skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really good points. We're figuring this out as we go along and really didn't anticipate the backlash against Facebook login. As for requiring login at all, we do think personalization is key to the experience and that's the best way to guarantee it. But the Zillow analogy is a good one and we've been working on building out a browse option. This is only the first iteration!
Speaking of Facemash.
If you can handle by month, you can always use Kayak Explore (kayak.com/explore)
I love the BS that Twitter tells you about the ROI of their ads. "70% of people who follow you will buy from you".. DUH... That's because the people who follow you are for the most part your EXISTING customers. The other 30% of course are bots.
"you can have people who are bad at science but are good at fundraising in public,"

You can also have people who are bad at science and are good at obtaining NIH grants. In my professional opinion, this characterizes a LOT of researchers out there. Which is the greater injustice?

Dis?claimer: I happen to think that I'm good at science and indeed I failed at a crowdfunding attempt.
You're free to hold that belief, I don't agree. The public story seems very clear to me that the original owner pivoted to become a bitcoin exchanges and then sold to the current owners. It's reasonable to believe it's based on the original code for trading cards.

If you don't agree, then don't agree, I don't care.
There's an earlier comment thread on this question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7212411

Probably relates to people being at home accessing Google's services over residential networks.
I don't understand this line of thought. On the one hand, you obviously see women as disadvantaged in the current system. On the other, your ideal world is one in which women basically become men.

Obviously, both men and women should be able to do what they want, whether that be raise a family, provide for that family, some of both, or not have a family at all.

But does is a higher ratio of men to women in a given profession causatively show that women are disadvantaged? Is it only a good ratio when it is exactly 50/50%? You believe so, and don't consider any other alternative.

Or could it be that it is a matter of personal choice based on a biological bias toward certain choices? You don't see the male 99% of garbage collectors as being an issue to be resolved.

Maybe women tend to turn down the high pressure jobs and prefer to spend more time socializing and with family compared to men. Many studies have suggested the same. Could it be an issue of the ratio of testosterone vs. estrogen? Those types of hormonal differences are known to greatly influence the types of choices we're discussing here.
PDF is a monstruosity. Having the same functionality on it would takes weeks if not months of development. It would be possible to parse a .tex Beamer though.
The very site where you link to places that link in an article describing in detail why they call that entire paper "insanely wrong-headed"

I think that paper is misguided and incorrect as an attack on range voting. Here's the page where that link occurs:
http://www.rangevoting.org/MeasTheory.html

Here's the anchor: http://www.rangevoting.org/MeasTheory.html#numbersallowed

Finally, if you sum the scores, you are NOT doing range voting as is generally suggested. The idea of range voting is to average the scores. That is a totally different thing, especially when you (as you should) allow for no-opinion votes.

I can only conclude that the paper in question is not addressing actual range-voting as proposed. That said, I did not read it completely (nor am I especially interested in doing so, although someone could summarize the issues perhaps if any exist I have not addressed here)
I think you're committing a naturalistic fallacy here. Yes, there might be a psychological impact... but who's to say it's a bad psychological impact? The rise of access to both porn, and violent video-games (for which I'd assume gory imagery/videos would substitute) have been found to have an interesting correlation to a drop in real-world violence.
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And more generally I am LOVING all the feedback/tips we've gotten from posting here. Incredibly useful and exactly why I love HN.
I am no expert but, I'd retarget your platform specific stuff to SDL. AFAIK Emscripten has SDL1 support and SDL2 support is on the way. This would enable your engine to target HTML5 robustly with Emscripten via lua and sdl. Most of your graphics primitives should already be targeting OpenGL ES 2.

http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/05/lua-vm-javascript

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/issues/457

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Roadmap

Is your engine open source? I anticipate a JS backend to LuaJIT in the not-too-far future.
I just don't get it. I have an upcoming vacation, where we are generally going to Spain/Portugal, but don't care what city we start in, and our dates are flexible. I thought this app might be useful for this case. So I plug in Lisbon, Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, etc. And my Flights section just says "No Deals" still. How do I get flights to show up? I'm pretty sure there are a few flights to Europe from NYC.

(Also, you probably should take New Haven Tweed airport out of the list when it's finding closest airports. Because that airport is no one's homebase, given it only flies to Philadelphia.)
Google Flight Search (and the ITA matrix that powers it) also lacks pricing for some of the cheapest carriers, although I'm not sure how much better your app is in that respect.

