skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly understand where you're coming from but obviously disagree at least partially.

There is a difference between saying that the government should invest in and fund all companies and saying that there are cases where the free market will not act in the national best interest on it's own and the government can. The underlying issue here is that oil is subsidized in the US. It's not just the tax benefits to oil companies, it's all the military spending required to maintain undisrupted oil flow from the most unstable regions in the world. We've gotten to the point where we can't just stop cold turkey; so you've got to invest some money to clean up a mess made in the past. I'd love to get to the point where all our energy choices were on a level playing field so the free market could do the work but that just doesn't seem plausible today.

It's cliche at this point, but the space program and DARPA/ARPA investments led to a lot of the technology that enabled the formation and/or success of companies like Apple and Google.

This is off topic but with regard to your some of your other points, it's completely true that the federal government doesn't have to treat it's debt the same way a household does. That doesn't mean it should spend as much as it wants, but it does mean that it can spend a little more than it brings in forever. By senior equity I meant that the government's claims to profits(taxes) are senior to other equity holders.
I was wondering, is it possible for individuals with no formal ML background to implement algorithms with as much subtlety as Prismatic?
Not too surprising, as both smoke, and many different herbs, are natural pest repellents. Bay leaves, lavender, thyme, etc., might do a good job here too, but of course cannot compete with the availability of pre-shredded tobacco bits in the city.
I'm delving into learning Polish myself but have been taking mostly a whole language, immersion approach. For example, when I was in Krakow I bought myself a book on CD and the book itself, so I can 'read' along as I listen. I use translation tools to put selected passages into English. I also spend time listening to Polish radio. I know at some point I will have to develop some discipline about tackling grammar in a systematic fashion the way you are doing, but for the moment I guess I'm content to as much as possible to get a feel for the language. Japanese is my second language and its challenges are almost completely different... anyway, good luck!
We have a really interesting revenue model based on driving transactions rather than brand ads or promoted content. It'll take a while before we really focus on it and cale it though.
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[disclaimer haven't used haskell for a decade, so this is pure speculation and not intended as any kind of informed criticism.]

is it possible that now would be a good time (just because it is a time when things seem to be changing) to simplify / clean up haskell? what i am wondering / asking is whether more recent additions to the language (type system) are generalisations of earlier features. in which case, maybe the earlier features could be dropped?

is anything like that possible or reasonable? it's a fairly old language, which has evolved a lot, and it stuck me it might be a question worth asking... (something like python 3 i guess, but a bit more meaty)
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Every time I make an investment in learning and using a new language, core language developers leaving is one thing I worry about. The reason I've stuck with Haskell for almost 6 years is because the more involved and familiar I get with the community, the more I confident I am in the abundance of very clever people ;-P. I have no doubt the Haskell community will be able to fill the (massive) gap left by Simon.
I'd like to give as much helpful criticism as possible, but I can't say much about the general idea, doesn't ring with me, but I'm not a photo/sharing social media person so I'm not the target audience here. Otherwise, I would try to get a native english speaker to correct the english mistakes, that always takes a bit away from the professionality of an app. Also IMO I think bootstrap is too ubiquitous (don't know if end-users think this yet), doesn't add any unique/cool feel to your idea that a good design might. The fact that about/contact/blog all link to a completely different looking site is confusing and disorienting, you might want to consider taking them out.

Best of luck with the idea though - always glad to see people making things :)
This concept has three competing flaws:

1. The most obvious: how do you prevent your ideas from being stolen?

2. If your idea is vague ("A site where people can post Hipstamatic-like photos, but easily share them!") then you will get a lukewarm response, even if the actual idea (and implementation) is great.

3. If you spend the time fleshing out your idea into something that excites users...then you've committed enough resources to not need a site like this. Also, see #1.

In other words, users are at a catch-22 here. Your site wants to keep them from launching half-baked ideas by providing them with audience opinion. And yet, in order to get validation, a user will have to show off a well-baked idea.
Some background: We launched this archive with the State of North Carolina yesterday. As far as we know, North Carolina is the first government in the world to make web 2.0 records available to the public in this type of extremely searchable, highly interactive fashion. I say "interactive" in reference to the fact that the records look and behave like the original social network. For example, you can expand comments on Facebook posts, view full-sized photos, expand shortened Twitter links, etc.

