skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the mailman was also the editor of the local newspaper and was using his knowledge of your subscriptions to source stories about you, that'd be much more in line with what was going on here.

The problem is that Bloomberg sells data services to tens of thousands of companies while also running a media company that sells reporting to news organizations. You can't mix those two and expect people to be happy about it.
> That's feedback was really the only reason why chose to impose this requirement for the beta.

I'm not sure how accurate this quotation is, but Henry Ford may have said:

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

As a consultant I feel it is my duty to advice people when they are asking me to implement something that is not in their best interests.

If someone has told you that "installing packages is difficult, just login as root", I think it is your duty to educate them as to why that is a bad idea.

Anyone familiar with security best practices would never even consider allowing an untrusted third-party to log in to their servers as root, which drastically reduces the size of your potential market.

Currently, your target market is: people who find it difficult to use configuration management tools, and who aren't aware of good security practices.
There are plenty of undesirable side-effects:

can induce mild withdrawal symptoms in patients dependent on opioids; also diarrhoea, abdominal pain, anorexia, dyspepsia; vasodilatation; dyspnoea; paraesthesia, asthenia, fati- gue, agitation, anxiety; less commonly flatulence, taste disturbance, angina, hypertension, syncope, hypoxia, wheezing, cough, restlessness, depersonali- sation, dysarthria, impaired memory, hypoaesthesia, tremor, influenza-like symptoms, pyrexia, rhinitis, rigors, muscle cramp, myalgia, tinnitus, dry eye, and dry skin; rarely paralytic ileus, dysphagia, impaired concentration, and psychosis; very rarely retching, hyperventilation, hiccups, and muscle fasciculation

--British National Formulary 59

As well as all the complications that come from self-injecting with potentially non-sterile equipment, and of things not intended for IV use (crushed pills have a number of inactive different binders and fillers that don't dissolve and get lodged somewhere in the body, typically the lungs[2]) It's metabolism can be pretty hard on the liver as well, which is a major concern if users have hepatitis from needle sharing/reuse.

Another big problem is that since it operates as an opioid receptor anagonist (rather than an agonist, as practically all other opioids), the usual treatment for overdose -- Naloxone -- won't work very well. Buprenorphine also has a fairly hard effectiveness ceiling at ~32mg/day (although it would be a lucky/rich addict indeed who could afford that at €300/8mg quoted in the article)

Finally, if an addict ends up in hospital or requires strong pain-relief, there's not a lot of options because the blockade effect will prevent (afaik) virtually all other opioids from working.

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1276621/
How we solved DEBS (event) grand challenge
Hey, I'm the creator. I wondered why there were two issues raised within 24 hours, checked here, and well, that explains it... I've just fixed the async error (#4), so any of you having issues with "$ not defined" should have them solved now.

This was originally covered here a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3834643

Any questions, reply to me or raise an issue on GitHub! Thanks!
I've never read Greenspun, and I've stopped reading half way through. And I should have already stopped after "Silicon Valley Socialism", but I was hoping he was just joking. He wasn't.

Only in America can this kind of crap not be considered extremist ideology.
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Thanks! Yeah, I know craigslist is too big to even compete with. And I know they are offering so much for users. That's why I'm specializing. I just thought of extra features that would make it more convenient, privatized and less confusing for users.
No way man.

If your daddy doesn't have money you can't get no education.

If your daddy doesn't have money you can't enough vitamins to get the brain or the proteins to get the muscles to work properly.

If your daddy doesn't have money you can't even shit with dignity.

Without a middle class or a rich daddy, you are basically screwed.

When 37% of Indians live below poverty line. I dunno how you think skill and nutrition levels are increasing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India#Poverty_estima...

To get India going, we need to do all the the article is saying - spend on food, health and eduction. But I would add the state needs to do that, private sector will just screw the poor further - no deliberately, but shit happens.

Being optimistic is just that, optimistic.
Actually the point Greanspun (not Greensburg) is trying is whether her brother confidence

would have resulted in an A in a physics class at Caltech.
There is code on GitHub[1], although it emphasises "experimental" and "unsupported".

[1]: https://github.com/mapbox/tm2
Can you measure the user experience of tablets? This research says you can...
I'm the creator. Fixed now :)
Bloomberg has information about what you're looking at as well (far more than just stock info; a wealth of information about just about every market & market-relevant news). If you can tell what someone is looking at you can easily infer they have a position in that market, which is very valuable (and very proprietary) information. Furthermore you could look at overall flows and make decent predictions about, eg, future volatility.

