skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a hard time explaining it. I know many very pro-gun people who constantly think the government is trying to take their guns but who don't have a problem with spying. My father is one of them.

One of the only things I can see is the propaganda has worked. They think spying is only to catch online child abusers and terrorist, and they know they aren't one of those so they have nothing to worry about. The spying is also much harder to grasp. Taking someone's gun is a very easy think to understand. Even a toddler can understand someone taking something from them. In comparison, spying, especially the really large scale stuff, is much harder to understand.

But besides for that, I don't really know why there is such a divide between the reactions.
> I've been on the hiring side as a manager in a number of companies, and I've NEVER seen a situation where a candidate was so uniquely awesome that the company was willing to make an offer drastically larger than their normal range for that role. A bit more? Sure. Some more stock or something? Often. But not, say, 50% more salary than anyone else at that level is getting.

Fyi, at $DayJob we have one guy at my level who makes 50% more than anyone else at the level he is at.

So it does happen but its unusual. [e.g. Developer A-Z get $60-80k, Developer Unicorn gets $120k]
I'm pretty sure California is an example of a badly run system, and price differentials wouldn't be so big if it were run better.

In an efficient market, peak prices wouldn't exceed the cost of storage pretty much by definition, because the utility would use storage to even out demand as long as it's cost effective.

But I assume you mean whether it would happen without storage. That depends a lot on the underlying assumptions, I'd say. Does an efficient market mean one where you can build coal plants anywhere you feel like and pay only the cost of extraction, but not the cost of pollution? Or does it mean one where you pay the full cost of fossil fuels, rather than the weak and inconsistent controls we currently have?

I think you'll almost always benefit from some storage. You'll get diminishing returns as you increase generating capacity to match peak load, so storage would become the cheaper option at some point (assuming you're not shedding loads for extreme peaks).

Consider that no other industry operates on such a sharp just-in-time way, where supply and demand have to be matched on a second-by-second basis. Whether it's fruit or car parts or passenger airplanes, there's always some storage to allow slack in the system. The electrical grid historically hasn't been this way just because the technology wasn't there, but it's finally catching up.
Menus are broken on Safari, Chrome and Firefox. El Cap latest
anyone delete their linkedin? I just got sick of strangers adding me and messaging me but I also found out my ex-boss who I had a great deal of respect for unfriended me on linkedin and lets just say he needs to worry about another competitor SaaS soon.
This passage is intriguing, does anyone have the full story of how they came to make the discovery?:

"Last year’s big surprise in Prisoner’s Dilemma research came from two distinguished polymaths. William H. Press . . . [and] . . . Freeman J. Dyson . . . The story of how Press and Dyson came to make their discovery is almost as interesting as the result itself, but I have room here only for the latter."
>But...that's not breaking the law. When speeding is done as part of the police officer's job, it is not breaking the law.

What about the FBI running a honey pot where they continue to allow children to be abused? Technically legal, but is it really something we should tolerate?
I tried the android app, bam - all my contacts are now in "do you know", I thought it would be "click to upload contacts". mistake!
Designing for &lt;anything&gt; with Erlang
Not after all the investment in powerbi, sadly.
Alan Watts Talks Internet Privacy 30 Years Before the Internet
You're right there. This was a naive stab at it that I hadn't properly thought through. I'll try to update the post this weekend.
I've seen companies willing to pay >100k in Chicago and relocate people there, for engineers with only ~4 years of experience.
I believe it was first posted on Lifehacker.

The "hunchback posture" is not just a matter of aesthetics : in my case it affects my cervical and it leads to migraines. My physiotherapist showed me a similar exercise that seems to help (plus of course the massages).
Design Pattern: Adapter Pattern – Be Adaptive
Why are you acting as if there is a difference between asking a question and raising concerns? Going to you boss and saying "I saw X doing Y, is that what should be happening?" is clearly doing both.
They're almost certainly monitoring HN (at least algorithmically) to sniff for leaks (inadvertent disclosures from people who might know the various leakers or journalists of interest, or their supporters). And yes, high-signal threads (like this one) might get passed off to a human analyst somewhere.

As to whether they're trying to poison (or otherwise influence) this community in some way? It's certainly possible. But there's also the famous advice from a former government agent (who was once involved with infiltrating domestic radical communities) -- which goes about like this (someone out there might have a better quote):

"My advice? Stop worrying about infiltrators. That is, just assume you're being infiltrated and monitored, and that there's nothing you can do about it. You'll waste an infinite amount of time and energy speculating who the source might be, who to point fingers at -- to the point where you end up poisoning your own community form within. Which is precisely what these monitoring agencies want you to do."

My own view is basically existentialist: if I were ever to get deeply involved in resistance politics -- or even if I'm not, and just casually hanging out with people who are -- sure, almost inevitably I'm going to end up monitored, perhaps even "cased" (i.e. someone might slither up to me at a bar or meeting somewhere, to find out what I know or what I'm about).

