skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>EDIT: To clarify, I basically feel like in order for this business to work at all, it has to be a much cheaper option than a normal home, because there is an accompanying huge risk in investing in one of these. It's resale value may be next to zero, and all it's fancy gadgets will be out of date by the end of next year.

Bingo. I've never lived in one house for more than 7 or 8 years so planning to own a house for longer than 8 years is foolish.

If I had to choose between this house and the $20,000 house that was featured on HN a while back, I'd take the 20k house and save 380k for retirement.
I also enjoyed the article on the LIGO site at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-GW150914/index.php

Solid coverage without the fluff.
Economists agree much more often than not. But that doesn't seem to matter, even when nearly 100% of economists agree on something, the public think it knows better...

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21569378...
It reminds me a bit of the Ben Horowitz essay "Why I did not go to jail"

http://www.bhorowitz.com/why_i_did_not_go_to_jail

In general, laws are not something you want to fuck around with as a startup. You can break proprieties, you can do things that will piss certain people off (you're almost guaranteed to piss off your competitors if you're doing anything interesting, for example), and typical business ethics assumes that everybody is looking out for their own interests and can advocate for themselves. But when someone has explicitly said where the boundaries are - and particularly if that "someone" is a government - it's good to respect those.
Sorry, what does that ratio imply?
The lesson from the quote would be to actually observe more for what you are looking. Coincidences are common, but it isn't serendipity until you actually notice it.

>I think I just feel saturated by online dating and the pre-engineered and instant gratification feelings that can come along with it.

Instant gratification seems to be the downfall of many a relationship. The honey-moon effect (iirc the name) is a problem if one or both partners rely on instant gratification to sustain the relationship.
Optimizing Push Notification Timing
The continued success of professional sports players unions supports this idea.
i read somewhere that it may have been iMacro - the chrome plugin

http://imacros.net/browser/cr/welcome
[WATCH] a Young Composer's Personal Tribute to His Musical Hero, John Williams
A social perspective into why Facebook’s “Free Basics” was rejected
> uncovering some frightening immaturity pervasive in Valley companies.

This is one of the dark sides to having an entire engineering team in the 25-30 age range. They can sling http just fine, but sometimes don't fully grasp the consequences of their work.
I think it certainly will. I have always avoided Parse because I was worried what would happen if it was shut down and the limitations on extensibility due to the previously closed codebase. Now those are no longer concerns.
I'm a student, I don't think it would feel like that at all (as long as the attitude of other team members didn't make it so).

There have been days where I've actively searched for some OSS project that is accessible enough for me to work on - because usually the ideas I have myself are things I'm not capable of! Or I just need to think more about how to get started, and when in this mood I'd rather just get hacking on someone else's project's issue.

My point is, issue triaging could be a great way to learn the ropes of a project (and get to know the team a bit), and you'd probably find yourself occasionally (then gradually more often) thinking "hey, actually I reckon I can have a crack at this myself". That'd be really satisfying for a never-contributed-before fresher.
If there is an analogue in the standard library you should have a compelling reason to use an alternative. Wish this could be filed under "common" sense. Thanks for articulating and presenting this principle, among others. Great writeup.
Blurring the lines between hacker and hack.
It may make them money, but they picked a winner. I find governments doing this type of stuff just encourages churn of companies. If anything would improve the overall business climate in the US, making all of these deals illegal would be a good first step.
I wonder if a member of the public noticed the camera on the pole, what the consequences would be for them to block the view or removing the camera.
> Sotomayer, Alito, Ginsburg, Breyer and Kagan concurred with the original decision, but wrote separate decisions bring up these exact points.

Strictly speaking, only Sotomayor concurred in the original decision, Alito, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan concurred in the judgement (that is, the result).

The difference is significant in general, because the decision includes the rationale, and the Alito opinion (joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan) disagrees with the rationale of the majority opinion. (That is, the majority held trespass to be decisive, Sotomayor agreed that it was in this case, but explicitly wrote a concurrence to argue that trespass wasn't necessary for a violation, and the other four agreed that GPS was a violation, but disagreed that trespass was an appropriate consideration.)

That is, there were four justices who believed that the GPS tracker was a violation because of the trespass to the target's property, four justices who though it was a violation for other reasons, but not because it was trespass to property, and one who thought it was violation because of trespass to property as well as other reasons.

Which results in the interesting situation, in that there were different (but overlapping with Sotomayor in both) 5-vote majorities both for the violation due to trespass view and the violation due to reasons-other-than-trespass view.
We have been having that discussion internally at the company I work for. After the initial shock wore off and we started deciding what we would do with the projects currently on Parse, we realized that this could very well be a good thing. Before this, we were not able to use Parse for larger clients or clients with specific database hosting needs, but that may no longer be an issue. I'm excited to see what the future holds for Open Source Parse.
They don't buy apps but they do spend a lot on in-app purchases.
This is really fantastic and looks like the parse team is delivering on the promises (https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server/issues/56)!

