skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, because some random idiot on a blog post does not know whether the person "performed poorly at their job" in general. He just has a specific gripe. The other person might have done miracles in other parts of Cortana. There are such things as shipping priorities, and they're not determined by random blog posts or comments.

I'd say the _Product Manager_ of Cortana has performed poorly at their job if the released product (Cortana) is bad. And yes, Cortana is bad.

> Second, because people deserve chances for improving. Anybody at any current position has "performed poorly" at this or another project earlier on. Terminating or transferring them only makes sense if they don't get to improve, which a random blog post can't determine.

Cortana was first released over 3 years ago. That is plenty of time for a chance at improvement.

> That's why companies don't base their decisions on random posts or comments.

Companies should base their decisions on customer feedback, and so far all the feedback I've seen on Cortana is that it's downright terrible.
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While I don't necessarily agree with GP, and don't disagree with you, I feel compelled to point out that your comment is almost orthogonal to his. Your points have little to do with what the GP wrote about.
That's what the judicial branch is for.

They have to pass the crappy rules first so that someone who was harmed can sue them.

Congress can stop them now, and the judicial can stop them after the fact. Congress is corrupt, but thus far the judicial is not.
Nice work. Distributed computation is the future. Also glad to see someone scaling Erlang node count.
Yes, we tend to sell things on Facebook than on Kijiji nowdays. At least try to sell on FB first. It's safer because you already validated the person's profile instead of weirdos calling you from Kijiji/Craigslist.
You mean like prototype-based inheritance?
I think the responses in this thread explain this quite well:
https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/933036555001774080

To paraphrase, (as I understand it):

The FCC did have some rules about Net Neutrality (The FCC Open Internet Order for example), but they were struck down as a result of Verizon Communications Inc. v. FCC. To ensure the same protections, the FCC then reclassified Broadband as a utility. Pai's new rules would roll regulation will cause neither Title I nor Title II to apply to broadband carriers, entering us into new territory.
Stands to reason that "everyone" is coding wrong. You wouldn't say people are programming just because natural language is turing complete, or because they are while physics is turing complete. One important aspect of information is structure, but programming classes at the low level merely teach syntax. So I'm thinking that therefore spreadsheets are unstructured. Sure that's elitist or at least academic - in comparison to amateurish.
I believe that there are a lot of fake comments(possibly threads) appearing on Hacker News. I'm sure on Reddit and everywhere on the Internet that influences peoples' oomph to stand up for something like Net Neutrality.

I mean why in the world in 2017 are we so apathetic about something so important? We were up in arms about in 2013 and stopped SOPA then!!!
This is exactly what I'm saying.

My opinion of their business model and their performance is independent of my opinion of the product.
I tried to buy a logo, but kept receiving a "Purchase Failed. Please try again or contact support." Needless to say, not a good first impression.
Aren't most large bitcoin mines located in China though?
At least with erythritol some people have bad reactions to it. Nothing life threatening as far as I know, but it can give me very bad gas, and for one other person I know it's like eating Olestra Chips[1]. That said there are other sweeteners that don't seem to have that effect but they don't seem to behave quite as closely to sugar in cooking as erythritol does.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olestra#Side_effects
Sounds more like overthinking :)
> The phrases "avoid data silos" and "we want single source of truth" have been used repeatedly about Excel misuse/abuse/overuse for 20+ years.

Yep. Even if they get centralize data via RDBMs like SQL Server or even god forbid Microsoft Access, office workers are going to want the front-end of that data to be excel.

There is too much knowledge investment in excel for many office workers to want to switch.
Some very strong words.
I don't know if i'd go as far as saying it is the "holy grail", however, I do see your point. For sure it allows propaganda, misinformation, and lies to be disseminated at a very fast pace.
Ask HN: About the direction in life
Hi, everyone. This community consists of a huge number of educated, well established people who, I assume, has most things under control. I assume you have direction in life or know how to choose one. The following will come from the bottom of my heart, as I have no one to whom I could extress this in a meaningful manner.

I'm 27/M. For the pas year I've been living in Amsterdam, originally from Lithuania. I'm web developer by career, intraverted but open minded. I've jumped to the offer of working in Amsterdam as it fed my hunger for direction in life. I've been successful thus far, but that's part of thr problem. Even though I'm keen to depression and this transition to a new city, new coutry, new culture, language, new people had its difficulties but it wasn't really a hardship as I've reached my job goals fairly easily and made friends.

But that's the problem. It all seems meaningless. Recently I've broke up with my girlfriend after four years. It gave me time to think. I want to do something enriching, something meaningful, maybe impact somebody's lives for the better. But I'm clueless on what direction to take.

