skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
6. We roll data off our site after 30 days, to combat harming restaurants where the circumstances may have changed. We think this is one reason restaurants should actually prefer people report on our site vs twitter, or yelp, or facebook. Our site is not intended as a permanent public record.

7. Yes we have had interest from theme parks, music festivals, caterers, airlines, gas stations, big retail that also sells food. We would go all the way down to food trucks, we get data for all of these, and welcome everyone taking advantage of it.

8. What big data analytics did your model use to "predict" chipotle's outbreak? The relative volume of data we received from Chipotle consumers was staggering - and this was prior to their first outbreak when they were still considered 'high quality' we did not need quants or data scientists for this one.

7. I speak at a bunch of events, but not yet at the National Restaurant Association, they are still fighting transparency on restaurant ratings! It will take them a second to warm up to us. We have started and had some great conversations with them, but it may take a little longer for them to get involved. When I have spoken at restaruant associations or other more broad events (like the Food Safety Summit, or International Association for Food Protection, which has a lot of industry participants) there are two camps. The tech forward companies who embrace data, even where it's imperfect, and are really interested. The remainder is a mixture, when I hear from the critics among these I typically point out 1) people are already reporting on social media 2) What I'm doing was bound to happen 3) Given how responsibly we are running this service, they ought to be glad it is me who is running it. They usually get these points.
Nigerian students arrested for cyber crimes in Benin Republic
They can go up to $130k, but that's due to supply and demand, not construction costs.
America is a nation of temporarily inconvenienced millionaires. This disconnect between expectations and reality is one of it's biggest problems. You can visit any number of poorer nations where being poor does is not a punishment, it not equate to a difficult or miserable life, because society, it's services and it's infrastructure are all built to accomodate people of modest means. In America is designed for you to have a McMansion with a two car garage, and if you can't meet the bottom line you either go into debt to pretend you're meeting it or you're cast to the fringes where you struggle just to survive in a world that is not designed to accomodate People of modest means.
FWIW, it worked fine in Western Europe since 1 GMT, 8 hours ago.
Sure, but why should we believe that’s related to the sale?
Their stocks started declining around 2:30 eastern time
Except the part that lynx is still fine.

Except the part that brow.sh requires X11

Except the part that Scott doesn't even know the difference because he's a M$ shill
Are these bids currently public knowledge then?!
Worked for Amazon a few years back.

I can't see Amazon ever using external cloud hosting for anything except the most trivial of tasks. They're absolutely, utterly paranoid about any sort of confidential information, and I think even with encryption the perceived risk would be too high.
Sorry for not being clear. From a sentiment standpoint, it's good, and that's the relevant context for my comment. [0] From a technical standpoint, it's gray. People land on both ends of the supported browser spectrum [1]...and all over the middle. Likewise with graceful degradation. Anyway, while Conkeror support is certainly near one end of the technical goodwill spectrum, I think discovery via "ShowHN" is probably better than via an upset customer.

[1]: "Best viewed in IE6/Netscape" was standard at one point. Never mind the recent trend of jackassware "Upgrade to a modern browser" popups for anyone not using Chrome.
Show HN: 6gunz – spreadsheet / programming language / microservices framework
The funniest videos ever #9 – Funny Cube mix
Show HN: The easy way to track and visualise your mental wellbeing
No, you're exactly right
Is there enough historical, public data available to estimate the amount of money Amazon is losing per second?
Hi all! I’d love to share my latest passion project with you..

For a long time I have put up with severe anxiety and recently much more acute OCD. As a bit of a data nerd I wanted an app that would help me to track the effects that lifestyle has on mental health and also give a more objective view of the effectiveness of medicines and therapy.

I built it for myself but I hope that by making it public it will help at least one other person better understand their mental wellbeing on a road to recovery. You can sign-up for free at https://vividwell.com/.

Please pass it on if you know someone who could make use of it! 🧠

Early stages so far but lots more features in the pipeline. In the next few days I am introducing PHQ-9 & GAD-7 tests. Also scheduled are Fitbit and Amazon Alexa integrations.

No budget for native app store apps yet but I have gone to a great deal of effort to ensure that the process is very smooth as a homescreen web app for now!
Hi all.

6gunz wants to make the spreadsheet model significantly more powerful without making it significantly more complicated -- no jump to "traditional" programming/scripting, just a smooth slope of "one more useful trick" after another.

Made part-time over the last few months, now in open preview. Probably still pretty buggy, and not yet Turing complete. (Solo flounder, looking for confounders etc...)
I agree with the point of the article.

Still, there is so much out there that is available only in one of the MS Office formats, and Gov.UK is apparently doing better than that. So there is actually some cause for celebration here, IMHO.
Well, obviously, not straight 60 hours. Lunch breaks, etc. I am not a robot.
It is beyond absurd people who sell $AMZN on this news. Amazon users will just keep refreshing until it comes back online, and then continue buying as normal.
Yes, see some of this dramatic footage:

* Refuling drones that land and take off of aircraft carriers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/29...