I am looking forward to seeing the dashboard now :-)
Carnegie Mellon invests $12M into AI to 'reverse-engineer the brain'
How to interpret this kind of entry (pair-count.csv):

1,1010,,,1.53E+07

where sex_sp and occ_sp is omitted.
Also, how to interpret the first entry in the job-name.csv:

none,none,0,none

I'm currently inclined to simply ignore these in my analysis.
This is by far the best shutdown of a service I've seen in recent memory. (Though they're still getting a post on 'Our Incredible Journey'[0])

[0]http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Zaapt
There's an implied license (of sorts) in the Github ToS:

We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Service. Your profile and materials uploaded remain yours. However, by setting your pages to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view your Content. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories.

I'd assume that forking involves modifications and use, but that's not something I'd want to bet on without a lawyer.
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Deal breakers: intelligence level very far from mine, politics and ethics very far from mine.

Turn offs: taller then me, under average looks, older then me, personal life more complicated than mine.

Edited -- male point of view for a potential wife
I really love Soundcloud but the "Shuffle" is the only thing I don't like. I am actually planning to design a small single-page one-purpose site for exactly that: A real Shuffle for Soundcloud!
I’m a webdev and I’ve been stuck with the simplest app for the last 10 days
West of Scotland is worth considering.
> So what if she was?

It means that for a man who wants "practical, non-judgemental girls," the decision to call it quits is much easier in regards to a girl possessing an ego that is stereotypically judgemental of his identity in such a demonstrable fashion of her "trying to figure out how she was better than [him]....IN EVERY FACET OF LIFE".
This is a beautiful premise for a mind bending book.
The article directly references one of the steps taken by management once this became an issue being a company wide ban on all use of "iMacros" -- not just "the Macro", so that's probably the case.
So to summarize, to get rid of an extra 10 (or even 100) megs in Ruby (or 0 megs in some other languages) of memory usage (and disk usage don't forget!) spend weeks rewriting, testing, and integrating your own code instead of using already written, tested, and integrated code. Now, that I've clarified the article's point, how can anyone not follow this "best-practices" advice? </sarcasm>
But we also look at a lot of other stars in the sky. If every single one (or almost every single one) had a massive 5x mass Oort cloud around it, it would affect the light we see from that star.

Consider that we can currently detect differences in luminosity small enough to tell whether an Earth-size planet is passing between us and the star. A 5x mass Oort cloud would be thousands of times more mass than that. It would have noticeable effect on luminosity.

And, while our sun has an Oort cloud, there are a lot of stars out there that probably don't--too small, too big, too hot, too young, too old, etc.
> Males generally dont marry up?

It's the politically correct way of saying women don't marry down.

Cf. the works of the great poet of our times, K. West.
Same for me with tonal language. At first I couldn't even hear the tones when given examples of 3 Thai words with the same spelling but different tones and hence different meanings. Eventually I got it and do pretty well now.
In what sense are technical preferences you cannot explain or justify an "ideology"? Ideology is not unjustified/mistaken belief. Maybe you mean cargo culting in technology, of which there is sadly a lot? Or maybe even "let's do this in JavaScript, because it's the only tech I know and I can't be bothered to learn something new"? That happens, but it's not ideological.
This one weird trick that will make you learn things twice as fast.
In this one particular instance, good for them and its a shame that they got caught. I've had to watch quite a few of these "unskippable" videos for various government mandated trainings and there are a complete waste of time so that some bureaucrat can check a box and some company's lawyers can mitigate some liability. They don't educate the captive viewers and they don't protect consumers.

Lets see how any customers were actually harmed by this.
I have seen and experienced this, from the inside.

I'm an educated black man (MS Degree) with a good job (Fortune 500 company) and my female relatives, many of whom are also educated and successful have difficulty with establishing and maintaining relationships.

Obviously not all, but many black women have unrealistic expectations. As other have already pointed out, women are adverse to marrying "down" so when a woman reaches a certain level of education/career advancement, it's extremely difficult to find a mate that meets her criteria. Lists of things, like Over 6 feet tall, lots of muscles, Bachelor's degree or higher, Churchgoing Christian, no children, good relationship with his mother, not domineering but not too passive, earning at least 6 figures and other wish-list type stuff. There are women who won't give a man the time of day unless he meets all of them. They, as you can well imagine, are lonely.

