medical device manufacturer for about 15 years. 21 CFR 11, and the test & quality tracking requirements, make it extremely hard to pivot quickly.
Why not? It's not hard to set up streaming filters that count how many people visit a certain mall in realtime without ever persisting the raw location stream.
Definitely a bug. Are/were you on 0.4.6? Someone else mentioned this being a result of µblock, but even with that installed, it should now be working correctly.
Autonomy did a lot of hand waving ...

but at the end, they did a decent job specializing in electronic records management & e-discovery / litigation holds. Not nearly enough to justify the ludicrous price, but at the time HP was desperate for something to help them compete in any sort of "big data" market.
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No, not really.

The requirement to work is a given, at least for the foreseeable future. Humans need wealth to live: food, water, shelter, clothing. We need wealth even more to thrive: books, schools, factories.

None of this comes for free. In a state of nature, to refuse to work is to commit suicide, at a rate proportional to the hostility of your environment.

There are a lot of variables to adjust. You could work less, and enjoy more free time and a commensurately lower standard of living (still fantastically high by historical standards).

Or you could live off others. That's not always an ethical fault: consider invalids, or children, or the very elderly. So long as the people providing for you have a choice in the matter, that's fine from an ethical perspective.

Or - and this is where the ethical fault comes in - you could force others to provide your material needs for you. For example, welfare parasites and professional politicians (but I repeat myself).

So, no. There is no choice about working.
If you have no knowledge of the games plot going into this article then there are big parts of the article that are incomprehensible, the author mentions events and characters from the game without explaining who or what or why; and why we should care if they were changed or if they did or didn't appear.
PersistIQ Is Hiring a Back End Engineer – Remote OK
I think you hit the nail on the head. The point is that at that valuation, with that much investor money coming in, there's no excuse for them not to have met the minimum barrier to entry in the area they chose, which is essentially compliance with federal regulations.
"And it is not your time being taken away from you, it's your money."

Do you not see the connection between those things, especially in the case of income tax? And especially in the case of progressive taxation, which punishes people in proportion to their productive virtue?
Time to Jump Back into the Markets?
Funny, I just tested those yesterday. And they none of them seemed to work. And I think I had installed the newest version for the test. Anyways, I stand corrected. It's great to see some of these working now as the tab-completion is definitely better than psql's.
No, it's > 0%. Do you think 99% isn't slavery?
is that the same FDA involved in this: http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/10/27/037234/the-popula... ?

And this: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-corruption-letter-authentica...

And this: http://seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/instit...

And this: http://ceramics.org/ceramic-tech-today/biomaterials/gsk-drop...

And this: https://reason.com/blog/2013/11/25/fda-shuts-down-23andme-ou...

Why anyone's first inclination would be to trust the FDA is beyond me. In fact, this whole story has a fishy Denmark smell to it. Why for instance is all dissenting opinion being down voted?
It would be interesting to hear how these bosses reason regarding how junior lawyers are supposed to gain years of experience when the entry level jobs are scrapped. Are they all mentally hoping that some other firm will take the cost?
What about if we bomb other countries with our art....
The CIA's Intelligence Art Collection
Q&A with mark  IIT Delhi
It's a volunteer project.
FWIW, the title was changed on HN after I submitted it (using the title at the original site).

I resubmitted at the recommendation of HN. Might've been a change made at some point then?
I'm not sure statistically if it's a more likely theory than "guy who looks like Jonny Ive forgot to or chooses not to take his unusual paint only protecting car cover off before driving somewhere"

Without some better statistics on how unlikely it is that any normal person would have such a bizarre car cover, I'm unsure how to apply Occam's Razor to this.
Usually in these cases the culprit is autoderef/deref coercions.
I got my first MacBook Pro seven years ago, and I can't imagine going back to Linux or Windows again. The vast majority of people that I know (at work or otherwise) use Macs, and it's been this way for years.
There are a number of traditional statistical methods for validation that can be used to answer this type of question. These sorts of firms have some of the largest private clusters in the world, they are certainly capable to and do answer this question before trading.
Interestingly, both 23andMe and Theranos just sat on the documents issued to them by the FDA, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10462936

Do both have the same guy working on FDA-approval?
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Nothing drastic in such observations, unless you have never seen FDA reports. The FDA usually issues a lot of observations and calls for corrective actions - this happens even with large and experienced pharma companies.
WebSocket emulation
Who is paying roaming charges in the US on any of the major carriers?