But at the end of the day... really, just fuck all those people. If they're playing that game, as far as I'm concerned, they've already given up, and are already dead inside, on some level.

And I'm not going to let that stop me for a minute from speaking freely, calling things as I see them, or hanging out with people I consider to be to be basically ethical and well-meaning (though I may sometimes question their approaches), just because of what some agency flack somewhere might be doing with me to pad his quota and make himself look good for his bosses.

But that's just me. You can make your own choices.
Lovely clean, expressive, and consistent syntax! This definitely is a language, which I'm gonna experiment with!
Actually, that article is fluff reporting that doesn't convey Bostrom's central arguments, and spends a lot of time on his lifestyle. I walked away from it thinking that neither the reporter, nor Mr. Bostrom, knew what they were talking about.
I thought that's what it'd be about too, and was disappointed to see that goofy blue cartoon rat instead.

And yes, some people use the Gopher protocol, in the same way that some people try writing with mechanical typewriters instead of computers. http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw? http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org:70/
It's strictly opt-in, but you won't be able to buy anything if everyone else requires auditable money and you don't want to opt-in. The more people who adopt it, the less tenable it is to stay out.

Governments are people. People who use this system nefariously can be sanctioned by refusing to accept money they've touched. We're so afraid of governments misusing their power because our checks and balances have failed miserably, but it's not so bad that anyone wants to use the ultimate fallback of revolution. Merit capitalism is a check that the people control directly. People don't need to revolt to reclaim power anymore.
LinkedIn reminds me of an online dating site. You're only on there long enough to get what you want. When you've finally gotten it you stop using it until you need to get it again.
Seconded with the strongest possible level of agreement. Though it seems github has an on-prem product for enterprises, how much value could they provide on top of a cheaper (or free) option of gitlab and such?
Comparing Klipfolio to Tableau is like comparing Notepad to Visual Studio.
How are you defining 'level'? Two individual contributors are not at the same level just because they do relatively the same job. I'm sure some of the better IC engineers at my company make 2x or more what the new guys do, but there is 15 years of experience between them.
I don't know where in the article you see Bostrom predicting AI in 2004. That's a lower bound on when we might achieve the needed hardware capacity.

Bostrom's predictions about hardware advancements have more or less come to pass (closer to the upper than lower bounds, granted). I think it's a common opinion among AI researchers that the level of computing power available today is plausibly sufficient for human-level AI, if only we knew how to build the software.

The closest Bostrom gets to a prediction on software is that the "the required neuroscientific knowledge" to do brain simulation "might be obtained" by 2012. Which has turned out to be optimistic, but is very far from the strawman position of "hardware capability implies software capability" that you seem to be painting him with.
http://www.openworm.org/

We are on the cusp of revolutionary general nematode level intelligence. Soon we'll be able to upload nematode minds to the cloud and they can live forever in the nemamatrix.
What's a jump-number? Googling it came up with your comment as the top result and then skydiving :)
I'm elated to see that your responding here. Please please see my comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11043082

There is so much low hanging fruit, I feel like anything related to actually running and maintaining tableau is ignored and I don't seem to be the only one judging from comments here.

I would add that I'm disappointed the only way these issues get attention are articles and threads like this.
Has there ever been a product or service which has billed itself as "X for hackers" which has actually been successful?
I second that. Having a very good experience with handsontable and planning to buy pro version more out of gratitude than for extra features
If we're not at peak computer science already, we're very close to it. Stories like this almost seem like satire at this point. It will be interesting to see how the companies backing this "learn to code" push fare in the coming months with all the financial turmoil that's brewing.
No problems, I'll e-mail you. My hash is 66aaeaf1850395a78696b3b6c178d49fd71bf5c3
Ah, I see, if you turn things on in the view menu, it enables it to be overload ONLY in the main thumbnail view mode. When you're viewing a single photo, the heart/title/etc is not overlaid on the full size photo or the nav bar thumbnail.
I think you'd be hard pressed to find a higher per-capita concentration of non-coding 'hackers' than in Appalachia- making do and making things do what they're not supposed to are pretty much the defining regional characteristic. Of course that doesn't necessarily mean they'll be great developers/ software engineers.
I knew an old guy in Northern California when I was a kid who said he'd made hashish by dressing up in biker leathers and walking through a pot field, then scraping off whatever stuck. (Clever, until you realize they probably weren't using brand new leathers for that...)
>For one, Spotify took the extreme measure of removing the song entirely without any kind of probation or appeal process. A logical endgame of this type of defensive action is an environment where a corporation gets to decide how users listen to music.

