skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The model would work, but it's a volume game. Not quite there yet. We would probably license the model and tech to regional organizations that could better respond to specific needs.
If you want this today on all (C89) platforms, GLib ships an embedded copy of gnulib and runs virtually everywhere.
CDO Revival Led by Funds Pinning Hopes on Smallest Banks (2015)
Options on Facebook ads as a financial product
Traditional stock options allow people to buy the right for a certain amount of an underlying product for a fixed price and sell it later to market value...

I can imagine business owners would be interested in the idea of a virtual market around Facebook ads. It would work in a way such that people/traders are betting on reaching a certain conversion value, generated by the predefined ad they invested their money in. The difference between the invested money and the total generated conversion value will be the win/loss of this deal. Assuming the business owner is at least break-even with paying the difference to the conversion rate, if positive, this would boost his business as well.

Thoughts/comments/ideas? :)
If any of the DC public school people want help protecting their student records, I will donate pro-bono hours.

There's one technique that is powerful and rare, which is translucent data access. It's ideal for identifying memberships and trends, such as "how many students are in a class each year" while protecting personally identifying information. A simple common example is a one-way hash function that lets an app confirm a password without needing to store the password in plain text.
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That sounds a lot like deliberate practice, which is an idea that's been around for a while.
I'm sure He either said "let there be light" or "gee, that's funny...."
How are you struggling to navigate with Spotify? I think the Spotify usability is great. But I have been using it since it first came out and so any "quirks" I'm possibly just used to. Still, I find it easy to use.

If you think Spotify is bad, have you tried Apple Music? Jesus, that is a stinking pile of shit. It's awful and exactly what stopped me from using it beyond two weeks into the trial.

Google Play Music is somewhere between the two but I find absolutely no problem with Spotify's UI/UX. That said, I never used Rdio so don't have that to compare it with.
Talk to a neural chatbot trained on Reddit comments
I am aware of the symmetry of the final action. I was commenting on who enforces that outcome. Note 'insist on' and 'less picky'.
In fairness, at the onset of WWII, only the US had fully abandoned using horses in its logistical trains (save for terrain impassable by vehicle), although only the USSR used horse logistics in anywhere near the degree the Germans did. This can probably be partially attributed to persistent oil shortages in Germany.
> a novelty device that weighs more than what it's mass would lead you to think it weighs

This is an interesting concept. As far as I'm aware, we have ways of measuring weight, but no way of measuring mass. How would you know whether something weighed more than it "should", based on its "mass"?
I don't really agree with the sentiment but your example is also pretty poor rebuttal because those are some of the laggiest indicators.
Do you refuse to use adblockers based on some moral principle?
Here, try this instead. Some hilarious stuff. No adds, i'm pretty sure it's circa 1995:

http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%2...
Wouldn't they have represented that their employees were properly certified for the business they were engaging in?
We changed the URL from http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/11/zenefits-under-investigatio.... That article points to an earlier Buzzfeed story (http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/zenefits-under-investig...), but since this one appears to be the current canonical source, we'll use it instead.
Bass was kinda wrong on his Japan trade though. Doesn't work every time. Also the big issue with 2008 was that the government led Lehman fail; a huge mistake. They should have nationalized it or taken a majority equity stake in it at punitive terms.
While not immediately clear, OS X is POSIX 2003. So if you go strictly by POSIX standards, you shouldn't rely on either.
I'm not sure about all that, but I will vouch for the tons of international travel bit. In fact, it's so bad I feel like a lot of these women are woefully ignorant about anything in the US that's outside of a few major cities, because they never go anywhere outside their city; any time they have a little vacation time they're flying to Argentina or Africa or something.

I disagree about them not wanting to actually be in a relationship, but I think what's happened is that they're so used to being single and free, and never having been in a serious relationship for that long, that they really have no idea how to do it, and it's probably a lost cause. They're now realizing they have to get started right now if they want to have natural kids, but they're not prepared to make the sacrifices you have to make in order to be in that kind of relationship.
There's an API for the github issue tracker. I'm kind of surprised that with all the other tooling built around github that there aren't really nice issue trackers that would provide better management and triage workflows and would then condense to github issues that would work well with dev workflows and conventions.
When I see this, I understand why the Go crowd didn't put generics or macros in Go. It's so easy to write useful but awful things with them, and they're really hard to fix and debug.

This is getting to be a big problem with Rust. The language, or maybe its community, encourages cutesy stuff like this. Remember "Diesel", the Rust compiler for SQL, from a few days ago? Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Too much fancy template stuff is being baked into the low level libraries. This may not end well.