It had been speculated that Bloomberg employees were looking at the actual content of searches, which would be a death blow to their reputation as a trusted platform. This story is Bloomberg saying "Yes, we gave access to info to employees we shouldn't have, but it was actually pretty banal."
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This phosphine will get you fired
I think you are overestimating the demand for talent here. Recently Infosys announced that they are going to change the workforce ratio to 70% freshers and 30% seniors. There are very few companies which value true talent in India. You have to fight and pay bribe to get anything that has interaction with a government organisation. Broken or no roads, fly over and metro that are taking years together to complete. As far as I am aware only very few percentage of people became rich in the IT boom of 90s but most of the people who went abroad during that period are well to do today (this from random sample among my relatives and friends).
And there is also CloudMade as a choice for those seeking not to use Google Maps, Mapquest, Bing, etc.

http://cloudmade.com/

Both Cloudmade and MapBox use OpenStreetMap data. Leaflet ( http://leafletjs.com/ ) was created by Cloudmade and is the JavaScript lib for putting tiled maps on the web. Mapbox have their own version of Leaflet, but it's essentially much the same if all you want to do it drop pins, work with layers, choose a tile set.

Both are comparable, and both are strong in the same space: Custom styled, tiled maps. And both are weak in the same place: routing.

Not to say that they don't do routing, but it's certainly not their forte.

Thankfully the majority use-case for most sites and applications using maps is simply "show a map, drop a few pins here and there". So having this map look and feel like the site is actually a good selling point.
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I am not able to check my emails and not able to use my calender and chat. Getting a 502 error.
http://imgur.com/RlNn9iM
> This means that instead of the organization saying, "We will adapt to off the shelf software and change our processes to better align with the way the software is designed to be used", they say, "Make your software work the way we do things".

This must be a damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation, because I work for a company that attempted to use a OOTB Oracle software package and ended up getting roundly criticized by every part of the company, both internally and externally.
Yes it is, http://downrightnow.com/gmail#refresh
You seem to be misreading a lot of the article. To be expected really, it's quite full of sarcasm and dry wit, which doesn't come across via text particularly well.
Would you advocate in favor of DEA agents harassing marijuana legalization non-profits? Preemptively: if not, why are you defending the practice of the same being done to your political opponents?
You're using an extreme example, and I think a lot of people will agree in that case because it's extreme, but might have reservations about applying the same logic elsewhere. For example, should it be ok to single out people who advocate marijuana legalization for drug crime investigations?

There has to be some restraint, or else people will be afraid to participate in the political process.
Quite often when privacy is discussed, some people ask why we need privacy. Some then continues on and say that its already lost and what ever harm is done and are things we need to live with.

Well, this is the harm. Selective use of government "scrutiny" against those that are perceive as a threat. The only positive side of this news is that they haven't gone very far. String search of groups names feels very much like how block filters worked before deep-packet inspection. With the social graphs[1] already in existence, this type of targeting could be made very efficient and only requires the sharing of data between different government branches.

https://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2012/freedom-to-conne...
The Commissioner of the IRS at the time was appointed by George W. Bush.

The acting Commissioner of the IRS is Steven T. Miller and was appointed by the Obama Admin (as of Nov 10th 2012).
And if there were a group dedicated to drug legalization, we'd be fine with the DEA targeting them for arbitrary surveillance and investigation. Right? Wait, we wouldn't? Hold on, something is not adding up.
And how much of the issue is platform specific optimizations that have only been performed on the Win32 version of Flash and not elsewhere?
I'm confused. Are the tiles meant to be delivered in a vector format? Their demo was using pngs...
example? that quote is from the book btw, not the article.
WTF = What The Fuck. Just sayin!
£7.5m university fund to train cybersecurity experts
The right's paranoia is no worse than the paranoia the left spewed while Bush was in office. See: John Ashcroft, supposed spawn of Satan, or Hillary Clinton's vast right wing conspiracy theory. It's a rule of DC politics that whenever a new President is elected, the party that lost goes crazy until they're back in office (then they claim it's other guys that are crazy and paranoid).
Isn't that the same argument that people use for race discrimination regarding the use of police focus? They reason in a very similar way that its better go after groups like black poor people, than say white middle class.

Why spend equal amount of time investigating everyone? Because the alternative is worse.
Bidirectional Map can be implemented in less than 20 lines (put, get, remove).
Key bit of info in the article, "It transmits data in the millimeter-wave band at a frequency of 28 GHz at a speed of up to 1.056 Gbps to a distance of up to 2 kilometers" while the 1gbps figure is impressive, most consumers would experience something possibly a few hundred megabytes lower, still impressive though.