My concern here is quite different from the author's. If it is easy to trigger takedown on tracks with no appeals process, this can be used by non-owners of the track to troll artists or censor tracks they don't like
Linkedin also wanted to connect me with my dead grandfather a few weeks after he died. I'm pretty sure he never had an account there.
Felt a bit weird to have that email pop up suddenly.
Attacker-Friendly Security: Numerous flaws in routers and network storage
When presenting ideas to primates, it's helpful to create emotion and tension by introducing an element of sex. This applies to any ideas whatsoever.

We are animals.
The salary number that would convince joezydeco to "jump ship".
What's your country if you don't mind me asking?
Thanks Ian, I really appreciate your comprehensive answer :)

- laptop being stolen: cutting out potential ifs and buts, would it be drastically unfair of me to take that as: if you laptop's compromised, all bets are off?

- deanonymize every transaction: genuinely interesting, thanks for taking the time to educate me :)
The most recent companies funded Y Combinator seem to exist in the intersection between code and domain expertise in law, medicine, finance or other advanced industries. It seems to be harder to make it work with a "pure code" startup.
Same job title. All relatively junior developers with less than 10 years of experience. Unicorn has 4.
Cannabis actually has great potential to treat cancer (it is actively used for this... lots of personal, positive stories...conflicting scientific reports).

It's proven to be medically beneficial (the only known treatment?) for seizures. There are many parents who have moved to Colorado to gain access to CBD (a compound in cannabis) for their epileptic children.

On top of all that, cannabis sales in Colorado just passed $1b. That's a whole lot of tax revenue going to schools, creating jobs, etc.
SGI bought Alias|Wavefront BECAUSE of Microsoft.

When Microsoft bought Softimage, SGI freaked out, they feared MS would pull something awesome and make everything switch to x86 for editing.

Then they bought Wavefront and Alias separately, and forced the two to merge, Wavefront had a cool suite of editing tools that was award winning in the movie industry, Alias had a competing suite, the suites had lots of stuff unique to them, they merged the suits and created Maya (example: some of binaries that ship with Maya came from Alias, another ones from Wavefront, the GUI if I remember correctly was designed by Alias, the scripting language and the file formats by Wavefront, and so on...)

Autodesk then just reaped the mismanagement of MS and SGI
Tableau is an enterprise product and it's one the cheaper ones out there. You can't offer that kind of a product for $50/year.
Neat little tutorial. One of the things I'd suggest to the author is to perhaps add in something on creating standard and materialized views for some of the more complicated queries, to show more of the interesting data manipulation options that postgresql gives you.
They send emails to your contacts/dig through your email list to find people you know and ask them to endorse you for xyz skills through one click. Your great aunt was probably thinking she did you a solid. Scummy by the company.
I want a cure, like many, but I don't consider this progress - there is no breakthru, just another alternate of another previous study. Most FDA drug studies never make it from the investigational phase to studies/trials to market, like this announcement [1][2].

There have been ongoing human trials for this or that at least my entire life. And every single one of them have failed due to the researches thinking they can "trick" the immune system into accepting a foreign body/substance.

Last time around (2-5 years ago) it was "inhale" or eyedrop insulin.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v32/n1/full/nbt.2786.html
[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pharmaceuticals-success-id...
Do you have a source for that? It's a really fastcinating claim that I'm interested in reading more about.
I've been using this for woodworking projects. I have 0 CAD training, and after watching a couple youtube videos, I was able to get it working decently. In my limited experience, CAD is hard to just dip your toe into for small projects, but this bridged that large gap reasonably well.
Holland (Doing the same)

To the best of my knowledge, we are not. Can you provide a source?
The key point is going to walk away anyway

Your goal should be to get several competitive offers rather than simply taking the first thing that somewhat fits. As such you should expect to walk away from several companies.

In any major city you should easily be able to burn bridges it's simply not a big deal.
> It's hard to imagine a single person has even decided to not share their contact list with an app or service because they're concerned one of their contacts might get contacted by them.

You seem to be a little out of touch here. There are several examples of people withholding their contacts list from services like LinkedIn right here in this thread. It's not hard to imagine at all -- just read the posts.

In fact, right above your post that you responded to, the hn user vitd wrote, "why did you give them your contacts? I've been on it for years and have never uploaded a single contact."

Lastly, you're trivializing the situation by suggesting that recipients just mark it as spam and move on. The issue is that LinkedIn deliberately crafted the emails with header "FROM: YOU" and your photo in the message body to make it look like you explicitly sent the email inviting them to join. It's clever social engineering so that the recipients harvested from your contacts list do not treat it as spam. Some recipients know the disguised nature of LinkedIn spam and know you didn't actually send it but many do not (especially older executives). In those cases, they think that you are one of those clueless flakes that signs people up for multi-level-marketing vitamins and vacation timeshares. People genuinely got embarrassed by LinkedIn's spam practices.

