skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a random plug, I'll say that I really enjoy Lucero brand olive oil from California (http://www.lucerooliveoil.com/). There's pretty much no question their oil is what they say it is, you can even tour their groves and facilities if you end up in the area. And their stuff is great, I wish I could afford to keep stocked in their oil for all manner of cooking.
It's Ted Nelson rattling through some of his computer-history notes on camera. So it's good material, but it's much better presented in his enjoyable and reasonably-priced book /Geeks Bearing Gifts/ http://www.lulu.com/shop/ted-nelson/geeks-bearing-gifts/pape... .

I noted a couple of apparent mistakes: at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6SUOeAqOjU#t=4m26s Nelson says that Xerox paid Jobs to look at the PARC work, while AFAIK Apple in fact paid Xerox, in pre-IPO Apple stock. He also suggested that Xerox tried to bring in Jobs, when it seems to have been Apple who made the approach (at the instigation of Jef Raskin at Apple). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6SUOeAqOjU#t=2m15s is misleading. PARC was more-or-less forbidden to buy a DEC PDP-10, which would have reflected badly on the competing machines from Xerox's new acquisition Scientific Data Systems, so PARC built a PDP-10 clone (the MAXC) in-house for their own use. That had very little to do with why they later designed and built the Altos: there was nothing remotely similar to an Alto out there that they could have bought (Nelson knows this).
(to the point of making a pilgrimage to visit Kahan early on)

What does that mean?
This policy varies on a team-by-team basis, but generally Google is pretty good about giving people some flexibility in this regard. It's pretty common to see people work from home because they e.g. have a dentist appointment in the middle of the afternoon or something. We generally treat people as responsible adults unless they give us a reason to otherwise.

That said, we really value the team-building and communication that happens when everyone is in one place, and that typically means WFW (work from work) the majority of the time, so we try not to make a habit of WFH.

This is kinda the same issue with remote work. We have great videoconferencing tech, but we generally find that you miss out a lot when you're apart from the rest of the team. This makes even being on a geographically distributed team kinda difficult. Some teams do a better job than others on this (e.g. Chrome is very far-flung), but it requires a lot of coordination and discipline to make it all work.
Scribbling my tasks on the back of an envelope or receipt or whatever and keeping it in my pocket somehow makes the tasks more immediate or urgent feeling with their physical presence, however small, and the urge to physically scratch them off (satisfying) and ultimately throw away the scrap of paper (very satisfying) can occasionally be the straw that breaks the camel's back to get up and get the thing done!
Since you are so interested why don't you do a little research yourself. This has been extensively studied but I think you need to start with the basics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity
His point about the bastardization of "cut and paste" is very important in my opinion. Hell, he ends with this..

Bringing a complex tangle of code to heel becomes tractable if you just print it out, cut it up, and rearrange the parts.

It would be fairly sexy to be able to do this on your computer... granted, you need a lot of screen space to pull it off.

Oh, and I'm ignorant of Ted Nelson.... But it seems fairly obvious these talks are meant to be taken with some humour.
There was no conversion tracking for the Facebook ads? If I ran this campaign I would be mainly interested in how much each conversion is worth to me and what each one cost.
As writer of software, I'm also betting on option B.
Machine learning and big data startups will strike it rich in 2014!
Really? I didn't personally find that the extremely simple graphics enhanced my understanding of the short and shallow paragraphs of text. It almost felt like just-pre-Idiocracy media spoon-feeding.
do you play music? do you have the ability to play his pieces? or to compose either at or above his level?

when I was learning piano in the late 90's, I bought classical sheet music for training, and pop sheet music to play for friends and family. at the top of most of the pop pieces said "max martin"

classical music taught a lot to me, but so did max's music.
point being, inarticulate insults such as saying the music is crap, are not worthwhile criticisms.
So, we've done the environmentally-conscientious boycotts. We've done the healthy food boycotts. You know where I'm going with this...

