skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to be confused with the other OCamlScript [1].
Also, other than the naming overlap, is there any reason why this hasn't been made available as an OPAM package? Having to manually patch, compile, and install is a bit of an inconvenience when the `opam switch` infrastructure already exists. Is it just a matter of time before it's added to OPAM or are there simply no intentions of adding it to the repositories?
[1] - http://mjambon.com/ocamlscript.html
I agree. It's becoming a strain the more I work on it. "Redesign" will be going into the backlog. :)
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"counterintuitive UI/UX decisions which make the app hard to use"

Consider that it may be intentional, a way for Snapchat to avoid the Eternal September issue where parents and older people signup as part of a second or third wave of users.

I watched my younger group of brothers and relatives move from Facebook and then Instagram as parents, uncles, aunts, teachers, grandparents etc. signed up to each service.

They're hoping they won't have to move on from Snapchat and can remain more candid there.
You should update it with the proper year. "December 1, 2018 3:20pm"
...they go off half-cocked too often.

Playing defense is hard. You're reactionary. You have to cover every base. You have to take every utterance of your opponent seriously. It's easy to get duped. Etc.

I won't do it any more.

I've spent a lot of time fact checking, refuting, explaining. It's a sucker's game (you can't win).

"A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

-- Mark Twain (maybe)

"If you're explaining, you're losing."

-- Lee Atwater

I encourage all activists (organizations) to have an affirmative agenda. Tell me what you're for, not what you're against. Policy groups like EFF need to learn how to seize the initiative.

There is value in deep diving into policy issues. That's what think tanks are for.
I pointed this out in my comment. You're just disparaging my writing, now, which isn't really a contribution at all.
gosh even they used a base 10 system!
Yes. The preferred will get the payout. If there were any holders of debt (which is senior to preferred -- his is why the yield on preferred shares of mega corps are higher Than the company's bonds), they will get paid before the preferred.

Execs will renegotiate their compensation contracts with the acquirer and likely have fairly lucrative contracts (often happens to sweeten the deal).
I hear ya. Self-proclaimed, which I didn't really mean to imply here, would be even worse.
Not that I disagree with you but I don't think we, collectively, are convinced that we're destroying the Earth.

Some people are really dense and will continue to deny well into their graves.
just because You are not familiar with the sub culture that generated a pop term, doesn't mean the etymology is wrong.
That's the second time : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/04/yahoo-layoffs-2000-...
For me, it's the Inbox-Zero-Guilt, but I guess everyone has a different guilt that they are trying to avoid.
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This.

We have a simple Puppet recipe that creates a user, group and home, sets the correct permissions/groups and installs the public key. It will also remove users if they leave the company.

The script reads all users' details from YAML so if there are any changes, we push the YAML to all servers and run the script. It's not as automated as Puppet-Agent, but it's fine for a small number of servers.
FB has never issued dividends to common stock holders.

http://m.nasdaq.com/symbol/fb/dividend-history
> but rather flawed industry-focused research: making incorrect assumptions, failing to deal with the general case, not considering real-world constraints.

I find this point rather condescending. What you term "incorrect assumptions" are often necessary simplifications that reveal the core of the problem at hand. The point is to try and understand what makes problems hard and to develop new ways of solving them; not to deliver to companies like Google ready-made solutions that cater to their every operational need. Don't like that? Too bad. Fund your own research.
actually we have great relationship with Lexifi, and we did exchange some ideas about ocamlscript before, I think mostly we are on the same page, there is enough room for two compilers :-)
I made github issues to discuss the name collision as well as allowing the compiler patches to be applied via an OPAM switch.
Well, at least xdg-app has the concept of "runtimes" shared among applications.
If a lib/bin in a runtime has a security issued, the whole runtime might be updated. Transparently for the apps running over it.
A runtime might be FreeDesktop-1, Gnome-3.14 for example.
Lets say a 0day is discovered and patched in gtk 3.14, a new version of the Gnome-3.14 is issued and dl by the clients.
Magically (with the help of overlayfs and co) all the apps depending on this specific runtime have a secure gtk.
> If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.

You might be right. But there's also the use case of it being just a timehop for your bookmarks vs. a read your unreads tool.
It has a time decaying value function. If the points accumulate rapidly upon submission, you can reach front page with as few as 5 up votes. This often happens for github repo submissions.
It depends who your users are and what needs they have. Our users are mostly MATLAB/Python users, pretty tech-savvy, and being able to edit individual bits of the dataset with other applications or write their own code to analyse them is an often-used feature.