If I was building a "flexible destination" app I'd be particularly keen to offer hotel bundles too, since they're higher margin and well suited to people lazily looking for the cheapest vacation meeting basic criteria within a broad time frame.
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I'm guessing that Google's new "Reduce Bandwidth Usage" setting is helping to increase the IPv6 utilization metric. (It was released in January.) [1]

eg, with the setting enabled (Chrome/iPhone), http://test-ipv6.com shows a User Agent / v6 address corresponding to Google's proxy farm.

[1] https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/data-compre...
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Jeremy Ashkenas made an interactive app in the NY Times opinion section
Meta note...

The HN title perfectly matches the articles title but the first line of the article actually says:

"Barnes & Noble laid off its Nook hardware engineers, according to a source that tipped Business Insider."

I only point this out because in North America, fired and laid off have two very different connotations.
Please explain the similarities in the backend to me. Trading cards is basically an online store, nothing like Bitcoin and nothing like a currency exchange. The similarities begin and end in the name.
Amazon is focused on growth and market control. It is willing to take a smaller (short-term) profit in order to achieve those goals.
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If you're flexible, try Nowcation (http://nowcation.com/) built by a team of students out of UMich or take a look at Kayak Explore (http://www.kayak.com/explore). The only downside is that it doesn't learn your preferences over time which will help Hitlist find more esoteric destinations that you might not have normally considered.

Maybe if they integrate Rome2Rio's API,they can offer more options since you can combine airfare + local transit costs to even more destinations.
Since your username and your actual name from the article aren't very similar, you should probably add something that says - "Hey, I was the one quoted in the article".

Just in case people don't put two and two together or don't click to see your HN profile.
His thank you video is hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynQ5ZhxYAss :)
I thought this video was spot on as well. Can you explain how/why you really disagree with it's premise? I'm curious to hear your points...
If you are travelling overseas, it doesn't take much to get to $800+ per ticket, so for a couple, the finders fee is quickly irrelevant.
> Really? Aside from rather extreme or contrived situations, the average person in the real world simply does not witness multiple graphic deaths or see thousands of women naked.

In this decade, in the US? No, you are right. Otherwise? It's easy to find examples.
You can easily enough come up with a million "real" names for your fake profiles. Meanwhile G+ penalises people with genuine but surprising names.
There is plenty of precedent for strikes based on hunches and guesses. For example, they confirmed OBL was in Abbottabad only after killing him,

"no U.S. spy agency was ever able to capture a photograph of bin Laden at the compound"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden
High school all over again...
Whoooooosh!

I love how nearly all of this article went over my head.

Fascinating to read nevertheless, and I personally appreciate companies like Netflix publishing research like this in the open for us all to appreciate.

I'd love to work on this stuff but I'm really not sure where to start. Mathematics have always been a weak spot for me and whenever I start to read a neural networks book my brain is instantly turned to mush as I'm bombarded with mathematical equations that I can't read.

Does anyone know of any good resources that focus on the code rather than the maths? As a predominantly C# programmer, resources in that language would be a bonus.
I agree completely with this blog post, though honestly, to me it makes the field sound pretty grim. I highly recommend you follow the link to the "technology steamroller" (earlier post by same blogger).

"If you don't keep learning, keep reading, keep improving your skills eventually that nasty steamroller behind you will flatten you permanently. Then your career is likely over."

and

"And that clanky monster breathing down your neck has an endless supply of fuel."

Egads. Not blaming the messenger here, he's right. It's a tough field. So the pay is extraordinary, right?

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-b...

Take a look at these jobs, and in particular, look at the pay in higher salary regions. The best job, software developer, earns 116k a year on average in San Jose.

The average registered nurse earns 122k a year in San Jose. The average dental hygenist in SF earns about 106K a year. Nurse practitioners clock in at 125K a year.

There are all kinds of ways to interpret this data, and in the end, I'm talking about the greenness of the grass somewhere else. Not that I wouldn't welcome comments about these comparisons, I just want to make it clear that I acknowledge these other fields come with their own stresses and challenges and barriers to entry (and I don't object to good salaries in these fields at all). And everyone has to keep learning...

But is there a steamroller that threatens to make dentists obsolete, and do dentists have to bet the farm, so to speak, on whether to learn "enterprise java beans". It does seem particularly relentless (and difficult to predict) in software, and the career stakes are very, very high.

I think programming can be a wonderful career for some people. I think the main reason I pay so much attention to this sort of thing is that I often think about pay and work conditions for software developers within the context of claimed "shortage", as this is frequently discussed (and until recently, often accepted without question) in the mainstream media.

