skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback. You're right, you bring up a good point that isn't explained as much on the website as it could be. We actually track time down to the second and display really detailed reports to users every day about how the time was utilized. Quite often a simple request can end up being $3-$4.
The example they're trying to use to show you that prices aren't crazy quotes a $30+ surcharge for having groceries delivered.
Some portions are just too low resolution due to print sizes etc

Figured it would take longer to OCR it than to do it manually in this case
I am astounded at how bad some of these "explainers" are. Absolutely mind-boggling comments about Swing on Android. Never mind it was removed from the Android SDK, it was never part of Android's base classes, the Zygote, or anything else in a device.

Android is still Android. The Android base classes will be an evolution of the current version. Maybe with Java 8 language features in the near future. It will not be Go (except for NDK code). It will not be Java SE. ART will still precompile Dalvik bytecode, and be the runtime for Android, and have nothing at all to do with OpenJDK.

EDIT: This guy was Mozilla's CTO? Holy crap. Maybe I'd be just as big a dope if I started ranting about JS runtimes, but he really ought to know better.
> (and enjoying)

... when?
Speed limit is set by road condition, traffic, weather, etc. In heavy traffic, the speed limit can be 0. In rain, some highways dynamically adjust the speed limit down. Speed limits aren't set as a society, they are set by traffic engineers on a case by case basis.

And of course startup founders benefit from positive externality of others. In the case of employees, they have defined and agreed upon compensation.

In the case of medical research, you will benefit from $1 billion for a set period of time, before you lose exclusive rights to a drug and anyone can benefit from it. Then your drug contributes to the 95% of hard work for someone else's drug.

I think you actually turn around your argument in the last sentence. It seems to me you start arguing against inheritance taxes because then people will stop trying to get rich, unless what you want is for everyone to not be rich ("touching the gains" from your first sentence). If people have nothing to gain and everything to lose, since they can't get rich and they risk being destitute and broken, then for what reason will society continue to function? Society won't function, it will devolve into various groups jealously guarding arable land and water.
People will always try to cheat, they're doing it now with [continued 1/2] -style tweet-chaining.

Counting @ mentions means that any reply is immediately handicapped (although, for a broadcasting-style platform, maybe that was the whole point).
oh yes, the spam it allow will be beautiful.

twitter spam has been of limited value due to the constraints.

would be more useful to move links, @mentions, etc. out of the character limit.

but hey, if they do it, it opens the opportunity for another unicorn that will be the snapchat of twitter.
> let them do the depreciation, you get the tax savings immediately

You are paying the interest on the difference between your and their depreciation ratio, plus taxes, and a margin.

You won't find a rational reason for using cloud that does not involve scale or risk.
> formed in frequentist terms

I suspect that this is simply a sense of scale, with the freq-vs-bayes aspect playing only a minor role.

The normalization that happens when you use percentages and 0.0 -> 1.0 probabilities is often useful, but it can sometimes obscure the magnitude of some relationships. It's easier to understand the sense of scale when you say "1 out of every 100,000 people" (which is easily extended to "a handful of people in a large city"). The same information is presented as "0.001% of the population" requires the reader to do more mental math if they want to understand how many people could be affected.

Knowing how to interpret false-positives and false-negatives is very important, but doctors are busy people who have to memorize a lot of data. It is probably better for patients if they can at least remember if something is "common" vs "rare" when they need to make a quick decision.
At first, I thought this was going to be an article about having zero exceptions, because exceptions aren't allowed, perhaps due to a type system.

This isn't really possible in a language that doesn't have type annotations, because in such a language, you can't make any run-time assumptions. All bets are off! Anything could be undefined! Anything might throw at any time!

In a language like Scala, you can almost completely eliminate the possibility of exceptions. You just have to be disciplined about never throwing. If you always use types that represent the possible outcomes of an operation or the valid inputs a module might accept, then you're forced to handle every possibility, and you're forced to eventually converge all your code paths to produce an output value from some bounded set. The more tightly bounded, the better! (Granted, the Scala type system doesn't guarantee that a function won't throw, and some standard library functions do throw, so all isn't perfect.)

