skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in the initial phase, as long as you are putting USD into the system for merchants to cash out, it seems like it would work.

However, once you and investors stop funding GD, and the expected value of GD goes down, a merchant would then be selling goods paid for in USD, and receiving GD worth less than their USD cost. This would be a negative profit per sale and no volume effect of sales in GD would make up for this.

It would seem like at least at this point, merchants would stop accepting GD payments?
I've been waiting for this day for a long, long time.
As I read this, all I could picture was the skit from Portlandia where the characters went to the farm where the chicken on the menu was raised.
The fact that "road bikers" aren't as different as you'd like to think is why I don't have much to do with cycling these days. Starting with the attitude conveyed in your comment.
I would consider "elite" in this context to be taking in the students most likely to actually succeed. Accepted into Ivy League schools, high ACT/SAT/GPA, volunteer experience. The business part is just that they are wanting to study business.

It is basically life coaching, getting the best students possible and giving them a leg up on their competition (peers in program). I believe a few weeks would give them a considerable leg up which could lead to greater success manifesting itself as higher GPA, better internships, early leadership experience etc. Plus, joining a network of other elite students could lead to substantial value.
In Chicago and it's far from a smoking crater to come. The university system is great and let's not forget that Ruby on Rails was born here.
> I’ve been programming professionally for about 6-7 years now

This is an odd statement to me. If you are in tech, do you count how many years you've been programming professionally?

I can't, and honestly I don't know if I'm programming professionally in my daily job.
Zoning rules in the US are one thing I will never understand. Especially since it is very anti market and the US seems to believe on a free market more than most countries. I wonder if it has to do with suburbs of American cities being much more planned than most other city areas. Planned residential areas in Europe suffer from the same problems. Maybe the US just had more planned instead of grown areas?
> You'll never be alone again

Or, if this bothers you, you can choose to avoid the hedonistic treadmill altogether and not outfit your house with an Alexa, a Kinect, and countless other mostly useless devices that people lived happily without 10 years ago.
Thank you for your reply. I agree with you.

For the Free Tier the idea is provide some basic descriptive statistics with maybe a histogram overlaid with the normal distribution curve on top. Some example values that might be calculated are the mean, median and mode along with several standard deviations. Down the road a bit, I could envision a feature to suggest further exploration, which would likely guide the user towards some of the Pro features. (Although, I would like to expand what is available in the free tier, where it makes sense.)

For the Pro Tier, they would of course, have access to the same results as the Free Tier, but I imagine a wizard like interface (which can be turned off) to help guide the user through choosing what they want done. Initially, the focus would be on helping spot basic trends and more obvious data anomalies. Further down the road, I could see the options expanding.

One of the challenges to be handled is the "width" of the data set. For example, if User A has a CSV with 100 columns, the basic calculations may not be a big deal, but do we present a 100 histograms? What if there are 1,000 columns. My current thinking is for the user to prioritize the columns they want analyzed if they exceed a certain threshold (say, 25 columns). The results would be done on the columns up to this threshold.

I am open to ideas and suggestions on this, and even on things such as which "basic" descriptive statistics are most important.

Edit: Clarification (last sentence)
That's actually an interesting thing to test. If it's the speech recognition you think is suspicious, why not try to talk it into showing you something it didn't show you previously, without mentioning the thing via facebook and stuff?

I'd even try it myself, but I don't have a facebook account, or any devices with "personal assistant" apps for that matter. For the obvious reasons.
You gotta understand, despite what you may think of RMS (and I may share some of your negativity), he is practically WORSHIPPED amongst parts of the *nix community. The man certainly has some condescending opinions about software, but he is not conceited about his own celebrity - he quite certainly would gladly give it up if he could. This is the message of someone who knows he gets more email than he can adequately respond to in a timely basis and still do anything productive at all with his day. He's doing the best he can.
For comparison, SQLite's optimizer is described in https://www.sqlite.org/optoverview.html and, linked from it, https://www.sqlite.org/queryplanner-ng.html.

SQLite doesn't want to spend time considering all possible join combinations, accepting the risk that it chooses a plan that is a lot worse than the optimal one.
I finished the R course offered from Johns Hopkins when it was first offered a few years back. I was doing my MS at the time and it gave me an edge over students who were just beginning the fundamentals of R. I could do a more in-depth analysis for my project, so it certainly helped me. It wasn't paid. Would I have paid for it - for what I learned and how R is a big part of the work I do, I want to say 'yes'. But I think you need to have a clear understanding of what outcomes you expect before committing to a paid course.
Are you a grammar pedant? This might be why
Yes basically.

I definitely see your point - misaligned goals. I would hope that the level of impact would lead to great reputation and higher caliber students, pushing toward the best students and greater impact.

