skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time continues to tick, and space continues to not collapse in on me. I'm not sure in what sense you claim time is a constant and space is not.
Very loaded wording. Since when became "conservative" a synonym for "right wing".
Importance of Redesigning a Website
Can you explain how team morale improves if (for example) RHEL is used over Centos?
Just curious: if they stiffed you, why are they still a client?
I love piwik but this is no excuse, sorry :)
Privacy also means data protection!
And probably a large percentage of all searches are for physical items such as keys or wallets.
The obvious answer is that you're just not going to hear about something like this happening at some obscure webapp.

These sites are also started by young programmers who tend to have a libertarian, naive tec-utopian bend. At some point they notice that the wisdom of crowds is usually anything but, or their girlfriend/daughter/advertiser explains to them how the 600th image with a racist, misogynistic attack on your CEO isn't just a shining beacon of free speech.

Or it doesn't actually happen, and at some point you just get a few disgruntled ex-emps running to Gizmodo because they can only think of CENSORSHIP!!1! when you act on the assumption that the NYT is higher quality than Drudge.
Thanks for replying! Your blog was one of the "triggers" that made me decided to ask if more people have been having success with the solo developer/desktop developer strategy.

I just wish more people shared their experiences on their blogs, because here where I live it is pretty hard to find someone working for themselves..
Ditch your LinkedIn and start making real connections
U.S. investigates market-making operations of Citadel, KCG
JSNOSE: Detecting JavaScript Code Smells [pdf]
The point is that where you see "the world's superpower" everyone else (who is not American) sees "a brutal dictatorship".

There's no other way to describe a political entity that will bomb your village to kill one man it suspects may be somehow involved in an insurgency against its military. Not to mention all the other brutal stuff the US does.

I'm saying: you don't like dictatorships. Great, but your country is the world's own brutal dictator. It could be much worse, OK, but it could also be a lot better, if your country didn't "throw its weight around". Or its bombs. Or its army etc.

(Again, that is _if_ you're American, which I don't know).
Thanks, ya I thought I answered my question there ;)
I think the vnext stuff is more exciting... object rest/spread, async/await, and additions to objects, let alone decorators being finalized...

These are all really useful features, and I think once they see adoption, that's when Babel usage will finally decline... for now, I can't see myself not using it.
This is a brand new commit, it's not today. There's been some good progress recently but Postgres historically hasn't been the best at scaling up, especially compared to the commercial engines.
Small correction - they can also be driven manually, a flip up panel on the front seat allows the conductor to take control in the case of a complete (or widespread) signalling failure. They're restricted to 12mph though as there are no signals at all and everything must be done by sight.
And you must of missed when Apple open sourced Swift and released binaries for Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 14.04.
Of the three firms listed in the article, two of them have had significant redemptions in the past year and one of them has returned all outside capital. This says that Och-Ziff has had $4.2bn in redemptions during the first nine months of 2015 [0]

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-02/hedge-fund...
I can't help but think a lot of this are in the mold of "damnit, no, stop searching." - at least in my experience.

Still this is a lot higher than I suspected.
I must have a cold dead heart, because I can't even begin to comprehend what is unethical about financial trading.

Scraping makes it sound like they're going out and taking things off people, when in reality they're buying from people who want to sell, and selling to people who want to buy.
My first job when I graduated outside of London was 30k. You are seriously underpaid.
Small side story: I had a 'fun' night where I 'just' wanted to make a self-hosted wordpress also perfect regarding privacy. This was not easy! First I had to install a plugin which does not use google fonts for a certain theme, then I need to disable the default avatar service using another plugin and customization, next I needed to convert youtube and twitter embeds into images with links and so on. It took me several hours.

At that time I thought I was the only one with this requirements ... also a bit strange for an open source project to have such defaults IMO.
I loved iTunes back when I had an iPod. Used it a lot, and made managing playlists a lot easier than what I had before, which I think was MusicMatch player, or something.

iTunes could rip my CDs, it could make playlists, and I could sync the whole thing to my iPod. I honestly don't see what other features it would need, but if I understand correctly, Apple managed to turn it into a horrifying monstrosity.

Nowadays, every once in a while, I accidentally launch iTunes on my Mac, and I have no idea how to use it anymore.
Karma-Duped: A Cautionary Tale About the Murky World of Venture Lending
The full database in CSV format (44.8GB) is downloadable via torrent https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/pages/database
Detect audio frequency using HTML5 (and more)
Looks really nice. although I am bit sad to see that - it requires structured schema. I have been lookout for a metric collection system (like influxdb) and this would fit very well - except the schema part.
I heard a similar work done by the students in Chinese University university of Hong Kong. But they make their own gloves, which cost about $75.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=y&p...
> Before long, I would expect closer to 50% of all searches to be comprised of voice searches.

