skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Economist is pretty consistent in advocating its deregulated, trade-based neoliberal stance in more or less any article: it's just more obvious when it comes to Scandinavian and East Asian Tiger states whose economic performance glaringly conflicts with its theories than when it justifiably credits US success with a pro-business attitude and failures with regulatory capture and protectionism, blames regulation for European slowdown and accuses the slowly-developing world of being ridiculously corrupt.
Provide evidence. I hate hearing this claim without any quantifiable proof being provided at all.
I think Windows RT is an amazing tablet experience. As others have mentioned some of its UI conventions are different and require learning. Overall, its a very well made and pleasant to use device that does what I need it to do.

Though I should note that I've loved them Metro UI since I saw it on the Windows phone.
You definitely make some great points. I do, however, wonder why you consider business skills a positive quality, but being a sex toy a negative quality? Neither is inherently good or inherently bad.

I expect it is because the woman is viewed as a sex toy without getting to choose to be one? However, the stereotype about a man's wallet seems to play into the same idea. A man who looks wealthy is going to be assumed to be a smart businessman, even if he wishes to not be seen that way.

I admit that I still don't fully understand, and maybe it is impossible for me to fully do so, but I'm glad we can talk openly about it to learn more.

- "I suggest to challenge yourselves and go out to a gay night club on a Friday night."

I have actually done this and found it to be a fun and positive experience. Nothing creepy or uncomfortable about it. I guess I am, perhaps, too ugly to have experienced what you are talking about?
> Apple for example takes a different route: they have shorter support spans, but rarely invalidate whole technology stacks.

Carbon programmers beg to differ.

(Full disclosure: I was always a Cocoa guy, so this isn't sour grapes. But if you were paying attention to the OS X development scene as a whole, it was really shocking how fast Carbon went from being more actively developed and having support for more things than Cocoa to being thrown straight into the dumpster.)
If you apply enough reductive logic, anything can seem to be the same thing.
I'm looking at two dozen submissions, nearly all from different sites (ranging from major news sites to personal blogs), all apparently banned. I know some sites are blocked, but it's hard for me to believe that every single one of those submissions came from a site that's HN-verboten. It seems like a much more straightforward explanation to assume that at some point an admin decided that anything submitted from my username from then on would go straight into File 13.

My personal theory as to what happened is this -- this is the last submission I made that got any upvotes:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4331466

It was made tongue in cheek (follow the link and you'll get the joke), but I think an admin saw it, didn't like it, and decided that was sufficient justification for sending me into the Outer Darkness.

Personally I wouldn't care as much if there'd just been an up-front explanation when the decision was made. Passive-aggressive hellban-type sanctions are supposed to be for hardcore trolls, and I would think 4400+ karma (average of 6.02) would indicate that I am not that. But whatevs.
Check out EM reconstruction. Electron microscopy images are taken at very terrible resolution. But you pick out tens of thousands of them, from different angles, and you can average them to get a very high resolution average.
As others have said, mediocrity is relative. So is stupidity and genius.

Growing up and becoming (something of) an adult, the one thing that still constantly surprises me is the huge amount of mediocrity surrounding me, and not just that: they're succesful and happy. Part of the reason for this surprise is that I generally surround myself with people that are at the very least not much more mediocre than me, and often people that are on par or 'better' than me.

If you're a PhD student, you're clearly not 'mediocre' by most standards. And I suspect you're in a competitive environment full of people that are either very smart, or trying to prove they are.

So then ask yourself: who am I comparing myself to, and why is it important to do so. There's always someone 'better', so thinking in this way is futile.

My general approach to life is this: if I feel like the smartest person I know, I should find more smarter friends. If I feel intimidated or bad by those around me, I should perhaps find friends that are equal or less smart then me. I've been in both situations.

Incidentally, many of those I thought smarter than me really weren't. And those of my friends that are 'dumber' then me make up with that in a myriad of other ways, since fortunately being smart isn't all there is.
My hunch would be for the careers section at the bare minimum.
I am planning to assemble a barometer (and ultimately gather temperature and humidity data as well) on Arduino, and upload data feed to my computer. Does PressureNet have an API to accept data from devices other than Android phones?
Unless you are comfortable with tweaking opacity, jitter and point size until you get a graph that is representative, don't use scatterplots. A 2d histogram with a decent color scheme is far more reliable and easy.

For dense data, scatterplots can obscure more than they show:

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/dont_use_scatterplots...

