skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem is that the industry hasn't created a product management layer that interfaces between non technical business folk and the technical data scientists. In software engineering, we don't expect the customers to speak directly to the engineers; that's what product managers are for (cur infamous Office Space scene).

However product managers aren't typically involved in solving data science related problems. This is primarily because most product managers don't have the math/stat/compsci background to be useful.

However I predict this will change in the next 5 years.
The manual is absolutely amazing. It shows proper and improper use, and explains how and why to the lay person.

http://loup-vaillant.fr/projects/monocypher/manual

Example from crypto_chacha20_init (grammar aside):

"Warning: don't use the same nonce and key twice. You'd expose the XOR of subsequent encrypted messages, and destroying confidentiality."
There's some evidence that artificial sweeteners have a negative effect on the human gut[1].

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweete...
> By making the discredited argument that WhatsApp's key-change behavior is a fatal flaw, you're disagreeing with... and about 50 more experts equally respected in the field if less known to the typical HN reader.

No, the vulnerability was confirmed and the argument that it represents a fatal flaw for those needing fully secure communications is sound. No one competent (and intellectually honest) has disputed this, or would even try to do so. The open letter itself acknowledges it, and I know every open letter signer I followed did so as well.

What the open letter did was take issue with the language used by The Guardian, point out the potential for such language to scare some people into less secure solutions, and argue that the vulnerability is a reasonable trade-off for convenience that can benefit some users too.
Was waiting to see rvites join this thread. 2 in so far! (We meet on HN again atty.)
Re: Jekyll hosting anyone you'd recommend? As far as control goes, gh-pages has met almost all of my needs as I can use proper and semantic markup, use a custom domain and such.

In your opinion what am I missing out on based on my above comments that should be considered? I appreciate the feedback so far, you've raised some good points to think about.
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The majority of the sensors are from Sony, with some from Toshiba and Nikon themselves.

http://nikonrumors.com/2015/12/16/list-of-all-nikon-dslr-cam...
EDN (s-expressions + Clojure's reader)[1] got a lot of attention when it was announced. It looks like it's garnered some use [2]. I was hoping to find a registered mime type "application/s-expr", but there are some uses out in the wild[3].

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4487462

2 - https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22application%2F...

3 - https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22application%2F...
I mean, I suppose on the consumer or prosumer level, but if you go to any sporting event, you will see a sea of Canon L series glass and not much else...

Not sure the quality of the source but this suggests that 75% of the pro cameras at last weeks Super Bowl were Canon, and all of the television broadcast lenses were HD Canon lenses.

I just don't see GoPro or Fuji competing at that level, so perhaps their issue was expanding past the point that their core business could support once those periphery product lines fell out of trend.

[1] http://www.canonrumors.com/canon-eos-dslr-cameras-and-ef-len...
Astronomers find 60 planets orbiting nearby stars, say some could be like Earth
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127.0.0.1 disqus.com

also - to make the internet better
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
> Why does NATO still exist? It's existence was supposed to be to counter the Soviet threat. Now the threat is gone and NATO is still around. It shows that the Soviet excuse was just a pretext.

Ask Eastern Ukraine, or Crimea, or Georgia, or Syria, or Tajikistan, or Moldova.

Or any of the Baltic states now planning on having to fight for their lives.
"More than doubled" doesn't mean much if it's 0.0000001% to 0.0000002%. It certainly wouldn't refute what I said.
AWS S3 can work well.
Another point is the overreaction among the cognoscenti: so many words about open source leveraging the tools and allowing the masses to focus on real-life problems, then the rage against the end-users mocked as data-monkeys? Most industries do not need data science at all and, if the case, a very simple 80/20 approach solves all their problems. It happens the 80/20 approach is within the reach of every data-monkey able to clean and normalize datasets, set up Anaconda with Scikit, theano, xgboost, do some ensembling and deploy to AWS for semi-intensive tasks. You all as an industry wanted that for years, so what now?
I'm not disputing that they are critical players. They are, but they are not creators. Most of them at that point in life are owner of capital. If they leave with nothing in sight, they are leaving because they are bored and have amassed enough capital to take a chance and invest in someone else. But why leave when you are raking in millions for a chance?

