skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm - interesting. What stops students from sending in their textbooks to have scanned and shared with fellow students?
> As one example, I did not say that I was giving signals of interest to coworkers, much less on a regular basis.

You previously wrote:

> My experience has been that men who aren't attracted react really negatively to me giving off signals that I am interested.

I'm genuinely confused. If you are not giving signals of interest to men you are interacting with in a professional capacity, how do the reactions of men who you're ostensibly interacting with in a personal capacity relate at all to your professional ambitions?

> When I try to make professional contacts, I am asking individual men to trust me as an individual. Many of them have far more reason to decline taking that bet than to accept the risks involved.

Our backgrounds and experiences might very well be quite different, but I think attitude plays a big role in how your efforts pan out and going into interactions with this kind of world view is not healthy in my opinion.

I am an adult male professional. If there's a good reason we should do business together or help each other professionally, I don't care if you're half squirrel. I don't know what you're asking of the folks you meet, and when and how you're asking, but in my experience, most professionals, male and female, don't harbor irrational reservations about building strong working relationships with colleagues of the opposite sex.
Sell? They usually pay money to assign away the rights.
6% is a pretty substantial increase for just changing the icon and name of the action. Hell it's a pretty substantial change in general for a feature that is presented so prominently.

Either way, how do you propose Twitter gets to Instagram volumes other than through lots of incremental changes? Instagram didn't get where it is today in one fell swoop.
The Dell XPS 13 is the best-built Windows machine I've seen for a while, even though it is a Dell. Here's a good review: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-XPS-13-9350-InfinityEdge-U...

There is a new model coming out soon, so you might get a discount on old stock.
London startup sentview.com has raised 2M
The world is moving to videos, Sentview is a tool that let's you find out what people are saying across multiple video platforms.
We kinda all already know this, but this is very well stated.

How can we put some tech firepower to this?
Apologies, only just seen this.

I didn't mean to imply that no 1900 houses have fallen down, just to say that the incredibly vast majority of them are still around today.

Look at any city and you will see rows upon rows of ~1900s terraces. Still mostly upright. These typically only fall down when you let the roof go.

This is in contrast to North America that at the same time was building their houses out of timber. Not only does the material need better maintenance, but the difference between tearing it down and building a new one and refitting is much less than with a double-layer brick build. People want to tear them down and build something better.
Because people is early-stage companies are compensated with equity more than salary, and bet that their equity value will go up dramatically.

Plus a lot of startups have foreign founders and these people need visas. So-called entrepreneur visas an not suited for companies that take investment.
Unbelievable ! google and offline product ? this is against whole company ideology.I think new CEO is changing culture a little bit.
Interesting indeed. I was just thinking about this the other day before deciding on putting together the userstyle. I was wondering weather the current HN backend is as fast as it can be, I'm sure there are dozens of developers that would like to rewrite it for free.
Then you'll looovvveee this: https://demo.baremetrics.com and https://baremetrics.com/open :)
Get a fucking life. All of you. Who fucking cares!?
It ends so many sentences with exclamations!
Amazing how much everything has changed in 20 years as to make nearly every single sentence of this article wrong to a hilarious extent.

Thank you for sharing this. It didn't tickle my intellectual curiosity, but it's a nice reminder of how bad humans can be at predicting even short-term changes. :)
Well one way to test is to put honey links into an IM session and see which ones are pinged. Invariably they will be pinged from a co-lo situated in a remote U.S data center.
If you're serious about this, let me know. I've been thinking about doing the same for some time now. How would you solve for accounts with 2-factor auth enabled?
Google can direct me to the front door of an apartment in a dense city. As well as provide me with opening hours of businesses and detailed transit information. How big is the download, to grab "The whole USA"?
The tale is about different perceptions of reality and self-fulfilling prophecies. Both consultants were skilled and helped their companies grow, but none saw the possibilities in both planets because they were subject to framing[1].

