skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ignored Quora for a long time, but once I took a look at it, it quickly became a valued part of my life. I've been on lots of Internet fora over the years, Quora really nails the problem of signal-noise ratio you typically get with forums, even HN isn't immune.

I've learned more about the real world around us from Quora than I have from almost every other source. Only Stratfor rivals it, and that's only in the realm of geopolitics.

Of course, you'd learn more at an actual military academy about strategy, but Quora does the work of getting the people that already went to those academies to boil down everything they learned into short, readable essays.

In fact, I'm finding that I'm reading fewer long-form journalism articles and blogs because I find Quora so compelling. Those were my previous bar-none best source for information.

Nothing beats curated long-form journalism for variety, but there's still a lot of noise and the work of separating it out is onerous enough and Quora is easy enough that I've already subconsciously switched, not bothering to maintain my RSS workflows. If I want some variety, I'll fire up Feedly or Pocket and pull out a few articles, but generally I'm looking to iterate on my high-level model of how the world works, geopolitical analysis from Stratfor and watching smart people answer stupid questions at Quora is the best bang-for-the-buck I've encountered for that. HN is the best place for business-specific information, if it weren't for that I'd have moved on a long time ago, I've been so far unable to find a good vein to mine for business on Quora, though it's half-decent with finance, though HN still beats Quora there too.
Biggest reasons for me:

1) Driver and I agree on a best route via mapping software, no more getting lost, miscommunications or malicious route designed to get more money out of me.

2) Payments are clear and fast. No more getting pressured and hounded for cash when I only cary my card.

3) It's always a clean nice car. No more duct tape over check engine lights.

4) I know if there is ever an issue I know it's going to get taken care of instantly by Ubers excellent staff. No more terrible customer service.
Man I loved the Eiffel book. When I think about the difference between invariants and pre/post-condition contracts, vs the "bean" anti-pattern that industry went with, I want to vomit.
Argh, I wish I could find a citation right away but having trouble in search - while I get the example (memorize X amount of numbers) and discovering there's an upper bounds is understandable. But what I had in mind was a musical instrument, in that there are a finite number of notes and how those notes can be played in a harmonious fashion. The study I saw, or think I did, showed that when performing a music solo some musicians were able to turn off the 'active' part of thinking about the notes to play. It was some different mental channel. That would, to me, explain how a guy like Freddie King could play a song like Hideaway for 45 minutes with his band and people would enjoy it.

Quite a cool article. Lots to consider. Phrase around my 'woodshed' was always "Practice makes better" though because perfect and guitars don't really ever align.
But the prevailing zeitgeist is anti-moderation, and I'd be in competition with the other biking subreddits. I do wholeheartedly agree with you about the quality of AskHistorians, but that's a good example _because_ it stands out in a see of crappy, snarky, shallow communities (like r/NYC or r/politics)
Uber/Lyft being 5 minutes away is a godsend in the suburbs of DC. If I want to call a cab, I have to wait at least half an hour for it to show up.

Generally speaking, the vast majority of people in the DC area do not live where it's easy to grab a cab. The only places it's easy to hail a cab are in Downtown DC, which is where are the tourist attractions are, but not much you'd want to do on a daily basis as a resident.
> will just think how intellectual you are …

I'm wondering what sort of annotations to an inane, hateful, book of ramblings can spur intellectual stimulation. Is it worth even checking it out? Is it analyzing Hitler's thought process or what? I just can't imagine it'd be very interesting.
Created an account because my friends use it and I'm getting more involved with programming, no plans to astroturf involved. Though I have been thinking about a part-time job over the summer…
We have a few healthcare customers on our portfolio, except for the usual HPC research use, everything else on their daily tools is a mix of R, Java and .NET tooling.
presumably a jquery CLI tool
That's almost exactly the use case I began with. It unapologetically requires python 3.5+ but if you're already there I'd be happy to see and support some of your use cases. Hit me up on github if you want to try it and need some guidance (the docs are nonexistent).
Indeed I'm not sure you can say Uber has won until they maintain market dominance without having to throw in more investor money. It's pretty hard to compete with them when they are subsidising fares but when they stop maybe less so.
Payments in Nigeria: swipe/click and pray
HN is incredibly focused compared to Reddit. That's what keeps HN clean.

