skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The research is real. Real data. Real numbers. I've used this approach for many launches and it works. Thought I'd finally share with the world.
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hmm. I answered from a throwaway account b/c I don't particularly want "the internet" knowing how much money I make in a given year. So I don't know that a follow-on interview would fit my psyche =)
I missed it when it first came out, and only saw it for the first time about 2 years ago. I've probably watched it 20+ times since then. It really is a great movie.
Perfect timing. I spun up a project fairly recently using node-webkit and wanted this, exactly. Getting SQLite integrated wasn't particularly painful, but a document storage model is just what I had hoped for. Thanks for the contribution; looking forward to giving it a try!
The pages also won't show in my favorite Android HN client: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof.... I always have to open in a browser.
Maybe someone should fork the parser/lexer and see what a cleanup can accomplish. There are a few tons of "features" I would delete immediately. And I agree the namespace syntax is horrible.
Interesting idea! Any chance of integration with git/GitHub to attest to things like tags?
So in other words "all it would take" is for someone to do the one part of that which is actually almost impossible?
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Thanks! I am finishing a small helper that will enable you to specify the location of the datafiles relative to the directory where Node webkit stores data. You should find it helpful.
I calorie count, that's how I get through the day. However, it's worth noting that calorie counting is a depressing thing to do. I've experienced very much the feelings that I read about for diabetics (type 1) and people who are severely impoverished. Every cost has to be counted, every extravagance planned for, every unexpected event has to be compensated for. I overate at the start of the week, so I need to cut back at the end. It's difficult to count calories when I don't have the figures, which means I can no longer be the spontaneous social eater I want to be. I miss that badly.

I like to say it's like going from never having to think about how much money you spent to having to count every.single.penny. It's not 'I should skip that holiday in the maldives this year', it's 'Can I afford that trivial expenditure (a single piece of fruit) today? will I be too hungry to sleep if I cut that out of tonight's dinner?'
Velociraptor is def a cool project.
Two words: Bayes' theorem. I think I learned this in the fourth or fifth week of my first probability course. Thought it was a bit more commonly known.
http://www.cnil.fr/english/news-and-events/news/article/cnil...
Your withdrawing in your local currency, right? The problem is with Mt. Gox and their ability to give you fiat, not Bitcoin.
A git factoid plugin is a great idea. What exactly is the attestation that you have in mind? You provide the name of a repo plus a tag, and the VN issues a certificate of the hash?
"It was a management position so there weren't any coding questions"

Interesting; when I interviewed for a management position (test manager) it was nothing but coding questions, including the infamous "reverse a string" question. ("Would like that optimized for space or speed? In-place, or do I get a buffer? Can you tell I've heard this a zillion times before?") I can understand wanting a test manager to be more than an empty suit, but yoiks.
Another thing is how hard it actually is to know your BMR, and expenditure. Most foods have vast variation in nutritional content, and post-obese people have a great ability to put on weight (up to 30% lower calorie requirement, which is a hell of a lot when you are already cut down).
First bit of the JavaScript apologizes for the compiled code and refers the reader to the source:

https://github.com/MathiasPaumgarten/hair
Apple holds 3rd party iOS app in limbo while Google builds their own
You already upvoted him. No need to comment to that effect.
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As you're concerned with the spirit of laws - your parallel is much in the spirit of 'Godwin's law' and ahistorical to the point of being specious. The USSR was a totalitarian single-party state that engaged in many decades of brutal mass repression of its population. The US is a constitutional democracy where laws are formulated, enforced and interpreted by independent branches of government, two of them elected. The comparison boils down to 'both in the US and in the USSR, they wrote some stuff down'.
Apologies, I thought it would perhaps be more linear algebra. The deal is I haven't done any maths since university and I've become very rusty. I haven't done any physics in even longer! Where should I start? I guess I'd even need to know things like how to even draw a curve etc. I'm a complete amateur

"physics is to math as sex is to masturbation" - XKCD
You need some kind of server database no matter what your naming scheme. This is why I say hostnames really aren't as important as people pretend they are.

Sorting hostnames as strings tends to not be as useful/common as it seems, in my experience. In your DB you can sort based on the parsed numeric version. I've just come to dislike varying padding (01 vs 001 on some servers) or breaking the padding (001 becoming 1234). But, as I said, it's all mostly personal preference.
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How long ago was that, if I may ask?
Can the Karma indicator be turned off? I would be just as happy never knowing my number. I certainly don't know it on Slashdot but I enjoy posting there as well.

