skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer" - Peter Drucker's The Practice of Management[1]

Let's take shareholders (both internal/external) out of the equation for a second... What do profits really actually do for companies? You take those profits, reinvest them to create even more customers. Amazon does that, and very aggressively, and for about 18 years and counting.

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060878975/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
I've worked for a large company where if you know someone's band (and you generally know that just because you do, not by asking about) and how long someone has been there, you know within about a grand, how much they get paid.

I now work for a place where I'm told to never talk about my salary, yet 5 members of the (very small) company were invited into my salary review.

I often think that the more they stress to not talk about it, the more likely it is I'm underpaid compared to my coworkers.
There are nastygrams? Better than hell banning!
> And generally, profanity is used in a negative tone.

I'm English.

Profanity is used joyfully. Swearing is fun. Glorious, playful, creative.

See Roger's Profanisaurus for an example.

> tandoori whisper n. Silent, yet exquisitely rancid, burst of wind following an Indian meal.

(http://www.viz.co.uk/profanisaurus.html)
People might like it as a WM over the mainstream things at least.
Anatomy of an eBook Launch: Raw Numbers
It's about the rate of exchange. Out of the $200M of bitcoins, only a small fraction is available for sale on exchanges...
Cache Rules Everything Around Me
That's just not true. Many, many engineers severely undervalue themselves for a variety of reasons. For some, underconfidence. Even for those that are confident in themselves, for many there's a fairness issue. ("Do I really need more than 100K?") Also, if they're in one underpaid job, the anchoring effect is pretty strong. I know someone who was in DC for <70k, applied to work remotely for a Valley company, and when they said yes, he asked for a big raise to 90k. They valued retention enough that they decided to actually pay him what he was worth and what comparable teammates got, tens of thousands a year more.

People are socialized to try to make others happy, not inconvenience someone by asking for more than they feel is necessary and fair, etc. This does not speak to their competence, though it might also mean that they're less effective at making you realize how competent they are once you hire them (because they're also the type of people who don't flash all of their accomplishments in front of you).

Women also tend to fall into this even moreso because of gender socialization.
It is about rate of exchange. Market prices mean, that at this price at least one buyer meets one seller. All the people thinking that the price is too low or too high, who therefore do not buy or sell, do not change the price at all.
it is only insane if you do not understand how Amazon makes money.

If a retailer wants to double its revenue, there are two basic options. Double your margins. Or double your volume by cutting the time you hold inventory in half. Amazon has aggressively gone for the second approach, and is glad to cut its margin in half in return for tripling sales.

Your "comparable companies" are not in the consumer retail business. And if they tried to maintain their margins while competing head on with brick and mortar commodity retail stores, they'd go out of business.
Yes, we're fine tuning the social part so we could be ready at half February to submit it to the App Store. To develop the market place in all of his part could mean several months.

And would you warn already that there will be a marketplace?

Thanks for your reply
If you want to be pissed, look up troopers. Last I looked, there were a whole bunch making over $200k.
As the other poster said, this is NOT depression. Depression is much more than just that. Seriously, you have never met anyone depressed in your life if your definition of depression is limited to that. Depression is when someone you have known for many years as being normal becomes suddenly incapable of doing anything, incapable of any logical train of thought, and spending time talking too much, obsessed by things a normal person would consider as crazy, together with severe, extremely severe mood swings. Well, what i describe is ONE form of depression, but it's not just about remotely being sad. You really should inform yourself before having an opinion on anything.
It's both simple and revolutionary.

It starts with saying "well, let's just render html on the client-side instead of on the backend". Suddenly you're in a new world of programming.
Chrome's UI works great for this. You can either click-to-play and click a little icon in the url bar to control plugins for that domain. That makes it easy to deal with flash elements used only for sound.
Show HN: Vineyard - A search engine for Vine
a numbered list? sad joke...
I think this is cool, but I do wonder if with better layout options toolbars are largely unnecessary these days?
Waiting for tokenadult to repost his Bitcoin comment:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...

In all seriousness though, there is one interesting thing that is different now from last time. Last time being the previous frenzied Bitcoin price hype bubble that peaked at 31$. No one fears that Bitcoin will crash to 0/pennies anymore once the price stops climbing, at least not due to standard market forces. It's pretty well established now that there is some baseline demand that will form a price bottom (assuming no large network attack occurs). What effect that will have on this bubble (if one forms) is hard to say but it should be interesting and not a repeat of last time.
There's also this, "How To Be Alone": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs . It did help me a couple of times.
A few other "command-line" tools for machine learning include:

