skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Ngoc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Herpin
Cool, I might look into doing that instead. Thanks.
You mean, build a statistically relevant sample of B2B products and then "test" selling them to enterprises?

I guess I must have misunderstood, because this is not worthwhile advice :)
Yes, it's still open source. Freedom is more about liberty than cost.
May I suggest you use <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags?
I agree he could have presented his data better. I also recognize that there is some correlation. None the less, the story was about how averaging can be used to make a correlation appear strong than it is, and going from 0.3 to 0.99 certainly meets that criteria. I was responding to the claim that the data might already have a strong correlation (presumably on the order of 0.99), and I was arguing that no "natural" strongly correlated data would have a scatter plot like that.

I might add that discussions like these, Illustrate a broader problem with the hacker news community. Rather than discussing the facts of the story, many of the posts are instead about the less relevant detail about how the author chose to present them, despite the fact the the authors point is still effectively made (and if the 0.3 were included there wouldn't have been any doubt)

BTW: tmoertel did some analysis on the data: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125851 and the correlation appears to be around 0.2, which is pretty weak.
Why do you need ST to be involved in building? I use ST for all text editing and then click the build button where ever it may lie - python script file, Xcode, or VisualStudio.

You do lose the ability to jump to the exact line an error is on which is a mild nuisance but nearly enough to make me stop using ST.
Most enterprise software is actually small business software that has grown into the role. You can start with a SaaS that charges thousands of SMEs a double or triple digit sum, and slowly work up the food chain to the multi-million dollar contracts.

And there are thousands of such niches. Millions, really. They're all around, everywhere. Find any office, anywhere, in any business. You will find some repetitive-but-business-critical proces being performed by someone following a yellow photocopied guide taped to the wall above the fax machine.
Interesting, thanks. Hadn't looked up those stats in years and lowballed it as a result.

My weight percentile is around 40%. I feel good about that compared to my height percentile, since it's muscle and not fat.
What are some fun project ideas in machine learning? :)
Behold, a thread where people who wish some machine learning-based webservice, library/framework or application existed meet people who are looking for a fun project idea to implement! Pure magic.
This article (and the comments here) remind me of something I read in Managing the Professional Service Firm by David Maister: whether you're hiring a lawyer, a car mechanic, or anything in between, you usually have little ability to asset their technical merits, so you have to choose based on other factors. That could be price, but it can also be things like reputation, responsiveness, patience & clarity in answering your questions, etc. Realize it's the same way when someone is thinking of hiring you. The article & these comments mostly focus on technical questions, and indeed if the tech is bad enough you have project failure. But if you're talking with technically un-savvy clients, you should help them realize you have more to offer than just a lower risk of botched tech, certainly more than just "better code." Particularly as a sole contractor, you can offer them a more personal relationship with wise guidance that they aren't going to get by hiring their cousin or the cheapest programmer they can find on elance.com.
I'm in the same boat. I still think NERDTree, NERDCommenter, surround plugin, modelines and ability to use the same editor AND plugins in an SSH console is unbeatable combination. I can edit from my iPad with a bluetooth keyboard on my Linode VPS.

I really liked Sublime but VIM like a good pair of Levis' 501 never goes out of style.
To me the biggest threat to computing freedom is no longer your operating system vendor but "the cloud". Most people are just giving their data away to companies that can do whatever they want with it including delete it forever when they go out of business.

I'm not trying to dust off my foil hat or anything, but the OS war is almost over, it's the "who own's your data" war now. And I mean OWNS your data.
Alternatively, rehash the passwords on login with the new, safer system.
People this young and intelligent don't deserve this.
The problem with posts like this, both pro- and anti-Facebook, is that they are just someone's experience and our experiences vary. If your personal use of Facebook had similar results to the author's, you nod your head, perhaps virtually applaud, and share the link. I know I'm tempted to do so here.

But I also know that there are people who use Facebook in a way that strengthens, augments and reinforces real-life relationships. I've also read of studies that show a positive, not a negative, correlation between time spent on social media and how engaged people are with others in person. Some will say, "well, duh" to that, and will shake their heads at an article like this, which to them only shows that someone doesn't know how to use Facebook.

