skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
besides facebook website and its mobile app, everything that FB created has failed - facebook mobile os, chat heads etc.
Sounds like a next gen A10 warthog
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That would be... depressing.
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Hi,

A great interactive tutorial for Python!!

I am a Stats student and so have naturally become interested in Data Science. While I have been using R for projects I always heard about Python from professionals mentioned as well. I have never used Python but it seems like an important skill/tool to have as am aspiring data scientist. So I wanted to share this incredibly useful Python Tutorial from DataCamp.
I have been using DataCamp to brush up on some R, learn some new things, and really to stay in "programming" shape since a lot of my academic work is more on theory and mathematics really. Anyway I was very happy to see this Python tutorial. It's really simple and I found it to be a great way to get some Python exposure. Also get a certificate once you complete which is pretty neat.
Becoming a Real Startup – On Growing and Turning an Idea into Something Tangible
Yep. The hedonic treadmill* is real. There are things worth paying for, and there are things whose net effect is only to make it more expensive for you to be happy. It's very much worth it to be deliberate in what luxuries you allow into your life, as once they've been there for a while you'll no longer derive any pleasure from them, but you'll miss them dearly if you were to give them up.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
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FWIW Carreyou and his WSJ colleagues were awarded the Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting last year for a project on Medicare fraud:

http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/7226

The work they published to win the award was great, but he'd been fighting that fight for many years...and his dogged pursuit led to the CMS agreeing to publish the reimubrsement data in full, for the first time ever:

https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...

If you're interested in what the data contains, it's only a couple of GB as a flat table, but contains Medicare reimbursements for every doctor, for every type of reimbursed procedure, which allows for a lot of interesting analysis about healthcare in general...I wrote up a walkthrough that explains how Carreyou arrived at his numbers for the lead story in the investigation: http://2015.padjo.org/tutorials/sql-walks/exploring-wsj-medi...

I've never met him or asked him how he did his work...but it underscores what a great thing he and the WSJ managed to accomplish: producing an important investigative story and pushing for the release of the data so that anyone else could reproduce it.
I think you forgot another important metric:

* Are the startups that are hiring taking up enough of the talent compared to large established companies with billions in the bank such that if there were a bubble, and it were to pop, it would actually make an impact on the hiring environment.

I'd love to see some hard data on the % of people employed by the "startup ecosystem" vs. large established giants like Google, FB, Apple, Adobe, MS, Amazon, etc. These companies have MASSIVE hiring needs and will likely continue to for some time. Should interest rates cause lots of startups to die, I have a hard time believing it would result in a similar situation to the last dotcom bust. Salaries might be depressed for a while, but these giants would still be fighting each other to swoop up the talent.

I'd seriously love to see some hard data on how much of an economic impact it would have in the Bay Area housing market and the public markets in general if all of the funded startups were to go poof overnight. My current bet is "not much in the scope of things."
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Don't get offended. People are free to speak with their mouths.
Those are probably the most used non default options on any ssh-equipped linux/bsd machine today.
Unless it's explicitly stated to be a wholly owned data center I always assume companies are talking about rack space in a bigger DC like supernap.
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"But there is nothing free market about the housing market in San Francisco."

How so? There is a supply (although limited), and there is a demand. The landlords are interested to maximize their profits, but can not ask more than the market can bear.
I guess you're right, I overdid the hyperbole.

The part I disagree with is looking at a disfunctional system, taking the component producing the loudest symptoms and declaring it "non value added".

I agree that, in general, QA needs to provide specific feedback to development in order to accomplish its goals. I disagree with the unstated asumption that the problem with F-35 is a QA problem. I know nothing about planes, but for what I have read online, this has been a basket case of Project Management vices and mispractices.

In my mind, claiming that QA is not adding value in this case is the equivalent of "fixing" your car by clipping the cable that goes to the "Engine Maintenance" led. I agree a one bit message is not enough to actually solve the problem, but ignoring the one bit of information you already have is just wrong.
Typing this from MV right now having moved from Chicago in 2013. Really wishing I'd moved out here in summer of 2008 as it would likely mean I'd be able to afford much more home than I can right now.
> Regarding the tenuous connection between tomatoes & ketchup, a friend of mine once posed me the question: "have you ever tasted a tomato that tasted anything like ketchup?".

Ketchup evolved as an English approximation of a Southeast Asian pickled-fish-based condiment which ended up using mushrooms and later tomatoes because of availability. Its not really intended to taste like tomatoes, its supposed to use tomatoes and other ingredients to taste like something almost completely unlike tomatoes.
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Show HN: Silence your phone
Title is a bit misleading, what they were doing was a lot closer to a precursor to calculus.
props to the author! This is a great fun and educational game. I'd love to find more like this. Anyone have any recommendations?
I feel like drinking milk from a herd of consistently inbred cows is one of those things that will seem obviously dumb looking back when something catastrophic happens[0].