Developers are creators, if they leave, they tend to leave because their dreams are getting squashed and the opportunity window is getting closed in an area they would love to innovate. If you are at google and don't see google releasing a self driving car, you will miss the window unless you jump ship to Tesla or GM or Audi. If you are into VR, maybe you would wanna jump ship to Oculus, the window to be part of history is very small.
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> claims to sell its spyware only to law enforcement agencies to track terrorists, criminals and drug lords

Once you sell how can you control where it is used ?
I tried this, but if you want to query by tags, using an RDS database works much better. DynamoDB is not well suited to this particular problem.
When people thought that every published article was some journalist independently deciding something was newsworthy and thus writing up their neutral research on it, they were wrong.

When people thought every published article was some propagandist's attempt to sway public opinion, they were wrong.

But the second view is a lot less wrong than the former.[1]

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." -- George Orwell.

[1] Didn't feel like following Asimov's pattern for the third line.
Average Facebook posts per user decreased by 29.49% in 2016 [pdf]
I think he comes across a little nuts in the interview but then I think, you'd have to be a little nuts to go up against those people.
Honestly, I prefer the Google Analytics setup.

People who block my tracking scripts don't want to be tracked, so I won't track them.

I use that info to see how people use a product, how they interact with it and what I can do to improve it. Where my time and money will be best spent.

If people want to block them, that's fine, I'm not going to try and get around them, but their "voice" is also muted here. I'm no longer factoring in their usage patterns, their usage at all.
>We ship food half way around the world, there's no reason wealthy countries can't fund refugee camps and in general help and give aid to countries that accept refugees.

Except that those countries are, frankly, undemocratic, corrupt, and devoted to suppressing working conditions.

>And, are you saying the stance of governments to their people is "We need more workers - breed faster, or we'll import someone who will"?

Except of course that these same governments don't want their local capitalists to have to pay family-founding wages.

>Britons are now an ethnic minority in London, but only racists would be bothered by the same taking place in their countries, I guess.

I'm an ethnic minority everywhere except a tiny, embattled corner of the planet, about the size of New Jersey. What sympathy ought I have for inheritors of the British Empire being concerned about foreigners?
Take a look at my toy project:

https://github.com/skx/e-comments/

You can see them in use on my tweaked site, e.g:

https://tweaked.io/guide/demo/
> Look back on how America treated 'Panama'.

Bad, but not relevant. Our misdeeds do not make Russia's misdeeds any better.

> It's inconceivable how long Russia has allowed itself to go without a warm water port

Allowed? You sound like countries have a divine right to warm-water ports, which Russia graciously waived for an extended period.

And what did Russia get? A warm-water port to which they do not have land access. Well, you know what's next. They're going to decide they have a divine right to land access to that port.

> And in the scale of international lawlessness, the Russian invasion of Crimea is totally justifiable 'bad behavior'.

It's bad (immoral/illegal) behavior. It's also behavior that, yes, large nations (including our own) have "justified" in the past. That doesn't make it right; it only makes it somewhat unsurprising.
Plenty of stories out there how completely normal individuals are targeted as terrorists.

Example: http://www.mercurynews.com/2014/01/14/no-fly-list-challenged...
That seems a weird compromise. Who is against a soda tax, but pro a tax on diet soda?

I would have thought most big soda manufacturers sell both, and even if you only sold non-diet soda, you think it would be easier to pivot to diet soda than push for legislation to raise it's price.
I agree with all your points, except for one thing that made me curious:

Why would say Reddit is an untrustworthy site, with a system that rewards untrustworthy users? I'm not a particularly active Reddit user, in fact it's been a while since I've even visited the site so I'm not taking this personally at all, but I'm genuinely interested as to why anyone would consider it an untrustworthy site that encourages untrustworthy users.
I don't believe that figure at all for the general populace.
"Free"? Do I really need to remind you about all the dictators that were installed by the US during the Cold War?
B/c they can't invade fully, they need some pretext. Also even if they wanted to, they don't have the forces to occupy Kiev.
Have you looked into the inventory functionality? It was just added last November. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/storage-inven...
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I don't know, but blocked by the corporate firewall. Suppose I should get back to work.
Sounds like even more problems for a prospective future undersea colony beyond the crushing weight of pressure.
Sometime ago I read an interesting interview[1] with the Economist deputy editor, Tom Standange, saying things like:

> The other thing about ads is that 41 percent of millennials are using ad block. My daughter has ad block and she goes around infecting every machine she gets to. She puts it on everything.

> But the other thing is that she lives in incognito mode. She’s a total nightmare for advertisers, because she’s not leaving any cookies and she’s not seeing any ads.

Digital privacy is an undeniable rising trend. Just stating the vast majority of people are not using adblock is, at minimum, shortsighted.