Don't want to deal with all the cases right away? No problem, don't throw, just coerce the result to some temporary default value.

If you're disciplined enough in this approach, you'll eliminate all business logic exceptions. You'll still have to worry about errors in the underlying runtime, like OutOfMemoryError, but those you can defer to the operations tier.
Thank you so much for your reply! I've decided to remove the upload form altogether, but I'm sure I'll make good use of your tips in the future.
Tech trends 2016: Cybersecurity in the connected world
Not even a legend like George Carlin was witty 100% of the time.
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Many of our users give us access to various aspects of their personal and work lives in order to gain the benefit of efficiency and saved time. We also set up users who don't want to share their primary email with email addresses at our domain.
What you seem to be calling a closure refers to a lambda in a lexically scoped language. Particularly when they refer to free variables.

Blocks are in fact lambdas, or at least closures. I was wrong in the above. In some early versions of smalltalk, blocks had some odd semantics that made them different, but this is no longer true. However, judging by the Objective-C example above, Objective-C blocks don't create true closures, as a true closure would have the semantics of the Swift code from the article.
I lean towards more open code and data, but could one argue that if the code uses some fundamentally new, non-trivial methodology, a replication of the research should write new code implementing that method from it's description. Otherwise, if the original code is re-used, a bug in the code may very well cause the replication of an erroneous result.
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'Do with' not 'do in'. For example, there could be an ether-tcp that transports data using unused header bytes. Now factually you don't send data 'in' TCP header so TCP-ether might seem better, but actually you can send data 'with' TCP and thus TCP-ether is redundant.

Think of any Ethereum usecase and you can do it with bitcoin.
Not quite. The intern is only responsible for the difference between solitaire and the time-wasting activity it substitutes for.

I learned this when my parents tried to blame video games for why I wasn't doing homework. They didn't want to blame books when I substituted activities.
Here is a post from Retraction Watch with background on PubPeer:

http://retractionwatch.com/2015/08/31/pubpeer-founders-revea...
Cisco phone eats 1G bandwidth per day
Sonic youth: vaginal speaker lets you play tunes to foetuses
Never knew you could do it at all; thanks!
Reports of Attacks on Women in Germany Heighten Tension Over Migrants
One of the "handy wavy preconditions" is that they share priors. This nearly never happens in the real world. Almost all disagreements can be traced to differing priors.
I mostly agree, but there is a justice issue when the tax code has loopholes that are only accessible to people with clever tax attorneys.

To contrast, if I got an extra $5K in my bonus, I couldn't give it to my friend to help pay for the adoption expenses she has be racking up. If it were a donation of $50 million, I could form a targeted charity and write the whole thing off on my taxes.

What to do about it? Probably simplify the tax code. Complicated laws, especially tax laws, are just not fair.
The game of the name (1994)
That's crazy amazingly awesome. Need to know how much it costs though, both camera and film/processing/cloud.
I'm strugging to figure out who exactly this thing would be for.

Amateurs for home movies? Nope, digital will always be cheaper, and faster/more convenient to work with to boot.

Aspiring filmmakers? Nope, if you want to shoot on film professionally you'll want at least 16mm to avoid the magnification/graininess Super 8 brings with it.

People nostalgic for the blurriness of old home movies? Do any of these actually exist?
This sounds utterly insane, yet so amazing.

“Find someone to train me like Jason Bourne.” Hahaha.
Looks like the reception isn't doing too well. I remember when Magic launched here on HN and it BLEW up. I was one of the people who tried it out. I live in NYC and actually had a poor experience.

The first two times, I said "hey I want a sandwich with [x]" and I got it but it took a lot longer than if I just clicked the necessary buttons on Seamless. Then I kept getting random calls from time to time from pizza delivery men saying they were downstairs.