I've used both AT&T and Verizon and haven't had to worry about roaming charges for a decade.
As the author of Coils, another Clojure framework (coils.cc) I am really impressed to see Om Next, and I think that Om Next will become the de facto framework for building interactive websites
We use the apartment gem pjungwir mentioned. I guess it works well if you have a small number of customers, each with lots of data. The other way around, lots of customers with little data would not scale, I'd say. As with any technique, there's pros and cons.

Pros:

- When you enter a psql session, you `SET search_path TO customer;` and that's it. No customer_id column in any table you have to remember setting in your WHERE clause.

- Same thing for rails console. At the beginning of the session you choose which customer you want to operate on.

- Similar for web requests. You just activate the right customer (e.g. based on subdomain) and that's it. Instead of `current_customer.posts.find(params[:id])` you can now simply do `Post.find(params[:id])`.

- Data is completely separated. It's almost impossible to have a bug causing data to spill from one customer to the other, which is quite high chance when you always have to remember to load data through the current customer.

Cons:

- Number of objects (tables, indexes, sequences) is multiplied by number of customers.

- Adding a new customer requires `pg_dump` to be present as it dumps the public schema (the blueprint), creates a new schema, and loads the dump into that schema.

- Migrations take longer as there are more objects to touch.

In our case, the pros outweigh the cons. One further advantage of the separate schemas is that, in theory, we could at any time start using completely separate databases, one for each customer or just one additional for a much larger customer that's eating up all resources on the DB.
You can still develop the tech without those experts. However, if you ever want to apply it to humans, you got to follow the rules.
Got any tips for people who are much older who might have been taught the wrong way to think about maths in school?
Wow. I have a PDP-11 manual with Voyager logos on it that I grabbed from a retiring physicist in the lab I used to work at – I guess I didn't realize that his retirement was part of life and reality where people move on :(

Cool manual though! I've been tempted to donate it to either the computer history museum or NASA AMES (where it seems to have come from), but I kind of feel like they have dozens of these already
I wouldn't cut them so much slack. The study is either reliable or it isn't. And it wouldn't take them much more effort to make the results significant in some way.

In this case, I think that just giving these children the self-reported diet would yield massive effects on their health, sugar or no sugar. I am quite sure children with obesity problems don't know their real diet - not because they are dishonest, but because we (as people) are very efficient at hiding the uncomfortable truths from ourselves.
Thanks for clarification. I had the same problem as OP and was literary scratching my head.
How is that acceptable at all? Designers must have complained about this ridiculous problem every day. I understand that tooling is often not a high priority for big games that have historically been "launch and forget", but online games are now expected to continue publishing expansions and DLC for a long time.
The Out-Of-Memory-Killer is after your dockerized services
Could you elaborate on the issues you have with ElasticSearch? Performance/Scaling? Usability?
Might be worth people voting here - http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/civil_war_generals_2 - although it's way, way down the list at the moment.
Thanks Craig, in those 4 years I've been using Postgres extensively your blog posts, talks, newsletter [1], guide [2] have been invaluable learning resources. Now I'm trying to contribute back to the community, too :)

1: http://postgresweekly.com

2: http://www.postgresguide.com
Android tablet with no baseband, e.g. a Nexus 9 for example.
Freedom pop sells such a device

permissions: Android Marshmallow has this bog standard, no root needed, so might have to watch to make sure it's available on whatever device you choose.

voip: google voice/hangouts can make this possible, also skype, hangouts, and a number of others.

VPN: basically anything android compatible.

