skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Splunk vs. ELK: The Log Management Tools Decision Making Guide
Father.io: first real life massive multiplayer FPS
Or more likely, they needed it once. And they remember that time they got rid of something they thought they'd never need again...
The role of human collaboration in data preparation
Small company developer pain points
Just curious if anyone who works writing software as a service for a small company (< 10 developers, sys admins, and dba's combined) have particular pain points.

I have a ton of experience in this area, having worked exclusively in this realm for the last 30 years at 4 different companies.

Here are thing software features that send out HUGE red flags to me ... unfortunately they are all asked for over and over again and I have conceded to all of them eventually.

1. Anything to do with building a calendar in the software. People will always want it to be "like outlook" or to do something their existing calendar program does. While this is a lovely thing to want, it is a major endless development pit for a small company with limited resources - the needs of each individual in a calendar/scheduler are so unique and specific. Syncing is another can of worms ...

2. Importing data from Excel spreadsheets. Assuming we can deal with various file versions and read the data, the problems with dates, leading zeroes, commas, formatting and inconsistencies are insane. Excel is great for ad-hoc data manipulation, calculation, and presentation, but for pure data storage and import ... not so much.

3. Sending out bulk emails and ensuring A) them email gets received on the other end without getting spam filtered and B) keeping yourself off of a spam list.

I'm not necessarily looking for solutions or alternatives to the above, just wondering if others feel the same about certain features or see other features in their saas apps as low gain, high resource consumption.
Still 100% true. I turned 20 earlier this month, it has always been easier to get cannabis than alcohol for me.
With just a few "minor" issues with safety and waste.
I think they're using the Peter Thiel version of the word, not the traditional economics version of the word.

For example, while Facebook, Apple, Google, and present-day Microsoft all are not strictly speaking monopolies (they have viable competitors) -- they each have various features that make switching difficult (but not impossible).
Google is one of DDGs backends, and the highest quality one at that. DDG does not have its own crawlers or index. Nor could it: those things cost hundreds of millions of dollars per year to run and maintain.

[Edit: apparently this is not true. DDG does not use Google, though it does use Bing and some other broad and narrow coverage search engines]
I suspect the reasoning is thus:

Pi & friends are all well and good when all you're doing is filling out a few initial bitfield states in a pipeline, but when you're designing a highly complicated process by which to deterministically produce a safe but "random" curve, the process of designing that process itself is going to have some unjustified choices in it. The meta-algorithm, if you like, could have been designed to produce a specific result given the input pi.

Publishing & rigidly defining the method before choosing the seed would seem to alleviate all possibility of foul play.
When did Spotify abandon their original peer-to-peer architecture?[0]

[0]http://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/spotify-p2p10.p...
I still remember going to Circuit City and buying the Win98 upgrade CD and excitedly installing it as a kid. I miss those days to say the least.
I've only really looked at Spotify and Tidal, but Spotify is really good. There's more to streaming than content.

Makes me curious about how good Google's recommendation engine is.
Sega, CNet, Macromedia...
I also find it strange to mention numbers without saying whether it's revenue generating, MVP or what.
You don't need to be low-income to appreciate free, perfectly good stuff.
"Local laws and regulations" == "limited monopoly".

Assuming you're referring to service businesses like Uber, you're talking about competing with businesses that exploit these local legal monopolies in a corrupt manner to prevent competition and thus become local monopolies themselves. My first Uber ride was in Omaha, the week the service started there, and my driver was a (former) cabbie. She said there were four taxi companies in town, but all four were owned by the same person (faux competition). They regularly cheated drivers out of wages, overcharged customers, and used crappy vehicles. You'll find similar situations in cities all over the country - taxis as local monopoly, enforced by the police and depending on the taxi monopoly's cozy relationship with the local political machine.

Uber challenges the local regulations, but they win by offering a service that is less expensive and much higher quality than the monopolies they compete with.
I was replying to the someone, who it seems has misunderstood what Huxley meant by filters - I wasn't defending or affirming them, let alone discussing in what context they are 'appropriate'. I used the quote to give the 'filters' being discussed a context. Are you saying Huxley really meant: If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would not appear infinite but just 'processed differently'?
Quite a while ago. Not sure on the exact time, but judging from this article, I'd guess sometime in 2014 https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-starts-shutting-down-its-ma...
Completely unrelated, but EMET means truth in Hebrew :)
ME lasted about 30 mins from installation to BSOD in my case. never tried again.

my god that was ages ago.
That's completely not true.

