skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two steps required to become a better writer.

1. Read. Read everything. Read omnivorously. Read fiction and non-fiction, books and newspapers and magazines and Web sites. Read works by live authors and dead ones. Read stuff you wouldn't normally read. Part of developing your own voice is learning to hear the music in other peoples'.

2. Write. Write constantly. Write little notes and long essays. Write stories. Write a journal. Write down what happened to you today and what you dreamed last night. Write for an audience (even if it doesn't exist yet) and write for yourself. Writing is the process of trying on new voices until you find the one that fits you best. The only way to find the one that fits is to try on a lot that don't.
You are unable to back up your claims by verifiable data source and quantifiable data points.

Can you get the caste of a person by reading the Aadhar number ?

Answer is No.

If you or your relatives had not lost bribe money due to the Direct Benefit scheme, then I cannot understand the blatant hate of Aadhar.

Otherwise, I hope that neither you nor your immediate family members were accumulating wealth by being corrupt or being the actual middleman themselves.
But, in the article, the "bad examples" he gave, some real people wrote them. If you had to write back to such people with "bare" English, wouldn't they judge you as "childlike and naive" too?

Isn't it necessary to adapt your phrasing to your target?
(I thought it worked this way in any language)
Mister, I just made a point by point rebuttal to the obvious and glaring flaws in your arguments. If you can't stand when someone does that to you, I apologise.
School (I'm speaking of high school and younger) isn't the real world. Many things that are perfectly legal for adults are prohibited in school because they disrupt the mission that the school is trying to accomplish. There's certainly a grey area but things like dress and speech codes are well established and for good reasons. A service like yik-yak has no real benefit in an environment like that. In fact I don't even know why schools allow personal mobile devices at all.

As far as universities go, yes I think "if you don't like it don't go there" is much more realistic. Those students are all adults and by that age have mostly (certainly not completely) outgrown the most petty type of cliquishness and bullying that permeates the junior high and high school social scene.
IBM can mismanage projects and deliver subpar results and people will keep giving them millions of dollars for it "because"

The smaller shop have more reasons to try harder and deliver a better result. IBM will just hire the cheapest people they can find and put them under 5 levels of management and good luck with that!
I said this a bit differently in another comment but I'll ask you this - would you still support Aadhaar if the party in power was not the Bjp? Remember that the party in power will inevitably change at some point but this project will remain. Would you be able to trust any party besides the Bjp with being in charge of this project? If you would, well I won't argue with you, if not you really have to think about the implications of what is happening.
Is that a thing "Anything you upload to our site belongs to us" I was wondering about that myself for my own services. If I can get people's data, then you could use that to train ML with and then your problem of lack of data is solved haha... but this is beyond me at this point just thinking out loud.
I hope that they were wrong. Tin looks a lot like lead. It's harder, but melts at a lower temperature. I doubt that one could coat cookware with pure lead, because it oxidizes too quickly, but alloys (e.g. solder) might be used.
Not applied to /r/the_donald however.
Traditional forum style sorting just sorts for controversiality. Posts that generate heated discussion will continue to push their way to the top. This is okay but it means that non controversial stories will not make it to the top, which is honestly one of the largest benefits of news aggregator sites.
I often write because I NEED to. I don't necessarily enjoy it per se, but I upvoted dang because I can relate to "an unwritten essay is like an uneaten piece of cake." That writing lives inside me and makes me crazy if I don't let it out. It may not be the most fun I have ever had, but it has a need to happen.

So perhaps enjoyment isn't the write word, but pg is describing a thing akin to a hunger that must be satisfied. Dang doesn't have that impetus. I do. So I write.

Perhaps someday I shall get read as well. ;-)
I thought that they successfully delivered a passenger scheduling system, but it failed to gain market traction. I don't know the details, but I'd imagine it would be a huge migration cost even if the new system was much better.
I didn't see this in the article
Pretty sad. We made all these weapons for WWII that were illegal by convention since 1925, never used them, and now have to destroy them at huge expense. Such a waste.
A Moscow Mule is typically served in a copper mug, and I'd think the negative effects from the alcohol would be the primary thing to worry about.
Hm good points..
Ask HN: How to Hire a Designer from Dribble?
I'm a full-stack engineer, recently built and soft-launched my side-project, but been told by several people that UI needs work.

I went to dribble and used their search * to locate designers that "Are for Hire". But the first few I found appear to be more like Agencies, most of which don't take on a single site or app like mine, and also costs 5 to 10K min.

I want to hire an individual developer so that costs are low (I'm bootstrapped) and also I have a chance of bringing in the designer as a co-founder if things work out.

