skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's up the the Founder to hire 8% more Quality Assurance Agents.

When I used to browse Esty, I found it rather easy to spot the imported junk.

I have no sympathy for companies that just let it grow out of control. Actually, maybe it's good. There will be room for another clone?

(I have nothing against buying material/parts from anywhere in the world. It's when you try to deceive your customers--that's what bothers me. Just when I was getting into Esty--bang all the crap started showing up. And no--I don't want a bunch of rules/requirements to peddle hand made stuff, just some common sence a Founder/Founders should possess. So Fire the current CEO--fine--done. Bring in someone with common sence.)
As a hobby, I have been studying "oversold" stocks for the past month and am starting to see that the market is prone to over reactions. AMD and RTTR for example are stocks that were drastically punished for no good reason. I am assuming here is where Warren Buffet like folks buy. That said Twilio does seem to have a reason to tumble. The risk of losing WhatsApp also is too high for this valuation
William Binney (former NSA employee turned critic/whistleblower) in 2013 said there were 3 billion phone calls per day in the US[1]. In 2010 Pew[2] said 82% of adults made an average of 5 phone calls per day (~800 million calls), so 3 billion seems reasonable considering business calls, telemarketers, etc.

151 million in a year out of 365 * 3 billion is pretty small.

1. http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/10/what-do-they-know-about-yo...

2. http://www.pewinternet.org/2010/09/02/cell-phones-and-americ...
For further reading: The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant (Gelman and Sterns, 2006): http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/sign...
Saying that the NSA is "reined in" is a joke:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14222114
It doesn't matter. Pick a competitor at random and the competitor will be 100X cheaper.

Twilio is good at one thing. And that is the developer experience.

If you are willing to pay 100X the price, in order to have awesome documentation, then Twilio is the right solution for you.

Otherwise.... Well.... Anything else is probably better.
The two times I've made major moves in my life I thought the new water tasted awful. In both cases I acclimated and the water was tasteless within a month or two.
It makes a huge difference whether you buy 1 flight at a time, or a bunch. Which is the point I was making.
We recently purchased a handcrafted rustic patio set from an Etsy seller in Michigan.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/naturalcrafting

There are definitely some legitimate artists on there.
> 4GB of RAM... a youtube video, a chat window, facebook, google docs and then it will be out of memory?

I think your criticism is better directed at those apps than at the laptop manufacturer.
There is just something so simple and basic about Minecraft. To me, it has the same appeal as cracking open a SNES emulator. It is an accessible platform for ages 4-120. I can play and build with my kids. I can show them little tricks with logic gates. I can indulge in a Lego-like simplicity of building something for the sake of building it. It is just a nice, easy, distraction that has massive appeal (due to the range of audience). It is like the Lego block of its gaming Era.
Hi, I've been developing in Polymer / Web Components since early February. I can say that it seems like polymer prior to version 1 was the wild west and changing all the time. Polymer 2 is very close to being released (rc7 I believe) and while I'm only developing in Polymer 1, 2 isn't very different. If anything, they've only removed things.

earth.google.com launched last week and is amazing / built out of web components. I'm still getting used to doing full one-page apps in it but after being about 30 elements into development I can say I can't go back to the world prior to this approach. Starting with the smallest atom-esk elements and then building up makes building new things faster and faster then the previous build. We're using it to build an open source edtech platform, polymer is allowing us to open source our designed elements individually so that they can also be built on top of / remixed.

webcomponents.org also is over 800 elements now and I've found some really good ones starting to show up from the general population outside of just google's core polymer team which is really promising.
That's highly dependent on the team, the code, and the tests. For my work, most of the time, comments in the well-structured code are much more likely to still be useful and valid to me and my team over time than a test suite that won't get maintained.

In the past six years, I only worked on one project that justified an extensive test suite. It was a scheduling system for a large machine shop, which allocated multi-step manufacturing tasks across a suite of metal-working machines for dozens of concurrent jobs, while taking into account available machinists, working hours, breaks, vacations, and scheduled maintenance downtimes for each machine. Testing the algorithms for that required setting up a variety of consistent starting conditions, running the scheduler, injecting changes to existing jobs and inserting new jobs at certain times, and making sure that the resulting scheduling decisions were acceptable to the experts who'd been doing the schedules manually and to the machinists.
You're more likely to be beaten to death with fists than killed by a rifle. The whole thing is emotion-based manipulation.
Yes, I'm aware.

But we're talking... one in a thousand people, likely targeting mostly those involved heavily with international relationships.

Even if you confine it to the Arab population, they're still not tapping everyone (closer to 1 in 6, if it were all Arab targets, which is unlikely). If you confine it to immigrants, it's 1 in 200. This suggests that they're using some actual basis for their selection (as you seem to be aware).