I'd love to get your feedback on the presentation of data and the usability of the search interface (I recommend clicking on some of the "Example Searches" to see how it works). I'm happy to speak to the underlying technology as well.
Insurance is one of the most highly regulated industries out there (even more so than banking). It's also almost entirely regulated by state insurance commissions (-> many arcane one-off regulations, and a fair amount of political games). Take the regulatory difficulties Uber, etc. are running into, and multiply by 100.
Wow, I totally empathize with that pain. Let me guess, you've got switches from Blade Networks (aka IBM) ? :-)

Large scale networking changes like this are so challenging to pull off, one missed cable, one mis-configured switch, and blam! everything is nuts.
I remember someone inferring the Nethack RNG state to show off on online servers by dying three times in a row because of kicking a wand of wishing. Here:

http://taeb-nethack.blogspot.com/2009/03/predicting-and-cont...
Argument 2 seems to basically be, "The government was the original venture capitalist."
I do think it's mostly a time filler like say, hackernews or a good subreddit. Maybe you'll find some article that will increase your productivity, but that's definitely not the focus. It's just about giving you a stream of articles that you'll probably enjoy reading.
I'm not so sure. There was a lot of griping about the early photos from Curiosity as compared to the iphone camera.

That went away when the "real" pictures started coming back, but people definitely expect space technology to move as fast as consumer tech.
Nice writeup, but it leaves me curious about the root cause:

For some reason, our switches were unable to learn a significant percentage of our MAC addresses and this aggregate traffic was enough to saturate all of the links between the access and aggregation switches, causing the poor performance we saw throughout the day.

Did you work with your vendor to understand what caused the above problem? Was it a lack of number of entries in the MAC table?

This problem aside, I am wondering why you still run layer 2 network in a tree-like configuration. These are known not to scale well, beyond a small LAN. An appropriate layer 3 network (with multipath routing) would ensure there is no such flooding, and ensure you use all the precious capacity in your switches!
I really like knowing that there are people dedicated to thinking deep thoughts. There was a recent potential proof published on a tough math problem, and apparently the author had gone dark for 15 years creating a fantastic mathematical universe and vocabulary all on his own. Thats worthwhile. Maybe not for everyone to go off doing it, but definitely for some.
Glad to read you are launching country wide, and with over 100 companies on board. Hopefully that will be a wake up call for the remaining to get with the times and open up some services to consume.

Good luck with the venture.
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You made a great point and I hate to see you get downvoted to hell just because some people don't want to accept some of the truthful things you said.
While I agree that closed "walled gardens" are a bad idea, the traditional desktop/laptop PC is facing competition, and yason's comment isn't trash.

By combining both of your comments, I do think the future is clear: the only truly free, general purpose computing machines will run Linux, and will _look_ like an appliance, just because of all the locked down walled in appliances Linux will be competing with.

It won't hurt that this will make Linux easier to use. And Gnome 3 is an example of how not to make it easier to use – give the user what they want, do not take it away.
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From all that I gather that the principle by which he votes is aiding his corporate friends. That's probably the most common trait with his voting record, and I doubt it has anything to do with any real beliefs of how politics should work.
We've been here with the desktop before, and it's shaking out much the same way:

User experience: web apps are still worse than desktop apps and always will be. Good enough is good enough. On mobile the good enough tipping point for web apps is now.

Discoverability: the app stores don't have enough shelf space for new apps just like the physical stores didn't have enough shelf space for boxed copies. Web apps were more discoverable because word of mouth is the primary vector and nothing is easier than sharing a link. On mobile the same is true: going viral is easier with a mobile web app loaded in the browser, but people haven't caught on to that yet.

Offline: i've built and shipped an offline mobile web app. There is only one hard constraint, and that's the 50 mb of storage you get on iOS (and that with caveats). Otherwise it's just a question of the API's being nicer to use on native. That reduces offline on web to a matter of tooling and expertise, painful but solvable. You can implement all the same use cases, it just takes more engineering in some cases. On iOS you can even hide the browser's chrome, and put a nice glossy icon on the homescreen.
I imagine if your diet consists of things like "french fries sitting in a puddle of antifreeze and oil leakage from the side of the road" you could get cancer quite quickly :-)
I'd use this.

Certainly some ideas are different and exciting enough that you wouldn't want to audition them publicly. But for the most part, it's execution that matters. This site seems like a good idea to gauge reaction to those ideas.

How are you planning to get a good volume of user feedback on these ideas? That seems like a pretty big challenge.

Rather than a "yay or nah" style, I'd rather if the feedback were more open ended. Such as: "What do you like about this idea? What don't you like?"
I think this is great, and I'm very excited for Traff's project getting some wings -- but I am curious; aren't there already dozens of comparison/affiliate sites like this?

What about Leaky is so revolutionary and worthy of press?
Is this a dangerous thing to put on ones website at all?
I have such great memories of enjoying Brubeck's music with my late grandparents, delivered off dusty LPs. Take Five is, for all it's over-saturation, still one of my favorite pieces of all time (and Time Out is one of my favorite albums). While his passing is sad, dying at 91 and leaving such an amazing legacy is all we can really hope for.
I didn't mean to indicate it wasn't.