I'd definitely want data from Google before making that kind of conclusion. More likely is that Bing isn't very popular, and so for a lot of people Cortana/Siri/Alexa is their only usage of Bing.
There was an interesting documentary on the BBC a year or so ago following the CrossRail project. One segment in particular was fascinating - a manoeuvre they called "threading the eye of the needle". The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) had to go through an gap between an existing underground station at the bottom, and a tunnel for the down escalator at the top ... tolerances were razor thin, much less than 1m either end.

Image that shows what they did here: http://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/2015/01/Crossrail_Plan...
What proportion of that 25% actually returned correct results based on the users voice query?

Even though my phone supports voice search I never use the feature.

Not only do I not want to broadcast my search to the room/subway car, but also rather not have to type my search again after it fails to understand me.
Down with the oligarchs!

Pension funds are a clear wealth transfer from the working class to HF/PE managers without any benefits to the working class.

Fee adjusted returns are worse than index funds.

HF/PE managers dodge taxes through the carried interest loophole which the "socialist" Obama refuses to close despite having the power to do so without enacting new legislation.
Accel leads $12M round in E8, an Israeli startup pushing faster data storage
Firstly, the way to show what sites you approve of is with votes, not by hijacking comment. Degrading HN comment pages doesn't apply social pressure to anyone.

Secondly, I doubt there's a site on the internet that doesn't have some technical or design issue that someone finds egregious. If everyone did what you're suggesting then every comment thread on HN would get hijacked.
So a third of users at least test Bing voice before searching for a different browser?
When that car is a computer on wheels, you kind of do want that relationship. I imagine an open source car will one day be a thing, but like the personal computer, it's going to be a niche market.
Since this is a read-only benchmark it won be affected by either synchronous_commit=off or fsync=off (do not turn off fsync for any data you care about, it can be silently corrupted on a crash!).
What startups should look for in an investor
Ask HN: What's the Role of a Team Lead in a SCRUM Environment?
You can kinda fudge it by making one of the columns a varchar. It will store whatever you put in it like stringified json but not compute over it (arithmetic, filters, aggs).

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Facebook was also denying that it was trying to influence election results, a few weeks ago: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/276503-facebook-employe... ...
Xbox One Bing Trolling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvBwezmeW1M
Large hadron collider prepares to deliver six times the data
In my experience most of the time people are unintentionally manipulated. It's not just that they don't know, its that the "manipulator" has no idea what they are doing either.

When someone at Facebook asked Zuckerberg recently, if they should be doing something about Trump, it shows they are just waking up to what their platform is already being used for.

They don't seem to have any awareness, that there are numerous other ideologues, megalomaniacs, demagogues, they unintentionally support in countries across the world. That's when they run and hide behind free speech, cause facing the truth about what they have created is too complicated.
Alternatively, stop giving a fuck and let people do what they hell they want with their bodies. If you see yourself as above them because of it, that's your business.
One of the most compelling features of Riak, both KV and TS, is that it is masterless and replicated. When nodes fail for whatever reason, the cluster handles it transparently.
+1 This. Keen to know too.
The text editor is here:

http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/

Try it!

1,000 words is an unrealistic constraint. But I'm amazed how often I use a complex word when the simple alternative is better.

Or...

Sticking to 1,000 words is hard. But doing it often makes my writing better.
We've had a lot of tech people run lately: Carly Fiorina (VP and Senate) and Meg Whitman (Senate). They lost costly races where they outspent their rivals. Mayor Bloomberg was a tech guy. Then again so was Ross Perot. He might not be a serious candidate, but John McAfee is running for President.

Of all of them, Mayor Bloomberg seems to be the best suited for the national stage. I respect that he was smart enough to see that Trump/Sanders/Bloomberg -> Bloomberg, Trump/Hillary/Bloomberg -> Trump, while Trump/Hillary -> Hillary. A lesser person would have run anyway for the ego.
no one is saying those provide anything of value
The Tunnel 3 project is famous. It featured in Die Hard 3: All Die Gold. 20 years ago.
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Indeed that's the way to go, I bet it will also increase enterprise adoption too as it reduces tie in with AWS.

An 'AWS-to-go' would be fantastic. I will always use AWS in production, but would be nice to have a lightweight dev equivalent. Especially now that I use Lambda a lot.
Sounds very similar to Simple English Wikipedia: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_English_W...
Yahoo buyers welcome 'rational' new board members for second round of bidding
Alternatively, there could be a case to be made that while losing money for their clients they ended using losing less than a competitor would have.

