skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was making a joke about the performance implications of a public SQL free-for-all, but I was probably being too subtle!

That said, I applaud the creators of the site.
RecDB: A Recommendation Engine built Inside PostgreSQL Database System
An Open Source Recommendation Engine Built Entirely Inside PostgreSQL 9.2. RecDB allows application developers to build recommendation applications in a heartbeat through a wide variety of built-in recommendation algorithms like user-user collaborative filtering, item-item collaborative filtering, singular value decomposition. Applications powered by RecDB can produce online and flexible personalized recommendations to end-users. You can check out the code, as follows:
I think it's becoming clear the legal system imagined by nerds is not the actual legal system. It's like watching somebody at an American football game who thinks they're at a soccer match.

"You can't throw the ball like that. Hand ball! 87 just knocked 12 over. Red card, red card! This ref is an idiot; he doesn't know any of the rules!"
It's mostly statistical (simple scoring). But as you can see in this lines of code: https://github.com/MojoJolo/textteaser/blob/master/src/main/... I keep track of the keywords used by the blog and category before. Through it, TextTeaser employs a little bit of machine learning to improve the quality of the results.
Homeless man launches first mobile app
I see that many people here think that not her being young and female, but him gunning for a better position was the real cause of this.

When he told her on the phone that he would not join because of HER, he cut off any possibility of her making him a better offer. So no, it was not him gunning for a better position, he was uncomfortable with her. Was that because she was young, or because she was female, or because of other facets of her personality, we will not know. But common sense pretty much points to a combination of young and female.
How does that work given Google doesn't pay dividends and most large corporations don't bring the money back into the United States?

In fact I believe it makes sense for the US corporation to borrow money and pay interest on it than to bring money in from offshore divisions. (As Apple did to pay dividends at shareholders behest)
JSON presentation layer for test-driven CSS for teh win.
Thanks. Sounds like another long, but more accessible read (Manna): http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Whole swath of middle management can be replaced with a little bit of automation and ML.
Anger is necessary, but rage is never good. Rage only leads to self-destruction and scope accretion.

Of course, in some places, rage is the only way to outdo the powers-that-be. But once you've outdone them, you must switch gears.
I highly doubt that one charge of sexism is going to ruin his life, especially when so many people are running to defend him. I didn't even see his name in the article.
Sounds like a developing anxiety complex. I know three people who started out like this and justified it in different ways, then going straight to no pretense, just hating the phone, then eventually a full blown anxiety disorder.

This was the first of a few symptoms.
As a matter of fact I do have an explanation:

The US is a huge country with a ridiculous mess of overlapping laws and massive bureaucracy. It's a legalistic nation, one in which the laws are typically followed to a 'T' regardless of how much sense it makes. This leads to all manner of weird stuff happening.
Has this concept ever been tried in court? There's an implication there that it's translated into "plain English". They even use the word "legalese". What's the difference between a blog post and a static webpage legally or even technically and what's the significance of that difference?
Ask HN: Is HN turning into Reddit?
Lately I've seen increasingly more circlejerk, offtopic posts in otherwise interesting threads. For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6537077

I can't find more at this moment, but all threads have at least a few of those.

Is this acceptable content on HN? Why are the comments not downvoted or removed?
This isn't about that kind of sexism. It's about a softer sexism that's really about familiarity.

It's real, and it's a problem. Look at how Hilary Clinton was dealt with by critics and her handlers during her run for the presidential nomination. They were worried if she was feminine enough. I thought it was totally absurd, pointless, and even stupid, but I suspect it made sense to people in their late 50s and 60s.

In the same way, I'm kinda comfortable with the way Michelle Obama is treated by her supporters in the media - but if I stand back and really analyze it, it's patently sexist and offensive. Who cares about her domesticity? She was a CEO. What she brings to the table is being able to potentially work on policy or be a political operative. To people in their 40s (and maybe even 30s), though, this sexist treatment in the media makes us comfortable.

Even Laura Bush could have been an operative - but her party is old, and that just wouldn't fly. We're in the age of the power couple, and that's reality, but our biases and sexism will prevent this from being accepted for a decade or more.
Hmmmmm. A rant....

This might be culture, or just the people I know, but...

There seems to be an expectation that I'm supposed to respond immediately to any call or text, and if I don't, some how I'm an arse. I have a mobile, there for apparently I'm never possibly parted form it, have the instant ability to stop anything I might already be doing, and its damn rude not to answer with in 3 rings, or reply to a text the second I receive it.

