skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback. You are correct that the lack of history is an issue for us but we have to start somewhere and the cost to collect non-XBRL data is really high. The timing of the available history in XBRL depends on the size of the company. XBRL was phased in starting in 2009 with the largest 500 companies filing their 2010 10-Ks in XBRL. These 10-Ks generally had income statement data back to 2007 so that is where most of our data starts on the larger companies. The next largest 1,500 companies started filing in 2010 so their data generally starts in 2008. The remaining 9,000 companies started filing XBRL in 2011 so their data generally starts in 2009. This means we have 7 years of data for the largest 500 companies, 6 years of data on the next largest 1,500 companies and 5 years of data on the remaining 9,000 companies. Since the cost to go back and collect this data manually is really high we are going to focus on building the deepest datasets (footnotes and industry-specific) to offset the lack of history.
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Ensuring that the Ticket is valid is obviously a domain model concern. Policy objects can be a fine idea when they're swappable and you need to allow for multiple different policies. This is not one of those cases.

Here's a much simpler approach that keeps the validation logic in the domain model and uses features that Rails has had since the dawn of the framework: https://gist.github.com/dhh/9672827
Perl was a possibility, but CGI is/was a pain to use. To get started you had to understand things like headers. You frequently had scripts refusing to run for whitespace issues relating to CRLF vs LF. You'd need to come up with your own templating language... It was just much more difficult.

Also Perl libraries typically require superuser rights to install. That's a big deal if you're a poor student using shared hosting on your fun hacking projects.

Python really wasn't an option. mod_python by default required you to restart Apache whenever a python file changed. It was designed to be configured by sysadmins on dedicated servers... if you wanted something you could hack together an put on a shared host, it just wasn't an option.

Also the hot Python framework in 2003 was Zope. No one uses Zope anymore. For good reason.

Ruby was much smaller, and this was pre-rails so it didn't have any significant web framework. I'm not even sure if there was a production ready way of hosting ruby scripts.
Think of it as this way: curing polio means more Einsteins for the future.
There is no conflict between Stallman's position on selling GPL exceptions and his position on non-copyleft licenses. He considers neither unethical, and has considered positions on the tactical considerations. You many disagree with any of it, but it's not incoherent.
For retail titles I don't think your number is correct. You're not operating the retail store, so that 30% is all the revenue you get and their 5% would be 5% of that 30%, because the other 70% is entirely devoured by the middle-men.

The things that make up your revenue vs profit gap are probably things like salaries, insurance, and (in the case where you have no traditional publisher) marketing. Even now when an indie game is sold at retail, the retail side of things is typically handled by a publisher and those people handle the retail income and distribute the cut to the developer.
I am really happy with this.

I also like the variety of examples they're providing. Granted, the Mandelbrot Set ASCII-Art is not something I'd see myself using, it's pretty cool!
What happens when things go the other way around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democracy
It's also not just about "a backup" for mankind. IF we are able to start colonizing Mars, we basically have found a way to unlock the resources of the Solar System. The economic and civilizational growth will be beyond our imagination and benefit everybody.
Y Combinator invests in non-profits.
Start finishing things. It sounds trite but it's true. Some of the best advice I've ever been given is: the way you do anything is the way you do everything. So, finish the smallest tasks consistently and that will carry over to the bigger tasks.
This one is easy. I agree with him.
I wanted to hate it (ANOTHER standing desk disciple???), but after watching the video, it seems pretty cool. I like the ability to quickly go from sit to stand without a bunch of drama. Only question is the cost. We really need something in the sub $200 range.
What If Web Browsing Were Like A Virtual Reality Videogame?
The technological advances that would come out of learning how to get to Mars would be incredible for life here on Mars. Imagine if we discover ways to grow healthy food from pure waste? What if we learn to eradicate common diseases? All these aren't out of the range of possibilities for a mission to Mars. The people who say this a waste of money are the same people saying NASA is a waste of money: http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2011/ps_5.html
How long are people usually spending to write a blog post? Is 1-2hrs reasonable, because i get an hour in creating some story that people probably won't read and just go 'to hell with it'. Whats an average time investment, for those who are out there doing it?
My blog runs Discourse as the backend

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140320_55_XPN/

just sayin...
Elon Musk risked $160M of his $160M fortune on SpaceX and Tesla (and Solar City). Most people with $160M do absolutely nothing with it of any consequence to humanity. If part of Musk's ambition is to turn his $160M into $160B I'm personally all for it. In the process of fulfilling his own ambitions he's pushing the entire race forward. The long term benefits of switching to renewable energy are be measured in trillions. Human investment in space travel will ultimately be more valuable than Earth itself.
Frankly, I'd rather he splits, half to Gates and another to Musk. The world needs more than just one brilliant guy to know where money can be best spent.
They are becoming more and more popular in tech companies around Seattle. I personally own one from GeekDesk which ran about $900 and I've seen other versions go up to $2000. Something like this at a much more reasonable cost could allow for them to grow in popularity with ease.
Is your relationship 'dead'?
Upped the difficulty by a huge magnitude.
Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak
The company's legal department determined that it had the right to go through a private email account, citing a leak of proprietary Microsoft code
Looks awesome, but there are a few simple questions this makes really hard to answer without experimenting with mouseovers.