Metrics is a piece I have thought a lot about, and the best way I can think of to collect metrics on the graduates would be making the alumni network very strong and making sure they get so much out of the experience they want to give back. But you are right - the metrics would not be easy.
Those sort of riders are a sentinel to signal that the venue read the contract carefully, not diva behavior, as is commonly assumed. If they caught the brown M&M's thing, they probably got all the stuff about rigging safety, so you don't have to grill them on those things. Otherwise, you'd better double check.
I live an American city which has many of the benefits of high density living. But I am also envious of ppl who live in the burbs who don't have to put up with noisy neighbors, const traffic outside your home, high crime rate, not having to walk to train stop on below freezing days, a yard for the dog, place for kids to play ect
Perhaps you're just trying to make a joke - but what's so odd about it? He means that he's been paid to do it for 6-7 years, and suggests that he was doing it unpaid (hobby, school) for longer.
You can have whatever you want in most places in the US. You can live in a high-density urban areas with good public transit and markets withing walking distance, you can live in suburban settings with supermarkets and strip malls, you can live in rural areas where your nearest neighbor is miles away.

Note that most experiments here with forced high-density living (the high-rise public housing most big cities built in the "urban renewal" era), were unmitigated disasters.
"upgrading to the next version of OpenERP required sending the database (full of patients' medical data) to OpenERP's server for reformatting."

"Required" is a big overstatement. OpenERP (now Odoo) is FOSS, and uses a standard Postgres database. The thing is that Odoo didn't release the migration scripts when a new version was released, but you weren't required to use their service; OpenUpgrade[1], a community project for implementing these scripts, is proof of that - we've successfully used it to migrate all our clients from version 6.1 to 7 to 8.

Disclaimer: I don't work for Odoo S.A., but I do work for a company that sells services based on the software.

[1] https://doc.therp.nl/openupgrade/
The Fixation of Belief
Do you guys plan on rate-limiting?
Zika Is Coming
Holy browser fingerprinting, new yorker!

https://imgur.com/XDUCt0R
Yes, it took me one year of training for a casual daylight-finish. You know, it's not that easy.

From a sports perspective all of the age groupers have my deep respect.
Again, most of them are nice guys. But this sport also attracts people I do not like. Too loud, too much bragging, too stylish.
I'd be happy to help you out here - I run a Pi based business and we could donate some equipment. My e-mail is in my profile.
When I was around Stanford in the early 80's (second employee at Imagen, a laser printer spin-off from the TeX project), I'm pretty sure Knuth already handled his email via his secretary.

Edit: Oh, right, see the summary elsewhere about his secretary Phyllis Winkler at her retirement.
Even more reason to preempt it.
One of my professors (a Democrat, and himself one of the smartest people I know) told me that, pre-presidency, he once spoke with Bush 43 for ~15 minutes, and came away extremely impressed with how intelligent and well-read Bush was.

I think any of us would look pretty dumb if people obsessively transcribed every time we ever misspoke.
If 'un-affordability' caused million man marches, then we'd already have seen a dozen of them in San Francisco.

The solution, building more housing, is simple, well-known, and obvious, but the people who live there don't want it because it will hurt their property values. It's a classic case of entrenched power vs newcomers.
I believe the current target with only Stage 1 being reusable is $40MM/launch with the Falcon 9. Currently a F9 launch costs in the neighborhood of $60MM. These are both cost to the customer, not to SpaceX.
2) Seems like the configure (and/or build) script was broken at some point. Letting it build all targets does not omit the amd64 kvm executable.

1) But I don't really understand the end goal if you're always forking of the next qemu relese to patch stuff back in. Is there no interest in qemu upstream for those features? I've seen it for the first time 2.6-rc, so is qapi some kind of API you might adapt or is it too limited?
That's a simplistic interpretation of the facts. Detroit is a burned out shell of a city for a wide variety of reasons; very few of those reasons have much to do with local politicians. Trade agreements at the national level probably tell as much of the story as any individual element. But, strategic failures of US car makers also plays a role. And, a rapidly evolving global economic environment also plays a role.

Certainly there has been mismanagement of the city of Detroit, sometimes on an absurd and possibly criminal scale. But, to chalk it all of to "Democrats did this" is...well, it leaves a whole lot of the story out.

Note that I'm not a Democrat and not defending politicians in any general case. But, I do think it's silly to make the claim that local Democrats caused Detroit's decline, when there are clearly so many other factors in the story.
Michael O. Church AMA on Reddit
I'm no expert, but I just searched "income distribution in san francisco" and found [1]. The chart labelled "Distribution of median household income in 2013 (number of people)" indicates a multimodal distribution of income. The smallest bar on the chart is the 50k-60k bucket - a traditional "middle class".

Of course, there's plenty to quibble about. I've never heard of city-data.com. Maybe this distribution looks more normal if you don't bucket everyone >200k together.