Even an author who was well aware of the problem made the same mistake:

http://garyrubinstein.teachforus.org/2013/01/09/the-50-milli...
I appreciate the response. It was actually the original tweet that made me feel it was about the generally negative view of bodies, and not any kind of women's rights issue. It mentions appropriateness, which is usually associated with people, of all sexes, needing to covering up to be appropriate.

Obviously the whole thing runs much deeper and I agree that things could be handled much more effectively.
To sell ads and job listings on Careers so we can employ ourselves to continue to make the internet better.
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I had no idea this section even existed, and I've been on here for years, literally never clicked that link!
What's the intended purpose behind including barometers in newer phones?
New opportunities come in the multitudes. The Valley is also very small. There is always a new company starting where the CTO is a former co-worker of your roommate's cousin or something like that and needs a guy/gal he can trust. Six degrees of Kevin Bacon, NorCal style.
It weights more than KO but also does a lot more. The 2 way databinding is easier than KO (don't need observable/computed, just simple JS objects).
Since I've tried Angular I've not used KO on any new project.
The site itself is a bit weird. Most of the content looks like it's loaded in via AJAX, and on a slower connection it's pretty jarring. Clicking on "See All" initially shows the "About Us" section of the page, which caused me to think I clicked the wrong link, and went back. It wasn't until I clicked it again that I noticed what was going on. At least throw some kind of AJAX spinner/placeholder or indicator that the page content is still loading.

Cool idea though.
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A friend of mine who follows you/your work is convinced you, unlike most HNers, aren't soaking in the particular startup cliché I'm talking about. That you aren't aware of its epidemic-like prevalence. My side of the conversation doesn't make sense, if you aren't.

Go to a few tech meetups and count the times you hear "changing the world!@!" about something that is truly, at best, a diversion. Repeat several times a year. Also read the posts here from startups who are hiring, count the times they say "change the world" "revolutionize the xyz" etc. See how many of them actually do anything that you or I would consider world-changing.[1]

Then see if you don't agree with me about the phrase. :)

At any rate, I'm not arguing with you, I don't know you. I'm arguing with the startup world's obsession with the phrase, and the epidemic of grandiosity that infects it. It's literally killing people. That's my beef.

[1] I don't actually recommend you doing all these things because it would probably depress you. It depresses me!
There was a bet on another forum. Could someone with only flight simulator experience take off, fly the pattern and land a single engine plane on their first try. I won't spoil it for you, read the thread here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34/other-other-topics/prop...
> Classes are giant

Current CS undergrad at Berkeley. This is the main problem I have with Berkeley. You can interact with the faculty plenty (at least in my experience), especially when you get to your upper division classes. I don't really do that much anyway and care more about how well professor's lecture than anything else.

The problem is that it's becoming increasingly difficult to get into the upper division classes you're interested in. There are just too many people and not enough space. My smallest class is 30 people, but it's a graduate level course, while my other two upper division CS classes have 400 people and 315 with 75 on the waitlist. I thought my classes would get smaller as the semesters went on, but that has not been the case.
It's just you...

http://isup.me/bankofamerica.com
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I think it is a great idea but difficult to implement. There are the privacy concerns, e.g. "I paid in cash to remain anonymous, so why would I give you an email address?" or "Hmmm, the credit card company used to only know the amount I paid and the store, now they can get a list of exactly what I bought". And then there are millions of cash registers out there that are not connected to the internet, and are not upgradable to add new software.
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Agree 100%. I went there as an undergrad and I hated it, except for my comp sci courses, which I loved. The department was young then, and it was a completely different experience being there during the rise of BSD.
Definitely not on the iPhone. The closes it comes is automatically displaying a list of available networks if there are any and you aren't connected to wifi, and letting you connect to one if you explicitly ask for it.
>It's sort of frustrating because I'm submitting my writing specifically to get feedback...

Personally, I'm hesitant to give feedback or even comment unless I think I have something unique to offer or have an unusually strong feeling about the material.

I think a large part of it is the generally combative stance many people seem to default into online.

I quickly got tired of "So, what have you done better?" responses to what I think is polite, constructive criticism or a "What does this add to the discussion?" quip as a result of posting a simple show of appreciation.

I'm theorizing it's an overcompensation from the transformation of certain aggregators into something like a backpatting / validation request line.
It's sad that you would submit something only if you can gain something and not to help the community.

BTW First results in google for "website load testing": http://loadimpact.com/
For example you could try this service out and write a post about your experience and submit it to HN so you could help the community with useful information.
This is a new (just for fun) side project of mine. New features are in the pipeline, but I want to get some people using it now while it is young so that I can get some good feedback on where to go in the future. It should be pretty stable and (hopefully) free of critical bugs.

