skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Would you use a better tool for comparing jobs?
I'm thinking about how to apply more data and analysis to life's more difficult and long-lasting decisions.

One simple example is in comparison of jobs. It's relatively easy to compare jobs on their merits today ... but, there's not a simple way to extrapolate how a job may affect you in 2 yrs, 4 yrs, etc.

A quick-and-dirty mock-up is here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HoFnbpJVA0lagQLXo_xQb8pM8Z9amYUtvYYcEls9tb4

There are infinite shades of gray when it comes to decisions like this ... but would you use a tool like this if it existed?
Or just combine both points of view http://hover-bike.com/
Why wouldn't you just use a media query and serve based on that, rather than make redundant requests?
I had the same exact reaction, but looking at the article again, it clearly says A total of over 3,800 taxpayers have made the top 400 since 1992, but only 27% appear more than once, and only 2% appear 10 or more times.

That means these are not people who are necessarily rich and are raking in the money. These are most likely people who have a company, have stock options, and are cashing out. Most of them never come back to the list. The point here is that grabbing on to a company could be like catching a rocket -- your ticket to the stars. Whereas working an hourly wage is likely never going to do much more than make you upper-middle-class.

I realize you could interpret these numbers differently, but that's what it looked like to me. You can't have big capital gains income without some kind of underlying company that's doing tremendously well.
The doors were expensive, built to an arbitrary height, heavy, difficult to move, and horrible for body health because of the bad ergonomics. That's when I started having to see an acupuncturist for carpal tunnel and related problems. And also note that these were exterior doors: moving a exterior door through an interior door frame with legs permanently attached is a tricky task. At the time, a slightly smaller desk (or even a study banquet table) would have cost 1/3 to 1/2 the amount and worked far better.
How is it frugal to buy something less cost effective than another product that would work equally as well?
When I was interviewing at tech companies in NYC, I was surprised to find one well-known one that simply had no phone number.

I'd wanted to call them back after my interview, and realized I'd never been given any phone number for anyone. When I went back, I discovered that, with 20+ employees, they literally didn't have a phone in their office. People have their personal cellphones whenever they need to receive calls.

I'd stopped having a landline ten years ago, but I had no idea businesses could do it too!
Something like this? http://universe.lego.com/en-us/help/faq.aspx?id=359551
> one individual, by which we really mean the one ephemeral brain-state that happens to exist at this moment

No we don't. What we really mean is hard to pin down, but it's not that (at least not in this context). I have friends, and every ten minutes they're in a different brain state; but they're still the same person, more or less, and I would be sad if they were to die but I don't get sad when a particular brain state ceases to exist.
Why is this on HN? It certainly doesn't meet the criteria of being remotely interesting and there doesn't seem to be any intent to share the results back with the community.
"The nineteenth century decided to have no religious authority. The twentieth century seems disposed to have any religious authority"." --GKC
I always favour Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) whenever given the chance.

Bit late for me though... I already filled the survey in.
Summer is for swapping: startups boost the barter economy
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Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but I have never been able to find heavy-duty desks at a reasonable price, except for the old-fashioned sit in the middle, drawers on the side design. I've built my variants of the door desk at home specifically because they were cheaper than the alternatives, even the cheap particle board desks fro the big box stores.

My variant is to lay two 2x4s across either two filing cabinets or sawhorses, then put two 2'x4' sheets of 5/8" or 3/4" MDF on top of the studs. Cheap[1], toolless[2], and portable[2]. My current variant is a little more elaborate, since I wanted a corner desk, but fundamentally the same architecture.

[1] The sawhorse version costs less than $50
[2] Nothing is attached
Hosting types.

I use a mix of cloud for web hosting, PAAS for image and CDN stuff, and dedicated for databases.
If you add the EFF to you list of possible donation targets I'll gladly answer.
Naming your startup? Things to consider
Blizzard recognizes Diablo III’s lack of endgame content
Is Parse a specialized hosting/API environment for mobile apps? Or is it more like a weebly for mobile apps?
That article does not even mention Second Life. It mentions WoW and Star Wars online in the last paragraph.