[0]I don't know - nationwide distribution of spongiform-milk slurry, aka zombie serum.
This is my biggest problem with it. If the integration were as simple as "set these proper headers to identify your content", maybe even with something as basic as registering the ID you use to prevent abuse, I'd feel much less negative about the Binge On and Music Freedom programs.

I'm a T-Mobile customer and I work for a boutique internet radio provider who participates in Music Freedom... so I certainly do benefit from the programs. I just wonder what kind of long-term cost it'll have when consumer-friendly programs like this become standard and less-friendly versions take their place.
Url changed from http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-announces-big-chan..., which points to this.
>> Speak with your wallets, not with your mouths.

Careful. Money=speech is a touchy subject. It implies that those with less money are somehow less important. That may be true from a libertarian absolute free market standpoint, but cities are not liberated markets. They are nests of overlapping interests and entrenched power brokers. Not everyone is free to move at the drop of a hat, nor should we expect them to bounce around chasing their market niche. We should respect that people want to live in community year after year without being forced out, or in, due to market fluctuations. There is value in establishing roots in a community beyond the financial.
I'm tracking this i3/Wayland fork which seems to be pretty active too: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway
Also agree; looking at the machine is one thing, but actually seeing it in use, working through calculations, is a little bit breathtaking. There's never been a machine I felt was alive, but watching the difference engine (which is the size of a small locomotive!) move its thousands of parts in one smooth sequence, was stunning.
I totally agree with this. Tech waves can come and go so quickly that you could be obsolete before you even finish building something with the popular tech stack from last month (ok, a bit of hyperbole, but it sometimes feels like new things replace the last new thing before you even know why you would need the thing in the first place).

Not only do you need to try and save as much as possible (which is really hard if you are not single and able to live with roommates), you need to be constantly learning.
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I'm glad Nintendo still exists. It allows me to buy games for my kids. If all we had was Xbox and Playstation, the main source of kid friendly games would be on mobile.

Yes I know Skylanders and Disney Infinity are huge, but I don't want to pay more in plastic toys than I do for games and hardware.
Demographics don't matter if those people don't have income and wealth.
Interesting. Can you point to a piece of Haskell code that does some parsing of roughly the same level of complexity of that in the OP, so that we can compare how long it takes to write such a parser compared to a regex?
Not claiming that this is actually how things have worked out or how customers think, but in terms of strategy it's still interesting. The iPad sought to target usage cases where a "full" laptop or desktop wasn't ideal. In doing so, it also left out several laptop/desktop capabilities that people might want to keep and missed.

After the mobile-grade tablet market was established by iPad and, later, other brands of devices, the Surface seems intended to offer the things people liked about tablets versus laptops or desktops (extreme portability, multitouch, etc) and has at least attempted to add back the things many people might have missed when using those mobile-class tablets such as greater flexibility in file management, the ability to install software from multiple sources, choose your own defaults, and run more capable software packages.

It's certainly had its tradeoffs and the greater power and flexibility meant it couldn't be quite as portable as a tablet or work quite as well in certain cases as a traditional laptop but it's been interesting to see how these companies seem to target audiences that aren't happy with certain aspects of dominant products.

The end result (for me at least) is that I've learned there's no "perfect" device or form factor that has all the pros and none of the cons in all situations. That said, more options certainly does make it easier to find something closer to what you're looking for. I enjoyed the portability of my iPad but chafed under restrictions that required jailbreaking to work around.

The Surface line still is not the perfect device for me but whenever my Asus laptop dies, I'll seriously be considering one as a secondary computer after using one at work (primary will probably remain a desktop for the foreseeable future).
There is no way to monetize basic science anymore, because all the most important patents have expired. Big companies only care about treatments which are profitable. Thus we have abominations such as Finasteride being FDA approved.

If you broaden your horizons as to what constitutes "legitimate research", I think you'll find some useful information.
Hi there, what types of code quality bugs are you concerned with? Are these security issues, performance issues, exception issues, all?
This is a blogpost intended to demonstrate the usefulness of applying neo4j to a specific problem. All the challenges you cite are valid, but they do not negate the value of using neo4j in this scenario.

You can solve these problems by adding to the list of identifiers. Off the top of my head: browser fingerprinting, request latency, IP subnets, IP ASNs, hsts super cookies...

Stopping fraud is always going to be a cat and mouse game. The goal is not to eliminate fraud completely, but to make it so difficult for fraudsters to use your service successfully, that they would rather move to the next target. If a fraudster is specifically targeting your service, they will get around any blockades you put in front of them. But you can still make it as hard as possible to circumvent those blockades.