Whether this is true or not is highly dependent on a lot of externalities, but I can envision a situations where this would be worth something to a client.
Good Call to Action button text?
We've recently launched a new ecommerce service, and we've had good interest and strong early sales. However, we think our main button copy isn't great and isn't converting enough people to the next stage. We started with "Get Quote" (pricing isn't straightforward as SaaS, for example), and we'd love to try a bunch of different options like "Start Now", "Buy!", "Get started" etc.
Does anyone have any thoughts on good calls-to-action, or links to any resources that talk about this stuff?

Happy to post the link to the site if anyone wants it, but obviously don't want this to be a self-promo thing!
Ideas, shmideas. What we need is prospective studies of good quality. Mostly because hindsight does not work due to way too many correlations which cannot be untangled even with best statistical methods.

There are very few of those good prospective and long term studies. And way too few have follow up study.
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Swift-mushroom-clouds
So the company that invested the most time and effort into collecting the money earns the most money.

In your analogy if they were illegally cutting down other people's nets or illegally breaking their wind machines, I'd see a problem with that.

Just as theft and assassination are covered by the common law.

Otherwise, I understand your argument but just disagree that anything unethical is going on.
Au contraire! That idea makes an excellent book, and also a pretty good free article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t....
Rammstein -> Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 :P
My thoughts exactly. Bing isn't the go to search engine for a majority of people so the primary areas I can see it being used is on mobile devices where the option to open a new google search tab isn't as simple as on your desktop.

Actually my first thought when I read the article was "25% of nothing is still nothing" ;) but maybe that was a bit harsh. Bing is after all being used by people who simply can't be bothered to change the default search engine.
Well, hence the part about asking for an explanation. It feels to me, and probably many others, that these hedge fund managers just move money from A to B and watch it grow or shrink, based on some demand of other hedge fund managers or other traders. The generate surreal amounts of money in that process. How, where does it come from? I just feels like it could be spend in better ways. I agree that we should not force anybody to do anything but where does the money come from? Who is losing (or not gaining)?
If that's what you can get from ad-hoc data science on yourself, I'm looking forward to what we will learn a couple of years down the line from fitbits and what will come after them. Scary, yes, but there's also an immense upside.
I'm thinking he's dismissing the tool not the post?
Sample of one without correction for caloric intake?

See, losing weight fixes many numbers.
It is good to see it not only searchable but the raw data as well. Too bad Greenwald was not this open with the Snowden leaks.
> I don't really find blog posts about closed source software to be that interesting.

seems to be mostly about the post
We're talking about personal income tax, not corporate tax. Other countries have high rates and most of the rich stay, the U.S. used to have rates that high for the wealthiest [0] and they stayed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_State...
"Offensive Content: I could not give 2 f@@@@ about this"

I like what you did there :P
Cause Engineers understand simple neat equations.

They will happily tell you they can scale their system up to a billion people, but what happens when a billion people start interacting with each other they have no idea.

In other words read Jurassic Park.
I think you are forgetting that the rightful allocation of capital is incredibly important to the functioning of society. It rewards entrepreneurs who are creating value with additional capital, and removes it from those that are destroying value. There are some obvious problems with the way wealth is currently managed (hedge funds generally have monthly or quarterly withdrawals, so the allocation of capital is a bit slower), but in general investors as a whole certainly do not "scrap value" from society without producing anything in return.
> heuristics have always the problem, that you can't not say if the found result is the optimum or not.

Even worse: Heuristics have the problem that you usually can't give any metric on how good you even are. If you use an ILP (Integer Linear Programming) based approach if you found an integral solution the optimal solution of the LP relaxation gives you a lower bound (if you minimize) on the optimal length of the tour - so you can tell exactly that you only can get, say, 1% better and cancel any further computation, since you consider this as good enough.

> to get an idea if you are close to an optimum or not, there is the lower bound call "held-karp-lower-bound". you have to calculate a mst, a one-tree and some extra stuff to get it. than you can calculate the difference between both values.

The Held-Karp bound is the same as the optimal value over the subtour elimnination polytope (Theorem 21.34 in Korte, Vygen: Combinatorial Optimization - Theory and Algorithms (5th edition)). This is rather where one starts when one uses an ILP based approach.
Im guessing its kids that dont know how to read/spell/type with iPads and parents that don't know how to change the default search engine. It would explain the word count per search increase too.
> Before I was allowed down into the building site, I had to be shown what to do in case of emergency. Basically, "run away from the smoke if you can."

I met a guy at an after work thing a few years back, somewhere in the city, who said he worked with contingency planning for TfL. I asked him, what's the plan if there's a fire in the tube, one of the older lines where you're deep, deep underground, and there's heavy smoke development? His answer wasn't very re-assuring: "we pray."