I do feel wanderlust. I hate material posessions. I have some money saved up which would help me for a while if I'd decide to quit my job. I've been wondering of going nomad, working remotely and travel the world but I don't want to live for myself anymore. I want to dedicate myself to something meaningful.

Have any of you been in such crossroad? If so, what was your decision and how did it turned out?

Thank you sincerely for your answers.
Lots of people are really emotionally attached to this issue, and kind of ignore this simple fact. "Net neutrality" has never been a thing and it has never prevented any of the nefarious nonsense people are imagining.
I tried to buy a logo, but received a "Purchase Failed. Please try again or contact support" message. Not a great UX, to say the least.
Soon to be located in Africa - more sun, cheap panels.
$216,181 is the household income needed to buy a house in San Jose metro area
Hindsight is 20:20. I think the most likely prediction for a social media IPO is similar to TWTR or SNAP where it just keeps dropping and dropping. FB is an outlier in my opinion.
It's not that strange. Medicare has a physician fee schedule (PFS). Hospitals don't receive a PFS payment for services provided by a resident, unless a teaching physician is physically present during the key portions of the service, or under certain primary care exceptions. I'm not sure how private insurance companies do it, but I wouldn't be surprised if their rules weren't similar.

A similar thing is happening in the legal field. Clients wont pay for work done by first or second year lawyers, so large firms are cutting back entry level hiring and many smaller firms have stopped hiring entry level lawyers entirely. Thus you have a bizarre situation where there is a huge oversupply of JDs, but private-practice associate salaries continue to go up because there is a limited supply of experienced attorneys.
You missed Microsoft
641.20B P/E 28.12
Look, if you want to have a serious, nuanced conversation about Facebook and it's business. I am all ears.

But I will not entertain low-quality, emotional comments like this and this community shouldn't either.
Nearly all of Silicon Valley post-2001 is either (a) online retailers/ecommerce, or (b) parasites hanging off of the $100+Bn/yr online advertising industry. At the top of that latter food chain sit only a handful of companies -- Google and Facebook being the big ones. So much of everything you see in IT and tech in general, from the IT worker to the graphic design consultant to analytics and "big-data" machine learning startups are living off of money that came from clicks on ads or checkout carts at buy-and-ship retailers.

Facebook "only" took in around $26Bn in advertising revenue last year. But their ads are considered more reliable and higher quality than Google's products, so admit some speculation about growth potential. With a global advertising market (across all mediums) of half a trillion dollars that is quickly moving into digital, is it any surprise that these top dogs have high P/E ratios? Those P/E's are based on anticipated future revenues, shares of a pie that is rapidly expanding in size. Comparing P/E using earnings of this year doesn't give the full picture.

That said, they're certainly not undervalued either, and this analysis does nothing to explain Amazon (WTF is going on there? Surely they don't have $200bn of inventory and warehouse property. Do they?). But 35 P/E is only 3.5x more than the 10x rule of thumb, and the entire market could reasonably grow by that amount. That appears to be what investors are betting on too.

(If I had to turn this into stock picking advice, I'd note that if the market is predicting the future accurately here, then one can also say that traditional non-digital advertisers aren't going to do well in the years to come [no surprise], and also that general tech will likely see a huge influx of revenue and capital investment as the top dogs trickle down their market share gains. Baring some black swan catastrophe things will likely be good in Silicon Valley for some time to come, even outside of the FANG companies. But you should not take this as investment advice, which I would not be qualified to give, etc. etc.)

ETA: For the record there's a third prominent SV category I forgot to include in the list, which is peer-to-peer services. AKA the sharing economy. AirBnB, Uber/Lyft, Instacart. Part of why these were so exciting in the last two years or so is because it was a gold rush on new markets that hadn't been colonized by tech companies yet. Doesn't really affect this comment in any way though, other than technical accuracy of that sentence.
In the most simple of terms the Trump Administration is pro capitalism and strongly anti-regulatory.
From what I understand a lot of power stations produce excess electricity at low demand periods because it’s too costly to completely shut a generator down. So they dump that excess into huge resistor banks. Why not use it to mine crypto currency?
Software engineer, 2 years exp, $140k, 25%
Yeah, if you have never used another OS, MacOS seems like the best. But when even the simplest pro things don't work, it gets beyond annoying. Some examples - Cut, Paste files; Shift select files; Minimise and how it works with Cmd+Tab; Maximise the way it works now. I need something like BetterTouchTool to even tolerate MacOS. It's the terminal (Ubuntu on Windows is great but still needs more work) and the quality hardware that's keeping me on Mac.
That could actually be a negative for the advertiser, and positive for consumers.. hey Bob, I noticed on Facebook that you "liked" soylent- I am thinking abut trying it too! Do you have any thoughts? Bob: Umm, don't, Soylent is terrible! Thanks for letting me know, I will unlike them!"