"Who are the likely contenders?"

"What are some of the closest games between big contenders we will enjoy?"
Oh sorry, I guess I read your comment before reading what the tracking is about and thought they tracked all usage (i.e. user actions, in-game).
The future of television is made in America
When to properly reward a bug bounty submission
Facebook and Twitter have (m|b)illions of users and investment dollars behind them and thousands of employees. While I don't know a lot about your company, that in itself is a strong signal that you're not in the same boat.

I respect your desire to want to office the service for free, but I don't think your comparison will help to assuage anyone's fears of you disappearing.
Did you really read the whole thread? I see both sides are being defended here.
Hi!

I'm Chris, I've been working on an app to help me design iOS Storyboard transitions since mid-January on and off. It's at a point now where I can show people it working end-to-end.

I made it because I once had to spend an entire week on a single transition at work, it just took up to much of my time, and I wished I could have given it to someone else to design, so my app Flux was born.

Please checkout the videos at www.nthstate.com/Flux - let me know what you think, and if you're interested, please let me know your email address.

I have created a development video diary of my progress at http://nthstate.wordpress.com - please check out the videos.

Kind Regards

Chris
Polio is a disease that that's causing immediate suffering and lost potential. And it was even more so before discovery of the vaccine, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
The point is that the human race survives.
And how many people would choose to give their money to Larry Page?
I would dispute that he (or I) have missed that point - he is simply giving an example as to why one should, as is always the case when undertaking statistical study, make a reasonable attempt to understand the population from which you are sampling.

The wisdom of crowds effect is not a 'strong result', and it can be hard to work out whether it will apply in any given situation, and so it is prudent to exercise some caution, and to teach people why said caution is warranted, which is the point of his little game.

The 'wisdom of crowds estimate' (take 5 samples and average) isn't a biased estimator, because averaged across all realisations it would produce a correct result. The bias creeps in mostly because of careless assumptions on the part of the samplers.

You said "that misses the whole point of why the "wisdom of crowds" actually works when it does" - I guess all he's saying is that it doesn't always work, which I presume you agree with, and he's giving an example of why. To flip your argument around: saying that the wisdom of crowds works when it works is simply tautological.

edit: just to clarify, the "crowd" here is the group of sweets, not the participants. The participants are multiple realisations of the estimator, at least that is my interpretation (because if not, then I agree with you - the participants aren't a "crowd" in that sense).
Then why make the claim in the first place? Does he assume Google will stop doing meaningful things once he dies?
>> "Nobody on earth is rich enough to get the bottom 10% out of poverty."

Nobody is proposing just giving out money to help poor people. You do what Gates is doing. Target specific problems. If you read his annual letter this year (if you haven't it's worth it) he makes the point that by preventing death through things like Malaria, Polio etc. there are several knock on effects. Less children will die and if you can educate them you have more people to push the economy forward. Families will also reduce in size (people will have less children as the ones they have are less likely to die) and the problem of over population will be improved. I think these are some things that neither money alone nor capitalism can solve but if we can solve the underlying problems as Gates is doing capitalism can take over.
Using a data-driven approach to try to change how voters think about government.
how are we supposed to know what to do if we don't take a survey?
Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear under the shadow of SIA68/SQ68?
Dealership unions? What!? A union of dealership salesmen? Owners? Explain.
So.. my question remains unanswered... if you cannot do meta-programming in hack, how can you say it "offers the best of both dynamically typed and statically typed languages"?
The creepiest chat history you'll ever read
"But if you blunder for words, punctuate incorrectly, spell incorrectly, and express yourself clumsily, I'm sure to believe you mind is cluttered and ill-disciplined."

My mind is cluttered and I rely on spelling correction. Hard to say if I would get the position.
Given a programming task, it will be written faster, easier, and in a more maintainable and less bug-prone fashion if it is not PHP.

The opposite opinion is basically indefensible. Sure, you can still dig a trench with a spoon (and if you have enough money to wield a bunch of workers with a spoon), even if a shovel would do a better job.

Let's begin.