While I probably wouldn't blame that persons problems on the existence of games, it might be worth noting that MMORPGs like WoW are very different from Second Life. Todays MMORPGs are optimized for addictiveness - they have fine tuned challenges and rewards to make people play as long as possible (even the guild system apparently plays a part - if your friends play, you are also more likely to play).

In contrast to that, Second Life is not even really a game. It has no goals, no challenges, other than what you set up for yourself. So blaming SL for the damage MMORPGs have supposedly done to some people is misguided.
I thought the meme pictures were pretty funny.

Sorry.
I'm not sure how to direct you to another source of charities but my personal experience with Oxfam: I donated $25 a couple of years back online, and every 3 months on the dot they physically post me, by international mail no less, a glossy, stuffed envelope of 'updates' with information that, after the advertising for themselves, would fit in a tweet.
Thanks for sharing your opinion.

It is in on HN as we are want to find out how startups provision their production environment and HN is full of great startup founders/workers and early adopters. We made sure it is clearly marked with Ask HN.

Also, as I mentioned in reply to another commenter, we are going to publish 3 pieces of information after this: results, post on our experience with HN surveys and also charity donations.
- The SPAM filter in Thunderbird is A.W.F.U.L. Let me repeat that A-W-F-U-L. Despite training it for years it routinely misses the same spam, with the same title, and the same content, while sometimes marking very important emails as junk.

As someone who has also been a heavy Thunderbird user for years, I have not had the same experience. If anything, same content/subject/sender email spam is where Thunderbird's spam filter shines for me.

I have two fairly heavily spammed accounts, one of which has a public email address. They consistently catch and remove same or similar content spam every day without issue.

In regards to false positives, it does happen sometimes. Although in most cases the emails that end up in the junk folder legitimately resemble a spam message. Almost any time a legitimate email has been marked as spam, which doesn't really happen all that often, unspamming it is sufficient to ensure the sender doesn't end up there again.
Cloud games and the future of streaming content
I think that the Kaggle competition you describe has essentially the same structure as the Kaggle competition outlined in the blog post, and is susceptible to the same potential hazard of overfitting to the validation score.

Here by validation score I mean the combination of both your own cross-validation procedure on the training data, and the validation score that kaggle calculates and displays on the leaderboard while the competition is running.

I imagine if the essay scoring competition had been extended to run for another 10 years before the final scores on held-back test data were reported we would see a similar trend of overfitting in most if not all of the entries.

edit: I might be underestimating the sophistication of your approach or the approaches of others.

At least in the Kaggle competitions I have personally entered, I have used my own cross-validation scores and the Kaggle leaderboard scores to tune my approaches, without properly taking into account that this breaks the validity of the subsequent validation procedures, since I have no way of validating my tuning.
I played SL since 2006 and until 2009 or so, and I still keep up with it from time to time. I think one problem it has is that it tries to do a lot of things, and does none of them well. Building was fun for a while, but you hit a limit with what you can do with their in-world tools, and now they allow users to upload assets created in 3rd party 3D modeling tools (anything that can export to Collada format)

Users are slowly making SL better but it almost seems in spite of Linden Lab, not because of them (the improvement from LL are few and very far between)
Their parents mostly.
> Python-like indentation

