skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long long time ago when I was a kid and my dad was buying real estate I asked him why the realtor didn't buy the property if it was so good. He answered by saying that if he did that you might then infer that the properties that he didn't buy were not good.

I also point this out because what I've found in business is that so many basic principles end up repeating themselves in different situations. Things that you don't learn in school or in books but by listening to others and real life experiences. One reason that certain people who have grown up in business families have a nice advantage over those that don't. [1] You have a seat of the pants feel for things because everything is just a variation of something that has already happened.

[1] But it's not just growing up in the family but also interacting and listening and thinking. My siblings grew up with the same parents but are vastly different than I am in their thinking and understanding even given the same trough of water.
Doesn't the scheduled shipments feature so this package combining automatically?
I've been using Protractor for a month now and am eager to give Nightwatch a try:

- debugger is awful, horrible stack dumps (sometimes just no stack info, you have no idea where the test failed)
- very slow
- selectors for ng-repeats are so hard to decipher (I still don't get them)
As much as saying "I think this person should keep doing what he's doing because he's really good at it" can be said to be speaking against someone.

This isn't my own opinion, mind you. I don't know enough about this whole issue to have an opinion of my own. I'm just explaining where I think the disconnect is. I think the people who don't like the choice of Satya dislike it because they feel Satya is doing as well as he can do in his current position, and Microsoft needs to bring in a different skill set in order to make the company good in areas where it isn't already.
> With almost half the world’s Internet-connected population using the service, the company is facing the immutable law of large numbers and simply can’t keep adding users at its previously torrid rate.

Pretty sure this journalist does not have a correct understanding of what the law of large numbers is.
Very infuriating, even though I tend to find Businessweek's articles to be usually quite informative.
I believe that the underlying emotional motives behind the protests in the San Francisco are the same underlying emotional motives behind the Holocaust.

What. The. Fucking. Fuck. You could not be more offensively wrong on this one.

In both cases, you have people worried that their fundamental economic survival is threatened, unaware of why it's threatened or what to do about it, and looking for a scapegoat (techies in SF, Jews in the Holocaust) to blame for it.

No. What fueled the Holocaust was not economic anxiety. That probably drove the acceptance of political extremism in general. But behind the Holocaust was a belief that some races were immutably inferior and should be extinguished in the (abused) name of "eugenics".

Before Hitler, Germany wasn't any worse in terms of racism than other European societies. There were respected and prominent people in the U.S. and Great Britain with the same disgusting views. Still, you cannot seriously argue that what turned mid-century Germany into a mass murder machine was economic anxiety. It was racism.

"Techies" (I fucking hate that word) are not a race.

Take a "techie" out of the Valley and confiscate his Google Glass and he's just a computer programmer and no one has a problem with him. Move him to a city without a dysfunctional housing market (say, to Austin or Portland) and he's likely quite welcome. On the other hand, being ethnically Jewish is not something a person can change.

No one hates "the rich" as some immutable class. Aside from criminals (who are motivated by greed, not hatred) virtually no one targets anyone for violence because he is rich. What people are reacting to is behavior-- often, really shitty behavior that even most people in tech despise. Behavior, unlike bloodlines, can be changed.

"Techies" are being asked to stop being assholes. Jews in Nazi Germany, on the other hand, had armed men coming to kill them, and if they tried to escape or hide in attics, the people who assisted them were also killed.

No comparison.
>>>> Your long list qualifies as "asking for trouble"

SPEECHLESS.

So summary executions, starving your own people and using chemical weapons qualifies in your mind as "asking for trouble"? I'd love to see the rest of your Human Rights scale and what you think it takes to get to a level where you think interdiction is needed.
I feel dumb, but I'm wondering this too. How does he convert the Starbucks cards to anything not coffee - or not take a loss converting them to cash?
Thank you for pointing out that its a sardonic observation, this goes too often omitted— and it's an omission that had irritated Mike Godwin greatly.
I want an "Ask me about Roko's basilisk!" button.
I dont know what is Adobe plugin. I will investigate.
However, just based on its name, I would probably recommend removing it. The combination of these two words, ``Adobe'' and ``plugin'', makes me feeling uneasy :)
Which brings us to the second point: there is no good open-source PDF viewer. If you care about using open source, then go HTML.
TIL that you can submit bills and not be a politician.
Kudos. This was an issue in my batch. If you didn't have YC partner money you weren't necessarily a black sheep, but you definitely weren't awesome.
I’m not sure if it’s all items or all the times, but I believe if you choose the slower option, Amazon will actually credit your account some money (though I think from the way it was worded it sounded like it was only for Amazon MP3 or similar purchases, not a general Amazon credit - certainly if it was general credit, I’d do it more often).