Is there anywhere we can find out whether a company provides its employees meaningful wages and benefits (in relation to its corporate earnings)? Also, if anyone's knowledgeable on this, is it generally more beneficial to just buy from privately-owned companies (vs. publicly traded)? I would love to start buying exclusively from co-ops.
Good job! I've learned a lot from it .

If I understand correctly, it is for enterprise search, not for web search, correct?

The response time is really impressive, especially with the new sorting by date function. To me, using NoSQL database, it's hard to do sorting if it's not impossible. That's why it's not available in the initial current release.

This implementation reminded me about the CTF algorithm, which needs to match the input query against a file. The reason why I thought it's not for large volumes of queries is because:

1. Each keystroke is a AJAX call which could be lightening fast when the query volume is low. But JavaScript could run slow on mobile phones. In this case probably it's not too bad because the AJAX call is very simple, fetch the results from the server

2. After receiving the request, on server side, there are only three steps to go before the results are returned:

- Initialized a new index (actually it's not a new index, just a new search)

- set criteria for the order of the attributes sets

- Call search and return

Of course, there are more detailed steps under the search api. The majority of the work is done on the search engine server side to keep crawling and updating the indexes.

When the request volume becomes huge, the real time response may be slow down due to the file size.

I appreciate this tool to help me find things quickly on HN.
What is considered "sufficient" profit, anyway?
Is there any way for an average working schmuck like myself to capture some of these windfall corporate profits?

Invest in stocks with sizable dividends?
You should go to a coffee shop, and buy people a coffee in trade for looking at your entry in itunes, see what they think and if they can describe what the game does. You probably want to re-word the description as I am only guessing at how it works and I still don't know. A trailer on youtube wouldn't hurt either, though the name makes it hard to search for...
What do I see when I get to this page?

An olive skull and crossbones with EXTRA VIRGIN SUICIDE.

Let me scroll down so I can see more!

I hit the down arrow. Nothing happens.

I try the Page Down key. Nothing happens.

Ah, yes, I know, the keyboard doesn't always work on every website. I'll just use the scroll bar!

Hmm... No scroll bar.

Wait! Over on the right, there's a box with a triangle in it, pointing up.

It almost looks like the top arrow in a scroll bar. That's not the direction I wanted to go, but it looks like a clicky thing, so I'll try it.

Yay! The up arrow scrolls right! And I can click the up arrow again and it scrolls right again.

And now there's a left arrow angle bracket over on the left that scrolls left when I click it.

Why is one an angle bracket and the other a triangle?

Why does one point left and the other up?

This Must Mean Something.

But never mind that, at least now I understand that this page doesn't go up and down, it goes left and right, and I have a way to navigate it.

Hmm... Left and right? Maybe I can try the left and right keys? Yes indeedy, they work!

I feel like such a computer expert now.
I removed the "ad" from the page with adblock. Had to do two passes as there was another overlay beneath the popup, but it worked just fine after that.
I too enjoyed the nice storytelling and graphics. And knowing it's only about 10 pages helped to start following it. But being used to more information I felt like "Is that it" in the end. Could work better with linked in-depth article in the end.
The page pushes a token into the url. Crop it where it makes sense.

The whole extra virgin olive oil thing is weird anyway, other vegetable oils have (probably) better health profiles and a more neutral flavor profile (people aren't just buying it for their salad).
"We are going to kill 100 drivers every day until 1bn in bitcoin is sent to 1...x"

Just imagine the economic disruptions on day 3 when no one dares drive anymore
No, there is no way. The information contained in this news report will have been incorporated into the stock price of all the companies long ago.
The reason that universities have come to be prosecutors of sexual crimes is that they aren't burdened with the same burden of proof of the state and certain interest groups want it that way.

