skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of in the animatrix if you listen and think about it. It's not super obvious though.
Two counterpoints:

I have done a/b tests where increasing the price of the product increased the conversion rate. The original price was to low and the customers thought this was a cheap non quality product.

Also I, and many people I know, are not shopping for the lowest price, but for the best overall package. (Reputation of seller, return policies, shipping duration, display of the product in the shop, filter and search abilities to find the right product in the shop, ...) There are of course many users who simply want the lowest price, but one important thing if you a/b test is: You don't have to go with the biggest group of users (in this case price sensitive), there are so many other oppurtunities if you understand your users. In e-commerce these oppurtunities open especially often, if the user is not exactly sure what product/brand he needs or wants to buy. Competing on price is really hard, competing on advice is often easier as a small shop.
These two comments are perfect, in every way :)
management is largely an information processing task. They are gathering, analyzing, and communicating information, but typically have to deal with both quantitative and qualitative information of varying quality from disparate sources

This layer is going to be utterly destroyed by machine learning when it goes mainstream. The value of an MBA is trending towards zero.
> reduced drunk driving rates by 1/3

Hardly true: http://fortune.com/2016/07/28/uber-drunk-driving-study/

> enabled nearly 200K drivers to become entrepreneurs

Going self-employed doesn't make you an entrepreneur.

> provided a valuable service to millions of customers

Looks like true: http://fortune.com/2016/10/20/uber-app-riders/

> accelerated the shift to self driving car

Not true. Uber's entered the game very late and since then lagged behind most of the competitors in this space: http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-companies-most-likely-to-g...
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The one of them kissing? I thought that was really cute and somewhat challenges my prejudices about people of that era being repressed, cold, unemotional and reluctant to exhibit public displays of affection.
I think the idea is that the key to being regarded honorably is to be really good at what you claim you do. And a life time is only long enough to master, i mean, really master, a single thing.

I think it must be a totally alien, or even irritating, idea to a bunch who expects to paid enormous sum of money because they have done a crash course in JavaScript spanning a month and claims to be able to build websites that can "deliver value" to the business..

That is considering they can even grasp the idea of things like "honor", which itself is a rather unpopular idea because it often gets in the way of making money....
In other words: an engineer should never take career advice from a VC.
That is simply a reflection of what folks find important. It used to be important who your family was, as it kind of indicated your place in society and contributed to a stereotype. Same for your residence.

It just isn't as important as important as what you do for a living as it doesn't say anything about you like your career choice does. That is, unless it seems like an interesting and defining factor.

I personally get asked where I'm from quite often - well before anyone asks me what my job is. I'm an immigrant and speak with an accent. The job is secondary: i'll occasionally get asked if I wound up in Norway for work, other times folks will occasionally ask somewhere in the conversation. My accent makes it less of a defining characteristic.

The other thing I'll state is that you can answer the question differently so that you are in control over what defines you. You might have a McJob. Nothing to write home about, but you don't mind it so much and it pays the bills. But you program/make music/artwork/have hobbies in your free time. Answer that bit. Make the job secondary. Ask the question to others differently. It might not become popular in the whole of society, but you might be happier in your personal interactions.
Chrome Extension: First JSON viewer that supports nested JSON
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/djson-json-viewer-formatt/chaeijjekipecdajnijdldjjipaegdjc

This is the first json viewer to be aware of nested json.
By nested json I mean a json field that is itself json.
With json becoming pervasive in all systems, it is not rare to use json as a messaging "envelope" with metadata and one of the fields to be in itself a json payload.
If you've come across such scenario (and if you are a profesional programmer I bet you did), then this json viewer is for you.
Otherwise it contains the regular features of a feature parser / viewer / pretty printer.

(A project by my office neighbour)
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The summary is very easy:

* Hyperscan is by far the fastest, but has only limited platform and regex support.

* Next is pcre2 (with the jit), which is a bit faster than the new rust regex. These support all options, everywhere.

* Then RE2 and all the others. RE2 has very limited regex support.

Why they compare the fastest with one of the slower and limited ones is beyond my understanding.
The best overview is still https://rust-leipzig.github.io/regex/2017/03/28/comparison-o...
Whatever "Zenly" is.

Hopefully Snapchat dies soon.
That is not that much of an income taking into the skill going into these watches. Wonder if he has to deal with much repairs and returns?
Did he resign in a show of support for David Bonderman, because he thinks women talk too much too?
do you understand what you are even saying? There's so many things in play I don't even know if you're serious.
you're acting like this is the start of the idea that perhaps the entire taxi industry is not worth what Uber is claiming, or that having a bunch of autonomous vehicles is probably hard for an iOS app company to manage, or that they ultimately have never proven they can keep drivers happy without subsidizing prices, or that they might not get huge backlash from legal action around driver status, or .....

