skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Very little of this is actually true, at least with regards to what the U.S. does internally.

That's true. Internally the US functions as a quite good democracy. But don't get too complacent. Off of the top of my head:

- Death penalty. In 2013. Including for 15 year olds and the mentally ill in some states.
- Disproportionate number of blacks in jail.
- World incarcerations record.
- Segregation until some 40 years ago (and "in practice" segregation still today).
- Slavery until 140 years ago.
- Mass surveillance.
- Awfully class based health care system.
- Horrendous labour laws.
- McCarthyism.

>As for externally--the Constitution puts almost no limits on the American government's ability to intervene in foreign affairs, and most Americans would agree that the U.S. has zero obligation to do anything internationally other than what advances its own interests.

It's not that the US has ever done anything else ("other than what advances its own interests"). Except for some amounts of "foreign aid" and other crap to help secure a pro-American government lackeys here and there.

Unfortunately, it has also done a lot of stuff to "advance its own interests". After the big colonial powers declined, it has royally fucked up countries the world over like there's no tomorrow. Where "advancing it's own interests" means "doing whatever, from invasion to establishing a dictatorship to get whatever resources and military support it needs, in the terms it wants it, to the detriment of the locals".

>Remember, as far as global hegemons go, the U.S. is the most benevolent such entity in the history of the world.

Compared to what? The Roman empire? I'd say it has been on par with the European colonial powers (France, UK, Belgium, etc) in taking advantage of the poorer 2/3 of the world, from the enslavement of African people to work in the South, to direct invasions, proxy wars and establishing puppet governments and dictatorships.
Always alone? That's a shame.
I don't understand. Where would you use this instead of Lua?
Like all of A/B testing, it's applying a _very_ old statistical method (Chi-Square was one of the first modern statistical techniques--by that I mean it's 113 years old) to an area where statistics has not commonly been used. This makes it seem wonderful and novel as countless people suddenly realize that statistics can be applied to fields that were previously untouched by quantitative analyses.

The statistics being used in the A/B testing world is stuff you would've learned in your very first statistics class, it seems. From the success of Optimizely and VWO that the focus is definitely more on the viz and presentation than it is on using any cutting-edge techniques.
Yeah gumroad is absolutely trivial to setup and takes only a small portion of the total sale price.
Here's the meat of it, reposted from an HN comment since it is my most succinct account of the story:

A spiritually similar example: Appointment Reminder didn't actually exist in summer 2010, but I had a two-page demo of it set up. I got $400 out of an ATM when I went home to Chicago to visit, and just wandered around the Gold Coast/Magnificent Mile region of the city looking for every hair salon and massage therapy practice I could find. I asked them all if I they took walk-ins and, if so, could I have 30 minutes of the owner's time for whatever the rate was ($30 or so). In lieu of the shoulder massage/etc, I said "I'm interested in the massage therapy industry. Would you mind if we just chatted for half an hour about it?" And I asked about how they handled scheduling, appointments, no-shows, etc etc. I also did a demo of my two-page AR mini-app on the iPad and asked if they would be interested in buying it when it was ready.
I think only one person actually accepted my money for the interviews. I got five-ish "Please tell me when that is ready" out of a dozen or so conversations. No Bay Area or signup form required. (I put their emails in a paper notebook. And lost it prior to launch. Whoopsie.)
This was mostly successful for me: it confirmed that there was a market willing to pay for AR without me needing to actually build it to demonstrate that. (My sampling technique, which found only massage therapists/hair salons, did sort of lead me off the rails as to who I'd eventually end up targeting for most of the business. D'oh.)
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Your cleverness means it's slow in some instances... Getting a list if users with a diverse criteria set is a gnarly query...
Isn't the "potable water market" saturated with startups and NGOs?
I'm enrolled in a small online program called thinkful and what they do is interview you and create a custom curriculum based on your preexisting knowledge. A few people that are looking for structure and those willing to mentor might want to simply give that format a shot. In short, basically the mentor would find resources on the web to match exactly what the student is looking to learn. Then if the student has any questions they can just email them. If it seems like more is required then gradually work it out. It might seem alienating on the part of the student but I've found in my own learning situation I'm really just looking for order in and of itself more than a mentor. Having people to bounce questions off of is very important, but if you have a path to follow they become secondary to your personal drive regardless.
That was not my experience with Clojurescript. I might have to try it again.
Lower level, so more control for advanced programs performance-wise.
No. The problem is trying to equate this with physical crimes.

Here's a more proper analogy. Suppose some guy likes to dance about in his house nude wearing a silly hat. He leaves his windows open during this. One day a perv takes photos of him through the window from a public street and puts the photos on the internet. The dancing man is horrified because it is quite a silly hat. Did the perv commit a crime?
Since I actually happen to know Mike, I can guarantee you he profiled. He might not share the results in the slides, because they were about making a point and getting laughs in the process, not production code.