* X47B killer drone take off and landing on aircraft carrier:

https://youtu.be/DOzUrHZWmus
Any publicity is good publicity!
So what would you consider a "humane rate" to pay someone to work in inhumane conditions? $20/hr? $100/hr?
I'm pretty sure this the answer, surprised NYT didn't even pick up on this.
It's happened again [1], and in less than 15 minutes!

That's it, I'm terming this the Klein effect.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17499447
> The $35k base model made at scale later this year will be profitable

Here's the thing. SV Tech companies aren't too great at the whole "at scale" manufacturing thing. Maybe Tesla can figure it out, but they need to pay more attention to what the "boring dinosaurs" are doing this this regard.

If you're interested, this video is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpCrkO1x-Qo
It probably doesn't help that the mobile app appears to load a random picture of a cute dog every time I press the "retry" button. So you can guess what I'm doing, trying to get it to load a new "Dogs of Amazon" pic.

Probably should have gone with goatse, reduce the load.

EDIT: do NOT search for "goatse" on your work connection. That alone, even if you've never heard the word, should tell you why I suggested it as an alternative.
How exactly are you calculating that your desktop+laptop is cheaper than the MBP?

64GB of ram apparently sells for around $600 right now, plus $500 for each 1080, plus $700 for a 16 core threadripper (I'm not sure what 32 core processor you're using or if you're using multiple processors, but the next gen threadripper will be 32 and cost about this much), plus $1000 for the base model Dell XPS 13 9370 puts you at a total of $3300 before we even get to the motherboard, case, monitors, keyboard, mouse, power supply, storage, laptop upgrades, etc. This also assumes that you built the desktop yourself while valuing the time you spent researching and building at $0.

Anyways, saying that your setup cost less than a MBP seems pretty ridiculous even if it is technically accurate when you only consider the "max" price of a MacBook pro.
What do the Matrix and data sharing have in common?
Russian NRA Lobbyist Charged as an Unregistered Agent of the Russian Federation
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sourceforge%20is%20down&sort=b...

Remember that time a few months ago they were down for days?
I think I made that point clear in my comment. As I said, it's a very different experience from playing with friends.
For browsing -- search still seems completely hosed for me
Any idea how much the savings was that they risked a 500M write-off to avoid?
[citation missing]
> A proper solution would be to fix TLS so SNI always happens over an encrypted channel.

How do you propose to do that? This is not a rhetorical question, if you have an idea on how to make it work, go ahead and propose it to the TLS working group. Keep in mind the issues raised at https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-sni-encryption-03.
There are cheaper ways to get marketing press that don't involve kneecapping one of your two primary revenue generation engines. They've gotten at least two major news cycles just out of vaporware promises to deliver packages by drone, for instance. (It may not be vaporware forever but it certainly isn't coming soon enough to justify breathless press from a few months ago.) It's not like they don't have any idea how to drum up press.
Everyone always forgets about epub.
Same as for anyone else: be intellectually humble. Your reality is not the only valid reality, and you'll have many experiences where you feel 100% certain about something and then realize you were wrong. Stop being 100% certain and start feeling proud of each of those experiences, because some people are too afraid to acknowledge them.
So the long standing rumor is that Russia influenced the US election through Facebook. Okay, fine.

You know what I want to hear about? The wealthy Americans who used Facebook to influence the US election. If Facebook can be used in this way, I think looking at what Russia did is interesting, but it’s not the only story! The story is, people are subtly and quietly influincing our elections! Shouldn’t we look closely at everyone who did that? Not solely the Russian bogeyman?
An attempt to overthrow the government is handled by the military, not the police. The military has more guns, better supply lines, and better discipline than police forces.
I thought of eSports / streaming when I read that discussion yesterday.
Pan-Fried Instant Noodles, E-commerce, and Rural China
> Dems waaay underperformed and need to find a scapegoat rather than look internally and see why people switched.

Switching was (as always) much less significant than turnout.

And the previously absolutely dominant neoliberal faction of the Democratic Party hasn't made a lot of substantive (and even more symbolic) concessions to the anti-establishment progressive faction of the party because of a sudden outburst of generosity.

Just because Democrats (and plenty of Republicans, though mostly it's only the ones not currently in elective office, or on their way out, that talk strongly about it) notice and are outraged about foreign interference doesn't mean that they aren't aware of and actively seeking to address other issues that hurt them in 2016. There's nothing stopping them from doing both.
If you felt strongly about user privacy I'm surprised you waited until GDPR. Why didn't you switch before?
The company has been unprofitable. The video claims the profit margin on the car is 30%. I've heard from a couple of analysts that Tesla needs to produce between 50,000-60,000 Model 3's a quarter to be profitable.