My idea is that if the user karma was removed, and upvotes on links were used to merely weigh and sort links, and downvotes on comments were removed, Reddit, and also HN, would improve. Many attention seekers spam many subreddits, and also HN, merely for the karma. Instead, give users some lives, as in games, and each time the user is seen spamming/harassing, take away a life, and when he runs out of lives, ban him. Though I have no factual experience to back my thoughts, but mailing lists and bulletin boards are mostly run similarly to what I describe.
It's possible that a mathematician with philosophical commitments is more likely to be a Platonist than a formalist, but I suspect that most mathematicians are neither ("Philosophy is for the philosophers"). The so-called "naive" view that most mathematicians may be described as having ("I'm discovering something real when I prove a theorem", "Mathematics is objective", and so on) certainly sounds similar to the language used by Platonists, but I have yet to run into a mathematician who is comfortable with the logical conclusions of a strict Platonism. In particular, there are epistemological problems with Platonism (how can we know anything about non-physical entities?) that cause problems in the justification of mathematics and would be nice to be able to ignore.
I didn't bother to check but if it's like SkyGrabber it works that way:

Internet via satellite is just like a big local network, when you request data it get sent in space unencrypted, you only have to read it...

So you basically download what other people are downloading without any way to control what to download except with filters that filter text, css, jpg, small files... since this is most of what people get (browsing the net...).
That's what Google returned but I didn't think it made sense in the context. I guess he means to say you can trade one for the other? That doesn't make sense to me to be honest. I did like the article though.
> Oh, you mean like Salesforce? No, wait, they had an IPO and they still only rarely show a profit.

This is a very common argument. It's also wrong.

Salesforce earned $6.7B of revenue in 2015^. It spent $3.2B of that revenue on sales and marketing, in other words getting new customers. It made $100M total profit.

If Salesforce stopped caring about acquiring new customers, it could cut sales and marketing spend by 90%, down to $300M. It would then have $3B of profits.

Financials (see page 7):
http://s1.q4cdn.com/454432842/files/doc_financials/2016/Q4/C...

^ Technically between Feb 1, 2015 and Jan 31, 2016, and labeled in the report as Fiscal Year 2016.
Modula-3, just as one possible example.

Sadly the whole set of DEC, Compaq, HP acquisition processes killed it.
There was a mathematical/probabilistic argument proposed in 2003 [1] that, if I were to paraphrase, goes like this:

* It's a virtual certainty that hardware and software improvements will lead to us being able to simulate beings like ourselves one day, with the simulations being so good that the simulated beings will not know they are simulated.

* Once that happens, we will create a large number of such simulations and simulated beings.

* At that point, given all beings who do not think they are simulated (or don't know for sure, like us), the probability that a being is simulated is pretty close to 1 and the probability that a being is real is close to zero. [Frequentist argument based on number of beings of each type]

* Finally, there's no reason to believe this has not already happened.

[1]: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

EDIT:formatting.
Not a proficient musician by any stretch of metrics/imagination. But adding onto learning new pieces, what worked for me personally is hearing the parts in the original recording, and singing the melody with my voice if it's melody or vocalizing and tapping the rhythm with my whole body (foot and spine engaged) if it's a rhythm pattern.

That way, when I am playing my instrument when that problematic measure comes, I'll simultaneously sing out the melody or tap out the rhythm; and even if my technique is poor and can't play the fast series 16th notes, I'll hear the correct melody/rhythm/gestalt in my head and what I am off by and try again.
> Still a Donald Trump in USA is far better and very less dangerous as compared to the tyrants like Mao or Stalin or Castro, because USA has many good checks and balances in place.

How do you think Hoover stayed in place that long? You can pull a great many things without needing to disappear people at four in the morning.

> The important point to note here is that the intellectuals (Snowden and his supporters) who are targeting USA both at national and international level were silent about the extremely intrusive surveillance and other atrocities inflicted by the tyrants like Putin (at whose place Snowden may be currently enjoying his reward) and are still silent.

Snowden was not a public figure before. And you really think a life of exile in Russia is some kind of reward?

That said, I think Snowden is against global surveillance in general, but:

a) I can totally understand that you want to tread carefully in this kind of situation. You don't think he has already given up enough? What would you do in his situation?

b) While Putin is certainly more willing to suppress political opponents, I doubt the Russian surveillance network is even remotely in the same league as the NSA

c) Snowden is no doubt a lot more qualified to speak about Western surveillance than he is about Russian or Chinese efforts
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It's always just been a handful. That goes for any good-doers of the world. Out of a pool of X people who are fortunate enough to have the capacity to do Y good thing, only a handful actually do it.