There's an argument for Uber's eventual success, but there's a lot of stuff against it too. It's not an absurd theory.
Cython compiles any python code to C which is then complied normally. If you provide type hints cython will use that to produce more optimized C code.

That being said the speedup from compiling your untyped python code is minimal, generally in the 0-40% range. However by adding types to your code you can often get significant speedups.
Pardon the snark, but: it's no longer 2010. Javascript isn't an option anymore.

I don't like this either, and I personally run a javascript blocker (which makes the internet much more enjoyable, imho), but I absolutely recognize that this is not the optimal way to view the internet. I also use react on all of my frontends.
"In total, there were 66876 public packages from 15495 accounts directly affected — about 13% of the whole npm ecosystem.

Taking dependencies into an account, to my estimations about 52% of the ecosystem was affected — i.e. that number of packages install affected ones along with them through dependency chains."
Discussion about the 20.0 release:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14605373
Yes, culture fit, or 'getting along with each other' is important. When looking for people they will get along with, most people tend to prefer to be around others who seem like themselves. Given a team of all male engineers and two candidates of equal ability and with similar personalities, one male and one female, the male candidate is more 'like' the hiring engineers which makes him seem easier to get along with. And so a company which is just hiring people who 'are good at their job and are easy to get along with' can end up with a team of men.
This is not about pumping and dumping, it's about misappropriating client funds. Using your own money to pump is debatable. Buying Bitcoins with money you do not actually have (but promise to be available for withdrawal at any time) is fraud.
What if robot or trainable crawler can do personalized summaries of information?

https://medium.com/rosenbridge/only-robot-can-free-informati...
"a large amount of people I met in a day wanted thought they should ask about it, want to try it, etc." it used to be like that with mobile phones :) I think as an early adopter you need to accept that bit with good humour!
I didn't find any when I looked. Just his position and the name of the university he was associated with. For someone asking a favor, I would imagine making contacting them easy is understood.
It’s better because going through the same process as the official banking apps means that you should end up using tokens etc rather than actually storing the original credentials.
Define 'hacked'. http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/10/technology/security/gmail-ha...
I guess people object to your post for moral reasons, but your position is also factually indefensible.

* First, intelligence is mostly cultural, not genetic. I know that's not a popular view in the US, but it's true nonetheless. There are multiple adoption studies that show how intelligence of kids rise as much as 20 points on the IQ scale, once they have a nurturing social environment. It's also pretty obvious once you think about the fact that european immigrants in the US were almost all analphabetic subsitance farmers, yet nowadays descendents of those people design neural nets and self driving cars.

* Intelligence (the difference between g and IQ is irrelevant, as both are pretty much defined by the same thing: an intelligence test) is not a good predictor for future work performance. Other personality traits like conscientiousness and neuroticism are, in combination, more important.

* Despite decades of research, there still are no language independent intelligence tests of comparable reliability to the language-dependent variants, so the actual measuring is not possible.
I agree that the income is (relatively) modest compared to the training time and skill level involved. I suspect that the income could grow organically in the future with apprentices &c.

I'd imagine a 'return' would be a trip to the chap's house and personal attention until the watch was working properly. My old hand-assembled clockwork camera (a mass produced item compared to the mechanisms in the OA) has worked faultlessly for around 15 years. And I bought it second hand then.
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Thanks very much for your work - really makes a big difference to me and i'm sure many, many others. Beer's on me if you ever make it to SEA!
In my experience, Erlang doesn't have a standard way of doing a deployment. There are 3rd party apps like Rebar and others, but they are both not available by default (after a fresh install) and seriously underdocumented. The result of this, IMHO, is that everyone builds their own build and deployment system, using shell scripting, Make or Erlang itself.

Elixir includes Mix - a standard task runner - and Hex as part of the distribution. It also provides a central pkg repository (https://hex.pm/packages). It's much, much easier to start a project and pull all your dependencies.

I guess you could use Hex and Mix with pure Erlang projects, but I haven't tried this.
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>39 Million Requests ... $/Month

39 days/Month

80K sec/day

1M req/day ==> 12 req/s
It's got to be the Otto lawsuit, that's obviously coming, after Levandowski dropped the ball with that "plead the Fifth" stuff.

Even the Google network forensics team have him bang to rights[1] taking data while on-site at the campus, Google would be mental to not launch a volley and destroy a potential competitor in the process.

