skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No you don't. As the parent poster says, if you screw up, you want to be able to figure out why. Unless you enjoy digging for months for biases in large incomplete datasets with a panicked guy screaming at you, you'll have at least a couple dozen output neurons (you can always also have a yes/no one if you like).

In practice all the parameters will fire to some extent, right. You need some function to resolve it. Generally people start out by giving the "no's" preference, then you switch to something more complex, then some product manager suddenly declares the law: give "yes" preference.

So the output of that network will be a) 15.15% b) 74.3% c) 55% d) ... and so on. The highest values are considered and some function chooses from that.

It's how it works in the human brain as well, but the solution that wins is the one that gets control of the brainstem. Generally being the first to respond is pretty much guaranteed to get you control, but something else may override you later. The human mind, in reality, is not a single whole, but is ~300 separate minds that could, if it were necessary, operate alone. Each of those is constantly coming up with responses to inputs, and they're all linked through the brainstem, which is also the link to the rest of the body (except the eyes, which are only input to ~6 of them, and the ears, which also are connected directly to ~6 of them. That seems to be to enable brain-eyes bandwidth to be ~100000 times more than all the bandwidth it has to the body, and brain-ear bandwidth ~100 more).
Can't short penny stocks usually.
> There are times where questions are fielded to me and it was simply "this does not work"

I want this to be defined as misconduct. People need to be fired for repeat offenses. If they can't at least explain what they did and what the actual result was, they're incompetent. If they won't, they're ridiculously lazy. In either case, they need to be out of a job.
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I'm confused. You do realize that MongoDB uses memory mapped files for managing and interacting with all data...
I'm curious to know what happens after they halt trading. What's the outcome for those with outstanding shares? I would assume either the spread would get ridiculously wide or the sell orders never be fulfilled?
How ironic would it have been if this never made the first page :D
Yeah. Nobody wants to be in SF. It's way too crowded.
Bahaha. I don't care about rap one way or the other, and neither do you. "White knighting" is just as made up as "fake geek girls" and the Tooth Fairy, and we both know it. Therefore: fuck off, troll.
What's well established is that it has been abused. What's not well established is how widespread the abuse is, because, obviously, reporters only write about the abuses.
Based on that comment, you have no idea what a downmarket customer is (even in the US). They aren't people who get phones "free" on contract. Downmarket customers don't have contracts. Sometimes they can't afford the guaranteed monthly expense. Often no one will give them a contract, usually because of poor credit. They're the ones who appreciate $99 or cheaper smartphones because, as limited and out-of-date as they are, they're still a big step up from the feature phones they were getting.
Seems pretty similar to the usenet naming.

http://usenetstats.com/top100reads.php
(NSFW). Please also note the non-binary channels.
In retrospect there's a simpler way to state this. If one vendor had over 10% market share on SR then they probably earned more than DPR. Obviously there are between zero and nine such vendors.
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Thats interesting. I would have guessed most people would love their Tesla. Do you drive the old Prius instead?
Silicon Valley is a culture that celebrates extremes. Extreme ideas, extreme hours, extreme success, extreme failure. People do a ton of everything or a lot of nothing, but something is being done. The point Bukowski always made was to be doing "it", what ever "it" is. Because if you are indeed doing "it", then "it" is a extreme act.
I'm kind of amazed that it's even possible to buy and sell shares in a defunct company like this.
Awesome but did you need to blatantly rip the Medium design?
This is the best thing ever if you're pulling data from flat JSON files, and I would prefer it to any static server simply because I would rather not worry about asset pipelining when working on a static, simple website.
It's amazing how much we have done, yet how horrible even the best commenting systems are.
Normally I'd agree that ad hominem attacks are just that.

But in Bukowski's case, his life was his art. His personal issues were his art.

It's not like he had a few minor issues while he was writing beautiful sonnets about birds, where the issues have no bearing. His writing is about how he cheats on women, how he beat them, how he drank himself sick, basically about how he was just an a * * hole to people. He glorified it (your interpretation may vary as to this, but it is certainly read that way by many people).

Plenty of people appreciate Bukowski's honesty in his writing, but the idea that one should take advice from him... on anything... boggles the mind. Before anyone goes defending him, make sure you've read some of his stuff first.
I think the best thing they could possibly do is provide a wide swath of benchmarks for each machine sold. The user can quickly see if the machine will provide performance that they deem acceptable. Require it to be displayed in a standard format.