The OP wrote:

> Now someone else open sourced my Idea and It is one of trending repositories on github.

The OP sees this is a failure because this is his perception of reality. However, there are other signals at play that the OP did not capture. The fact that someone else brought forward the same idea at around the same time automatically tells me the following things:

1. There is a growing interest about this idea

2. It’s not irrelevant, crazy or stupid. Might be a solid idea.

3. There might even be an emerging market

4. The timing for this idea must be right (That’s why different people are coming up with this idea)

5. The OP is smart.

So whatever the OP’s idea is, must be good and worth pursuing. The OP thinks like ‘Mike’, but ‘Joe’ made it rain too. There are countless example for products that came ‘after’ and took over the market (e.g. Apple and Microsoft, iOs and Android, etc).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)
This thread is full of hindsight bias. The EPA defended the use of dispersants at the time: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/articl...

"The EPA said Monday those dispersants hastened the decomposition of the oil, a process that may also have kept vast quantities of oil from fouling the shoreline."

Most of the concern was about the specific dispersant used, and if it might be toxic to marine life. But in general everyone thought dispersants would be effective. And it's been standard practice for cleaning up oil spills.
One piece of advice for people who don't want to learn new things: Learn C++. That Bjarne interview might be fictuous, but in the last 20 years the language hasn't seen any significant movement or change that isn't just "this boilerplate is now this one line of code". C++ is eternal (within the human lifespan) and will always be used in the embedded space. If it ever gets replaced by anything, it will be something that's just C++ with nicer syntax and the sharp corners cut off.
Incidentally, Google is promising Chrome releases for 5 years from shipping for each Chromebook.
Or the most likely meaning: In the AB test, the group with the heart had 6% more likes/favorites than the control group.
Western Europe is about the only place that's accepting refugees. Where do you think the top places that are accepting refugees are?
Some people will do so voluntarily. If you don't, yay for you, you get to freeload. And the "necessary" defensive force is just what the members of the population are willing to fund.
Be careful with Leyden Jars - they can self charge. At size (like a 5 gallon bucket), they can carry enough charge to seriously hurt you.
Ask HN: How do you test for analytical skills?
From what I can tell, most skilled jobs these days require "strong analytical skills". How does one go about evaluating this?

What if the candidate has no work experience to speak from? Do you provide him with math problems or logic questions?
Couldn't banks and aggregators just implement OAuth, so the aggregator gets just the level of access they need, and you never have to give them your password?
The way it works here in the US is that data belongs to the bank and not the customer.
Its not that. Most people who come from middle class families to the US for education go through a lot of struggle. Stuff like 3-4 people sharing a single room, waiting tables at restaurants for money, skipping meals to save etc etc. The list is endless. A few things they do will amaze you.

And then after that they have to go through a period of intense slogging to clear their student loans they would have taken in India. Then comes the H1B struggle to stay in the US to make a living, then the struggle for green card and so on.

By any means of measure these are exceptionally hard working and bright people. And don't go by what the throwaway29 is saying. These are not idiots who landed by luck and are dragging by. And its not as simple as throwaway29 is making it look like, where a few idiots are stealing away the opportunity from Einstein level geniuses.
> but it's not functionally different than having an API and a system for registering API keys

No, it's completely different. The entire point of keys is avoid having to store credentials, it has nothing to do with permissioning. In the case of Mint etc., they have to store credentials because there is no token/key system being provided from the banks (ie: oAuth). In the case of something like oAuth creds are never sent to the 3rd party.

And the ironic part of this is if they banks simply provided something like oAuth then they would have MUCH more control over who they worked with and have an easier time managing 3rd party data.
>> worst anything that you can be learned by any guy in India with a smart phone and a internet connection(both very cheap and accessible today) without ever having to go to a college.