They were very apologetic and nice about it, but really it just wasn't worth it for me. The CTO (I think) reached out to me some months later asking why I stopped and well it's the same answer: very little utility for someone like myself. If I were rich, hey sure why not boss someone around for random things (though I don't know why I wouldn't just hire someone I can trust). However, if you're middle income or even a little higher, what's the point really? Everything else is basically on-demand in this new uber-fied world.
is there anywhere where you can check luggage at the
train embark 20-30 miles prior to the airport ?

You can do that with the CAT[1] in Vienna, IIRC.

[1] http://www.cityairporttrain.com/
“Find someone to train me like Jason Bourne.”
“Get me a mobile dentist to my office ASAP.”
“I want to meet Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.”
“I need to rent out the Exploratorium this weekend.”
“I need 6 convertibles tomorrow for rent.”
“Organize my team for a town hall tomorrow.”
“My 1 pm ran over. Bump my meetings back 1 hour.”
“I’m out of the office today. Check my email and let me know if there’s anything urgent.”

They're going way over the top here to market it to busy douchebags. I thought about using it until I saw who they think I might be.
You need a lot of volume to measure this.

For a new company/product I think it's better to start low and then increase the price if/when you get more business.
I'm deeply skeptical of this. It would be worth $100/hr to hand off highly complex task like planning a wedding (from their copy), but it's impossible--there is way too much interaction and iteration necessary on tasks like that.

For things you can realistically text to have done, the task has be crystal clear, and basically atomic. If I've already done the work of making it crystal clear and atomic, then it's not worth $100/hr anymore, because it's just rote busy work at that point.
Actually, we respectfully disagree. The Lumonosity doesn't have any feedback to their systems, and are therefore WAY different than ours. We cannot claim it will solve your issues, but it could (stress the could) help. We accomplish this by providing neurofeedback[1].

[1] http://synaptitude.me/blog/neurofeedback-in-200-words/

Essentially, we can help cope with the issues by helping you identify bad practices. That's it. Turns out many of us don't realize when we start losing attention, or feeling sad. We just suddenly realize we do feel bad. The idea is to make you more aware of what makes you feel bad/lose attention, when you start feeling that way so you can better control it.

Here are some links to some studies (more are coming out soon):

[2] (2009) http://eeg.sagepub.com/content/40/3/180.short
[3] (2009) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2008....
[4] (1995) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8801245

The end goal of our system is to use it in combination with other therapies, drugs, and medical professionals to determine the effectiveness of a therapy/drug on an individual and improve it. Coupled with that we can provide better coping skills, and our own therapy called neurofeedback (as mentioned).
Easy enough to send a link to a webpage. Or ask you for your email to send it to you.
I've never met a problem where tailcalls were more awkward than loops. But then, scheme kind of pushes you toward tail-calls, so hey.
Swift Error Handling Rationale
>avoid the magnification/graininess Super 8 brings with it.

But how else will your viewers know that you were hip enough to shoot on film?
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They are not just selling fun puzzles, that's the point. If they just said "Buy our fun puzzles!" we wouldn't be here.
How is it possible that this guy can read so many books? SICP alone, for me anyway, takes me about a year to get through. And a lot of these books are pretty dense.
It's important to note thought that there was always a fairly significant grey market for consoles and games in China.

Some big department stores even sold major consoles and games, including Friendship Stores[1] which are state run.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_store
Rich people shit.
- Requires no effort to train
- Requires no effort to manage
I think since multiple customers were hit by this and are presumably all putting pressure on them about it, their hand may have been forced.
Notable Labs is hiring engineers, scientists and office managers (YC W15)
“There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy.” -Steve Jobs

The amount of evidence that exists contrary to this statement is staggering. Don't know who this Steve guy is, but he seems like a real dip-shit.
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x of 1,000 multisig, where each signature is controlled by a tradable token
Given unlimited funds, anything possible is easy for the guy writing the cheque.