The trouble is in getting unbiased results. I doubt Valve would want to test each model themselves.
Until CCTV is combined with facial recognition!
Isn't this Security 101, limit what external users can gather about your systems. Especially when an error occurs, you don't want an exception getting thrown and then the stack trace gets displayed to the whole internet.
Ah, yes, Hacker News--where duly-elected representatives performing their duly-allowed-by-the-Constitution duties to fund or not fund the government "should not be allowed to do this."

Big news, folks: the House is allowed to not allow any additional spending. It's their right to do this under the Constitution. No votes to allow spending? No spending. It's really that simple. Don't let normalcy bias (we've always increased the debt ceiling!) cloud your judgment.

Oh, and should not be allowed by whom? They are allowed under the supreme law of the land, the Constitution. Are some suggesting that there is a more supreme law/being/entity that can disallow that which is Constitutionally approved from happening?
> Has anyone used this extensively?

Rob Pike and any devoted Acme users?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M
Not so much, no
I would truly love to see a new form factor appear that's designed for large heatsinks that vent directly to the outside. It's always seemed terribly odd to me that GPUs often consume more power than CPUs, yet have tiny heatsinks and loud blower fans.
Trading halts trading, not ownership; Assuming the trades themselves are not cancelled, he who holds the bag owns the bag.
It's always going to be obvious which ones are new, because they've got 1 vote and are on the front page.

I read HN all the time, but confess I never visit "new".

I'd definitely be a fan of including 1 random article from "new" for each pageview of the front page -- but make it explicit. Keep it at the top, or in the middle. It seems like that should produce a much "fairer" result.

I'd be curious if there are reasons why this wouldn't work -- why HN, reddit, etc. keep "new" on its own page...
Oh hey, I like this. Users++
Misleading title. Suggest: People On Internet Say They Will Do Something That Will Totally Stick It To The Man, Just You Wait.
Rob Pike says that Oberon was an influence on his Plan 9 text editor, Acme.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/acme.html
Depending on your needs, mongo has a much nicer interface than redis... Not to mention supporting indexing in the DB instead of having to DIY your own... I used it at a site that did mostly classified listings, and the performance was a lot better than the SQL RDBMS that was being used for search/display.
Don't get too hung up on the critical feedback here. It's a good idea and the application is solid. In my opinion there is a big enough market for this. Stick to the idea and nail the original premise for the company - saving developer hours.

One idea would be to make your video a little more natural and less 'cutesy'. They are trying to get to know the real you.

Good luck! Our company, Loveseat (formerly Bidbash) got an interview for summer '13 - but, we didn't get in. Met PG and that was fun. We're still doing it though! Stick with it.
Somebody had to be spamming TWTRQ as twitter. Serious prison sentences should follow if that's the case.
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That's a great point. I didn't think of that.
I thought so too, at first, but then I discovered it's just an odd site design.

There's a big X in the upper right corner that acts like a Close button. Clicking it hides the article and re-enables the rest of the page.
Eagle Mode (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6yPQKt3mBA) uses the zoomable UI concept and takes it to an extreme.
You know what else could be interesting? Display the header for a random item at the top of each page.
I'd consider the title renaming posse quite random already. Some days I get to be excited about the same article multiple times. Neat.
Nobody's going to prison if it was 4chan.
A little closer reading of the report[1,2], shows that only 26,000 automobile fires occur on public highways. That makes Tesla's single datapoint worse than a conventional Auto.

All cars: 1 fire per 116 million vehicle miles/year

Tesla: 1 fire per 113 m vehicle miles/since inception

Obviously, the Model (s) being a newer Tesla model does not have the full historical amount of "Tesla" Miles as the denominator.

[1] http://www.nfpa.org/~/media/files/research/nfpa%20reports/ve...

[2] Furthermore, only 2% of non-deliberate fires start in the fuel line or fuel tank of a normal vehicle
Sorry - The shortened link was copied from his Facebook post. I thought it appeared sketchy but when I tried to expand it and paste it into HN it got corrupted (just like in your post). I was too lazy to figure a workaround. Sorry.
Ahh. I had a similar desire to code something like this up, but didn't because I found there was some sort if service available on your account called notifo. Wonder what happened to it...

Gl with this service. I definitely wanted it when I've done "ask hn" type things.

How sure are you that the message will get to the notified's inbox? Email delivery is not easily done.
And....I'm the founder of TicketLeap - Eventbrite's biggest competitor in DIY ticketing. Big platforms have to jump through all kinds of hoops to figure out which features to build. Your idea makes sense to do user testing on real users all the time.
I'm a one-man shop with no one to bounce problems off of, so I rely on Google and Stack Overflow (or other forums). In the past when I got stuck and posted a question, frequently I'd solve the problem myself almost immediately afterward.