It's not a terribly convenient thing to initially setup but it's not difficult either anymore, I actually did this for a few months when I broke my phone and just decided to go all IP instead of buying a new phone (had the tablet, and the hotspot device, previous phone didn't have data). It worked well enough in the Los Angeles area, but outside a city it was basically non-functional.

The other points about 911 and such are bigger issues than this.
Maybe It's Time to Stop Snickering About Aliens
Some applications of Levenshtein, such as spell checking and google suggest, seem like game physics in that they are consumed by humans, and gross approximations are good enough - even with occasional glitches. Speed trumps accuracy.

Unless there're clever compilation algorithms to calculate edit distance really fast, that fall apart without a metric...?
Why C and C++ are Awful Programming Languages (2010)
I'm curious: What would be the benefit of doing this? Getting investment from VC's with the hope that it can be turned into something?
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Setting Up the Amazon Product Advertising API Based on PHP SOAP
High-speed photography of explosions can be considered art. My point appears moot.
In that case it's probably either that (a) someone tried to help promote your post, not realizing that it was against the rules, or (b) what we call "astroturfed/sockpuppet votes" is different than how you understand those terms.

Arranging for friends or colleagues to upvote a post is against the rules on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). We want users to vote for stories because they personally find them intellectually interesting, not because they or someone they know has content to promote. Voting for the latter reason is verboten; those are called voting rings and HN has software to protect against them. That software wasn't happy about the votes on this story.

Still worse is when users in a voting ring add comments to the thread, seeming to express organic interest. Most HN users hate that and it's particularly verboten.

I don't mean any of this to pick on you guys personally, but rather to explain the rules. We'll take your word for it that you didn't break them or at least not wittingly.
Great. It's essentially a cluster computing platform with a handful of small permutations on that basic idea. Why don't these people use more accessible language? It would dramatically help increase adoption.
Flights actually cost that much - most airlines don't make much money on the flight itself [0]. A flight with an airline like Spirit or Frontier charge the bare minimum for flights without any extra frills.

[0] http://freakonomics.com/2011/06/24/why-do-airlines-always-lo...
For those of us who are not doctors, but play one on the internet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmarketing_surveillance
Is Your Being Rejected at School?
Very cool canvas text editor webapp tutorial (JavaScript)
Jason "the Dragon's Crown Sorceress is a 'lolicon fantasy'" Schreier?

I hate to link to reddit (and KiA at that) but here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2on4la/last...
I don't want to partition the page the way frames/frameset did, I want to sandbox code and content the way iframe does, just in a more lightweight fashion. If I could couple that sandboxing with a component factory library like React, that could really be something else.
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But in practice if you deal with x86 even AMD isn't that much better.
But the EFF sided with Greenpeace, which IMO makes me question their sanity
This is an interesting point of view. I wasn't even aware of those fan creations. Having them available in audio log format would actually be quite neat.

Maybe I'm too stuck thinking about it from a technical point of view, where it just doesn't make sense to me why this information couldn't be made available in-game somehow.
However, looking at it from a hunt for information point of view and hearing that there's quite a bit of community discussion going on actually makes me a bit curious again.
It's a shame, and in a way my own fault then, that all of this went over my head, as the in-game narrative put me off enough not follow up on the grimoire.

It'll be interesting to see how they are going to handle the story in the next iterations of the series. I haven't played it myself, but heard that The Taken King supposedly has a lot more in-game narrative and cut scenes, compared to the original release version.
I'm not asking for a movie, but a little kick in the right direction to get me curious enough about the backstory (like your comment) and make me interact with the grimoire would be nice.
OK, that's interesting, and I agree that for the use case you specify you're essentially fixing a hole in the ethereum specification / building out the 'standard library' in a useful way.

If I were running it, I would still make strong recommendations that recipients of the alarm 'ping' only execute idempotent functions which do not rely on any data from the ping itself, or on the ping being executed implying any state anywhere in the world, whether on blockchain or not.
Every company should have such a day in my opinion. It makes you think hard about every KB you're cramming in your requests.