skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever Kiwichat does aside, one possible solution is to not make visibility a function of radius, but to do a simple slowly time-varying cluster analysis on the fly. Something like a 2-d K-Means (input just being lat/lon points of users), where you periodically update the number of clusters as a function of the total number of users, or something. The challenge that would arise by doing this, would be the scenario where you have a low population density, where you'd get user-groups that aren't super localized (e.g. if you tried this in Montana...). Might not be an actual problem, though.
As far as I'm aware, he did nothing that was more rulebreaking/questionable than MrGrimm/Imgur did [self promotion via links to imgur].

http://www.reddit.com/r/awwnime/comments/1mlr4o/a_little_mik...
What if the payments were taken out of an account automatically and you could load up a reserve with money. This would allow for calculations on your usage:money without it being a major factor on immediate loss of service.
No it won't. That doesn't even make any sense.
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You could pick another point of interest.
> Actually, it's called "science". Science isn't about descriptions, it's about explanations. If we knew why ketamine worked, we would have finally crossed the threshold of science.

Actually, science is mostly observation and description. Sometimes the descriptions can lead to theories, but only after peer-majority agrees the theory adequately describes enough observed cases to be trusted for prediction. Most of the seemingly immutable parts of science are in fact maths.

And maths is mostly description of observation...
IPv6 is complicated matter. Even if kernel has ipv6 module/support built in, it's still a very tiny first step for router to support IPv6.

On the other hand, STCP NAT support is just one kernel config option away and no further configuration's needed. A complete no-brainer - just persuade those building routers' firmware to not tick it off.
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I think that they mean that they gravity should have been even weaker than it was.

* There's a depression -> gravity weaker.
* Less of a difference than expected from the depression size -> something denser
* Water is denser than ice, and in a known relation -> size/volume of lake.
We play Ultimate or Soccer on Fridays,

On Fridays I like to find a quiet bar, and read papers on distributed systems. Guess I won't be a "culture fit".
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Rest of the paragraph for understanding: "This is meant to distinguish Mozilla from most organizations and hold us to a higher standard. But this time we failed to listen, to engage, and to be guided by our community."

They're saying they have a culture of openness in decision-making, but chose their CEO in a way contrary to that.
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I'm a front-leaning, full-stack developer that has recently moved to Berlin from NY. I am American, and know just a bit of German (but am learning).

I have experience with every aspect of creating an application, from mockups and UX design, to graphic design, to the full-stack implementation, to deployment. I've successfully built and sold a past start-up of mine, and have a great deal of insight with product development. Because of this, I'm probably of most value the earlier a project is in its life cycle.

Backend stack: Ruby on Rails, with DBs/data stores such as MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, and Redis. I've also worked a bunch with Elastic Search. I can also use Node.js or PHP for the right project, but lately I've been doubling down on being a backend mono-glot.

Frontend stack: my preference is Angular.js, though I've also worked Backbone and Meteor. I am well-versed in current best practices, can build responsive mobile-friendly websites, and code pixel perfect CSS and HTML5. I have a great deal of graphic design experience and can help there as well.

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Github: https://github.com/superplussed
Email: jeremy@superplussed.com
I did wonder about elaborating, because I agree with your point about employees necessarily making less, but I didn't think it really necessary.

Your final statement "focusing on economic inequality is misguided; what we should be focusing on is wealth creation" is disingenuous, unless you mean focusing on how to improve wealth creation for those people in poverty. Otherwise, it is just a false equivalence - you are suggesting that by focusing on wealth creation for ourselves, we improve their chances for wealth creation, for which there is no evidential route beyond trickle down economics. If you do mean promoting wealth creation for people in poverty, or indeed people who are 'merely' poor, then that is a form of alleviating inequality that I wholly support.
I like to think of this issue in the most specific terms possible, rather than the most sweeping and abstract.

If, for just a moment, you can set aside the bluster, it's just one guy named Brendan having a chance to evaluate whether it was really worth it to him to donate $1k to prop 8.
You will get maybe 2x more needles out of +10x more haystack. Not that it does not work, but you will need to get very good at filtering.
Well, duh ;) I'm just impressed, given the significant bandwidth, that the advertising has been capable of sustaining itself so far.
This absolutely resonates with me.

As a side project at a client of mine, they wanted me to expose some R reports via a web interface. The reports themselves were incredibly slow - and did the most horrendous SQL queries. The reports could have been achieved in several other languages, and in much more performant ways, but it absolutely had to be R because that's all the analyst in question knew.

From what I've seen of Julia it could be a massive contender for this kind of usage.
Cassandra is a Bigtable style column store not an analytic column store.

It's an unfortunate naming collision.
I build image hosting service which was 'great' for it's time (2006) called Image Socket (http://www.imagesocket.com).

It became extremely successful in just a few days due to support from another (popular at the time) web site called SomethingAwful.

Alternatives at the time sucked. Unfortunately I failed to pivot it into something that does not rely exclusively on one or two popular web sites as it's source of traffic.

Congrats to Imgur for jumping on Reddit early and a becoming somewhat independent at this point.