http://scikit-learn.org

http://www.r-project.org

https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki

These all happen to be open source, but are probably not as pretty-looking as bigml's trees.
NimbusBase – Store data for your apps on your user’s own cloud storage
Michael Hartl's book, which you can read for free online, is an excellent walkthrough of how to build an app.
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
It sounds like the big jump here might not have been so much moving to Javascript/frontend-based apps, as moving away from a CMS towards a model where they write and control the whole app.
Basic idea was for Chrome OS extension and app develpers, to have full fledged enviroment, without to have to resort to chromeos device.
Well apparently everyone thinks this is awesome, so I'll be that guy who is helpful but everybody ignores:
There is no point to it, what are you trying to achieve? Make JSON more readable? It's debatable that you achieved it with this, formatting JSON can be done already on jslint.com and the only feature you add is some color.
Is the collapsing JSON your main feature? Well it is bad. It's hard to click on. There is no way to collapse multiple fields quickly.

Oh and if I change or add fields on the right, they don't get reflected on the left. So I can't even get the modified JSON back out.
Frankly I think it's amazing how useless this actually is.
Nearly every contract I've had (in Australia) prohibits discussion of the salary. Not sure on enforceability.
The news that Graham Hancock was a cannabis addict explains a lot, such as his Orion Correlation Theory [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock#Orion_Correlatio...
Yeah but then you have to live in New Zealand...
Not working for me either. I'm running iOS 6. Mute switch not on.
I see where you're coming from, and I don't disagree that there is plenty of research to be done here: differentiating different types of depression and anxiety, detailed fMRI studies, getting more knowledge about chemical imbalances and how the drugs operate etc.

But mood disorders aren't in the same ballpark as physical ailments. I mean, even a common infection can be impossible to diagnose unambiguously from a simple blood test, and mood disorders usually interact with who you are as a person. You can't just make a machine that solves this.

I doubt you're the kind of person to be convinced by an anecdote, but I suffered recurring depression and anxiety for a period of five years and was almost completely cured by a combination of SSRIs and CBT. What seemed to make me get these recurring depressive episodes was a combination of unhealthy thought patterns and behaviors. Holding myself to impossibly high standards, having a habit of disregarding my accomplishments, working very hard with no long breaks, being overly critical in social settings and a lot of other small things that were very much part of my personality (and incidentally, very common in the tech community). No one would have classified these behaviors as excessively weird or pathological, but they turned out manifest in long-lasting and serious depressive symptoms. The question is, how are you going to measure behaviors and thought patterns like this with a machine or a physical measurement?

Maybe you could just say that "okay, so the depression or anxiety isn't a symptom of something that's wrong, it's a problem in itself, which we could somehow fix physically or chemically". But then you're moving into some pretty dodgy philosophical territory.

Mood disorders simply can't be a hard science with the degree of understanding we can hope to get in the near future. And although there's plenty of research to be done, the methods we use are pretty good.
The world is a bit bigger than the USA...I was a PhD candidate in a European DB research group that developed a columnar storage DB kernel (CWI in Amsterdam, MonetDB), and VectorWise came out of that group (http://www.monetdb.org,
http://www.actian.com/products/vectorwise).

It's good to see this is finally catching on not only for BI and datamining tasks.
If you took a survey, asking if they felt sympathy for those diagnosed with the mental illness of clinical depression, I am pretty sure that most would answer yes.

My point is that this article is sort of worthless and whats more, the title is really irritating (because most people already have sympathy for those with depression). How about an article titled - we need to seek shelter to survive winter (most people already do).

What we need to do is a lot more than feel sorry for these people. We need to take action to help them.
I honestly did not understand immediately what the article was about. I misinterpreted both the title and the content itself until I was half way through it.

I agree with OP: the term "trolling" is generally understood very differently from how it is used in the article.
I work with one (out of 200 odd) person who has bothered with becoming MBCS, so they do exist!

I (Comp Sci B.Sc.) never bothered for many of the above reasons, and I can find better things to spend £100 a year on, but I have bothered with IMA (ima.org.uk) membership after finishing my Maths B.A. because the IMA's magazine is actually quite interesting (and it's only £48 a year).
straw-man, ad hominem

One thing is clear to me, discussing psychiatry is already a MAJOR TABOO... e.g.: in the article the dude says how he "thinks it has something to do with chemistry... and stuff" clearly in a not-so-scientific reasoning(not that all must be) but just pointing out this sort of questionings leads to major downvoting
This reminds me of this answer on Quora for the question "How does one learn how to learn?" http://www.quora.com/Self-Teaching/How-does-one-learn-how-to...

Think of it as acquiring an addiction rather than "learning" something. Look for the most addictive component activity the subject involves, that can be repeated with minor variations and increasing complexity as rapidly as you can go.

