skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, this sounds horrible.

Second... this: It adds a large dose of data analysis, a k a Big Data, to the field of human resource management

Genuine, actual data scientist here. We need to talk.

FOR FUCK'S SAKE. That is not what Big Data is! Big Data does not mean "data is important". Of course it's important! No, Big Data means that the size of the dataset is part of the problem, requiring approaches to computation that were previously on the fringe, such as non-relational databases and advanced distributed computing techniques, with all the concurrency fun that these needs provide.

Also, if I hear one more person call him- or herself a "data junkie" I will fucking lose it. Data is a pain in the ass (ever clean gigabytes of the stuff?) Sure, it's great to have it and you can do some really fun stuff once it's clean, but man...
I think the problem is bigger:

All the big platform websites readjusted their strategy back to become destination sites.

All what we notice (eg less impact even during new-feature-landgrabs) is just a symptom of this.

eg: Twitter, Facebook, even Google (see search api), etc etc

All started out as platforms. Now all of them focus rather on monetization on-site.

I remember a talk of a facebook engineer who said once "facebook.com is just one of the many websites on the fb platform - it is of minor importance - the platform is the social layer of the internet".

Back then I personally assumed their main revenue channel will become micropayments (which would go align with the platform strategy). But it didn't happen and i couldn't imagine hearing a similar quote anymore today.
I swore that I would never make a Facebook app 2 years ago when Facebook broke my app without any reason or explanation 3 times.

Check out the bug tracking system on their developer portal, there are tons of bugs which they just ignore.
Nginx direct file upload without passing them through backend
Watterson was born in the wrong decade. The internet era has created a lot of horrible things, but it has also created a massive culture of creator-owned creativity. The webcomic revolution has run a complete short-circuit around the heartless syndicates, establishing the relationship between the artist and the consumer as a direct one.

However, because nobody pays for webcomics, by necessity the artists can't have Watterson's high minded attitude about merchandising. A web cartoonist that doesn't merchandise is one who doesn't eat. But on the other hand, the merch is entirely theirs to design - they have first and last say over what is sold with their brand on it.
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Just as a data point for you, I get about 50 emails a day that require an answer. I'd love people to show clearly that they're happy with an answer of at most 5 words, but mostly I have to top, tail, and generally be polite.

I've timed it - many emails require at least 2 to 3 minutes for a very short, but properly composed reply. For me that's nearly 3 hours a day.
Earlier discussion on "How I beat depression"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5362085
Why Is Congress Trying to Make Our Internet Abuse Laws Worse, not Better?
They're doing that anyway because they serve non-webp images to users with non-webp-supporting browsers. Anyhow, this is the image that's for display, which is resized/compressed; they store and allow you to download the original no matter what.

I'm skeptical of this solution for other reasons, though (like that it assumes users know what JPG means).
Good news! There's a version for dead loved ones too.
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"A data structure should never be patentable - what's the difference between a data structure and a math formula? Both are just notations for reality, and can spring up in the minds of many disparate inventors."

Can we please let this disingenuous argument die already? Yes, in theory they can spring up in many minds independently. In practice they rarely do unless they are trivial. If the alleged disparate inventors can prove they came up with it independently, fine; the onus is on them.
I had the privilege of spending some time with Max and John, two of Kera.io's cofounders during SXSW this year. They are two of the most personable and generous founders I have ever met (must be the whole Canada thing!). These guys have both the technical chops and the hustle to be huge, and I am positive that this is merely a bump in the road for them. They are going to be unstoppable with one of their next ventures, fate just didn't have Kera.io in its cards.

Best of luck to the both of you, you guys are gonna kill it.
Death seems like the best way out of an unbearable position. You're intelligent; you've analyzed the options the best you can; you can't find anything else. I've been there. I'm bipolar, type 1. I think I may know what you're going through.

Realize that life doesn't have to be this way and that there are things that you can do to make it better. Realize that you're not able to make full use of your intelligence in the state you're in. You need help making choices and analyzing your situation. Professional help.

Talking to a psychologist and being treated by a psychiatrist turned my life around. Again, I'm bipolar, so my condition may be more permanent than yours. Remember, taking medication isn't a sign of weakness. Many people only need to take it to get out of their current rut and then cast it off as soon as they see the light of day. I was against taking medication for a long time. But then I realized that brain tissue can be diseased just as any other bodily tissue can be diseased.

Something else that helps is to interact with your loved ones more: friends, family, anyone who you love and who loves you too. Talk to them. Let them know what's going on in your life. If you don't have anyone like this in your life, I'm sorry. This may be contributing to your suicidal thoughts.

As others have said, a good diet, exercise, vitamins, and plenty of fresh air and sunshine go a long way.

These are things that will help long term and will probably keep you from returning to this state. But, first, you need radical intervention.