It's unfortunate, but if they're collecting metadata for network analysis and if their selection criteria is that it's foreign related (and preferably tracing back to known networks), then it doesn't really strike me as a problem.

Also, your last line isn't true -- talking to someone who is strongly suspected of being a terrorist is suspicious until analysis reveals the nature of the relationship, particularly if you go on to contact others.

I suspect that people who only ping once (or even very intermittently) are quickly pruned as not being useful to observe.
I have two dedicated machines through Hetzner and they're great! Great value.
I may have misread your comment; the subtext I got from yours was that the YC Pledge had been watered down to make it possible for Google to sign on to it, and I just wanted to say that the (much stronger) NeverAgain.tech pledge got a surprising amount of Google support, including from pretty senior people at Google.

If you weren't implying that NeverAgain.tech needed to be watered down to make it palatable to Google, my comment indeed wasn't responsive to yours. Sorry!
Maybe I didn't do a good job scanning the comments, but I'm surprised nobody (not even the article) mentions the NSF certification body.

Taste is important but very subjective.
I don't buy a water filter unless it shows up as certified by NSF[1].

A few years ago I almost fell for a "water purification system" on Amazon, with stellar reviews that was supposed to filter out everything. With a baby on the way I figured it was worth the price tag. Good thing I did my research. The water filtration system was not certified or verified by anybody.

edit:

Same thing applies to humidifiers, air cleaners, air conditioners, etc. Don't buy unless it has been certified[2].

[1] http://info.nsf.org/Certified/DWTU/

[2] http://ahamverifide.org/
I bet Putin at age 64 with his 200 billion dollars has a spare body growing in a vat somewhere.
What Is the Difference Between a Software Engineer and a Software Developer?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14251471 and marked it off-topic.
TBH I haven't tested it yet since the GTX 1070 card is still in shipping state, but I guess ihattendorf has provided detailed information :) If I can complete the setup before HN locks me from editing, I will edit this post
A couple years ago, I handled dialer traffic for a modestly-sized dialer wholesaler. The total number of bookkeeping entries due to their traffic was 2-3 billion per week, representing perhaps 500M-1B call attempts. And I was basically a nobody.

151M call records is incredibly tiny, though they will be targeted and thus probably represent near 100% of the calls for some group of people.
That's a fair point, $30B is certainly not sufficient to disprove nonsense. However, I think it does raise the bar somewhat for the amount of evidence needed to claim nonsense.
Traceability and reversibility are features of our current monetary system that most users really like.

The only users who don't like those features generally don't want to have to cough up their ill-gotten gains when they get caught.
You have only half the picture because the three problems you've listed have existed for quite some time.

Here are some new problems that are driving more sellers off Etsy:

4) October 2013: Etsy redefines "handcrafted" and allows Etsy sellers to get "help" with making and shipping their items. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/opinion/etsys-industrial-r...

5) September 2015: Etsy openly embraces mass manufacturing https://www.wired.com/2015/09/etsy-embraces-mass-manufacturi...

6) October 2016: Etsy forces sellers to enroll in Google Shopping ads and spend their own money promoting their items. On the surface it looks innocent enough but most sellers are not sophisticated enough to run their own ad campaigns. They expected Etsy to provide that service as a marketplace. With no traffic coming in from Google any more, sales have tanked. https://blog.etsy.com/news/2016/introducing-google-shopping-...

7) April 2017: Etsy forces sellers to direct all revenue to Etsy's own bank account (no more Paypal), or the seller can't sell on Etsy any more. https://www.etsy.com/teams/7716/announcements/discuss/183258... The deadline to comply is May 17 so expect many shops to die on May 18 because shop owners are loath to turn over their bank account information and personal identity proof to Etsy. https://www.etsy.com/teams/7722/discussions/discuss/18322006...

I can confirm that I know at least one seller who set up their shop on Shopify in January this year.

Here are some current Etsy forum threads discussing the situation from the point of view of the buyer as well as the seller:

Josh Silverman, Here's What You need to Know from Sellers
https://www.etsy.com/teams/7722/discussions/discuss/18351569...

Out of curiosity... reasons you won't buy from etsy stores?
https://www.etsy.com/teams/7722/discussions/discuss/18232946...
Well that's always the risk with shorting I suppose, I just meant as safe as shorting can reasonably be :)

Thanks for the Poloniex tip though, looking into it now!
Thanks!!! Safety above taste seems obvious for a water filter.
Problem is that it's the whales that make them a $3 billion company. Snag one Uber or Facebook and that's worth about a million small SaaS companies (I actually don't think that's an exaggeration). Yes, if they leave you're in deep trouble, but that's the business they're in. To acquire the number of smaller companies that would account for the number of SMS messages that Whatsapp sends would require so much time I think this stock would trade to zero long before that would ever happen, if it were even possible to do.
Pretty much any commercial Firewall Application can do this on Windows. Just have to change "Automatic rule creation" to Manual.