Any body can have sex; doesn't mean everybody is getting it;)

But the general point stands; given the large population, there will be enough motivated people who will flatten it out eventually. I don't know if it is possible right this moment, or by everybody.
Hearst's papers were one of the chief propaganda outlets deceiving the American public into the Spanish American War. After he got his war he turned to pillaging Spanish cultural treasures and justified it as a jobs program. Wow.
BVP Hackathon Helps Solve a Bay Area Problem
that heart animation is flippin' cute, thats why
The Juttle query language allows the expression of dataflow graphs and UDFs which can not (in general) be done natively in ES.

As far as the scaling issue goes, this was designed to run on premise rather than as a SaaS service (unlike bigpanda?).

Disclaimer on last paragraph: as per @demmer's comment below, Jut's plans have changed, so it may no longer be valid or relevant.
Kudos to the Chrome team to support Windows XP so long after official EOL from Microsoft!
Thanks for the heads up, wasn't even aware I'm missing elements due to the low karma.

Getting the styling done right here, is not that easy, as you can imagine the oldschool HTML doesn't really help. I was trying not to do multiple scopes for different pages in Stylish, but seems like I have to do CSS scoping to get rid of that .rank
Except municipal trees use heavy doses of systemic insecticide at the roots to avoid having to spray them. I wouldn't eat the fruit from a branch grafted onto a municipal tree.

http://www.nyis.info/?action=eab_municipal_tree_management

http://citybugs.tamu.edu/factsheets/landscape/sapfeed/ent-60...
I wish I could have someone with a remote control fly me to work every day with one of these.
Now I can finally delete the other application and use the full power of Google Maps.
This approach is backwards. This is the kind of problem that is easy for a person, but not for an AI. So if M was an AI pretending to be a human, you could use this to determine that. But in this case, the suspicion is that M is a human pretending to be an AI - and they could simply decline to attempt the task, or pretend to be unable (or do a bad job deliberately), and you'd learn nothing from negative results.
Thank you. We're on the same page wrt emailing us to cancel. A quarter of our churn is actually users who have their cc declined and do not fix it, despite nag emails, in two weeks. I don't think we've ever heard back from a single one of these users. For the other 75% I guess we should just be asking more questions before servicing their request.
> A 3-credit class is 3 hours in the classroom per week, plus additional time outside of class.

The usual rubric I've seen is that each credit class in the normal system is 3 hours total time per week, the most common arrangements for that 3 hours/credit are 1 hour lecture + 2 hours assumed out-of-class time for 1 credit, or 3 hours lab for one credit (this may be combined in a lecture + lab course, which might have 10 credits for 5 hours of weekly lecture, 10 hours of presumed out-of-class time accompanying the lecture, and 15 hours of weekly labs.)

A quick check of some online college course catalogs confirms that this appears to be approximately the usual rubric (at least to the extent of 1 hour lecture/week = 1 credit, 3 hours lab/week = 1 credit; the assumed out-of-class time for lecture is not explicit in any catalogs I can find.)

So, depending on the mix of lecture and lab (and assuming no less-common patterns are involved), and assuming (as you do with the division by 5) that all the in-class time involved is on weekdays, 17-21 credit hours corresponds to somewhere between 3.4 and 12.6 hours a weekdays of in-class time.

So, 8 hours per day of in-class is not inconsistent with a 17-21 credit load, but it would be a higher lab-to-lecture ratio in terms of credits.