If you deter a high enough percentage of fraudsters, you mitigate your risk of chargebacks. That risk will never be zero. But you should certainly do all you can to minimize it.
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> This is exactly how peering and transit setups work across ISPs. The burden is far lower than you describe.

Only it's not. If you need Internet transit, all you have to do is buy transit from two to three transit providers and you are all set. You'll get as big and as fast pipes as you like and at a price cheaper than doing it yourself. There is no need to make bespoke deals with 200 ISPs are there would be if everybody started with this BingeOn crap.

> If you're a video streaming startup, you're not going to be serving content to ISPs. Your CDN is.

Only if you are made out of money and/or don't know what you are doing.

> If you're attempting to service content directly from your own servers, you're either enormous, or stupid.

Neither enormous not stupid, just competent. You on the other hand have obviously never done video streaming and don't know what you are talking about.
I always like these kinds of stories, and then I wonder what the after-story is. A couple hundred thousand in repairs, renovation and remodeling, I'm guessing the occasional B&B guest doesn't provide a huge amount of income. What do people who do this (move out to extreme rural areas and buy enormous and expensive to maintain offbeat homes like schools, churches, power plants and missile silos) do for a living to afford this?

I'd love to go out to random-rural-county and buy 20 acres of land and a school and turn it into a huge home, but then I'd be hours away from where I need to go to make the money to do that.

There's always some other parts of the financial story that never seems to come through in these kinds of articles.
> Ketchup is a combination of tomato paste, vinegar, and sugar however.

And clove! Can't forget that.
A fragment from one of my responses down-thread, but I think it deserves to be a direct response to this:

> If UBI is set high enough that more people drop out of the labor force than we can manage, the (real) UBI must fall by some mechanism.

There are a few choices of mechanism, with various trade-offs, but we should be sure we're picking one.
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> There's a world of difference between investigative journalists, like Carreyrou or Bob Woodward, and tech bloggers like Michael Arrington or Sarah Lacy.

Or, for that matter, Jason Calacanis. It was really uncomfortable watching parts of the video where Jason would go off on speculative tangents and John Carreyrou would have to bring things back to statements supported by facts.
My experiences with it are that it is extremely shitty. I often go to it to see if there are any tables at my desired time, and if there are, I manually call the place and book the reservation directly. Whenever I go to it, it tries to push a bunch of unrelated crap to me. No, I don't want to get daily emails about this restaurant I'm eating at once while on vacation. (Does anyone want that?) The UI is horrible and confusing. I avoid it if possible, and only grudgingly use it when I don't have another choice (near wifi, but no cell signal, for example).
I think opinions also vary on that one, and effectiveness of anti-ship missiles vs carriers has obviously not been combat tested -- a carrier group has a lot of means to defend against cruise missile attacks though, the aircraft themselves being a pretty major one. There have been developments on both sides of that equation, but I doubt anyone who actually knows much about the current state of affairs is going to tell us :)

One problem with the missile strategy (which is the one Soviets tried) is that even if you might be able to cost-effectively attack a carrier group with missile cruisers, they are pretty much useless for anything else.
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Microsoft lost all the developer credibility by launching that spyware OS called Windows 10.

They had a great shot. After seeing so many bugs in Lollipop, and really slow updates coming in from Google, I considered MS ecosystem. First time in 7 years of being Linux on desktop/server + Android for phone.

Finally, I switched to Apple products instead. Got a Mac and developing stuff for iOS now.
with interest rates at zero, it's pretty easy to see why debt service doesn't currently amount to much. how great do obama's deficits look if he's dealing with the same interest rates as reagan, bush, clinton, bush jr?

the difference is trillions.
Twitter's cash puts it in a league of its own /
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/28/twitters-cash-puts-it-in-a-le...

Also revenue has continued to grow year over year on par to be over $2B in 2015.

Sure, user growth has slowed but so, the important people are there for me anyway. ;-)

Also, don't forget periscope which is growing like crazy and has yet to be monetized.

There is no platform like Twitter. With a lot of cash in the bank and a slow burn Twitter will be around for a very long time.
I agree. I am fairly confident that Twitter will survive as long as they don't do drastic redesigns like Myspace did. The Twitter stock price, on the other hand, will possibly plummet a lot more.
this is just a guess - maybe they're not doing it for money, but as a form of a hobby
It's always interesting to see what happens when something is optimized for the "wrong" metric.