My concern with these imaginary numbers is people game them all the time which in turn makes me chuckle every time I see my "score"
As many mentioned, you can easily move your Bitcoins out. However, I'd posit that 75% or more of accounts on Mt. Gox do not have a verified account elsewhere. Are the other exchanges prepared for the increased load if it comes? If one or two have downtime, what will that do to the price?
Most people don't realize it but they just want to run a process. That's where the computation is defined that you care about. And in many cases, you want to run a long running daemon process. So why are we futzing around with hosts and virtual machines? If all you want is to run managed processes in a cloud (which is what you should want), then OpenStack is unnecessary. You could just write automation around Docker, regardless of whether you're using EC2 or physical servers.
I wonder about the economics. Could this just be an issue of them deciding to close down altogether? I don't know why, but this read to me more like a run on a bank, rather than a compliance issue. What did people do in the Great Depression? Bank holidays....
In the UK, you can never inform the customer - that is the offence of "tipping off".
Definitely. I notice that since I tend to be a reactive poster, where most my posts are responding to some other comment or expanding on a point that it's much less likely I'll get views and votes since it's it relies on the votes of the parent items for whether it's towards the top of the page. Also, I don't submit much.

I imagine posting quickly at the top level of a hot topic in a polarizing, but defensible (don't be definitive, or at least leave the door open that you may be incorrect) way will get you a lot of votes. Those that agree will up vote, those that disagree will respond.

I can't bring myself to test this because I'll know I'm just doing it for points, so I continue to mostly respond to others (as here).
You don't have to "study" clean code. You just have to overcome the tendency to write code in an overly smartypants way. Coincidentally, in my experience, there seems to be a correlation between people who love to study algorithms and people who love doing this. :)

I can reduce that 20 line function into one line of maps / filters / reduces too, but I know I shouldn't if it's going to take 20 minutes for someone else (or me 6 months later) to get through it.

Basically, don't aim to reduce Kolmogorov complexity, aim to increase readability. These two aren't completely mutually exclusive anyway.
This may be a definition: https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/288698056470315008
Exactly right. However, it means they would have to have direct access to 100% of the traffic from the user in question, while the original comment referred to having just a percentage of the backbone (user "sneak" has since edited the original comment to use different wording)
Unfortunately, nobody will be willing to sell bitcoins for USD on mtgox if they can't ever get their USD out.
IIRC You can with the consent of the FS(C)A
Per user. If, like my company, you hired 10 devs last year, that's over an hour of savings.
This HTTP bias has been my problem with the approach of most platform services since the beginning.
There really are two classes of programmer : the one that build "tools" for other developers, and the ones that build end-user software.

Where exactly is the distinction? How would you classify Monodevelop, or git/svn, or the C++ STL, or SQLite, or Emacs, or the Unix shell utilities, or Photoshop?
That was pretty cool, but the image of the 3.5" disk left me groaning anachronistically. Where's my 5.25"? Or better yet, the 8" Wargames-style floppy? Kids these days.
Richard Feynman wrote a book called What Do You Care What Other People Think? I think he wrote it because he likes to tell stories, not for social validation. Although I'm not sure of that ... now I'm confused.
You may not be able to read it because it's faded, but I mentioned the reasoning earlier. You do not "inspire" pro-democracy uprisings without knowing full-well that people will die.
No, no, go not to Tor, neither private mode,

Nor duck-duck-go the tight-rooted, for its secretive wine;

Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd

By anti-cloud sentiment, ruby grape prose of NSA;

Make not your rosary in tinfoil hats,

Nor let the politicians, the doomsayers-media be

Your mournful Psyche. The downy social media

A partner in your sorrow's mysteries;

For shade to shade will come too drowsily,

And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul.

But when the melancholy fit shall fall

Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,

That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,

And hides the green hill in an April shroud;

Then glut thy sorrow on a morning HN,

Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-reddit,

Or on the wealth of globed nerds from afar;

Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows,

Imprison her harsh hand, and let her rave,

And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes.

She dwells with Government—Government that must die;

And NSA, whose hand is ever at his lips

Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,

Turning to poison while the lying-mouth sips:

Ay, in the very temple of Delight

Veiled Melancholy has her sovereign shrine,

Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue

Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine;

His soul shalt taste the sadness of her might,

And be among her cloudy trophies hung.

(Originally By John Keats)
I very much enjoy the relative power of today's programming languages. There is nostalgia, but I don't miss assembler at all.
Do we need a Human Data Project?
What does this have to do with node-webkit? My understanding is that nodejs is a subset of node-webkit, so by saying "this is for nodejs", you imply "this is for node-webkit".
Ask HN: A site for introduction to technology guides?
Does anyone here on HN know if there is a dedicated site for e-books on introduction to particular technologies?

