skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether that makes the world worse is highly subjective. I don't believe things are objectively any more valuable just because they're public.

I have, however, seen a lot of bad patterns and code snippets copied and work their way into many codebases because one of the easiest ways to learn is to copy another source. I have seen people completely disown or neglect projects because it's "public", so what more do you want? I don't buy that these sorts of repositories are doing the world a favor and they increase the level of noise, helping drown out the good stuff.

But, hey, like I said if you add a pretty reasonable disclaimer to your README so the expectations are at least framed properly, I can get on board with that.
Author here. These are the slides and transcript of a talk I've given detailing my experiences building a startup on Neo4j, a graph database. Hope you guys find it educational.

Technical note: the presentation is built with Hakim El Hattab's excellent Reveal.js, but this combo slides+notes viewer is handbuilt, so apologies if it doesn't work perfectly. If you can, view it in Chrome on desktop or laptop.

Corresponding blog post: http://aseemk.com/blog/neo4j-lessons-learned
I might just be missing it, but is this published under an open source license? I didn't see it noted anywhere...
Yes. I didn't realize the post was written by a woman until I read comments here.
Great news, particularly for PhD students! Some Scholarpedia articles get a lot citations (ex. the page on the NEST simulator has been cited 186 times) and can be a great way to get your name out there.
Do you pay $300 extra for the privilege? I don't believe AT&T offers unsubsidized discounts.
Heh, I must not be following the right persons then cause it's pretty common among the people I follow.
Yes, there is no way he is making the decision himself, or even capable of doing so. That's exactly my point. Yet somehow he's in charge of the whole show? In any case, TFA does give him sole credit for the edict.

More to the point, why exactly does the Librarian of Congress' staff have authority over cell phones? Oh, because it involves the DMCA. Supposedly, the DMCA was made for copyright, like books and music recordings. Books and music fall under the interests of the library. So do cell phones? That's just too much of a stretch. Either the law is being applied far too broadly, or the DMCA is really outside of the purview of the Library of Congress.
Is there an example of this working somewhere?
The Overview Effect: Astronauts in space describe their experience
I, for one, look forward to the day when someone stumbles across my code and finds it worthy of commentary. Good or bad, just not indifferent, please.
The Rhino Horn Crisis and the Darknet
I'm actually doing a review right now to evaluate a team's HTML5 code, mostly for performance concerns. It's mostly about minifying/bundling/caching/CDNing assets, really.
Great feedback Andrew. I think we need to change the design and make it more clear, however we do request that every completed "order" receive a review and comment from the customer. We also allow chefs to receive written endorsements as well which are publicly displayed on the site.

The chefs are sorted by reviews, endorsements and other quality-ensuring factors so that the first chefs you see are those we know most about and know deliver great service.
I wasn't even aware this was a thing. Google's been busy updating their older stuff as of late- the new image search took me by surprise just earlier today.
For what it's worth, I've been on Github for years and no one has even noticed that my code exists. Which I don't mind at all, given all of this.
"Should" is a little loaded; I would say "Companies would be expected to lobby..."

But yeah I think your interpretation is correct.
"As per your binding contract, you agree to only use their service in return for getting the phone at a subsidized price."

You mistakenly believe that contracts are in perpetuity.
4. “Learning is profoundly passive.”

In my experience, people who believe this have not been good students.
.... at the time. Jesus..
Does this add any security? Your fake sshd can also say "Barracuda field service access".
That's why you pick one particular incident and then use it as an anchor point for all the other bad incidents to refer to. This is how all other solidarity days work.
The comparison makes more sense, now. :)

Were they allowing US customers to use their site? If so, you were might have been in a gray area. I agree with your legal dept that it could have been problematic either way. Not necessarily illegal, but not worth the hassle.
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"---IT IS NOT YOUR PLACE TO CONTROL OR FILTER THOSE RESPONSES---"

One could equally well argue that it's not your place to control or filter criticisms of those responses. You're essentially positing that the majority of people here are out of line for saying "don't be a dick". That seems contradictory to me.
I don't have any great experience with Node, but my understanding is that its built around libuv, which is really good at abstracting this stuff. From my experience of writing python scripts, it looks like you'll occasionally see things like "this doesnt work on Windows". Only occasionally though, hence "slightly".
Calling someone's writings "bullshit" is pretty much the same as calling someone's code "eye-bleeding" -> "your product is of such low value it's worthless"

Those that claim the genesis of this whole issue is offensive should take equal offense to the "bullshit" line.
Just because the pie is getting bigger doesn't mean it's inaccurate to characterize the situation in zero-sum terms. E.g. the gain in total national wealth from 1960 - Present is a fixed amount--who got what part of that is zero-sum.

