skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other than the many issues that other people have posted in this thread and reddit.com here are my 2 cents.

You need a clear differentiator especially if you want to justify the high markup that your products have. Right now, the business model seems to capitalize on the domain name and target new users that are unaware of the average price of the nootropics on sites like ceretropic.com, powdercity.com or nootropicsdepot.com

All of them have unique differentiators be it price, quality or unique variants of the products. I don't see anything worth paying a premium on your site.

By your admission you are essentially using ceretropic labs as a drop shipper; so is the same product and the same quality with a higher markup.

Why should I give you my money? And before you answer with `we don't care if you buy from ceretropic.com or powdercity.com they are good guys.` Stop and think you are starting a business, and you should have a clear answer for that if not then you are wasting your time, money and energy; setting yourself for failure.
UK Court: ISPs must block *trademark* infringements and copyright infringements
That's what using difflib does. Plaza vs pl vs place is just one example of many, though. There are about 1k different street names in chicago and about 18k different street names in the data. Many are missing street type and there are many street names which have different street types. So that tends to open up cans of worms. That, and street names that have 'street' in their names. Also, 'avenue' is a street name which screws things up left and right.

It's not a simple problem, and none of the popular machine learning libraries which use string distance for this sort of problem have been very effective.
It's a post from four years ago, the author isn't the one bringing it up again
How was this posted three minutes ago with 6 comments and 11 points?
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This might be for you: http://owlturd.com/post/148836283844/a-and-b-smell-the-flowe...
The article mentions he worked at a 30-person Facebook, so I guess that makes sense
At over a dozen PHP jobs in over ten years, I've never seen a real application without a framework be anything but fucking garbage.

Garbage. You know it's going to be garbage when some idiot tells you not to use a framework but is too fucking stupid to realize that if you don't use one, you have to write one yourself. Every single time. And PHP as a framework itself? Please. PHP is a horribly shitty framework itself for any app that's going to be more than a couple hundred lines of code. It's only with a proper framework on top that it becomes a proper web development platform (some may argue otherwise but their ignorance can be safely ignored). But I assume the author has never written anything more than a demo app, so yeah, if you're writing short scripts under 500 lines, don't use a framework. If you're writing real apps, don't listen to idiots like this author. This isn't PHP specific. There's nothing that makes PHP different from Ruby or Python. Appeals to PHP having been developed for the web are idiotic because while true, it's irrelevant due to the poor quality of PHP < 5 and especially PHP < 3. Yes, it was specifically developed for the web poorly and we've been fixing that ever since. If the author wants to use PHP 2 or 3 (or whatever the fuck they were called), that's one thing, but to pretend that coding in PHP 2/3 style is what makes proper apps these days is fucking insane.
Do all large US tech companies have employment policies where a long-term employee (who got a raise and promotion a few weeks earlier) can be forced out without even any prior hint of a performance issue?

I understand California is an 'at-will' state, but I'd think that the wealthy tech companies who compete to attract talent with free food and gyms would have slightly better management policies (at least for the long-term engineering staff)

Though given this particular individual apparently was an extremely early Facebook employee (likely >100M of vested stock options), he doesn't need the job security to afford rental contract in San Francisco (first month rent + 2 month security deposit, which can be a hefty sum in SF)
A technical correction. In Mandarin, shí is pronounced very close to the sound of "shi" in ship and "shee" in sheep. You are right that it sounds close to "sure" when it is pronounced by people with strong Beijing dialect.
A notable Lisp without GC is Linear Lisp http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/LinearLisp.html
Very true. And based on that, I considered moderating my tone. But, harping on about facebook is what he does and he does represent the influx of marketing that's closer to car salesmen than hackers.
Oh wow. Yea, I couldn't find it anywhere on their site. I had to go to their Wikipedia page.

I really like the dino. I remember the early Mozilla releases based on Netscape 6 and how it had the dino-logo in that fading pattern for page loads.

Come to think of it...I totally forgot we lost the page loading icon ages ago. It's a part of the tab icon now. Oh nostalgia:

https://media.giphy.com/media/anjRJ4nv9WJzO/giphy.gif
The most ambitious project I know of re: procedurally generated societies is Ultima Ratio Regum, http://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/info/
These are API keys, so they need to be both unique and hard to guess. First line of the article.
So you want the tier of graduates not good enough to get a real job to teach the next wave of students? That sounds like a downward spiral.
> Error establishing a database connection

The real reason
Anyone putting money on them still not managing to handle NFS mounts correctly?
It makes sense when you see it from a political viewpoint. Its easier to justify spending money to keep evil at bay, to remain the superpower, for our soldiers etc. Its much harder to convince people that we should be spending more on society, for the poor etc. The rather disappointing results of the "War on Poverty" left many disillusioned with Federal government programs for societal benefits.
No, just the name and argument order of a bunch of functions/macros (set, setf, setq...).
I didn't even realize that the old dino logo had been phased out until I read this post. I liked that logo a lot - it had a timeless quality to it.