It's funny that I had an opportunity to compete with them because my site was already build and widely utilized when Reddit came out but I never imaged that Reddit would blow up so fast and by the time it did, competing with Imgur was impossible.
Mob rule is fine as long as the mob is always right. That's usually the case, right?
I think the discussion on that link has probably reached a point where it's no longer constructive or useful.
Sad that the events lead up to this.
Yes. That is exactly what I said.
I can't help but wish that the gay community would focus its attention on asshats like "Supervisor" Eugene Delgaudio, instead of Brendan Eich. Delgaudio is an elected official with a virulent anti-gay rhetoric (in addition to being ethically challenged, and having avoided criminal prosecution by the narrowest of loopholes in Virginia law).
I'm a little embarrassed that I never got the word play in "tarsnap" until just now...
This is stupid. Progressiveness and open-mindedness go BOTH WAYS. You have to be tolerant of people with different perspectives, or you can't call yourself progressive.

I don't personally agree with the stance Eich took politically, but making him step down as CEO of a company he is more than fully qualified to run? Because you don't agree with his views on gay marriage? Are you kidding me? Ludicrous.

This is a huge step backward.
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Thanks for taking care of it.
Cheers!
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Makes sense -- thanks.

I had a scary moment when I thought we were backing up our databases as data files... fortunately someone smarter than me set that up and in fact our backups are mysqldump's. Phew!
Amen. I've been using R since ~2000, and it's a terrible hack of a language. The syntax is quirky, the speed is underwhelming, and the memory usage makes it unsuitable for all but the smallest data analysis problems. It's a programming language designed by people who don't really know how to program.

...but if you know it, it lets you tap into this huge collection of statistical libraries with relatively little effort. So you're right: most people are using it as a glorified graphing calculator. But given that the alternative is (usually) implementing complicated, error-prone algorithms in another language, I'm still glad it exists.
Baker has worked with Eich at mozilla for 15 years and says that she was unaware of Eich's views on gay marriage.
She says that it has given her cause for self-reflection about how she had not noticed.

Nor apparently had anyone else until they discovered his donation from 6 years ago.

Sounds like he was doing a good job of separating business and politics.
Always always exclude adsenseformobileapps.com in a display campaign. It's recommended for a remarketing campaign as well.

PPC #201
Sam Altman has recently expressed interest in seeing more 'high-tech' submissions to YC http://blog.samaltman.com/new-rfs-breakthrough-technologies. I agree that defining 'high-tech' vs 'tech' is a bit ambiguous and fraught with potential disagreement, however for the purposes here, we are talking about companies that engage in some type of basic R&D in pursuit of the core product development.

'Science' is a grouping used to categorize funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) - cross-functional, but a good enough bucket for the purposes of the key used.
note: it's his personal decision, not mozilla's
the reality is that at the end of the day, Mozilla is a civil rights organization. Although it is ostensibly a technology company, their actual agenda is deeply rooted in civil rights, and Brendan Eich's Proposition 8 donation is antithetical to civil rights.
I'm just fascinated that you've found objectivity in ethics.
So, should people have been tolerant of bigoted Southerners who supported Jim Crow? Should civil rights leaders have been tolerant of their views?
I love people's ability to have horrible beliefs a lot more than the (now legal) ability to marry my boyfriend, so this is unfortunate to hear. I've always admired Mozilla for what it does, a lot more than other companies that get painted as homophobic (Chick Fil A?), so this is too bad. I think he was fine where he was, and his opinions on people matter as much to me as I suspect my opinions matter to anyone else.
Zip code exists in most countries, yet you assume those are US-based one.
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This convention is used within the type system throughout kdb+. i for 32bit integer, j for 64bit int, h for 16bit int, e for real, f for float etc. Anyone who knows q will automatically recognize these types in the the c-api. They'll also recognize the ref count r, the type t and experienced c programmers will recognize the trailing array idiom.
These discussions would be improved if more of the participants understood the problem of transacting in large blocks of tradable instruments. The impression HN trading discussions create is that there is a universe in which block trades are frictionless or even remotely predictable.

In fact, moving large blocks across the market isn't just an annoying detail of the markets; it's one of the basic fundamental problems of institutional trading, and a large part of the rationale for the existence of brokers. Transacting in blocks of stock is to professional trading what the CAP theorem is to distributed software development.

One of the most famous and approachable books about market structure is Larry Harris' _Trading And Exchanges_. The book is like the TCP/IP Illustrated of money. It is supremely readable and written in a style that software developers in particular will find congenial. You can get a Kindle version of it right now. I feel extremely comfortable recommending it. It is a great read.

The example of trying to move a large block of (fictitious) Smithsonian Industries is one of the opening, motivating examples the book uses to outline the challenges of trading. The inheritor of a huge chunk of Smithsonian Industries needs to sell 900,000 shares of thinly-traded stock. The example continues:

Goldman's block brokers face the following predicament. If nobody knows that they have stock to sell, they will not be able to sell it. However, if too many people know that a large block of stack is hanging over the market, speculators will push the price down. The Goldman brokers thus must be selective when approaching potential buyers.

