skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you participated in Open-Source projects? There is leadership: a few (2-3) the most active contributors. The thing is it's easier to find them if the project is Open-Source. And contributors can make sure in advance they like the project.
E.g. I started contributing to someone else's project with lots of stars on GH. And after some period of time became its maintainer and the second leader. If I had to go through interviews first and all that stuff that hiring requires, I would never be there.
There are portals that connect reviewer shills with sellers who want to boost their product ranking. Google "buy amazon reviews" and you'll see it. Some do it individually, on fiverr for example.

The portals themselves are a very lucrative business, and are not going away anytime soon. There is an arms race between sellers to get that sweet sweet real estate (get their products on page 1 or page 2), and business can be a cutthroat matter. Of course, the system will eventually come to a steady state when too many buyers get burned buying crap. Review and feedback systems is a topic I'm very interested in.
An acknowledgement of the win: https://twitter.com/DefuseSec/status/730903547747819520

The offer still stands though, if you'd like to try:
https://twitter.com/DefuseSec/status/730904219419443200
Here's the response one of the founders gave me. It and the two links make plenty of sense:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11691737

Start from there then follow up with questions for further clarification.
Not exactly. I know it is built on an academic flavor of Watson, though.
Zoom out a bit and look at the broader trend. Coal exports were at record highs for several years, but have indeed come down a bit since China's economy slowed.
My poor irony meter.
Great idea - This sounds like an idea for an app as finding and following reviewers you can trust manually sounds like a chore.
The other problem is that companies provide free or heavily discounted products in exchange for a review.

So they are using real users who then with a wink and a nudge provide 4 & 5 star reviews to keep the free products coming.
Thanks for adding that, although I think textiles are the majority of energy intensive manufacturing (which, of course, has moved overseas).

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=13431
Go HTTP Testing
To those in this thread, note that brson is the author of this blog post, as well as the primary maintainer of rustup, and has had his eyes on a web target for Rust for some years now.
100% were extraverts
Do you think this is intended to summarize the shift in median income (generally downward since 1997)? If so, why not just discuss that? If not, the effects of that shift are surely confounding whatever it is they ARE trying to summarize (some nebulous quantity called "the middle class").
Oh pleeeeeeze bring Fakespot to App store reviews! I'm not going to whine any more... but pleeeeeeeeze!

I've got a competitor that has made millions making fake reviews to boost up his lousy little app. He's been at it for about 5 years!
Indeed. I often get paid to write these types of reviews informally.
I guess you'll have to judge his comments on their merits instead of using "looks serious" as a proxy to determine whether he has a good point or not.
It's not just the reviews that are fake. I recently tried to buy a plush Baymax doll for my daughter, and there were so many people complaining about getting bad Chinese knockoffs from the sellers, that I gave up. They not only have lost control of their reviews, they've lost control of the vendors. Their whole storefront operation is circling the bowl, and I say this as a longtime Prime subscriber.
I like recommendation. I was thinking it was a territory or plant-something-on-a-PC game due to capture the flag reference.
"If you have 40 tests spanning 20 years saying that you aren't at risk for Total Scrotal Implosion, and then suddenly, without any symptoms, you get a result saying your testicles will fall off tomorrow, you have context with which to interpret this result. Without the historic data there is much greater risk of you and your healthcare provider agreeing to an unnecessary knee-jerk scrotalectomy."

This would be true if the issue if the reason for a test's error rate is due to inaccuracy of the result (e.g. I am trying to measure temperature, and 5% of the time it measures higher than it actually is) In that case, measuring often and keeping track of historical data would help.

However, this is NOT the major problem with these sorts of medical tests. The issue is that they are measuring something only RELATED to the disorder they are screening for, and not the disorder itself.

The actual fact is something more like: We have noticed that people that measure above value X on this test have higher rates of Total Scrotal Implosion.

However, there are lots of people who have above value X on the test who do NOT ever get Total Scrotal Implosion. You can test them every day, and the test accurately measures that they have higher than X of whatever is being tested - but they will never get TSI.

You can't fix this with more tests and tracking historical data - the test is accurate for what it is measuring, so repeated tests aren't going to change the overall accuracy of the PREDICTION that is being made from the test.
I've heard of people using postpartum instead. Lessons learned is probably the most popular alternative though.
You can filter Amazon reviews by "Verified Purchase" which, unless someone tells me differently, at least means the product was purchased. It's annoying but those reviews feel a bit more honest.
I wouldn't be bothered about it either if the language, like Java, targeted more the development of long-running services rather than interactive applications (with some exceptions like mobile). But as far as I can see it is advertised for use in interactive applications, possibly as a Python alternative, where responsiveness is important.
IMHO, we're in exceptional times. Taxes are generally based on income but property rents are a function of property prices. I've had a bunch of Uber drivers claim they are struggling to make ends meet in the Bay area - yet they have houses worth over a million bucks. Income-wise, these people are blue-color workers but have insane assets simply because they were in the right place at the right time (good for them!). Meanwhile, I know physicians moving out of places like the Bay and NYC because they cannot afford the rent. Things are messed up and no one at the helm seems to care.
I thought the main expense was maintenance after unearthing, as deterioration accelerates?
I am glad they added verified reviews that are for people that actually bought the product.

