skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that -- I actually think that's good feedback, and something I hadn't thought of.

We do have the shipping times listed on 3 different pages accessible from the top nav (and bottom nav), one of which is labeled 'How We Ship'.. so I dunno. It's not really something I'd considered before this, or had offered as feedback (everyone so far has advised me that outlining your details on the Shipping page is the industry standard.) And I can definitely say that I have many more visits to the FAQ and Shipping pages than I have orders, so I'm guessing people actually do read them. But again, I can't say for sure, and I haven't seen complaints about it.

It also might have to do with the products themselves. These are unattached pieces of metal/wood for the most part, at lower prices than you'd see in a guitar shop.

Beyond that, Oberlo and Shopify are setup for these kinds of businesses, so users get a stream of emails confirming each order and tracking the package throughout the journey. That seems to be enough, so far, at least. But like I said, I think that's fair criticism and something I'm actually looking to change on the checkout. It would be great to load in a shipping time on checkout pages (this information is available from the vendors), but that's not supported yet, it doesn't look like.
This really blew my mind. Thanks!
Running http://www.clickrouter.com - worked out well because I needed it for my other projects and it was an instant revenue win for those use cases alone.

Spruced it up (could use more I know) and opened it to others thereafter. Free money for users.

(It's a service that captures outbound clicks from your site - apart from giving fancy graphs about those, it then affiliatizes the links across all your affiliate accounts - skimlinks, viglinks, cj, etc)
So you're taking all of those services away from other people.
It's been decades, so I'm probably remembering it wrong.

Point is: building's big.
Ask HN: UI for deep learning training?
Hello,

I'm trying to make an UI for my deep learning library, something similar to TensorBoard.

I'm wondering if you find TensorBoard like UI useful? Or it's just optional?

How should this UI look like? Other than cost/loss, what else will be helpful to tweak training parameters?

Is visualizing convolution feature maps useful?

How about RNN models? what to visualize?

Thanks,
NFC is the thing that's got me still using my Neo. It's the only reasonable way to use one with a phone for 2FA.
you are right, there is a weird grainy sharpness kind of 'feeling' when chroma is not subsampled...

but you get the exact same effect from higher resolutions, e.g. going from SD->HD->2K->4K we see the same thing... and we are still doing it, so i would question highly that it is subjectively better in a long-term sense given this continuing trend.

i remember hearing people discuss this sort of thing when HD was new, and they stopped after while - i suspect because they got used to it, and they now realise how low the quality of the SD image was. i noticed this in myself as well...

edit: incidentally there is a discussion about this here (first google thing i found): http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1308591

its seems either nobody or very few are taking the perspective that 4:2:0/4:2:2 looks better, and there are even a few descriptions of precisely what they notice as being worse.
Just for fun, I laid the UK over the eastern US with London roughly on top of Atlanta. Edinburgh falls very near Indianapolis. Now from Google maps, the straight line distance from Atlanta to Indianapolis is about 429 miles, while London to Edinburgh is 331. This leads me to believe that this tool is not accurately doing what it purports to be.
> The same weight is one human, one vote. Period.

You are entitled to your opinion! That's not how the system is currently designed.

> You keep implying that the rest of us aren't Americans and don't deserve an equal voice, and don't be surprised if we start trying to secede or revolt violently against the tyrants ruling over America's urban majority against our will.

Good luck with that. You want to bleed out in the street, go for it. Plenty of other first world countries for me to move my family to.
Assuming a specific shipping time would be ultra-weird to me - why is 5-10 days "standard". There's no default shipping time anywhere, unless you count the specific next day ones. Certainly wouldn't claim it as "shady as hell".
That popup is not needed. Firefox does this simply through auto-complete. The user starts typing their email address, and voila, the browser completes it.

This is a nice example of a feature that is trivially accessible and yet unobtrusive.