Works well enough.
That's good news then :-)
the unmangled link to Penn's podcast is here and actually starts at about the 75 minute mark:

http://cdn46.castfire.com/audio/522/3454/25338/2512630/penn-...
I find it much easier to recall a particular picture of someone's face than their face "in general."
Similarly I read once that during recovery from a trauma that prevents to do a particular physical activity if one imagines doing that activity, then it shorten the recovery time and leads to less muscle dystrophy.
Rethinking Humanity's Roots
Pretty much. It's a term used a lot in Australia.
> On that note though, can you pump HTTP 2.0 traffic through a TCP listener? I haven't tried.

Yes, we're using that right now with Proxy Protocol to see the original requester. When using a TCP listener, you're of course free to use any TCP protocol of your choosing, including HTTP/2.

A consequence is that you have to terminate TLS at the webserver instead of at the load balancer.
Does Your Email Provider Know What a “Joejob” Is?
Try this:

Imagine an image split vertically down the middle. The left side of the image is solid black. The right side is the right half of your mom's face.

Does that make it easier? It does for me.
I absolutely love this project. I've been making bindings for a C++ library using it recently and have yet to encounter a situation that was too tricky to bind properly. I'm loving the ability to take an abstract class from the C++ side of things and derive and override virtual functions in Python. Super excited about how much easier that makes it to do exploratory programming to get something that woks, and then worrying about writing it in C++ when I need that level of performance.

The lack of a dependency on Boost only sweetens the deal for me. I love what Boost has set out to do, but it's just such a huge dependency with a ve4y strange (for me) build system.
You're not wrong, but you've got a political blind spot if you don't think there are people on the left that do the same thing re. repackaging and resubmitting ideas, or if you don't see the contingent of the left that is against free speech.
Yakuza 3 came out in 2010.

Sega has talked several times about how difficult the games are to translate and/or localize - and that's just text, no VA.

The game still has segments where you run away from crossdressers and all sorts of content ripe for PC criticism.

So it seems far more likely they just ran out of time/budget and chose to cut some more or less superfluous content.
You talk sense but I'll relate one of my favorite econ quotes to you: the market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent. If a founder was focusing on the tech and business side and tuned out the funding fads, he/she would be at a significant disadvantage to the crowd that is abusing "steroids".

An interesting analogy is steroid usage among men in fitness. I guess that is why the author used it.
Actually I think the imperfect information favors the machine. It's much easier to for an AI than human to control 10 scouting units and gain more information while doing everything else in the game.

The challenge lies in making the computer comprehend such decisions.

Does comprehending the decision go beyond: see x units / specific setup > need y units to counter > need z resources > switch to z resources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Obvious
That's a recipe for making users scared of expressing alternative/controversial opinions, also replacing positive feedback loop with a negative one.
They also have severe problems in many European countries where the consideration of the legality of the service hasn't been as lenient as in the US. One can "win" without a global presence sure, but that's something to still keep in mind.
Maybe I am too old school, but I can't understand how all these fancy 'constraint solvers' (and in another solution, definitions akin to genes and chromosomes (hair raising) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11474613) are helping to write a standard brute-forcer for the flawed algorithm? Are these solvers doing anything more intelligent??
I'd be interested to see how crows and dolphins fit in this ordering.
Apple Mandates That New Watch Apps 'Must' Work Without an iPhone
Wells Fargo used to have a service like this [1]. You could get up to half your regular direct deposit amount or $500, whichever is less. You were charged $2 for every $20 of the loan amount, and it was automatically deducted from your next direct deposit. At that rate, assuming 1 direct deposit per month, that would be 120% annual interest. The ATM would suggest this alternative if you were about to withdraw more money than you had available, resulting in overdraft charges. I would think more options like this (but with more reasonable fees and flexible repayment terms) would be a preferable alternative to payday loans.

1. https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/press/2014/20140417_direct-...
If I may make a suggestion: if Wikipedia people are criticising you, I'd ignore them. In fact, I'd say that you are a completely different mechanism that is trying to achieve similar things to Wikipedia.

Wikipedia pretty much nullified the Encyclopedia Britannica's claim that they were competing with them and trying to put them out of business by merely stating that they weren't in competition and that they would use them for sourcing information.