Oh god, please no.
Natural Crystal X
Setelah sekian lama natural crystal x produk kesehatan alami saya jual, ternyata kini ada perubahan dalam kemasan. Dengan khasiat yang sudah terbukti ampuh dalam mengatasi keputihan dan membuat hubungan suami istri menjadi lebih harmonis. Kini natural crystal x dengan logo yang baru hadir pula dengan kemasan yang baru.
Likely never. Amazon has made it pretty clear that VPC is where all the new networking features go.
I would have thought that education of individuals is nearly always good for the group, otherwise an "us and them" attitude becomes prevalent.
A Router With a Fast Setup and Faster Speeds
Arliva kosmetik
Setelah sebelumnya saya poting produk saya natural crystal x, untuk postingan kali ini adalah peringatan pada customer hati-hati jika anda membeli arliva kosmetik. Kenapa saya menulis postingan ini? Karena banyak para penjual arliva sendiri yang tidak faham dengan bahaya mercury pada kosmetik. Yang ada di otak mereka hanya untung dan untung. Maka dari itu saran saya hati-hati jika anda membeli arliva kosmetik pada para pedagang arliva. Langsung saja tanyakan ber-BPOM atau tidak dan itu berlaku juga untuk saya.
Google Docs + NodeJS = The Future of Collaborative Programming?
I can tell you that people are still creating these monstrosities today, now more likely with Python than Perl in my experience. I saw one in particular in an academic research project, a true "kitchen sink" script that did all kinds of loosely related administrative things in a massive construction of argument parsing and if-then blocks.
It'll probably run OpenBSD just fine. Got a link to that site?
That's not true. An article written on Friday referring to Friday probably means the previous Friday.
Study: Westerners like cloud gaming despite not knowing what it is
The syntax reminds me less of python and more like coffeescript. I loathe python but there's a certain .. je ne sais quoi with much of the operators and syntactic sugar removed. Almost like natural language!
Make the argument that a rewrite in MVC would be an investment in a more extendable and flexible system, i.e. a plugin system could be created to allow the same CMS to provide more bespoke features such as a readily available blog or shop while being much more maintainable. A solid base to build on while saving money in the long run, this is something they could jump on board with.

Or

Make the security argument, a procedural system the size of CMS and site running on it ->could<- be riddled with security issues especially as developers are acknowledging that any addition is a bodged job due to global variable etc etc. If they are dealing with larger clients this should concern them enough.

Also if you're lucky enough to be deploying to PHP 5.3 using closures (http://php.net/manual/en/functions.anonymous.php) can save a lot of hassle when dealing with procedural code.
(I'm not Lambda Labs) I'm interested in perhaps making my face recognition and 3D reconstruction API more freely available. I've got a system that goes quite a bit past simple recognition - I'm able to identify facial features to a much higher precision than the publicly available APIs, as well as reconstruct a person from a photo, in photo-realistic 3D. Interested parties can visit www.cg-general-store.com/Auto-3D-Heads and/or email through my profile here.
The tl;dr is that the doors were not less expensive than desks, at least not enough to really matter. The value was in the perception of frugality that they created.
I just want to add my voice and agree that yes, I hate the Firefox updates. I actually hate using Firefox because of it.

When I can abandon it completely (it's still used a bit in my work environment) it will be none to soon.
Sort of like a wormy unit test. Strange thought!
Sorry guys! I designed it in firefox not chrome. I am now trying to make it cross-browser. Thanks for the helpful responses :)
The Rockefeller quote is interesting

"If your only goal is to become rich, you'll never achieve it."

But I've always felt Citizen Kane's was more accurate:

"It's easy to make a lot of money, if that's all you want to do
is make a lot of money."
great example of why arguing over the income tax rate is a distraction from the real issue: the capital gains rate
You'll need to explain yourself a little more. Why is the real issue capital gains? No matter what the rate is, it wouldn't amount to much of anything compared to the money brought in from income taxes.
Unfortunately, being one of the biggest charities means it's already well-funded, so additional donations won't do much good.

It's not really about catering to peoples' recommendations; if someone wants to give to the Expensive Treatments for Rare Diseases in Cute Puppies Fund, then fuck that. It's about achieving the most good.