I don't think your unequivocal statement that the in-class time is inflated by a factor of 2 is justified.
LG’s new mega-capacity fridge boasts doors inside of doors
1. before you leave do you have a marketing channel for your project? And is it working?
2. look at outsourcing things. I can get about 2-3 hours for every hour I work from someone overseas. They maybe can't do it all but they can do a lot.
I think that Clang generated binaries won't run on Windows versions below 7, if I remember correctly it has something to do with implementing SEH but I could be completely wrong and it could also have nothing to do with their decision but it makes sense - they moved to clang for compiling Linux binaries to simplify build process and they are a big driver behind Clang on Windows.
Gmail, We Need to Talk
DFS fanduel and drafkings insider info
That has been attempted for a Roman world map. See http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/docs/FURdb.html, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forma_Urbis_Romae (unfortunately, most of that map likely is lost forever, so it's reconstruction will remain fragmentary)

"computer reconstruction of pottery" also gives several papers on the subject.
This is the Internet. You can write "ass."
A lot of lower middle class people from India do come to study in the US. But its a very difficult struggle though.
SO many problems are being solved on the same plane they were created with. What I love about Ethereum is the direct action approach where rather than simply request that those in power get their act together in any meaningful way, we just create the damn thing ourselves and proceed as normal...
My father Mars Harper JR during his first tour in Vietnam January 1967
More than a showman, he was also an asshole.
> Are people really paying for this?

This is open source, and as far as I can see, there is no way to pay for it.
>in one fell swoop.

Not all the way, but a team of 13 did pretty darn well in just two years--enough that it then caused Facebook to make an offer
Any system based on bureaucratic rules rather than market forces is going to get gamed.
"its real use case, that of replacing the CAs with DNS TLD operators, has the net effect of signing Internet cryptographic trust over to the world governments that control the most important TLDs."

Exactly! A rare time when we couldn't agree more. I've taken shit on various forums when saying something similar but it's quite obvious when you look at its structure and where the trust is.

EDIT to Add: I'm bookmarking your writeup on DNSSEC. Great summary of the issues. :)
New Nvidia  Hyperscale GPUs Support Mesos, Docker, REST, Deep Learning
I'm genuinely confused.

I am sorry that you are confused. But the manner in which you are framing this makes me feel that there is nothing constructive that will come out of any additional efforts to try to clarify anything for you. You are being fairly dismissive and consistently suggesting that if I am not getting the results I desire, it must be that I have personal issues that are hampering my performance and my gender cannot possibly have anything to do with why a woman is getting a subpar performance, and never mind the aggregate statistics that agree that women generally see less success than men do professionally.

Take care.
That's a lot to ask from a local government.
This post leads to the popular idea of a basic income guarantee. I'm against it on principle, but practically, we can't let large numbers of people become homeless and stave. Very tough problem...
I think you're being a little cynical. On boarding a user is not mystical. You need them to begin using your product. And as they continue to use the product they develop habits. No use? No habit.

That use is called engagement. It's not a marketing term, it's a product term that's used in marketing.
Bank Hackers Thought Some Insider Trading Might Be Cool
First I've heard of that. Very handy - thanks for pointing it out!
The Maker Movement Is about Making Meaning
Most people don't realize that Liking on Tumblr bookmarks things in a list (a public list, unless you disable it!) either. Or that liking a conversation on Facebook causes you to follow it (people usually think you have to comment; "commenting to follow" is a very common phrase.)

Over time, social media platforms have effectively converged on the same basic set of verbs, with each verb doing everything all its parents did. But people still think of the verb as being the same one the platform started with, and limit their use to that use-case. I think it can be smart to switch from a "dialect" verb signifies to a "common loan-word" one, precisely to get people to take notice that the verb really has done more than they thought for a while now.
Because they took money from merchant ships instead of peasants, where barons are supposed to get their taxes :/

(Actually, shipping tolls on the Rhine were supposed to be set according to guidelines set by the Holy Roman Emperor; the robber barons violated these guidelines)
ThoughtWorks's Technology Radar for Nov 2015 has just been published
The white plastic MacBooks from early 2008 can't run 10.8, only four years after release.
I'd say look at Google - they (sort of) use a form of second-price auction [0] (also known as a Vickrey auction (first described by William Vickrey, a Nobel Laureate economist)) for their bidding process for AdWords. In short - a second-price auction is an auction where the highest bidder pays the second highest bid price.