Example sha-1:

> The constant values used are chosen to be nothing up my sleeve numbers: the four round constants k are 230 times the square roots of 2, 3, 5 and 10. The first four starting values for h0 through h3 are the same with the MD5 algorithm, and the fifth (for h4) is similar.
Homejoy is Back
You guys may want to try this (haven't released anything yet, but looks promising): http://www.pointimize.com/
This is why scotch tape exists. :)
>Why would that aggravate you?

Because it's representative of how the hasidic sect generally regards women: second-class citizens.
Peter Thiel draws a binary distinction between monopolies which dominate a market and competitive commodity businesses. In such a binary model, the only businesses that can have startup [in the Silicon Valley sense] type growth are monopolies.

Of course in a binary model, "monopoly" and "commodity" get stretched to cover a lot of grey flux between the poles. The important thing is which half of the spectrum a company is on, not if the company is on the absolute end of the side with all the potential.

This isn't to say that this is the perfect state of the world, only that there is some context around the way the terms of used...in this case, it's a sketch, or a diagram, or a schematic rather than a documentary photograph.
Could the selection of primes derived from Pi be optimized to find weaker ones vs. stronger ones? eg: calculate a very large set of them and then pick the ones that are weakest and then publish that as a standard (of course you wouldn't let on that you had chosen the weakest, you could pick an arbitrary function that gets you the weak ones which would then look really good because pi is objective and that function is objective.)
Monica, a command line chef that brings you tasty food
Homeaglow.com already has an "As seen on" section in the source (commented out with sites such as The Huffington post, Forbes, WSJ, etc).

What is that about?
This seems nice, but not as handy as the devtools device viewport options.
Many thanks to the persons who submitted pull requests.
Pffft. I bought 3lb backpacker 2-man tents on sale for $200. Used them carefully, they lasted for 25+ trips.

Oh! I see - yes those tents were fragile and high-tech and would have probably lasted less long in general use. So that's part of the problem - rental to the public is hard on equipment. Again, its hard to see a startup model here that would work.
Sounds nice but poverty persist when governments do not respect private property rights. For many of these countries a strong and partial judicial system will be needed.
Yes. Pretty much any investor you talk to will "lowball" with 2 on 6. 5M would be a discount. I'll make no judgement on whether this is bad or or not.
What elephant? Airplanes are insanely efficient, relative to cars...
It is cool for a really hard algo or for bringing up a new guy to speed. To do it 100% of the time? That is torture. I would not work in those conditions.
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And high cost (relatively speaking to wind in windy areas, sun in sunny areas, and natural gas in North America)
Co-Creator of Amiga 1000, Atari Lynx and 3DO, Dave Needle, Passes Away
230 times the square roots of 2, 3, 5 and 10

versus

the first N digits of Pi, minus the leading 3 (what Blowfish used).
http://i.imgur.com/f1Fpb9D.jpg
Now how about Spotify fixing their front end so that Premium customers on Android can just hit "play" to play the album they want to play, in the right order? And how about an app in the Windows Store so that you can use it on a touchscreen? And how about some improved metadata that work for classical music? And a way to report corrupt or mistagged tracks and get them fixed?

/rant
Bologna, Italy (from the school of Science, not Engineering). At the time (16+ years ago, under prof. Renzo Davoli), the introductory "Computer Architecture" course [1] was almost entirely dedicated to CPU architecture, including building basic ones (IIRC).

To be fair, I did drop out a year later :)

[1] http://www.unibo.it/en/teaching/degree-programmes/study-plan...
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ISTM the different measured values of α described in TFA constitute evidence of "other places with varying conditions"?
If you have bottom-up sensory associations and top-down inhibitory control (the filters), only inhibitory signals would be reduced. You would actually see more brain activity, since the bottom-up sensory associations would be less inhibited, and therefore trigger a greater amount of neurons. Probably an over-simplification, but you can see how it would be tough to use an fMRI to measure reduced inhibition and increased activation.
How is being the safest way to generate power an issue, wouldn't that be a benefit?
I was wondering about Spotify's contributions to Hadoop stack such as Snakebite and Luigi. What will happen to these projects if they're moving to BigQuery?
A lot of that stuff can be compact if you don't get focused on 'stuff.' Let's assume you have clothing, computer, and

aka all hiking/ backpacking gear for a world tour can easily fit into a single backpack or fill a trailer.

Photography, 1 decent camera is really enough.

A single bike is actually fairly small. Start getting into road bikes, touring bikes, etc and they start taking up a lot of space.

DIY can take endless space, but you can get far with a single tool box. 'extra' is often more about saving time than really necessary.