Musk has stated that Tesla will be profitable in Q3 and Q4.
Who really thinks that stock price has anything to do with ownership? Since no one can actually buy Amazon, it's "market" price is purely speculative. In both senses.
I can't help but feel terrible for the team of people there that ultimately gets blamed for this, I hope they can get some sleep tonight.
FWIW, strength is way more important for policing and combat than being thin. Obese people who move around on a daily basis are usually quite strong. They have to be.
The poster child was Ordos:

>Ordos: The biggest ghost town in China (bbc 2012)

> In Inner Mongolia a new city stands largely empty. This city, Ordos, suggests that the great Chinese building boom, which did so much to fuel the country's astonishing economic growth, is over. Is a bubble about to burst?

While now:

>However, in 2017, the ghost city label is getting more than a little difficult to hang on Ordos Kangbashi. According to a recent report, there are now 153,000 people living there, 4,750 businesses are now in operation, and housing prices have risen roughly 50% on average from the end of 2015, when the local real estate market bottomed out. Of the 40,000 apartments that had been built in the new district since 2004, only 500 are still on the market.

The ghost city thing is exaggerated.
Most Americans don't have guns. Gun owners are a minority with a very loud voice.
Turns out influencing people with seemingly small pieces of seemingly unconnected information is extremely effective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQXe1CokWqQ (link to Darren Brown's Advertising Experiment)
Indeed. And the issues immediately start to touch on topics that are going to hit close to traditional partisan divides, making any sort of public discussion impossible in today's deeply polarized political climate. So I think it's mostly best for people to just think about the issues themselves, rather than actually trying to publicly solve the problem. And in fact, one of the most practical points is one that's quite private. It's just considering that how it really is extremely selfish, in terms of societal impact, for those in a pleasant place in life to indefinitely defer on having children.
Salesforce buys marketing analytics company Datorama for over $800M
Then enjoy, but please don't post about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Coincidentally, when I was a freshman in high school in the late 90's this was a topic our instructor drilled into us. I remember trying to shave off every little kilobyte for .gif and .jpg files and to make my personal website load as quickly as possible with a reasonable amount of quality over a modem.

From my perspective, it seems that everything has gotten way more bloated there is an assumption that everyone has unlimited data and bandwidth. I used to have a 1GB data cap on my phone that I would blow out in a couple of weeks from just reading news websites. For example, bloomberg.com shouldn't need to make nearly ~300 requests and download 18mb of data just to load the front page.
Probably thinking of: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

Laundering may explain some odd prices on Amazon. But in that article, the author witnessed the two bots one-upping each other on a certain schedule. I don't think that was laundering.
The article title, at least, seems to imply that this is a replacement/successor to lynx..
The top 1% of income is very different than the top 1% in wealth.
That came about due to pressure from mass civil action, just like every positive change in society.
WeWork bans meat at company events and in expensed meals, for the environment
Ha. ex-finance guy, nothing to do with law. Thanks for the well wishes. As fyi - I have been approached by law firms for lead generation, but I think only twice ever. As I understand it, succesfully litigating a foodborne illness case can be relatively difficult.
I'd imagine it might be a financial liability in light of the Pinterest IPO that was pushed to 2019
German Startup Producing Cell-Grown Meat Raises $8MM
And for those who don't use emacs, starting to use emacs & then adopting org-capture is probably the best way to go!

I mean, you can tortuously gin up some plaintext format by hand, or you can use Org mode; you can tortuously gin up a skin over git by hand, or you can use Magit; you can tortuously gin up a skin over wget/curl by hand, or you can just use eww.
Assuming it survives until then (bond's maturing, etc).
1) But why can't they meet their GDPR obligations? Are they doing something they've not been up front about?

2) Giving (reportedly) one day notice that they are shutting down access is definitely a trust hit. They should have known long before that.

I don't use Instapaper and I'm not in the EU, but those of these points are raised elsewhere in this thread, and both seem valid concerns in terms of "trust" regardless of whether you approve/disapprove of the GDPR.
Cyclical, no. It's an exponential system in the long term, and chaotic in the short term.
The Motherboard Guide to Amazon Prime Day
It's amazing how tightly our brains can hold onto other peoples' expectations for you.

For the longest time, I couldn't get over my ex. Last time I blocked her out of my life, she was doing these cool internships and immediatly had a "bounce back" relationship and people cheering her career on.

