skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fixing the broken content consumption flow
I'm flooded with tons of super fluffy, 0 added value type of marketing content.

I literally had enough! I decided that the whole content consumption flow must be changed and fast, but the question is, how?

My approach to this Content Consumption flow is as follows:

1. Content Discovery - There are tons of articles out there when only a small percentage of them worth our precious time as pro marketers. We need to have a better discovery process of what’s actually a good piece of content.

2. Content Consumption - How many articles do you currently have in your Bookmarks folder? I have over a 20 in any given time. That means that by choosing a specific piece of content to consume, my task is not done as in most cases I don't have the time to actually go over all these articles. That creates a graveyard of potentially useful articles I don't read. They are just staying’ there and that’s it. There must be a way to consume these articles much faster and extract their bottom-lines, before reading the whole thing.

3. Action Items - Discovering the content and consuming it, is not why we read articles. We read them in order to add these action items we learned into our marketing workflow so our campaigns, channels and strategy will perform better by executing these action items.

There must be a better way to this whole thing.

Now, I met really creative dudes. Together we came up with something that might be extremely helpful for us marketers and solve this painful, long process of consuming good content. Its called Zest and we are releasing our first beta. Focusing on solving the first part of the Content COnsumption flow- the Discovery stage. Feedback please :-)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zestis/lgbbbmmegpehafpempogpgacjnfcbekj

Another thing i'd like to ask is: do you guys feel the same? Do you think that we have some sort of a problem in the marketing content sphere?
Is there an app or a site that tracks brands and tests their claims of what's in their food? I'm always curious especially when buying olive oil if what I'm buying is actually real. I think the biggest issue is consumers have no way of knowing what's actually in the food they eat. If the information were readily available it'd be much harder to push food substitutes.
I swear every iPhone 4 has their home button and mic broken eventually. I think the battery life dives dramatically after some point which I haven't reached. Will probably upgrade after that happens.
You might be interested in our program:

https://www.bloc.io/software-engineering-track

Our goal was to build a program that combined the pragmatic skills training of a developer bootcamp with the foundation and theory of a traditional computer science degree.
> we're talking about Uber, so who really cares about laws

Conversely, we're talking about laws and lawmakers, so who really cares about what makes economic sense, what's good for people, or what people actually want?
10 Reasons You Cannot Afford Not to Take a Vacation
Oh noes a bank is in trouble? Well not to worry, tax payers will gladly bail it out, while the bankers collect their bonuses and leave "for the next big challenge". Fuck I love banking.
Every time I see something like this posted it deeply saddens me that, as an American, I will never be able to safely visit Iran.
Check https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_... and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bestselling_drugs
From a 2011 UC Davis* report on extra-virgin olive oil sold in California:

http://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/research/files/report041211fi...

>Of the five top-selling imported “extra virgin” olive oil brands in the United States, 73 percent of the samples failed the IOC sensory standards for extra virgin olive oils analyzed by two IOC-accredited sensory panels. The failure rate ranged from a high of 94 percent to a low of 56 percent depending on the brand and the panel. None of the Australian and California samples failed both sensory panels, while 11 percent of the top-selling premium Italian brand samples failed the two panels. Sensory defects are indicators that these samples are oxidized, of poor quality, and/or adulterated with cheaper refined oils.

*"We are grateful to Corto Olive, California Olive Ranch, and the California Olive Oil Council for their financial support of this research."
This is a ThinkServer TD340, if it was thermal I would actually hear the fans - it remains whisper quiet. To be fair, this is virtualized, so there's a 3% performance penalty give or take.
At least in Austria, it is like you say - nobody would dare doing this, as this would make them liable. For no really good reason at all, because people probanly cannot distinguish a trusted certificate from a made-up one anyway.
The best I can explain it, drugs are like rewiring your brain to need something, like food, water, air, sexual reproduction, etc.

If you go without eating for a day or two, your brain really drives you to find something to eat. Same thing happens with some drugs - within varying degrees.

When I tried to give up smoking cigarettes hundreds of times, my body really felt like it was dying by not having the nicotine around. I eventually got passed it. I haven't had one in 8 years.

The drug laws do nothing more than make addicts bad people. It makes it harder for them to get jobs when they get busted. These guys were just trying to survive - their brains rewired to do that.

They really need to get rid of the drug war. Take that $50 billion a year and spend it on mental health/addiction research - instead of killing a bunch of people on the border. Provide some treatment centers. Let people be anonymous when attending. Get the courts and criminal records out of the equation.

I've known some very smart addicts over the years. The tragedy is they get worse and worse - and they have no way out without getting a very negative stigma attached to them. Some end up unable to get jobs. It all because of our laws.