I don't think that any of these replacements are particularly bad (except perhaps for that eye one...), but none seem to really capture the mental image of "Mozilla".

Google designed their logo and branding following the Alphabet transition, but kept the 'G' and color scheme to link users back to the original branding. Mozilla would do well to follow suit.
TLS client authentication (which I think is what you're getting at) is a pain in the ass to implement clients for properly - OpenSSL is dreadful to use, and for many HTTP client libraries you'll need to use it (or a very thin wrapper) to set X.509 client certs, if you even can. On the other hand, there's decent libraries and plenty of information on how to generate and verify an HMAC, and avoid replay attacks.
Dymaxion Map
A stupid idea is stupid regardless of language. Whether the community sees that or not also reflects on the community.
An MP3 encoder works with digital data to start with, so the data is already in the digital domain. The data out does not contain all the information from the data in, so it is definitely not "lossless".
How huge is it? What's something that you can access now that you couldn't before?
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That isn't actually the government believing and planning for a zombie outbreak.
Thank you for (2). (1) is not an option for obvious reasons, but I had been using (3) and it was not working as claimed. I'll try (2).
Mxgmn/SynTex: Texture synthesis from examples
People can be correct for the wrong reasons, though. Wisdom of the crowds (and the Central Limit Theorem) would make me expect that it would be very close is most cases, with random noise being the most common distance from the truth.
I'm fully informed about this area of research. Including other research that found simple linear methods could also get good results over a large number of games and DeepMind's recent work where far less computationally involved methods as random projections and Nearest neighbors outperformed Deep Reinforcement learners at the more complex 3D mazes and Frostbite.

But like I keep emphasizing, you can't take a neural net trained on space invaders and have it play Asteroids because each is a task specialized program that was the result of a search. While the search method is more general, the resulting program is not. You can use a single algorithm as simple as linear methods based reinforcement learning and get great results across a wide swathe of tasks but you can't claim to have found a universal learner.
To be fair, you can also "come up with something" in Chinese. Since there aren't all that many sounds, you can write in generic characters for the sound of the word that you can't remember.
The sluggish browser, outdated mail client, useless Hello integration, and misguided Pocket bundling have done more to "brand" Mozilla for me than some new vector art.
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Not to latch on a minor turn of phrase, but it is a shame we've replaced the "employee relations office" with "human resources".
True. They should do a modern take of the dinosaur logo
Token-counting is a strawman here; you can use more tokens and still have something that's easier for a person to read.

I think his point was that Lisp pushes syntactic minimalism to an extreme, but all the complexity then gets shoved into what your keywords are doing. You're not eliminating complexity, you're just moving it somewhere else. Judicious introduction of syntax + keywords can be better than depending on magic keywords/macros/symbols alone.

A concrete example of this comes from math--while we could write every integral as

(Integral lbound ubound body differential)

I'd argue that our usual integral notation is both more readable and compact because the spatial positioning of the elements has semantic meaning.

The tradeoff is as you introduce more syntax, it's harder to get a macro system as elegant as Lisp's; Lisp macros are relatively easy to write because s-exprs are simple. But we shouldn't pretend that there's no downside to a minimal syntax--otherwise we would all be coding in pure untyped lambda calculus or Brainfuck.
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Classifying employees as "growers" or "showers"? The author's a dick, either way.
Facebook is worth $350B, so $100M is only 0.03% equity. He likely had more than that, but the article is old so the number today could be more like $500M.
I started using JS-Joda because I've had a good experience with Noda Time [1], which started a a port of Joda-Time to .NET

[1] http://nodatime.org/
With mosquitos the discussion does tend to meander around what I see as the core issue: the wisdom of developing and field testing a technology capable of eradicating a target species.

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v34/n1/full/nbt.3439.html
I didn't say graduates, I said students. Students often have trouble getting jobs because they need part time jobs, and industry wants full time. Teaching a class at CC would be part time.
Pretty much all of the early rocket and space development was the result of WWII and the Cold War.
What did you expect? It's an blog about marketing ... (Or "info-product" as they like to call it.)
The best thing that could happen to Uber would be Lyft getting acquired by an unloved buyer other than Uber. Imagine Lyft becoming a Microsoft brand, or something Chinese, or the personal toy of some Saudi prince-investor who could easily be slandered with difficult to refute claims of terrorist support. Uber criticism would instantly stop being popular. Uber would be stupid to destroy this possibility by buying Lyft for themselves.
Most companies can fire you for any reason and do.