I wish they would take it one step farther and add a option to only show verified reviews and associated stats for those verified reviews
I was looking at bathroom scales recently and noticed this myself. Lots of five star reviews, many of which received the product free in exchange for a review. If you look deeper, most of these reviews are superficial. Adjust the review filter a bit and a clearer picture emerges with one and two star reviews from people who use it daily and have noticed a ton of flaws.

The product in question: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/reviews/B0113YL5V4/?sortBy=rece...

If you search for glass bathroom scales on Alibaba, you can find this exact model available at a price of $4/unit in volume so it's not surprising if it ends up being not the greatest quality.
what youre doing is, seemingly, review the product based on amazon delivering it to you in a speedy and secure manner. unfortunately many reviews include this when it shouldnt even be considered.
Robinhood open sources Thorn, easy webhooks for Python
Not when you have 10^25 paths to cover and each path takes around 2 seconds.
> Are you really not sure if that is supposed to be a joke or are you just saying that in a passive/aggressive attempt to insult me and/or my opinion?

Yes.

> Windows serves my needs for a desktop workstation better than any other OS.

The key here being 'my needs' and the fact that you seem to be an inexperienced Mac user, you also don't mention other OSes like Linux. Point being, your personal experience and opinion aren't really very valuable in determining which OS is better objectively.

> Windows is by far the best desktop OS in my opinion since I have to fight with it the least to make it do what I want.

So your whole point is 'windows is best, because i dont know how to use other OSes'. You literally haven't stated a single factual and concrete example of why Windows is better than Linux and your point about Mac OS is pretty hilarious.
The whole blog of his is full of beauty- this dystopian surrealism in love with the alien that made HalfLife2 great.
The US has well over 60 million people reviving social welfare. So, I don't think we have really rejected the welfare state.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/icpGraph.html

Even if you drop that to Disabled workers, Survivors, and Dependents that's ~17 million before looking at food-stamps and HUD ect. Include things like subsidized loans and you can get crazy numbers.
I'm saying Tesla engineers aren't looking at this and throwing their hands up in the air, claiming this was supposed to happen, and I'm saying a bulletproof vest has failed to achieve its design goal if you can't wear it when it's wet.
Seems quite similar to what a person with a wild imagination would write. I think it is a wanna be site.

What does this mean?

> Bitcoin to escrow

Never heard of such a concept.
Just a heads up to the Starfighter team browsing this thread: going to starfighter.io with uBlock Origin results in the job listings being blocked.

EDIT: it appears starfighter.io is different than starfighters.io.
Going serverless
>> In my opinion creating these decentralized organizations is not that hard but they will never be able to win against centralized competitors who have clear incentive to win.

Why not? Cannot decentralized organizations also have incentive to win?
Signs That You Are a Boss
Reviews in general are not a great indicator because the average person writes a terrible review. Either the review is made based on irrelevant details or they lack the perspective necessary to review the item appropriately.

Two recent examples:

There is a cheesesteak restaurant near me that has 4 stars on Yelp. People rave about how they have the best cheesesteaks ever! Yet if you look more closely, reviews from people that have eaten a cheesesteak on the east coast are much lower. After trying it myself, the food is terribly bland.

I was recently looking at coffee makers. The "Ninja" coffee maker has glowing reviews (though I suspect a chunk of them are fake). But the reviewers are comparing this $200 Ninja machine to their $30 Mr. Coffee. Again people that actually like good coffee are rating it much lower. Then looking at the reviews for a different coffee maker, many reviewers are comparing the result to their Aeropress or lower end Espresso machines.
yeah, if dying wasn't a thing anymore, we would need to at the very least boost the brain plasticity of everyone by quite a lot, or we would be facing a complete stop in the progress of societal values. We would still have slaves probably, for exemple, and racism would be much crazier.
also check out: beeple, gmunk, andy gilmore
> WebTV -> YouTube, Netflix.

WebTV (The product that was later acquired by MS and became MSN TV, and was discontinued in 2013) is basically a forerunner of web-connected smart TV STBs.

It is distinct from the newer "Web TV" (web-delivered TV-style content) like Netflix and Youtube, though WebTV's successors are a common vehicle for Web TV.
"But with respect to tests, so long as a test has a known false positive and false negative rate, its result can be accurately factored into a probabilistic model of a patient's overall health."