From http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...:

FREE No-Rush Delivery (typical delivery one week after placing an order).
Note: You may receive promotional credit for selecting No-Rush Shipping. Credit will be automatically applied to your Amazon.com account once the first package from a No-Rush Shipping-eligible order ships. You'll receive an e-mail as soon as the credit is available. You may select No-Rush Shipping as many times as it's offered to you, but you won't be eligible for the credit if you cancel your No-Rush Shipping order or return items from it.

And from their forums: "You get a $1 mp3 credit if you choose the slower shipping option."
How to use the Meter and Progress Elements
" Which meant we were now making it harder for the startups that partners didn't invest in to raise money."

An analogy to this is what happened during the financial crisis when they got all banks to agree to take money so as not to send a signal showing what banks were the weaker ones.
I wonder how the drone program is coming along?
Or was it just a last minute PR blitz to increase revenues?
I got both at the same time, in fall 2005. I guess I'm a late adopter, but I remember having to be invited to Gmail. Facebook I just heard about from another friend in college around the same time.
I'm confused, isn't he selling cards for BTC. How does credit card fraud enter into this?

EDIT: OH HE'S BUYING THE CARDS THIS IS A REALLY BAD IDEA
I believe there is a typo. In the top left corner, it says 'Block mined at location: Unkown'. Shouldn't that be 'unknown'?
I'd see it more like UK gov not caring if people think they're clueless - or even encoraging that opinion - so that people become sloppy with operating procedures or become less paranoid.

GCHQ / CESG probably are not clueless.
Many people in Quebec heat with electricity since it's so cheap.

Which is a horrible, and a real black mark on Quebec's environmental claims. They should heat with gas and ship the extra electricity to others instead of wasting it like this.
My guess is this was mostly a move by the editors.

Gov illegally orders them to hand over drivers that contain data that can be used to further compromise snowden.

They argue the reason for the order. Gov says it is to prevent it from being published.

Editors wisely say, ok, we will destroy it in front of you then. while also winning some page views by recording it.

I don't think the gov was even wanting to 'burn books'. i think it got shafted by it.
If two parties disagree, then one side (or both) must be wrong. Someone has made a mistake (or been fooled...). This doesn't justify becoming arrogant, but trying to identify errors in the reasoning of one or both parties is certainly part of rational debate.
Distributed Computing in R with foreach and doRedis
Its the same reason you lock your door when you leave the house. You not accusing your neighbors of being criminal, its just wiser not to tempt fate. That way, you are not inviting bad things to happen.

This "peace of mind" factor has significant economic value, in that it frees up resources from "monitoring" potentially ambiguous motives and situations, and this improves the throughput for tasks related to running the business and making profits.

With respect to the "market equilibrium" notion, theory and practice differ. Gaming the (any) system increases in liklihood as the un-eveness of outcomes is exaggerated; information flows become more assymetric; and/or they become more opaque.

That is precisely the description of early stage investments. More or less. Hopefully this makes a bit of sense.

The counter-argument as to "letting the market" reveal the information, is that it is unlikely to do so. There simply are not formal mechanisms for privately trades companies to disclose such information in a timely and transparent way. Remember, the companies are private explicitly to prevent this from occurring.
This is actually brilliant in terms of getting applicants. As someone who just started professional development work in 2012, I get sick of reading job descriptions that ask for a candidate who is perfect at what they do, or try to attract applicants with insincere language. The honesty in this posting is refreshing, and while I'm not looking right now, I think they'll actually get some pretty great candidates this way (who might not have the highest self-confidence).
Now photos and videos disappear after a few seconds and texts last for 24 hours.
Love your teardowns! Keep making them :)
beat it in price, if it was $4/mo ... it'd probably work.
Fallacies, fallacies, one for you, and two for me...
Accept my complements on the approach. Very cool.

[Edit: Keep it up, and I wouldn't describe any of this as critique!]

Slide 9, "Notice how de-emphasized Start is." Following the arrow, I see that "Find" and "Start" are the same size and believe are emphasized similarly in the header. What cue am I failing to notice that one is de-emphasized?

A subtlety that's lost is between Slides 26 and 28 the user has two separate flows and browser sessions. It doesn't come across clicking next,next,next without reading your text.

[Edit: I didn't notice there were titles, so the only recommendation I have is to put something in the center of focus -- a graphic, a blurred out gmail inbox, a "later that day" film satire, etc.]

On 35, I had a different reaction to the facebook button there. This flow seems like it's based on creating a non-facebook account -- most people here in the flow already have signaled to Meetup they don't want to use fb. Why ask again? It seems like an unnecessary widget that may carry overly strong emotions for some customers. I wonder if this hook successfully converts non-fb users to fb users.

On 44, what was the initial goal for creating an account? Wasn't it to do something specific within the group? At 44 it feels like this flow was a glorified "sign-me-up-for-the-newsletter" form instead of joining a community. Do you have any thoughts about what should be changed at this step in the flow? Should users get dropped back on the PDX meetup page? Should users get introduced to actual neighbors, much like a host would when you show up to a party? Does slide 44 always work that way for all meetups?