Of course, not everyone will actually ask Bob for his opinion, but if I really cared about the fact that Bob liked something, and that was a factor in my purchasing decision, I would probably ask him about it, myself.
Maybe they do.

I can't find a single reference on them that contains actual details on the computational model because the internet is full of vapid circular search bait, particularly about cryptocurrencies.

The last I checked, the BTC VM disabled most useful opcodes, which meant you couldn't actually make money automatically redeemable for a large number of constraints you would want to impose.

My quick search seems to support that the VM still disables many opcodes: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script
Nobody enjoys burning electricity to have a pathetically low transaction rate, but that burning ~100KWh per transaction is a rational choice over the extant financial system should tell you something about the latter. If it was possible to replace this wanton energy-burning with trusted third parties (who could be guaranteed to behave properly -- or be adequately punished if they misbehave) to process the same transactions, it'd have been done a while ago.

Bitcoin, with its proof-of-work/Merkle tree, exists solely because this problem cannot be currently solved. Perhaps blame that state of affairs a bit more than those who seek an exit from it?
You should add a previous.
This is silly:

"Comparing Bitcoin’s energy consumption to other payment systems

To put the energy consumed by the Bitcoin network into perspective we can compare it to another payment system like VISA for example. Even though the available information on VISA’s energy consumption is limited, we can establish that the data centers that process VISA’s transactions consume energy equal to that of 50,000 U.S. households. We also know VISA processed 82.3 billion transactions in 2016. With the help of these numbers, it is possible to compare both networks and show that Bitcoin is extremely more energy intensive per transaction than VISA."

1. I have read that with every VISA transaction, transactions move between no less than 5 separate institutions. What is the net energy used in all of that deliberate inefficiency? All buildings, vehicles, and energy use of people who work for VISA must also be taken into account. And for all other credit cards and payment systems.

2. Bitcoin isn't really a "payment system", so comparing it to VISA is apples to oranges. It is more of a store of value, like a bank. So it would more properly be compared to the net electricity consumption of all banks, including all buildings, armoured trucks and all vehicles used to ship people to and from banks around the world.
Not everyone mine with coal. «A signifcant concentration [of Bitcoin mines] can be observed in the Sichuan province, where miners have struck deals with local hydroelectric power statons to access cheap electricity» p. 94 of https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/research/cen...
What if you're selling something that they gave to you as a gift?
I think the vision you described is already a reality. Thanks to technological advances (incl. automation), a day or two of unskilled labor (in developed countries) earns you enough money to eat for a month. Compare that with the lives of farmers from before the industrial revolution, where they toiled for months and still often didn't produce enough to feed themselves.
Just like any meme, it is optimized to self-reproduce and grow.
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So true... Maybe a budget would work? Similar to a blocker app like 1Blocker but that works on budgets, e.g. 30min web surfing per day
He joined way after that was created.
Maybe it didn't require antibiotics at all.
Not OP, but for me posters and word of mouth are definitely a better source.
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Oops you're right, my bad.
Put simply, Excel is excellent as a terminal node in any data pipeline, but poor as an intermediate node. Open speadsheet -> human plays with data -> human makes decision = good. Open spreadsheet -> human plays with data -> automated process pulls data further along in data pipeline = bad.
Not really, it just assumes on the economic principle that your costs and your revenue will converge. In a free market, if you are spending 50$ for a chance of winning 100$, everyone else is incentivized to spend 51$ and more to have a higher probability than you. Eventually the people spending 99$ win every block.

If the costs don’t manifest themselves in the protocol, they will be external costs. Hence, “obscured proof of work”.

In other words, the problem is not that Bitcoin costs us X per unit produced, it is that we value Bitcoin at 8000$ per unit.
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Every power station needs a bitcoin power sink to recoup their losses.
Funny. Where's it from?
Dear lord, you need aws, hooks, travis file at minimum.
Thanks. I've certainly spent some efforts on the client optimization, as some markets produce lots of events per second. BTC-USD and BTC-EUR on GDAX, for example, are often over 100 sustained msg/sec, with higher peaks.

Regarding the orderbook positioning, everyone has their preferences. It's on the plans to make all panels configurable so that they can be moved around, but it's not going to happend on the short term, sorry - many other things on the TODO list!
>Don't tell my boss this, but I have noticed it too.