As such, I have come to view my mobile as some sort of pocket Nazi, who insists I will do as told.

Well, no.

I didn't get a mobile phone so that others can dictate my life and it's schedule. So, no, I don't immediately pick up ever call or immediately respond to texts. I do so as and then I see fit. Obviously Im selective about it based on context, but there is no way Im going to allow that little pocket Nazi rule my life.

It really gets to me how I might be in the middle of something with another person, and any time their phone rings, what ever we are doing must be paused so they can take the call or respond to a text. Its like the phone has a priority over an actual person one might be with. Its just plain rude. I see it all over the place, and it appalls me.

Ahhhhhhhhhh HN therapy. :)
Five by five
The article doesn't load for me, I just see a bunch of pictures.

The glass ceiling has always been real. It will continue to exist until the human race is extinct. Humans prejudice each other based on whatever traits they decide they don't like.
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You can sort of do this with @extend in sass - but I agree its nicer here, it seems to just sort of... do it.
From a quick test, it seems to treat almost every bit of content on a page equally, even elements which are clearly smaller and next to an image.

Might I recommend taking CSS styles into account? Large text is usually headlines, <strong> text is usually important, and darker greys generally suggest a side comment. Would be much easier if everybody used <aside> and <h1> but even in 2013 that's too high an expectation.
This might shock the HN community but from my years of mentoring poor performing and under privileged high school students in the Bay Area (i.e. mostly from East Palo Alto), education is not valued by all cultures. I was shocked when I saw this. It was always so obvious to me. That said, it's only a shock because I was raised in a culture (Chinese) that had always valued education. If you never had the security of being sure of your future for more than a few months at a time, education might not seem the best choice. Education is an investment and one that only pays off if you are secure enough in your welfare to reap the benefits. Even for some middle class families, it is becoming a less obvious investment since the price of education has shot up while employment is harder to find.

If the idea of education is not universally valued, is it so hard to believe that groups that do will do better in fields that require years of study?

I read a while back an article on Slate or the Atlantic that sort of explores this very issue. The hypothesis was that Judaism was at one point defined by literacy. Basically, at some point, to be a Jew required you to be read and understand the Torah. It was enormously expensive and over time those who couldn't afford stopped being considered Jews and those who were left were the ones who could afford an education. Thus the culture became one that was placed a strong emphasis on education. Someone who've read the article or know history of the Jews better can correct me on this.
I also have a Galaxy Nexus, and I had the same problems when I tried out the Nexus 4. Apparently The near-north suburbs are just not as well covered, even thought T-Mobile's coverage map shows pretty much perfect coverage.

I just got an Aio Wireless SIM card to try out for a month, and it's awesome. I even get service in the elevators and the parking garage. I finally feel like I'm living in modern times!
Bogosort is the best.
This seems like it would be good for filling a similar role to LLVM, providing a framework to take an object and turn it into CSS. I'm not so sure it makes sense as a language to directly use: JSON is nice as a data serialization format, but it's not very fun to author complex things in it.
Read the Terms page. No "plain English" there. You're basically arguing that a company can't publish a summary of any of its contracts, anywhere. On its face, that's ridiculous. Heck, most/all mortgages in the US are required to have a summary document (that's the HUD). IANAL but I'd wager good money that there's established precedent here.

Also, Google has good attorneys. Do you think that a broad principle like "posting a summary of a legal document binds you to the summary instead of the document" would sneak by? I doubt it.

Sometimes you have to get comfortable with the idea the non-programmers are as good at their disciplines as programmers are with theirs.
You are right, I'm not taking account of HTML tags. It is because I extract the text beforehand using Pythoon Goose. In that sense, only the text will be feed in the algorithm without any HTML tags.
What a wonderful trip back down memory lane.

And it even includes all those wonderful fonts -- making "ransom notes" with San Francisco as a 10-year-old...

Amazing!
Could also compare it to the Yukon since I bet it has more in common there than with most other states.
> Are you really suggesting that its acceptable for us to debase one of the basic human rights that are the foundation of this country in order to capture one man?

That ship has already sailed. Take a look at the Boston marathon bombing manhunt if you need any more evidence of how far 'out the window' your fundamental human rights can go, given the right circumstances.
JavaScript. JSON is more rigid and verbose, for example it requires that properties be quoted.
Get new friends and/or coworkers. Seriously, reasonable people do not expect an immediate response.
If you want to be pedantic, per your link jury nullification occurs in cases where the jury agrees the defendant is guilty but deserves to be acquitted nevertheless. Or in other words, did break the law.
Interesting interpretation. This might be true for one guy who said 'neat idea' and at the same time told me his bad experience.
because NTLK is a very strong toolkit for natural language processing and i haven't found anything comparable in scala.
It hadn't been posted, this is the first I've seen it, and I thought it was pretty interesting. Doesn't seem that unreasonable.
Wow, I was going to choose a quote as a prime example of this guy's utter horrible nature, but I got to the end and could not decide which was most terrible. Here's one anyway:

"I have two iPhones, one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry."
So much distorted history.