We would be much better off educating our population honestly on drugs (think of how dishonest the refer madness propaganda was). Keep the drugs available, in clean, reliable doses. Help people addicted get off the drugs. Learn about the cycle. This is much better than the system we have now.
1. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

2. One L by Scott Turow

3. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

4. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

5. Believer: My Forty Years in Politics by David Axelrod

6. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

7. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy

8. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (re-read)

9. I, Claudius by Robert Graves

10. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

11. The Fear Index by Robert Harris

12. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (re-read)

13. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (re-read)

14. Hannibal by Thomas Harris (re-read)

15. Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (re-read)

16. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (re-read)

17. Claudius the God by Robert Graves

Re-reads take hardly any time at all, so I'm not sure whether to count them. If you're not, then 11 books read so far.
> technical talent who are burned out on the rising cost of living and declining quality of life in the Bay Area.

Yup.
Disclaimer: I'm no expert. I'm actually taking Coursera's "Data Structures and Algorithms" and decided to document my notes for the community to critique and contribute. "I give myself permission to publish things that are not perfect."
Ask HN: If you had unlimited clean energy what would you use it for?
The only caveat is that you can't sell it or give it away.
Has anyone ever sent anything to a lab to be examined? How would I get started

For the escolar example, would we need to do genetic testing or is there something cheaper?
Except that the state of art in HFT is sub-microseconds

"London-based trading technology company Fixnetix said Tuesday it has the world’s fastest trading application, a microchip that prepares a trade in 740 billionths of a second, or nanoseconds." (WSJ, 2011)

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2011/06/14/wall-streets-need...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17256040/how-fast-is-stat...
That argument is a bit like calling all sex rape, because someone having sex is doing the same thing as a rapist does, they just happen to have consent.

The reason front running is illegal is because it is a violation of a fiduciary duty. Third parties do not have a fiduciary duty, therefore it's not illegal. "It's front running, but without the violation of the fiduciary duty" is like "murder, but without the killing someone", or "fraud, but without the deception".

> What would you rather have them call it? They can't call it nothing.

Not everything needs a name. Since what you seem to be describing is "reacting to the public actions of other market participants", does it need a name?

Alternatively, if you think something serious is going on, why don't you define it, and then we can name it?
Eight restaurants paid a total of $19k. That's not a very strong deterrent.
What good is blame? You can focus on what you know is good for you and improve your health little by little. Blame might keep you from doing that.
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>As with so much regarding food safety, the USDA, which makes the rules, and the FDA, which is meant to enforce them, are nowhere to be found. These institutions routinely cite cost-cutting and low staff.

Hmm. Maybe the better solution is to give consumers legal standing, with massive punitive damages, to sue restaurants to mislabeling food. Even better, make it a strict liability tort (i.e. no need to prove intent or negligence) if the restaurant is notified but doesn't clean up their act. Also, let the restaurants sue up the supply chain.

I bet that after the first restaurant or supplier loses a multi-million dollar lawsuit for pretending to serve Kobe beef or white tuna, the problem will solve itself.
To be fair, this was running on ESXi, so there was a performance penalty to be had there. Got really annoyed when I switched to XenServer and I had to disable all hardware offloading (because XenServer is stupid and FreeBSD doesn't like stupid virtio drivers) and it would regularly peg a core at 100% when maxing out the connection, which was ultimately why I switched to a cheap hardware solution (still eyeing the cheap ~$300 pfSense appliance, because EdgeOS lacks a TON of features I used regularly).

Edit: Netmap would be lovely.
This is a very interesting article. Scott Aaronson touches on some of these ideas related to quantum cloning and the concept of "you" in his blog posts.

I've always thought this kind of concept might define the limits of standard science, as currently practiced. Science requires reproducibility. But by whom? Well, other scientists of course. If every scientist tries your experiment and gets the same result, then you have a validated scientific theory.

But suppose that you manage to set up an experiment where the perception of which measurement resulted depends upon who is perceiving the result (I can think of a few ways that this scenario might arise if we could ever figure out a way to generate macroscopic, human-scale, superpositions [which is unlikely, I'll add]). That would really throw a wrench in things. In that case, you would have to have each scientist convincingly prove to each other scientist that they all see something different, in which case perhaps the result could still be universally accepted. But there may be a limit on how much consensus we can ultimately get.
Awful on the entire East Coast. Hot and overbearingly humid.
They do - quite aggressively. It lets the localized producers sell at quite a markup, and a lot of the GI/DOC designations are protected at the level of international treaties.

http://www.gourmetretailer.com/top-story-profiles___trends-p...