There are cultural taboos against black women becoming romantically involved with non black or hispanic men. I have only personally known one black woman who was involved with an asian man(his family came here from Vietnam and he grew up in "the 'hood") and only a few who are involved with white men.

I have never been in a relationship with a black woman. A date here and there. A fling here and there but never a relationship. Where I live, a video game playing, Dungeons and Dragons fan, comic book collecting, politically active guy doesn't tend to get much romantic interest from black women. Then, there's also the phenomenon of the black women who don't want anything to do with you getting upset because you're dating outside of the race.

I have also noticed that as we approach and pass 40 years of age, these women with their stratospheric standards are forced to carry on alone and bitter or drop their standards. Some of them get rid of them entirely just to get a man. I have even heard a fair bit of professional women getting involved with street dudes.

I guess my overall point is issues black women face are very different and unique to what Hispanic/White/Asian women face.

Agreed. Some of the issues are cultural, some are societal and some are of their own making.
No I believe he meant the fact that wage gains have not kept up with productivity gains
That blog post is one of the best advertisements I've ever seen for a tech company. If I weren't happy where I am, I'd apply for a position immediately.

I get that moving fast and breaking things works for some products, but I wish more companies had the same attitude as you.
I was 22 when I started and cared very deeply about the consequences of what I was doing.

It's more about heavily interviewing for alignment with your mission. If people care deeply about the problem you're solving — not just the technical problem, the people problem — then you're far less likely to have these issues.

I interviewed dozens if not hundreds of people at ZP and there were two red flags for engineers:

1) They only care about the technical problems. In this case, they're likely to make decisions more aligned with "that's interesting" than "that helps our customers"

2) Once we raised our Series A, we had a lot of applicants wanting to join a rocket ship. I literally heard that in an interview with a Facebook engineer who found us by "googling startups with 9 figure valuations." If you care about growth at all costs, you're going to cut corners and fuck over your customer.

Mission matters. Values matter. Interview for them.
While there may or may not be a darker side to having an entire engineering team in the 25-30 age range, according to the reporter that wrote the article, this hacking came straight from the CEO, who also set the tone for this type of behavior:

https://twitter.com/williamalden/status/697898496314077185

<<I’m told that Conrad created this program based on a belief that 52 hours was too long to spend in training>>
The advertising on redorbit.com (desktop site) is utterly preposterous- in terms of the quantity, quality, and repetition, and the relentless popups. I usually get annoyed when HN comments devolve into people discussing the page or the site rather than the contents of the story, but this is just absurd.

I would normally assume that a site that looks like this has to be a domain squatter's autogenerated site, or some sort of honeypot for distributing malware.

Or maybe I'm not getting the same experience everyone else is? If this is what it looks like to everyone, that's grounds for HN blacklisting redorbit.com links. I hope this is a screwup and not what the site owners are going for.
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Without knowing much about the situation... how much was this necessary? The industries Zenefits are working with aren't exactly tech-friendly, and I just always assumed Zenefits was doing some gross things on the backend in order to make things easier for the user.

(This doesn't excuse bad testing or bad code, but it's not like the insurance industry has well-documented public APIs for Zenefits to use)
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Do you leverage something like PassivHaus and if not, why not?

EDIT: Also, the line about "the home being a status symbol but you get a smaller home for the feels and the same status symbol effect" struck me as odd and somewhat off-putting.
> The difference between Uber and Zenefits/Theranos is that cities have limited resources and angry citizens can convince them to back down (and if you lose, hey, just ignore that city and try somewhere else), whereas state and Federal agencies can nuke you at any time and don't really have to worry about the vox populi.

Aren't a substantial share of Uber's legal issues state-level employer vs. contractor issues (which also potentially have federal counterparts)? So I'm not sure they are a good example of a company restricting its testing of legal boundaries to the municipal level.

I think the difference between potential (and likely) costs and consequences is far more complicated that simply the level of government involved.
> determined that one person downloaded the document from
> the website. That person was part of a community
> organization that has verbally agreed to delete the
> document, Peabody said.

Fortunate that they were able to do that; considerably softens the blow.
These are some seriously expensive houses. If net zero is about reducing total cost of ownership, these don't cut the mustard. I personally would be more interested in factory-built modular housing with the minimum of fancy gizmos - just the basics of high R-value insulation, good seals, appropriate placement of windows, and energy efficient HVAC. If net-zero is about reducing our carbon footprint, then I'd be buying a used house and doing some light renovations to make it more energy efficient.

You can get 80% of the way there by blowing foam into the walls, sealing leaks, investing in good windows, and making sure your HVAC system is appropriately sized and used only when needed.

Disclaimer: I used to work on this: http://ecomod.unm.edu/ so I might be somewhat cynical.
> Men normally don't want to marry a smarter woman then them

Maybe that's true for a certain type of man suffering from insecurity.