1) PHP autocraptastically converts strings that look like numbers, into numbers, resulting in all sorts of weirdness like this: https://eval.in/111886

2) PHP 5.4's OWN TEST SUITE has 91 failures and only 70% coverage. There is NOTHING more "WTF" than that! Why even bother having a test suite?? http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_5_4

3) Why the fuck are all of these different things equal, and how does this NOT result in problems? http://i.imgur.com/pyDTn2i.png

4) String increment is dumb to begin with, but why does it not even match the behavior of string decrement? https://eval.in/60631

5) Why the hell can you jump back into a try block from a catch block? Recipe for disaster: http://phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com/post/33091353115/the...

6) PHP comparison operators. I'm sorry, but this level of complexity might make you feel smart once you master all its idiotsyncrasies [sic], but it's actually dumb: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15813490/php-type-jugglin...

That's a small fraction of not-thought-out PHP language features that result in REAL bugs and security holes. Which consume large swathes of programmer time. Which, apparently, Facebook can afford to swallow.

I'm sorry, but your position, as valiant as you are defending it, is literally indefensible. And I don't give a fuck how big Facebook is, they would STILL be better-served by switching SOME of their code to a different language. ANY modern programming language wouldn't suffer from this imbecilic, immature language design.
The point is that they all guessed low. The weight of the bag never changes, and there's no pretense that the teacher didn't know how much the bag weighed all along. You don't even need the envelope - you could just weigh the bag at the end. Same effect.
Please implement a pause! Love it though. This really fundamentally twists both 2048 (threes) and Tetris.
Seems fair to me. Note that he published all the estimates and then had people make predictions as a group, which is pretty much the way to extract wisdom-of-crowds effects.

I agree the estimator is biased, but in good part because of how people pick 5 from 100.

We are all biased in some ways. If a group shares the same biases, then a wisdom-of-crowds approach will yield a wrong answer in which everybody is confident. I think it's a fine lesson for people trying to work in this fashion.
How Google (and Amazon) could make Android developers happy
This comment seems to indicate that you can't use dynamic typing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437907
He does not have to hope, he can simply sell that stock ahead of time.
Ya'll just need to chill. It's just an opinion that the man has...why don't we try to change the world IN THE PRESENT FOR GOOD the way we see it fit? whether it is charity or huge ass project with capitalistic gain...RESPECT.
The Stages of Newspapers' Decline
No, no it is not.

Any asteroid that will be an Earth killer will have such a high velocity (due to its highly elliptical orbit) that it won't matter. Consider 2012 XE54 [0]. These objects are nigh undetectable as evidenced by the detection of 2012 XE54 two days before it passed half the distance between the Moon and the Earth. A close call by any account.

Moving people off a single point of failure (Earth) is a much better use of resources.

http://www.space.com/18854-newfound-asteroid-close-flyby-ear...
Ah yes, the school of thought that supposes the ability to distinguish between "your" and "you're" is the essence of intelligence.
Found the issue: Apparently, Firefox disables web storage if cookies are set to ‘ask me every time’, which then causes a ‘SecurityError: The operation is insecure.‘ error in the console. Curiously, there was no pop-up or somesuch asking me to accept a cookie from the domain.
Facebook already has several decoupled services written in other languages. The PHP codebase is mostly the front-end code which, beyond some database work, dispatches heavy lifting to back-end services written in C++, Java, and other languages.

As you say, Thrift connects this all. You can look into our C++ core library, Folly, and other C++, C, Python, and Java applications and libraries like Rocksdb, Presto, watchman, Buck, flint, scribe, and so forth on github.
it's also pointless to wipe out polio if the asteroid is going to stomp us the next day.
While this article can be seen as dated in regards to the definition of success that the author posits (making himself and 20 men rich by the standards of the locality), I think that the path the author lays out to achieving that success is still very relevant to this day.

The author was not denigrating "brilliant" men; instead he was explaining a type of "brilliant" person that focuses their energy on coming up with brilliant ideas, but will not stay focused long enough to see it through to finish. Imagine if you are reliant on a co-founder who wants to be pivot every 6 months simply because all of the challenges of the first brilliant idea are solved, and all that remains is the hard work and execution?

The outcome of that scenario would likely be the outcome he experienced in his first business venture with his college friend, "[Carroll] is a bad employer for himself, but he could put a lot of ginger into somebody else's business. . ."
As the probability of the asteroid problem is low short term we should tackle the poverty problem first. Then we will have more people to tackle the asteroid problem in the long run.
jetzt: a speed-reader extension for Chrome inspired by Spritz
In my mind, the primary value money has is that it lubricates trade (exactly as tjr described). That provides genuine value to the economic system. It reduces the time and effort it takes to make deals because many people agree on a common value (or medium of exchange) that can be fairly universally traded for things of real value. This takes some of the steps out of making a deal.