And you don't drop $680m on an acquisition without going through board approval first, surely? Somebody's definitely complicit.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/googles-waymo-just-dropped-exp...
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I have potential sources that the top trading firms in the world were involved in the manipulation.
This has already happened and no one batted an eyelash. Why?Because, Orange is French and T-Mobile is German.
> we've spent a tremendous amount of time putting together high quality frequency lists

I've recently started using Anki, but have only found it useful for taking a mental model that I sat down one weekend and learned, and re-enforcing it.
How valuable are these frequency lists for learning something entirely new? If I wanted to use them to say, memorise the api exposed by ActiveRecord, would they be useful, or would they ask me a series of questions that I couldn't yet really put in context?
I wrote a similar post, though much shorter and less detailed. Nevertheless eerily similar:
https://medium.com/@grgtwt/code-is-not-just-text-1082981ae27...

Greenfoot really was the biggest inspiration, but I'd really like to build something more general purporse. Aka pass in a grammar file and then you can use the editor for that language.
I'm about 50% through (the e-book; if someone presents interesting knowledge he should also get paid for it).

So what you're saying is that I shouldn't have such expectations towards the reporter. The reporter may or may not be smart enough to look behind the curtain, but his official job is not to look behind but to present the "objective" official grand narrative. Talking about the actual power struggle would expose him since it may be considered unprofessional and un-objective, as well as hurt his trust relations with people who give him inside info. So the most naive but objective report may actually be written by the smartest reporter. New point of view. Thanks!
"People who like Lisps" are actually the target audience for LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang at http://docs.lfe.io/current/index.html). It doesn't have all the Elixir ecosystem goodness, but it's a genuine Lisp, not merely Lisp-like :)
You either support illegal immigration or you don't. Why is that so difficult to understand?
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Anki is AGPL. https://github.com/dae/anki
Pretty decent chance: https://www.grisp.org/
This is a phone screen. I have a candidate who presents himself a Java expert with all kinds of projects under his belt, certificates etc. He does give vaguely sensible answers to my questions but refuses to name any Java standard library class, any specific method in Spark (which he also claims to be using extensively), no specifics of anything. At this point I'm starting to wonder - is this guy really a hands-on programmer? Does he actually, personally write code? Sure, we all use IDEs and don't have to remember everything exactly, but this guy is drawing blanks on the seemingly most basic things. How do I find out? What is the one thing it is impossible to not know if you're any kind of java programmer. Hence - public static void main(String[] args)

Please understand that I don't care if the candidate remembers Java syntax for it's own sake. We don't even use Java at this project. I only ever ask Java questions if this happens to be the candidate's favourite language. If you don't remember how to write the 'Hello World' program in your favourite programming language after more than a decade of using it, then I don't even want to see you embarrass yourself in the next stage hands-on coding interview.
> Not sure about the price, to me $75 for a decently beefy server seems low?

You can argue whether Hetzner is reputable hosting or not, but $75/month will get you a v3 Xeon with 32GB of ECC RAM.

> Also serverless might sound silly but isn't it nice to not have to do ops works? Surely worth $200/month.

Hosting something on Amazon doesn't absolve you of operations work, it's just a different kind of operations. Instead of managing the OS/software updates, you need to manage S3, IAM, CloudWatch, optimise time/memory consumption to reduce cost, etc.

Maybe we just have different definitions of "ops works" but it bothers me when people claim that you don't need to have anyone minding AWS because it's serverless. You still need to have people monitoring, managing permissions, optimising to reduce cost, pushing updates, etc.
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Yes. Its sad it got hyped like AR, and not left alone to be it own thing.

I can see it being perfect for some people like mechanics who need their hands free, but could also use a screen for documentation.
That's a tough question. I think it would be best to not have to "force yourself" and just go with your inner flow, however that might be a fantasy for anything other than pure consumption.
My favorite was the Mars Rover challenge.
Key word is attributed. I guess he means no a single case proved to be caused by screen-scraping and therefor attributed to it.

I think it is likely there has been fraud like that though. It just doesn't get reported or even found out.
What's difficult to understand is what you are trying to say. I never said if I was for or against illegal immigration. I replied to the parent comment claiming illegal immigration through southern border is purposeful. You are trying to make it out to be about stances.

Good and Bad are definitely subjective. Illegal immigration is good for the illegal immigrant because they have better quality of life. Millions of Americans who voted for Trump seem to think it is bad. So it is definitely about perspective, and the reason we bother to make labels is because we live in a civil society where we follow rules, no matter if some people don't feel it is necessary.
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It's possible that simply cutting dividend checks would be enough. Market capitalism is an interesting sorta-self-regulating mechanism for seeking products and services, and the big drawback is that it isn't a social structure: nowhere in there is any suggestion that the mechanism will produce a consumer class to keep the whole thing going. Without that class, it collapses.