[Edit: Good point on 45-47, I guess I expected to see the whole page 48 be in orange pen! That flow looks very confusing to me, and I think I was trying to nudge you to call it out if you thought so, too.]
SO ranks very high on Google searches, so people Googling for my name usually find my SO profile quickly. It's definitely helped even though I don't use it much these days.
As an emacs user, I find this post incredibly offensive.
Combines the complexity of LaTeX with the hideousness of XML. Great.
You're completely misrepresenting what the No True Scotsman fallacy is. The key characteristic of a No True Scotsman fallacy is that the arguers original claim is revised to handle a counterexample. In the titular example, the arguer originally says "no Scotsman does x," and the obvious implied definition of "Scotsman" is simply a man from Scotland. But when faced with a counterexample (a man from Scotland who does do x), the arguer revises the original claim by adding the word "true." Under this revelation, the arguer's original claim is not an actual claim about what men from Scotland do, but rather a proposed definition for the term "true Scotsman."
Should we build RoundTable for App․net?
yes indeed. and it's certainly worthy at the postdoc level. but (quote from the LyX site): "Can I read and write Word files? Yes, but not trivially, and you should not expect to be able to collaborate with someone using Word to edit your paper. You can import Word files, and you can export Word files, but going 'roundtrip' is not workable." ...it's that "round-trip" that is currently vital.

what i really would love to see is some stable fusion of LyX and a web-collaborative-writing program like 'Gobby' (http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/) ... google-docs has been tried, but folks got scared between google-wave suddenly dying and that whole issue of corporate leaking to sinister third parties and corporate scraping
Couldn't agree more. I try to leave stuff in my shopping cart for some time, to avoid getting individual shipments. It'd be great if I can just 'add to the weekly queue'.
Each hash is essentially an observation of a uniformly distributed variable (hopefully). When you flip a coin, it's heads with probability 1/2 and tails with probability 1/2. The fact that you flipped heads on the first go doesn't change the probabilities. In the same way, the fact that your hash didn't match the difficult on the first go, doesn't change the probability it will match the difficulty on future hashes. So each hash is independent of the attempts you've already made, so there's the same probability of a match at any time step.
I didn't track this for purposes of the experiment, but most people were referrals from past clients. I think consulting-type work benefits from this a lot, because you work with a lot of people. Your professional network gets larger much more quickly than if you were taking on 3-to-6-month projects, just because you work with more folks over time.
"CSS is still under debate for being turing complete"

So far as I'm aware, that's not the case. CSS is not Turing complete, in terms of what it can calculate in a single calculation. It is Turing complete if you string those calculations together, feeding the output of the last into the input of the next, which can only be done with some external source of events, but that is a larger system than "CSS". A UTM run for up to 1000 steps is not Turing complete.

Turing completeness is arguably a bug, not a feature, when the goal is producing something quickly.
We can only vote for who gets on the ballot. Who gets on the ballot is determined very undemocratically by who has the most money behind him/her. This is so far from one-person-one-vote when 20% have 95% of the financial wealth[1]. Money then skews the final result when millions, tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising (propaganda) can destroy the candidate that money doesn't like.

[1] In America. http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
You have to be very careful what you mean by "faster" in this case. For the use case documented in those tests I assume he was measuring sustained throughput (it isn't documented well what he means by 25% slower). He was also testing a server that had lots of connections and not many messages per connection. In that case modern Linux can scale threads very well.

I've done tests in other cases where NIO had nearly the sustained throughput of the blocking libraries, but had much less jitter. That is the latency through the server was much more consistent with NIO libraries than with the blocking ones. This was in a protocol with few connections but lots of messages per connection.

So blanket statements about the blocking IO vs the NIO libraries being faster require more nuance than that.
If you omit the trailing slash, you can get it →

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25880738
This is an excellent approach. Extremely few people can be the bestest of the best, but luckily only extremely few companies actually need them. Cutting the bullshit is good for everyone.

I'd replace "mediocre" with "competent" though.
Did they actually pay people to do this ?
Intelligence isn't everything either. Maybe with the extra 20 points you'd realize that you've should've taken the 20 million instead...
One thing that caught my eye: Emacs users don't need to apply. While I'm not one myself I'd like to know what's the reasoning there. Did they manage to ge entrenched in vim?
> However, it is totally valid to argue that the minority of scientific studies that find, say, chemical X not to be harmful were funded by chemical companies.