Both experiences are valid. I follow a sociologist on Twitter who writes a lot of essays from the latter viewpoint. To him, it's a theoretical split. There is the "digital dualist" theory, that basically says online/offline is a zero sum game and social media makes friendships shallow and disposable, and there is the "augmented reality" theory that all is connected, that what we do online is real life and not something different. And he holds the latter theory to be correct while the former, he finds simplistic, sentimental and broken. (I'm thinking of @nathanjurgenson if anyone wants to follow along, have done my best to represent his views but obviously this summary is my own)

I disagree with all of the above. It has become ever more clear to me that some people really do use and experience Facebook in a dualistic way while others do not. There is no one, unified, grand theory of Facebook that encompasses all experiences. Both camps would like to say, "This is how it is, period", but they are really saying, "This is how it is for me".
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You should definitely check out Bugsense (http://www.bugsense.com)
What does the Mac Pro offer for iOS developers that the iMac does not?
I think this interview from 2010 is worth re-reading.

http://www.socaltech.com/interview_with_jody_sherman__ceo_of...
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I was thinking the same. Long live Redis!
I'm not on FB. (Seriously.) What are they sharing that is so embarassing for their future jobs? Affairs? Stripper parties? Pot smoking? Wet t-shirt contests?

Watching "Mike & Molly" on CBS is telling me that in the future none of that matter. If the granny network has a show about pot-smoking and guys going down on senior citizens, then those types of photos will be considered PG-13 in the near future.
Great post. I love that this industry is more a meritocracy than many others. One note: your ENTP link is https://entp.com/ when it should be http://entp.com/
It's not really that difficult. Let's say you've got a column called 'insecure_pass' that is storing a simple md5 hash of users' passwords.

Four simple steps:

1) You add a new password column to your DB (secure_pass) and modify your account creation / password change code to store bcrypt(md5(password)) in that column in parallel with just md5(password) in the old insecure_pass column.

2) You run a job that migrates insecure_pass to secure_pass by calculating bcrypt(insecure_pass) and storing that in secure_pass.

3) You turn on "dark reads" for secure_pass on login and log if there are any cases where validation against secure_pass failed when validation against insecure_pass succeeded. If a log message shows up, you did something wrong.

4) You move over to "light reads" for secure_pass and stop updating/validating insecure_pass. Once that's deployed, you drop the insecure_pass column from your DB.
Yeah, it can qualify as that, but usually when we mean "run on Linux" it refers to Native versions for Linux distros.
THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
Shocking. There is no news of how it happened. 2 days back he updated his Twitter account. Could anyone tell me?
I had a top 3 site on adbrite and was making almost six figures per year around 2004. I got banned without any warning. It was fun while it lasted. Their whole system sucked. They banned me because they wanted me to charge more. Their system allowed a huge backlog of ads that I had to display when my site got popular and prevented me charging more.
Gulags on Google Maps
Senators to introduce high-skilled immigration bill
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There seems to be a lot more useful explaining going on here compared to the bland platitudes I'm used to reading from Microsoft.
I personally can't wait for them to use ARGUS and persistence stare in North St. Louis, East St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, and all the other cities with extreme violent crime problems. That's one of the biggest reasons for why so many have moved out to the suburbs far far away from the cities. Look at your cities crime-map data and notice how crime completely destroys entire neighborhoods and surrounding areas. This new technology, if put to use to combat crime could revitalize downtowns and cities for hundreds of millions of people. Reversing suburban sprawl, "white-flight", and forest destruction.

People DO want to move inward, especially America's younger generations that grew up isolated in the suburbs where everything important and all their friends were miles apart. Young people in America are leading the urban renewal philosophy, and it's sad to see their efforts, and their businesses affected by crime.

I don't like the Privacy violation, but... With everything comes good and bad. Look at cars, consumerism, religion, etc... Things that were set up with good intentions, had some bad outcomes, and in the end were accepted when people saw both the good and bad as general progress.
The initial version of ML was terrible on my 2008 MBP but they made performance enhancements and now 10.8.2 works fine. Spending $50 for gb/RAM didn't hurt of course (best investment of my life btw).
Site is back online now.
What's noticeably missing from Vintage for you?

I'm also Vim user who has considered jumping to Sublime several times, but never quite managed to achieve escape velocity. (Though I hadn't realised until now that the Vintage package is an open repository)
Startups, you don't have to start in enterprise. You can start with SME B2B, do that really well, and then look at enterprise. Whole B2B is much larger than the enterprise.
Sheesh okay I'm sorry! I thought it was funny, never do it again, etc...
How much effort is required to maintain the same code base compatible between 2.6 and 3.3? Non-python guy here.
Notice: Your job has just been virtualized.
It's $30. What sort of development are you doing that isn't worth $30 for the single tool that allows you to do it?

I can't imagine carpenters are incensed when Ryobi brings out a new $300 drill. You either buy the new drill, or you keep the old one. Nobody expects new hardware for free, why software?
Start small. Start with 5 person customers. 10. 25. 100. 500. Grow as you go.