(Alternatively, you can press the down-arrow on the empty field, which will open the auto-completion as well.)
It's unfortunate that they went closed source but I still have a Neo here that survived several months in my washing machine (it got silently caught between the rubber manifold and the drum).
Eventually when I found it again, plugged it in expecting nothing, but was greeted with the green flashing led and the button worked just fine. I still have it but don't use it anymore, the closed source thing grates a little with me so use other methods now.
It's the exceptional cases that get you:

1. "Keep the car in a straight line" => The road is closed or there is a detour, or the lane markers aren't visible (or incorrectly marked like on the Palo Alto stretch of the 101 where there are two sets of lane markers; one new (the "actual" markers) and another old but barely faded and still very visible.

2. "Turn right, 10 degree" => With what steering radius? What if the road is bumpy or sloped and the driver has to compensate with the wheel?

etc.

These corner cases are everyday occurrences and lend a necessity for something far more sophisticated than a mere ad hoc model to represent and control human-level driving behaviors with a finite set of rudimentary actions.

Actuator inputs like steering and pedals are almost always represented using continuous values rather than discrete sets for these very reasons.
I don't know about this: "of course they won't successfully anonymize location data".

Yes, it's well known that they screwed this up. But that doesn't mean that we should therefore distrust them forever. Although it's tricky, figuring out the right level of granularity for revealing taxi ride data to the public seems doable, and we shouldn't let cynicism prevent all attempts at a compromise.
MuGo: A minimalist Go engine modeled after AlphaGo
Ask HN: Is this interviewing technique ethical?
I'm curious what you think about the ethics of this interview process. I had to create a throwaway account because this happened to me with a company that I worked at.

When I came in for the in person interview, the first step was to put me in a quiet room with a Windows machine. There was a coding task on the machine. I was told that any resource on the internet was at my disposal.

After I completed the task I talked to the CEO for a bit then I went into another room where all of the developers were waiting (about 4 of them). They quizzed me for a bit then I went home. They later sent me an offer and I accepted.

A couple weeks into the job we had another candidate come in and this is where I came to truly understand how the process worked. When he went into the room to do his coding exercise, all of the developers gathered in another room and secretly watched the candidate perform the exercise over a VNC session that was setup on his machine. We then discussed how the candidate tackled the problem and the interview went on as normal.

At this point I felt, justified or not, like they betrayed my privacy in some way. It was like being part of a social experiment that you didn't agree to and felt kind of dehumanizing. There ended up being lots of other red flags (including how they actually made money) and I ended up leaving the company after a month.

My question is: Do you feel like this is an ethical way to do an interview? On the one hand, it does seem effective. It removes a lot of the nervousness of the coding exercise. On the other hand, it feels like a bad way to start off your relationship with an employee and really made me distrustful of them from the start.
I'm admittedly not a wine person but I really wonder how many people can actually recognise a $10 bottle of wine from a $30 bottle of wine - or similar.
I launched JobTrack (https://jobtrack.io), a CRM for job seekers, about three months ago and have been seeing decent growth since then. I've predominantly relied on word of mouth and organic social media marketing but also launched a paid marketing campaign on Facebook a few days ago.

The overall premise for the product is that when searching for a job, the job seeker will likely make a spreadsheet or notebook of the jobs they're interested in and applying to, along with some notes and key dates. JobTrack replaces spreadsheets with a straightforward app to track that information, and more, in a structured manner that is also available from mobile (and Chrome extension coming soon). JobTrack also has analytics to show how the job search is progressing.

I'm hoping to go full time in 2017 and raise investment. At that point I'll likely try to bring on a co-founder and perhaps an employee or two.
How We Value Learning at TeachersPayTeachers
I'm not saying NPR is lying, but your argument is based on it being a fact that a TX has failed, where we don't have the details of that TX or if it exists. I also don't think you understand what confirmation bias is.