A lot of auction theory (and price theory) is grounded in economics, so there's a fair amount of information out there in academic economic papers (Such as one on Vickrey - [1]). I'm not sure if they'd address what you are looking for from an algorithm perspective, but most economics papers will discuss (in depth) the quantitative aspect of the research, data, and results.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Game-Theory/Why-in-a-Vickrey-auction-d...
[1] http://econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Courses/UCSBpf/readings/Lovelybut...

edit: I'd also recommend a cursory look at various auction pages on wikipedia to get an idea of what you'd be interested in finding out about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction
Wesabe was a competitor to Mint that did tons of scraping, including having a browser extension that did the scraping client side.

They've open sourced much of their code. Take a look at https://github.com/wesabe/ssu and the other projects in that organization.
Schema has the same problems as Microformats where adoption only takes off if the market demands it, or it gains enough momentum that people can't imagine webapps without them.

There are countless other standards this article overlooks which have been implemented very well in recent years in Gmail, so why does it lambast the lack of Schema?
You can't A/B test something familiar versus something novel.
How Steve Jobs would change today's healthcare system
Can someone recommend a bank with accounts for small businesses that is unlikely to do this in the future? I'm on BofA now and refuse to hand reconcile transactions in 2015!
But, unlike the PC market with 2-3 major manufacturers, Intel can't bully around thousands of independent shops and OEMs that buy 1K/10K/100K quantities of Atmel/NXP/Freescale/Renesas/TI parts every year.

I lead system architecture for one of them and Intel is so off my radar that I wouldn't even look twice at the Quark/Edison line. Unless they want to give them to me for free, that is. If those chips are their IoT play, I'm not seeing any advantage yet. Show me how you're going to complete with TI or Broadcom.

And how many $3 D1000s do you have to move to match the margin generated by one server-class CPU core?

(BTW, NXP bought Freescale earlier this year so it's really 4.6B + 5.6B once the merge is completed.)
Why don't you sign in?
I'm most productive from 3 - 8, but I usually don't work past 7:30. I cook dinner most nights and eat with the kids, but I am usually washing up while they eat. They're young, so it's not a `sit around the table` experience just yet. I clean them up/change them and they go to bed by 9:30. It's not a bad existence. :)
> A credit-hour is roughly the amount of time you spend in class per week.

I break this down more specifically in another post [0], but this is generally true of credits assigned for lecture classes, but not of credits assigned for lab classes, which have a much higher ratio of time-in-class to credit hours. Different ratios of lab to lecture credits will, therefore, result in very different ratios of in-class time to credit hours.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10542827
I definitely won't be implementing the tracker code anytime in the immediate future. Maybe in a month?

Andy Herbert started a ripscrip interpreter that renders to canvas, but it isn't finished and definitely isn' reliable for artscene files. He doesn't intend to finish it, last I heard. https://github.com/andyherbert/ripscript.js
Also used OsmAnd+ for offline car navigation in the past. Had very good experience with it although I liked the handling of Google Maps more. Seems still relevant to use because Offline Google Maps is still restricted in area size. No limits with OSM based maps or HERE.
Did you think about technical solutions to this? You list one obvious one (limiting the Stripe import for free plans to the 30 days you actually display), but the other one I would've looked at immediately is to avoid storing the raw data for free plans entirely, compute your metrics on the fly, and store only the computed metrics. 1000 customers * 30 days * 25 metrics (based on your homepage) * 4 bytes/metric = 3MB, which is trivial for any database to process.

In general, I think most engineers these days overuse databases. At Google, common wisdom was "never, ever hit the disk during routine serving", and when I was in the financial industry we'd regularly process the NYSE TAQ data (50GB, about 2B trades) on a single machine nightly.

It'd be really, really nice to have growth gated on technical problems. :-)
I'd say that S is idempotent in `dass' vs `das'. Not that s is the identity.
You should move to a supported OS to reduce chance of getting hacked.