Let me know what things you’d like to see added to make it more useful. Either in the comments, or preferably on https://getsatisfaction.com/goodgrapes so I have a list of things to do :)

The idea is that you recommend wine, and then based on your tastes wines will be recommended to you. It is also a great way to keep track of wine you’ve tried and enjoyed.

In a way I’m scratching my own itch. I enjoy wine a great deal but know little about it and find the choices overwhelming. Getting recommendations seems like a great place to start exploring.

Thanks!
If the primary benefit of attending a good college is education from professors, then yes, there is something perverse in the rankings. But I'm not sure that's how college actually works.

At the undergrad level, a particular class at one college is likely pretty similar to a class at another college. And aside from a few exceptional students, you're likely to be able to find whatever classes you're looking for at any college you care to attend. There are more competent people who can teach, and want to teach, intro to Shakespeare, or second-semester thermodynamics, or whatever, than there are teaching positions available.

Most of the benefit you get from choosing college A over college B comes from your interactions with your peers. Some of this is just people working together on class projects, but a lot of it is the pervasive culture of a place. At some schools, people will hang out and talk about political theory. At others, there's a culture of making art. Some places care more about sports. And at some schools there's a culture of building things. Actually, at most schools, all of these things happen to some extent, but you're more likely to encounter them at some places than at others.

And if that's the benefit of college, then it absolutely makes sense to say that the best colleges are the ones with the best students.
Speaking as a HN regular, I think we've drawn attention to this topic over and over, which would explain the flagging. And every new article resets the discussion to zero, giving room for uninformed comments and the resulting drama to be posted for the Nth time.
I just can't take people seriously when they talk about women as if they were a minority. Women are the majority of the population, and the government goes out of its way to favour them, usually at the cost of men (and sometimes children). Feminism is a mental illness, and I'm glad more people than ever are waking up to this.

Edit: downvote me all you want, it doesn't change the fact that I'm right.
The alternative being... what, sitting down, listening to what they want to say, and then giving them what they want?

Bear in mind that there's nothing more frustrating that someone apparently taking you seriously and listening to you and then flat-out refusing to give you any of what you want from them. It makes you feel like you were tricked by someone who never took you seriously at all.

Fundamentally, this is about a company facing off against an angry group of people who want to force the company to action that pleases them. No CEO is going to enjoy that.

Also, if the demographic in question isn't your customer base you're likely to treat them somewhat less seriously.
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I never knew that was possible! I'd have imagined it could have been possible as a contractor, but not with this arrangement. Is there any particular benefit to being an employee in this case as opposed to a contractor?
Interesting thesis, I would like to see a cage match between Noah and Edward Tufte :-) I tend to favor Tufte's thesis that humans can extract more knowledge per millimeter of paper space out of a chart than they can out of text. The trick of course is constructing that visualization. Most folks are facile with words, while fewer can work as effectively with shapes.

I like the notion that if you cannot see at least four things in a chart then the chart isn't doing its job. It makes me ask the question, "What is the context in which this chart is expressing information? Can I show that?"
How is government spending as a percentage of GDP? Because AFAICT our biggest problem in the USA is not spending within our means.
The unrealistic aspect of that backtest is the total leverage - the algorithm ends up borrowing something like $700k on an initial balance of $10k.

Why not prevent this borrowing in the backtest? Quantopian's philosophy is to report the results, rather than block you from trying outrageous scenarios.

Backtests are not predictive; they are a tool to investigate the behavior of your algorithm.
IANAL, but as long as they are paying your company for your work - you should be safe. I.e. you two should not have employer-employee relationship.
Implicit in that "something" is at the very least "something you care about" because frankly, while the Internet is filled with a bunch of crap, usually the producers of said crap actually do care about it. It's hard to sit down and write 5 paragraphs about something you don't care about.
If Iceland hadn't told the banks to eff off, they would have been hugely indebted to foreign banks for a hundred years.
I think we would be remiss if we did not consider this in a more bayesian fashion.

Say 90% of all tech companies are using sexist advertising. Big problem; clearly something wrong with tech.

But that is only part of the picture. We have to consider what companies that are not "tech companies" are doing as well. If we see similar levels of sexist nonsense from them, then we should consider the possibility that the "techiness" of tech companies is not to blame and the problem has another cause.

I think it is very likely that this incident is a manifestation of something that is wrong with marketing and corporations in general. This stuff isn't popping up because tech is involved, it is popping up because advertisers are involved and executives okay it.