In general I find that men love to find a woman who is smart and practical. After all, this is about your life partner.
74% is a lot less than 100%.
No--the mediating particle having mass translates to a finite range.
I think you're agreeing with the comment indirectly. I think the point was that enterprises are likely to pay for a different issues system, which isn't really a possibility for an open source project. OSS projects can use a different issue system, but they're unlikely to pay for one.
you don't have to have to buy the webtop inorder to use the hdmi output, which will convert into a desktop (I think I had to use a custom rom, though). I can't blame them for trying to make money and being innovative.

Although, I would have liked a generic standardized keyboardscreen interface so could use any hdmi+usb cellphone with any keyboardscreen.
I use my own google custom search engine for this. You index the main job sites you are interested in and you just need to run a periodic search using your own search engine using the keywords you are interested in. It is best also to add the year of interest. Haven't figured out a way yet to filter out old archived job ads.
Men-as-homogeneous-group fallacy. Given a high variance, it's entirely possible that the top [small-percentage]% of men hold presidencies, CEO positions, etc, while the large majority of men are suffering a degradation in status, respect, resources, etc. (And objectively so -- look at earnings trends in inflation-adjusted terms for men vs. women over the past 40 years.) The way these two are conflated seems to be at the root of a lot of animosity in the Gender Wars lately.

I'd tend to agree with GP that while existing as a white male today is still "easy mode" in many ways when you do push yourself, there's definitely this feeling that society is celebrating everyone else while you're sort of left on your own without much encouragement.
Glad you liked it! I'm now building software for local government and we've naturally taken that ethos to our new company.

If you are ever looking for another opportunity, check us out http://seneca.systems
Has IFTTT ever taken interns?
>> I have a better explanation. She was talking about the kinds of stuff she was into, and didn't sense that you were into the same things. Then when you said you did do stuff like that, she was interested because you had more in common.

Or...she could be a normal person and try to understand what I've been doing my whole life until now, just like I was listening to her about her own stories. Because in normal world, people have diverse lives.

If I say I only want a programmer woman (since I'm a programmer), but who is even better than me. What would you say about that? Am I being picky? Big ego? If I am, then why isn't she called picky?
Banks and the blockchain: How open will they be?
Too Many Leaders Spoil the Group
If Netflix buys Pandora, the resulting entity will be an Internet Media power house.
How Blackbird Ventures chooses what startups to invest in
I've bought my last 2 cars without seeing or touching them.

Both were imported from Japan, inspected and purchased by professional buyers at Japanese auctions, with communications, importation, paperwork etc arranged by a professional broker. Selection of the vehicles was made based on photographs and inspection reports sent via email.

Ultimately a very simple and successful operation which I will almost certainly do again.
I don't think any of their sales tactics fell under "misleading, illegal, or dishonest." It was their California pre-certification practices that was blatantly illegal.
Users don’t even read the error messages, let alone the documentation.
It helps somewhat, but I feel that the "only is a problem" assertion is too strong.

Tree shaking doesn't help you when you are pulling in every HTTP client in existence transitively. It is still code that is being run, so can't be automatically optimized away, but it is unnecessary.
That is the plan! This was the only article I've written so far - I decided to launch it before amassing a number of articles. I'm currently working on one for Super Meat Boy, but this is also a passion project - I'm an engineer by trade, so unfortunately I'm unable to work on this full-time.

Thanks so much for the support! You really have no idea how much that means to me... And awesome, I will definitely check those out - I've definitely been looking for more reading as well. Thanks for the suggestions!
Scales is the key to improv in my experience
Oddly enough, I didn't get an email about your reply back to my comment. Just saw it now by luck.
ZenPayroll has an extensive API (I built it.) They did it because they wanted to.

http://docs.zenpayroll.com/
Oh, I forgot to mention... there is a mechanism for providers to challenge coverage to get CAF funding because all sorts of providers overestimate coverage--there was a Ars article a few months ago about a Cable provider telling someone they served a area but it turned out to only be one side of a street or something.

Map of CAF2 areas: https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/maps/caf-2-accepted-map

I've seen some interesting back and forth on grant applications that depend on a area being unserved. The bigger companies have regulatory and GIS staff to say "hey, we totally serve this area. Don't fund competitor X" while they smaller companies bring letters from town administrators and residents saying "hey, we tried to buy from company Y but they said they couldn't serve us / could only could provide 768k DSL because degraded copper plant".
Yes, it should absolutely be up to the individual to decide whether they've met the legal requirements for their job. I hope my surgeons self-certify that they're ready to operate, and the technician that repairs the airline I'm flying on should have the last word on whether he's qualified to start tinkering with the ailerons!