It turns out that the amount of good that different charities do, per dollar, varies by orders of magnitude; and figuring out which charities are the best ones is a hard problem. Neither you, nor I, nor your visitors should be in the business of judging charities; that's better left to groups that do that research full-time, such as GiveWell.
Why would you assume Apple is working to reduce Obj-C verbosity? The language has been around for decades and they seem to be doing pretty well with it as-is.
Gamevil boosts its multimillion-dollar investment of mobile-game developers
Hmm .. it would be really interesting to check out, how many of today's billionaires inherited most or part of their wealth and how many made it big starting from modest backgrounds.

Any pointers folks?
Bay area startups (now Pinterest) relocating to city of SF
There are discontinuities in brain state we are willing to accept: sleep, drug use, travelling the world for a year. There are those we are not: Death, Alzheimer's, radical personality change.

Have you ever known someone who got in a relationship, or went to a foreign country, or took a job that seemed to really change who they were? Has that ever made you sad? What do you think it means to grow apart?

You don't want your friends to die, but you also don't want them to change so much that they aren't your friends any more. Death is a very great and permanent discontinuity, but nothing else about it makes it special.
Ask HN: What would be a good web dev laptop under $1.3K?
Sorry, but I'm a student and can't afford more than that. I'm currently on a 10.4" netbook running Ubuntu 12.04. I (mostly) develop in Python with a touch of C and Java(Android) here and there. I often need to use Photoshop (which is a royal pain with my current setup) but not for anything too heavy. I don't really need it to be too portable.

Thanks.
ps. I'm currently considering the baseline 13"Macbook Pro.
You can create a VPC and then add an Internet Gateway to it, making instances on particular subnet(s) of your VPC accessible from the Internet.

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide...

Does this meet your needs?
Kickstarter project turns your iOS device into an old-school game console
>I unfortunately live in the current decade and work with humans who are prone to sending HTML email

More precisely, you work with humans who are unwilling or unable to configure their webmail accounts not to send HTML email because the webmail service providers make it hard to configure the accounts that way because that configuration reduces their ability to sell advertisements.
Being a machine learning (and Kaggle competitions) novice, can you explain what it means that your feature selection didn't properly implement cross-validation?
Thank you everyone for taking part. We have reached the limit of the budget that we set out for this survey and now have stopped it so we can afford to pay the charities! We will post updates with the results.
I ended up pasting the wrong link. I won't post others, as I said, the stories are too personal. If anyone is interested enough, they'll find them. Suffice to say that I have personally talked to people whose lives have been devastated by SL and they were powerless over it.
Men Are From Reddit, Women Are From Pinterest
Yes - even if you are only allowed look at the validation set twice a day, you can still overfit it, with sufficient days.

But thats hardly a criticism of Kaggle.

Its the responsibility of the person building the ML model to take steps to avoid overfitting. Even if competitors fail to take these steps, the fact that Kaggle has a built in validation-set helps avoid overfitting.

Yes, with enough time it would still be possible to overfit, but I don't see how that is Kaggle's fault.

If anything, they've a framework to discourage overfitting, not encourage it.
I'm convinced that what's eventually going to turn the tide for these kinds of vehicles is if we can make a tiltrotor ducted fan thing with adjustable fan geometry _and_ wings. Something like the V-22 Osprey, except with adjustable ducts around the fans. This way, you can get both the high thrust required for takeoff and the low drag required for cruise. Wings are a requirement if you want to keep the fuel consumption low.

A vehicle like this wouldn't have comparable cruising speeds to airplanes (something like 80mph cruise), but could take off and land anywhere, and would have higher fuel efficiency than one of today's cars. There are actually canarded airplames today which cruise at 160 knots and use less fuel per mile than a car.

I'm actually surprised there isn't more research into these kinds of vehicles, but I guess the Osprey fiasco has everyone running scared.
Same reason we see a Baseball team that wins lots of games every year but never a world series as a failure.

More was promised / expected than delivered.
The huge amount that comes from capital gains got me thinking... why is the return on capital, versus say the return on labor, so high? Our society is awash with capital. We apparently have more of it than we know what to do with (see, e.g., the real estate bubble, the tech bubble). If the capital markets were efficient, shouldn't supply and demand equilibrate things to drive down the price of capital?