So now when I'm tempted to ask a question on SO, I write out the question in a text editor, giving as much detail as possible. It's not a 100%, but I've found that going through the process of trying to frame a question intelligently goes a long way toward figuring it out myself.
That's a great idea! Please let us know how that goes.
How does this compare with superagent?
(pseudo)randomized
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Very cool! Any chance to open source it?

I've been running HN alerts via Zapier (my startup) + a webhook polling trigger with a URL like http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?&q=yo... (which is of course hnsearch.com's API). You can get them delivered via SMS/Twilio, IM/Gtalk/Jabber or plain jane email.
Not really misleading. It will be rebuilt. There's too big of a market for it.
Are you saying my data is being sold/used by Netflix for millions of dollars? Are you saying that Facebook should run a charity? I can understand and I do think FB should be more respectful (hell to LinkedIn) to user's privacy and security preference, but even average users can understand that true free services don't really exists. You think Github is free? Well, they store your repositories and your issues and your commits. They store a lot about you as a professional. But why do people use it? Because they don't sell your data to corrupted companies out there mining? Well, a lot of search engines are mining repo data. A few startups out there are mining github data to make profits.

I am paying $7.99 and I am happy to tell Netflix my preference (my ratings) because doing so do help refine results show up in my dashboard and also gives netflix an idea what people like XYZ. There is an equal opportunity for both users and the service to improve.

I am paying $7.99 for unlimited service. I can watch at any time, resume at any point, re-view at any time. I can always watch - downtime is statistically low. The streaming / connection is usually very good even for poor internet access. I am not giving up a lot of personal data to be honest. If I don't want to watch the movie / tv show after 20 mins I am still paying $7.99. I am not charged per movie. I can actually stream with my girlfriend instead of paying another $3.99 on Amazon for us to watch a movie together.

Tell me if this is not a bargain.

This is a purely a decision people can make. On the other hand, I never said FB isn't exploiting users' privacy to gain more profit. But if the argument is free services comes with a cost, well, "no shxt Sherlock."

Let's look at it this way. Do you think free software are truly free? Some people release free software in order to provide a premium version later time. Some people provide free software to build their skills and reputation. Some people provide free software to benefit everyone, and that's cool!

Do you think docker.io being an open source project really is free? How much $$ can dotCloud save by open-sourcing it? How many more customers will they get after releasing docker? How many people will now trust dotCloud now? There is a price and a gain, even from a pure altruist view.
It was up more than 1200%. Some people sure made a nice profit on that one.
I always visit /new and it's quite astonishing how many great posts never make it to the front page and instead, quietly drop off. This really has a lot to do with what time of day they post as well.

E.G. I've posted around 3AM - 6AM EST (which is usually when I have more free time) and it never makes it. But if I post a bit later, say around 9AM, then it has a much higher chance of coming to the front page.

There are a great many good stories that are several pages into /new and I think (with the exception of a handful that are already on the front page) those are barely seen by the vast majority of HN visitors.
> That used to be a tin-foil hat idea just a few months ago, and we know better now. If NSA comes carrying gifts, it warrant being very careful in accepting them from a party with such hostile priorities.

Well, not really.

The "tinfoil" idea is that NSA is breaking into crypto so that they can blackmail politicians, black-bag innocent citizens, etc.

But it was never widely assumed that NSA wasn't trying to break every bit of encryption they could. Besides the fact that such activities are literally their job, it's one of the few things they'd just as likely tell you directly if you asked them.

"Q: Are you trying to break cipher/cryptosystem FOO?" "A: Yes, we're trying to break all of them, to protect our SIGINT capability".

NSA has spent literally decades analyzing and breaking the military-grade ciphers of other nations. So I don't know where people got the idea that just because civilians obtained access to military-grade encryption, that NSA would suddenly stop with cryptanalysis efforts. But it has nothing to do with civilians per se; the military and national security opponents are using our civilian crypto too!

Is that inconvenient for civilian cryptography? Sure. But let's not act like people are having something chipped and taken away from them, that they've always had.

Before RSA and DH there was essentially no widely-known safe cryptosystems that we could use. You used DES, or you could make up your own Vigenère implementation perhaps (have fun with key exchange!).

And that's just discussing computer communications. Your phones were all tappable, international telegrams easily read if it suited NSA, and good luck if you used one of those new-fangled cell phones.

The claimed threat is that computers make NSA more capable of surveilling the people at large, but the evidence shows that systems like Tor are putting up an exceptional fight, and even cryptosystems like TLS with many known weaknesses mostly work against global passive surveillance.