But seriously, 2020? 4G is only just starting to be rolled out in Australia now and the only carrier with decent 4G is Telstra and the speeds are pretty impressive, data is expensive though.
Because being good at embarassingly parallel problems is not something to be particularly proud of - the real, hard problems (for which the supercomputers are needed) can't be so parallelized, and the performance & quality of such systems depend on how well they can handle problems that need much more interdependencies between computing nodes than bitcoin.
I think the better term is "lack of civic sense". I don't think there is a lack of social intelligence or such thing,
I see it more as a plain apathy to anyone other than self and one's kins.
It's precious to read through almost every post in this thread complaining about 'big data' and saying that everyone can just use a normal relational database or whatever. But 'big data' has brought markets to exploit to feed HN-type entrepreneurs, and jobs and loads of prestige for HN-type engineers - who I have never noticed to be shy about bragging on how much data is in their systems without regard to whether that data is particularly meaningful.
Both our kids produced 'dada' before 'mama' - seems quite common.
As a complete Haskell noob, I'm wondering about the push in this snippet:

startDownload = do
file <- atomically $ do
f <- getQueuedFile
push f currentDownLoads
return f
startDownloadThread file

How can that push be non-side-effecting and still do something sensible? If the snippet is replayed, won't multiple pushes happen? This may be a question only joeyh can answer, if this is something specific to his code base...

Naively, I would write something like (again, my Haskell not so good):

startDownload = do
file <- atomically $ getQueuedFile
push f currentDownLoads
startDownloadThread file
TileMill is the desktop app for designing/styling maps. It'll export to various formats, but primarily geared for upload to Mapbox's hosted map service (free and paid plans that are well worth it imo - just a happy customer).

For std image files, Mapbox make source available for their TileStream server (https://github.com/mapbox/tilestream). Not sure if/when it'll get support for the raster images.
By that I mean designing with all graphical features having a size that's a multiple of two pixels and aligned such that all features fit entirely within a 2x2 grid. One common way to do this is to design everything in vector at the normal size with features aligned to the usual one pixel grid, scale up to 200% to add details and export the @2x asset, before scaling back down to export the @1x asset. For fine details, it may even be convenient to scale up to 400% or 800%. Another useful tip is to set your graphics program to show gridlines every 2 pixels.
Brilliant solution, nearly a 100% reliable though, what are the chances of an important email containing "unsubscribe" ??

another option could be using https://unroll.me/
It seems like originally you thought hosting was the problem but it's really the store manager's time & their lack of understanding of the apparent importance of having a website.

Instead maybe you could automatically generate a website for them by combining data from Yelp, Locu, Yext, Twitter, or whatever other info you can get your hands on. Take the data and find / create a few generic themes that you can insert the data into. Then go to them & tell them you'll host it for $X a month. Maybe over time, you can add support for Yext / Yelp / Twitter / Yelp admin management from one centralized dashboard (given those services allow you to in their ToS / API rules).

By grabbing the data and generating the websites, your chance of selling to them is much higher since they have something they can touch & interact with (not a hypothetical website they have to make themselves). In addition, over time you could build a nearly automated system which discovers restaurants on Yelp that don't have a website, build them one from the info / data available online, and contact / email them saying you can have it live in minutes + will charge $X a month to host it.

2 important things to keep in mind:
1. Restaurants and store owners are incredibly cheap. They're especially cheap since most restaurants have very low margins (1-8%). Many of them use the restaurant to support their family and pay expenses. The $40 a month you want to charge them seems high (from your current website).

2. Don't focus on menus, thats more v2 or v3 stuff. Also, Locu.com is the leader in both getting menu information for most restaurants as well as offering a centralized place for restaurant owners to update their menu. Best part is, even if store owners don't use Locu to manage / update their menu, Locu intelligently crawls restaurant websites to update menu listings automatically. It may be hard to compete with Locu at least initially. Instead maybe focusing on the facts that A. Many restaurants don't have websites but if for $10 a month you can make hefty profits (9 dollars of the 10 profit with enough automation) and B. Store owners apparently don't have enough time to manage their digital footprint / brand. Build super easy tools that let them do so with minimal time spent + also collect / publish data on the benefits of having a digital brand when you're talking to restaurant owners.
I really don't understand why anyone has a problem with relational databases. Once you take the time to understand how they work (by taking a class or reading a book), it's really straightforward and makes a lot of sense. Not to mention it's really fast and quite reliable.

I get that a NoSQL-ish alternative makes sense for companies that have tons of shards spanning the globe, but for the vast majority of people, a relational database serves just fine.
It's worth noting the IRS also targeted various Jewish organizations (eg Z Street) as well, not just those critical of the government and taxation like the Tea Party.

Clearly the IRS has a problem with targeting bias.
It is quite consistent with the way we consider property in all other aspects. In law, property is any thing, tangible or intangible whereby a legal relationship between persons and the State enforces a possessory interest or legal title in that thing. It has never been limited to just physical things the way modern revisionists are trying to claim.
Deploying App Engine apps with DevTable
For how long do you need to hold 50+% to manipulate the blockchain?

