skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there! James, founder of Bestly here. You're completely right with both of your points. Here's some insight. :)

1) There has been a lot of thought that's gone into how we should solve this problem. We've played with several different concepts but have ultimately settled on one; starting this weekend, we're adding standard analytics "events" to Bestly where you can send any arbitrary event that you want to track. This will then allow you to visualize how "x experiment, variation A" affects some arbitrary event elsewhere.

2) Yes! We agree. We should be displaying both our confidence level as well as statistical significance rather than the number 100.

Also, I love feedback, so feel free to email me anytime. james [at] best.ly
We're gonna leave out the sex one? "Anyone kinkier than you is a pervert, and anyone not as kinky as you is a prude."

Suppose this works for any topic which can include relative descriptions...
I practice a variant of this where I have some small, well-defined task to do at the beginning of the next day to ease into the flow of things, but the thought of leaving the code in a known uncompilable state (even if just my local copy of it) would just make me feel uneasy until I've gone and fixed it.
This is an incredibly important point. I think when people talk about "universal basic income", the traditional narrative concerns the social injustice of poverty, hunger, etc. For me, all I really want is the space to work on the projects I care about and learn the skills to let me accomplish my goals.

For now, it looks like I'm going to be working for a while to pay off my student debt and save money before I can even dip my toes into working on something interesting.
The longer I do this the more I believe that value isn't created by doing. It's created by selling.

You can't sell something that doesn't have value to the buyer. Therefore, if someone buys a thing from you, it already had value before you sold it.

But don't get me wrong here, effective sales is an essential part of the value-creation process. It's the other side of the coin. Like the old tree-in-a-forest adage, if someone made a valuable thing and no one bought it, did it really have value? It's hard to say.

Selling something may not create value, but it does realize it: it quantifies the value -- value that already existed -- and turns it into money.
Great point. OpenSSH is rock solid and it and underpins many, many other projects and businesses.

I don't think it's going too far to say that companies making heavy use of (i.e. profit from) OpenSSH are obligated to donate.
https://twitter.com/Jeremy1026

My following habits vary greatly, the three main demographics I follow are 1) Chivers #KCCO, 2) Hockey Fans, 3) Programmers
Rather this was you assuming the worst based on the text, which is a commonly made mistake via text based communications.

I was trying to be humorous since the parent poster had said dozens of frameworks; which I'm sure (s)he is aware is an extremely generous number.

There is a good link here on this common issue as well. Based on the number of down votes my post received; you apparently aren't the only one that took it the wrong way.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/02/70179

Personally; I believe that the way a person interprets something like this speaks more of that person's inherit trust/mistrust of society than anything else. I personally try to take the mindset that most people are on whole decent, nice people if you get to know them.
Quite the contrary: if you are treating text as anything but a dumb byte-array, you are probably doing it wrong. Unicode elements are not characters, but code points. Your example text "ØÆÅ" could be legitimately represented as either three or four code points, depending on whether the Å character is precomposed (U+00C5) or decomposed (U+0041 U+030A).
as an architect - its not possible. its not even like software where if you want to put the time in you can create something "over and above" the brief which is better for users. in buildings improving the "UX" (so to say) will take up limited (and expensive) space, add additional material and construction time and hence cost. you can make small wins but the vast majority of crappy spaces are because the developer will simply make more money that way. the real problem imo is market failure - buyers and leasers of space don't understand their own spatial needs or good outcomes so end up buying something spatially poor because its cheaper.
Be careful when flinging bias accusations around; the author is not actually from the US/UK [0].

In addition, while .NET methods will work correctly for "ØÆÅ", they have incorrect behavior when it comes to any characters that lie outside the BMP, which includes many CJK characters. So, .NET only meets your requirements if you never interact with such languages.

[0] http://www.utf8everywhere.org/#faq.anglophile
Maybe I should try and rephrase my comment in case it is not clear. I understood Sam Altman's comment the same way you did. I was trying to find an analogy between wasting time writing software nobody wants and wasting energy trying to write software using whatever language happens to be most popular at the moment.

I'm not trying to say learning new languages is not worth it. I'm just saying that if you stick with what you know well for your production code, you can probably generate value more efficiently than if you are switching to the new HN fad language every six months.
That was the first thing I picked out too. From wikipedia (I know..):

> Meta ... is a prefix used in English ... to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to complete or add to the latter.

How is the entire message content abstract to the entire message content? It seems like they've just added the prefix to get around some legal obligation. What the fuck.
Tesla, you did it again.
You might not use OpenBSD as a whole but if you use Linux, especially in a server environment, you almost certainly rely on OpenSSH in some way, shape, or form, and that is part of the same project.
True indeed. Some ideas are really valuable, and I think it's mainly those that are well-informed, committed to a specific market (typically a niche) and ripe for execution.