It's rare we ever need the whole dataset - in fact, it's really great to be able to say to the user "don't send us your 100GB dataset: just go to the "acquisition" subfolder and send me the 10MB file called "oscilloscope.dat"". With HDF5 this is difficult enough that it's almost always easier to send 99.9% of useless data (i.e. the whole file) when all you want is a single array within it.

If your users will rarely need to do this, you could just store the entire folder hierarchy in a .zip and access it using standard tools that most programming languages have. It's worth noting that the new Microsoft Office formats do exactly this - in their case, a bunch of XML files inside a .ZIP. (Rename a .docx to .zip and you'll see!).

MATLAB has moved from their own custom binary format to HDF5, which is the lesser of two evils.
Preparing for a sale of their "internet business" perhaps.
both ways are "automatic". one is getting source from thousands of translations, the other from thousand of user corrections.

you can only say something isn't automatic if someone with authority over the system executed the manual step.
And about how much per month was each one?
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It was a joke that nobody found funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSxlfLTZu0k
About time and life, I read this year and strongly recommend the book: "The Shortness of Life" of Sêneca.
I can't remember where dang explained this, but there is a human factor in the algorithm. Some posts are artificially bumped to low on the front page for a small period of time to see if they gain traction. The selection of those posts is up to the moderators. This might be one such post.

EDIT: As I recall, the human-curated selections get put in a pool which the computer randomly promotes for a time to see if it gains traction.
OmniRom was a thing. Haven't checked them out recently.
People need to realize that buying from Stubhub guarantees you only this:

if your order isn't filled (or is filled with bogus tickets) and we can't find you tickets we consider equivalent or better at some point (even during the game, then you'll get a refund). The only thing "guaranteed" is your payment.

(You might also get additional credit toward a future purchase.)

People need to be aware of this when buying major-event tickets: they are happy to "walk" you (give you no ticket alternatives at all) if it's at all costly to cover a bogus sale. I've seen it a number of times at their pickup sites.
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Having enough money that you can value time over it is associated with greater happiness.
RemixOS supports apps from the Play Store.
That's not true that they come from the brightest people, I'd say that's very much a bias.

Much like how YC often says that the best startup founders aren't necessarily the smartest people in a room. Occasionally, being the very brightest can even be counter-productive because in the end the people who are less smart and realize it will strive to work harder.

And that's what research really is, really hard laborious work. Not this fantasy of someone bright sitting in a chair thinking up discoveries. That's why research is hard.
This has been turned into art by professional media outlets. That's the whole point of almost every single article they publish - the more people they can outrage or offend, the more people read and thus the more ad money flows in.

> It is very disheartening when you take the time to write something thoughtful and you get no response at all.

Scott Alexander explored this topic in [0]. He also laments the fact that the posts he considers most valuable are read the least, while his most controversial ones are also the most popular. He even has a nice graph of it[1].

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/

[1] - http://slatestarcodex.com/blog_images/sschits.png
Funny, in the book artificial light is extremely commonplace. A theme park actually builds a pitch black tunnel as a ride.
I am curious to know your opinion about this discussion, then: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Stopping-all-code-execution-wh...

People using default R installations report that special commands are needed to make it stop on all errors. Are they delusional? What about the R experts who give them solutions, are they doling out placebos?
I don't have any empirical data, however I believe spot prices wouldn't move. Spot prices tend to be relatively flat except for odd spikes which AWS uses to kick off people who use Spot as if were the same as Dedicated Instances. You're already getting 75-80% off the Dedicated price, so a 5% reduction isn't going to move the needle all that much.
Who gives a damn if academic research is relevant to industry? Almost anything that could possibly be relevant to industry is highly uninteresting.

Imagine being someone who thinks that Capital could decide what is a good problem to work on...
So a Chinese company knocks off an American company's patented product, ignores the patent holder's correspondence to cease production of the product, then gets their booth shut down forcibly by federal agents who were notified by the patent holder.

The headline makes it seem like some grave injustice occurred (and the headline definitely made me open the link in my timeline) but it seems like the patent holder is simply exercising their legal rights here.
This is frustrating, but not necessarily a conflict of interest.

Any type of events business carries a significant risk to a payment processor. Funds are paid up front before services are delivered. If the event doesn't happen there will be a demand for refunds.

This isn't necessarily due to malfeasance on the part of the promoter. Imagine there was a conference booked in the World Trade Center for September 12th.

Boil it all down and what PayPal is doing is charging a higher percentage fee (aka the base fees plus the interest on the loan) for a business they deem to be more risky. Entirely fair.