Anyone have experience with this? i.e. locating and hiring an individual designer from Dribble? How did you go about it? How did you vet them? Were you happy with your results? Costs?

[P.S. If you are a designer and would like to know more, please contact me theblogdoctor (at) gmail. ]

I'm based in San Francisco and this is the site that needs work => http://visaok.in

* Search Page I used: https://dribbble.com/designers?twitter=&dribbble=&sort=popular&for_hire=on&location=&skills=

(I understand they have a job board I can post in, but would like to avoid the 375$ for 30 days costs, as I am bootstrapped and would like to use their search page to find designers if possible :)
I don't see why an IT outsourcing company would not have the greatest incentive to take security and reliability extremely seriously.

Is there anything worse for an IT service provider than being blamed for a massive IT outage at a global corporation? This is headline news.

And I don't see any difficult contractual issues at all. On the contrary. A massive outage, by definition, means that the contractual obligation is not being met.
Or maybe it's what is repeated here so often: don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Is that what you tell hundreds of thousands of passengers sitting in a terminal with canceled flights and confused airline employees during one of the biggest holiday weekends?

If your credit card number gets stolen or worse, your identity, and it's up to you to get that straightened out, are you just going to shrug your shoulders and write that off as the inevitable impossibility of perfection?
Those are for your own purpose right? Not for commercial use? Not a bad thing, I'm split on both myself.

Did you have any problems running/setting up CRON? I can't seem to get them to run on Debian/Ubuntu Apache, I had no problem having it run on Raspbian Apache though haha on my RPi.

Do you have some GUI or popup notification that's like "I just did this".

I use Linux with i3 and pop up notifications I don't know how I would do that natively but with Chrome I noticed on some sites like Slack for example, they do popups that appear on separate windows/outside of the browser window. Not exactly related (what I wrote) but thanks for chiming in.

edit: I'm also wondering about alternatives to persistent/scheduled services like I'd like to learn Go eventually not sure why aside from hype/insane performance numbers that I've seen that isn't event relevant to me at this stage but... you know have a "Go process" running non-stop even after exiting back end and it does scheduled stuff... I don't know need to learn more. Aware of PHP approach (what I can do) and no-hup but CRON is ideal/Daemon.
Aadhar started rolling out in 2011 itself, people started enrolling out then only and started getting Aadhar card by post.

Some privacy activists did stood and enquired but did not get much support or voice.

After 6 years who are the people who are creating noise and running from corner to corner ?

Do these people actually care about privacy? Hard to think.

Have these people lost money due to direct benefit scheme? Plausible.

There is no reason to blatantly hate Aadhar unless

- you are a corrupt government employee

- you are a middleman contractor

- you had invested in something and were hoping that the roI will come as a bribe from the common people

- you fear more direct to benefit schemes in future because you have been accumulating wealth by being a middleman all through your life.

-- you are a privacy freak typing on a device assembled in China.
Just a question to you. I can understand the problems faced by bribery and it being eradicated but how according to your argument can the person who is illiterate understand about privacy or for that matter things he/she is not expert in?
To elaborate it is not the responsibility of the illiterates or the people who are not knowledgeable to worry about the privacy. Instead it is the responsibility of the people implementing the system to make sure that all security and privacy is implemented and also the laws to be introduced to protect the common man.

This is the very reason the government has think tanks and expert advisors. It seems all these people have failed. When the system fails completely then again it is these same poor common man who will face the brunt presently seen or unseen.
It's pretty funny how in this thread IBM is conflated with decent quality IT outsourcing and Poland with poor quality, while IBM's outsourcing is done out of Poland (among other countries).

https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32469.wss
Signal is preferred to noise.

If you have actually worked at Tumblr, or another social company that has to deal with blocking accounts, and can provide some analysis of what goes into these decisions (is it automated? How many people are involved? How much discretion is given to individual employees? What are the legal implications if Tumblr did nothing?) that would be interesting and informative.
I thought Step 5 would be: lets hire an overpriced western big name consulting firm to fix our 'temporary' problem.
Wouldn't it had been easier to simply increment a counter for each visit and then set a short lived cookie in the browser for that post?
And put the spam detection system before the counter increment
From what I understand, Nixon was instrumental in the enforcement because it targeted people he didn't like (ie, racism).

Impeachment really can't have happened to a more deserving fellow.
OK, I would counter-propose (as I tend to work in a dynamic world):

Bayesian inference is an efficient way to track your estimates and uncertainties as you accumulate data.
Every time I start to fall into the conceit that I'm an exceptionally good developer, I look at things like kernels or low level hardware programming and eat a big ol' slice of humble pie.
DDT isn't banned in most countries. It's actually recommended by WHO for INDOOR use in Malria control because it's the only viable option. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2006/pr50/en/

I was hoping to only hear Anti Aadhaar FUD in this thread. Had no idea you had your target set on DDT as well.