It's possible if you just harness the engine by forcibly redistributing capital amount X (nonlinear amount scaling from negative to positive) to all (citizens? humans? living things?) then you guarantee the consumer class's existence, and make it possible to compete for the capital of that class through producing goods and services.

You might call it the Square Tax. Pay one tenth of one percent of your income, squared… proceeds to be divvied up equally as a human dividend. That neatly results in one dollar for every thousand you make, squared (or one dollar per every 'K' of income, squared). It also means you hit a limit at exactly a million dollars of income a year. I think it's safe to say if you're in a basic income/human dividend society and you still contrive to earn a million dollars a year you need to re-evaluate what you're doing with your life, and/or you already have enough resources that you REALLY don't need to be working yourself into the grave to get more: believe it or not, other people can do things too ;)
From an engineering perspective... Mathematics looks like an add-on to natural language designed to express precise concepts in the simplest possible way. (Simple != easy, of course).

In a scientific or engineering context mathematics evolves naturally whenever the requirement for precision exceeds the capability of the available language and you have the right folks around to develop it.
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Unequal hours were normal in the era of astrolabes...

"It should also be noted that in the middle ages the time of day was usually expressed as the part of the day or night that had passed. That is, sunrise was the beginning of the 1st hour of the day, noon was the end of the 6th hour and sunset was the end of the 12th hour of the day and the beginning of the 1st hour of the night. The length of the hour changed during the year with the amount of change depending on the latitude."[1]

It was the advent of mechanical clocks that regularised the hours. The difference was less the nearer to the equator your city was as well.

[1] https://www.astrolabes.org/pages/uses.htm
You don't think it was extraordinary that David Bonderman interrupted Arianna Huffington to make a crude sexist remark about how he believes women on the board talk too much, during the all-hands meeting to unveil Uber’s plan for overhauling its corporate culture?

Yes, Uber board member David Bonderman said women talk too much at an all-hands meeting about sexism at Uber: https://www.recode.net/2017/6/13/15795612/uber-board-member-...

It's not fake news. It's not contested. He resigned in disgrace, because HE talked too much. You can listen to the audio yourself. It starts at 6:37.

LEAKED AUDIO: Uber's all-hands meeting had some uncomfortable moments: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-ubers-hands-meeting-tr...

Arianna Huffington: "And there is a lot of data that shows that when there is one woman on the board, it's much more likely that there will be a second woman on the board."

David Bonderman: "Actually what it shows is that it's much more likely to be more talking."

What he just did in front of the entire company at the worst possible moment is strong first hand evidence that speaks directly to the fact that the cause of Uber's horrible track record of sexism deeply pervades its board of directors. Making a remark like that at a time like that isn't just an anomaly out of the blue -- it reveals his true character and Uber's true culture.

It was nothing short of a vicious unfounded public personal attack on Arianna Huffington, Wan Ling Martello, and all of Uber's female employees.

David Bonderman Resigns From Uber Board After Sexist Remark:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/technology/uber-sexual-ha...

"Mr. Bonderman’s original comments, according to experts, also lack merit.

Tali Mendelberg, professor of politics at Princeton University, and Christopher Karpowitz, an associate professor of political science at Brigham Young University, conducted a study in 2012 concluding that men talked far more than women did at meetings. The professors convened 94 groups of five people and varied the number of men and women in the groups. Their study is in line with multiple others drawing similar conclusions — men talk more than women, and men interrupt more than women.

“The study shows that men will dominate the conversation if there are more men than women in the group, and they dominate by a lot,” Ms. Mendelberg said in an interview. “When you have just two women in the group, those women are much more silent than men are.”

Uber’s board of directors was composed entirely of men until 2016, when Ms. Huffington gained a seat. This week Uber said another woman had been added to the board: Wan Ling Martello, the executive vice president of Nestle in Asia."
In the context of aggregators such as HN/reddit, complaining about the design of the articles' sites is a form of bikeshedding.
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> by not much more than bad press for being jerks

The problem with being a jerk is that people will dislike you.

They might put up with you if you are rich, successful and powerful, but they certainly won't look to help you if you are in trouble and may even come along to help put the boot in.

> Makes no goddamn sense.

What's happening makes perfect sense. People don't like jerks, and enjoy bringing them down.
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Yahoo was also the only (?) company that stood up to NSA.
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