Now for the way they presented those fees - absolutely unacceptable customer service.
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Just to clarify, the "social dick-measuring contest" the author was referring to is being able to see how many followers or friend a user has. I can look up how many followers some celebrity has on Twitter or compare how many friends I have with another friend on Facebook, but I have no idea how many followers DJ Khaled or any of my friends have on Snapchat. You can friend celebrities or brands on Snapchat if you want, but there's no mechanism within the app to find popular users. There used to be a "score" that you could see (I think you can only see your own score now), but that was based on how you used the app rather than how many friends you have.

I'm not an incredibly social person and I'd never have more than a hundred or so Facebook friends, but I'd always feel a little uneasy whenever I saw how many friends another person had -- you can't help but compare them with yourself. On Snapchat I have no idea how many friends the average user has. It's just a window into the lives of the people you care about (as banal or entertaining as they are).
When Nokia sold the Devices division to Microsoft it did the opposite, did not fire anyone, and let the new owner take care of it...
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Er, this was meant as a reply for xeromal, sorry :).
It's not very powerful, but pretty nice entry-level machine.
DJ Khaled commonly says things like "They don't want you to (insert relatively normal thing here, like watering plants)" and then after doing that thing he'll say "(thing) is the key to success!"
Getting paid to do something doesn't necessarily mean the payment is the top priority. They might just have been lucky enough to get companies to pay them to do what they would be doing anyway. The question is: could they get a better/higher-paying job working on something else?
The OneWheel is manufactured in Silicon Valley.
Lyft defies predictions by continuing to grow as a rival to Uber
I completely understand the appeal of snapchat; it's basically LSD in social network form... The intimacy of shared human experience, the infinite nowness, the mindfuck UI, the altered values, the sense of sacred space, etc.

But much like acid, I feel like I wouldn't be able to engage with it everyday without weird things happening to my brain. I totally support people who use it, just personally I'm content with mostly experiencing it vicariously through other people.
To clarify the comment about refunds. Participants would first go to the promoter. But if they were unable to resolve the dispute, they could then go to their bank and dispute the charge. My understanding of this is murky, but in the end PayPal does carry a liability for those funds as a participant in the transaction.
The OP, and any other file format spec, needs to be able to read/write large numeric datasets. Printf is very poorly suited to this case.

Your comment is true for your use case, but it's not really responsive to the technical issue here.
investors who bought YHOO just to wait the Ali baba sale would love the company cut 500mi/year over year in salaries (or disinvest on products?) so when the dismantling finally comes the pie slices are bigger.
second? how quaint...

every single CEO did that. some every year.

mayer did her's in small installments to not show up in the media. but still got the same cut at the end.

i think it's some textbook the board have
I meant no human user has access to it. But application user that connects to credit score engine, map reduce job, or something similar has access.

I know applications can be compromised but now you can freely share your DB freely with other teams to analyze or play around
There may be a carveout in place, providing a modest return that would otherwise be consumed entirely by investors eating first.

http://blog.drosenassoc.com/?p=70
Your response is a prime example of how hypersensitive your generation is to criticism.

A healthy dose of criticism is not only a contribution, but a form of flattery in a way. (Because your detractor thought your comment was worthy of critique, or else they would have ignored it)

At any rate, the way I read Justin's comment was that he was agreeing with you, but I could be wrong.
Why would I want this when I can just use OSX on the desktop ?
Yup.

If you look at table 3, which is a study of the museum going group, you can actually see that SWB (subjective well being) is mostly correlated with household income and material affluence. However in table 3a, we can see that SWB is negatively correlated with material striving.

In other words, people who are concentrated on making money are the people who don't have money and are also unhappy.

People who value time are the people who already have money and don't have to worry about it.

The conclusion I would make from this is that the more money, and implicitly more time freedom you have, the happier you are. If you are trying to make money but don't have any, you're not happy.
A 1x liquidity preference is standard, but it is common now to see larger multiples - especially in high-value later stage rounds, where the preference to those investors would also be stacked before earlier investors.

So, yes, I doubt common holders got much here, it is also possible that earlier investors didn't get much either.

For founders and employees this is usually made up with a separate bonus or earn-out from the acquiring company - which has been the source of conflict of interest claims from investors in some of these deals (where the acquisition price is much less than the 1x preference but the founders get a separate payout/earnout/signing bonus).
https://twitter.com/Budweiser/status/684878816959856640
Related story and comments, 5 months ago: The Teflon Toxin (firstlook.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045156
That's a good point. I don't know. I don't know how software would change if we were more diplomatic like lawyers or consultants.
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>Relevance is a very broad term, with industry a subset.