WIPO and WTO handle a lot of them: http://www.wipo.int/geo_indications/en/

They seem to be more effective because there's a very direct cost/benefit to the GI-protected producers when people infringe. IANAL, but I suspect that because it's a WIPO/WTO treaty issue, it's also probably easier to prosecute than a very generic claim that someone is mislabeling "white tuna", again because the incentives are aligned for producer to show that they're being damaged by the forgery.
I also trust a specialist in x to know when it's not the appropriate solution to the problem.
I am not certain about this, but I think Sri Lanka is one of the largest exporters of Darjeeling Tea.
I didn't realize you were the OP in the other comment. I would maybe leave twitter if there was a more attractive alternative and I didn't have an attachment to their brand or my content.

I'm not sure in the case of Twitter what could help. Other than the "sorry to see you go, we accept/appreciate your feedback in the textbox below".

It is a hard question of what makes an user leave. Why do we stop using tools, visiting places?

From HN I've read the recommendation to listen to active users (after all, you can get more data from them than one who left).
your comment is gold

to it I'd add that this is also the difference between the $20/hour programmer and the $200/hour programmer -- speaking in broad strokes, knowingly, and if you'll indulge me charitably. Because the difference between the commodity "let's ship something!" programmer/engineer and the one who truly knows his/her stuff, and who truly thinks about and knows about and cares about the edge cases, the big picture, the total system, all possible states in the state machine space, is what justifies those differences in (ostensible) upfront cost.

If you only want "the user is in location X and so icon Y should be rendered on their screen at point P" then you can get that pretty cheap, at globalization-plus-crowdsourced-plus-cloud-reduced prices

But if you want that above but also, with good performance, correctness, stability, scale, all edge cases handled reasonably and gracefully, and in v1.0, and well documented, and with good English, and maturity, curtesy, legality, i18n, etc... well, then you're going to pay. Or you should expect to pay. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Ever. If you think you have a free lunch, or a reduced cost lunch, then all it means is that somebody else off-stage is paying for that difference. And that difference may come back to bite you.
Note that this is not a vulnerability, per se - it requires the attacker to already have the keys to the castle (DKEK).
are suicide rates going up overall? all I can find, back to the 1950s, is that the rate has gone up and down with no clear upwards or downwards trend over those years (2010 rates are slightly below 1950s rates)

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0779940.html
TCP Checksum Offloading, important in NAT since it has to re-checksum each packet that it rewrites. This was just running speedtest.net, can't say I bothered to measure the packet rate because a normal HTTP download had the same effect. I ended up running into more issues when I switched from ESXi to XenServer so I don't really have the ability to recreate the results, I would probably have fewer issues if it was running on bare metal (and I'll probably switch to that eventually).
Think about it this way. They are publicly advertising to their investors that they have a weapon to defeat HFT. Because of this, they will get better returns.

When an investor decides to put their money in a fund, are they going to choose the one that has a patented defense against HFT or will that investor put their money into a fund that has a known vulnerability?

>It's fairly general: send orders ahead to co-located servers to be executed at specific times.

This is harder than it sounds. Coordinating a number of servers in different locations to send a trade at a specific time is not that straightforward when you're dealing with microsecond or nanosecond transactions.

Forget the trade, just trying to synchronize the time on all of the different servers in different locations is a large challenge. NTP has an accuracy of 10ms on the open internet [1]. The state of art in HFT is sub-microseconds [2]. This is at least 2 orders of magnitude faster than the NTP margin of error.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17256040/how-fast-is-stat...
I admire your tenacity. A thought about the DDR2 interface: since you own both sides of it, you can cheat. Write identical data to addresses n and n+1, and use the standard rising edge on the FPGA. When reading data back to the SoC, throw away every other word.
I don't think I understand that quote. Is that Maugham saying you don't actually need inspiration so you can just sit down and work without it? Or is he sarcastically saying jobs are badly configured because you can't just sit down at nine o'clock and produce something good? It could mean either.
Humans in the loop is great for this (kinda why mechanical turk was invented in the first place). I like echen's blog here http://blog.echen.me/2014/10/07/moving-beyond-ctr-better-rec...
Data Limitation is no more Hesitation
Ask HN: Is it possible to invert the races on police shooting videos?
If race is supposedly not a factor in these incidents, inverting the races of the police and civilian should produce the same response.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiemgauer is alternative to UBI
Speaking of Italy, I was a little surprised the article mentioned olive oil, but not basalmic vinegar

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/09/balsamic-vinegar-fr...
The whole western bank system is a confidence trick. Never head off fractional-reserve ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
She looks cute :)
And using style sheets that were initially for styling documents for animation/graphics, and using javascript which was created as a lightweight language for non-professionals to create reactive diff-based dom manipulations, and...
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Except that

lda $00

loads the accumulator with the value of the zero page address $0, instead of clearing the accumulator. To clear it, the code should have been:

lda #$00
The problem isn't that they aren't having sex, but rather than they're using birth control while doing so. Having children is a very conscious decision in this day and age, and the Japanese are on average not living in fantastic conditions for raising children. Wages which haven't risen in real terms for ~20 years, little paid maternity leave (or none?), small living spaces, and many others.