Many take more times to dot their Is, but not all do. This is when FB was growing very fast so I doubt they had time. OTOH I bet being fired at Microsoft takes longer.
I can take my laptop anywhere I want to catch pokemon now!
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The problem is that the pair in the for loop should have a const T as the first parameter. Because it does not have that, you are actually getting a temporary back and storing a pointer to a temporary in selected.

The fix to avoid this is to use auto. If instead of pair, you used auto&& p: map, this would not be an issue
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heh, google cached version: http://goo.gl/hRUKyu
Some upper and lower case letters have no clear resemblance, see Aa Rr Gg Nn, so one has to learn 52 symbols. Add other 52 symbols for script, if you have to. Then in the case of English learn how to pronounce or spell words, because in some cases there are no rules (why ocean and not oshean? Because of derivation from Greek, still...)

Anyway, any alphabet is better than Chinese characters.
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Let's encrypt, Rust/Servo, https://optin.stopwatching.us/ is what mozilla means to me.

Donate https://donate.mozilla.org or contribute some code instead of complaining.
I've been a member for a very, very long time under various names. I quit from time to time because I get tired of middlebrow dismissal comments.
I think you're missing my point.

The Iraqi army and government fared terribly against the US when they invaded.

It would be foolish to describe what came next as success or winning for the United States.

Any attempt to actually occupy Canada by the United States would be absolutely brutal.

This is a literate, technologically advanced and socially cohesive group of people.

Furthermore the geographic setting would mean that the United States would have to spread itself extremely thin or allow resistance to crop up in areas outside their narrow sliver of occupation.
At-will means at-will. That said, larger companies generally have policies that require documentation and a "personal improvement plan" (PIP) before termination for cause. This is mostly to provide documentation in the event of a wrongful termination suit.

However, generally if an employee is considered a serious liability (they have hurt or threatened another employee) they can be fired immediately.

Startups tend to be a little more aggressive on termination because they can't afford to pay a salary to someone for months hoping they improve.
I don't think people on the floor were necessarily all crooked or doing something illegal, but that market structure doesn't invite fierce competition. You'd see the same people every day and go to drinks with them. There was a real camaraderie between people on the floor, even if they were ostensibly competitors. Think of any community. Most people would probably work a little harder to have a nicer car than their neighbor, but they wouldn't want to see the neighbor's family starve to death in the process. By undercutting your rivals in the pits, you were literally taking away their mortgage payment, and you had to do it to their face. A lot of the locals in the pits were independent, so it was personal, not just business.

You also could see who was on the other side of your trade. Savvy floor traders would use that information to their advantage. If a sharp broker traded with you, you could hedge more aggressively or speculate in the same direction. Most electronic markets are anonymous these days so there's less information leakage.
> facilitate the commercial exploration for and commercial recovery of space resources by U.S. citizens;

> promote the right of U.S. citizens to engage in commercial exploration for and commercial recovery of space resources free from harmful interference, in accordance with such obligations and subject to authorization and continuing supervision by the federal government.

> A U.S. citizen engaged in commercial recovery of an asteroid resource or a space resource shall be entitled to any asteroid resource or space resource obtained, including to possess, own, transport, use, and sell it according to applicable law, including U.S. international obligations.

As always, with government documents, you have to read carefully. Mind you, I'm neither a lawyer nor a policy experts, but:

This certainly establishes the right to harvest and own space resources.

The killer phrase is "free from harmful interference", basically meaning, the US shall protect US entities from adversaries in space.

While not mandating the need for military presence, it definitely hints at it.

You quoted the section about the US itself not establishing any ownership, but quite the contrary for private enterprises.
Link to the actual data [0].

Looks pretty neat actually. This seems to stem from an executive order by President Obama in 2013. Mobile browsing is okay but I'm excited to check out some of the APIs when I get back to my computer a bit later on. They're seperated by category (Earth Science, Aerospace, etc).

Seems like a lot of the data is already queryable by their api's and I assume there are data dumps and research papers available as well.

Very cool. There is a serious wealth of data and apis available for tinkerers and builders these days from watson to NYC data to Nasa!

[0] - http://www.nasa.gov/open/researchaccess/pubspace
Hmm, not sure if I entirely agree with you? Providing clear information is in itself valuable — not to everyone, but to some for sure. But also apart from that people tend to stick with what they know. If they've had a successful order from us, then switching to a different vendor would come with more uncertainty.