If I was willing to foot the bill, you could probably do any of the example magics listed (assuming you had my details/logins to email/calendar) in an hour or two.
Why doesn't someone start a company to democratize tax loopholes?
For those of you who work in financial technology -- what's to stop a company from amassing money from a lot of people who wouldn't normally be able to afford the kinds of tax benefits available to the wealthy[1], and then using that money to do the same kinds of tax-dodging maneuvers, returning the tax savings to the users?

I know very little about tax law or the technology that would be involved in doing this, but it seems like it's worth a shot. If the wealthiest people in this country don't pay their taxes, why the hell should I?

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/business/economy/for-the-wealthiest-private-tax-system-saves-them-billions.html?src=longreads&_r=0
We provide a form of neurofeedback[1] therapy.

[1] http://synaptitude.me/blog/neurofeedback-in-200-words/

Essentially, we can help people identify bad practices and create better ones.

Turns out many of us don't realize when we start losing attention, or feeling sad. We just suddenly realize we do feel bad. The idea is to make you more aware of what makes you feel bad/lose attention, then you can control it (to a degree).

The end goal of our system is to use it in combination with other therapies, drugs, and medical professionals to determine the effectiveness of a therapy/drug on an individual and improve it. Coupled with that we can provide better coping skills, and our own therapy called neurofeedback (as mentioned).
So this is just Amex Plat/Centurion concierge for people who prefer to text than call?
Interesting. But it doesn't solve the worst problem I've ever had with analog film: The developer lost the rolls that had our honeymoon pictures on them. (As compensation, they were generous enough to offer us... blank replacement rolls. We were not impressed.)

That's the advantage digital has - you don't mail the pictures anywhere. Nobody can lose them for you. (Yeah, you can still lose them yourself...)
They were at 23.15 On Dec 31st

Opened at 22.64 on Jan 4th, going as low as 22.19

Opened at 22.79 on the 5th and closed 21.90

I think this rumour was irrelevant to the price change
Hearing the name "Kodak" just makes me sad these days.

From the wikipedia entry, "From the $90 range in 1997, Kodak shares closed at 76 cents on January 3, 2012".
In fact it's saving X from area A, where increasing the costs of area B by Y, where X is orders of magnitude smaller than Y, but the manager of B can still claim a bonus for the savings.
Episode 5 of Rick and Morty's first season is relevant (the Mister Meeseeks episode).
I'm sure people who drive after a night of heavy drinking don't like having their vehicle impounded, their license taken away, and being thrown in jail. But what do percentages or likability have to do with the application of law?
Magic: The Gathering has a full online game where you can buy boosters, trade cards, etc etc etc.
You've got to admire their honesty for not putting an image matching algorithm in to automatically say the founders are hot!
https://goo.gl/photos/jv82LHNQKxrt1Ce88
I could see someone trying to shoot a professional movie that wanted that effect for part of it, because that part was supposed to be someone playing a Super-8 movie. But I suspect that there's a Photoshop filter for that...
Out of my world, but I could see why the super-rich might like something like this. But I guess they have their own personal assistants for this stuff anyway.
If Kodak is scanning all of the photos and putting them into the cloud themselves, does that mean they have rights to said images?
I see USB and... SD card slot on the back? HDMI and... 3.5mm audio?

One of the most characteristic features of Super 8, at least to me, is the complete lack of audio (at least, on most Super 8 works). So if you went to a theater to see something on Super 8 there might be a live band playing the soundtrack.

I wonder if Kodak is doing something like putting audio on the SD card and then storing digital synchronization marks on the film somehow.

Edit: To be clear, I know you can already put audio on Super 8. It's just that most Super 8 films I've seen in the theater have had no audio or live audio. And yes, I looked at the specs. The specs don't mention anything at all, but the product rendering appears to show jacks for audio and data, and I'm wondering how that's incorporated.
Currently these reports are sent via email. We may have an app at some point in the future, but currently SMS and email are more than sufficient.
The full quote is:

>Amazon S3 scales to support very high request rates. If your request rate grows steadily, Amazon S3 automatically partitions your buckets as needed to support higher request rates. However, if you expect a rapid increase in the request rate for a bucket to more than 300 PUT/LIST/DELETE requests per second or more than 800 GET requests per second, we recommend that you open a support case to prepare for the workload and avoid any temporary limits on your request rate. To open a support case, go to Contact Us.