As for comparision with USA/EU, India is a different country with different set of problem/challenges. Instead of Aping others we should apply our mind to the problem and come up with solution. Aadhaar is the best example of that.
I agree, but I'm suggesting it as a good starting step. And what about the graded case? Surely there is a diminishing effect of handing people money once they make a certain amount.

And I'm just saying, with so many against the idea of UBI, just start with a small step. Not as effective, but better than where we're at, right?
I recently drove near Walker Lake, in Nevada. This place is pretty much in the middle of nowhere, between Reno and Las Vegas. Then suddenly, I see thousands of those little igloo bunkers start popping up, just dotting the landscape in strange patterns.

I was amazed at the simple engineering put into them, the spacing was perfect, they had been buried, but like a pill, a line had been cut into them with a door, to prevent the blast going through the door unprotected.

I later found out that I had driven past the Hawthorne Army Depot, which has one of the largest reserves of ammunition in the world. Very neat and strange. Something I would expect out of Nevada.
> For example, the overbooking that led to the beating on the United flight was the result of an aircrew from another airline being booked on at the last second.

That's not quite what happened. The flight was operated by Republic Airlines, on behalf of United. Republic bumped the passenger to make way for more of their own crew - it's just that crew was going to to fly a Republic flight operating under another, different, carrier. But both crews were employed by Republic.
Those are all questions that naturally follow from the assumption that men (women too?) are discriminating against women against the best interests of the companies they work for because .... well I'm not sure you've spelled out the motive... but essentially "sexism"? It doesn't sound plausible when everywhere you look you have people shouting on the rooftops about how women deserve equal pay. So who the hell isnt paying them equally?
The At a Distance blog has extensively covered Apple Maps' deficiencies (and progress) in Japan where Yahoo maps is the best option.

https://atadistance.net
Errol Morris (Fog of War) Studied with Thomas Kuhn (Structure of Sc. Revolution)
> And as of 2014, Google had already driven 99% of U.S. public roads

Nope. Try dragging Pegman over anywhere in the rural Midwest and see what you get. 99% of US _paved_ roads, perhaps.
What does "making more money for your company" have to do with competing against Google?
A Linguist Responds to Cormac McCarthy
Much more friendly timezone (1 h from London, 6 h from East Coast). I'd also say the accent is easier on the ears, but I might be biased since I'm Polish ;) Also, it only takes 2-3 years on average in Polish civil courts to resolve a dispute (as opposed to supposedly decades in India) - in case you want to sue your services provider.
> I would rather communicate with those who don't label people and jump to conclusions.

Physician, heal thyself.

I love HN and have been reading it for a long time, content to browse. There's very little that jolts me into actually commenting, but your comments since registering did because it's reminiscent of a pattern anyone that's been involved with Indian/South Asian communities or discussions online have seen over and over again - a topic that's critical of the Modi government or the BJP being injected with insults and invective over constructive discussion by sudden newcomers.

The only thing missing to complete the BJP bingo is the traditional cries of 'anti-national'.
qmarchi says it's not harassment and that it's trivial to ignore. Here's a chance for them to test their methods and to prove those methods work.

Or, if releasing their name and address for a 3 day experiment is too scary maybe they can accept that they've got it wrong, and that harassment is real and causes harm.
Thanks, that's fascinating.
Do you have a hypothetical reason why it couldn't be exploited in this scenario?
Universities seek to have successful graduates

Once, yes, but I wonder if that is true anymore in these days of $60k+/year fees. Do universities make more from undergrads or alumni donations these days? Because if their goal really is successful graduates then they are not setting their students up for success by policing every dispute. It would be completely different obv if YikYak was the "official" app on campus, but the university administration is nothing to do with it, and wouldn't have the power to block it even if they were. What are you expecting them to do exactly?

If a crime has been committed, go to the police, the real police.
Waze was the obvious acquisition, because the Map editor is well done and accessible on the web, the community is very active and Apple even used their data, but Google was smarter and acquired them.

Apple Maps is limited to Macs and iDevices, while Google Maps is accessible essentially everywhere (web and Search page and Android/iOS). Because of this, it's easier for the masses to update information on Google Maps than Apple Maps.
And the previous HN discussion of that article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13579353
> IBM when it takes over operations often hires the IT staff of the firm it is taking over operations from and runs systems on multiple-year contracts.