I'm writing an e-book on the basics of the Amazon Cloud for people who don't know anything about it so they don't go through the same pain points I did. But I'm curious where I might publish it?

Or another idea is maybe spinning up a site for intro tech guides?
Not how it's presented. How it functions.
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And that's all from the submission, since there's 557 points for both the submission and the user.
We're just about to embark on moving our uploaded files to S3 and were discussing yesterday how we should structure our dev/production environments. Thanks for the timely article!
Google has 3 months to change privacy policy in France or face potential fine
As a SEO small business owner, I actually think this blog was really helpful in pointing out the current confusing contradictions put out by Google's web spam team. I read Search Engine Watch religiously to keep current with trends and they only ever post high quality blogs, so I doubt this article would have made it on to SEW if it were keyword stuffing. Mentioning a hot topic like Julian Assange is actually newsjacking and is what PR professionals do all day long and have done forever. Nice work. And why are we talking about peoples' ex girlfriends as metaphors and why are we talking about some room at Google? Nobody cares!
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$3.5k/year seems like crumbs compared to VC valuations, but in the context of 20-30 hours of work it's not too bad. Call it $150/hour recurring - sure. I like the frugal mindset for new firms.
True, but that depends if you want to go from Bitcoin addresses to IP address or vice versa.
Most on Mt. Gox don't have secondary accounts, and this is more likely for those who are looking to make short term $ (and who tend to panic sell). For the various exchanges they could move to, what's the turnover time to be able to trade and more importantly, make USD withdrawals? Will the other exchanges be ready for this? How exacerbated could this be if there's a price drop?
This idea is not original to me. But I still remember a comparison of the Cambrian explosion to a gardener looking at a major tree on his grounds and remarking "you know, it's funny that no major boughs have appeared on this tree for some time. These days, all the growth seems to be at the twig level."
> "didn't get the success I wanted"

I believe this whole project was an experiment in how successful your app can be when you try out strategies X,Y, and Z.
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Something along those lines. The Linux kernel maintainers do a great job tagging releases and ensuring that they are signed appropriately. Others are less careful, and it'd be useful to know that the content you saw tagged as 0.5.9 a month ago is the same as what you see today. Git allows you to check this, but only if you keep your repository around.

I can see uses extending beyond tags, where people wish to claim that code existed at a particular point in time. It's possible to fake the git metadata and push the faked commit. If your notary can say that a particular commit was public, you raise the bar from changing the system clock to inventing time travel (or hacking the notary, whichever is your cup of tea).
That's true, but I want to stress Node Webkit because NW apps are probably one of the best usecases. Also, there is a bit of helper code specific to Node Webkit, so that you don't need to worry about where the data is stored.
Right, but my guess is people who have dollar holdings on mtgox aren't going to find it as easy now to sell them in order to do such a transfer.
The basic result (old people who walk faster live longer than old people who hobble around) shouldn't come as a surprise at all: if you see two 75-year-old women at the mall, and one breezes by you like she has somewhere to be while the other shuffles past slowly, and you had to bet on which person had longer to live, you'd pick the fast one.

The interesting part is how strong the result is: "Predicted survival based on age, sex, and gait speed was as accurate as predicted based on age, sex, use of mobility aids, and self-reported function or as age, sex, chronic conditions, smoking history, blood pressure, body mass index, and hospitalization."

That's pretty remarkable. For a given age and sex, all of a person's headline medical information, taken together, is as good an indicator of longevity as their walking speed is.
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Although the title here closely matches the article title, it seems overstated/optimistic. The actual line in the article is "when boosted with a small amount of silver these drugs could kill between 10 and 1,000 times as many bacteria." That's a big range. Of course, this still could end up being quite useful.
1. The envelopes, probably not. They would probably at least keep a log of correspondence received and sent, accounts payable and receivable, payment receipts, etc. If they have stories that make factual claims then they'd want to retain the journal/notes that went into each story for some nominal amount of time as well, if only to defend their name later.

2. Don't know, but the easy answer is "As long as the government required it to be". Even the NSA gets rids of their data after 5 years (or so they say).
I was a little disappointed because I thought the title suggested that Wolfram had found a way around the academic journal scam/stranglehold. Still happy with the article.
The problem now is that who you vote for doesn't represent you. They represent themselves, their donors and their social class/circle. They've also sworn an oath to the Constitution, then passed laws that are against that oath.