More importantly, of course everyone's share is getting bigger. That's been the long-term trend ever since people started farming. What's important is whose slice is getting bigger faster relative to the other slices. Pointing out that the middle class's slice is getting bigger in absolute terms and saying they should be content with that is like saying you should be fine with a stock that returns 1% over inflation. Why should you complain--you're getting richer! Of course, an investor expects to get richer. What he cares about is his return relative to that of other stocks.
Bitbucket offers unlimited private repos, so you can stash your personal stuff there without fear of roaming assholes. They only start charging once you have more than 5 contributors.
What people use it for and what you can legally use it for without being taxed aren't necessarily the same thing.

Regarding the US, please see: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p970.pdf

I quote:
"Expenses that do not qualify. Qualified education expenses do not include the cost of:
• Room and board,
• Travel,
• Research,
• Clerical help, or
• Equipment and other expenses that are not required for enrollment in or attendance at an eligible educational institution"

Any expenses used toward a drone are clearly taxable even if you call it "Research". In practice, the IRS would never find out (unless you were audited). Unless, that is, you went and posted your idea on your blog and then posted that on HN.
I have a feeling it could get some jail time. You are supposed to report dropping of classes to the financial aid office so your aid can be modified. Not doing this and also just keeping the money may be grounds to be hit with a fraud charge. Never the less, it isn't something I would want to risk.
or a binary digit
Just shared this on a different thread[0], but here it is:

https://github.com/pjungwir/range

[0] "What is your dumbest project on Github?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112546
The US kinda did win: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-1654433...

The UK was allowing him to be extradited?? I don't feel so bad about UK libel law applying to US companies anymore (although it hurts everyone).

Also, O'Dwyer had his domain name seized from him by the US somehow.
The [position of a player on a Monopoly board] has 40 possible states.
> windows has nothing unless you have cygwin

A lot of the Unix tools (including SED) run just fine on Windows without cygwin:

http://www.zeusedit.com/zforum/viewtopic.php?p=2683
It might not be optimal but the set goal couldn't be achieved differently without much overhead. It's a valid use of eval in my opinion.
You will not get a response unless you put "Death Star" in it. So perhaps saying something like, "Make unlocking cell phones being used on the Death Star legal" would get a response.

Otherwise, most of these will not get far even if they get the 100k signatures. For example, making research papers free and open (what Aaron Swartz wanted) got the required signatures but did not get a response.
Ask HN: How do you feel about programmers being idolized in todays pop culture?
More and more I'm seeing programmers and "nerds" being idolized in pop culture; From Big Bang Theory to iJOBS to a "reality TV" show about silicon valley. Best Buy had a commercial on the other day about beta testing a TV (WTF?). Beta being a term a lot of non-tech people wouldn't know. It's getting a bit annoying, what's everyone else's take on it?
Thanks for the link. Those are some surprising insights.
"Anything that restricts freedom and choice is a regulation"

A meaningless statement. Industry collusion (legal under free marketeerism), for example, is not a regulation.
I think you are looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses if you think "hope for the future" was on a real win streak in the '70s. (See: Vietnam, Watergate, Arab oil embargo, stagflation...)

Also, in the '70s, it wasn't the "spouse" raising the kids at home, it was the wife. The huge increase in available roles for women is another thing not captured by the average real wage (and as the piece points out, probably had a negative impact on it).
That might be how it works in the US, but why roll over and accept that when literally the rest of the world doesn't.

In Australia, subsidised androids on 2 year plans aren't locked at all, and for iPhone its as simple as ringing the carrier for the unlock code, you can do it the day you get your phone.

They're going to get the full value of the contract anyway, why pay them insane roaming fees too.
That might be, actually! I do make a habit of unfollowing anyone on social media who's consistently negative (esp. in unconstructive ways). I recommend it.
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I had the same idea:

Ask HN: What is your dumbest project on Github? :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112546
However long it takes to make them not be worth it, though no minimum sentences. An normal of 30 years might do it, with some real incentives for reintegrating into society upon release as well as possible time of for good behavior (but not getting into fights is not enough to qualify for good behavior).

I agree, it is pretty strict but that is because it is a very serious crime due to the direct impact the gun has on people. Steal the ATM, break into the place in the night, sell cocaine, whatever, but don't fucking threaten peoples life.
Does the artist not offer direct downloads, whereby receiving 100% of profits? (CC charges/hosting etc aside).
The first question is bordering on bad faith.

It's nigh-on-tautological that technological advances will ensure that being middle class in 2010 is 'better' than being middle class in 1970. [1]

But more air conditioning, computers and even cell phones does not negate the argument that productivity and wage gains have diverged.