Recumbent bicycles are older than the modern "safety" bicycle. They lost in the marketplace on their own merits long before the UCI even existed. They are faster in some scenarios, they are slower in others. They cost more, they weigh more, they break more, they're less agile.

The '30s were not the "dawn of racing." The peak of bicycle racing (and technological progress) was 1880-1917. That would be when the safety bicycle was emerging as the dominant configuration.

Moulton wheels had over 30 years to prove themselves before they were banned in 1996, following the Lugano Charter. They didn't.
Exactly! Or for that matter have clients develop handles for themselves on topics they want, and the advertisers just Multicast the relevant information to the users that have those tags. No need to GUID tracking.
In my opinion articles like this further entrench any sexism that is out there.

I, for example, am admittedly sexist. This doesn't mean I would never hire a woman, or even have a bias towards a man over a woman. What it does mean is, I believe with great certainty that men and women on average have tendencies. Males are not guaranteed to, but are statistically more likely to commit violent crime and other such things, so I can't understand how so many believe it is impossible that females are likewise statistically more likely to exhibit certain traits. And one tendency that in my experience women tend to exhibit more frequently than men is towards victimhood. Too often, if something doesn't turn out their way, they chalk it up to sexism, or some other conspiracy, when usually it's just simple bad luck.
Maybe they're not trying to avoid someone now. It's very difficult, to say the least, to structure your entire online interactions around the possibility that someday someone you love or even someone you haven't met yet will turn into a stalker.
Checksum validation failed when submitting apps to iOS App Store.
Signup form autocompletion with the Gravatar API
Are you using LSA?
Apple demands news site pull copy of iTunes Radio contract, claims copyright
The "higher up" in this case was Seth Sternberg, born 1979 according to CrunchBase. I'm guessing Elaine and Seth are about the same age.
I haven't looked at the ESTA thing in a long time, but from what I remember it does ask explicitly whether you plan to work in the US etc. etc. If you tell a border inspector that you're planning to play at a music festival then naturally he's going to assume you mean ot engage in commercial activity. It is up to the individual to read up on the requirements and exercise some basic common sense (ie customs/immigration officials tend to be pedantic bureaucrats wherever you go, so be circumspect).

Sorry, but I think you're projecting your biases here with comments like 'they chose to let him come, knowing they would refuse him.' My reading is that he probably answered 'no' to all the ESTA questions and then confused the CBP agent by giving contradictory answers to his questions. I'm European myself so I'm not carrying a particular torch for US border agents here.
Cloud services have gotten cheaper but talented hires have gotten more expensive, and the latter is always the largest expense in scaling. And no, you can't scale a company and keep head count ultra tiny, there's just too much to do.
The original article was published over 3 months ago, yet this is the first time I had heard of it.

Would be interesting to see what the fuss is about, but nothing in the Wayback Machine and the Google Cache has already been edited.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:q5bBqzG...
Right, I kind of don't believe what people say unless they give me concrete feedbacks.

Recently I also tried to get some feedbacks through mturk. Probably those guys want to get their feedback approved so they all complimented my service.

Still doing different experiments and see what are effective...
I've come into the US many times, and personally witnessed thousands of people being granted entry into the US with nothing but professionalism. Cases such as this are certainly rare.

There will always be a few people in any large group who treat others badly, and US border guards are no exception. I'm sure we could find rare similar cases in Germany or anywhere else, too.
Firebird Tour: Prague, November 25
It might surprise the author to know guys get rejected (professionally) by other guys all the time, with no credible reason given. Your "coach" told you it was sexism? Get a new coach.
The main reason for the strict limits on car and engine design is safety.

It is possible to build an uncontrollable death rocket on 4 wheels, but this would simply be to dangerous for the drivers and fans.

If these strict regulations were not in place the teams would create cars that would be self destructive.
What do you mean by LSA? Are you referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis

If it is, I'm not using it. :)
It doesn't seem to handle vendor-specific prefixes (-webkit, -moz, etc). I suppose you could write your own mixins (plugins) to handle that, but still, a shame.
that patch of code could be restructured a bit to make it more readable, here are a couple of small suggestions that jump out at me:

1. perhaps `.reduceLeft(_ + _)` could be replaced with the use of a `sum` function or method (assuming one exists in scala?)