In math for example, this is graded homework problems of increasing levels of difficulty. For programming, it might be little coding problems. For people management, it is running effective meetings.

No individual instance should take more than an hour on average, for a meaningful "hit."

Now do this activity repeatedly. "Learning" is merely a supporting activity required to keep the hits coming. You'll find that you are endlessly resourceful while pursuing the next hit, just like crack addicts can be quite clever in finding money to buy the next hit.

Some people are serial addicts and can learn one thing after another, learning many things very quickly. Others get addicted to just one thing. Others struggle with even one thing. For the last category, the problem is often patience until the first hit. Once you have your first hit, the addiction begins.
I think that another question might be "How can I get people to put in real email addresses and not disposable ones?"

But, in answer to your question: If you send a few (legitimate - not spam) emails to a recipient, and they all bounce, then that's probably a disposable one that expired.
Git is an editor, and rebase is the backspace key
Unless you've got a userbase that are significant users of bitcoin (which I'm guessing is unlikely for most SaaS) I wouldn't worry about supporting it. Wait until you have active demand from your userbase before adding another payment mechanism especially one which essentially gives you a huge amount of forex risk.
LOL, how interesting? It has been going up related to everything else, even gold & silver. I doubt that there exists a better-performing non-hedged asset.
I'll Swartz it for you.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3uz18obebxavgff/Gueorguieva-et-al....
I never understood the point of having Reader in the browser. It's not like Flash or Java that is fairly common to be inline with other content. Is there some sites that legitimately use embedded PDFs?

I always found it more convenient to open PDFs in stand-alone Reader instead. Sure, it takes one mouse click more, but on the other hand the browser remains usable while the Reader loads and you get full-featured Reader instead of the gimped plugin.
> This article is factually inaccurate

No, it is not. The guy states what he /thinks/ might be reasons for this change, not that they /are/ the reasons.
Show HN: Reinventing the Activity Stream for Wishberg
Hey everyone,
We've pushed a new Activity Stream (aka Wall) to Wishberg. We had set a very high benchmark for this - build something better than Facebook's wall, or at least match it in worst case.

Here is what we have intended - a. Ability to discover interesting wishes & experiences. b. Discover new interactions - like / comments / reviews / requests / thanks / follow c. For new users - guide them towards power users whom they can follow based on interests. d. Analyze mutual relationships and suggest interactions of people whom they might be knowing but not following each other on Wishberg.

We don't have tons of data like Facebook, good number of users and it was a product challenge to build something like this. Do let me know your feedback and how we fared.

Post on blog: http://blog.wishberg.com/re-inventing-the-activity-stream-on-wishberg
In addition to sympathy, I wish we were better at telling people close to us to go see a doctor about their depression, or mental health in general. In particular, I wish someone had told me to do so ~7 years ago; would have saved a lot of misery.
Being a bit snarky there?

Fukushima reminded me that there are some designs that required active safety systems, while others like thorium reactors can be designed with passive safety system.

Musk was not offering to help out with designing a new plane. He was offering help with battery systems. This, he has more expertise than Boeing or its direct subcontractor did.

Musk did not strike me as a person who have actively sought out publicity for publicity's sake in the past. Personally, I'd rather more eyes went through the design of a plane that I might ride in one day. Teslas are too pricey for me.
Most CTOs (and generally all senior staff) have incentivized bonuses.
Pasta a forma di cuore con frutti di mare: primi piatti sfiziosi
I would release the social part first. I assume for the marketplace to work, you will need users. So I think it makes more sense to first generate a user base with the social part.

When you launch the marketplace, you could release it as a feature. It will show your users that you're actively developing the app and are trying to improve the user experience.
Well I was watching videos trying to catch the Australian accent, which I found to be very cool... One video led to another, and somehow I ended up watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp6J6PF47CM

From another angle, and longer explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsWhGBgbUsc

I have never seen something like that in real life, I couldn't believe it.
At some point it needs to come down though, one way or another. Not many are going to invest in a company which is guaranteed to have a P/E of > 200 indefinitely. This would mean a very low return on investment.
Here is one for you:

"In 1995 CCHR published the acclaimed book Psychiatrists: The Men Behind Hitler."

http://www.amazon.com/Psychiatrists-Behind-Hitler-Thomas-Rod...

