skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't understand what would be on this infographic you want.
It's a failure of clairvoyance, you mean.

Reality is more complex than any model.

That's why we build models. They are, by their very nature, simpler than reality.
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Interesting... just ran my own test and looks like I have jumped to conclusion too fast. NewRelic and the queue data do not seem to match, so I have some more reading to do.
So what you're saying is that people choose to live in locations with elected representatives that carry out their will, and yet, it has nothing to do with choice?

Perhaps road funding should only be paid out of gas and car taxes, and the federal government should stop subsidizing people's choices with other people's money, and then perhaps more people would choose to live closer to work.
A while back, our office moved locations, and I was searching for a pencil sharpener ... a manager stopped me and asked what I was looking for, and when I told him, he sort of gasped, and said out loud in a half-laughing voice "You want a Pencil Sharpener?!" People around started laughing...

It was ... weird. oO;

I did eventually fine a pencil sharpener though. :)
Anything except for quarks.
Sure it'd be nice.. but really, what's the difference? The sooner you stop worrying about that the sooner you can start building awesome shit with it!
Isn't compressed air somewhat like capacitors? So-so energy density, but great power density? It's supposed to be great for a burst of speed, but not for lots of range.
Hybrid vs EV: .56 vs 1.14 km/mj.

Xprise 100 mpg winner seriously considered EV but won with
Gas engine. Where's the discrepancy?
At least Germany is a good case study in the feasibility
Of a solar electric infrastructure. I thought diesel/ hybrid is best bet but it's good musk is here pushing the envelope.
According to the Google Adwords tool, "stack overflow" is googled 74,000 times each month. Not to mention all the permutations.

If I worked for Stack Overflow, I would also try to optimize for more general terms. The questions and answers are good at getting those long-tail keywords, but not so good at the more generic ones like "coding help" or "javascript help" or a hundred others. Stack Overflow isn't on the first page for either of those examples, or many others.
As a fan of UX patterns I'm curious: what would this one be called?
Thanks for the detailed reply.

Regarding 1, I know they're different. But value isn't knowable except in retrospect.

Regarding 2, my point with my Amazon story is that reasonable people can disagree about the value of something, and therefore be terribly wrong about price, and that it works both ways.

Regarding 3, it's interesting. I think your approach basically means that high-risk companies couldn't ever IPO, because there would be large legitimate differences in independent opinions. That seems like a high cost to pay. If I had my choice, we'd just outlaw sales and marketing. They'd put prospectuses up on web sites, announce the IPO date, and we'd see what happens. Equally unlikely that will ever happen, of course. Legislators and regulators don't work for the citizenry these days.

I think a market is essentially a giant learning machine. But because the knowledge is stored in humans, I think markets need to keep re-learning lessons. The dot-com bubble was a giant lesson in substance over dreams. More than a decade later, enough people had forgotten that they needed a lesson. Facebook and Groupon hopefully taught them that just because they think a product is swell and popular doesn't mean you should buy in at the IPO.
You're thinking of .name, which never really took off.
They have a rather long history of security concerns. Many times ending up in front of a judge.
I was one of those people - but to be fair, it's easy to dismiss a company, and given the failure rate of startups, you'd be right a lot more than you'd be wrong.

Being down about a startup is an easy game to play. Being optimistic - and being right - are much, much harder.
I would agree that it is unfortunate the lengths that women may have to go to in order to minimise their risk, however I don't think that ignoring these factors does anybody any good. Ideally nobody should have to take any measures to prevent anything bad from happening, but that's not how the world is.

I am in the UK , so perhaps culture is somewhat different here but I would expect that if a woman reported a sexual assault to basically anybody either a vigilante mob or police investigation would be mustered in short order rather than the incident trivialised or the victim blamed.

In fact there have been cases of premature "justice" taken against individuals before all of the facts are in. And it's not completely unknown for threat of fake rape accusations to be used as a method of blackmail. In other words branding somebody as a rapist is a sure fire way to fuck their life up, quite different from "everyone blames the victim".

Even though it is not pleasant reading I don't think it hurts to report on all of the facts in such cases if doing so might help others to avoid these situations. For example if I had a daughter I know I would want to give frank and strongly worded advice if I thought it might make her even a little bit safer, but if something were to happen I would certainly not blame her.
I'll second the recommendation for William Deresiewicz's essays.

Here's his most relevant essay to this topic, which he's currently expanding into a book: http://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-...
"if you're good, you can perhaps show an Order" ???
Is it your wild guess? Who told you this nonsense?
Gamification was executed so badly - it was complete absurd. It was anti-motivation rather than a motivation. Everything was fake, everybody ridiculed it, no one ever taken it seriously within my memory (since mid-60s).
For what it's worth, I'd like to share my own ideas about what makes a company grow fast and become a billion-dollar company. I'm writing from the perspective of a founder -- and though I'm not an investor, I am choosing to invest many years of my life into building something, which I think requires in some ways a greater degree of commitment and confidence than putting in money alone.