Talk to people. Friends. Family. People who have jobs. Who can intro you to their managers. Ask questions. Listen listen listen. Spend your time out of the office, out on the streets, doing customer visits. Read and learn everything about an area you might want to solve. Succeed.
a decentralized phone app social network would work to cut down on costs because you'd make no income :P

i prefer to have a private jabber/OTR chatroom open with a bunch of friends in it to talk to each other back and forth like a slow room IRC channel all day. privacy ftw so nobody ends up fired when going on a rant about a project, their company or relationships.
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Animal sound detector

Speech recognition for cows,dogs,birds etc.

Moo,chirp,meow
One of the problems you're going to run into is simply that the switching costs for an enterprise size company looking to change from a CMS like this are going to be huge. People are going to want retraining and orientation of a level that most early stage startups just can't support. That's why with enterprise software it's not the product that matters as much as the supporting infrastructure.
And older people could say exactly the same thing about email, IM and discussion forums like HN.

I know far more people who check their email religiously than check Facebook.
Because you've built a ton of custom stuff on top of it that may be relying on various quirks or be designed around bad design decisions made in earlier versions.

You will still get this problem with browsers also for example. The amount of times a firefox update has resulting in half of my plugins breaking.
And still no option to print? I've been a happy ST2 licensee for quite some time, and the inability to print is probably my biggest complaint (though, admittedly, I don't need to print things very often).
This is awesome. One thing though. Instead of having to wait for the results to be calculated how about emailing the results when it's done? That way there's less need to keep the page open.
It should be pointed out that the various organs of both the Democratic and Republican party both run voter registration drives, as do a number of other groups (with varying degrees of affiliation with official parties).

It's not surprising that each group targets demographics which seek to further their aims.

Despite that, registering more voters is categorically a good thing. We as a society require an informed and engaged electorate. Registering to vote is part of that engagement.
Emphasis on Facebook to YOU.

I don't have any of the same problems you do. So for me there is a strong and obvious relationship between the maturity of your friends and the maturity of their posts.
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I bet it was fairly rare for an adult to spend 8 hours a day on the telephone when it first came out.
Even in the same age range? I imagine most athletes are in ages 16-35, where getting cancer is pretty rare (save for some inherited ones) and should be equal for all occupations and lifestyles.
Assuming you have perfect tests..

Still doesn't fix the fundamental problem though.
Let's say you automatically install updates on a staging server and automatically deploy to production if all tests pass.

What do you do when you're faced with a choice of deploying an app with a few failed tests (for perhaps not totally clear reasons) or leaving an old version up with a vulnerability?
Many of my friends don't live in the same country.

So phone or video chat is impossible and using the postal system is just being stupid.
Definitely a joke, if you're serious that's even more worrying ;)

Still, people have been lifted from their beds for tweets about such things.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/obama-twitter-death-thre...

Granted that was slightly more specific threat, but this being hacker news that ggp already has a strike against ;)
More. Of everything.

More cores, more RAM, more GPU grunt to drive more screens.
not really, but the man spent all his time on S3 development, I think it's the reason that we haven't seen any progress in vintage mode. With S3 beta released, I guess he doesn't need to stick to it every second any more.
I've never had an account, this is from my observations of every single facebook page I've ever seen from coworkers, friends and girlfriends.

Do you guy's enjoy circle jerking around tagging each other's pics and liking stuff? Sounds pretty awesome
>As someone who only used IDE debuggers all his (short) programming career, I was wondering, how do you debug without a visual debugger?

I'd ask the reverse of you. Why do you spend time in a debugger at all? For 99% of the bugs logical thinking and a few printfs work faster and better ran blindly running around setting breakpoints and examining values.
It'll automatically reload if you don't have any unsaved changes, if you have, it will ask you to reload
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Upgrading to Mountain Lion was a breeze for me. It's much more like Snow Leopard than Lion. Much more stable IMO.
>I'm a Sublime Text 2 owner, but the continued lack of a Linux/ARM build nor any announced plans for the same mean I won't be upgrading.

Damn! There goes the whole of the Linux/ARM community!
Awsome, I like how quick it is.
1) He never called you an asshole. He just posted his views about DDG.

2) If you are offended by what he said, it doesn't give you the right to call him an asshole.

For example, I know many people whose projects you didn't complete on time and who think you are a rotten dick for rightly being one. But I didn't call you a rotten dick, did I?