Humans can get their needs met without money and did so long before money existed. When monetary systems get wonky, barter and doing it yourself (and similar options) become more popular again because the primary real value money has is that it lubricates trade. When it gets wonky enough that this becomes problematic, it loses a lot of its real value and people return to seeking value more directly (using tjr's example: They return to trading websites for chickens).
that does not make them suddenly rich. Changing their (and everyone's) living conditions does. China is a great example. If we had just given them donation for the last 30 years, I am pretty sure they'd still be riding their bikes to work and dream of "finally getting out of poverty)
Here is a pretty good primer: http://www.reddit.com/r/finance/comments/utf5u/where_has_all...
Arguably, a world with less poverty would be a world more capable of focusing on space exploration. Poverty drags everyone down in so many ways.
Mars bad.
I don't get this response or AznHisoka's - this seems like fantastic advice on how to build a startup. It's the team that is going to solve the biggest, most interesting problems that are harder than one person, and being able to pull together that group and make them happy and effective is hugely difficult.
Did anyone actually care to see if that data can be read back? :)

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/blackhole-storage-en...
I ran those tests. One of the challenges in benchmarking is to pick the workload, so I chose one our customers do more often. For IO testing I prefer to run FIO tests, and for networking iperf, but unless you do this for a living it is hard to relate to microbenchmarks. It would also leave out the Java settings.

The reason I left the tests running for an hour is because at some point Cassandra gets into compactions, which are CPU and read intensive. The engine memory maps the files, so the IO subsystem backing the storage sees a lot of random IOs as page faults kick in. Streaming IOs get in during fsyncs. Again, easier to see using FIO.

The cluster was brought up at once, and I added the ramp up time on the chart so folks could see it.

I had three goals for this test:
- Show low latency is possible with remote storage and proper capacity planning. This is why I used quorum commit, which forces the client to wait for at least two nodes to commit.
- Share the settings I used. If you open the GIST and download the tarball you'll find all changes I did to the cassandra.yaml and cassandra-env.sh. This benefits our customers directly because it gives them a starting point.
- Recommend that customers look at all samples, not only the middle 80% the stress tool reports. Otherwise the cluster looks much better than it is.

Thank you for the comments! I can assure you I read them, and I'll incorporate suggestions as possible.
It's important to note that people struck by polio tend to be from the lower socioeconomic strata of developing countries. Not only is preventing polio important for saving individuals but it's also important from exacerbating the already terrible level of inequality across the world. It's an investment in both the present and the future.
I'd take his argument more seriously if he were talking about doing something about climate change. Risk to the species from climate change in the next 100 years dwarfs the risk of an astroid in the next million.

A small colony on Mars won't survive without Earth any more than the Vikings survived in Greenland without trade from Europe. Read Jarad Diamond's COLLAPSE if you want to understand what destroys civilizations.
While big projects that change humanity are worth it, it's also sad that things that don't directly make money (humanities) are thus seemingly not worthy of money.

I wish more of these guys were benefactors recognizing that innovation can happen to culture and arts, not just science. That philosophy seems to have been a relic of the steel/railroad era.
Precisely why Kimono's Web Scrapper as a Service is so awesome!
Helping poor people is extremely hard. I am pretty confident that going to Mars is solvable by just throwing enough money at it. Solving poverty for more than a very breve period is much harder.
There was an episode about the problems the Millenium Villages project was encountering (http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/01/nina_munk_on_po.htm...) and it just made clear how many problems there are to overcome that you just don't consider. I am not saying it's unsolvable, but it's harder than traveling to Mars or making a self driving car. So Elon is the safer bet.
>>Only question is the cost. We really need something in the sub $200 range.

Exactly.
If you want to run a solid, reliable, mediocre business hire solid, reliable, mediocre workers.
The threat to democracy from closed electronic voting systems is well documented. But why do these systems get put in place? Could it have some connection with political donations by companies that manufacture the machines, such as Diebold?

Our political system cannot reach unbiased, good decisions about what types of voting systems to implement if it's being swayed by big donors.

We have to hack to get money out of politics, so that our politics don't get hacked!
"The company's legal department determined that it had the right to go through a private email account, citing a leak of proprietary Microsoft code."

Judicial Mandate: Necessary or Superfluous?
> And I expect that not to get better soon if nobody is using it...

If the people running GCE see that people are not using it because it sucks at X, they will probably do their best to address X. So complaining is a good thing, especially if it contains enough information in order to understand the problem (e.g. latency from/to where? internal network or external network?)
Canada regulators propose rules for crowdfunding of startups
No he didn't, he's joking about how Elon Musk wants to cash in those billions NOW if he can somehow take Larry out of the picture...
I think ekpyrotic is suggesting that pre-WW2 Nuclear Physics would not have fallen under the category of "things with tangible, well-defined outputs." So the suggestion is that the US would not have researched Nuclear Weapons if they had decided not to fund Nuclear Physics research.