[1]: http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/04/the-economists-tom-standage...
I would appreciate if you would stop recommending Whatsapp so uncritically at this point.
"embeddable datastore" is the right term
This was just introduced last November: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/storage-inven...
@iblaine - I have a wife and family :) . Cuts back on the skiing 7 days a week, but I usually get 4.
I agree 100%, but have you see the rhetoric from people who think soda tax is just another big gubmint shakedown and that healthy food is being forced down our throats etc. etc.? There's a lot of people who have, well, brainwashed.

I hate using that word because people of any political persuasion can and do get into an intellectual echo chamber where their worldview is reaffirmed by the social circles they inhabit and the media they consume. But whenever I put time aside to actively listen to a few hours of talk radio (which is dominated by Tea Party types) my brain just wants to escape from between my ears. I feel this is reflected in the present administration's explicit disregard for facts, data and evidence.

Are you familiar with 4th generation war theories? If you're interested drop me a line at gmail and I'll direct you to some fascinating reading.
are you saying that the post you responded to did damage to this discussion? I think you should justify that claim. what damage? to whom?

I think that your comment might be the damaging one because it attempts to delegitimize the opinion of another community member without any reasons given.
They seem to be the kind of advertisement I wouldn't certainly want to be associated with ("Earn money online fast", "Doctors hate this new method of losing weight" [1]) so it looks like I'm turning off comments in my blog. Does anyone know a good alternative for static Jekyll sites?

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[1] https://twitter.com/amitbhawani/status/828554455876505601
Jesus is coming soon so why bother?

(James Watt claims he never said it, but a family member of mine did.)
Because a neighboring country imported nuclear-capable offensive weapons. It wasn't just the alliance that was the issue.
He meant that the concept is easy to explain and demonstrate.
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Can you define what you mean by "create"? Are you saying programmers are creators because they can code? That sounds like a one-dimensional view of what product or value creation is.

Furthermore, you're charitably generalizing developers as people who leave because of their dreams and uncharitably generalizing executives as people who just get bored and want to turn the wheels of production at a whim.

I think the point that the other commenter and I are trying to make is what while you can defensibly claim you're not saying executives "aren't critical players", you're being dismissive of their overall contributions by painting them in a diminutive and uncharitable way.

You're essentially saying, "I'm not saying executives aren't critical players, they're just not the real creators of value...they leave because they get bored and have so much capital while developers leave because of a twinkle in their eye."
> The soda industry has poured over $67 million into defeating state and local efforts to regulate soft drink sales in the United States since 2009, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

That seems like a very tiny amount compared to the profits we are looking at. I mean Let us say if you are focusing on 10 major US cities + DC then it is merely $6M per city. Isn't that too tiny an amount to get anything done ?
While WeChat is somewhat more advanced then its rivals, the reason it works is because Chinese businesses are less 'sophisticated' than western ones and much more human based. WeChat is to a large extent a phone call replacement, which is especially useful in a country of multiple languages and dialects but a common written one. Western messaging services are mainly replacing things like text messages and other instant messengers not e-mail. (e-mail is probably still the de facto most insecure protocol on the internet and should be replaced).
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It is made by the guy who made TextEthan.

direct link:
http://jasonette.com
Evolution has produced hindrances just as easily as it produced our uniquely human mental abilities: the same mental feature that helped us avoid behavioral loops, now mentally impedes humans who perform repetitive tasks. Yet if that task is intractable for a computer, there is no recourse.

Also, for some tasks efficiency may not be enough. Factory machinery can produce and convey products which are far too heavy for humans to lift or push. On the other end of the scale, human vision cannot perceive the hundred-atoms-scale structures in modern ICs; and our fine motor skills are no better at manipulating tools to produce such a tiny structure. (Even producing such tools is beyond the reach of a human craftsperson.)

And that's not even starting on how thoroughly flawed and attention-dependent the human memory system is. Storing less information is all well and good, until important information goes unstored.

And then there's the numerous flaws in how humans perform that array of mental tasks only tractible for humans; cf. Thinking Fast and Slow, which has been discussed on HN recently iirc. I can't imagine how much e.g. mismanagement would not occur if managers were not so ... human.
Presumably showing them that these little pieces of paper are cheap and effective tests make it easier to believe that people elsewhere are performing tests reliably.

If I showed someone how to use these paper tests and showed how reliable they were, then showed a video of someone testing ocean water they, just might, just barely, hopefully might be more likely to believe me.
>The difference between AirBnB and hotels, is that AirBnB runs an extensive criminal and sex offender background check on hosts and guests. They even check the terrorist watch list!