C++ went down this road. The template system turned out to be more powerful than intended. Then people started writing cool stuff as fancy templates. Then the C++ committee added features to support the fancy templates better. Overly elaborate templates damaged C++; nobody could figure out what was going on. Use of C++ for new work declined.

All of this comes from smart people with good intentions. But when there's too much of this stuff, the mental load required to keep up with all of it becomes excessive. Especially if it changes a lot.
I think China has learnt from the US example that letting big banks fail is a stupid thing to do..

Krugman on this: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/opinion/23krugman.html
Interesting, but how do you control/check that there was (not) a conversion?
Not so much at scale or at a good price. Less than 1000 in the country built over the last 8-10 years. California will have to switch to building 40,000 per year in the next 4, so major pain point.

Just like there were a few electric cars before Tesla, but none ready for prime time. It's going to take a lot of hard work to change a very outdated market.
Yes they did. They were stopped by their ideology. The government could have easily nationalized it.

Here's Paul Krugman talking about it right after Lehman went under: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/opinion/23krugman.html
An aside: This visualization's UX is rather poor but I'll let Bloomberg slide this time around because their 404 page is incredible: http://www.bloomberg.com/404
The exam tries to ensure that you know enough to be competent. The required hours are there to discourage people from trying to pass the test without actually internalizing the information. Sure, you could try to just make the test arbitrarily harder, but that's not always possible, and even if it is possible, it's unfair to the people who are capable of learning the required material, but not the material needed to pass the harder test.

Also, as has been mentioned, it's partially a liability issue for the state and the company if/when they get sued.
Part of their defense can't be that "Oh, well the state licensing exam is super easy, so I only spent an hour cramming the material before the test and then immediately forgot everything, so really you should be going after the state and not me." The required hours
Imagine that command making an API call to an improved GitHub issue system with facilities to organize and accommodate more structured submissions.
Maybe. I think the market will be big enough that there is room for all sorts of configurations - stand-alone, one needing computer, one needing mobile phone, etc.,
Do you know what kind of corporate induction surgeons go through when they join a hospital?
Four months of s/passion/code/
Mathematically, as the download count for each file approaches 1.0 (or even lower), a privately-funded torrent seed server starts to look more and more like a traditional file host.
Uber is about to pay its U.S. riders $28.5M
Por que no los dos?

One is the hand, the other the wallet.
Ask HN: How do you organize data on your disk?
Your projects, repositories, documents, media and other data files — what does the directory hierarchy that holds them look like? How did you come up with it?
If you're only using GitHub for version control, is there any particular reason you aren't using something else like GitLab? Is it integration with third party products?
Syria Ceasefire Talks Agreement
Finding Beauty in the Darkness
Yes, this looks like a simplified picture that is much more incremental than what is actually proposed on the Bernie Sanders site:

https://berniesanders.com/issues/how-bernie-pays-for-his-pro...

The "more accurate" calculator linked from github is similarly limited.
Not true.

I just purchased a 2016 Tacoma truck late last year. I placed the order probably 6-8 weeks before it was available. I didn't pay until I picked it up.

I was able to get the exact options I wanted without a hassle.

It is true that the dealership may order pre-configured cars or the manufacturer will allot certain builds, but if you have time and patience, you can usually get what you want.

That said, there are times where you can't get things "ala carte", which may be what you heard (or the fact that dealers have preconfigured allocations).
Rackspace to Manage Red Hat OpenStack Clouds On-Premises
I'm not sure that's true, most of my close male friends prefer smart women but generally not in the same exact area as them.

I personally think having slightly divergent competencies is more stable than closwrr matches since it'd be less competitive or directly comparable.

Learning is also fun, and it can drive some pretty cool conversations.
If this causes the financial industry to back patent reform, it would be a good thing. If it causes the financial industry to acquire many patents and become vested in the current system, it will slow patent reform and give yet more power to Wall Street.
There are a ton of SBIR rules so you'll have to be prepared with your accounting system, timekeeping policies for employees and other legal contracting.

First, check your company's eligibility. If you're VC backed then I'm not sure your company is eligible for the SBIR program. I remember there being some proposed changes but I'm not sure they were made official or not regarding VC-funded small businesses. Also be aware that you are granting the government certain rights to the intellectual property that is generated under contract. You can still commercialize based on that IP, but the government has some rights to use of that software.

If you want a general overview of the program I think you can google for the "SBIR Coach" and he has some free online resources that give an overview of the program.

If you're planning to submit a proposal to an RFP, make sure to very carefully read all the instructions in the solicitation regarding formatting and everything.

Many government agencies participate in the SBIR program. Which agency are you considering submitting a proposal for?

Let me know if you have more specific questions. I worked in the SBIR industry for about 8 years.
>I'm preparing for a crash in 2016. Unlike back in 2008, when the FED was able to "balance" it out by dropping the interest rate to almost 0%, we now won't have an airbag to save us.