Many non-violent, sexual crimes do not yield physical evidence that anything beyond a consensual sexual encounter occurred so it becomes a he-said-she-said (or he-he, she-she, etc) issue in which the criminal justice system cannot, in theory, hold the accused criminally liable. Universities can basically do whatever they want and the US Dept. of Education even suggested that universities apply a "preponderance of evidence" standard for internally prosecuting sexual crimes. This means that the university can suspend/expel/discipline one for just 51% or greater likelihood that you are guilty. Even something as banal as the victim having 3 friends testify and the accused only having two would technically satisfy this all else being equal.

Now, in fairness, crimes do occur without physical evidence and women's groups aren't wrong to demand some form of justice for those crimes. However, these groups tend to be far more influential than anyone defending the accused ("hey, alleged non-violent rapists are people too!" just isn't a catchy soundbite) and have twisted this process into something resembling witch hunts more than modern justice.

just my $0.02
The folding mechanism probably came first on http://www.pocketmod.com/ which allows you to build your own organizer by drag and dropping modules.
Would it be fair to say that Druid is more suitable for known questions that are queried programmatically and mostly updated by time segment?
Scala.js and ReactJS – Matthias Nehlsen
UC Davis and other labs will do adulteration testing including genetic testing.

http://anlab.ucdavis.edu/olives

http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-basics/usda-new-tests...
The returns are so paltry as to be laughable. Five percent a year? Yeah, enjoy that retirement.

If you really want to take advantage, start a business. Guess what? There's some cheap fucking labor out there, and you can easily undercut a dinosaur. Share profits with your employees and advertise it. Try to get ahead of a movement that is almost surely coming in favor of companies that treat their employees well.
What would you need DMA for?

Here's a fun thought exercise for you, since my first reply didn't spark one. Imagine you're an evil keyboard. What evil could you accomplish? Hint: you don't even need your own radio, the computer's already got one.
How do you envision your users will use their Thoughtly signatures? Can the signature feature be used anywhere?
On the other hand I think that it's rare for someone to build an app that he wouldn't use.
You're 100% right. However, I wasn't happy with their final product.
So I've seen this article in 3 places today.

* ConversionXL
* Medium
* and now Soshitech
You don't need a shell to be focused to run commands.
You can also just click anywhere on the title image.
Ask PG: Has the percentage of complete pivots changed?
It seems like YC is funding more established startups these days, which makes sense when you have more and more to choose from. I was wondering if it was a possible side effect that more companies are staying somewhat with their original application idea since they are more established or is there still a high percentage of companies that completely pivot?
The intended tone of my writing is "funny enough that someone at Google might notice and do something about this problem". Sorry if that didn't come through.
Ferrari, Porsche, and McLaren have high performance engines coupled to electric motors already. I think that technology will keep improving hybrid powertrains, but we won't likely see an electric car for the masses for one or two decades more. Due to the amount of politics that surround petroleum.

Now, what would like to see get more R&D is biofuel from a simple to produce source (like algae). Couple a small engine running biofuel to a generator and put a nice 200HP electric motor to the backwheels and we will have a nice every day appliance on wheels (what most people need/want).

What will keep happening is the reduction in complexity of the 4-stroke engine. We removed the hydraulic power steering pump in favor of an electric one, then comes the A/C compressor driven by an electric motor (some use it already). A bit later we will get an electric water pump. And then we will forgo camshafts and all related parts in exchange for electric actuators. Which will turn the intake manifold into a sort of thing in the past. Imagine having a 12-cylinder engine that's smaller than a 4 cylinder, but makes 3 times the power with the same efficiency. Now imagine a 4 cylinder engine that is about the size of a small box making upwards of 300HP, while getting more than 40MPG. It is very close.
I'm not singling out Google. They're the only company whose recruiters keep on ignoring "DO NOT CONTACT".
Unfortunately, the firms that tend to enable this for employees tend to be limited to partnerships (Law Firms, etc)
It’s Like An Enron, But For Insurance
> It's so easy to get a decent quality olive oil once you know what to look for and it doesn't at all have to be from Italy. California Olive Ranch makes good stuff that is highly price competitive with the imported Italian stuff which is always more questionable anyway.