I stayed in an Airbnb condo once, and neither Airbnb nor the landlord ever knew my name. That's because the arrangements were made by a friend, and it was 4 people staying in an oceanside condo.

Did my friend violate the TOS by not providing them my name and SSN?
you're all wrong. flipping a mountain upside-down isn't a thing.

you're all idiots.
You can look at tap water and sparkling (tap water + CO2 injection) and note that the sparkling water is more acidic. (Because CO2 dissolves in water into carbonic acid)

CO2 + H2O ⇌ H2CO3

CO2 injection to make sparkling water is a lot like CO2 being absorbed by the oceans.
it's only "crushing" relative to you.

aliens may consider being at very bottom of 50mi of O2/N2 atmosphere @ 14.7 psi to be crushing relative to the vacuum of space.
The wording hints at bias against the article's own, but I found it to be an accurate, succinct comment nonetheless.
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Do tell, how does a country 'attack' itself? Russia is playing a dangerous game chipping away land from it's neighbors in the name of "protecting" ethnic Russians
Bah, my mistake for not reading more carefully. Sorry!
>Time passes at the same speed on top of a mountain and at the bottom of a valley

Woah, what? Like, they're talking about effects of relativity because someone is traveling "faster" as the earth spins at the top of a mountain?
Bingo. While other commenters have brought up some very real benefits to self-hosting/self-publishing, monetizing the platform presents a real opportunity to make real money from your work and determine value of what gets written.

I imagine it'll be harder to paywall one's own blog in the vacuum of a "blog brand". That's enticing to me greatly, but it's absolutely worth considering tradeoffs.
Self-determination is another variable that suffers both from population growth and increased communication, in a culture which still values crude evolutionary units of dominance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory

On a more personal note, I have never understood how educated people could believe ressources are indefinite.
I don't quite get how you're coming to 2/3 of revenue between MTC and SCAG regions (Its not adding up to that for me). It also isn't very clear: MTC has a projection for ridership to SCAG, but SCAG doesn't have projections for ridership to MTC but they do for the SJV?

I'm also not sure where this newer forecast model came from, but it seems highly subject to politicized biases: they basically asked individual regions to forecast their ridership and revenue to other regions, and then added it all up.

The original forecasts [0] were built off of SNCF forecast modeling expertise, which is one of the best in the world and also from a country with very similar geodemographic characteristics as California. For just the subsegment of LA-SF, less than 50% of revenue is between SF and LA, and the ridership between SF-SJV and LA-SJV adds up to approximately the same amount as LA-SF. In other words, going through the valley doubles revenue potential.

This isn't a new phenomenon. It has been noted by and (if necessary) relearned by railroad capitalists going all the way back to the foundation of railroads. For an example, read chapters 16-20 of this economic history of Railway Mania [1]. Railway demand between termini has almost always been overforecasted by railroad capitalists, and they either figure it out and start serving intermediate destinations or they go bankrupt. If they build the line from the very beginning by bypassing intermediate population centers, their overestimates of ridership will doom them to a fate they can't recover from, barring major track realignment.

A background in Operations Research gives me a professional social network of people across pretty much every industry, all of whom understand some of the hardest business and technical problems of their industry. Some of my contacts work on schedule optimization in Germany and Spain. One of the quotes that constantly gets spouted in their conferences is that HSR is politically successful because of its top speed, but it is commercially successful because of the first derivative of its speed. Top speed gets votes, but the ability to start and stop very quickly allows them to obtain very significant ridership boosts with very little degradation in average speed. This is a very distinct competitive advantage...they can do something that no airline could ever do. Between major termini, there will always be some form of competition with airlines, but intermediate stations will always be a veritable monopoly for rail.

[0] http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/about/ridership/ridership_revenue...

[1] http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/hallucinations.pdf
I agree with most of what you've said. However,

To claim that smartphones are a replacement for P&S cameras is I think misguided.

P&Ss perform a lot better on vacation. They don't perform as good on brief everyday interactions.

A. Action cameras- Not sure why this is a category, but people do consume GoPros like crazy [despite quality issues]

B. 4k video recording, you do have a good point there.. that's mostly for the vloging community.

C. I think this is the category that isn't well published. I just recently bought an Lumix LX10. It was expensive but the results are great.

I loved my Nikon CoolPix S6800, but Nikon decided to drop the ball and that's why I moved over. (Cannon's had a nasty red bias I couldn't tolerate)