Years after blocking her out of all forms of communication, and my brain still concocts this idealized, super-successful version of her that I had to triumph over like some twisted video game.
The book is utterly normal, and the seller is grateful to have your clean, unlaundered money instead of having to pay their own seller's account with their dirty money (and let Amazon take their cut). They'll just buy another copy of the book with the dirty money.
Hahah, they updated it to have a "Search on Bing" shit menu item added to the context menu.
Virtually all credible historians agree that the New Deal itself was largely ineffective in solving the Great Depression. It started in 1933 with unemployment rate of 25%. Half a decade and many millions of dollars later, unemployment was 19%. [1] The Great Depression ended only when Europe went to war in 1939 and financed the American economy.

Depending on who you ask, the New Deal was either ineffective because it was fundamentally flawed, or ineffective because it wasn't big enough and didn't raise enough debt. [2]

Basically, "economic science" as usual...

[1] https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1528.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#Recovery_2
See above. Diamond's books are fascinating alright but there is no science behind them. They are not true, plain and simple.
Thanks - this is cleaner than what I was using for something similar. Here's my version:

import datetime
user_input = raw_input("Log entry: ")
with open("did.log", "a") as timelog:
timelog.write('\n')
timelog.write(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M (%a)"))
timelog.write(': ')
timelog.write(user_input)
When people copy and paste error messages into the comments, they usually contain stuff like "kill", "fatal" or "stopped" which the analysis thinks is negative
Thanks. That's a good point about reinvigorating interest in Lynx, I'd also consider that a success.
Not necessarily people.
Leaf has a 5* safety rating in Europe. And it is not a tiny car.

https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/nissan/leaf/10939
Say I have two models - model A returns around 20% likelihood that the top team wins the world cup, and model B returns around 80% likelihood. I use both of the modeling techniques a few thousand times in various parallel universes, and both of them are exactly right - 20% of 20% predictions result in a win, and so on. Despite them both quantifying uncertainty accurately, isn't model B still better?
I’ve rolled out SAP throughout all three of our SME-sized family companies. My mantra has always been ”we don’t install SAP into our company; we mould our company into SAP”. Ten years in and the strategy seems to have worked.
I haven't researched specifics on Tesla, but typically bigger => larger margins in the automotive world. Manufacturers weren't thrilled when the Obama administration pushed for higher fuel economy after the bailouts. The margins on the small cars were much lower than on trucks and SUV's.

For example, Ford's F-150 line is worth an incredible amount of money.

"Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas has estimated that the F-Series, which includes F-150 and Super Duty trucks and remains the best-selling lineup in America, is responsible for 90% of the automaker’s global profits."

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/why-the-ford-f-150-is-a-...
I like this idea. Sort of a "Zerg swarm" approach.
> I have told the above story to different audiences. Programmers, as a rule, are delighted by it, and managers, invariably, get more and more annoyed as the story progresses; true mathematicians, however, fail to see the point.

I see the point. In fact I'd go so far as to call myself "delighted". But I thought I was a true mathematician.

'Scuse me while I go have a little existential crisis.
>What happens when you want to know why your value failed the test? Easy, just break up your chained v8n call into smaller chunks and handle each one individually

You seem confused. You just need to substitute .check() instead of .test() and you get a ValidationException if your value doesn't validate that tells you exactly which rule failed.

And that's just the two two basic result values (true/false on validation or Exception) that the devs implemented.

Nothing in this kind of design prevents returning any kind of detailed error or array of errors etc if one wants too.

>kay, better solution: how about an array of "reasons" is returned that tells you why your test failed. Now we've got to tell v8n what reason text we want (if any) for each part of the chain that fails, so we're back to having to declare a bunch of messages somewhere

Woooosh. The validation library is not about not having to write our own messages for the user. It's about not writing our own tests when the dozens of built-in ones are just as good. Plus they give structure that's better than a bunch of if/elses.

>Yeah, we want abstraction, but we want the right abstraction. Premature generalization/abstraction is a common pitfall among even the best developers.

Premature generalization/abstraction? You might be seeing this pattern for the first time, but this library follows a very standard pattern for validation libraries, that has been with us, and used in tons of production code, for over 2 decades. Apache Commons did that since ages. Even the fluent interface take on such libs is nothing new.
> Check out this up-to-the-minute prediction of Prime Day GMV Sales to find out. This prediction is based on a sophisticated data model taking in last year's estimated $2.3 billion total sales, and our unique view of Amazon sales trend data

So not a live tracker at all?
Yeah, I meant web applications with the ease of developing and running a basic program of old. Sorry that wasn't clear.
Google and AWS are each large enough to make blocking them a very expensive proposition.

I also get the sense that Google is pretty good at prioritizing long-term goals such as a fast and secure internet over any short-term considerations.
I ... I wasn't really suggesting...
Reminds me of IRC channels, except located around a nexus of a specific micro-celebrity.
"Hardly. He’s a pauper compared to John D. Rockefeller who died in 1937."

Why bother with historical comparisons ? I hear it frequently reported that Putin is currently worth $200 Billion ...