I don't mind disclosing have holdings in XBT, ETH, DASH, XRP, and others. None of my investment portfolio relies on Bitcoin increasing in value significantly, crypto is a small percentage of my overall portfolio. I've also been paid in bitcoin for over a year and won't sell for years. It's evident you're just here to get rich quick.
10 Offbeat Predictions for Machine Learning in 2017
Elixir. I started last week and already love it.

C++. I'm looking to get into LLVM and maybe even contribute (that is a lofty goal)

ES6 or Typescript. I'm doing front end work for the first time this year and am looking into those (as it seems like I shouldn't start a project with Angular 1.x)
Comprehensive List of VCs and relevant contact information
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r-8LHRiF9eyo92BfkU1WNf0t6FxUCgsf0NTpK4ZRMyI/edit?usp=sharing

Hey folks, I thought it would be very useful to have a list of investors along with their contact information as a sort of go to hub. Its totally open to editing and if there's enough demonstrated interest, I may make a proper site out of it. I've seen this sort of thing in europe and asia, but interestingly enough not in the valley. Tell me your thoughts!
It's not really a theory, though. These are all well known facts, which is why there's already buzzwords for them (i.e. the ones you were using).

A good tech blog post would show how you're unique, how you're innovating, and how you're making real change for your customers (with stats to back it up).

I suggest thinking about a blogging strategy with at least 1-2 posts / month in 2017. Take a few hours to plan out what you're trying to achieve and who your audience will be... Clients? Potential sales / tech hires? Being a thought-leader? Think about what you want to communicate to them that's more personal than a brochure. That's the fundamentals of a good tech biz blog at your stage of blogging.
> Most airlines employ a wine consultant who will use a number calculated by the finance team to put together a list of 20 wines that are available both in the market and in the volume required. Tim Clark, the president of Emirates, wanted its wine list to be a differentiator. So the airline made the decision to partner with MMI and buy as directly as possible from merchants and vineyards and in smaller quantities, if necessary—10,000-bottle parcels instead of the typical 24,000 or 48,000.

Reminds me of Delta Air Lines' 2012 purchase of an East Coast oil refinery [1], a more refined :) take on Southwest's profitable fuel-price hedge last decade [2]. Both Emirates' and Delta's plays echo a comment I read yesterday about "identifying supply-chain components that can be [more] economically produced in-house" [3].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/business/delta-air-lines-t...

[2] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2008-...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13323081
I'd love something like a Yubikey Neo (NFC) with a fitness band type form factor (that I can shower/swim with), and an intention indicator (button of some sort) before the NFC would respond.
Medium lays off a third of its staff as it searches for a new business model
Complete guide to headphones, apps and gadgets for open offices, hectic spaces
Video output and its perception, is not at all like audio output and its perception.

We can make blunt statements about the limits of audio, because output devices behave (largely) linearly and band-limited, and because human perception can be modeled accurately and is also band-limited.

You can't say the same about video. The output is an array of points, not even perfectly square or smooth, it is picked up by another array of receptors, and is non-linear. The limit being 1/60th degree is too blunt a rule of thumb. That's picking an arbitrary point on a curve showing how much better than guesswork a viewer is.

The screen isn't a perfect output source, and the viewer isn't a perfect receiver, and the combined effect is you can easily observe the difference of 2K vs 4K images at distances those graphs say you wouldn't. I can easily observe the difference where it says I shouldn't be able to, and I'm nowhere near perfect vision.

I would say pretty much everything in those graphs is off by a factor of 2.
There have been a few discussions on HN recently about good laptops for Linux. I found Purism while searching around myself, although I didn't see any mention of them in previous threads related to Linux laptops. Can anyone comment on them?
My TV is quite a bit further away so that's why I'm still quite happy with 1080p and lower content.

The only reason for me to go to a newer TV at this point is for HDR.
Very important point on good tech managers.

Strong engineering orgs hire managers who could do and have done most of what their team does. Most TPMs at G, for example, have CS degrees.