Maybe it's because many of the ideas in the "ideas are nothing" category are twitbook/fourit/squaresnap/flickchat/... clones, rather than ideas like "let's build a product for market X using tech Y to reduce problem Z".
Ask HN: Startups improving business insurance?
A few startups have come up to make getting health insurance and other benefits a much better process for businesses (e.g. Zenefits). Are there any startups improving the process for getting general business insurance?
...or you could try to expand your horizons by trying things that you previously couldn't afford.

And maybe, just maybe, you'd find that you liked some of them.
Jokes seldon get my approval on HN but this on does.
Word of these kinds of things tends to get around, even if you don't spread it. In most cases people won't know exactly how much you got to stay, but that won't stop them from assuming you got something, and that something is something they are not getting.

In fact keeping the amount secret can actually make problems worse, by encouraging people to use their imagination to answer the question; then you end up with a situation where you actually got an extra $5K/year, but everyone you work with thinks you got an oil tanker full of Spanish doubloons and a stable full of ponies.
Good point, I didn't know MIPS is still used in the embedded space, I thought it was all ARM these days.

But OpenBSD could be testing on an embedded MIPS development device at any data center they want.
Do you want a list of people with severe and enduring mental illness? Let's start with John Nash because he has an easy to watch Hollywood movie about him.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Beautiful_Mind_(film)

Your ignorance of severe mental illness ("I think it's pretty rare for someone to have problems similar to the person you depicted and also be employed.") is exactly why people with severe and enduring mental illness suffer stigma. You see someone who may for all you know be experiencing their first episode of psychosis or their first episode of drug induced psychosis but you have already written them off as someone unable to function in society and unable to work.

A person who "is prone to taking their clothes off" can be an excellent employee. Emoyment makes them less likely to being prone to taking their clothes off because they have some routine and can afford the meds.

You obey the law because it's the law. In the US it's the same law that prevents you discriminating against people in wheelchairs - so you open yourself up to some really lousy publicity if you break that and make clumsy comments about it.
Washington Officially Put on Notice that the Peer-to-Peer Economy Is a Thing
BTW, I've got some real estate themed domains (and a logo or two) left over from a failed project if anyone's startup is looking for a name & logo.

⌂ DomainEstat.es

⌂ FindHom.es

⌂ FindProperti.es

⌂ FindEstat.es

They use the .es tld so you can do things like FindHom.es/chicago or FindProperti.es/newyork
I'd imagine it's at least partially a feedback loop. Bus routes are determined by looking at where employees live, and figuring out the optimal locations for stops, which I'd imagine is how the first routes opened up. For new employees/employees moving who are figuring out where to live, though, proximity to a shuttle stop seems like a relevant factor in the decision. If nothing else, not having shuttle service could be a point against living in a given neighborhood. I'd imagine if you took away shuttle service away from one neighborhood (just for the sake of argument), you would probably see a gradual decline in the number of employees living there.

Thing is, it'd be hard to quantify to what extent shuttle service availability influences the decision making process, so I'm not sure how much we can say about the net effect of shuttle routes on demand for living in a particular neighborhood.
> what happens when you're too heavy on the "doing" end of the spectrum?

technical debt
Value gets created when a company does things like build widgets and sell them to customers. As a rough guideline, it’s good to stay in roles where you’re close to the doing.

It’s easier to sit around and talk about building a startup than it is to actually start a startup. And it’s fun to talk about. But over time, the difference between fun and fulfilling becomes clear. Doing things is really hard—it’s why, for example, you can generally tell people what you’re working on without NDAs, and most patents never matter. The value, and the difficulty, comes from execution.

A corollary of this seems to be that investors (such as YC) provide little value because they don't execute. This seems incorrect on its face; most YC founders find the experience to be very beneficial. Maybe I'm missing your point, Sam?
As an extreme example, what many have in mind for the term are the "mental health" offices located in Boston and Las Vegas, where the former is in the "Brutalism" style (harsh imposing structure with broad sweeping staircases leading nowhere), and the latter is by Frank Gehry (whose buildings look like they were heated unto melting and then dropped from a great height) - both seemingly chosen to create patients instead of cure them.
More than one OpenBSD hacker used loongson
It's much more flexible. Dylan's macros are based on pattern matching substitutions. Honu allows for procedural macros.
WebM is a dead format. Although it purports to be patent free, it has very little support and may have exactly the same problems as H.264 with respect to patents.

It earns a "nice try" from Google, but not a passing grade. It's no PNG.
There's generic rack mountable ARM boxes. They don't need a Zaurus in their datacenter.
How is toast "vacuous" and somehow not a meaningful experience?