So this looks like an auto scaling issue. It states "S3 automatically scales to support higher request rates". However, if we know that a bucket is going to need to scale dramatically, we can request, in advance, that the S3 team pre-scales it.

I'm sure there is an account limit, but to run 1000 cpu's already requires requesting an increase in the account's EC2 instance limit. Are you saying that a team trying to access 150Gb of files, or to make 1000 RPS, as the article documents, will hit that limit? From your experience, how big is this hard limit? Is it Netflix scale or is it GB or TB?
I thought this was satire. Came here to see the jokes. None of you seem to be treating it like satire though.
A transparent view would be 1-2 percent gdp growth, 300 percent gasp/debt ratio, bankrupt shadow banking, bankrupt commodity related state companies, a trillion left that can be used from reserve, 800 billion per year capital outflow, etc. not sure China can even take that first step. Not to mention lack of global consumer brands, pollution, corruption, etc
Yeah, pretty hyperbolic. There are a lot of cases where they will have to say no or "sorry, we'll have to set that up for another time". Some requests are simply not always possible.

To pick one of their examples:

"I need to rent out the Exploratorium this weekend."

What if someone already rented it out? Or it's under construction? Or there's a special event? Or *?
Tip from the pros: if the pictures are irreplaceable, then divide them in half. Send half to the developer. If it gets ruined, you've only ruined half.

This is how wedding photographers who shot on film avoided getting sued into oblivion by angry brides (and yes, there are many, many photographers who have been sued into oblivion by angry brides, contract or no contract).
I was crylaughing all the way through this!

I really wish the steps he proposes at the end were that simple, but with people at full time jobs a lot of times its not that simple, and even with that there lots of mistakes to be made

I'd recommend however that everyone read this blog by Aline Lerner, lots of amazing insights into making the Techincal interview process waaaaay better http://blog.alinelerner.com/what-happens-when-you-stop-relyi...
We paid $10k for a domain and all we got was less traffic
What I really wish the cloud providers would do is reduce network egress costs. They seem insanely expensive when compared to dedicated servers.
Politics is largely about allocating resources. There's nothing inherently more biased about the allocation decisions that lead to a more equal society.
Wouldn't average characters per sentence be a slightly better measure? In German and other Germanic languages it's common with compounded words, thus word XY seem long but would in English just be written as X Y.
Please tell me their CMS got misconfigured and thought it was April 1. Who knows? Maybe there is an absolutely brilliant marketing person at Kodak but I'm having trouble seeing it.

I mean. "There are some moments that digital just can't deliver, because it doesn't have the incomparable depth and beauty of film." Um, we're not talking 70mm Panavision here. We're talking Super 8. Has whoever wrote this ever seen a Super 8 movie?
And why, exactly, am I supposed to care about how attractive an AI thinks I am?
You've just done exactly what the parent comment said happens anytime there is a discussion of the merits of the communist system:

> The problem with discussing any of this is that the anti-socialism and communism feelings run so deep that people can't have a neutral discussion of the merits and flaws of socialism and communism. Anything positive can so easily be dismissed by the utter tyranny and inhumanity practiced by Stalin.

I made it clear the Cuban system is not perfect, but that it clearly has some merits that are worth thinking about.
This goatkcd sums up that also http://goatkcd.com/793/sfw
Could be, but the timing still seems really weird to me. If they did an investigation like they said they did, I just don't see why you would come out with it right now. Because from Pager Duty post it seems that no one could do anything to make them disclose it sooner.
Calling this WebVR is stretching the definition of VR. Its 3d content for sure. But does it support HMDs? Can it render at 90 fps?
The End of the Acquihire
Honestly, that would be awesome. The pipeline part, I mean.