Building blocks for a great consumer company. You will need:

1. An existing social network (e.g. colleges)

2. A channel not (yet) clogged with spam (such as facebook photo tags)

3. A business model that complies with current regulations

4. Founders who are experts in their field, and passionate about the problem to solve

5. A set of processes, developers and systems with a proven track record of producing good products (development stack, version control, etc.)

On top of these things, any idea that solves an actual problem for people AND compels them to invite others should, if done right, at the very minimum make your money back if it makes money at all. Once the founders get traction and optimize the metrics, exponential growth should cut customer acquisition cost to zero. All this is repeatable and that's why if I was an investor, I'd look for the above formula because I'd know how it can lead to success step by step, and how to fix things if they went wrong.

I want to note that this is not the only formula for success, that is to say not all the aspects are strictly necessary, but taken together they are a good predictor of success. Enterprise B2B companies for example can follow a different formula build a great living for many years, but will ultimately be disrupted by consumer tech, like people increasingly switching to MacBooks or Google Apps.

I actually wrote two articles dealing with this in the last few years:
http://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/what-makes-companies-...
http://luckyapps.com/blog/?p=12
Good points, certainly, but just to clarify: Numba is not particularly dependent on Numpy's built-in vectorized and matrix operations. Instead, it's using the datatype information to do JIT type inference over the functions being called with the matrix/array arguments, and building machine code for them. You can call Numba JITted functions from other Numba JITted functions, and the overhead is the same as C functions calling each other.
So some ignoramus has mom and dad money pay for his apartment while he needlessly mooches off others because, in his own words, "I'm trying to be the change I need to see". He sounds like a dumb shithead.

Edit: to anyone who downvotes without explanation: you are a coward.
These are just obvious necessary conditions, like "start a company" is necessary to have a $1B company. They aren't sufficient. The article's title implies that they are, which is disingenuous.

"Want to build a $1B consumer company? Don't quit before it's worth $1B."
I am currently working on a doctorate in ML. I highly disagree with your perspective on Watson.

Watson's hardware was not revolutionary; it's software was. Most super computers have far better specs than Watson. Watson's deepqa algorithms are currently the best in the world. These algorithms can be applied to many industries (like medical diagnosis).

IBM has been around for a long time, and it is doing fine financially. IBM offers business products; if you have a data center, you're most likely own IBM servers. IBM also offers awesome software solutions for businesses.

I am extremely pleased IBM used Watson for PR promotions; it showed the general public the current capabilities of AI.
If you want a fountain pen like that (as opposed to a dip pen†), the only non-insanely-expensive source I've found is old pens with gold nibs ... If it's something not particularly attractive (there are lots of dull black old pens around), the price can be vastly more tractable than modern high-quality fountain pens.

Unfortunately the basic market for high-quality new pens seems to be as a luxury accessory, with price inflation to match. There's an apparent increase in low-priced new fountain pens in the last few years, but they all seem to have extremely stiff nibs made of thick steel or something.

[I met a guy in Boston who had a small open-by-appointment shop with like 4-5000 old fountain pens, most of which were not really pretty enough to sell well as boutique/antique items, but many of which wrote very nicely. He bought a lot of pens and eeked out a living selling the prettier ones; I'm not really sure what the eventual fate of the rest is.]

† There are tons of super cheap and nice flexible nibs available for dip pens, though I guess many are not well suited to general writing.
> But for some types of software there is not a good alternative.

This is exactly it. As much as many people dislike C++, not having it at all would be very bad for some areas. Users of the next major systems language should regard C++ in much the same way as (willing) users of C++ regard C.

The takeaway here should be about how much better the future can be, not how bad the present looks. The former is hopefully much less controversial than the latter.
You mean how he was held in protective custody (not solitary confinement, as is commonly and falsely claimed by idiots like Glenn Greenwald) because he has a history of mental instability (ie Gender Identity Disorder, punching another soldier) and the Army fears he's a suicide risk (which he probably is)?
Cornell wasn't really any better. I commonly came across cheating rings, especially among international students.
Do you agree that, to the extent to which the safety advice given to women mirrors the safety advice given to starry-eyed freshmen about muggers and thieves, such safety advice does not represent a manifestation of rape culture?

I don't think victim blaming is an imagined phenomenon, but I do think that the extent to which it permeates it's society is often exaggerated, to the extent that people who give reasonable safety advice can occasionally be vilified as contributing to it.
A can of coke (in the US) gives me 140 calories, every time I drink one. That's 140 calories I would have had to get from somewhere else, or do without. It would be better if I got those calories along with some fiber and other nice things by eating a fruit, but to say that Coke does nothing for anyone is absurd; sugar water clearly has utility.
It should be up to the team, that is what is key.