No consumer would actually say they want worse tasting tomatoes, but consumers as a whole clearly made that choice by buying only cheap and firm tomatoes. Same with farmers, they didn't want bad tasting tomatoes, they just wanted to make a profit and knew that the market responded positively to tomatoes that were red, firm, ship well, and stayed "good" long enough for the retailers.
Interesting. Wikipedia makes that 80% claim, citing:

Aschacher; Wolf; Enzmann; Kienzl (2015). "ALINE-1 induces hTERT and ensures telomere maintenance in tumour cell lines". Oncogene. doi:10.1038/onc.2015.65.

Aschacher et al write:
"In about 80% of tumour cells, telomere maintenance is controlled by telomerase (TA), a reverse transcriptase, which adds DNA repeats onto chromosomal ends."12, 22, 23, 24, 25

I checked all five references and none had anything about this 80% of tumors number. It appears to be made up.
"What about the people who have already lived there, who aren't on engineering salaries and work service positions?"

I'm trying to look at it in more brighter light, so I'll say that they can sell high their place (which is wonderful thing from a market player's prospective), then offer themselves as a gift to enrich some other lucky place (which is good for many under multiple reasons). It's a win-win!
My question was based on the opposite actually: I had an assumption that US property tax would be higher, building code more strict, and zoning laws less permissive. I just felt like buying a gigantic old school and living in it would be a massive administrative pain in the backside in the US, but sort of a nicely achievable bit of whimsy in Canada.

(I'm British, but own property in the US, and I'm staggered by the size of my property tax bills here vs. the UK, and more so by the sheer number of permits I have to get for doing trivial work I'd tackle myself in the UK).
> Neither enormous not stupid, just competent. You on the other hand have obviously never done video streaming and don't know what you are talking about.

My last gig was managing the video streaming infrastructure for a major US broadcaster. I think I've got a grasp on how its done.
This is probably being downvoted because it's off-topic in the thread. You'd be better off making your own Show HN post that links to your site and then includes the above text as a first comment in the thread.
Bizarre comment, given that most people I know who've used speech-to-text have done so due to experiencing RSI issues.
Why would you evaluate policy outcomes by what they would be in different conditions than the ones that they actually exist in? Certainly, the current cost of borrowing ought to be a factor in making fiscal policy decisions.

I mean, would any business make decisions about financing based on what the costs would be in of those decisions in past decades rather than what the costs are reasonably expected to be in the conditions that actually exist?
So what, this happens everywhere in the market. Why do you think small stores and bodegas put a minimum of $10 for payment via credit card? Because the large chain stores get better rates from Visa and Master Card. Many times I go to Starbucks instead of some small cafe when I don't have enough cash because I know I would be able to pay by card.

Shipping companies offer better shipping rates to commercial companies than to a small startup.

This is just called 'price discrimination' and is a very valid economic concept.
omg one of my favorite games as a kid!
Why compare that actual cost to GDP? Compare it to federal tax revenue. It's about 8% of federal tax revenue. There is not a lot of room for the federal government to increase revenue as total taxes (incl state and local, sales, payroll, property, etc) are not low by any means in the US
Mm, although I felt that Rational Clearcase, MVS, and Visual Sourcesafe were mostly worse than CVS.
It's not that big a job to stay out of the plane of the moving ax and stack the wood.
When will self-Driving cars be on the road?
Why is it so hard for us to distribute our dependencies? Hash the package to a sha and put t anywhere on the Internet. Then we just need a service that holds and updates the locations of the hashes and we can fetch them anywhere.
Emacs Org-mode is fantastic at doing everything you mentioned.
I suspect that at the time the reliability problems would have been greater for relays and the speed would probably not have been much better.

But they could certainly have tried and that alone would probably have been enough to drive someone to improve the design and manufacture of relays.

Is there anyone about who has expertise in this field who could give a better answer?
Interestingly, this bubble is not powered by ads. Only one of the top 25 "unicorns" worldwide, Snapchat, is ad-based. The others provide a good or service paid for directly by their customers.

[1] http://fortune.com/unicorns/
There is absolutely no reason for this post to be down voted. I am not sure why people are okay with "it will fix itself" -- it is an absurd position.
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>Net neutrality means no preferential treatment for any traffic.

I don't know how this can be open to interpretation, by anyone. self-described "t-mobile fan" or not.
Imagine that you didn't have to peer to level 3 and be done, but instead had to have peering contracts with every single network that your packets passed through.

Your CDN would have a process in place to integrate

So rates through CDNs go through the roof (even more than they are for streamed video content already) because now they have to peer every end user ISP, and as a video streaming service, those costs are passed on to you. So something that was previously "free" (so as not to be a net neutrality violation) has the same effect of increasing costs and reducing competition.

And then on the flip side, if a startup is trying to build a new (possibly better) CDN company, itstill has the same problem.

You didn't remove the problem, you just moved it, and it's still just as unscalable.