For all practical purposes the "classical constitution United States" that we were taught in school and media doesn't exist anymore. But we pretend it does for pragmatic reasons.
You are not exactly right. FYI, Newtonian mechanics = differential equations and calculus. And more advanced Lagrangian mechanics is a reinterpretation of the same ideas. I'm almost sure that Calculus was created by people like Newton in responce to the needs of mechanics and physics.

The fact that the program is implemented by using " just addition, subtraction, multiplication" is irrelevant, because this is how computers (and mathematical numerical methods) work.

For many great mathematicians the difference between math and physics is almost non-existent. You may also read this guy, btw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arnold
The 100% theoretically guaranteed method is the zerocoin extension: http://zerocoin.org/
We probably saw the beginning of this problem a month ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707936 . I can't imagine that the two are not related.

Also from the https://support.mtgox.com/entries/21649594-Withdrawals-and-D... :

OKpay has made the decision not to work with any Bitcoin exchanges as of May 29, 2013.

Dwolla has closed our account as of May 15, 2013.

All of the recent closures don't exactly instill confidence. Still, it might be possible to form or partner with a Japanese entity and receive domestic transfers from them.
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Yeah, that's exactly what I was trying to say. Thanks for helping to clarify.
Oh, that's what I was supposed to get out of that question? I was probably 5 the last time I played the actual board game. I've played computer versions since then, so pushing the car wasn't even a verb that I'd use to describe the game play. The only interesting aspects of the game for me are the studies about game balance for particular properties. I never aspired to be a great monopoly player, and that shows when I'd play my friends. As an interview question, this one seems pretty lousy.
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Yeah,

It may seem like crumbs, but it could be 140 hours of work from our designer or money we spend on marketing help, etc. We are a team of developers, so we also took it as a good opportunity to learn new things. My knowledge of chef increased 10x :)
Hi just read the first comment as I got to dash off. I would say - ditch Google Anlaytics and use something open source like http://piwik.org
Am I the only one seeing the background check of urls on IMs a good thing ? Those fake https fishing sites spread by a skype worm could really harm people.
Granted that they could do it like in chrome safe browsing feature without sending the actual url but a hash of it.
Great idea. We'll add this to the to-do list.
They're lay people and tend to follow the professional judge. They are often times more biased than professional judges when it comes to high-morals (I have no data supporting this claim, but remember that these people want to judge). There's two levels of indirection from the people (they are elected by elected politicians).

I don't like it. The law is immutable in a trial and should be interpreted by a professional judge. The control mechanism preventing the judge from unfair interpretation should not be amateur, social conservative, middle age men participating in police interest groups on their spare time ("jäv", happened more than once)

Of course, no system is perfect.
Or FaceTime
It hasn't for the last seven years? Other than the arrival of SSDs, the consoles were running on a half-decade old tech and still doing fine. If anything, tech seems to be moving slower lately, with less increase of processor powers and less notable increases in graphics capability.
My biggest nemesis: legacy...
>open changelog

>ctrl+f "PSR"

>0 results

Into the trash it goes.
>In any case - was the original/root comment here really that bad? Honestly...

Yes. One of the things that HN has been in the past, and should try to be in the future, is a place where people can post their projects and feel like they'll receive constructive feedback. If scoring cheap status points by tearing people down is what you want, you can check out literally any other large online community.
Also interesting to note that President Obama announced recently that taxpayers received a crazy 800 billion dollar return from the 3.8 billion investment in the human genome project.
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It's too late for the general population in the US. But there are very smart folks with means that have hedged their bets by having estates in multiple countries.
It is better than Wired's mobile format...where they let you use the full screen to scroll, but as soon as you stop scrolling and start reading, they pop up their logo bar in front of the text you are reading.
One caveat comes to mind about the approach this technique supports. Anonymizing your production data and distributing it to developer laptops is something you should think hard about before doing it, and approach very carefully if you do. Sometimes the sensitive information you should be protecting isn't just the users' creds and addresses. Sometimes it's the ways in which they've used your app, the content they've created, and the graph of other accounts with whom they've associated.

A typical anonymized DB dump is likely to share primary key values with production, and often an adversary knowing that user X posted something they'd rather keep private on your app will be able to simply look up their identity on your production server without privileged access.

Generating useful fake data is also hard, of course, and won't hit your edge cases like real production data, but then again, the code you're writing now won't really be exercised by the unwashed masses until you release it, so using production data is mostly a protection against regressions. If you've got sensitive content in your app, you should consider stronger test coverage in lieu of production dumps. Of course performance regressions can be hard to keep under wraps with automated testing (though you can defend against things like N+1 query problems), so YMMV.
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; but unfortunately silver also kills people.

PS: yet another http://xkcd.com/1217/
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