I'd run the same technique - there's no real need to compete and the market is big enough for both you and Wikipedia.
Hm I guess I didn't make that clear. Doriane is just another friend of mine, not my mother.
Hard to tell there are a lot ways to inflate revenue via creative "marketing". VZW & Comcast do
cross promos where they are hiding deep discounts
as marketing expenses.
Seriously, just stick this in front of most sites/articles:
http://www.readability.com/m?url=

And here it is in bookmarklet form
javascript:void(window.location.href='http://www.readability.com/m?url='+window.location.href)
But how to I train to be more aware? When I work out I have a plan of execution - various exercises. I need awareness exercises.
Another factor is that body mass is highly correlated to brain mass:

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/cosmic_evolution/doc...
I'm guessing its an emotiv headset (their calibration software is a floating cube). I don't think there are cheaper alternatives around, theres an openeeg mailing list which has some designs that can be built for a couple hundred bucks (not to be confused with OpenEEG which is a much more expensive, but (ostensibly?) open source product).

There was also an eeg64 project which looked like it had a lot of promise, but it hasn't been updated in a while.

Emotiv also do some machine learning to estimate the state of the brain from the changes in electric potential on the surface, I don't know if any other headsets do that, but its completely proprietary.
This is so impressive, to see behind the curtains of what has become the central repository of humanities knowledge, during a moment of loss of one of humanity's greats.
I think a principle engineer would set and tune the morals for a group of people. If they did their job well, then the group would function fairly and efficiently.
I used to have this problem a bit, but over the years I seem to have worked it out somehow.

When driving I do seem to have internalized that left = off road and right = across traffic. I never really noticed this until I drove abroad... I quickly realised I had to be very careful not to think too hard about what I was doing, because if I verbalized any of it then I just became confused. I also found it rather taxing to follow directions.
I only used reddit for a few subreddits I was interested in, but they all had the same problem. I guess the issue is that none of them were "healthy". However they are the subjects I was interested in.
I think it means they're politically well connected.
I was talking about garbage generation. For best performance, you want to control heap allocation and the memory layout. Java gives you no controls there. All objects in Java are heap allocated, you can reference them only by pointer. In Go you can have value-types. An array in Go can be a block of structures, while in Java it would have pointers to separately allocated object. Also, if you have objects as member variables in a Java object, they cannot be part of that object, but need to be separate objects on the heap. This limits quite a few optimizations.
Dinosaur Feathers Discovered in Canadian Amber (2011)
This is a superficially trivial bit of syntactic sugar, but an example of the way small tweaks can provide big impact. This:

> do_something(*some_args, *some_more_args)

is rocking my world right at the moment. That's a massive time saving feature I've been waiting for and worth the price of a 3.5 upgrade.
I'm not sure you even need that. I think all that is required are a few rules like "no personal attacks". Wikipedia and HN work very well due to having a few basic rules like that which everyone follows. They would obviously need to have some kind of reporting mechanism which is followed up on. That could also be done by volunteers.
Uber doesn't have any staff. They're all contractors, like the drivers.
I use Subversion daily. I am yet to experience an enterprise customer that has jumped into Git.
Did Facebook Censor a Group Fighting to Shed Light on Voter Purge?
Ask HN: How to write such an agreement between founders?
We want to write an agreement that says that founders can't take their internal problems to board / investors before sorting things out themselves.

Basically so that all inter-founder conflicts are resolved without taking it to people who have power to affect the company.

Is there a template for such document?
there's a strange phenomenon that occurs in some pregnancies where extra bloodflow/pressure on a particular region of the brain causes women to over-identify faces (in electrical sockets, in crumpled laundry, etc.). other visual skills are unaffected.
Well, that's my point: corporations and government are inseparable. It's useless to treat them otherwise, which makes questions such as yours misleading.

Likewise, treating corporations as hapless beneficiaries of some sort of bumbling government largesse is disingenuous. It's the deliberate co-opting of government by corporate interests that is the problem.
That's a valid point. I didn't hold it against him, though: as a reader, I can skim through but someone who's not familiar with it could appreciate the verbosity.
Hitler was one of the foremost intellectuals and proponents in the early 20th century Socialist movement that saw its deadly influence spread globally. His various writings and remarks on Socialism rank among the most widely read in history. His generation of Socialist leaders were the first to put actual Socialism into action politically, along with Lenin and Mussolini. It's not a very interesting book, unless you're interested in the history of Socialism (and as a Capitalist, I am).
Relevant: http://i.imgur.com/4HNM3Gd.jpg

Circa June 2013 near Washington Square.
What happened at 7:15?
? Did I say something wrong?