Judging from this informative blog post, it takes a very unique wiring to really thrive for a career as a software developer. Can we really say there's a shortage of people willing to put themselves in the path of a steamroller? (The author of the blog post in no way made this claim, this is just a question I'm turning around in my own mind).
Price controls, like rent control, have the well know effect of reducing supply. Along with extremely restrictive building policies, SF housing supply has become inflexible and is unable to keep up with demand thus prices will go up. This is exacerbated by the various low income housing policies which also reduce the supply of market priced housing that the middle class occupies.

This was entirely predictable. There is no free lunch. You can't have cheap housing for some without raising the price for everyone else. SF is just a particularly extreme example.

BTW - Don't worry about rent control going away anytime soon - we are locked in politically. And planning restrictions are unlikely to ease either. So expect continued above inflation price/rent increases and a slow exodus of the middle class. Due to the poor schools we have already lost many families.
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I'm calling bullshit on the title (which, in the hopefully likely event it gets changed, is currently "Hormones Explain Why Girls Like Dolls and Boys Like Trucks"). One study showing a correlation might suggest something worth looking into further but it hardly "explains" anything.

The results with the monkeys are interesting, if both the research and the reporting of it are accurate. However, animal models, while certainly useful indicators, are still just animal models and can't say anything definitive about human biology and psychology.

And as for those studies on young children, it's a mistake to think that just because a child is only a few months old they haven't been exposed to enough cultural influence to skew what they prefer to look at. If just a few of those parents have put a football mobile above their baby boy's cot or decorated their little girl's room with Disney princess wallpaper, that familiarity could easily explain the results.

Do biological differences exist between genders? Absolutely. Are some of those differences driven by ancient evolutionary pressure rather than modern culture? It's a reasonable hypothesis, worth investigating. Have those differences now been explained by a single factor and a few small studies, half of which were on monkeys, and do they just happen to line up with traditional gender stereotypes? You'll have to do a lot better than a Live Science blog that cites nothing but other Live Science blogs to convince me of that.

EDIT: Well, at least the title was changed to better fit the article, even if it still doesn't line up with the actual science.
They have enough data to have completed an INDA and are proceeding to phase I clinical trials. That's a much, much higher bar than an NIH grant. Paper publication is not necessarily a useful metric.
Are you a programmer? I am, and I damn well know that every programmer reuses code between his own projects and both the original site and the current site were originally written by the same guy, he pivoted. If you don't think he reused any code you're just being foolish.
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Well, every reason except that the site for trading Magic The Gathering Online cards never went live.

And that trading currencies is a completely different task than trading cards.
Farecast predicts airfare price movement over the next 7 days for a set itinerary (dates, origin/destination). This service tells you when you should go on vacation, not when you should buy your airfare ticket.

Source: I was part of the Farecast team.
Very quick and easy way to remove comments while maintaining readability
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mtgox is just a domain name. Not only is it not the same service at this point, it isn't even the same owners at this point.

Throwing "lol Magic: The Gathering", is pretty ignorant.
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>the quality of the linked articles was not all that great

Why?

>You out of hand have dismissed each article posted by the parent and have provided nothing of your own to talk about the flaw you perceive in those item

Exactly.

>If you point out ones that specifically refute my points, I am happy to read them.

I did. That's what I posted. I spent time and effort compiling them. I first gave a summary of all the research and then I posted it.

This is a cyclical argument.
That it never went live is not relevant, it doesn't mean code wasn't written or re-used. So he pivoted before going live, so what?
I saw that and maybe its stretching it a little bit, but I know Patrice Simard was involved in this sort of research relatively early (he started at Microsoft in 99, and worked at Bell Labs before.) I would not be surprised if there were some other people there that were doing this sort of research even earlier.

There is actually some very high quality ground breaking research that comes out of Microsoft, they just have had problems making it into products traditionally.
Great to hear you're listening! Keep in mind that HN isn't the world - people here tend to be more skeptical and more careful with privacy. Still I hope you apply the feedback. I'll look forward to the next iteration, because I do love your concept.
To be clear, I don't draw the line at "photos of Hiroshima or liberated nazi death camps", that is an example of something that I believe is very far away from the line (on the side of being acceptable).
The e-ink Nook readers are really nice. They're compatible with more formats than Kindle, and they can be rooted to do fun/interesting things.
Yup. Slashdot was driven by open source software before Dice.com took over. Now you have to go back to that point to get source code and yes, it's ugly and mind bending to try to work with it. But it has been done before: http://barrapunto.com/
" Anonymous social networks have been (thus far, anyway) in the category of services that get worse as they get bigger--unlike services like Facebook or Twitter that get better as they get bigger"
Also:
1) Maximum # of open file descriptors

2) Whether your slave DB stopped replicating because of some error.