I think the structure of the capital markets, VC's and funds and the like, are still holding back efficiency by limiting the market of sellers. Things like Kickstarter that "democratize" the capital markets may also play a huge role in making them more efficient.
Cause & Effect
Yahoo and Facebook settled
Chrome is still faster on Android for me

Please give some example where.

addons and extensions break all the time for me in Firefox

Which ones? I haven't had a broken extension in months (since Firefox 10), and I use quite a few.

on my work machine with 12GB of ram it just freezes no matter what

Are you implying Firefox is using 12G on your machine?

To be honest, I think what's happening is that one of those "extensions that keeps breaking" is crap and what is using all that memory. Real Firefox has none of the problems you describe (very vaguely and without specifics), so it's hard to take you seriously - let alone see how it could be fixed.
Think Again Before Declaring Business Bankruptcy
The examples struck me as looking a lot like Go and I found a few similarities:

- Local type inferencing (i := 100) is identical.

- No parentheses for control structures.

- Lack of semicolons.

- Ranges in array enumeration (albeit with different syntax).
In a world where our interactions are ever more inauthentic, the virtual can seem more Real than the real.

Beside the grind, virtual worlds have managed to solve the deepest fears of human interaction, usually with the promise that you can reinvent yourself if everything goes bad. So they provide an outlet for Ambition. They also enable some sort of personal progress, some sort of real feeling of Change, which enables Love to take hold: people who are otherwise stuck in situations which they feel are beyond their power are enabled by this.

The question is not why videogames are so addictive. The question is why the real world isn't.
Mozilla has already said they will never implement 3 because it's pointless. Separate processes per tab make the browser slower, not faster. Crash resilience is obtained through sandboxing the plugins that were crashing in the first place (hi Flash!), instead of entire browser instances. It's one of the reasons Firefox uses less memory than Chrome.
How to Get to Your First 1,000 Users
most glass these days that is sent for recycling is thrown into giant mountains of unwanted glass that is never used by anyone.

That isn't generally true, mostly because it is valuable as long as you have glass production nearby. The UK does have a mountain of green glass as it drinks loads of wine but doesn't produce much. But this is apparently quite unusual, at least according to the Economist. - http://www.economist.com/node/9249262
Mostly because Firefox 10 sidestepped the entire issue with a much better solution.
There are ~400 Americans with > $1 billion in wealth, and 200 with >$2 billion. $77 million in return on $1 billion is 7.7%. On $2 billion it's a mere 3.85%.

Combined with the fact that only 27% appear more than once in the IRS's list, and the fact that people tend to stay billionaires for a long time, this suggests that once people get to this level of wealth they turn down the aggressiveness of their investing and become risk averse.

For if every billionaire earned a healthy return on their capital, the top 400 earners would stay roughly the same from year to year, and correspond closely to America's top wealthiest.

Furthermore, America would be generating a lot more wealth than it currently does.
The language is almost 30 years old with remarkably few changes, but we've seen a (relative) burst of improvement in the past 5 years. Properties, fast enumeration, and automatic refcounting all reduce the verbosity of Objective-C code.
Assume that the validation data is similar to the test data. Then, by performing experiments (making submissions) and recording measurements (analysing the returned leaderboard score) you can attempt to infer something about the structure of the validation data, and make more accurate predictions about the test data. You can probably infer quite a bit of useful information by looking at other people's scores too, even if you don't have access to their submitted predictions.
Was this Iceweasel or Firefox? Debian doesn't ship Firefox by default.
Show HN: handlescript - web framework using handlebars, javascript, css and JSON
Here is a big list of R links. Perhaps this gives a better idea of what R can do.
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2010-June/033791...
Failure, Exclusionism and File-Sharing
Is there a WRONG kind of customer?
You're mixing wealth and income.