That's very insightful. It's easy to lose sight of things and be reduced to a particular worldview. The Higgs boson doesn't have to have commercialization potential for us to justify spending a few billion and a few decades discovering it. :) It's an end in itself.
Really? The headline (currently) reads U.S. Marshals (or Feds) Raid Hoverboard Booth at CES. I don't see any reference to injustice—I generally associate raids with positive busts, which is what makes stuff like raiding the Pirate Bay (albeit different feds) so shocking.
I'm surprised that there's so much "I don't get it" sentiment here. You would think that everyone on HN would be clamoring to figure out how Snapchat is able to get as many users as it has.
Drup,
By the way, I really have appreciated the absolute simplicity of js_of_ocaml - it's pretty great how you can just take any byte code file and run it in any JS engine with great performance - it's amazing really. I really love how js_of_ocaml does dead code elimination, and inlining among other features.

It seems like the primary difference is that the goals of js_of_ocaml gravitate more towards taking an app/library that had already been fully tested/debugged in OCaml and then running that thing in the browser with some nice debugging facilities that let you see the source code and kind of step through in the more rare event that something goes wrong.

I can't speak for this new approach here, but it seems to be more focused on using the JS target as the core development workflow for rapid iteration. I can see why that's appealing. Everyone knows how to use the browser debugger, and JS is one of most ubiquitous byte code formats ever. Running your OCaml app in the browser also gives you all kinds of really great timing and memory profiling tools that help you detect leaks (that even tells you something about the nature of your program when compiling OCaml to machine code).

Obviously, I wish there was a single toolchain that could actually do both though - a toolchain that you could use to get very JS-friendly code generation so the debugging/value printing/console inspection works just like it does in JS, but then would also let you do a js_of_ocaml style compilation based purely on an OCaml byte code object file (edit: or some kind of representation of the whole program) which would be free to remove and obscure record field names if it so chose.

(BTW: The difference in object representation (record field names are not obscured) seems to be the very thing that makes the values inspectable in the browser. Maybe there are some of OCamlScript's compiler patches that could be accepted in upstream ocaml so that the same can be achieved with js_of_ocaml?).
I absolutely love the "belief tags" / "epistemic status" annotations. Gwern stole his "belief tags" from[0] (I link it because there's a cool article there worth checking out), and Scott Alexander has also adopted them.

This sort of matches the way I personally thing about information and my own opinions. Back in my head I always have this feeling of "degree of confidence", of how sure I am about what I'm saying, and it's often hard to express it in the speech itself. It fits perfectly as meta-data / qualification. Saying once, "this is a thought I'm playing with, I'm not sure either way" beats having to qualify every sentence with "maybe".

Also, I have most fun reading arguments that sound totally convincing to me but are tagged by author as something he doesn't have high confidence in. I end up having to figure out how this smart guy just convinced me of something he himself isn't sure about.

[0] - http://webcitation.org/6DuYcqyQ3
I probably misread the numbers in the paper.

The graphs in Figure 10 imply that the interior scene can be done in 10 minutes, but Figure 4 says the scene takes 68 minutes to render.
I'm planning on doing a Kickstarter to fund research into non-local consciousness. I'm not actually going to use the money to do research. I'm going to buy a car. Either way the results will probably be the same: "Nope, we didn't find nothin' guys."
I can understand that, thanks, I think I just thought EN was more fully featured, like endlessly nested items, maybe some Readability type archiving, links between items of disparate collections, etc. That could just be backwash over old comparisons with omnigraffle, I don't know.
I don't associate raids with anything positive necessarily. Sometimes, but not often.
"From a political perspective R was in the right place at the right time. It was a decent high level language that could handle matrix processing gracefully. Scipy/Numpy weren't ready for production yet. The others were Matlab, SAS, and Stata".

This is forgetting xlispstat, which was frankly the best of the lot. Free, functional (based on a subset of Common Lisp), and with dynamic graphics capabilities that R is now only beginning to match. But the problem I think was that it was maybe too early. In the 1990s, Lisp and functional programming seemed to be on the way out and object-orientation was the big thing (It's telling that the book on XlispStat is called "LISP-STAT: An Object-Oriented Environment for Statistical Computing and Dynamic Graphics", hyping the objects rather than the functional aspects). If it had come out now, with the current interest in FP/Lisp thanks to Clojure and Racket, it probably would have been more successful.
Bravery is overrated. You learn to pick your battles and your opponents - you either talk just to charitable people, or under the protection of the Mighty Banhammer wielded by a charitable mod.
Not necessarily, no, but it's hardly a negative necessarily either. It's just an event.
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Thanks but I was referring to what the person meant by saying that something was not like he would have preferred.