In order to do that, you would also need to know the correlations BETWEEN tests in terms of false positive and negative. And there are a lot of combinations.
Static websites are documents (although this file happened to be PHP, it looked pretty static), is a book or a word doc a software project?
Any idea where I could go about learning to do this myself? A few google searches mainly led me to things saying it was impossible.
It means Amazon facilitated sending the product which AFAIK also covers when companies "give" reviewers free product so I don't really trust those a whole lot more, maybe a little more but it's not perfect.
Amazon manually check reviews, which may also cluster
This reminds me of a recent HN thread about Amazon Echo. I brought up my skepticism that the undisclosed but touted Amazon sales of Echo were really a signal that the device is being adopted and well-liked by the consumer market that Amazon sought to target.

And, for saying anything even slightly negative about a big tech company, I of course got downvoted to oblivion by everyone adding their own anecdata.

Most loudly, at least one commenter linked to the reviews on Amazon itself, some tens of thousands with a 4-ish star average, as if this was definitive proof of something. Even just casually looking through the reviews, it was easy to see that almost all of the glowing, positive reviews were ghost written, or came from "Top X reviewers" who clear have a selection bias for offering positive reviews to reinforce their status as a highly ranked Amazon reviewer, or from people who got advanced copies of the device (again, selection bias if they are the sort of people who actively seek out new tech to review), and on and on.

What an echo chamber this place has become (no pun intended).
> Yes

Which one pays the bills - or will pay them?

Given this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11692083 I'm kind of curious how you guys - who have a boatload of startup/bootstrap smarts - managed to go off "into the weeds" of geeking out on the tech and ignoring the company's business. If you want to talk about it, of course.

Good luck in any case!
I think my point was that I would pay 20/mo and as long as the product is what I want it would work. I think that many times projects do the one time thing because it's a hobby and a bit of a money grab (IE, people love this I could charge for it), but in real life they should have done a monthly setup since they have bugs to fix and features to write.
It sounds cool and interesting but has almost no detail. Come on, Jack! Give us some details, RTL, code, board schematics, whatever.

@ All

This is how you do homebrew CPU's and presentation best:

http://www.homebrewcpu.com/

Links to others for anyone wanting to learn about this stuff:

http://www.homebrewcpu.com/links.htm
Not really a secret, as I have done in a number of threads on the subject, I would recommend checking out the book "Treasure Islands" by Nicholas Shaxson. It basically shows how the UK is involved in international tax affairs.
Did you read the article? It specifically mentioned that firms/fake reviewers use Verified Purchases as a method of building authenticity and believability. Specifically:

"The compensated-review process is simple: Businesses paid to create dummy accounts purchase products from Amazon and write four- and five-star reviews. Buying the product makes it tougher for Amazon to police the reviews, because the reviews are in fact based on verified purchases."
> I see Rust as the big next step for the web—a language that is still a pleasure to develop in, but with excellent static typing and tight, targeted builds without the bloat and buildup I'm accustomed to seeing with current transpile-to-JS strategies.

I think this will depend on the output size of the compiled file. I've always gotten very large js files out of emscripten, which are fine for games or media decoders, but would be undesirable for (e.g.) a vdom implementation that's part of a larger framework.
In a word: no. Processors this simple don't implement any of the features you mention, including multi-level memory hierarchies, and I doubt the author had any inclination to make the assembler self-hosting.
That's pretty much what EVE Online is. Most of the galaxy belongs to player-owned corporate alliances, who build infrastructure such as space stations and outposts.
Completely, its been a lot of fun, and I surprised myself by enjoying reading the RFC (full disclosure, I always liked doing that).

That's what I'm taking it as a license to do. I mostly do statistics/analysis for a living, so building automated systems is pretty new (and fun) for me.
This.

Erlang isn't a bare programming language like C, or even a high level, but still fundamentally simple language like Python.

It isn't just an intermediary bytecode running in a VM, like Java, that maps bytecode instructions to OS instructions.

It is instead more like a Smalltalk environment or similar; an entire ecosystem running for the specific purpose of providing you a very particular kind of programming environment.
> What are Vivs, Google and Apples semantic web offerings?

Both Google Now and GMail/Inbox -- as well as Knowledge Graph in Google Search -- incorporate substantial functionality building on semantic web concepts.

Some of them are built on Schema.org markup, which is essentially a modern, multiparty defined vocabulary semantic web markup vocabulary.
'He’s our hero': Hindu nationalists rally for Donald Trump in India
AFAIK companies can provide discount codes for reviewers to "buy" the product but there is a limit to the discount amount.
I think it's safe to assume that the many fluff pieces in the tech media are the result of a PR campaign to paint Amazon as the good guy cleaning up those bad people selling fake reviews ("the moral high ground"). But of course there's no mention of the fact that they've turned a blind eye to them for years, and they're only now shutting them down to eliminate competition for their new paid review product.
Out of curiosity, would something like "play games, get hired" convey the message better?
Enough to be worth the bounty payment. Apparently op decided to reopen the contest "for reals" though. I think fair.
Verified doesn't help much with spam reviews, the seller gets most of the money back from buying their own product.