Actually, even Windows Firewall can do that. But sadly, Windows itself messes around with WF too much. So I would not trust it that much.
SOFIA Confirms Nearby Planetary System Is Similar to Our Own
There are (roughly) two ways of using Clang as a library. The first is a via a C-based API into a libclang.so. This is an API designed to be extremely stable, is fairly powerful, and works relatively well.

That API doesn't expose absolutely everything though, which is one reason it can be so stable. Tools that need more are typically shipped and built along side the clang source code. CLIF is the latter.

You can read about both of them here:

http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Tooling.html
> "Those who would trade their freedom for safety deserve neither freedom nor safety."

Please stop (mis)qouting this. It means almost the exact opposite of the point people tend to try to make with it.

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous...
Hit Eject
Until they went public Etsy had a policy against mass manufactured products [0]. They opened this door willingly in the first place.

[0]http://abcnews.go.com/Business/etsy-ceo-ipo-mass-production-...
Being in the app store requires you go through the file dialog to get permission to read/write/create any files outside the app file, so VS will never work.
not really. some people, but very few all things considered.
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They need mass produced junk in order to have the revenue to be worth big money. I doubt there's enough genuinely artisanal product out there for them to stick to that business model and still have high growth...
And their new CEO is the former head of eBay shopping, here to finish the job for the investors who can't understand they missed this boat already.
>> 151 million records

Does anyone hear seriously believe they only "took in" 151 million of anything? That's a single flashdrive. NSA operates datacenters. The things they collect are measured by numbers well into billions.
I use xcape (https://github.com/alols/xcape), to overload modifiers. You get around 7-8 extra keys at an easy to reach distance.
I think the issue is proximity to a world class city. The economic growth that we see in bigger cities leads to lots of opportunities for advancement. These are the places smart young people move to after they graduate university, the places where many of the top universities are based, they are also expensive due to this success.

The suburbs are finding it harder to attract educated 20 somethings because of a lack of professional opportunities as well as changing lifestyle trends. I think there will be a graying-out of the suburbs as they get older until property prices become affordable to young professionals and the work/commute times become more bearable. I have no idea why working remotely is not more common in 2017 but that would be a massive improvement over the ridiculous commutes so many people have to suffer through.
I think they are just like stripe. When you get to a certain volume you start to do the cost benefit analysis of moving off the saas provider.

Until then they are the first choice for a large portion of the developer population.

After that, it's just a numbers game: will it cost more to redevelop the functionality they provide (either on your own or with another vendor) than you will save over a reasonable timeframe? If the answer is yes, you keep paying twilio, otherwise out migrate.

I have no first hand experience on what size makes sense for twilio, but this article gives us an upper bound (a huge one, to be sure).
(1994) Minsky essay.

> Could it be that our accumulations of counterexamples are larger and more powerful than our collections of instances and examples? Could it be that we learn more from negative rather than from positive reinforcement?

It seems like major scientific breakthroughs involve both positive (oh, so THAT'S how to do it) and negative (well, we tried a, b, and c, they all failed or had bad consequences, so let's not do that again) knowledge.

I think the essay sets up a false dichotomy, or a false question, of "which is more important?"

It might be that everyday life depends more on negative expertise than positive expertise. You don't have to be top of your field or know things that nobody else knows, but if you make a major mistake you might get hurt, socially outcast, etc. But humanity's progress seems like it depends on both positive and negative expertise, inextricably intertwined.
And all the self-righteous, virtue-signalling talk about "diversity" does not extend to diversity of opinion. The same people who talk about the intrinsic value of every individual want to read out of polite society anyone who does not occupy the same spot on the political spectrum they do.
I've heard about it before, though I haven't checked it out. I'll take a look, thanks.
I was interested in this article but accidentally closed it, the interstitial ad made me think I was on a completely different site.

It was a full-page ad for "STITCH FIX", with it's own layout and, sigh, auto-playing video. Why would I ever click through that?!
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Gnome-Class: Integrating Rust and the Gnome Object System
Amazon is also having this problem. Their marketplace is flooded with knock-offs and incredibly low-end goods masquerading as cashmere or wool. It's either wholesale garbage or drop-shipped.
that would go over really poorly.

nobody would spend $1000 on what is essentially a gamble (since etsy is determining whether you're 'selling mass produced junk').

sellers already feel like etsy is way too buyer-friendly (at the expense of sellers).
>You know how, when you're reading natural language, you don't actually read individual letters, not once you have any reading fluency?