PS: I good rule of thumb is if you have not used it in 2 years it's wasting space. But, IMO even better is if you have used it less than 3 times in a year it's fluff.
I'm tentatively happy with our move to GCE as well, although we need to live with it more. What really delights me is the quality of the web dashboard, command line tool, and the ability to open web based SSH windows with a single click.
This is actually really useful to me. I've been working on-and-off re-implementing Comic Chat using HTML5. It's nice having a working copy again to reference. The paper is great but it omits some details.
other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11161841
Paul Graham's job is now something very similar to providing "the resources the poor need to realize their potential".
Autonomous sensory meridian response
Talking & organizing has it's own costs. Something like uber or airbnb could theoretically be done by talking and coordinating, but the organizing software that makes it seamless makes it something ubiquitous.
Yelp employee who complained online about pay and got fired is ridiculed
I'm wondering if Tesla's equipment may have provided a standing wave to ground the ionosphere or some such technobabble. Certainly he didn't wield the power to make such a blast. But the Earth has powers that large.

And Yeah Mythbusters. They 'busted' the myth than you can start a fire using a stick and a bow. Yet my Boy Scouts do this for fun all the time.
Tech IPO Freeze Is Sign of Investor Reality Check
The 1990s had moments of unexpectedly good, non-traditional music that brushed the mainstream, with stuff like the more "eclectic" grunge bands (Soundgarden, STP, Alice in Chains), metal (Tool), Industrial Rock and Industrial Metal (NIN.)
SecurePackage: easily encrypt a release that can only be decrypted on deployment
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Bill's focus on new tech still seems odd to me.

Maybe he's thought about it, and as a famous geek thinks that the number one thing he can do is champion tech innovation.

But he specifically talks about increasing energy efficiency. An obvious opening to talk about carbon taxes that bake efficiency decisions into everything we buy (and provides a ready made market for new, low-carbon tech).

Or he talks about coal, again a great opening to talk about removing subsidies from that industry and getting the workers retrained in something else.

And he seems dismissive of solar, like those will only help African farmers when the sun is shining and so are barely worth even thinking about.

In general he seems too focussed on getting carbon to 0, and not enough focussed on the low hanging fruit which, if solved with todays existing tech and policy instruments, would extend the runway we have to find breakthrough tech before our world descends into anarchy and global warfare.

Just swapping natural gas for coal gives us much ability to burn fossil fuels, since it halves the carbon per energy output. Might not be as cool as a fusion reactor, but every carbon molecule counts.
While I commend this, there's still also a clean water/pollution crisis that plagues the world. And in this sense, I don't mean air pollution, but as in trash - tons and tons of trash. While the US has its fair share of pollution and clean water issues, other countries like the Philippines, Brazil, and African countries allow mass amounts of garbage and pollutants into the waterways and ocean. Huge amounts of toxic waste are being exported to Africa and seeping into the oceans and ground water, or dumped into the ocean. Everything in the world is connected, so pollution on the one side of the world will eventually make its way over to the other. Another reason why this is a huge problem is that a few drops of the right(or wrong) chemical can contaminate hundreds of gallons of water, so when there's tons of pollutants being dumped illegally or stored irresponsibly, just think about the damage that can do.
Let me encourage you and anyone else reading this comment to get to know your neighbors, if possible.
Nice. Did you just do it with strict calorie watching or some other diet? My friend lost his 100lbs in about 5-6 months on Keto, I've used it to lose 50lbs quickly myself, I think it makes the lower calorie count hard to notice... In his case he avoided the clothing problem by wearing all his old clothes he's had in storage boxes for years since they no longer fit.
Probably just the "As seen on" from Homejoy's old website. Same founder, so it counts...right?!
This is a big problem with the community sharing model. It seems like at least twice the hassle of craigslist exchanges since you have to coordinate two physical meetings rather than one. Then there's the whole issue of the borrower isn't quite done with the object yet, please try again next week.
I see the value of having micropython but not of 3Dtv. Not taking anything away from 3Dtv. It should not be used as a reason to increase fundraising in an already complicated project. This is a comment on managing people's (backers) expectations and not on the organizers abilities or ethics.
I worked in energy development in sub-sahara Africa. Attempted several solar projects, all of which would have sold electricity at a price considerably lower than the utility's avoided cost from imported petroleum. We were unsuccessful because the country was concerned that by contracting with us they might jeopardize the possibility of a grant from the EU. Law of unintended consequences. Or, great example of compassion disrupting a free market doing more harm than good.
I get the impression going through this gift that people don't actually know how to give gifts. I LOVE giving gifts. No, I don't go through someone's Amazon wish-list or buy them something they could buy themselves. I usually make people things, and it usually takes 2-6 months of work. I might spend a month on an embroidered pocket square, or a handmade notebook, or a handmade piece of jewelry or carving, or an elaborate 6-course meal and paired wines.