Since that day I very rarely, if ever, take the tube anywhere. If I do I make sure it's on off hours when there aren't as many people on board or in the stations. Irrational fear, for sure, but coupled with the extreme amounts of people you may find, with people literally jammed up against the walls, I figure I'd rather spend a few more bucks on a cab, or just spend more time walking.

(Also the signs in various stations, King's Cross for instance, commemorating the victims of accidents and/or attacks aren't really re-assuring.)
I think you mean: Cryptography Engineering : Design Principles and Practical Applications by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, and Tadayoshi Kohno

The book is introduction to the engineering problems and details when implementing cryptography. It introduces primitives, like symmetric ciphers, hash functions etc. and then shows how to write actual protocols using them. It covers many practical details and implementation concerns. I think it's good read. Just bear in mind that it's not comprehensive or authoritative. Some advice can be controversial. For example, they lean on authentication before encryption that others consider bad practice.
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You don't have valid data to do that, because almost nobody does. The best data driven result is to eat much more fresh fruit and vegetables. Skip highly processed ready to eat food.

Perhaps eat much less meat that Standard American Diet. Sure, high protein diets tend to cause rapid weight losses, but there is not enough trustworthy data to ascertain their long term safety and effects.
Isn't it more about the number of cycles it takes to generate the hash more than it's size, since you're likely to do that very often in a db context?
You have a lot of posts on this topic and do not seem to have something resembling even a remote understanding of the topic.

> Edit: sorry, read another thread of yours that 2% is covering cost; how can it be a % if it is covering cost? Cost goes up when the $ goes up? How does that work? Again, not trying to be annoying here.

If my business grows, chances are some business-related expenses grow along with it. How is this any different?
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Probably since 1834, when the Conservative Party was founded.
Please excuse my ignorance, but can someone tell me where in that article Aristotle comes into play? I did not see any attributed quotes, unless I missed one?

Thank you
Yeah desktop Java gained a bad reputation because of a bloated JVM and poorly-designed Swing interface.

However, if you ship your own JVM and use SWT instead of Swing, most of the problems with using Java on the desktop go away.

stephenr - maybe the reason you've only seen crappy Java desktop applications is because you didn't recognise the good ones as Java? For example, here are screenshots of my Java desktop accounting application I've been developing for 9 years:

Mac: http://www.solaraccounts.co.uk/images/screenshots/invoices_m...

Windows: http://www.solaraccounts.co.uk/images/screenshots/invoices.j...

Java with SWT uses native widgets and makes it easy to call platform-specific UI code, so the result can be almost identical to a native application.
I'm basically not interested in automated music recommendations, and it's simply not what I'm talking about.

Categorizing, labelling, organizing, displaying music information is not about judging quality.

That aside, I also don't believe it's possible to separate a "pure taste" from a "cultural taste," philosophically.
90 is a little high but we have plenty of leverage. They can enjoy the Chinese markets, or maybe they can invest in Greece.
Applying AWS auto-scaling in practice
So Coke needs to create a bespoke formula per customer to provide additional "value" to society?
I'm sure you have considered your ethical beliefs extremely carefully, so I'm cautious to disrespect them, but I feel like I could sum up your argument as 'they're making lots of money - I don't understand how they do it so it's not fair!'

You focus on the fact that they make lots of money, where I feel that any ethical argument should focus on the actions, not the sum of money involved. If what they are doing is unethical when they earn a million year, is it still unethical if they earn a median salary instead?

If not, and I suspect that's the case, then it looks just like income jealousy to me.
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I think that's the reason. Bing is not popular but gets used by a lot of IoT/personal assistant services and therefore the share should be higher than with Google.

Curious about Baidu though. With some languages it's much easier to speak them than using your keyboard, so people adopt this feature sooner.

Apart from that it would be interesting how search will increase if Messenger/Whatsapp would integrate that into their product. I feel like voice is used way more in messaging and some people only live in messengers anyway, so it could definitely help adoption.
The majority of these are probably people trying to get Siri to answer something slightly challenging and getting thrown into a Bing search instead.
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Sooo boring.

Just kidding, I'd also welcome if more projects came up with sensible names that hint at what the program/library does.

It's happened way too many times to me that I saw a cool project with a generic name, and wanted to use it at a later time to make my own cool stuff. Of course, I'm then unable to look it up because the names get all mixed up, and I only rediscover it a few months later when it gets posted on HN again.
I have Thing Explainer right here, my main issue is I'd like a separate version with the actual terms so I can have a conversation about the covered topics without sounding like a moron.
What's this? Conservatives complaining that a business wants to pick and choose who it does business with? I thought they were in favour of that.
Node.js on a satellite means anyone can be a space programmer
That sounds more like composition then inheritance.
Oh wow you're The Cat Machine guy, nice game :D