As difficult as it is to imagine, you can indeed achieve fluency in reading Lisp code. Like with everything else, it takes time and practice.
The amazing thing about Kickstarter knockoffs is that there's a huge market for simply stealing an idea and beating it to market. People have made hundreds of thousands of dollars doing this. It's completely absurd, Kickstarter product transparency is, in hindsight, almost ideal to steal products from.
>my guess before reading the paper is that the contract gives a hash and a file size and the host is responsible for giving a file of that size and that hash if there is a dispute

Close! Sia uses Merkle trees to construct the storage proof. The storage contract specifies the Merkle tree root hash. The host must then provide one of the "leaves" of the tree (64 bytes of actual data), along with the other subtree roots in the tree necessary to construct the root hash. The consensus algorithm can then verify that by hashing the leaf and combining it with the other subtree roots, the top-level root can be obtained. This is a lot more compact and efficient than sending the entire file contents. The only trick is selecting which leaf to demand from the host -- if it could be predicted in advance, the host could cheat and store less data. But it can't be purely random either, since all nodes on the network need to pick the same leaf to arrive at consensus. So the leaf is chosen using existing entropy in the blockchain (e.g. the hash of the last block), so that it's both deterministic and difficult for an attacker to control.
Etsy was originally a marketplace for artisan or custom goods that would allow you to buy directly from the artists/craftsmen.
The comment that I did make is pretty useful. Why can't you be satisfied with it?
I recently did a similar blind taste-test for mineral waters vs my tap water: https://www.gwern.net/Tea#water-experiment

I used a lazy susan to implement randomization/blinding, and an interesting Bayesian variant on best-arm finding to try to optimize sample selection. I found my tap water is weakly in the middle and perhaps 1 or 2 mineral waters were better, but not strongly so.

The results are not quite comparable to OP because I designed it in terms of deciding which in a pair tasted better, not whether I could guess which was which correctly.
Many people eat the fish in Sydney Harbour too. Despite being warned not too.

Sydney's ocean beaches are often closed to swimmers because of pollution. Sydney disposes of its sewerage via deep ocean outlets, and this can often make the water quality very bad, depending on ocean currents.

I'm not sure my post warranted a down-vote. Is it because I contradicted you? or do you think I am wrong? I lived on a houseboat on The Georges river/Botany Bay for many years, and have spent some serious time on Sydney's waterways, and offshore. I wouldn't eat anything caught in Sydney's rivers or beaches knowingly.
A lot of sellers on etsy couldn't afford the $1k to start.
I don't know anyone who claims to know the whole of C++.
Only a small fraction of the article was about housing prices in the suburbs. The vast majority of it was an exploration of the idea that many of the drivers to people moving to the suburbs are going away (better infrastructure, lower crime, more prosperity).

Further the articles main point may be that mitigating those problems in the suburbs may be harder than the all ready tricky task of mitigating them in denser urban areas due to higher infrastructure costs, increased transportation costs and more limited areas for new development.
US is only 4.4 percent of the global population and they don't need permission to spy on non Americans.
You're accounting for the worst-case scenario, which is fine, but I still don't know why we're behaving like Basecamp can't afford to hire folks to backfill people on leave.
The "Who is hiring?" posts are official threads? I always just assumed they were organic in nature.
Did you try any of the black belt track? It seems like that might have been a good fit for you.

One problem with the Austin convention center is that it's VERY spread out, so it's easy to miss an entire chunk of sessions because they're almost impossibly far if you don't know what you're looking for.
(disclaimer: I work on Duckling)

I don't know of any benchmarks. HeidelTime and SUTime are two solid projects... although the rule files [0][1] are a bit scary if you ask me :-).

Quick thoughts:

- SUTime relies on TokensRegex [2] which is similar to how Duckling parses sentences at a high-level

- SUTime seems to only provide English rules

- I don't know of any production use cases of either

[0] https://github.com/stanfordnlp/CoreNLP/tree/master/src/edu/s...

[1] https://github.com/HeidelTime/heideltime/blob/master/resourc...

[2] https://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/tokensregex-tr-2014.pdf
Well, a consumer generally visits Amazon for cheap, not quality, goods. Etsy is supposed to be the place a consumer goes to purchase small batch, hand made, custom items.
fuck everyone else who isn't a shareholder, especially you
I am also at a point where I don't trust anything coming out of the NSA or the US government. Maybe it's true or maybe they 1) transferred more domestic spying over to GHCQ or some other Five Eyes partner 2) transferred these responsibilities to some other agency 3) everything is still stored and they don't count that as "collecting call records".
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The big Honeywell cylinders w/ charcoal filters.

https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-50250-S-True-HEPA-Purifier/...

At one point a couple of these handled 6 cats and 5 ferrets. The scammmy stuff made no dent. Commercial use hotel + mold ozonaters worked, but unsafe.
Indiegogo doesn't mind? That's way too funny, I emailed Indiegogo a few weeks ago before starting a group buy from taobao. I still can't find a platform to organize something like that.

Since, this is HN it might interest you all: the top six on https://shop57714512.world.taobao.com/ . Tripod mountable 10"-17" travel monitors.