And how else would one fairly assess, in the aggregate, if workers are being rewarded for their work, than to see if greater productivity is being rewarded with greater wages? And how else does one describe the situation where continued productivity gains were met with low-to-no gains in wealth, other than "stagnation"?

For we're not talking about absolute shares of national income here. Economics is no zero-sum gain. There are net increases. There is wealth creation. And we're talking about where this created wealth has gone. And for the last several decades, it hasn't gone to the workers. Even though their productivity has continued to increase and, historically at least, those two have tended to increase together.

Framing the situation in terms of your first question is tantamount to the arguments that poverty today isn't a problem simply because, historically, the poor have never lived so well.

It's an irrelevant distraction used to keep people from asking the second question. [2]

[1] If technological gains stopped delivering improved quality of life, we'd be facing a civilization-level calamity that would render concerns about productivity gains less than irrelevant. Because it would necessarily imply that technological advances had topped out and resources were now becoming scarce.

[2] Asserting that questions of economic fairness and health are answered solely by whether today's workers are doing at least as well as yesterday's workers is pretty close to anti-American. To accept that argument, one would have to believe that it's not necessary for hard work to be rewarded. All those "up by your boot-straps" stories are contingent upon harder and smarter work being rewarded. And here we're staring at an economy-wide case where harder and smarter work has simply been the baseline for continued employment. It's no longer "do well and move up." It's "do well or move out."
You could just as easily say the first is encouraging, and the second is ignorable, so you should make it public.
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Childish usage of a primitive understanding of dialectics isn't going to deter me. You'll have to do better than that.

This is me ADAPTING to your response. Not filtering it out. Not telling you to never again say those big, mean, nasty words to me. Not running the internet to summon white knights to my ever beck and call because I want to win some points that don't matter anywhere.

This is me, leading by example, how to ADAPT to your response.
Thanks for the info kfcm — that's helpful.
If GNP has been rising, why does Social Security and Medicare have to go? This is one of the few things I'll be able to get a return on with the taxes I pay.

Every year the Pentagon begs the House to reduce military spending. The House ignores this and spends money on pet military contractors in their states. The US has military bases in Cuba, Djibouti, Germany, Kyrgyzstan and many other places. The US is designing a new class of $14 billion aircraft carriers. The US has 11 active aircraft carriers. The only other country with more than 1 active aircraft carrier is Italy, which has 2 - and Italy is not exactly a national security threat. The US has bases their as well, some air force guys hot dogging their planes flew through a cable car cable killing 20 people.

Why do I have to have my Social Security cut, with GNP rising, but the army can torture prisoners in Abu Ghraib, laughing manically as they videotape how they're torturing prisoners and forcing them to masturbate? Why do I have to fund the military of Honduras, which overthrew the elected government their? These expenses are never on the chopping block, just any benefits that I and the average American might pull out of the system. TARP is never on the chopping block, just anything I might pull from the tax system I've paid so much into.
The article makes this seem like a relatively straightfoward experiment concept and implementation plus high justification. Why have measurements of this sort not been made already?

Is it because of the difficulty of forming muonic hydrogen or making measurements before the decay?
Interesting comparison: Apple is currently valued about 2X sales, and so is Amazon. The stock market is sometimes quite irrational.
You can visit Twitter periodically for a week and see this happening everywhere, programming and dev hash tags included (heck, a lot of the trending topics on Twitter are hugely racist or sexist).
To your second paragraph, 100% yes :)
It'd be legal for the carriers to do it themselves, I imagine.
I have shared literally thousands of photos on Flickr. Nobody has told me that my photos shouldn't exist of that my photos make their eyes bleed.

Can we, as a community, be at least as nice as serious amateur photographers?
I am able to roam in the States, and it's connected to At&t right now. Like you said though, the roaming charges are ridiculous, it basically renders the cellphone unusable in accordance to my normal browsing habits.
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Note, I expect this to be the first in a series. It probably won't wind up laid out exactly as I expect, but here is my tentative plan:

1. Rigorous (this one) - How to use frequentist techniques to define a very rigorous statistical procedure that - no matter how small the bias in the test - can give correct answers with very high probability (and, of course, support multiple looks at your statistics).

2. Fixed data - Your business has an upper limit on how much data it realistically can collect. How to design a statistical procedure that makes reasonably good decisions while remaining within that limit.

3. Simple test - How to use Bayes' Theorem to design very simple and straightforward test criteria, where every A/B test has a known cost up front.

4. Bayesian statistics - How a Bayesian approach compares to the previous ones. Where the sticking points are, what its advantages are.