You could setup a remote and each person could clone that remote.

I left out the details about what you do after you clone (push/pull), but the point was that there is nothing special about the remote repository as far as it being "bare". Which turns out isn't right. You can set up a bare repository with no working directory as 2mur has pointed out. I wonder if that is a requirement. I always thought that if you clone a repository you can just start using it as a remote without additional hassle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Journalism
What kind of tweets were they?
The underlying science of computers and science might have been discovered in the 1970's, but back then, use the internet and computers were in no way in mainstream society.

How do they know that innovations 30 years from now won't be based on the science we discover today, in "nanotechnology, neuroscience, and energy, among other cutting-edge fields"?
Some feedback. I was curious to read some ideas. Reluctantly, I put my email address in. Then I was asked to spread the word (on what exactly, I'm not sure since I haven't been able to use it yet). Dismissing that message took me back to the screen asking me if I'm interested.

So all that "hidden" content may or may not be real. I'll never know. It looked real though. But at this point I'd probably never use the site again. Felt like I was taken. At least you got my email address, I guess :).

That's all constructive criticism. I know it's hard to decide exactly how to roll out some of this stuff but hope it helps.
We need app/device/websites Interlinking
I applied on behalf of Darren from 2600hz. Really excited to talk about Erlang (we use it as the logic layer of our open-source Telecom stack).

We're definitely down to fly out and promote one of the coolest languages for performance distributed computing.
Well said.

Hopefully we can refine the product between now and launch as best as we can to combat all 3 of those concerns. We've got our homework (and assume, test, analyze, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat) to do here.
Isn't EBIT 'Income before interest and taxes'?
I know if I saw something like that explanation on the page asking for CC details, I would be much more likely to acquiesce. If you, say, offered a refund if someone emailed requesting one within a week(?) of their paid term starting, it would go a long way.
Kasparov kills his argument by pooh-poohing the iPhone. I'm sorry, but holding the internet in your hand is simply amazing. Maybe it was inevitable, but it is at least the culmination of many very impressive innovations.
We looked at a few other solutions like ServerDensity etc.

The main issue was that we wanted to report across all requests, e.g. there is no single health check endpoint that an external system can hit to determine if everything is OK or not.

The crux of the matter is that we needed to parse our Nginx logs for the response code on every single request and calculate the uptime from that.
Were you running LACP on the LAGs?
Maybe at the beginning the filters were a distinguishing factor (I don't know because I wasn't an early adopter, nor did I try, for example, Hipstamatic or others).

But now I think Instagram's clear use case is seeing the world through your friends' eyes--what they're eating, seeing, doing. Filters seem less important now, especially given the #nofilter trend.
It definitely does help, and sorry that the feeling was "taken".

The product isn't there yet, so our goal is the email drop -- so that we have a way to contact a user-base once the product is built.

But your concern is definitely heard, and we'll be sure the real product never evokes that kind of emotion out of the users. Promise :).
I'm almost certain you're not arguing that "dollars generated per person" is the only valid measure of the success of a government as compared to the success of a large corporation. So how do you factor in all the other measures of success in such an evaluation?

Trivially, corporations are amoral entities that have the ability, and sometimes the obligation, to jettison lines of business that lose money or simply don't contribute enough profit, whereas governments often have the legal or moral obligation to maintain or expand "lines of business" whose purpose does not coincide with the generation of cash. Civilization necessitates at least some pursuits that will never make a profit, and governments are the major organizational entities (yes, there are some others) that are often left to such pursuits.
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Hundred of tweets of the form "I'm enjoying <username>'s recommendations on @Prismatic" on his behalf. So basically all of his followers got spammed.
Yeah, if you read a little further down we worked with the vendor to get them extensive diagnostics and get to the root problem. TL;DR: Lock contention on the CAM table.

"We have worked with our network vendor to provide diagnostic information which led them to discover the root cause for the MAC learning issues. We expect a final fix for this issue within the next week or so and will be deploying a software update to our switches at that time. In the mean time we are closely monitoring our aggregation to access layer capacity and have a workaround process if the problem comes up again."