Make an appointment with a therapist. Today. Be completely open with them. Do as they say. Don't think you're smarter than they are. Remember, right now you're not capable of using your mind to its full capacity. You're sick. Let a professional help you. Right away.
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Why does it matter? That was a very interesting read. Did you read it?
Right now, it's easy to either unfriend someone, or hide ALL of their stuff from your feed.

I'd prefer to be able to say things like, "Show me photos that X posts, but don't show me any of the web links that X posts".
Put server in basement of exchange, front run any trades before they actually happen between the party holding the equity and the one who will leave with it for the night. How is that not parasitic?

Running algo trading would get me fired so fast. (I work at a mutual fund company, though not just yet on anything trading related)
Is there anyway to turn off the share buttons when highlighting text? I like to highlight text when I read, and the share buttons coming up makes the article unreadable. I'm probably the exception here, but that is really frustrating.
"Move fast and break things" is a fucking terrible philosophy in a team that is building a "platform" for other companies to use. Its no wonder that even the features that are still "supported" never fucking work properly, if the developers writing the code know their little piece of the Shit Pie will be removed or replaced in a short time frame anyway.
Nor could I highlight to read without some share widget popping up. Come on, man!
Does #Music signal the future of Twitter?
Relevant onion:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bill-watterson-writes-illus...
I’m ok with that, but if that happens I want it to be fair.

E.g. do it like ISPs buy traffic from each other: Each month you pay for the average bandwidth you used, excluding spikes. That would be great.

What we have now is not paying per GB. For once, you do not get to use unused GBs in the next month. They are just lost forever.
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Live-Tweeting the Police Scanner: A Defense by Wayne Chang of Crashlytics
Beyond LogReduce: Refinement and personalization
Doctrine is explicitly not suitable for non cache usage. You should remove the ORM from the test and use the DBAL only instead if you don't have caching introduced.

Additionally you are not bootstrapping the Symfony cache correctly, you need to run "php app/console cache:clear --warmup --env=prod --no-debug" before running the tests, it might cause cache slams in your benchmarks.
Most of the work I do involves recent data--cycles are six months at most and 3 months on average. 3 months of data, sifting by a pretty strict filter, it's not unsurprising that hundreds of terabytes of claims over years and years gets filtered into a few GB.

Start to finish on jobs is a few hours (though it can be a few days if the filter is less strict or the task is more complicated), including pulling the data from the warehouse.

Without a doubt, the bottleneck of the process is the data warehouse query. I'm sure having a more distributed database (it's DB2--I've been more pleased with Teradata's speed) could make the queries faster, but things are slow to change. Second to the query, the latency from working with a remote server (I'm in CA--the server's in Minnesota) adds latency if there's something I need to pull to the local machine. The actual SAS code (Is it still "high level" if the syntax models Fortran? I kid, I kid.) takes a negligible amount of time compared to the query.
Ask HN: Requirements-Based Project Management
My company has used quite a few project management tools over the years, but none of them have fully satisfied us. Currently we're on JIRA which is great for tracking at the task and issue level, but we feel that it doesn't have great support for managing documentation and application requirements.

Our vision for a PM tool is based around writing requirements and documentation first, then generating tasks based on creation of or editing those requirements. A requirements list might look like:

Business
|-Orders allowed only from 8AM-5PM
|-Order minimum is $5
|-...
UI
|-All tables have an 'Export' button
Etc

Each requirement is a first-class item that can be modified, can have comments attached, etc. When changing a requirement, you can generate a task that is inserted into a backlog or sprint for a developer to work on. The requirements document would be version controlled along with the tasks that are generated for each requirement or change, so you can view requirements of a previous release. You would also be able to diff the requirements between versions to see changes between each and the tasks completed for those changes. Bugs could be filed against a requirement that is not working as intended.

The benefit we see is that your documentation is directly tied to your project management. Before a work task is generated, a requirement must be written in the documentation so it forces the documentation to be written (which is usually so rarely/poorly done). A lot of PM tools can integrate with Wikis, but it always feels like an after-thought and the wiki inevitably rots in many projects as effort isn't put forth to maintain it.

So, do any tools exist that do what we're searching for? We're not opposed to writing one ourselves, but obviously we'd like to save time and money by adopting an existing tool. Would anyone else be interested in using a tool like this? What issues or problems do you see with it?
I'm looking forward to the futures trading strategy futures market now.
looking at the page in Google's cache, it looks like they have a bunch of spam on their site :)

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ablog...