Way too many times management will try and dictate based on what they think is right without taking in the desires and the makeup of the team. This usually is shown in the form of all hands meetings on a very regular basis -- more than one startup I've been at have fallen into this trap.
Watson's strongest and most unique advantage may be IBM's PR department.
You get a lot of fun learning how its basic utilities crash on SIGSTOP.
It greatly bothers me that rayiner's post is showing up as 'dead', presumably because it was either downvoted too much or just flagged too much.

Anyway. So while we're all giving out examples and anecdotes, here's mine: I'm from an Asian family of 5, I was the only one who was given the 'follow your dreams!' advice out of the 5 (there's a long/funny story behind this). I did end up being the only one who went to school for a non-STEM field (literature/music).

Guess who's the only one unemployed out of the 5. Guess who wishes who was forced to stick to a STEM field? If I have children, damn right I'll force them toward STEM field, enroll them to a school with reputable robotics programs, expose them to folks who're in engineering/medical fields, etc.

Do read qzxt's relevant post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5308799

And lastly, because the idea of censorship doesn't sit well with me, here is what rayiner posted:

My parents had a plan for me and my brother growing up: I'd be an engineer and he'd be a doctor. At some point when we were old enough, we asserted yourselves, and I went into law and he went into banking. But in retrospect I'm glad my parents didn't just tell me "follow your dreams!" If it were up to me as a teenager, I'd just sit around all day masturbating and eating Cheetos. Kids need more direction than that.

Here is the thing about kids: they're not very smart. And they don't know it. My infant is convinced that if she sucks hard enough on my arm milk will come out. At 17 I was no less misguided just about different things.

You can always quit your professional job that puts food on the table to follow a more capricious path. But when your teenage dreams collapse against the hard ground of reality, you can't usually do the opposite.
How many times have you heard someone say "I'd use Linux for my desktop if it could run $GAME"?

This is the biggest reason why there hasn't been as much adoption -- a great many games are simply not yet ported, or their ports haven't been made ready for Steam distribution.

If a gamer's "workflow" is complicated even a little bit, such as requiring a reboot back into Windows to play one game, people will take the path of least resistance and just stay booted to Windows. This is what I currently do on my rMBP during heavy gaming sessions, because games like NBA 2K13, Skyrim, and Rift aren't yet supported in MacOS/Linux.

Once the top 50-100 games are ported, Linux desktop adoption will probably explode, correlated closely with the Steam market share held by Linux users, as the last bastion of excuses for using Windows finally fades away.
Big ups! LOVE LastPass.
This is only true for certain values of most, and even if it is, has nothing to do with the point that it is possible to arrange one's life so that a car isn't necessary. I won't deny that there are many potential obstacles to the sort of widespread societal change you seem to have assumed I was advocating. Mostly I just wanted to make the point that there are plenty of cheaper ways to be "more green" (than an unknown baseline of green-ness) than buying a Tesla vehicle & installing solar panels at one's home. We all get to make choices with positive or negative consequences for the environment, and not all of them are choices about what or which thing to buy.
Did they get rid of this 99 cent fee structure at some point? I switched to Spotify a while back, but when I stopped using Pandora over a year ago, this 99 cent fee for 40 hours+ of use was already the case.

I never really felt like 99 cents was a ridiculous amount to ask for from someone like myself who was using their service a lot every month.
Assuming all observed warming is anthropogenic, the amount of global warming caused by the cumulatie emissions of all of America's cars ever: 1/40th of 1 degree Centigrade.
I'm with you on that. But frankly, I'm glad my passion was in STEM. Because as a kid, I had no interest in thinking about my future financial security. I just happen to be lucky that pursuing my interests coincided with good career prospects. So what do we do with all the people that hate STEM as much as I hate going to night clubs?
However, without a grid feed to synchronize to, your grid-tied inverters will be useless. You'd need battery backup and a second set of DC inverters to accomplish the off-grid scenario you're referring to.
This is the tech world equivalent of tabloids. Please don't promote this mindless back and forth, If you have a problem with Heroku leave and go to one of the other providers. If you don't stay and push them to fix this problem. Either way stop pretending this is some huge event that we must mindlessly obsess over
Dinosaur (Noun): A person or thing that is outdated or has become obsolete because of failure to adapt to changing circumstances.

I'm not sure why you think I'm a "young'un" but, please get over yourself, "old timer."

So because 12px font was super readable on 640x480 CRT on Win95, we should continue to use that and never update our blogs?