Come to my house sometime. I'll bake a fresh loaf of buttermilk cheese bread, toast it, and slather on some butter or cherry preserves. If you think the resulting experience is "vacuous" then I'll buy you a loaf of Wonder Bread to take home.
Show me the microsoft or google or apple research into these kinds of problems.

Google scholar counts, I guess.
"The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC, also called the FISA Court) is a U.S. federal court established and authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA)" --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellige...

Even if you're talking as about changes to it in the PATRIOT Act, that was passed on October 26, 2001. Each congressional district has had 6 elections since then, so some of these congresscritters never voted for or against the creation of the court. Of the ones that did, how many were on the committee that produced this? How many read it?
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2009/03/02/congress-had-n...
Twitter Gets Serious About Commerce, Nears Deal With Payments Startup Stripe
Personal: https://twitter.com/mindcrime

Startup: https://twitter.com/fogbeamlabs

Who do I follow? Wow, that's a long list. Too many to post here.
Well the power supply did need its own cooling too since it was 115,000 watts.

Here's a cutaway http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Cray_1_IM...

Think about the fact not only an iphone has more computing power but 115 kilowatts vs 5 watts.
I think it's a little more complicated than that. If you pay close attention to behavior, you can infer what people really think, on a deeper level than what they admit to. We have concepts for that in spiritual and psychological realms but not really in the realm of business. We have ideas like karma and Akashic records and the subconscious and Freudian slips. In crime/law (police, courts), we have ideas concerning motive and intent. We don't have ideas like that in business, at least not in a well developed, formal fashion. I think those deeper patterns determine whether an idea has legs or not and it is those deeper patterns we need to figure out how to talk about, how to mentally model, etc. Those patterns are the ones that are not armchair politician style pontification but we don't really have a formal framework for examining ideas deeply and thoroughly for business purposes.

(Edit: In some ways we do have such a framework. For example, I am sure that venture capitalists have a lot of paradigms for doing just that. But this meme of "ideas do not matter" still persists and is oft repeated by venture capitalists themselves.)
Anybody have an idea as to how much Stripe is doing annually?
Sony 4K Ultra Short Throw Projector
What happens when an unstoppable PR force hits an NP-hard problem?
Donated, thanks for openssh the reminder.
I get the feeling the people Theo yelled at are the same people Linus would yell at. Given Theo's behavior when RMS was trolling the misc list, Theo seemed quite calm.
I'd be interested in knowing this as well.
CentOS Project Leader Karanbir Singh Opens Up on Red Hat Deal
IRS enables Americans to download their tax transcripts over the Internet
That is a fair point, but I'm not trying argue that Perl is somehow better. I am just using it as a reference point. I'm more suggesting the article may be overstating the ease-of-use / capabilities of Tcl.

To be clear, I'm not arguing against using Tcl in favour of Perl or anything else. It's just that my experience with a language with great encoding support doesn't jive with what's claimed here.
If this browser-in-browser trend catches on, we can start measuring apps in units of meta-Atwoods!

(I wish I had a law and/or a unit named after me).
Ask HN: How do you pitch tech journalists?
'Do you want a guestpost from another point of view with proven data?' That's one of mines. Yours?
Tiny technology creates a buzz (Bees with a backpacks)
Really, the times I dealt with them they were quite pleasant and helpful.
Raising the Roof: The HTTP Project
3 - the NSA one, the OpenBSD one, and the WePay one. The "Open Source Data Science" one intrigued me, I just didn't get around to it yet.
Perhaps you could read the paper instead of being spoonfed by somebody?
"bundle package" caches the source packages, the gems themselves. not the artifacts produced by installing the gems.
I was referring to American numbers, as sourced in the Wiki article above. 10x that number in Iraqi/ Afghani numbers? Sure, I'd buy that.
The most offensive man pages are GNU project pages that effectively say, "for real documentation read the info page". Which, as someone that can never remember how to use info, is frustrating and just serves to piss me off...my first thought is "and a big fuck you to you, too". And then I look it up online so I don't have to read how to use info before I can read how to use the command I was looking for docs on.

I don't know if this is common practice anymore...I don't remember the last time I saw a defective man page like this, but I still remember it with great anger. I love GNU, but I hate the kind of condescension it takes to try to force someone to use a different tool because you believe it to be superior to the standard tool (when it's really not; I find info pages to be obtuse to create, and difficult to read).
Indeed. I waded through the whole thing, trying to mentally rewrite it in a wikipedia NPOV voice. I failed.

I was also heartily amused that IPO deserved a footnote, but the reader is expected to swallow 'neoliberal urbanism' whole.