This is one of those things that compilers have been optimizing for years and are very good at: strength reduction wrt variables that depend on the loop variable.

Many compilers are good at it. In many instances. But if you do multi-platform development, with entirely different compilers for each platform, doing manual strength reduction is a good investment of your time if performance really matters.

and rather than doing any maintenance you just start a new game from scratch

Thankfully, that model is fading. It was a result of rapidly changing architectures, so that often at the beginning of the next console cycle, you had to rewrite anyways - the hardware was so different that what was previously fast suddenly was a disaster.

Given the fact that hardware is moving closer and closer to being bog-standard, and that code bases are large enough that a rewrite is actually insanity, not a couple of bored weekends, this mentality is fading out.

Slowly, granted, but there's hope :)
You might find HaLVM interesting. Runs a Haskell stack directly on the machine.

http://corp.galois.com/halvm
Is this aiming to be a semi-replacement for C then? I guess I'm a bit confused as to where it fits in ... Lua is already tiny and performant. We're considering it for some embedded projects soon as a extensibility hook.
They're prison guards. It would be amazing if they didn't do stuff like that. I'm assuming Weev is in a federal prison so at least he's not likely yo be raped.
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With others, I recently played around with a custom built dataset, using unsupervised machine learning to cluster the subreddits, based on content.

You can play with it here:

http://demo.xplr.com/xplr/umbreddit/

The system can be queried:

http://demo.xplr.com/xplr/umbreddit/?search=cyclists

http://demo.xplr.com/xplr/umbreddit/?search=species

For the curious, more technical information is available here:
https://xplr.com/xplr-umbrella-dataviz-on-top-of-unsupervise...
and here:
https://xplr.com/a-subreddit-recommender-with-xplr/

This analysis is slightly different than the study of cross-posed links. Here the content of posted URLs (not yet comments)is analyzed and subreddits are put into clusters within a search engine.

This allows the easy building of a subreddit recommender for Reddit (Chrome only for now): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/preddit/epicmjpmnm...
It is a little hard to tell what the point of Terra is from the website; you should check out the PLDI paper for a better sense for what is going on http://terralang.org/publications.html (in particular, the example apps are telling: "Our Terra-based auto-tuner for BLAS routines performs within 20% of ATLAS, and our DSL for stencil computations runs 2.3x faster than hand-written C.")
Exactly. You switched to Go because it rewarded you. Here you made an improvement that you liked, and you grew happier. Now, when you sit down to write, you'll be more likely to think "Wow, here I get to learn another piece of the Go ecosystem," which will probably drive you to continue working on your startup.
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Wow, I didn't realize a gephi file can be so easily exported to an interactive web object via sigma.js -- great, simple implementation!
> It's "crazy stuff really does sometimes happen in the real world, but you'll never be able to verify this specific story either way".

Not necessarily..

804-840-0000
804-840-0001
804-840-0002

So it wasn't always impossible to confirm, just time consuming. Except now you would need a time machine to confirm this, since I'm sure they have changed the phone number since this story started making its rounds.
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I think he was saying that if somebody were to pay him that much, he would do the work for a while. I don't think he necessarily makes that much (at least not consistently). There are very few professions that pay that level of salary. A few that come to mind would be some corporate executives, a few specialized types of doctors, top lawyers, coaches of college or professional sporting teams, and presidents of some major universities.
He's referring to a classifier that can tell the "quality" of a site, not the size of the brand.
weston [at] crowdtest.io
Check this out maybe, http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1dzoim/a_su...
This fits perfectly with my desire to work on a lower level lisp with out having to work entirely in C. Great work!
You can add shared folders (as in folders other people shared with you) to your Drive through this page: https://drive.google.com/#shared-with-me (or click on Shared with me on the Drive site). Click on the folder and then on "Add to My Drive". It will even get synced to your local disk. You can also download the whole folder (right-click).

Spent a long time looking for this, they should really work on the UI for this feature.
I would suggest to file an issue: https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/list

At least, Go team will be aware of your pathological case and have a chance to speed up it.
I was writing about just this tension recently... http://www.baqbeat.com/2013/04/27/the-product-is-the-marketi...
The bbc get funding by taxing the population. Look at the backlash when we tried that for healthcare, you can imagine how popular it would be!
Yes, spot on. I already have all of the business side stuff done, and will now focus on the fun part. Its refreshing to be able to sit down and just code. I'm putting up a simple blog at nuuton.com/blog. I'll blog about my experience coding it. Keep posted.
No information, no registration, no feed, not even a signup for 'send me more information when it becomes available'? Needs input from marketing.
I'm pretty sure that having a lot of money would give you a head start in solving the world's water problems (or whatever problems you happen to care about).