2. if the `topKeywords` collection returned a default value with a `.score` of 0 when queried with a key it doesnt contain, the headOption getOrElse null match null would not be necessary.

e.g. in python it might look something like this:

Keyword = namedtuple('Keyword ', ['score', ...etc...])

top_keywords = defaultdict(lambda : Keyword(score=0, ...etc...))

def sbs(words):
if words:
return (1.0/len(words)) * sum(top_keywords[w].score for w in words)
else:
return 0.0

(apologies for making superficial comments about the code. the algorithm itself certainly seems interesting)
yes you can use it with private repo.
BTW, if anyone is looking for alternative web browsers that you can truly control, and have some of the defaults set for privacy:

Web Browsers GUI:
Dooble, GNU IceCat, Luakit, NetSurf, Web/Epiphany (Galeon), Dillo, Amaya (for authoring), Swiftweasel, Conkeror, Arora, Midori, rekonq, Kazehakase

My GUI picks:
xombrero, Uzbl, surf (with tabbed, it is amazing), dwb, jumanji

TUI Web browsers:
w3m, elinks, links2, Links, Linkx, lynx, cURL, ed browser, wget

Relevant Threads:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=13661&p=1
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116165

In the future, I wish to have a browser that maps all the cached files, per page you are viewing, with each of the domains, IP address, and the WebSockets connections it makes. Whether it be tree mapped, or tabular, it would be awesome to have a browser monitors all network event and files live, while you are viewing a page, maybe in a tile/window somewhere. For now, we have Jails we can open on the fly, with a new browser instance on each, connected to the custom firewall rules, that opens a page per domain. When done with the page, we get rid of the jail instance.
Ask HN: https://News.YCombinator.com/best is broken?
I can see only the best posts for last 2 days? Did we lose older posts?
iPhone 5S Users Reporting Blue Screen of Death
So, a potential employee decides not to work with your startup and you immediately jump to the conclusion that it's because you're female?

No, she immediately jumped to the conclusion that it was her fault and she then sacrificed her own future with the company in order to get this person onto the team. Some time later her coach pointed out that she overlooked the possibility of an age/gender issue.

Why, I wonder, did you choose to completely mischaracterize the content of the article?

On top of this, this was not your boss, this is someone you were trying to hire. You can turn down a job for any reason and it has nothing to do with the "glass ceiling".

Backing out of an accepted job offer is a bit different from 'turning down a job'.

Aren't we allowed to have opinions these days? If I don't like you and you just happen to be black, a woman, gay, etc..does it always have to be because of these traits..and not because you're an asshole?

Nobody forced the candidate to accept the job offer before backing out of it on a rather flimsy pretext. He hadn't even started work yet, so I wonder what basis you think he had for deciding that his then-future boss was 'an asshole.'
> Asking "but are you sure the sequence shows flight and not moving on the ground" for a bird that is widely known to never touch the ground is not constructive criticism

"Widely known"? Are you reading the same article? No one had any idea this happened until this study.

(Yep, double post. Too late to delete. Sorry.)
If you are interested in tracking from within Tor vs in via tor2web, look for the header "X-tor2web: encrypted" on HTTP requests.
Wouldn't percentage of Jews in the Western world be a better stat, given that's more or less the population from which Nobel prize winners are selected?
APT for Google Guava functions
It seems that middle click to open the button-links down the bottom of the page doesn't work (Chrome, Linux). Right-click open-in-new-tab works, though. Why do people break this?
What have you said in this thread about socioeconomics?
I'm interested to know if anyone on HN has been to a for-profit school What was the outcome?
In this analogy, however, the government is saying "we know one of your deposit boxes is owned by John Doe, we'll look at em all, figure out which one is John's, and retrieve his stuff".
This seems cool.
I'm an American who learned to read Hangul. I had also tried learning to read Japanese and Chinese, but those were difficult for me. With Hangul, I just picked it up almost accidentally.

[EDIT] It was really kind of weird/awesome that one day while riding through Koreatown in L.A., I looked over at a sign and blurted out "I can read Korean!". I was completely surprised.
It's only ever the best stories currently in memory, which after a server restart like just happened tends to be only the past few days' worth.
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Gistub is a stand alone application for sharing snippet such as gist.github.com.

If you're familiar with Rails apps, you can set up Gistub in several minutes.

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