Of course there are the Hikkikomori issue (young people who shut themselves in their room and never leave) and Soushoku danshi (men who take no interest in pursuing the opposite sex and forming relationships), two rather small factors reducing the birth rate further.

But ultimately I think the economic issues are the biggest. Japan just isn't prosperous anymore, and people don't feel wealthy enough.
Fair enough. "Planned society" was indeed too broad here. I think "paternalistic state" is more accurate.

I think that, almost by definition, if you support a traditional welfare state over a UBI, you want a paternalistic state. OR you think that industries like health care are best directly run by the state (because otherwise, a UBI would allow everyone to buy coverage in the private market, if they choose to). That's a planned economy there. And "the economy" is such an overwhelming portion of what we call a society, that a planned economy is effectively a planned society in my eyes.
Static analysis: for sure. Companies with large codebases are interested to understand how their code works, build refactoring tools, find bugs, etc. They have dedicated teams doing this. For example https://github.com/facebook/pfff.

Formal proofs: there are specific applications (see Amazon's use of TLA+). I personally feel nearly every company has a small piece of code that you can justify spending a few weeks/months modeling to ensure its correctness. Also, engineers working on medical devices, avionics, robotics, finance, etc. probably get to prove the correctness of their code.
> That Kobe is probably Wagyu, a cheaper, passable cut, Olmsted says.

I am not sure if something is lost in translation between the article and the books' authors, but that is rubbish. Kobe beef is PDO (which US is not participating internationally), so you can cure ham at home, and call it "best original prosciutto".

Wagyu is a breed of cattle. And depending on the produces/sourcing it may even surpass the beef from Kobe (which also comes from Wagyu animals) in quality. There is nothing that prevents US farmer or Australian one of producing the best beef in the world. Or the best wine, best cured meats, best beer, best cheese, best whatever.

Some people try to capitalize by falsely designating their products as coming from regions that have put centuries into perfecting products. That says nothing about the quality of the underlying product - it depends on the producer.

Kobe beef - for USDA and the like means nothing. You can call your beef Kobe, Kube, Kombe, Kombat, Kohinoor and it will be all the same as long as it is beef.

In the other parts of the world Kobe beef means well - beef produced in Kobe, in a specific way that is of certain quality.
http://i.imgur.com/kqMXyip.png I think the colors are wrong.
My bad, I just linked the first article I found. They are talking about it a lot in the news in TV, especially after Brexit
They have 20% of the deposit, but they are warranting the money of the financial assets they created.
With lever effect, this account to 50 x more money.

In France, banks systematically do all their possible to block customers to access the money from their life insurance contracts.

There is as much fraud in bank industry in Europa as there is in food industry in USA.
Ask HN: How to start using mental models?
With so many people commenting on a recent thread "Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful"[1] that this the list, although useful for people who already know how to use mental models, but is of not much use to the ones that are unaware of how to use these models or are not familiar with the models[2].
Could you suggest some reading list/knowledge path to be trained with mental models? Or is doing MBA the only option[3]?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12040707, https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-useful-936f1cc405d

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12042318

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12042147
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Urban/densely populated = Democrat.

Country side / low density = Republican.

You'll find this correlation pretty much everywhere in the world: big cities are progressive and the country side is conservative.
If you have a job, your main goal should be to do things that make your boss satisfied, and prevent yourself from getting the axe.

If you don't have a job, your goals will be more ambiguous.
Yeah I can see that. It would be good to be able to build your own gym up, so you could place a gym at your house after acquiring some kind of resource, and people could try and take you down.

It would help to add to the density of the map in less populated areas, though that might make the trespassing issue a lot worse.
Peak and off-peak are quite easy to predict when it comes to electricity bills. Night is off-peak.

A better analogy would be cellphone roaming, if when you placed the call, you were told exactly how much more you were going to pay per minute. Roaming is (and long distance charges used to be) even worse than Uber's surge pricing because you only see the charge afterwards.
Most of that mislabeling is legal. Unless there is standard set by the USDA/FDA marketing has free reign. I can totally call my salmon "purplefin tuna"
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