3) Whether something is screwed up in your SOLR/ElasticSearch instance so it doesn't respond to search queries, but respond to simple heartbeat pings.

4) If your Redis db stopped saving to disk because of lack of space, or not enough memory, or you forgot to set overcommit memory.

5) If you're running out of space in a specific partition you usually store random stuff like /var/log.

I've had my ass bitten by all of the above :)
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I've bought and sold many things on CL.

As a general rule when selling, if someone's email has terrible grammar and sentence structure I'm going to just delete it. If someone is polite and asks about the item and then leaves their phone number I'll most likely respond. As for the price, people will always haggle so I will automatically set the price to $20 over what I want get from it, then they feel like they get a "deal".

Similarly with buying, if they can't describe the item coherently I just ignore the ad.
Oh, wait, you are inducing quite a few things about me. And the word "heuristics" is as meaningless to real knowldge as "pincarpion", by the way.

Mhhhh.
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It turns out marketing is a thing and when you go into a brick & mortar store to buy a digital object people get confused.

This is another example of technical superiority not being enough to win (see VHS vs Betamax as the classic example but there are a TON of these).

I found this article by Amir Hirsch to be a good reference point for products in general, not just startups: http://fpgacomputing.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-stanford-start...
I am, but there's no code to reuse in this situation. Maybe some scraps of user authentication code, all the rest is completely different. What you're describing is like trying to adapt a VW Beatle to tow cruise ships, sure you could maybe reuse the steering wheel, but why would you want to when you could build one better suited for the job?
"Best" is a strong word to use universally, but IMO when in doubt use PostgreSQL. It has a very solid traditional ACID/SQL core and it has also been introducing "NoSQL" style json document storage on top of that for projects that want to go that route. I suspect PostgreSQL will do the the NoSQL type stuff well a a lot sooner than NoSQL databases will do the consistence/durability thing well.

Having said all of that on my personal site I actually use RethinkDB because it is delightfully easy to setup and code against (I just persist my Go structs to the db and don't worry about a relational schema to maintain) and I don't really care about data integrity there, so I don't mind that RethinkDB is relatively new and untested. So one size doesn't fit all, but PostgreSQL is still, IMO, generally the "safest bet" if you do care about data integrity and don't want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on licensing to scale it up.
Sure: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/03/entertainment/la-ca-...

Search for "monkey".

The basic premise is that drawing cultural associations cross species is pretty much a no-go; a preference for a "pot" doesn't validate traditional gender roles any more than a preference for a particular color would -- it's more a reflection on our own cultural biases than it is a proof of hard-wired gender roles.
One thing to add is that while it's worth optimizing the expense of all of these operations, that's not the point. It may very well be that locked algorithms will always outperform STM.

Instead, the advantage lies in STM providing a much nicer userland experience. It's downright trivial to write some hard concurrency programs using STM.

You do have to worry about contention causing too many rollbacks, but by-and-large STM is a drop-in "make concurrency make sense" module.

For many examples see Simon Marlow's Concurrency in Haskell book.
Imagine you are a large company and there are 10 ideas for things you can build next, and you can't do them all. You gather the people that build such things and ask them, "how much will it cost to make each of these, and how long will it take". Do you think it is an acceptable answer if the builders reply, "I have no idea how much it will cost, I don't know how long it will take, and I don't know what you will have at the end of the process." How should a business handle this problem?
> In fact, the closer to real identity internet forums get, the less they seem to decay.

Wow, I had no idea 4chan is so irrelevant. Someone should tell them.
No, they don't. Or at least they don't need to.

If empiricism actually works and gives us (a good approximation of) the truth/reality, then it's probably a good idea to use it, as it allows us to influence our future (assuming free will or whatever, I don't want to get into that).

If empiricism doesn't work, then all bets with regards to influencing our future are off, anything you do is essentially random, and what happens as a result is pure chance. Behaving as if empiricism worked does not change that outcome, though.

That's why assuming that empricism works is the safe bet, no need to actually believe that it works - it's the one strategy that makes you better off if it works and doesn't change the expected outcome if it doesn't work.
It'd take about five minutes to take the top 500 first and last baby names and write a script to generate fake names with combinations of them, adding a suffix every once in a while.
There's a performance comparison in the wiki:

https://github.com/zeromq/jeromq/wiki/Perfomance
I really don't trust Amazon having a monopoly on any market especially one I care about as much as books. While they still have competition, things seem to be going in their favor. Even more so after the justice department handed them control over the market again when they complained about Apple. Amazon is taking the Walmart strategy: push your competitors out with unsustainable pricing and then take over the market and charge whatever you want when they're all gone.