Are you seriously trying to defend shitty readability in 2013? What a weirdo.
> WTF. He was essentially a WikiLeaks mole working on the inside...

Calling someone a "mole" that has not been recruited, has not received any kind of compensation and has gotten no commands is a a really large stretch of the meaning of the word "mole".

> He freely admits releasing documents that he felt could possibly harm the U.S. as well: "Of the documents release[d], the cables were the only one I was not absolutely certain couldn’t harm the United States."

No. That is not what he said at all. I read the complete statement three times and you are leaving out important parts. It is true, that he initially was not certain that they couldn't harm the United States.
But that is why he got more information about the cables and came to the following conclusion:

"I believe that the public release of these cables would not damage the United States, however, I did believe that the cables might be embarrassing, since they represented very honest opinions and statements behind the backs of other nations and organizations."

> And why did he release these cables if they were the only documents that were risky? "I believed exposing this information might make some within the Department of State and other government entities unhappy."

Nowhere did he say that this was the reason for releasing the Cables. Those are the reasons he stated:

"The more I read the cables, the more I came to the conclusion that this was the type of information that should become public. I once read a and used a quote on open diplomacy written after the First World War and how the world would be a better place if states would avoid making secret pacts and deals with and against each other."

> He also talked about reading quotes after WWI, about how "the world would be a better place if states would avoid making secret pacts and deals with and against each other." Certainly true! However he seemed to have missed the history lesson from WWII, where the U.K. and the U.S. both enjoyed significant military advantages thanks to their signals intelligence and codebreaking feats.

Those quotes were from a book with the topic "Open Diplomacy". He was talking about the reason for releasing the diplomatic cables and not about nuclear missile codes or secret uboot positions.

> I'm not really sure what to think about all of it. It seems to me that based on his very half-hearted attempts to go to the media that he was intending all along to go to WikiLeaks (whether consciously or not), and that the reasoning for it was not about specific things at all (at least the initial leaks).

Yes, he knew that he would get caught eventually (right before he started releasing the material) and that is why he went to two different newspapers just to make sure he does not look like a wikileaks mole once he got caught.

Your entire post is twisting the facts just to make him look bad.
I am giving you the benefit of the doubt and believe you haven't read the statement thoroughly.

Also this is just BM's statement. So it must not necessarily be true.

But when we are talking about this statement, let's stay with the facts.
Are MOOC completions something that job interviewers actually look out for?

I have always used MOOCs to learn, not to get certified.
There is much, much more solar energy than wind energy for us to harvest.
I have signed up for several courses on coursera, but have completed only one. Because of time constraints, I just sign up, and then go through the materials at my leisure.
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Unless everyone has exactly the same amount, it is mathematically necessary that the top N% percent will have more than N% of the wealth. The same reasoning can be applied iteratively within each wealth group.

Most people who write about wealth distribution on blogs or popular political sites and forums, or make videos about it, don't seem to understand this, and so fail to start with a reasonable model of what a fair wealth distribution would be.
And sometimes, if they like you, they pay out early.
Very good, I have tried it but haven't gotten anywhere. I try to connect with people, but most don't connect because I am mentally ill and it shows. As Orion Blastar I've written in this pen name about technology issues and other things, and nobody seems to care. I haven't worked since 2002/2003 but I've gone to whatever site I could and write about technology, science, and help others out and don't even have a dime to show for it, and no connections either.

I've tried Kickstarter, no luck, I've tried other places as well. I've tried to raise awareness for mental illness in the startup community, and been flagged 'offtopic' here at HN for it. All I seek is to get help for the mentally ill in the technology industry so they don't lose their jobs, become homeless, and get health insurance to get professional help, and I want to prevent suicides and acts of violence by enlightening people that they shouldn't mistreat the mentally ill but seek to help them instead. You'd think after one startup suicide after another, people would recognize that it is a serious issue, but no. They don't care.
No, not particularly. I've just settled on writing some shim C/C++ and using msgpack or protobuf over the port to do the interfacing. I prefer it because it feels the simplest to me. Obviously it could get complicated with some applications, though that would be the case with just about any other method of interfacing.

Oh, and did I mention my dream language has a great REPL, compiles nearly instantly and can run interpreted, too?
As a seller, you shouldn't.

They don't have any support beyond automated email bots.

Unlike Ebay, they also sell the same items alongside your listings, which means they can and will use your sales data to find out which items are profitable (and put you out of business).

I sold on Amazon for 5 years and saw Amazon slowly cut me out of every market I was in..until they finally banned my account and would now allow me to explain anything.

Near 100% feedback with virtually no customer complaints wasn't enough.
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http://www.nosqlweekly.com/ for NoSQL
I am terribly, interminably indebted to Bradley Manning. I cannot possibly repay the debt of conscience he managed to summon up.