My personal filter is to ignore any review that uses any variation of the phrase "found this little gem!".
True. There is transparency in the US thanks to whistleblowers.
Is this the right Vim plugin? [1] - if so wasn't aware; will add it to the toolkit with thanks :)

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1506
First off, this is perfect.

Do you think that you would have taken a different approach if you could do it over again?
Oh goodness yes.

To founders, if you don't answer the question this way, you're not pushing yourself/your team enough. If everything is going perfectly right, be scared or get another job.

@patio11 [Unsolicited advice from a fellow founder]

> All three of us were working as recruiters for it, but Thomas and Erin were also full-time on development for Jailbreak.

Have one person own recruiting, which I'm guessing is you. That is priority number 1, 2, and 3 for you no matter how little you know/like it. It sounds like you learned this really well (we fucked it up initially as well — the dangers of all-technical co-founders.)

For other founders:

As an early startup, you have two goals:

1) Acquire users.

2) Build something users need.

You should always be doing something towards one of those two things. If you have more than one person in the company, there should be one clear owner for each. Set metrics that are just out of your reach. As J. Cole said, "If you don't aim too high, then you aim too low."

Do not stop doing either of those two things until either your sleep schedule is on fire (for goal 1) or your servers are on fire (for goal 2.)

Do not hire, talk to press, design a new logo, talk to investors, join a softball league, speak at conferences, or bring on a social media manager until shit is on fire. That's what product-market fit feels like.

Unless you are building a lifestyle business, you do not have a successful company until your small team is on fire. Then fire yourself from positions (via hiring) to put out the fires.
I very much agree.

There are some cases where short variable names make sense. In the example the loop index is called "i", and that's good. It's good because it's just an index. The only reason it's there is because the looping construct isn't expressive enough for the desired loop semantics, so the short name means you don't have to care about it.

The use of "n" is also alright. It describes a number, for which "n" is a convention.

"c", on the other hand, is a horrible name. It's worse than "collection", because it's important and the scope is large enough that it's hard to skim for. "collection", however, is also bad. The variable doesn't just refer to a collection, it refers to a collection of integers. Why not call it "integers", or "numbers"?

I find conventions around this to really influence the readability of the average code in different programming languages. Lots of Haskell code can get away with short variables in small functions. Their scopes are small, their purpose is incredibly generic. C code often uses short variable names despite not being concise nor generic, making it unnecessarily hard to read. Common Lisp tends to use descriptive names. It's dynamically typed and contains little type information, and yet you always know what you're working with.
AHA! Thanks, I'll try this later tonight!
> Are you in ANY job market currently?

Nope, working on my startup. When working as a consultant though I usually look at how much what I'm going to do is going to increase the paper valuation of the company, and then target making 10 - 15% of that as cash. That way the employer gets 85-90% of the upside, but they're also the one bearing the risk since there might not be any future payout.
> It's easy to distinguish them by noticing Japanese has curvy characters mixed with blocky complicated Chinese ones, where is Chinese is 100% complicated blocky characters.

And Korean has lots of circles/ovals.
the term "Middle class" is one of the most abused terms by politicians and media alike.

I think we need a more refined term that makes adjustments for cost of living. A house in SF is a lot more than one in the Midwest
Too bad I'm in my late 30s. Education cost a lot of time, money, and made me delay purchasing a house until it was too late.
I have never ordered a product from Amazon that didn't ship on time or wasn't what I expected.

I'm not trying to be negative but I don't see what value the type of review you say you are writing adds.
> Do you think this is intended to summarize the shift in median income (generally downward since 1997)?

No, its intended to discuss the move of the income distribution to be less-tightly clustered around the median with more at the extremes (the particular release the NYT article is about talks about the by-metro-area effects of this, but the broader trend is succinctly illustrated in this graphic [0] from the December 2015 national-level report which preceded the metro-area-level one the article is based on.)

[0] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middl...
> All the existing EME modules are embedded as part of the browser

The CDMs used by Firefox, Chrome and Opera on Windows and Mac are distinct downloadables although the browsers handle the download automatically.

The CDMs used by Chrome for Android, Edge and Safari are bundled with the underlying platform and aren't embedded in the browser (though these browsers are bundled with their platform).
I liked Amazon better before it became what Ebay became. It used to be a warehouse, now it's thousands merchants competing for exposure, thus prompting this.

When I search for a product, I now often get tens of matches, all almost identical, all having different prices and description and equally bad photographs.