In terms of network scalability, a properly designed layer 2 topology can scale quite a bit farther than our current needs. This is very much the least disruptive change we could introduce to solve the immediate network problems while we work on the future architecture.
I don't think anybody is happy "dogfooding" a product. It sends the message that your function isn't that essential.
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>But wouldn't it be better to use NLP to emancipate people from the attention economy altogether

I work on ads recommendations, and yes, it would be "better" if I stop recommending KFC to the 36% of obese Americans & instead recommend Crossfit or Yoga or Gold Gym or Myoplex. If I do that, they will quit the site en-masse and the negative engagement rates will go through the roof, I'll be out of a job, will end up eating at McDonalds to save money, and then become obese, and then click on the same KFC coupon recommended by another data scientist hired to replace me :)

Yes, it would be "better" if people read the Economist instead of Cosmo, or went to grad school instead of building crud web apps, or watched Frontline PBS instead of Jerry Springer, but then, it would also be much "better" for the environment if we got rid of the 1000s of walmarts & safeways selling groceries & Uncle Sam shipped you healthy lettuce and spinach weekly via USPS....communism 101 :)
Twitter does reuse Open Graph tags.

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards#open-graph
As noted in the OP, Berkeley DB was released in 1991 (see the sidebar). Neo4j, a graph database, was also mentioned.
Dave Brubeck was awesome. Glad to hear that he lived to a ripe old age. I don't know much about him, but I hope his years were as fun, energetic, and awesome as his music.
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Now how about a one button way for my users to buy bit coins. Buying bitcoins is an exhausting user experience
I agree that with apps that are mostly consumption, responsive design can go a long way. However, I think the biggest wins in the future will be for products that somehow crack the problem of easy manipulation for different application domains in mobile. (We are working on that, rethinking what spreadsheets are in the touch device era)
Thanks! I guess I was thinking of the Android permissions, which are separate for read/write IIRC.
There are tons of people who called Quora annoying for doing the same thing. They also have a tendency to go around in public talking about how they won't use it because it's so annoying. Annoying or not though, it gets people to sign up and many of those same people who claimed to not want to join because of it being annoying end up on the site. Maybe it is annoying but the concept works.
The button is working on Chrome/Windows but not Firefox/Windows. (Amusingly, it also works in IE9/Windows)
Hate those tweets, that's why I check http://mypermissions.org periodically...

And for Facebook I use https://mypermissions.com/ which emails me each time I connect with an app through FB.
I take it you're not a fan "Go compaaaaare!"? (http://www.gocompare.com)
I do think that's one of our biggest (if not the biggest) challenge.

Our "chicken" in the equation would be the entrepreneurs who post. We need to incentivize them to post to a safe platform that they get something out of, but in a way that saves them time and/or money (otherwise they'd use their own launchpage + adwords and/or the launchrock-esque services).

Our "egg" is the volume of (quality) users for feedback.

Then how do you get more chickens who make more eggs?

There might be a tiered posting service. Maybe one free, one cheap (feedback + full share feature + meta tags for SEO), and one more expensive -- but includes targeted keywords that you choose and targeted feedback from a group of users. Too early to tell at this point, but with enough awesome feedback like this, and eventually some initial users, I'm sure we'll get this figured out.
Ok, I downvoted you, karma balance restored, or "remedied" as you call it. ;)
What have you found to be most effective for marketing your apps?
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Dangerous? The only danger is that you might pay 1% fee when sending/converting your earnings back to USD. Also possible that the value of bitcoin tanks overnight, but there are historical charts that show this has not really happened but just once.

What kind of danger are you thinking?

The exchange could also go under and/or rob you. You should be careful about to whom you give your bank account numbers.
Thanks for the answer - I thought it would be something like this. Taking 2 weeks off during the holiday period is a great thing to do!
Really cool Anil! I can see this dramatically reducing the time it takes and the costs incurred for a government's response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
You should just ask them to mail you cash. It's about equally reliable, from a buyer's perspective.
Congrats on the raise :)

I just tried Prismatic, and while it seems interesting I don't think I would become a regular user. Though I may not the target audience.

I'm usually satisfied with Hacker News and The NY Times, though occasionally I'll look at other mainstream news sites like CNN to make sure that I'm getting a well rounded idea of what's going on in the world. I have Reddit blocked on my computer, but I'll look at it on my phone for comedy & interesting news.

After integrating with Facebook and Gmail, these are my current Prismatic headlines:

* The Huffington Post: Release Of Cult Sandwich Slated For Dec. 17, McDonald's Announces (Bad)

* RollingStone: On the Charts: Alicia Keys' 'Girl on Fire' Leads Lukewarm Week (Bad)

* Webmonkey: A Look at the Future of CSS (Okay)

* Complex.com: Inside Johnny Depp's New $17.5 Million Home in Nashville, Tennessee (Really bad)

* Skysports: Graeme Smith determined South Africa maintain momentum against New Zealand (Really bad)

The problem I see is that (a) my Facebook likes aren't necessarily representative of what I want to read about, and (b) even if they were, your system doesn't know what priority to give each like.

The result looks to me like a page full of linkbait. My experience may not be representative, but I thought I'd share it with you as it might be helpful in fine tuning your product.