skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My comment was not very clear. I’ll try again.

For simplicity let’s suppose that there are only two types of users:

* Some users have an account in every social network, have a very popular blog, perhaps pay for some advertisement, fill in all the keywords / tags fields, and use all the SEO they can.

* Some users take the photo, and just copy the nouns of the title to the tags field.

If this model is correct, most of the photos with lots of tags are from users with lots of followers and that is the cause of the additional likes.

The original (implicit) idea of the article is that the photos with more tags appear in more search results, and this is the cause of the additional likes. [I hope this simplified version is an accurate enough.]

Real life is usually more complicated, there are more than two types of users, and perhaps both effects are present. I like the analysis of the data, but I’m not sure if this can be transformed directly in a strategy to gain followers. Perhaps this is a consequence of cargo cult SEO.

How can we setup an experiment to distinguish between the two effects?
That is exactly what I said - different clocks drifting relative to each other. It is completely irrelevant that their one tenth of a second was not exactly one tenth of a second, what matters is that different clocks in the system had different ideas of one tenth of a second.
Could be that the big, ugly lawsuit won't happen at all if there isn't a huge company like Google behind it to pay out any losses.

In any case, all of this will happen eventually. We will have robot cars on the road eventually, and eventually one of them will get into some sort of accident with big publicity potential. Any company involved in the industry probably ought to be managing what happens to them when that happens.
I think people might be being offended-by-proxy by a sort of status-shift 37s is trying to work into its language. Calling someone "an extortionist" still implies a sort of high-status white-collar cunning-and-intelligence, of the kind you'd expect of a person in the tech industry. An evil person, surely, but the respectable, movie-villain-you-love-to-hate kind of evil.

Calling someone "a criminal", meanwhile, degrades their status to that of a common mugger; someone in the lower class who needs to commit crime to survive, and who doesn't have the intelligence required to come up with a clever crime.

Hackers are generally aesthetes--we tend to value our intelligence, curiosity, etc. more than we value our moral fibre. We can appreciate stories like "A hacked into B to see if it was possible, and reported the vulnerability all responsible-like, but then they threw him in jail! How horrible!" because we think the positive-status from the display of intelligence makes it less likely, rather than more, that they were genuinely seeking to harm the people they hacked.

Because of this, I think we here are scared of being potentially associated with dumb, low-status, lower-class criminals more than we are of just being considered evil. People hire "evil, black-hat" hackers. Nobody hires a dumb hacker.
I could not disagree more. Hiring the neo-nazi as the CEO of a major corporation who will make decisions that will directly effect the lives of anyone working for that corporation and of those who use the corporation's products is promoting those beliefs. It is saying that, despite you taking actions to strip away basic human rights of groups of people, we want you to represent us.

These are the decisions that lead to corporations acting greedy and caring only about their bottom line. We should not be promoting this way of thinking. Some things are more important. The more someone's actions can impact other people, the more they should be judged by their character.
Active power management is nothing new to lithium ion batteries.
It's an interesting question whether to ask about "laws" or "theories" in this context, because if I ask about "theories inconsistent with one another" then there are probably hundreds of answers, but none of them are interesting because most theories are wrong.

I was hoping to find examples of theories that are (a) popular, (b) haven't been proven wrong for at least several years. If there are contradictions between those and other, more established laws, then that's interesting.

I was hoping this submission might attract at least one upvote so that it appears on the 'ask' page and some of HN's fine physicists might see it.
Marriage will never be the same as being single. Otherwise there would be no purpose to being married.

If everything were the same, the term "single mother" wouldn't carry an special meaning.
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Banning gay marriage is ludicrous and bigoted. Also, it is the same thing at all.
OVH uses Peakflow as one component of its mitigation system.
Hopefully, but color me skeptical. I don't see how anyone can be X-proof, where X is a company that has over $100 billion in their bank account.
As a beta user for a year or so: it really feels good to be pinged. :)

And it's great entertainment to just browse what friends have been doing for last 24h.

+1 from me
OP is quoting and criticizing the article's writing not startup odds.
Yeah has he issued an apology for that? There was that book, Coders at Work, I think, where the feeling I got was "I was given a few days and forced to come up with something that looked superficially like Java so..."
Wouldn't you be better off just releasing it to public domain? I guess it prevents you from rereleasing the software under the same name.
> I've met Brendan several times and I don't think he'll be a good CEO.

Why?
But men and women are not treated the same; a man does not have the same set of people that they are free to marry as a woman does. Whether or not the motivation is to discriminate based on sexual orientation, the plain operation is to discriminate based on sex.
Would I be correct in saying this is kind of like Docker?