I feel I should say explicitly that I am not saying this behavior should be permitted "because everyone else is doing it". The behavior is not acceptable, but we should find the real cause.
Someone born and raised in New York City probably doesn't have that much in common with someone from upstate New York either.
I'm a fan of histograms above nearly all else. When I need to show change over time, I actually prefer heatmaps:

http://deliveryimages.acm.org/10.1145/1810000/1809426/gregg3...
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1809426

It's like a scatterplot, but a bit better at showing collapsed data (i.e., there's a lot of data at that point on the graph -- is in more or less than that other jumble of Xs?).
It is, and people do, from what I understood.

I might be wrong, though, or it might have been something that's since been rectified. I use a "feature" phone now, so I don't actually know what the most current phones do.
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Says the guy who went to Harvard
I've been working remotely at my current company for just over 4 years now. I've never met anyone that I work with. I actually work less overtime (none) with this job than any time I worked in an office (usually 60-80 hour weeks). I just get my work done without interruption.

Working remotely has allowed me to move out of New York and have money to pursue other goals. It has been difficult to stay social -- it a 45 minute drive to the nearest small city. The tradeoffs are worth it though.

I'm likely to return to working somewhere on site soon, but working remotely has significantly improved my focus and my work ethic.
I don't know about others. But I upvote a lot!! And I almost always remember to come back to upvote after reading the article.
It's just lack of communication IMO. I'm quite interested in JS frameworks and only learned about angular a few months ago.

This framework doesn't get (yet) the attention it deserves but from what I've seen this last months it's improving.
Thanks to StackOverflow I'm relatively reputed(?) in one teeny niche of the programming world. This leads to a few recruiter emails per week, and almost all of them I reply to with a cheeky way of saying that I'm not going to move[1].

One company to date has said that not-relocating my entire life is OK with them. The rest can be summed up with the reply that ended an email exchange with an SV angel:

> sorry to hear that, and let me know if you ever decide to head west, young man :-)

Alas I'm a person before I'm a programmer. And I always will be. And I have a family and friends and a home in New Hampshire that do not fit on airplanes so neatly.

Even apart from the tangibles, I cannot fly the feelings. I cannot fly the sights and smell of my hometown to the Bay Area. I cannot fly the white mountains, so isolated from the civilized world and yet they feel so familiar to stand atop the notch and look around, as if I've been there a thousand times, as if I've always been there.

Maybe that's dopey. I don't know. There are streets to know intimately and sights and mountains and sunsets in other parts of the world. But I feel like I belong here. Life is peaceful, I live slowly, I walk everywhere. I can be in love with the world on a time-scale, a thing at least partially set by surroundings, that works for me.

[1] http://simonsarris.com/blog/626-why-i-love-recruiters
this is interesting because Chris Meyer (one of the authors of the paper) is going to soon release details about an attack similar to Bleichenbacher that effects the Java SSL implementation and possibly other implementations.
Almost. I'm working on this as almost top-priority right now. There are two APIs/SDKs that I'm building for pressureNET this week. The first is a customer-facing API to access the livestream data, and this is what we have in Beta right now streaming just to Cliff Mass. We'll finish that up in a few days, and move on to API number 2, which is what you're asking for. My first step is allowing other app developers to include pressureNET inside their apps, in order to increase the value of both projects. I will follow this by accepting data from other sources as well.

All of us who work on pressureNET are doing it in our free time as we all have day jobs, and this project currently does not generate any revenue. So you may wait a little while for the second part of that second API to get done. But on the other hand, we're open source, so if you're itching to get it ready you can help us out. :) The project is split into three repos on GitHub, we're going to merge the two servers into one sometime soon.

https://github.com/JacobSheehy/pressureNET

https://github.com/JacobSheehy/pressureNETServer

https://github.com/JacobSheehy/pressureNETAnalysis
That is because the definition of corruption is corrupted by the corrupt!!!

A lot of people see all that lobbying as corruption. But it will never ever figure in statistics for corruption.
I tried to sign up for the end of the world sale, but their servers were down and they won't honor the discount now. I don't blame 'em... but would love it if they threw me a bone for something like PHPStorm.
Some Google employees have mentioned that it's there to improve GPS times. The devices already have a latitude+longitude estimate from cell towers and WiFi, and the barometer adds an altitude estimate.
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http://unplu.gg is hardware agnostic.

The data can be collected from a range of sensors like The Energy Detective or Current Cost. That is the current best selling point.

The rest is vision of what this service can be. And our focus in that regard seems very differente, although only a part of that vision is represented in the current state of the app.

Hopefully we will be back in a couple of months showing a couple of disruptive new features.
I feel like this is equivalent to: "how to fix a bug when you don't know how to program"... I could write as much as you like but there is an explanatory gap...