And another one:

"In 1999, members of the Council of Europe issued a resolution that recognized psychiatrists as the architects of the ethnic cleansing and encouraged Council members to 'study the material that has been put together and researched by the French chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights.'"

http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/Doc/XrefViewHTML.asp?FileID=8785...
Customers who break things
They may all be "obviously" infringing, but they're not all "actually" infringing. For instance, one I clicked on with the name of a well known movie led to an .exe file, which was a virus and not the movie in question. There's also one called "Gay.zip", how is that "obviously" infringing?
Three week startup competition in Switzerland
How do social sites (Hunch, Foursquare, Digg) go from 1 to 100k users.
I think the best solution is to release the first version and only scratch the surface about the marketplace. Do not directly hint about it. Maybe the early feedback of the first users will give you an idea of whether they want a marketplace in the first place or other major design/market directions you might want to follow to please them before spending time and money on something you're probably unsure will work.
Regrets, I've Had A Few
It's obvious to anyone who's being honest that many depressive episodes that get labeled "clinical depression" are triggered by major life events like the death of a loved one and therefore there is at least some psychological element involved. The pharmaceutical companies are interested in convincing everyone that it is purely physical and therefore requires chemical delivery packages to ever have a hope of overcoming, but an honest analysis demonstrably dismantles this idea.

Sometimes you have to be willing to look past the studies and trials bought and paid for by drug companies, recognize that every published study, in any field, is complex and flawed, and be willing to admit what's plainly visible even if there an intelligentsia (also purchased) standing by to aggressively shout you down and claim that their fancy documents allow them to define reality and that any naysayers should be ostracized and cast out.

It's kind of funny that this same intelligentsia has now latched onto "bullying" as a pet issue, since it's basically been their MO for many years. Almost all progress gained by this group is gained by shaming less articulate and/or ballsy persons into submission.
D3.js Meta Tutorial
What Fuels Peugeot's Latest Car? Air
"This is unlikely to be a convincing argument to a genuinely suicidal person."

You may well be right. The problem is that suicidal people are usually depressed, and depression (as others have said [1]) is an illness. Specifically, a biochemical illness the affects the functioning of the brain to the extent that severely depressed and suicidal people often don't think rationally about the consequences of their actions. I think it is strongly arguable that trying to prevent the suicide of a mentally ill person is morally justified, even at the cost of temporarily impinging on their freedom of action.

I'm not saying that suicide is always irrational. Faced with, say, terminal illness and severe pain, suicide can be a rational choice for a person capable of rational thought. And I definitely support the right of an individual to end their life in that or a similar situation. Ultimately they "own" their life.

"what standing does some stranger on a crisis line have to try and do that?"

Maybe you haven't thought this through. When a person phones a crisis line they are actively seeking help, and have an implicit understanding that the person they speak to is there to try and provide it. "Standing" doesn't come into it because the caller chose to made the call and controls when to end it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5143839
How do you reliably assess the cache behavior of your software? Thinking in terms of cache behavior is certainly very useful for making software that runs fast, but if you have no reliable to check what is actually happening, you're pretty much walking in the dark.
News from the UK: The stupid cookie law is dead at last
I had the same feeling a few hours ago when I saw this first, but now I when I think about it, it looks mildly useful.

There are a few cases in our company where designers need to provide developers with JSON (for whatever reason) and this tool will help them to edit JSONs without worrying about screwing up the syntax.

BTW you can copy the changes in either section by clicking the arrow between the two sections.
This is Hacker News. Be polite or take it to Reddit.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, make sense to build the user base first.

I like your last comment about the active development.
Calgary judge to sentence psychiatrist who molested court-appointed patients
Check out PAPI[1], it lets you examine CPU performance counters such as data- and instruction cache misses.

[1] http://icl.cs.utk.edu/projects/papi/wiki/Main_Page
This prediction is insightful, but still just a prediction. However, if you state it like it's going to happen tomorrow, it is also spreading FUD.
That is so cute, getting excited about 5mbps extra.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2475450363.png

Now, could someone explain to me why this is on hacker news, and so high in the list? It only remotely references something new that Google is doing, is that the requirement these days?
There is a setting which flashes camera flash LED on alert.
But I guess GP ment general uniformity in behaviour.
IOS Jailbreak for all devices, almost ready.
Generic coding Standards and Guidelines
Likely they will convert a good chunk of it to CNY not USD. The price arbitrages will go back at USD and other currencies, but the effect is cushioned.

Also, being in China they are likely to keep a good part of the profit in BTC to use in services, since a lot is not allowed over there. This can kickstart a local BTC economy where it's needed the most.
So, their plan is to obliterate all other retailers (I guess online and otherwise) and then to jack up prices?

From a normative perspective that honestly seems quite evil. I guess then I can be happy it hasn’t happened yet.
Creative Interactive Gesture Camera Developer Kit
I just received this email. I'm pretty sure there's nothing honest in play here.

>Yo! We just did a webinar about marketing with purchased email lists. Think buying emails is legit? Wonder how many dead ones are in the list? They showed buying 70,000 emails at $.005/each. Not much $, but the result was to send them to an affiliate site, and hopefully get paid…..