I mean, I know it's not a "container" system exactly... but it seems almost like a platform for encouraging developers to containerize/package their web apps and maybe help distribute (sell?) them.... and also to allow end-users to have increased control over their apps.

Looks like it's going to suffer from the classic marketplace problem. I like the idea, but I'm not sure the benefits from the developer/business side are strong enough.
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You don't seem to understand-- most people simply don't have the ability to think about things in a way that is STEM friendly.

It's not an option for them to re-train, they don't work that way.
It's not made to charge the laptops. It's made to keep them running. The rmbp will suck any battery dry trying to charge and run at the same time. Keep the rmbp at 100% and plug in the battery and let me know how long it lasts.
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Independent of Eich's wrongs, no human exists that is "right" in all areas of life.

A demand for someone who is right in all areas is how you get the blandest of all people in politics: they dare not utter an actual opinion lest the media snatch it up and hang them with it. So they say absolutely nothing with a whole lot of words.

I'd rather see actual humans in positions of power, struggles with life and all.
The claimed performance would provide a huge competitive advantage. If it worked as advertised and Apple had control over it, they'd integrate the software into their products and this box would never see the light of day as a third party product.
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Congrats to Eich!

And, has everyone here gone insane? Personally I hold Eugenic racist homophobic neo-nazis to a higher regard than those who view forgiveness and moving on as something that should never be done.
CloudFlare's CEO, Matthew Prince, has made his stance on this matter very clear:

CloudFlare is firm in our belief that our role is not that of Internet censor. There are tens of thousands of websites currently using CloudFlare's network. Some of them contain information I find troubling. Such is the nature of a free and open network and, as an organization that aims to make the whole Internet faster and safer, such inherently will be our ongoing struggle. While we will respect the laws of the jurisdictions in which we operate, we do not believe it is our decision to determine what content may and may not be published. That is a slippery slope down which we will not tread.

Source: http://blog.cloudflare.com/thoughts-on-abuse

As a result, both the Israeli Defence Forces and Hamas are CloudFlare customers. Unless one of their customers is doing something that is unambiguously illegal (e.g. hosting child pornography), CloudFlare won't cut them off just because they're doing something that some people regard as "bad".

It's a very principled stance and one that I respect.
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I was mostly responding to the claim that Bitcoin transactions aren't reversible.

To your point: I suspect multisig doesn't help solve the problems we keep seeing with exchanges. An exchange converts between currencies, and wants to make transactions easy. A bank keeps your money safe, and wants to make transactions more difficult to that end. Unless you're a currency day trader, I don't see a reason to conflate the two.

Personally, I'm appalled by the fact that we've built a system that makes it easy for individuals to secure their own funds, and yet we're using it to entrust funds to third parties who don't have a clue. All in good time I suppose.
we're sending our best and brightest into space and making them wear shorts over their pants?
It's always a matter of capacity. If there is absolutely no attribute you can distinguish it by, you have no choice but to handle it like normal.

In practice, there is. If we're talking about an HTTP flood, the other endpoint address is always validated (due to the 3-way handshake) so it's plausible to rate limit and block individual addresses. (But without validated client addresses, the rule is to NEVER create state off those, because spoofing is too easy.)
How so? I think of it more like a power-law distribution: there are only a few websites anyone would care that I visit, and they're pretty obviously-so when I think about them. Those, the "signal" among the noise, I use Tor for.

Everything else is the same boring noise everyone else generates. The more noise you put out, the less suspicious you look. Nothing says "this person leads a secret life" to the NSA better than having a blank "file" in their automated-dredging system. You want such a file to be full of mundane detail, such that your data doesn't have a different "shape" under traffic analysis than the average 16-year-old who makes public posts about their plans to hang out with their friends at the mall on Saturday.
I'm sorry if this is obvious to you, but your post makes it sound like you may have bought a laptop in the configuration listed and then tried to install Ubuntu. Quoting from the Ubuntu website you linked,

Standard images of Ubuntu may not work at all on the
system or may not work well, though Canonical and
computer manufacturers will try to certify the system
with future standard releases of Ubuntu.

Did you use a standard Ubuntu image, or get one pre-installed?
Seems !hn bang command has been updated \o/ Thank you guys
Has anyone left github in light of what's come out? From the comment activity, I find it hard to believe that people don't take those issues seriously but I can't say I've heard of much of an exodus from it. There are tons of options too... And, ATMO, the more time between when anything else comes out (if it does) the less likely people are to care. Are there people on the fence that are going to move to another service if the founder isn't sacked or something?