Enough people were angry about spam being sent behind their back that they sued LinkedIn: http://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-settles-class-action...
These sorts of projects always want me to fill in a list of repos to "watch". We've got an organization full of repos, with new ones coming on and old ones being archived all the time.

I want to just say "watch this organization", and anything that gets assigned to me in that org, I get notified for. I don't want to have to manage a notifier every time new repos get added or archived.
i really hate the bells and whistles in most apps these days. even as i build them.

hack chat is kind of nice. same "minimalist" feel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10036770
Lol, so I use Tableau every week. For example today I had a government request to measure quantity of customers outside a particular business radius of 40km. Meaning what percent of total visits are in the radius vs outside it. I had 8k postal codes.

This took me literally 5 minutes in tableau, I would hate to see how long this would take you writing code.

..Just the tip of the example iceberg.
> Is it just me, or using jQuery for a complex web app in 2015 looks like, mmm, a bit strange choice?

This statement is everything that is wrong with the Javascript craze. It's not even 2015, it's 2016 and the argument for not using jQuery is that it's not trendy.

Since when are we so obsessed with looking trendy and keeping up with fashion? I still see people using php + jQuery to build apps that otherwise would've taken twice the time and twice the amount of bugs that take twice the number of developers.

Tech stack should be chosen based on merit that can only be built through the test of time. This is why I'm against using Node.js to write CRUD apps and why I'm against writing everything from scratch because it's the 'right' way. Guess what, 'right' or 'wrong' wont matter if the tech stack you chose slows you down or hurts other important requirements.

Why novelty is rewarded over reliability in SV, I'd never fucking get.
Just in time for the Grammys!

https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=grammy&e=S10E14&t=1008006&....

Once the AV Club finds this I think a black hole will open and consume us all. The website is quite cool though!
Postgres isn't designed from the ground up for high availability or scalability. Most of the in-built functionality for setting up HA wasn't introduced until 9.0, and the process of setting up HA postgres with automatic failover requires third-party tools. As for scalability, postgres can only scale vertically.

If you need a solution that can scale writes to more than than one node, or a solution that has first party support for HA with automatic failover, you shouldn't be using postgres.

As an aside, I find the dogmatic "just use postgres for everything" choir just as bad as the marketing BS associated with noSQL databases.
Just improvised something (probably temporary) here: http://test.plomlompom.com/twtxt/account_list.txt
Ok, so in general you would say that when releasing a product and trying to get traction you should only worry about creating a basic TOS&PP before launch? Then if you start getting revenue >10k you should form an LLC/incorporate and get a lawyer to look over the TOS&PP?
It would be nice but as a absolute rookie in this space I think it will take a while before that happens :)
Tell HN: Rosetta Stone is a SPAM house
I signed up for Rosetta Stone and the same day, started receiving SPAM, at least one per day.

Even as bottom of the barrel stating a new language can help "improve my dating profile". (even though I have been married forever and not on any dating sites)

http://imgur.com/sGVrqvu

I talked to a Customer Service Rep and their answer is to unsubscribe from marketing e-mails. Sure. But when I asked "Why do they consider this content appropriate to send to current customers" they said they had no response.

Here is the e-mail: http://imgur.com/sGVrqvu
Neural nets require a couple of FLOPs per synapse. The processing power required is a direct function of the number of synapses. Each neuron is essentially applying a particular logical op, and counting the neurons and their inputs gives you the number of ops. I don't get why this seems so objectionable.

Sure, real neurons in the brain might be doing something a couple of orders of magnitude more complicated than the nodes in an ANN, so you could tack on another 10^2 factor to those estimates if you like. But fundamentally, counting synapses is a reasonable way to get a Fermi estimate of the brain's processing power, and Bostrom's estimates are not significantly different from those others have arrived at by similar methods.
Thanks, reading through it now!
"In the Netherlands, asylum seekers are supposed to declare their assets, and deductions can be made if this exceeds €5,895 for an individual or €11,790 for a family."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35408936
Would have hedged it if they were smart.
Yeah, sounds great in the first place, but then again you’d have to consider how one would implement such a list without the need of registering an account or something of that sort.

My friends and I are basically sharing our followings publicly in a separate text file next to the main one, so we can discover new people.
My best attempt at PostgreSQL marketing material copy. :-) http://www.brightball.com/postgresql/why-should-you-learn-po...
I feel the same way I used to be able to find very hard to find things on Google. Now it's hard to find relativity common things using Google.

I don't know if it's because they've deprecated some search operators or the index is nurfed by some invisible changes or I'm just remembering things better than they were.
If successful ZCash cryptographically guarantees more government regulation and surveillance to counter the very real and also the very irrational fears of harm anonymous payments make possible. It will have opposite the desired impact on privacy if it takes off. I want to be wrong about this, but experience tells me otherwise.