Thank you for the recommendation! I've been looking for some good olive oil and I seem to recall seeing them at the local stores. Definitely think I will go with local olive oil instead of the "Italian" stuff.
Cool slideshow, nice example of a modern webpage.

But is this really what passes for journalism at the NYT now?
I love this, as well as the sister-site, 507 Mechanical Movements [1].

I'm surprised at how laborious the process is [2]. Is there not a way to automate this in a CAD program and export it (e.g. SolidWorks [3]); or is that limited to video, not a more interactive simulation? Are there any open source CAD programs that would support generation of such simulations?

[1] http://507movements.com/

[2] http://www.animatedengines.com/howto.html

[3] http://www.solidworks.com/sw/products/3d-cad/cad-animation.h...
Why I decided to setup a tor relay
Just google the URL (without the trailing GET parameters) and click on the first result. That always circumvents the NYT paywall.
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1) The sun does not explode. It just swells to a red giant. This happens quickly for a star, once the process starts, but it's still much longer than a human lifespan.

2) Presumes our intelligence is deemed valuable enough to devote those resources to.
I think mratzloff's comment is a better explanation for that... sorry for turning this into reddit.
The thing to remember about a CVT is that it's held together by a rubber band. Materials engineering has gotten very good at making stronger rubber bands that don't snap under hard use, but the application you have in mind sounds like an awful lot of wear and tear for a rubber band to undergo.

And, if the whole setup is tuned very specifically on the CVT working properly and the rubber band goes snap, that could be a bad thing.
So let's talk about Facebook. Over the years the site and service has become bloated beyond belief.

I think part of the reason people (especially younger audiences) are using Instagram/Twitter/Snapchat for key functionality over what FB provides is because of the simple UI/UXs. Kids might be seeing FB similar to how they see Excel spreadsheets. Complicated shit for adults that isn't synonymous with "fun".
You're right, I should have mentioned long commutes in public transportation as the other main usage scenario of portables (especially in their country of origin), but that's not as relevant a consideration to (what I'm assuming is the average HN user) Americans living in areas with poor or nonexistent public transportation.
Nepal trekking
I have a subscription club which sends random Japanese sweets twice a month (http://www.candyjapan.com). This means I get to select what is sent to everyone. I cannot just totally go with my own personal taste, as people expect variation instead of getting my own personal favorite shipment after shipment.
They asked me to do a post-mortem to talk about out why I turned them down.

I had the same experience, although for me it was a web survey rather than a face-to-face interview (probably because I wasn't local). Whether they actually paid attention to what I told them, I'm not sure; 99% of the problems in the interview process were due to my recruiter screwing things up, but she got promoted a few months later.
I regret saying this already, but, uh, overweight men are also subjected to unfair judgement.
I work in e-commerce, we get bad/transposed tracking numbers entered into our systems all the freaking time.
It seems that a majority of these cases were actually consensual, not assault:

>Among the substantiated staff-on-inmate cases in 2011, 54 percent were committed by women, the report said. From 2009 to 2011, 84 percent of the substantiated staff-on-inmate cases involved a sexual relationship with a female staff member that “appeared to be willing,” compared to 37 percent of the cases involving male staff members during the same time period.

Those numbers imply that overall, 62% of substantiated staff-on-inmate cases were actually consensual. The headline seems inaccurate given that.