I think you could easily look at Mozilla the same way. It's free software, there are tons of alternatives you can use and a lot of you probably already do and this was a personal donation... I hate to say it, but I think a lot of people sort of like to talk support for various issues up a bit more than actually doing things to support them. It's easier to get emotional and post some messages and tweets than it is to actually do something.
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>> The current research shows that people really don't make their best contributions to their field before 35-45.

Look at someone like John Carmack - before he was 35 he had done Command Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake 1-3. Guys like Steve Wozniak were basically out of the business by the time they hit 35. Linus released Linux when he was 22, and started git when he was 35. I doubt guys like Marc Andreesen have written much code since they hit 35 as well.
Bugs happen, it is a young start-up who have moved incredibly fast I don't think calling it tacky is very fair or for that matter bragging.

The piece mostly illustrates how cheaply you can form a product idea and launch an MVP....which considering we are on HN should hardly be counted as bragging.
You can already do this with the Moleskine Smart Notebook, except you don't have to mail your private notebook to a 3rd party company for scanning - you can scan them directly into Evernote with the free Evernote app.

tl;dr

The exact same thing exists by Moleskine at http://shop.moleskine.com/en-us/notebooks-journals/evernote/
This is much easier said than done. DARPA moved on because they work to push the edge of research into proof of concepts. A lot of good work has been done to make 'robotic cars' a reality (sqrt-slam, better velodynes, deformable parts model for pedestrian detection, etc), but definitely doesn't mean i would trust a small team of hackers with my safety on the road.

Even the Google team, as much progress as they've made, is like 11-12 people working full time for the last few years to build something worth demonstrating. However, despite their resources and expertise, still have a lot to overcome. In talking with Jiajun Zhu (manager of the Google car team), it became readily apparent that they still encounter situations where they are not fully confident in their system (such as on streets with too much brush/foliage). Given the rocky start (in terms of security, features, and stability) that most start-ups have, i would never trust their finished product.
I've been using Povio for the last 3 months; pinging friends is incredibly fun, and the network effect it has is amazing.

Povio is a great way to stay in touch with remote friends.
Interesting idea. A couple of suggestions:
1) Don't do the auto countdown thing with the camera. Just let me take a picture.
2) My knee jerk reaction when I received a photo was to ping my friend for another one right away. In fact all my friends did this until we got fed up with each other. Maybe limit pings to once an hour or something.
3) Give comments more focus. If someone sends me a photo I want to interact with them about it. Maybe that's why I'm heading to ping them so quickly...

Otherwise I'm happy to see a novel approach to social networking.
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BatteryOS seems to be the most important aspect here. Consumer electronics manufacturers have different goals than this class of product, which may not always align with every consumer. So if they are abstracting all that logic into their own MCU OS, that is pretty smart. I can see an iPhone/Mac app to tune your BatteryBox to charge faster at the cost of life time/cycles(?) (clearly telling you this!) or vice versa...allowing you to tailor the solution to your needs. This is different to what Apple would offer as they need to find a one size fits all solution and that is usually some sweet spot for high cycle count + low charge time and long battery life.

Going one step further, possibility for some ML to learn your use case and charge your MacBook accordingly. Regardless, the battery is irrelevant, the OS is key.
You actually went and checked? :)
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Typo detected: did you mean "as being anything but 'anti' that phenomenon"?
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aka, "hey this el wire stuff is pretty cool!"
"Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone...."

Among other things, this is a hypocrisy issue. It has been unironically stated elsewhere in these comments that it is good to be intolerant of intolerance.

That can actually true, but it is hypocritical to be intolerant in the name of inclusiveness.
> No human exists that is "right" in all areas of life.

Being right in all areas of life is a personal and cultural struggle, a never-ending pursuit of an elusive destination. That much is obvious. Still, some people are further along on this path than others, and one would hope that these would be the people who occupy positions of power.
There's a big difference between being able to travel to a country without a visa, and being able to freely emigrate there, which is what EU membership provides. Turkey's economy may be growing, but the GDP per capita is a quarter that of wealthier countries like the UK or Germany.

Joining the EU would also give Turkey a seat at the table. Turkey has a large population, and would therefore get a large representation at the European Parliament.
Probably because blocking Google DNS is 2 just IPs? If you can "force" most people to use your own DNS, it's far easier to implement blocking via DNS. Otherwise, you're left playing whackamole if a company adds new frontend machines.
Stephen Fry doesn't just curse. He curses well. He curses (most importantly) when appropriate. Unlike you, and unlike most of the rubbish that gets posted.

> It's really only prudes and people who need to feel morally superior have a problem with it, and they can fuck right off, frankly.

Kinda like how you need to feel superior to them about this particular issue?
State Senators, U.S. Senators, and sitting Presidents don't have to "donate money" to suppress rights. They have more direct mechanisms.