And typically has them laid off in 3 - 5 years and replaced by IBM offshore resources or subcontractors.
Cormac McCarthy's original article, The Kekulé Problem
Where did language come from?
http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/the-kekul-problem
This is ridiculous. You can perhaps ignore people but only up to a point, and they don't like being ignored. Sometimes this turns into violence.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/27/trump-called-act-...

(I can just imagine if someone was walking round campus with noise cancelling headphones and got assaulted, I'm sure you'd be the first to blame them for not being aware of their surroundings)
Haha:-) that means you deny an S7-300 PLC to be industrial...
Better study EN61131-2 and specs of any standard PLC before giving such comments...hopefully you've just mixed up "industrial" with "automotive" grade...
India I can understand, but what is your deal with Poland? Historically Poland has excelled in stuff like mathematics and Polish programmers are very skilled. A Polish team even came in second in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition recently, so wtf dude?
Are you talking about the "impressions"/subscribers incident? Because that was a mislabeled field that affected almost every other sub more than T_d.

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/62naj4/can_someone_ex...

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/62nw33/rthe...
1k words a day teaches you how to quickly write a lot of words. This is a great skill for a pulp fiction writer/freelance copywriter, but not so great when you're not getting paid by the word.

My goal is to write 1+ words a day.
No that is definitely not the intention of RevPi. The price is not comparable to Raspberry Pi. It's just the other way round: Many of our customers have used original Raspis to play around and have short development cycles. When they start getting the things ready for real life they switch to RevPi because it is nearly 1005 sw compatible with their experimental system but which is designed for rough environment like any other system from KUNBUS. Btw. the case is the same which used for several PILZ products developed and manufactured by KUNBUS.
China Reaches the Moon Snapping Incredible High-Definition Images
You could, but the number is usually much higher, counting can get iffy with complicated intersection, you need to worry about both sides, etc. Lights are usually only at major streets, so unless you're at the final steps of your journey, you will probably only be turning at lights.
> IBM when it takes over operations often hires the IT staff of the firm it is taking over operations from and runs systems on multiple-year contracts.

I've seen this happen many times and it's always been successful. They can replicate the business processes they've honed over time whilst keeping that important business knowledge. It's also often better for the staff as they can hand off that knowledge and move internally within IBM to new and more challenging roles without switching employers.
I can't believe that apparently some people see "Tumblr" but not the "researcher employed by NATO". It's just text and images and video, the "place" where it's at matters only for the people having to pay for pipes, really. Some of the best things in the world get posted in totally random places, it has always been thus.
A probably better link: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/0128165...
Land costs are really not high in Birmingham and the Black Country, the second biggest urban area in Britain. You could build within walking distance of (say) Sandwell & Dudley station, with mainline trains to London, for comparative peanuts.
I don't think Postgres was "NoSQL database as we understand the term today". The basis of NoSQL is not the lack of SQL but the non-relational data model. Postgres (mostly) sticks to the relational data model, although it performs surprisingly well when used as a NoSQL data store.
Do you find the Socratic method can grate on the reader if overused? I know I certainly feel that way.

Does the number of rhetorical questions you ask in a day indicate how much of a bad day it is?
Travis Kalanick's mother killed, father seriously injured in boating accident
interpreting data is not part of the mandatory skillset of LEOs
The HyperLogLog was a very nice article, but I wanted to ask, is this related to the estimation of Naci tanks during WW2 by Allies? https://www.wired.com/2010/10/how-the-allies-used-math-again...
This is a distant early warning of the impending demise of commercial aviation. The inexorable rise of the price of fuel will eventually make flying unaffordable for all but the military and civil servants. Airlines are already struggling to remain solvent, and are cutting costs everywhere they can: salaries, squashing passengers to increase seats/plane, nickel & dimeing us with baggage surcharges, etc.

Offshoring IT is an example of cutting costs to the bone.

Your grandchildren will only know of flying as an ancient legend.
You are correct, but HyperLogLog has many buckets counting the longest run of zeros in order to avoid the problem of outliers. I recently studied these probabilistic algorithms and did a notebook with code and plots to show their performance: https://github.com/lucasschmidtc/Probabilistic-Algorithms/bl...
Are jihadist's tumblrs suspended?
Enrollment started in 2011 and people also got it via post in 2011.

Why do you think the people didn't supported the privacy activists for all these 5 years ?

Who are the people making disproportionate amount of noise (not signal) against Aadhar ?

Do they actually care about privacy? Hard to believe.

Do these people have vested interest in sustaining the corrupt middleman model ? Easy to believe.

If you had lost thousands of rupees because ( bribe money) because of Aadhar card of others, you would definitely make noise ( not signal ).