"A couple of recent discussions in a few board threads contributed to by our competitors have questioned CipherCloud’s small online payday loans. same day payday loans. easy online payday loan. direct lender payday loans online. approach to delivering cloud information protection."
Ask HN: What is a competitive data scientist starting salary?
I've been interviewing at a few startups in NYC and wanted to get an idea for the distribution of starting salaries within this market.
That's not what I intended; I don't know what the issues are with any of these w.r.t. CG-NAT, since I don't have or use any of them. It was a request for clarification (you know the part of my quote you turned into ellipses).

I do know that every place I have been to the PS3/Xbox has been behind local NAT, so I would be surprised if CG-NAT broke these; my understanding also is that both of them have a central service for game-discovery which means there is no reason they couldn't implement NAT traversal there.

I also never said that CG-NAT wasn't more short-sighted than ipv6; rather that the ISPs have no motivation to deploy ipv6 and much motivation to deploy CG-NAT.
I love this term. One of my friends at work manages trading systems (for use by actual financial experts) and we were discussing this discredited strategy recently. It's killed one or two big companies, despite being a Nobel prize winning idea.
AFAIK, IMHO, INAL, etc. work because they are acronyms for very common phrases. Intelligent people can reason out their meaning based on context without you having to spell them out. That's why they are popular and why they work. There was never a global memo "Hey everybody we're going to start using AFAIK now."

VSRE doesn't work. It's better to just type out what you want to say in this case.
I agree with your central point, by the way. Salary transparency is a great thing. But some things are cliche, and I think the 'hungry' thing is one of them. "We shouldn't pay too much so people stay hungry" is something you'll, e.g., never hear Wall Street folks say about their own companies.
How even prison couldn't hold back an entrepreneur's drive
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The Facebook API is, by far, the worst API I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I'm not sure whose API would be second, but it would be a very distant second. They don't follow any kind of versioning, randomly remove or break existing features, don't respond to bug reports, and have absolutely horrid documentation.

If working at Facebook on the Facebook.com codebase is anything like working with their API, it's a wonder anyone would want to work there.
it is used without caching, leading to unnecessary parsing of a metadata structure. This is explicitly not recommended for production use and kills the request time here.
Where are the numbers to support that developers are in fact leaving?

Just because a few VCs in SV aren't investing in Facebook based startups, doesn't mean developers/startups are leaving in droves.
Developers/CTO tend not to ask for high salaries. Hence they get paid less.

(Then they broke and go insane from the perceived injustice, see that other article recently...)
Pretty cool stuff. Maybe you should consider mixing up the tweets a bit though. Right now they seem to be strictly in chronological order and sometimes players shoot out 3 or 4 tweets at a time, so how about mixing it a bit so it's still in relative chronological order, but mix in other players. Not sure if that conveys what I'm thinking though.
But then the jpg file will be optionally downloaded, thus reducing the bandwith usage (desired effect), and accelerating the page-load (another desired effect).
Thanks for this, thomaspark. I had been considering writing something similar, and you've saved the effort.
I found your commentary on starting capital and the necessary willingness to let the algorithm run without interference especially informative. Thank you for the article!
> experimenting more and more with radical new projects.

He's talking about Externalities and Time here. Not sure if these are the same ones he calls home runs.
Thanks for letting me know about that, I just patched it up (forgot to uncomment a piece of code)
How Facebook Home is Faring
Or just have the browser add a "Save Image as JPEG" button that does automatic conversion.

I don't know if jpg can reuse the information from webp or if you have to do full uncompression and then recompression but if you care about that you probably wouldn't have this problem in the first place.
Thanks for letting me know about this, it should be patched up now.
Vote for candidates that are against corporate lobbying and citizens united. Start with local and state representatives. Raise awareness.
Looks neat. I actually would have made use of this a couple of weeks ago, but I'll keep it in mind if we rewrite that section of the app (as the current solution isn't quite as elegant).
Ah I see what you mean, cool idea! Will see what I can cook up.
In my experience, and I have worked in this field since 2001, "Big Data" is the the answer to the problem of poorly implemented reporting models. The excuse for bad performance has always been "the size of the dataset" not ultimately the real culprit: lack of technical knowledge on how to build an appropriate and performant model. Size of the data set is almost irrelevant, when it's done right, but when it's done wrong, even a small ( 100 000 records ) dataset can be sold as "the problem".

Business people love to chase a holy grail, this being yet another one.
I'm sorry for your loss.

Medical technology is not yet at a state (and probably never will be) where we have foresight and skill to balance pain relief and life protection in the face of all the ways a body can succumb. Every choice is a gamble. There is still much to improve.

At the end of life, a body is wastage, and gives no one pleasure or comfort. Don't let that overshadow everything before.

May the memory of your mother's many years be a blessing for always, as your love for her comforted her for as long as she was conscious.
This is exciting news. I'll probably end up with one of these as well as a Jolla (the Sailfish phone) in the near future.
They went and downloaded an app. Shared even more personal information with Facebook. Just to show how much they hate Facebook?