There's also value in having a good looking product, and value in having a place where you can comfortably send your friends without worrying that they'll buy something dangerous without knowing how it works...

These aren't universal values, some people won't be willing to pay a premium for them. But that doesn't mean that we need to be deceptive in our marketing.
They take a small core using a hollow drill. This is enough to determine the rings and the age, and won't harm the tree.
Searching the web portal leads to a PMC database query with the filter "nasa funded". Here's a link to a query with just that filter, which returns all 863 articles:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22nasa+funded%22%5BFi...
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for me, vi bindings when I compose mail. Also, it does threading right (multiple levels like reddit or hn, vs. flattened like Facebook)
Education in the US is a huge mess. How is a 13-week class in web development going to help low-income students?

I'm not sure how many readers of HN attended low-income schools. The problem I see is that many that get out of low-income schools don't know basics like the commutative law of multiplication (a * b == b * a) or how to use a semicolon. The education deficit by the time they hit CC is so large that it's unreasonable to expect them to be successful at programming.

I had low-income friends that took school seriously and these kids ended up in college on scholarships, but most of my classmates did not take school seriously. It wasn't a character issue that held them back, but more of a cultural issue. They were surrounded by people, friends and family, that didn't appreciate the value of education.

These problems started early, in elementary school, and by high school they were too far behind to be successful and simply checked out at best or became disruptive and tried to hold everyone else back at worst. Very sad.
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Here is the free Kindle version on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Lost-170-Million-Dollars/dp/161961...

Note: interestingly, Noah said the lost was $170MM (in the book name) not $100MM as titled on the blog.
An example written by Jason Davies in D3: https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/airocean/
> in the US zones tend to be exclusive but in Japan the zones limit the maximum nuisance in a zone

It's not just japan, I'm not sure the US-style exclusive euclidian zoning is practiced anywhere else, if only for historical reasons: in most countries cities grew organically and mixed-use.
My gripes aren't due to a lack of effort, LOC or money, but completely silly product visions.

I have plenty of contributions I could make, but they're all about -50,000 LOC and they won't get merged.
They do collect. I frequently see "people counters" stationed on Caltrain trains. And BART (less frequently) sends out people asking questions like where'd you leave from, where are you going, etc. Of course those are just samples, but one hopes they're done correct enough to get a fair idea for what's going (e.g. if your poll shows more people leaving a station, than actual fare deductions at said station, then you've got a problem with fare evasion or in your poll's design).
GUIDs are Microsoft's implementation of UUIDs. UUIDs are long enough (128 bits) that you can generate them randomly and be confident in never getting a collision.

That's what UUID4 is -- all but six bits (that's 122 bits) are completely random. Checking for UUID4 collisions is the height of paranoia. It's basically checking whether your PRNG broke.

So your second recommendation is basically the same as the article's, and contrary to the first. Comparing UUIDs is not that expensive, but as expensive as it has to be for a key that will never collide.
This. Or any other product for that matter.

I understand that all organisations with a certain size tend to develop some sort of silly politics and bureaucratic workflows. But Mozilla seams to have a awful lot of nonsense going on in the last few years.
Calling this a "venture-backed startup" is a stretch. It was really just a con. One couldn't reasonably expect a single author who wrote five westerns all by herself to net $250k for her efforts. They didn't really expect to be able to pay back the investor after buying all those goodies for themselves, even if they could have gotten a single book written.
The Bay Area should make more use of existing ROW for a true regional rail system. Electrify and incrementally upgrade lines like Caltrain, lines to places like Monterey. Fix the cluster f--- that is the surface railway through Oakland and introduce a new transfer hub there. So on.

Even with the new transbay transit center they are under building it with only 6 platforms, they should build 8. And the circuitous route they are digging for access from the existing Caltrain station makes no sense: there should be a station at 7th at instead which will provide a better transfer point for future metro lines.
I think it would be interesting if there were a Latin equivalent of Chinese characters. Different roots could be represented as different characters, some could be used for each of the suffixes like "ly", "tion", etc., and the characters would be joined together to create words like in Chinese.

Different Romantic languages could be represented this way. In the same way that Mandarin and Cantonese use the similar character sets with different pronunciations, and with some characters specific to each one, different languages that have Latin roots would have a few of their own characters specific to their own language, but mostly drawing from the Latin pool.

The pronunciation for each would have to be memorized of course.
It would make sense to me if people get different rates. Like people with children paid only half etc.
New Technology Makes SPORTS FANS Smarter Than the EXPERTS
Bring back Mozilla the IE-stomping monster.
I am building an online magazine for hackers
What do you expect to see on the website?

Suggestions and constructive criticism are welcome.