Non-technical managers have the organizational leverage to undo any amount of design & planning that skilled people underneath them set up. It's the brain equivalent of having ADHD -- your executive control shuts down and that sabotages long-term goals.

If you've never lived through this, watch the beginning season 3 of silicon valley where their new CEO wants them to 'just build a box' and gets angry when the conversation gets any more specific than that. (If you have lived through this, don't watch it -- it's too real).
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This is one of the reasons I insist on my C/C++ code compiling with "-Wall -Wextra -Werror" and a few other switches.
Can We Go 100% Renewable Energy for a Whole Year?
Why? RSA-2048 isn't threatened.
When I work locally, I have a dummy VS project for grabbing assemblies from Nuget. With Azure Fuctions, your function.json file can reference nuget packages.
You just said, "The sites I visit don't mind receiving money for disruptive, intrusive, battery-draining, bandwidth-consuming, rich-media advertisements, so I don't mind draining their wallets."

If there's someone who makes content you like to see, why don't you mind draining their wallet?
Caring (alternatively called engagement) is huge. Employees who care are curious enough to dig beyond their day job. And learn about their customers. And are willing to push back on authority when they know that they're right.

The systems at very large public companies drive this behavior out of employees. (They value standardization and defending the existing business too much)
Statistically, the error bar is so large that your statement, and the one you're replying to, are not accurate. We don't know because there's too little data.
Hey hold on - I did say that the talks were excellent and delivered at no cost, and conceded that I was probably just overreacting. Why are you commenting as I didn't?
I use Zoho for email. It is free for up to 5 users and has never given me any issues. I haven't used a CRM yet as I need customers before I can use a CRM
USB 3.1 is capped at 10gbps which is a lot more limited than the capabilities in the article.
A little off topic but if you were well into that top marginal bracket at the time I bet that drop from 90% to 70% felt really good.
"It'll be like the Clinton loss, but on steroids"

In this scenario, how many million more votes does he get than his opponent? Clinton got 2.9 million more, so when you add steroids does this number go up?
Everyone knows the ONE TRUE MAP PROJECTION is the Fuller Map:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Fuller_p...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
How does Australia deal with retirees with too little or nothing in this account, aka the poor who are past working age?
Nice quote!

I qualified my comment by adding this . :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGAyQAkXajg

So, there was no objection.
The competition isn't between London and Paris. It is about which EU cities will take the most business from London due to potential limits on market access.

It's not a question if banks will move some portion of staff out of London, but how many and where they go.

London does have more than Paris, but Paris and Frankfurt are the only two other EU cities that consistently get listed amongst the top global financial centres.

What exactly that means in hard cash depends on what you want to count and how, and so the rankings vary greatly depending on who you ask.
A helpfully transparent SEO audit :)
Cool. Some students at Rochester are also re-implementing AlphaGo based on DeepMind's paper in Nature: https://github.com/Rochester-NRT/RocAlphaGo
How is the game you linked to "blatantly illegal"?

Edit: I'm genuinely curious -- did they copy the actual assets from the original game, or did they just copy the style and gameplay (which would generally be legal).
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Last time I autofilled a CC with chrome it asked me to input the cvv number on the card before it filled in.
In Defense of Advertising
"I am this browser, requesting this content on behalf of the user, who clicked on this ad."

Walk me through this, okay?
If you are developing software as a life, you don't have one; if on the other hand you are developing software for fun, you are having it; if you are just developing software for money; leave it at work. It's hard to be buried 100% in software and realize the rest of life is more important.
I personally do discriminate between ads and sponsorship but certainly it is not so cut and dry.

Would you call all these sponsored sports stadiums ads?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sponsored_sports_stadi...
Show HN: Crowd Sourced VC Contact List
Let me guess, one of the places was VmWare?
>but if the accusations are right, it's absolutely reasonable to not want to work with these people.

At this point, that's a big if.