I completely disagree with this common attempt to debunk the ad hominem fallacy. I truly believe that the arguer is completely separate from the argument. It's true that we shouldn't trust unsubstantiated claims from biased chemical companies. But the key is that we shouldn't trust unsubstantiated claims from unbiased sources either, even historically reliable unbiased sources.
This article is great, especially the part explaining how email interacts with DNS.
yeah I was about to say the same since 1.x and 2.x are drastically different
Verizon Has Been Quietly Increasing FiOS Fees
I'm sure they could still save money because it could be less time sensitive and would include only one doorstep delivery for all orders instead of one per order.

One order may need to go by air if it's at a distant warehouse, but another may go ground because it's available close by.

I'd like it solely for the convenience--several times I have wanted to order something but knew I would not be in town when the delivery happened. I'd love to say "deliver it to me next Wednesday" and Amazon figures out the cheapest way that would work instead of having to remember to make my Prime order on Monday.
"That's reductio ad absurdum. You can take pretty much any conflict between groups of people and reduce it to: Group X feels its economic survival is threatened; looks for a scapegoat in Group Y to blame for it."

Because you are correct, because it is possible to reduce (most) conflicts down to that, it is therefore vital to realize that and come to gripes with that. We aren't going to go anywhere pleasant by ignoring the underlying issues (hatred fueled by economic disparity and jealousy) just because the scapegoats are softer targets who are more fun to pick on.

> "Tech workers [are] spending their energies figuring out how to put ordinary people out of work"

Neo-luddism. The solution is social reform, particularly focusing on reeducation and safety-nets for those who can no longer productively contribute, not smashing machines.
Screw this. I'm only a few miles away from where Google Fiber is supposedly in construction. I just want my fiber in a couple years or less. Is that too much to ask?
Thanks for the kind words, and the critique!

Slide 9: Good point, I was kind of unclear. I was referring to how that was the only place on the page that referred to Start, whereas almost all of the rest of page's content was Find-centric.

Slides 26-28: I kinda thought the interstitial title card alluded to that. Is there a better way you'd recommend?

Slide 35: Yeah, I tend to agree with you on that. That might have been an "orange pen" candidate. I was just commenting on their persistence, I suppose.

Slide 44: There's a chance this happened because there were no upcoming Meetups scheduled at that time. But I completely agree with you - hence slides 45 & 46.

Thanks again for your thoughtful commentary!
You've got it, cocoflunchy!
Parallelism is doing different parts of the same task at the same time. Concurrency is doing multiple, different tasks simultaneously. Single threaded, event oriented systems can appear to be concurrent. They can never be parallel.
I guess stuff being done that it's illegal or unconstitutional doesn't count for much these days unless there's "huge public outrage", right?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/09/nsa-gchq-illega...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/gchq-mass-sur...

The point of laws is that so we don't have public outrage for every single crime, because we assume the laws set-up will be respected, and if someone breaks them, they will be punished. If we can't trust laws to work, then the whole modern society breaks down.
On page 20, didn't he/she mean "print(count, name)" in the BAD example?

On page 18, the Java comment: it depends. E.g. see [1]

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/299068/how-slow-are-java-...
This is a nice example of what's wrong with elitism in higher-education, mis-applying metrics to "rank" students.
What interested you in this article?
Any realtor who knows a good investment becomes an investor, not a realtor.
The Not-So-Secret Black Market Of Twitter Handles
"Oh yeah, brogrammers, corporate types and emacs users probably shouldn't bother applying." ...

Who the hell can apply then ?
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> The stock immediately fell as much as 10 percent, or $40. Then came word of the potential Prime increase, the first in the program’s nine years.The stock quickly shaved about half its losses, dropping only 4 percent in after-hours trading. Amazon shares were up sharply in regular trading on Thursday. They rose $18.81, to $403.01, just short of the stock’s record high.

A day later and it's back to being down 10%. Wall Street has had some nutty volatility lately: https://www.google.com/finance?q=amzn
On Mac OS X, the way to get an idea of what dtrace can do is "apropos dtrace". That shows you the dtrace scripts that the OS ships with.
> "The wealthiest people alive today either started wealthy or born into affluence"

I would expect that depends on what bar we set for "rich".

Is the bar: "1%"er billionaires? Then you are probably right.

Is the bar: "SF Tech workers"? Well newsflash, most google employees are not trust-fund babies.
That's certainly something I have not considered - short burst consulting as a means of expanding the list of people who might think kindly of me (or not !)

Hard to do in practise I suspect - which is why the dry patch.
So, this is your first access to Hacker News?

Why should I believe it?

BTW, an SSD would be much cheaper than paying for someone else to solve your problems.
For some reason this strikes me as kind of creepy.
To me, that looks more like a limitation in PDF rather than the tool that is used to create the PDF – that is, hyperref allows you to create arbitrary links to be handled by your system, but the problem is that PDF does not work all that well when you want to reference a link within a given PDF.

If there was a reliable way to advise a PDF reader to ‘open document X and jump to reference Y’ and to specify both X and Y, then I am sure you would have no problem using hyperref to create a link to X#Y.