But I'm curious where you were headed with your comment. Is there a more important distribution that I just didn't find?

[1] http://www.city-data.com/income/income-San-Francisco-Califor...
Disclaimer up front; party in back: I'm about to discuss a freemium service that I built & operate related to this :)

I looked around for a solution like this for a while last year while building a new weekly email for Ramen[1]. I tried a bunch of services but ran up against a bunch of issues mentioned in this thread:

- GET query string character limit

- Stress around unreliability of free alternatives

- Need to be able to handle large spikes of image generation when sending emails

So I ended up building a service and turning it into a freemium product: ChartURL.com[2]

It is:

- Free for low usage w/ branding

- Based on C3.js[3] (for major flexibility)

- Supports datamaps.github.io[4]

- Has an API whereby you can POST huge datasets and get back a short URL that can be used in an img tag

- Supports retina & `srcset` via a `retina=1` option

You need to sign the URLs which means it's not a simple "just drop the data in the URL" but it's close.

I'll hang out in the comments here for a while if any of you want to ask questions about it.

[1] https://ramen.is

[2] https://charturl.com

[3] http://c3js.org/reference.html

[4] http://datamaps.github.io
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You really have to change the name. I couldn't read your pitch without fixating on what would be grammatical errors if "Let's" were not a proper noun.
I agree with your opinion of politics & Facebook, it's one of the reasons I ended up closing my Facebook account. But the Facebook likes on the Republican side are closer to the current delegate counts (as of April 6) than I would have expected. If you narrow down to Trump, Cruz, Rubio & Kasich:

Trump: 48% Delegates, 53% Republican Likes

Cruz: 32% Delegates, 28% Republican Likes

Rubio: 11% Delegates, 16% Republican Likes

Kasich: 9% Delegates, 3% Republican Likes

Though if you add Carson back in, it stops matching up. And certainly the Facebook Like counts don't match delegate counts on the Democrat side. But I thought it was odd how closely the Facebook figures were matching for the Republicans.
Proposed Group – Openactive Community Group
> all these things exist in order to uphold the constitution, protect the "American ideals", etc

Excuse me, but you are made to believe that they exist in order to uphold the constitution and yada yada.
Yeah well, in everything I've done as far back as I can remember when I worked harder I got better results and when I slacked off, I got worse results. I'm thinking how hard you work has a little more to do with success than you give it credit for.
Why would I use Angular 2 instead of React?

I hope "somebody" forks Angular 1. The 2 way binding (ng-model) makes CRUD apps very simple to write, even if digest/watch type operations are somewhat slow. As far as I can tell, the ng-model feature is OUT of Angular 2, and some kind of React style event communication must be set up instead.

I don't know React yet, but Angular 2 sounds like they are chasing the same design goals: be efficient at gluing huge mounds of similar crap to a never ending page (e.g. - a la Facebook). I am more interested in quickly grinding out code for huge CRUD forms with a large number of distinct fields.
>But, looking back on it all, it was mostly luck. I wish I could say that I had some part in it, but really, I didn't.

Well, you did have a good part: all the lucked wouldn't help you if you fucked it up with your attitude, behavior, etc.

It's just that the inverse is not true: having the attitude, behavior, work ethic etc is worth nothing (or very little) without the chances and luck (imagine a genius, gentle hardworking. And those are not given to the majority of poor/downtrodden people.

Also, while (1) and (2) you mention might have a lot to do with existing disposition, they're also things we work out and change/improve.

If we consider (1) and (2) totally out of control as "genetics" or environment based (e.g. chance), then well, we can't say anybody really has any qualities of their own as a person.
And early bits of Star Trek Voyager.

I am and always will be an Amiga fan; Got an Amiga 1200 with modern '040 CPU board, and a DVI video out. Best home computer, ever.
Care to you explain the joke for the culturally unaware?
DHH lived in Denmark when he created the first version of Rails. He didn't move to the US until the end of 2005. He was employed by a Chicago-based company, though.
I took and completed Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1 (https://www.coursera.org/course/algo) for free, and it was 100% worth it. It was just the right amount of challenging, intellectually stimulating, and language agnostic so I think it actually made me a better JavaScript programmer in addition.

I made it a point to meet all the deadlines and assignments, which kept me honest and forced me to be timely. It was free when I did it, but I'm not sure if that's changed since looking at other courses I don't seem able to receive a certificate or weekly grades if not paying... Point being it may be worth it to pay just so you feel incentivized to finish the course with a passing grade :)
I've taken several Coursera courses all the way since the beginning. My general impression is that the quality has gone down.
Personally, I don't care about the certificates. I think a much better way to demonstrate that you have taken a course is to apply what you have learned, or blog about it, or review it on one of the review sites (I think the biggest ones are Class Central and Course Talk).