In any case, I do a lot of gaming, so my perspective may be warped here, but I would blame Reddit's one-sidedness on KotakuInAction/GamerGate. After people like Anita Sarkeesian and that particular kerfuffle, anybody involved in that scene (even tangentially) is going to want very strong evidence before believing any claims of persecution (and if you feel like talking Anita and GamerGate themselves, rather than whether or not you think that it contributed to the atmosphere I'm describing, please don't. I don't want another flame war). Claims of persecution that I find rather improbable. The FSF, say what you will about them, have never been the sorts to persecute based on race and gender.
Basics of Unity (for C#/.NET developers) [video]
Show HN: ChiefOnboarding – Simple, fast and efficient employee onboarding
Love the project, thanks for putting it up.

The auto-refresh was making me crazy as well - even a big 'Auto-Refresh: ON' toggle by the menu would be enough.

I'm not a fan of settings in general but it does appear you're getting two distinct groups of users.
ED: This is in terms of the New York City drop in violence around 1993.

The data is just not as clear as your suggesting. After controlling for various things there is a percentage of the variation that links back to lead levels, but that does not mean it's the only or even the strongest impact in the raw data. Further, lead usage is linked to other things and as such is not completely independent.

PS: Remember, people move so lifetime exposure get's really hard to track accurately without regular blood tests.
Basic info is more critical than credit card numbers, at least in my country (Australia) where the issuer or merchant would be liable for any subsequent fraudulent transactions; at worst I would be inconvenienced a few days whilst a new card & number was issued. Compared to outright identity theft, that's minor.
> If I'm given more time (and access to GPUs)

How much of that can you do in the cloud? IIRC there are some pretty beefy GPUs on EC2, for example.
I agree. I've been silently (and sometimes loudly...) groaning when I hear my friends start using Irssi back when it was still completely unmaintained. There's something nice about sometimes upgrading your software and actually getting surprised by new, useful features as well as security patches, which didn't happen with Irssi until very recently.
so how would you describe it?
If the website was one I liked and actually wanted them to get revenue, I would white list them in the extension. I do this on rare occasions when I find sites I really like that object to ad blockers. Usually, though, I haven't been allowed to see their content so no harm done. I just go find something else to click on.
The problem is that when you start a new project you definitely don't want to start at 1.0 and give people the impression that it's already working. Then when do you decide to go 1.0 if you keep adding features and moving the goalpost? That's kind of tricky for open source projects that don't have commercial releases.
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My employer also calculates health care and 401k matching, ie the full cost of employment to the department who will be bearing the cost. A salary of $100k is really a cost of ~$125k.

[EDIT]
With health care costs being fixed at crazy high amounts (in the US at least.)
I do it through Vanguard and it takes roughly 10 minutes. The process is nothing more than clicking buttons to put money into a tIRA, transfer to a Roth IRA, and purchase shares. Although it is suggested to leave the money in the tIRA for some amount of time (some say others, other weeks) before doing the transfer.

You have a yearly contribution limit of $5500 and you're correct in that you would do this process every year.
FRBs: Burst of Radio Waves Arose in Tiny Galaxy
Probably not, unless you tell them it costs 3x as much. (Given two glasses of the same wine and told one costs more, people will say the more expensive one is better.)
it's easier to get the small provider on the phone.

but i mean, this is simply what you believe to be true. in reality, it doesn't matter if it's true or not, because you believe it. that's what small companies fight against every day of their life.
> Biometrics are not the answer for that either

Biometrics are a way to identify a user (and establish a username); not a form of authentication or replacement for a password. This is because biometrics cannot be replacement, while they can be copied or mimicked.

1FA is theoretically possible without a password, with a form of OTP.
If California were to become it's own country tomorrow, Californians would learn how much they also depend on other states.
> That's actually per family/household. So per-person it'd be a third of that, based on my assumptions.

Ah, I'll have to take a closer look at your numbers then.