They may not be able to drop interest rates (much), but they can always print up money and use it to buy things as a way to inject cash into the economy. That's what QE was, after all.

You may be right about The Crash, and if your only time frame is "sooner or later", you are certainly correct. We will eventually have some sort of large economic downturn. But that's like predicting rain will fall, eventually. It may not happen until everyone reading this is long gone.
> bup currently has no way to prune old backups.

As a Mac (and therefore Time Machine) user in the process of switching to Linux, this seems to be a big downside.

[...]

> Until we fix this, one possible workaround is to just start a new BUP_DIR occasionally, i.e. bup-2013-10, bup-2013-11...

And the workaround mostly defeats the purpose of incremental backups.
Nvidia  DRIVE PX 2 Is Missing One Important Component, Nvidia  Pascal
...and have time, and funding, and patience. 2 out of those 3 are in short supply in Silicon Valley. Robust software is eminently possible, but it requires a development culture that is often incompatible with shipping lots of things quickly and seeing what sticks.

I recall that when Parker Conrad spoke at the Stanford startup class, he said that he'd been turned down by many VCs, at least one of which said "Well, if you were Twitter, this would be a different conversation." His take-away from that is "Well then, what can I do to become Twitter?" Only problem is that health insurance and 140-character text messages are wildly different industries.
Just so you know, thats not an absolute truth. I live in Texas and I've owned 3 cars, only one was one from the lot (a Ford Mustang), because they had the exact combo I wanted. My Jeep came from a dealer a few hours away that my dealer swapped for so that I wouldn't have to wait for a factory build. My current car was built to order by the factory. My wife's super picky and her last two cars where built to order.

The difference between dealers here and say.. in Germany (where most of my family still ives) are that the dealers in the US just have waaay more inventory on the lot, so you don't necessarily have to wait 3 months for a build.
Heya, random GitHubber here -- I can't provide any information about things that are in-progress, but we see these threads and are paying attention to them. The "Dear GitHub" letter, etc all get sent around here, show up in chat rooms, and get talked about quite a lot internally. We value feedback from all our users -- GitHub.com users, Open Source maintainers, and our Enterprise users. There's a lot for us to do to make GitHub better for everybody, and everyone's feedback is valuable. While it's true that we've put a lot of effort into getting GitHub Enterprise into the shape we wanted it, it's important to note that a lot of enterprises use GitHub because of the millions of people on GitHub.com -- they see how powerful open-source style development is and want to emulate it internally. It would be utterly disastrous for us to ignore the feedback of all the users who got us to where we are today.
You must all be bound to supporting a strike (and to not working outside contract terms, for that matter), or there's no union. Wholly voluntary associations are very, very weak in many situations, and this is one of them. That weakness is pretty much why governments are a thing, for that matter.

You're gonna need legal. Professional negotiators would be good.
Why you should use Spark for machine learning
You see the part of your salary that goes to taxes; less visible is the share of the economic gain produced by your work that doesn't make it into your salary I the first place.

The GP was referencing the latter.
Interesting, the above track is classified as house but doesn't sound like any house music I've heard. The cut up samples sound similar to Madeon - you might also like him.
I had to do public speaking recently and I was very lucky to be able to practice my talks with a friend. Thank goodness I did as I froze and lost my point the first few runs. Five runs later I revised the talk, and practiced some more with them.

The talk itself was ok, ish, oki, not great, as I relied heavily on my slides, however it was good enough (and the topic was good) - I have since gone on to write longer talks and deliver them...

The practice with a friend for me was so useful, and is worth it over using a mirror (for me), being worried about being embarrassed is fine - just throw yourself in and try your best, practice makes perfect. Good luck to all! :-)
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? People make simple mistakes all the time. With something as bloated and obtuse as the US tax code the margin of error for honest mistakes is drastically increased. Criminal action should be classified as preemptive malicious intent. Glad to hear things worked out to you. Props to the CRA for it's professional conduct.
NYPD tracked citizens’ cellphones 1,000 times since 2008 without warrants
It's no just "free users" that can suffer from this.

A company I worked for has outsources some payments infrastructure to a third party. That third party had put in a very aggressive bid in order to win our business. We were to be their "big name customer" and they wanted to use that deal to gain credibility with other potential customers. It seemed like a rational business decision for them, and we took the deal.

But, the fact is, that deal wasn't commercially sustainable, and we both suffered from it. They lost money on everything they did for us, and because they were losing money they tried to do everything as quickly and cheaply as they could, which inevitably meant badly. We were never happy with their offering.