Elon Musk didn't start off founding SpaceX, his first big hit was PayPal right? So I'm sure that "online transactions" was about as boring to an aspiring space entrepreneur as "online shopping" is to you, Weston.

Anyway, decisions other people make often look weird to people observing from the peanut gallery - most of all when you make a decision that feels so right it's almost impossible to "unmake" you usually know that, for whatever reason and with whatever reasoning, you've made the right decision for you, now.

On the topic of solving the world's water problems, I'm reminded of a documentary I saw years ago by a Ghanaian national in Nigeria, the name of which escapes me and which I can't find anywhere. It was around the time of the "make poverty history" campaign. This guy went to Nigeria and tried to do a few basic things like get a house, find a job, etc. and found that at every turn he was faced by rampant corruption. He even setup an NGO and started accepting foreign aid with very little trouble.

The final line in the film is "If you want to solve poverty, you first have to solve corruption" which has always stuck with me.

I'm mentioning this because it may be the case that "solving the water problem" for the majority of people won't be a matter of the (relatively) simple application of technology, but a matter of the much more complex application of political will, diplomacy and grass roots activism. You might already have considered this, but since I remembered the doco I thought I'd mention it, too: sometimes there are problems you have to solve before you solve the problem you really want to solve.
One of the things I try to do is learn from my experience, even when its a crappy experience I try to take something away that gives me a bit of meaning to that time I'll never get back. But that is not the way with everyone.

Some people believe very strongly that collecting the most revenue in the time you have available on the earth is the best possible pursuit a person can have. They do not understand anyone who doesn't share their passion to achieve the highest number of dollars or yuan or yen or rupees.

The real test of belief comes at the end of your life, but during the middle part you believe what you believe.

Consequently any story of following one's passion rather than money will be discounted by folks who don't share that belief, and any story of finding ways to get richer and richer will be discounted by folks who don't share that belief. When you are friends with folks who have one view or the other, and your friendship spans decades, you get a chance to see if you or your friends change views over time.

For a long time I internally beat myself up for not taking Bill Gates up on a job offer in 1978 (chances are if I had stuck with the company I'd be very wealthy now), but as I got older and perhaps more importantly had people I had known well die, I came to appreciate the choices I've made on passions vs money. Not everyone does of course.
What are your favourite apps and why?
Hey Hacker News. I want to know, what are your favourite apps?

Is it a Business App or Consumer App?
What is it and why is it your number 1 favourite app?

Looking forward to reading your responses!
I think a huge part of go's success is the go command. For those of us coming from scripting language having the whole "configure/make/install" problem solved (and solved well) by the core language greatly lowers the barrier to entry.
Agreed a serious "real world" problem. having said that people are working on it. I have a search around earlier and found there is a draft RFC for the UDP encapsulation of SCTP (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-udp-encaps-...), this combined with a soul destroying use of a zero data payload keep alive to fend off NAT stupidity, and maybe a server side end point abuse of port 53 to keep "Carrier Grade" NAT quiet might be the trick. All this should work on mobile platforms.

In general doing this "properly" is an exercise in icky compromise.
We would have preferred to have hit RC a bit earlier and left more time between candidates, but we had such a lengthy beta period that we felt it was okay to crank out a few RCs to iron out the last issues and release. I hope the next release cycle will be shorter, and the candidates will come out earlier (and be a lot rougher).
Money can come or go. But you only live once.

Congrats.
Google cannot "read" content so in essence it's the size of the brand that matters, unless they suppress it manually via search quality raters.

Brands escape major updates, something we saw especially after Panda. As soon as some major sites were hit, they changed the algorithm. Google does not algorithmically punish certain sites for link buying and other shenanigans. I suspect that after a site reaches a certain level of score (not calling it PR) it's golden. So buying 123456789 comment spam links for "Matt Cutts" on fiver will not do much, but 500 links to mymomscookies.tld will cause them to go to page 10, or dead in the water.

Google doesn't seem to care because small sites don't give them pr problems (Audi and Macys would) and small sites will be forced to advertise, if they want any traffic. Notice the perverse inventive? Cut the free traffic and increase adwords' business.
XMPP over Websockets is implemented in various servers:

- Prosody (http://code.google.com/p/prosody-modules/wiki/mod_websocket)
- openfire (http://code.google.com/p/openfire-websockets/)
- Tigase (built-in as far as I could see)
- Ejabberd in the Commercial version, the opensource version doesn't really have one yet.

Regarding Jingle over WebRTC: Various people are working on it (or have been, in my case) and it's getting closer to workable. What I encountered, when I tried ~a year ago to do it, was that not all SDP messages could be easily transformed into the Jingle format. Might have been changed now though as the WebRTC Specs have changed quite a bit.
C compilers are largely slow because they are written with the expectations of a lot of optimization and large projects rather than with much concern for compile times.