For example, Amazon or Google also hold serious computing power - if they would throw all of it at once for an hour, then it wouldn't be THAT expensive compared to the effect.
Translation is probably one of the harder jobs out there. That and some humor doesn't really cross cultures, even without language barriers.
> So... that's what, about 15-20% of the US population?

Um, I actually would have assumed a much larger number. Parent post asked "Who takes long car trips (200+ miles) on such a frequent basis...<that charging would be inconvenient>?". My answer: I do (Or did, when I lived in California), and I know lots of other people who do too. I'm curious where that guy lives (and where you lived) that you think it isn't normal for a person who owns a car to often take 200+ mile car trips?

I think the Tesla might "work acceptably as a long distance vehicle" if you live someplace where actual long-distance travel is unusual and inconvenient. A lot of the east coast might qualify. But probably not California. Or Nevada or Wyoming or Texas or just about any of the larger states.

> your point seems isomorphic to "this car isn't perfect for everybody"

That it "isn't perfect" is a foregone conclusion. But this guy specifically claimed having to take a HALF-HOUR STOP to recharge isn't inconvenient on long trips. It quite obviously IS going to be inconvenient. You can reasonably claim the car is worth getting DESPITE that inconvenience factor. But you can't claim it's NOT INCONVENIENT. That's just nuts. That's drinking the Kool-Aid.
a few options,

http://www.appacademy.io/

http://devbootcamp.com/

https://www.bloc.io/

however, if we want to become outstanding developers, the only option is to work harder, smarter, and enjoy the process
Depends on what you need.

The one with lots of publications in big-deal journals may or may not be running a sweatshop. And they may or may not be doing actually interesting science, because that game requires so much attention to fashion, fundability and grinding out large quantities of papers (contrary to common belief, prestigious journals do not mean journals publishing the highest quality papers).

But if you want to learn that particular trade then find the advisor best at it to study under.
Try out Super Hexagon. Very easy to grasp the controls. Ridiculously hard to actually play. See the trailer to check whether you like it or not. Available for all platforms.

[1]: http://superhexagon.com
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Tried HL2 on linux yesterday. Very impressed to see that HL2 still does not look too bad even many years later. At full details on full HD, it's still very decent graphically speaking.
If only all that cpu power was doing folding or some kind of humankind benefit other than profit, or at least in addition to profit.
I've been addicted to Dice Wars www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html for a while now. Solarmax is cool too http://armorgames.com/play/11965/solarmax. I love these types of games - don't know what you'd call them, but they simplify the concept of a strategy game to map + units + bases. Dice Wars and Solarmax are two of the best, they're surprisingly deep.
I wondered, too. Luckily, there's some hard data further down in the post:

[...] highly optimized, slim enough to fit the entire world onto a single USB stick.

Now that the exact size is known (1 world/stick), it's easy to get a feel for how this new format is better than the old alternatives, right? Grumble.
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GE does build lots of cool engineering things, but those alone couldn't have made it the most valuable company in the world at one point. It also involved a lot of, well, financial engineering, which this guy started to describe better than I could ever have: https://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/immelt-ge-capital...

I also remember than in the hot days of early October 2008 there were talks of GE the entire company going down on behalf of its subsidiary, GE Capital. Those were indeed some crazy days.
Not accurate. This was politically self-defeating (for the IRS personnel concerned, in that period in Ohio) but it wasn't Orwellian. These groups are anti-tax, associated with the Sovereign Citizens movement, and also applying for a nonprofit status that legally constrains political activities that these were likely to engage in. And in the end, they all got their nonprofit status anyhow. So the screaming about how they were picked on is really disingenuous.

Tax collection is a necessity for every first world country and unfortunately that means not taking every application for a nonprofit status at face value.
for what it's worth the salary of a mid-level manager in India is half of what an equivalent position will fetch in Korea (this surprised me greatly at first).
The essence of things
That's a nonsensical question, because the DEA does not have the authority or responsibility to decide anything about applications for non-profit status under tax law.

IRS does. And if they stop investigating right-wing organizations selectively (while still investigating other applications) because it will be perceived as unfair, then they will be doing the wrong thing.
Essentially the issue is that the reporters had access to Bloomberg's internal analytics/crm system.

Pretty much every single sophisticated SaaS company in the world collects this data (login frequency, etc.) - it's invaluable for sales, support, debugging, product management, etc. hence it also makes sense that the information is widely available within the firm.

There's obviously an ethical issue in that Bloomberg's reporters shouldn't have had access to that data, but it's worth noting that the information is similar to what everyone else in the SaaS space is collecting.