Likely, he/she uses this more than you do. It's standard in management, and I've heard some managers listing it as the key to furthering your career. You'll always be given more stuff than you can handle. So you learn not to do all of it.
And those "data-points" are worthless. You're basically suggesting cooking thru a camera and expecting better outcomes because the broth is constantly monitored by a cam.
... for now.

We just tried to use it to advertise and had exactly this experience:

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

Pulled the plug. Nothing but worthless traffic, no engagement.
P/E (price/earnings) is a poor metric because it is biased toward hoarding cash (low P/E) over investing profits in new ventures (high P/E). Better to distinguish "cost of revenue" from "investment" and look at P/"cost of revenue"
NY AG probing massive scheme to influence FCC with fake net neutrality comments
The criticism's in this post really make very little sense. What does that mean that "private keys only have value when you hold them." Private keys are worthless, they only give you access to the wallets that they unlock.

Also, no, you are not guaranteed to stay at 51% forever. Vitalik has explicitly said that if a 51% attack happens, the community is expected to fork, and all of your funds will be isolated and slashed in the fork. If you want to attack again, you then need to collect another 51% of funds. This gets exponentially more difficult.
We do. In fact we make them redo their 3-4 residencies and following that, dangle the promise of a Green Card after seven years and send them to the god forsaken underpaid rural shitholes American trained doctors have fled because of the inadequacy of the cash salaries(taxed at reg brackets unlike our execs and bankers) relative to student debt and medical practice overhead. How do I know this? Because this is how I came to America.
Regulation, so that it's not a choice you get to make in the first place.
Does it matter, really? If Bitcoin mining wasn't run on chinese hydro power, some other industry could use that power but now instead uses a more polluting option.
Not all times are super hard workers doing super smart things. I'm not saying never; just not often. Most smart people do figure out how not to work so hard - automate, delegate,...etc They seem to do all the right things to avoid having to work hard (as in overwork).
Looks good. I want a different pointer for the dropdown menu at the top though.
At those prices, no wonder!
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I agree. If I were in a wilderness survival situation, and I were actually /able/ to hunt an animal, I'm certain I'd do it.
How do you go about finding a good professional logo designer? Is there a marketplace for designers?
have you tried to do scientific plots with Excel? I only tried libre calc, which admittedly might lack behind in a couple regards, but it's nigh impossible, no compare to scripting.
The combinations on my dishwasher can fit in a 12 line lookup table.
Thank you for your answers. To summarize, we have 1) Hobbes 2) hacked LMDB 3) C++ memory-mapped store of arrays.

Given that options #2 and #3 require some (non-trivial) work, they are not really options.

We left with #1,-- hobbes, which was uploaded to GitHub about 5 months ago and has a whopping team of 2 contributors, both employed by Morgan Stanley.

This is more than nothing, but not much.

I do not have experience with KDB, and looking at the language syntax, not a fan. Integration with Python (depending on implementation) may push KDB towards larger acceptance.

So far I was mostly relying on a variation of the option #3.
We need some type of identifying online tool like that blockchain ID tool to proliferate.

It would ensure who you say you are on the Internet. YOu could still comment anonymously, but what you say anonymously wouldn't hold as much weight vs. when you use your real verified identity!
Yes ! Even more, we could ban everything produced by private companies. Once unfair competition gone, maybe our governments will be able to finally launch new services
> When America was founded, the fourth pillar of government was the free press, i.e. the gatekeepers of information.

The free press wasn't a pillar of government. When America was founded, the "free press" was pretty much propaganda outlets owned by and used by the wealthy to attack each other.

One of our oldest newspapers ( NY Post ) was founded by Alexander Hamilton purely to attack Thomas Jefferson.

https://www.politico.com/story/2010/10/alexander-hamilton-at...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_newspapers

And following that, we had decades of yellow journalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

The press was never gatekeepers of information. The free press was "fake news" straight from the get-go. Even before the founding of the US, during the colonial period, they were political propaganda tools. If you are interested, go read about what Benjamin Franklin's colonial printing history.
I thought it was common knowledge that you don't want your skin to come in contact with gasoline, and if it does to wash it off relatively quickly.
>"What is the difference between a psychological and psychiatric problem? I've never seen these terms used in the same context you used them anywhere in medicine"

You really ought to stop pushing your uneducated opinions and do more research.
What would the reasons for government to ban it ? (public and behind the scene reasons)
Most sugar substitutes are indigestible by humans, but readily metabolized by gut bacteria. This can result in a "Satan's Diarrhea Hatebears" scenario [0], especially when suddenly consumed in large amounts.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/ss/customer-reviews/B00DE4GWWY