An interesting undertone is introduced very early on, there is a quote:

“many first-stage (sweat equity) gentrifiers have sold their property to new (very well-off gentrifiers), who are regentrifying property in the neighborhood”

To me this implies the idea that a tech workers income is not sweat equity, that it is either undeserved or un-earned—while this may be true for some, it fails to recognize the work that most of us put in at every level of schooling, at work and on our own time
bosma was asking: "Are there any things that should be kept secret during the course of war?". The obvious answer that he's fishing for is "Yes. Stuff that's critical to OPSEC.". [0]

This is a silly question to ask. AFAICT, Congress hasn't ever been briefed on the day-to-day of wartime activities. They are often lied to about our motivations for declaring war. That's obviously a very bad thing to do.

[0] The funny thing about stuff that's classified for OPSEC reasons is that it has a really short shelf life. That is to say, stuff that's sensitive OPSEC stuff can often be declassified in a matter of hours or weeks... because the actions described by the classified information have taken place and everyone knows that they took place. (e.g. information about troop movements in preparation for tomorrow's assault would be sensitive until the assault happens.)
No, The .NET Base Class Library is object-oriented at the core, and one of the value propositions of F# is that you can fully leverage that library.
I'm with George on this one. I like to finish off a day with the atomic module/query/code I'm working on working nicely (optimized or not; it needs to function). Somehow, in my mind, it's like closing the trailing bracket. I like to finish the day 'clean'.

Sure, this might cause the next day to be a slower start, but you have to balance this out against the peace of mind you get from leaving the office and having no worry about. That is worth a lot (and might cause me to sleep better and be more productive the next day?)

It's like doing the dinner dishes before going to bed so you don't have to wake up to them (or not enjoying the rest of the evening because you think you'll have to do them in the morning).

Like George, I'll often plan my next day ahead so that I know what I'm going to do to hit the ground running (Optimize the code I wrote last night, add input error correction, cough add comments or tighten up the format ...)

All these things aside. Do what works for you!
Must be in response to Spotify's similar policy change: http://news.spotify.com/uk/2014/01/15/no-more-time-limits-on...
I find when I commute that writing an email TODO list of the work I will be doing today, or a TODO list of things I want to do next on my side project. Generally it gives me lots of simple ideas.

A train trip can be disruptive. Take on tasks that are small in nature, and your thought process will not lose out on in-depth analysis of any one problem.
Mavericks Shut Down Unexpectedly
Thank you for the correction, especially for the detailed links.
Same here. Donated as well.
There's really no reason not to use the GC though. It's very lightweight and quick.
:( Now there is a building I wish was sitting abandoned, instead of being torn down and the space not used. I put it up there with the destruction of Penn Station and the Chicago Stock Exchange as one of the greatest losses of American architecture.
How to Conduct Startup Due Diligence
Are you bottlenecking on high iowait? or something else?

just one random bit to try... Obviously, I have no insight into your system and I'm not saying I know more than you or anything, but I've been seeing more situations lately where I had massive latency but reasonable throughput and the disks mostly looked okay wrt. smart, and I mostly just wanted to write about it:

[lsc@mcgrigor ~]$ sudo iostat -x /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
Linux 2.6.18-371.3.1.el5xen (mcgrigor.prgmr.com)	01/16/2014

avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle

0.00 0.00 0.05 0.02 0.00 99.93

Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util

sda 0.70 75.11 35.66 1.38 4568.62 611.67 139.85 0.36 9.61 0.53 1.95

sdb 0.46 75.10 35.62 1.39 4566.77 611.67 139.89 0.22 5.89 0.45 1.66

sdc 0.80 75.14 35.63 1.35 4569.63 611.63 140.10 0.64 17.18 0.57 2.10

sdd 0.46 75.09 35.62 1.40 4566.60 611.63 139.87 0.13 3.47 0.40 1.49

(this is a new server built out of older disks that appears to have the problem. It's not so bad that I get significant iowait when idle, but if you try to do anything, you are in a world of hurt.)

Check out the await value. re-do the same command with a '1' after /dev/sdd and it will repeat every second. If sdd consistently has a much worse await, it is what is killing your RAID. Drop the drive from the raid. If performance is better, replace the drive. If performance is worse (and with raid z2, it should be worse if you killed the drive) the drive was fine.

(Of course you want to do the usual check with smart and the like before this)

The interesting part of this failure mode that I have seen is that /throughput/ isn't that much worse than healthy. You get reasonable speeds on your dd tests. but latency makes the whole thing unusable.
Indeed, Nimrod will be more of a competitor to D in this regard than it is to Rust, where bare-metal safety is nearly the whole point.
sup temp account. I don't talk here anymore, but I do remember when I first saw gentrificaton raised on HN.

The crux of the issue is that it resulted in a less healthy/hungry city because it made it that much harder for someone to come to SF, find a place to rent, and then work at whatever startup idea they wanted.

In the long run, its just a sign that a particular city/era's time has come/gone, and should be lauded.

The opportunity to start a new network elsewhere and build a fresh system to improve on the old is what I can see here.