You would have to get on NSA's specific shitlist to have to really worry, but being on that shitlist 20 years ago meant anything you said would be picked up... and now, even that is not so certain.
And he forgot to mention many gasoline car fires aren't due to gasoline ignition, but electrical failures or material melting (plastic/glue), etc. The only common case of gas ignition is static electricity while filling up, f.ex. re-entering the car while wearing a sweater (you can even smoke a cigarette while filling up, it's the spark that's dangerous). Closed gasoline tanks have been safe for decades and contrary to what we see in movies it's close to impossible to fire them up even in serious car crashes, especially when they're full. There is even a method for extreme freezes (-30-40'c) to light a small fire under the tank to help the fuel flow to start the engine (especially needed for diesels and low quality gasoline) and the only fires due to that are when the stupid owner didn't realize his tank or other parts around are plastic (which's quite a modern day problem).
Serious prison sentences

For financial crimes? Surely you're joking.
More importantly, the number is utterly and completely meaningless without the rest of the term sheet.

To be extreme, think of the difference between this investment as all common stock, versus this investment as participating preferred with 3x liquidation preferences.

I've seen companies trade liquidation preferences for higher valuations before, because they wanted to pretend a down round wasn't, or because they wanted to feign a greater level of success than had been earned. It wouldn't be unprecedented, particularly from a marketing-savvy company like Mongo that knows a 3 comma valuation would help close deals.
Great idea. I think 5 random submissions should get a front page chance. It increases variety and as the other person said, it also combats group-think. Five out of thirty, even in the worst case scenario (not even one of them is interesting to a person) is not enough to degrade HN.

Also something has to be done about the fact that many news stories that are bad PR for certain companies or good about their competitors are quickly dispatched to page 2 and 3.
Lazy is good for users. But all lot of the skeuomorphism that is rallied against is the kind that is merely decoration. There's a lot of babies being thrown out with bathwater lately.
What no one is talking about but should know:

Melatonin is amazing for people that smoke weed. If you're one of those people that casually smoke but wake up the next morning feeling groggy and out of sync, take melatonin at night as directed in this article and other places. Getting into your bed will feel amazing. You will drift off to sleep, even if your iPad or music is on. And you will wake up like a normal person, except a bit more relaxed. As I became more and more successful I smoked less and less because of how it affected my performance the next day. With Melatonin I can smoke like Sophomore in college enjoying Adult Swim on a Sunday for the first time.

What no one else is talking about:

Melatonin can make you super constipated. Eat fiber, take fiber pills, eat a balanced diet high in vegetables and it should else. If you're on a neckbeard died, say goodbye to pooping regularly and when you do, it will be compact.
I think the submitted site (or article's) own title should be treated as canonical, and a text field provided for a byline description by a submitter (or maybe include some metadata with the domain in the header) could balance the need to accurately reflect the content and... whatever it is that determines changing the titles around here. I understand the reasoning against it though, among other things the competitive nature of submissions to HN would mean gaming the system with your own metadata would be unavoidable.
> Actually, why hasn't that taken over a long time ago?

Ultimately because people prefer the control that it gives them. They can edit a document and just decide they don't want to save their changes and they can do that. Or they can save it under a different name or in a different folder.
I'd be surprised if Google is doing this for anything, but the patents.
Probably HN's voting ring detection.
> When the children of ex-NSA employees lie to their friends that their father left when they were young because the truth would be embarrassing, it will be a better America still.

What the FUCK, man. Is this seriously how you think? Are all of your moral questions so easily placed into neat little bins?
Just throwing this out there... a bit of lost research on the subject. Pitty not all of the images were cached.

http://web.archive.org/web/20011211164100/http://www.mechabi...
Mostly because we keep hitting the reset button.

People continue to complain that easy one-liner jokes consistently dominate the top ranks in Reddit threads, but Slashdot already came up with contextual upvotes (Funny, Insightful, etc) years ago.

Of course every time someone comes and tries to build a community we end up reinventing online comments from square one...
I would imagine it's like all criminal cases where if they find cash lying around during an arrest they seize it.
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At reddit we had two tactics for the frontpage problem.

The first thing we added was the "rising" page, which used to be reddit's default "new" page. The rising page was a weighted new page. It was a little hacky, but worked for a while. I see they've changed this, which I think may have been a mistake, but I haven't thought about it in forever.

The second thing we did, which worked really well, was to have an up-and-coming link placed at the top of the list on the frontpage. This helped those borderline posts get more visibility. I had a reddit simulator I used to use to test things like this. That space appears to be a subreddit search box for me, so it seems they've moved onto another solution.

Randomness is an interesting idea, though it might be a bit difficult to fit into the way we cached things.
Perfect timing, was going to add this in as we are losing people due to credit card failures so sending these emails is crucial. Definitely giving it a try
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