C compilers that are written to be fast rather than flexible can be extremely fast. E.g. see Fabrice Bellards "TCCBOOT", that he demonstrated compiling the Linux kernel at boot-time in 15 seconds on a 2.4GHz Pentium 4: http://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot_readme.html

TCC can also be treated much like an interpreter like your go example.
This isn't about being talked out of trying to do good. It's about finding the best way to actually do good.

Most organizations rely on outsiders who contribute their time, money, expertise and ideas, and they gladly welcome such contributions. By getting involved with an established organization, individuals can often take advantage of its existing resources, increasing the likelihood that whatever is contributed will produce an ROI.

Obviously there's no absolute guarantee of this, and I wouldn't suggest that there's no room for new organizations, but new non-profits are a lot like new businesses: most do not "succeed", and a lot of the ones that don't fail outright plod along and never achieve what was hoped for. It doesn't take more than a quick read of a few random Form 990 filings to see this.

So to put it simply: you do not need to start your own thing to help solve big problems. People who have the itch to save the world would be wise to consider that they are far more likely to make a bigger impact by channeling their time, money, passion and ideas to organizations that have been saving the world for years.
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With Dropbox I'm not really paying for the storage. I'm paying for the really smooth and fast syncing experience.

The price per gigabyte is quite heavy, but with my Dropbox usage the most costs for Dropbox are probably not coming from the actual storage but from the network traffic and computing resources needed to make the sync work.
Most older Pascal compilers were, as most (all?) of Wirth's languages are explicitly designed to make single pass compilation easy.
>How do you distinguish between options at the voting booths, if not by their policies?

You distinguish their policies when their policies are distinct. Obama hasn't closed Gitmo. Obama hasn't ended the warrantless wiretapping program. Obama hasn't discontinued the TPP negotiations or brought any useful transparency to the process. Obama hasn't refused to sign any budget unless it includes significant cuts to defense spending. I could go on. Which of these things do you imagine Romney would have done better?
"Use a dedicated statistical package from the '80s"
Is your Wizard app not also a dedicated statistical package? Also, I'm being pedantic here, but how many "dedicated statistical packages" are actually from the 80s? The only ones that come to mind are Stata and Statistica.

Is there a way to view the source code or formulas you use on your pages? There's been a strong push in the academic statistics world for reproducible research, which means public data, open source statistical code.

I ask because I'm curious about your two-sample t-test. Does it pool the variances for all values of the two standard deviations? Pooling doesn't make sense when one sd is 50 and the other is 2...
I would say that his costs are a bit conservative even. $10/hr is not realistic for providing support unless you outsource it (I don't have a clue how much that would cost). The actual employee price is significantly higher than just the wage. Even if you aren't selling by retail, there is going to be costs associated with selling the product which he seems to ignore.

It is somewhat shocking the first time you hear about how much products have to be marked up to actually make a profit. In some industries you could expect the markup to be a factor of 10 higher than the COGS.
We live in a world where if the cost of too high for something like this, it will be written off as unnecessary. Unless there is someone really pushing this from within, Facebook/Instagram/etc probably won't implement something like this, or will just create their own (possibly poor) substitute.

I get the idea that people should be paid for their work, and it's his choice how he licenses it. On there other hand, if the point is to make sure this spreads as far as possible and gets used everywhere, then maybe a very permissive license is called for.
Scientific research with volunteer computers seems to be the one case where it makes sense. Perhaps scientific research with paid computers would also make sense? There I think the price point is wrong to incentivize anyone to contribute resources.
And yet when approached by Ho Chi Minh in the late 40s about supporting the end of colonial rule in Vietnam and instituting a constitution similar to the US's, the US decided to reinforce French dominion instead. The American Revolution was indeed a watershed moment in history, but it can't be claimed that everything descended from it is inherently an action towards freedom and democracy.
> a structure that has a pointer to the underlying data by value

Isn't this the exact definition of a reference type?
It's not just distasteful. There is legitimate hate speech there, which some countries deem illegal.
Gates has said something like "automation multiplies effeciencies in an efficient system and multiplies inefficiencies in an inefficient one." The same can apply to money. I have read that 70% of lottery winners are bankrupt within five years.

Money can grease the wheels but cannot buy a solution that does not exist. That is bought with things like blood, sweat and tears, so to speak.
There are large swathes of the world that are neither saturated with this particular feminist shibboleth nor part of the PUA subcultue. If your time is valuable and you consider the money a trivial amount it can be worth it. If the marginal female user of this app is not much of a bar/club goer even more so.
XEP-0295 is humorous (1st april joke).