Of course, there are extreme sampling bias issues with this data. I wouldn't draw any conclusions from it at all.
Scene of Joy After Tunisian Constitutional Vote
I don't know much about prison, having fortunately never been there. So I just can't understand how an officer can have any kind of unsupervised and unseen time with inmates. I just assumed everything everywhere in a prison is monitored and recorded.
Dammit, can't they list the 30% or so of brands that aren't known to be adulterated?
I highly doubt any of the recruiters who have contacted me know what Tarsnap is.
To be more clear: is there any compiled Lisp code, or is it just manually written assembly?
please add login credentials the thesun.co.uk
Science can't tell us whether a design is superior. It can tell us that the design performed better in some specific test (such as a beauty rating), but leaping from that to blanket superiority is not science.
I don't see what's particularly good about this, it's just an alliance in a series of legal battles.
Nothing systemic has changed. It's just a little harder for Apple to be litigious with Samsung and Google, that's all. There are still plenty of other players in the patent lawsuit business.
I'm so lucky. My local Kroger regularly puts it on sale for $9. There's really no beating that.
Unlike many counterfeit things... as far as I can tell, this really doesn't make any difference in the end, because olive oil is all about flavor, not labels.

Good olive oil can taste hundreds of ways, just like wine -- there are even olive oil tastings. The flavor can't be counterfeited at all, so it doesn't really matter what's on the label, what country it comes from, etc. -- olive oil is all so different, it can really only be bought by taste alone. You might have 5 different olive oils in your cupboard depending on what you're using them for, but you didn't buy any of them based on their label!

There's plenty of olive oil labeled extra-virgin that tastes like nothing. Is it really extra-virgin? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, it doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is that it doesn't taste like anything. If you're looking for an oil that doesn't have any taste (which there are many uses for), and it's cheap, go ahead and buy it. (I buy super-cheap "extra-light" olive oil for frying, it tastes like nothing, maybe it's cut with soybean oil, but cooking-wise it wouldn't even matter.)

In the end, "extra-virgin" is a label that doesn't really tell you anything, there are so many other factors involved. The only people being "duped" are the people who can't tell anyways.

(I mean, obviously I don't condone counterfeit oil, I'm just saying that as far as counterfeit things go, counterfeit EVOO is probably the least problematic thing ever.)
Consensual may not actually be given the power dynamics involved.
I always open such links in a Chrome incognito window. Apparently there is still a page count, but it gets reset every time you open a new window.
Yeah, there are some nasty non-linearities in the tax rate. (Although you do know it is incremental tax rate, right?) My point was mostly that "in general" it's generally a wash.
It's almost as if I meant something making that distinction, thanks for noticing. :)
Extra virgin olive oil has a pretty great monounsaturated to polyunsaturated fat ratio and good flavor for salad dressing, eggs, sauces, meat dishes, etc. The only real downsides are low smoke point (some sources say that that means trans fat and other scary stuff can show up at the high temperatures used in stir-frying and deep-frying) and that good flavor != neutral flavor, which is sometimes preferable. Some presses of avocado oil and safflower oil have similarly great mono- to polyunsaturated fat ratios while also having high smoke points. Avocado oil tastes sort of creamy and nutty while safflower is very neutral.
It's all adulterated at some point or another. Maybe things are changing with the new EU regs but there is traditionally no brand consistency. I would never buy a bottle of imported olive oil without a taste test. That pretty much necessitates going to an olive oil store (amazingly there's one 5 minutes from me in suburban South Carolina...) and not buying at your local grocer.

Or you can just get the California oils that are known to be good.
There are two obvious uses, but many we have yet to consider.

The first is on resumes, where context for life experience and outside interests is missing. As we move away from degrees to skills, the importance of quantifiable involvement in an area is increasingly valued! Secondly in comment sections and social media. It's easy to throw around statements online, but I think it would be great to be able to demonstrate both conventional (scholarship) and unconventional (Blogs, Q&A, Reddit, etc.) experience to speak with authority everywhere...
We were in the Slovenian/Italy recently on a business trip, and on our way home my company decided we should buy some wine. So we went to this place that offered us prosciutto with olive oil to dip in.

I was told that really good olive oil would sorta... sting you in the throat if you get a decent amount of it.

And it did. It was the first time I've ever had decent/real/good olive oil.

Anyway, pretty cool. Now I'm scared of buying olive oil.