They really showed them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHk2RSMCS8
Hey hack_edu, been trying to get in touch with you, could you shoot me an email? akila@uci.edu
Dancing Trees are algorithmically the same as B+ trees, if I understand the wikipedia article correctly. With just a uniformly random workload with a large enough working set, one would behave pretty much exactly the same as a B+ tree.
Haha, so I'm not the only one...
Your points are tangentially related to a question I've floated around in my head for years: when is a startup not a startup?

There's the income/profit metric (if a company is paying its CEO $200k+ and has several $150k+ engineers, they're obviously selling a significant amount of something)

Or there's the acquisition metric (our goal is to be bought, and we haven't been bought, so we're a startup)
That wasn't an engineer: it was Chris Cox, who is VP of Product. (Though he started as an engineer.) This is actually a very insightful interview about how the leaders Facebook think about the company's strategy.

http://on.aol.com/video/an-interview-with-facebooks-vp-chris...
Agreed - yet another article on HN that's all hearsay and uses no data to back it up

(I actually love HN, but this trend, especially among a group that's supposed to be very technical, is often disheartening)
Whats the guarantee these guys won't sell out?
Correct, running the debugging bar in Sf2 will kill performance.
Why you should build a Firefox App today
Among other things NK-33 has completely redesigned turbopump comparing to NK-15. The pump believed to be the major cause of problems with NK-15.
My impression (especially given his whole section on frequency of trading) was that this was NOT about HFT (which you seem to be describing), but rather a way to choose what to buy/sell and when.
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I'd try adding some bits as to what's in it for them. Free marketing advice is really not a good offer. Anyone can get it from the millions of marketing "gurus" that infest twitter. Plus add some details about you and a link to your blog (which is pretty good in itself). One last point is that you want people to know you are not some crazy dude from the internet. Have them see you are just a young entrepreneur who wants to make it. Tell a story, but in less than 4 paragraphs. (:

Shoot me an email if you'd like to some help. I'm a copy wizard. =P
A lot of large corporations are like this. It seems that the larger an organization gets, the worse their API docs get. For example, look at the QuickBooks API by Intuit, or FedEx's Web Services API.
Did that too. Funny thing, I was visiting US, had no address here, but the AT&T guy seem to like the idea to use my hotel's address. 10mins later, I was calling at local rates, not using my crazy european roaming fees. Very good service, even tho I was in a rural area.

So yes, they know and willing to sell you the SIM cards under very uncommon conditions.
PS. just occured to me that in US you don't have ID cards, but you use the driving license for ID. So it's very relative where you live and what's your name. Correct me if I'm wrong ( that was in 2009 ).
It’s not too long; you’re doing it wrong.
I'm somewhat curious of the reason of why some users would like to download images from facebook.
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This looks perfect for a current project with a quite a bit of jQuery and partials. I may just redo using Sync. Do you have any recommendations for using on Heroku? Should I just use Pusher? Also does this work with Rails 4?
Just to clarify why sgpl cited him: he is one of the (if not the absolute) most successful rappers of all time. Definitely top of his field. And married to Beyoncé (who is no slouch herself). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyoncé_Knowles (just in case)
Slightly related: does anyone know when the first Ubuntu phone is being released (specifically, in the US)?
I was struck by the supposed reluctance to update the browser's accept header to specify that the browser now accepts this image type. It's what it's for.

The "every time you add a byte it stays" argument is specious -- how often have we added an image format to the web?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_negotiation
After building out dozen of API's I have came to conclusion that in order to design a great API you have to start with writing a client for it first.
No solution was offered here. This generic advice could be applied to anything: "in order to solve XYZ, ask some of your peers and perhaps try some products whose stated purpose is to solve XYZ".
You are not getting it :) The beauty is you keep the profit while the lost is socialized either via bailout or bankruptcy.

That is why Wall Street is #1.

Then you start another Wall Street firm. Ben will chip in the funding for basically free if you are well connected.

(This is also why Wall Street pays out all profit to real people, instead of keeping it within the firm.)
Well two of them won't make it into any decision making position after the next election and we know what happens to the Social Democrats in a big coalition...

"Wer hat uns verraten..."
Edit, oops followed parents link to this: http://www.tokutek.com/products/tokudb-for-mysql/:

"Tools such as Hot Backup (coming soon) allow a backup to be completed while database is running."

- Does that mean that someone using the opensource version would be unable to take a backup of a running database?
You pay VAT only if you are from EU. Exports do not carry VAT, but you pay customs fee.
> For six years, our weekends were visits to grandpa--never much of anything else.

Playing football or going to Disney World or whatever sounds like it would be more fun than sitting at home giving comfort, for sure, but being together is the main thing. You did good, which is the best anyone can do, and earned the respect and admiration of your peers.