If I can't dedicate at LEAST few weeks to constructing the perfect gift/experience for someone, I won't give anything at all. Better nothing than a bad gift...
There is so much variation in the methods that have already been used to derive "nothing up my sleeve" numbers that you could easily come up with 2^10 equally plausible methods. The 24 chosen bits for "BADA55" might be overkill; depending on the circumstances, being able to pick "A55" might be enough.
I've not really enjoyed my time in higher-ed (and I have little to show for it), but sometimes it's really the only place where unfashionable but fundamental topics are covered in depth. My comment was meant as a pointer (i.e. "check out lecture recordings etc") rather than a quip.
Look at the BLAKE example there: it's simply the leading digits of pi.

The rest of the examples seem like they prove my point. 1/pi? sin(n)? First N primes? Cubes of first N primes? I agree! Super sketchy! Why would you use any of those? Just use pi.
Obviously, nilth class passengers would have a five hundred grand piano (4.5m long). In addition to the regular 88 keys, it has another 14 (C0-Ab0, C#8-F8), to play the notes that only rich people can hear.
I agree 100%. This is not an insurmountable problem. But we have so many fanatical supporters of marijuana that no laws can be passed that would possibly limit its use.
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There is listed just one "battle" in the Americas for all of time through 1500, the Tikal-Calamakul wars. This is a poor representation even of the wars we know occurred, let alone all the stuff we don't know happened due to the lack of writing systems.

This data set appears to not be a particularly well-curated dataset, and it looks to my (non-expert) eyes to have an intrinsically high bias towards high detail of some key Western European conflicts even beyond the general bias imparted by the fact that histories of Europe tend to be the most well-curated and accessible if you're an English speaker.
Note this is probably illegal in several countries, though.
Ask HN: How to get funded or crowdfunded?
Hi there, Been working on a project, a drawing site, I'm looking for funding or crowdfunding, but it seems to me that all options are for USA and related countries, I live in south america. My only option is to use paypal because not even Stripe works in here. Currently I have no budget, and what I want is to be able to pay for servers for at least two years and some of my developing time, later users should support "their" own site. Any ideas?
Seems a great growth hack. Too bad it's not more.
I'd be curious if anyone knows the details about why: complexity, customer complaints, reliability?
Saudi Arabia is also named for a dead guy, you want to be fair.
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This "Universal Control Plane" thing looks pretty enterprisy. I have to imagine they are ramping up an enterprise sales team now, with all the org changes that come along with that. This product sort of reminds me of Citrix and Xenserver.
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Typesafe Changes Name to Lightbend; Announces Lagom Microservices Framework
Yes absolutely. I don't say "no functional constructs" nor does anyone else here that I know of. However, composite LINQ statements, especially involving aggregation can and do become confusing. Obviously it's a judgment call but in many cases, breaking out a complex expression into incremental, imperative steps can and does make it clearer.

The "rule" I apply is "code should be written primarily for people to read and only incidentally for machines to execute" which, although very subjective, provides a good foundation for everyone to start from.
Tell me what you think.
Well, I certainly want stuff for my birthday. But only chocolate stuff. All the chocolate I can stuff in my belly.
You can say no to your clients ;)
> Barring some science fiction scenarios, fertility has dropped below replacement and is of a nature where it never truly rises.

Its dropped because of shifting economic incentives. Its pretty simple to shift those incentives to shift it back the other way to some degree (and almost certain to happen if, for an extended period of time, the developed world sees negative overall growth counting both natural growth and immigration.)

> You can disagree, almost everyone does. But the implications of disagreement are bizarre, you must imagine some future where all 5th generation-only children wake up and say "I want 2.1 children" or 10 percent of those 5th generation children wake up and say "I want 20 children".

No, I just imagine a future where policymakers -- having known for generations the policy factors which promote low birth rate -- look at the situation in their countries, recognize that negative natural growth is no longer being offset by immigration, tweak the policies so that reproduction is more incentivized, resulting in the overall growth rate rising out of negative territory. Its not people magically waking up with different preferences, its people reacting to different situations with different policies and changing the payoff matrices people face in society with the same preferences.
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>The stuff stays in your system too long

The evidence of the stuff stays in your system much longer than the impairment. There is also the issue of "tolerance" and or how the amount of substance present in urine or blood relates to the supposed impairment.

>So now you effectively have no way to prove whether or not someone was breaking that law.

But you can still perform an objective test to determine if someone is currently impaired. They need to design and validate a motor skills and reaction time test. I'm not sure why anyone cares more about why someone is impaired than they do about whether someone is impaired.