Courses I have taken (and reviewed):

https://henrikwarne.com/2015/10/20/coursera-course-review-so...

https://henrikwarne.com/2015/01/01/coursera-course-review-co...

https://henrikwarne.com/2013/02/18/coursera-algorithms-cours...

https://henrikwarne.com/2012/05/08/coursera-algorithms-cours...

https://henrikwarne.com/2011/12/18/introduction-to-databases...

https://www.class-central.com/mooc/4893/coursera-the-global-...

Review sites:

https://www.class-central.com/

https://www.coursetalk.com/
Ask HN: Patterns for handling stable but problematic client(s)
So one of my clients (for software development services) is a small agency that resells my services to another company in the insurance industry. Every now and then the owner indicates the her clients complain about the high amounts billed. Somehow I found out she makes about 66% on every hour I bill, and in any case my hourly rate is just average, so what I actually get is rather below industry average.

I am in a position to demand a much higher rate (or move to per-feature, as opposed to hourly, billing) and walk away if she can't meet my demands, but she has been a very reliable client for years, a hedge against the occasional proverbial freelancer famine.

The main issue as I see it that the ultimate client (the insurance company) does not really appreciate the value of the development services provided (think "software is an expense"; "we can always hire another dev from oDesk/India", etc., etc.)

Should I:
(1) Try to educate the agency and client,
(2) Demand a higher rate or move to another billing model, or
(3) Just cut them loose and focus on other higher-value clients?

I suspect such issues are par the course for freelance/contract work, but what patterns of dealing with them have you found to be effective?
This is honestly true.

I take quite a few Coursera courses and I have had a score of '100' in all of them. And this is almost exclusively because even if I fail I can just see which question I failed, go back to the lecture, study that section again, and try again until I get the 100.
I agree that we can't fault famous people for not being able to answer every email immediately, but

>The man certainly has some condescending opinions about software, but he is not conceited about his own celebrity - he quite certainly would gladly give it up if he could.

Which is why he's happy to let Linus get all the credit?…
The US has very little truly mid-density mixed use space. We are not talking about housing projects. Here's Valparaiso Chile[1]. There are very few places in the US with that medium level of density (parts of Boston and SF definitely qualify), and they are almost universally very expensive.

https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2014/03/26/22/21/va...
BBC America used to have a banner before certain programs suggesting that some people may want to put on closed captioning for the show.
I don't think is worth to pay for a course or specialization beyond the motivation of not losing the money invested because there is no difference at all between the free and paid version, which is more frustrating are the support forums, they are run very cheaply, getting an answer could take weeks and it's just the blind leading the blind, also there is no guarantee that a course offered today will be offered in the future, have that in mind if you start an specialization, if you miss a course it's impossible to get something that you paid for.
I kinda agree with you. One thing that was striking to me when I started to travel throughout bits of the rest of the world is how abruptly cities just...stop. Outside of that there's farmland, forests and small villages.

In the U.S. it seems there's a slow decrease in density from a city core out dozens of miles; from tall density out to suburbs, then individual developments and maybe around then you'll get the kind of farm environment you'd find in Europe.

It's not to say that all of Europe/Asia, or all of the U.S. is the same in this way. But it seems to be a pattern. In the U.S. people try to move away from cities once they can, in Europe people seem to gravitate towards historic centers.

I think lots of it has to do with livability. In France it might be convenient to take a daily trip to the local market to get some groceries for dinner -- not much more work than going through the pantry. Density might not be too high, and the environments are pleasant, relaxing and convenient.

In the U.S. cities built before the car are better, but can still be a grind. Big swaths of NYC are hard to do daily shopping in for example. Cities built after the car are a mess wholesale and people live far from each other and spread very far out, and the things they need to live are similarly spread everywhere.

In Korea, my parents-in-law live in a proper house (not an apartment flat), but a grocery store is a 2 minute walk, and a large commercial center with pretty much every other service you might want is about 5 more. I easily triple my walking-time in Korea even on lazy do-nothing days compared to life in the U.S.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11462513
Avoiding the Trap – Learning to Recognize Burnout
I've constantly observed in my highschool/university life that students who didn't take notes were performing better than students who were taking notes.

Worse, the few that dared typing everything in LaTeX and share it to the rest of the class flunked their years.
> I'm a hot girl and I can get away with anything I want evil

What?
Earth's carbon cycle is off balance
Haha, I appreciate your feedback and will take it under consideration. The intention was that when you select to do something its always like: Let's ...
grab a drink,
grab a bite,
watch a movie,
go running.

but I can see what you mean. Another name we played with was Friendify but seemed needy which is not really true about the audience.
I taught at a school for students with dyslexia. Handwriting comprised a large part of their tutoring. We were told (paraphrasing from memory) that engaging the muscle groups in the arm during writing engaged more of the student's brain. Maybe something similar is going on during the pencil-on-paper note-taking process.