Nice attempt to shift the goal posts, though.
Thanks! Let me know what you think once you start getting updates.
Here's my question on this: is it better to have your marketplace collect all the payments and then ACH out funds to sellers? OR is it better to have each seller create their own Stripe account via Stripe connect and have the payments go directly to their Stripe account?

I ask because I've done both in different projects and I'm still not convinced which is better. Having all the payments come into your account means you'll definitely be dealing with more Fraud. Plus the accounting is more of a PITA in my opinion. But the user-experience is smoother and you can allow for purchases from multiple sellers (on a site like Etsy).
Except that when you put your energy into lobbying instead of going your own way and DIY, you're supporting the machine known as government and legitimizing its role as arbiter-of-all-that-is-good. When your campaign succeeds, it does so at the expense of pigeonholing the entire issue of unnecessary marriage regulation into the simplistic "gay marriage", and people consider the entire issue solved and look for the next thing to feel progressive about. But even worse, your narrow success then serves as an advertisement of the system working and covers up the fact that you're actually three steps back due to increased government intervention everywhere else.
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But why pick a name that could be confusing if you don't have to? And even if it is in writing, it is still confusing since the double i is hard for the brain to see and is automatically corrected by most spellcheckers I tried.
Why do you think consumer disks are better for a search engine?

Everything is a balance between CPU/RAM/Disk. Having one of this resource that is far superior than the other would be a waste of resource. Our balance is globally to have about 16 cores/32threads per host with latest XEON >= 3.5Ghz, 256G of RAM and about 1TB of SSD (2X512G)

We perform a lot of IO, so the compromise is between price and number of IOPS we can get. Having the same IOPS than our two SSD in raid0, would require a lot of consumer disk, which leads to two problems:
1) We would have too many disk space and we will not have enough CPU to use all this space
2) It would not fit in a 1U server and would increase a lot the price of the server
> and IMHO 4K selectors is a lot more than any sane page should use

... especially since it'll be hard to fit more than that into the 640k of memory I have. ;)
:) What happened was that we removed the crap that was built before. Only 2 things could not be removed: products and people, so the homepage became a precursor to what it is today: a minimalist grid of products posted by users.

I then spent $20 a day on Facebook ads. The goal was simply to get a small stream of people to check out the website and to see if they would use it. I didn't think I could actually grow a community by spending on ads since I didn't have that much money to spend. To my shock, people actually started using it and were sticking around. The reason was that the website exposed them to surprising, unique products from stores they've never heard about.

It's also worth noting that I optimized the ad a lot, tweaking all the details (targeting, image used, copy, where the ad clicks to) until I had an ad that was performing really well, meaning that I was making that $20 count.
Here's the creators:

http://13thlab.com/
Performance matters much less on the web.
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I don't mean to shit on "Makers". In fact the growing popularity of "Makers" is what makes companies like TI and others see market viability for the low-cost development kits that I take advantage of quite a bit.... I just find that if you visit your average hackerspace or Maker faire, you spend most of your time weeding through the noise to try to get actionable and useful information. I was merely pointing out that if you abhor the sciolist hipster smug, be wary of the "Makers" because there is a abnormally high concentration of that there than in most technology communities.
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I understand the goals of having a meetup like this, but having people meetup over "beer" is kind of exclusive and isn't a very inviting for a large chunk of people.
Not to pick on Chute, since this is a common thing, but it is worth pointing out every now and again.
"Be the change you wish to see in the world", and all that.

From my perspective, gay marriage petitioners seemingly wish to have a world where people have to beg the government for the ability associate in a certain manner.
Isn't homophobia a good predictor of climate change ignorance, no interest in health care as a right and criminalization of marijuana usage?
I always recall this one from 1981 Compute Magazine

https://archive.org/stream/1981-12-compute-magazine/Compute_...

No stack, just generated the mazed directly in screen memory.
Except the fact that one is (most of the time):
- a characteristic that is outwardly visible and generally perceivable
-a characteristic upon which many societies have historically (and/or currently) organized biases around

While the other is generally related to how big one's feet are.

I would gather the submission intend to point out that this 'news event' was 'rare' and therefore worth submitting (rare because of the success, being a single founder, and being a woman in a field where (I presume) women are significantly less numerous). Anyway, looks like there were issues with the submission for some reason since it has been edited.
Very well said. This, and the EU's encouraging the fascist overthrow of the democratically elected Ukrainian president has made me strongly opposed to the current form of European 'Union'.
in america, we call "taking bribes", "working with lobbyists"... corruption all the way down. feel free to complain all you want. it doesn't stop.