When the time came to renegotiate the deal, we went back out to market, and we invited them to participate in the tender process, but we were very clear - "This is the SLA we expect. These are the penalties we will apply if you miss the SLA. We intend to hold you to them. If you submit a bid, make sure it is commercially viable, and that you can afford to actually deliver on the SLA, or else you will end up losing a lot of money on this."

I think we ended up sticking with them for a bit longer (due to politics and inertia) and then eventually ditched them a few years later.
when trying to learn something, engage with it repeatedly on exponential decay. IE. Index cards. Go through them as many times as it take to learn whatever you are learning. Then perform a 20-30 minute context switch. do again. Now wait 1 hour. Do the cards again. Wait 2 hours. Again. Do this until you review those cards at the week level. You can learn almost anything with very high recall 6-9 months later with this method.

edit: Sleep is an extremely important component of this. You must be well rested, and preferably do not ingest significant amounts of alcohol before sleeping as that will mess up short term to long term memory mapping from hippo to pfc.
The hard problem of real-estate is that it's by definition local...in Theil's terms, each parcel is a monopoly. This means that the first order aspirational feature is location. Not design [that's why people will live in a small Manhattan studio for the same money they could by a ranch in Wyoming].

The homebuilding business is about controlling land. The big boys option hundreds or thousands of buildable lots a pop. In a metro area, that's still a drop in the bucket. Controlling that many lots justifies a sales center, in house financing, and creates one stop shopping.

Land converters, those who subdivide land into residential lots, usually prefer to sell to home builders. It lets them deal with professionals and let the homebuilders who buy lots do all the high touch consumer sales or take the risk of building on spec.

The consumer oriented home design business is likewise bimodal. The big spike is price sensitive: it's $500 online blueprints. Everything else is high touch. Money is no object clients are both rare and tend to be high maintenance. They must be cultivated socially...church, civic club, university homecoming, whatever. They have options...those with buildable lots have even more, including just sitting on it.

Regarding taking deposits, there's almost certainly going to be contractor licensing laws in play. In the best case both a state homebuilder license and a local business license. In the worst case, a local homebuilder license and a local business license. Local homebuilders' associations are fairly active. They will report unlicensed competition.

Legally, laws regarding construction are far more entrenched than those surrounding other disrupted industries...they go back to Hamurabi. Unlike a taxi or a rented room, construction is visible and can't be moved. The local fire marshal has seen people die. The local council woman wants to protect property values by preventing shoddy construction. Local home owners, want to keep construction out of their backyard, unlike an Uber they're not likely to become late adopters...it comes back to location.

Technically, the amount of variation nationwide is massive. There is a combinatorial explosion of wind, seismic, snow, ASHRE, moisture, and aesthetic requirements and preferences. That's before touching soils...every site is potentially different. At best there are local and regional requirements regarding radon and frost depth. At worst, there's rock to muck on adjacent lots.

Anyway, it's an interesting problem.

Good luck.
> Imho whatever is carrying gravity between masses cannot itself have a mass.

Forget gravitons, this already exists in pure general relativity. Spacetime is curved around a massive object, and that curvature contains energy. That's just another word for mass, so the curvature itself exerts gravity. This creates more curvature (...etc etc). This is one of the reasons as to why Einstein's equations are nonlinear.

Note that the concept of having mass is separate from the gravity force. Interaction with the Higgs field gives rise to mass, whereas gravitons are the force carrying particle for gravity.
If you have Spotify, try https://play.spotify.com/user/wayspurrchen/playlist/5b5SO6ic...
I didn't seek instant gratification, nor did my partners. And in fact, one thing I had in common with each partner was a mutual dislike of the online interface through which we met specifically because we felt it forced instant gratification mindset upon you.

This is only an anecdote, of course, so others may have vastly different experiences. But for me, it felt impossible to interact with almost all other participants in a dating platform unless you did seek instant gratification -- because that's what everyone else was evaluating in you (the ability to serve as instant gratification for them).

That's what I mean in terms of disliking the instant gratification aspects of the dating platforms. It seems integral to the platform, regardless of whether it's part of what you personally are seeking (it wasn't for me) and this has been constant across several different platforms over a fairly long period of time, so it seems more like a consistent trait of online dating platforms than a particular consequence of how one uses them.
Yeah these two newcasters are the regulars for ABC News 24 in Australia and they are very good at presenting, sometimes even getting too distracted in conversation on live tv!
Right but USA is not Netherlands. USA is home to immigrants, sends rockets on moon and invents new vaccines.
Hey, I agree. I just don't necessarily always want the very first part to be.
The genome is still in use, and many professional musicians are happily employed as curators for it.
Git can do that as well with a --bare repo on any $5 virtual server. The whole setup only takes a few minutes, and Github's doing that in the backend anyway. :)