And also, stop defending DDG like a pussy that's everywhere, dude.
Sounds very similar to my own high school experience actually..never really cared, never stressed, smoked a lot of weed, had a lot of different friends, partied, had fun. Could have gotten more girls I suppose, but I'm making up for it now. Girls just love software engineers don't they?
Why is video chat impossible? International calls are the perfect use case for it. (I guess you could drop the video, and just do a VOIP phone call also.)
According to this article the screenshots of a performant top office suite are bad and the screenshots of an admittedly beautiful but otherwise not too useful once-overhyped app are good. Uhm ... I don't know if I really care.
When they bought SlideRocket it just fell dead in the water. Hell, I can't even add an RSS feed or embed some HTML. It's one of the top request from clients in the forum. (Paying client here. Sliderocket is great for out account managers doing presentations and keeping versions in sync).
> Do you guy's enjoy circle jerking around tagging each other's pics and liking stuff? Sounds pretty awesome

I simply use it as a shared address book/messaging/event system.

It always amazes me that a single web site can evoke such bizarre reactions such as this.
Totally killed all of my media queries..

http://jairaj.org
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@dbaupp .. Full time jobs + Time zones.
Or perhaps, women knowing that women often get promoted on their looks, and aware that good looking women tend to have a warped interaction with reality, are doing the right thing by nuking their chances.

There have been several eye opening AMAs on reddit where people had things like gender changes, or went from attractive women to not attractive, and suddenly realizing that they had essentially been in a bubble.

Heck I was just discussing this recently with a Neuro Science PHD student and she had had the same realization - coming in to work one day she needed help carrying stuff, and multiple people volunteered to help along her way. She reached work telling her co-workers that reality was amazing and that her faith in Humanity had been restored.

A colleague pointed out that thats not normal - and asked her what sex all the volunteers were - they were universally male.

Attractive women tend to end up in a bubble of sorts, and it has a distorting impact on their interaction and expectations of normal behavior.
How to: Prioritize security patches using CVSSv2
Good idea, especially with the HN traffic overloading my worker dynos right now. I'm scaling them up, but I'm afraid what this might cost...
The replace all performance increase is a great addition, sublime was just painfully slow at managing large simple replacements for when you didn't want to go out of the editor to use sed.
Likely not that many. Which is why it only prevents someone from being able to do a replay attack on the login form. (The server chose the secret for the HMAC). It made the better choice for attacking the site to be something more like firesheep to take over the session instead. Though I made that a little more difficult by rotating the session keys after every transaction, so if you take over it would force the other person to be "instantly" logged out and they'd notice and could do something about it (log back in and log out immediately would suffice). Not perfect but also not the worst way to do it (assuming they aren't injecting javascript into the client to do the work anyway, no way to prevent that over only HTTP).
Have you ever actually tried it on Windows? I use vim a lot on Linux but working with it on Windows is a nightmare.
There are few bigger circlejerks then from the "I hate Facebook" clan.
Yeah, it's still beta. It's powered inside by this open source library https://github.com/begriffs/css-ratiocinator

Please submit issues on github and I'll work on addressing them.
Sounds a bit like "envaulting": http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/10223648

This is from a crypto startup called Envault that was founded on the idea of splitting data in pieces - they keep a fraction of the ciphertext somewhere "in the cloud" and off the local storage of your device when not in use. This is advertised as being very very safe.

I never heard any crypto guy with credentials comment on their tech though which is usually a bad sign...
> jabber/OTR

That would be ideal, but I doubt the US government would allow a private communication platform to operate on a large scale. Unless it was hosted outside of the states, it would be quickly backdoored for their benefit.

I've had ideas like that in the past (think Twitter crossed with GPG), but I think you'd struggle to get people adopting the platform.
These are all great links to read if you'd like to dig deeper into search engine land.

Thanks for the searchco.de articles, they were nice to read (Saw them in the previous searchco.de HN) :-)
Nitpick: `J.K. Rowling' might be obscuring gender, but `George Eliot' isn't just obfuscation.
The era of closed science is over.
> The IRS eventually denied our application for status. It's not uncommon, especially in the open-source space..

Could you elaborate on that?
> In a management group, it's easy to lose face fast if someone doesn't follow a nuanced argument (which is admittedly a rookie mistake in such a setting)

Do you mean, making a nuanced argument is a rookie mistake, or not following one?
I tried using Sublime text and it's a great editor, extensible and moldable, but I just keep coming back to emacs since that is always available wherever I am, logged in via ssh.

A ssh/text-only version of sublime text would be interesting ;)
I started work prepping for Python 3 a little while ago at https://github.com/wbond/sublime_package_control/tree/split_..., however the actual Python 3 changes are in progress and have yet to be committed.
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You're making a reading comprehension error (it was an incrase of $11 from $59 to $70).

Although it's a silly error, I made the same one, and I know that I bought ST for $59. So I think the problem here is with the wording, not with us.
No more journalists on judging panels, please
Not yet. I started prepping for the port to Python 3 a bit ago at https://github.com/wbond/sublime_package_control/tree/split_..., but the actual Python 3 changes are still in progress and not pushed (for the sake of not spoiling Jon's surprise).
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