5. Bayesian optimization - How a Bayesian approach can let you turn the problem of A/B testing into a pure optimization problem where your decision to stop is based on whether the cost of continuing the test exceeds your expected return from continuing it over some time horizon.

We'll see how far I get. As it goes on, they become tricker to write at the level that I'm aiming for. And it may be that people will be interested in something else. But I thought that the first two were important. If for no other reason than to give me something definitive to point people at who read Evan Miller's article and then were telling people to run A/B tests in a way that made no business sense.
Congrats guys on the big news. In the brief opportunity that I had to get to know them, they were incredibly intelligent and super-nice and helpful guys.

I sat next to Fred at Startup School a couple of years ago and his encouragement was a big reason that I decided to apply to YC.

Keep doing great stuff!
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> Github == "Developer Playground/Experimentation Lab".

That doesn't preclude constructive criticism. I put my stuff on Github for review. Granted, I wouldn't like malicious comments but I sure as hell would like to know if I did something wrong.

> Why in the hell should I have to feel that every piece of code I put up there 'must' adhere to 'your' standards or anyone else's?

You don't have to feel that way if somebody points out your code has flaws. The issue in heathers case was (1) the code wasn't bad (2) the criticism was malicious.
In the US, housing values have crashed since the bubble burst in early 2007. Americans have a bigger problem securing mortgages than they do finding an affordable home.
That seems to be a pretty sound approach, compared to some of the stuff about multiarmed bandits that shows up here some times. And I certainly expect Noel Welsh to chime in as well.

There are two schools of thought about the approaches to sequential testing, the Bayesian approach lead by Anscombe, and the frequentist by Armitage. I talked a bit about this and outlined Anscombe's approach here [1]. And it is great to see such a nice write up of the frequentist approach and the tables of the stopping criteria

[1] http://blog.custora.com/2012/05/a-bayesian-approach-to-ab-te...
Why do you think this is the future of webservers? As all 16 cores don't actually appear to Linux directly.

However I guess you could code a webserver specifically for it.
I'd say that "get a dozen" implies "jugs = 12" and not "jugs += 12". If you wanted to get a dozen more, you'd say "get a dozen more"
The crazy think is we still are extremely bad at fitting things together - still the best way of fitting things together is the unix pipe

This is something that resonates with me. I'm never been a 'nix person but this is a very attractive pitch for getting stuff done. It is, after all, how we build things with LEGO.

I went to a Java school so my OO indoctrination was strong by the time I graduated. Now I'm really starting to crave a development paradigm by composition rather than inheritance. My job title is no longer that of a programmer but I write utilities and library daily to help me with my 'real' job. It helps me get stuff done.

So my question - since I primarily work in the MS world, does PowerShell offer the same flexibility and utility of the Unix pipe? I'd never thought of taking the time to learn it until reading this post.
I certainly agree that Woz seemed too weak, like the fat-kid character from a Judd Apatow film (so maybe they wanted Jonah Hill to play the part?). I don't know what Woz was like as a kid, but he seemed like a lot cooler guy when I saw him speak.

But then maybe that's how the scriptwriters viewed the Steve Jobs character -- they researched him in his polished adult form, and couldn't imagine him as someone younger and rougher around the edges.

I never thought I was looking at anyone but Ashton Kutcher. He wasn't playing Steve Jobs -- he was just emoting over the lines written to evoke Steve Jobs.
You can buy unlocked iPhones at apple stores in Canada. I get unlimited minutes and text with chatr. That comes with free long distance, call display, voicemail etc. everything except picture messaging or data.

Chatr doesn't sell microsims. So at the mall, there is a kiosk that will legally cut the chatr sim for $10. Chatr encourages this.

This plan works even if I travel to another city, as long as its a major center.

No contract. They're actually illegal in Quebec. Instead, companies offer the same agreements to consumers, and conscmersd just have to pay back part of the phone price if they leave early.

If you have a discounted agreement that doesnt include a subsidy, you can leave anytime you want.
They're both not white, as the title of this post suggests.
There's nothing in a typical work environment remotely comparable to a cheating spouse. Assuming they didn't have a string of other convictions, I'd give the person the benefit of the doubt regarding their impulse control. Assuming they're really the best qualified for the job.

That said, I'd also prefer the candidate with equal qualifications and no felony.
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Massive advantages in education? With higher education requirements, the average worker is now forced - if they want to make the same wage they would have in 1972 - to pay for their own job training, college education etc. That people have to go into debt to get an education to make what they could have without it 40 years ago you're presenting as something positive.
This doesn't answer your question, but when we evolved to walk upright a significant level of risk was added to childbirth.