The motivating example Lewis gives in his book is of a trader at a large investment bank who, based on their $2MM/year salary, is presumably being paid handsomely for the service of figuring out how to move blocks like that without having the market shift out from under them. In Harris' example, the Goldman traders research other owners of Smithsonian Industries and approaches them privately and individually in the hopes of placing much of the block privately at a small discount. In Lewis' example, the handsomely-paid trader sees a spot price in their blotter screen, expects to push a single button (no, really, that's how Lewis frames it) to sell at that price, and is outraged when the price moves.

There's an interesting debate to be had about HFT and, particularly, the conflicts of interest between broker-dealers and exchanges and dark pools. But it's hard to have that discussion if you start from the belief that institutional trading is supposed to be easy. The opposite is true.
Cynically: Some degree of conformity to your group is required as a CEO, including on political issues. In the tech world, supporting SOPA is a killer, but also certain other social issues, including gay marriage. If you run a big popular chicken sandwich in the South, don't start donating to pro-choice (abortion) groups either.

The gay marriage issue seems to be the most socially poisonous out of all in Silicon Valley - I find the level of vitriol offputting. Would this apply to someone who was pro-2nd amendment, pro-life, or held other similarly minority views? Many people disagree on the civil rights of gun ownership or abortion, but it is not nearly as loud. Everyone paints social issues a black-white, right-wrong decision, and ignore that over half of Californians, whether their religion or personal beliefs dictated so, voted for Proposition 8. While you or I don't necessarily agree with them, we will interact with them thousands of times in our lives.

It goes both ways. Just let that sink in, and realize the role that human nature and tribalism plays in addition to the loftier goals of political ideals and tolerance.
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The rhetoric from patent-light companies resonates with techies/hackers because their interests align with theirs. If Google and Twitter are patent-light then your start-up is even more so.
Really unfortunate that this happened to someone as nice and competent as Eich. His leadership would have held amazing things for Mozilla, the open web, javascript, rust, all of it. Instead he got targetted by an intollerant lynch mob that felt it had to strong-arm someone with views they didn't agree with. Sure, you could say it's a human rights issue. But ask yourself, would you consider it reasonable for Christians to target some arbitrary CEO who donated some money to planned parenthood several years ago, since that person was violating the human rights of infant children? And then for that CEO to step down in shame for because their respect for human life was in question? Of course not, that would be silly.
Nope. Settings -> Power Options -> Change what the power button does.
Don't forget the clergy
Becoming a CEO doesn't mean you are no longer a person. More importantly, it doesn't mean the company comes before you as a person.

I'm not saying that in todays environment, at least within the US that is the case. I'm just saying it should be the case.

Freedom of speech swings all ways.
A CEO exists to serve the staff, the community and the world at large. Ditto for any leadership role. There is. Ton of laws and legal precident which enshrine this.

Given that context, yeah the CEO doesn't get to piss of the people he is supposed to lead.
> There are a lot of rational reasons to oppose gay marriage (if you allow one their irrational premises).

How can you have a rational reason with an irrational premise? If the premise is irrational, so is anything based on it.
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Great talk. The cameramen zoomed on the guy just when the slides with some code are shown! Anyway the slides can be found here:

http://codemesh.io/slides/erik-hinton.pdf
I have very mixed feelings about this.

I'm very glad to see people standing up to bigotry, but I'm not aware of any suggestions that Eich's feelings were affecting his job, or his employees.

Eich is certainly guilty of being an asshole, and his non-apology response did little to help matters, but I can't help but think that if we removed all the CEO's who are guilty of being assholes, the herd would be considerably thinned.
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> unless you mean focusing on how to improve wealth creation for those people in poverty

To be precise, I meant focusing on making people in poverty better at wealth creation. If that's what you meant, then we're in agreement.

However, I'm not entirely sure that's what you meant, because you talk about wealth creation "for" people in poverty; you use that expression twice. That could mean what I meant, or it could mean "creating wealth and then giving it to people in poverty", which IMO does not help--unless it's just the first step, and the second step is "here are ways to use what you've just been given to get better at creating more wealth for yourself".
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Bingo.

It seems that some Mozilla employees and members of the public deluded themselves into thinking Mozilla was some kind of political charity fighting for social causes, rather than being a technology company.
> Did we learn nothing from Nelson Mandela?

You mean like overtly advocating violent overthrow of an oppressive government? Mandela was right. Just not in the way his sanitized image would lead one to expect.
I guess you don't quite understand how HFT works?

The simplest example is like this:

1. Bob sees that 10,000 share of MSFT are for sell on exchange X at $50.00 and also 30,000 share are for sell on exchange Y at $50.00 and 60,000 shares are for sell on exchange Z at $50.00
2. Bob attempts to buy 100,000 shares of MSFT at $50.00.
3. The HF trader sees the 60,000 order get filled at 50.00 and reasonably assumes that someone is trying to buy more than 60,000 shares right now.
4. He buys the remaining 40,000 shares at $50.00 before Bob's trade is executed.
5. The HF trader immediately lists the 40,000 shares at 50.01

Do you understand how the HF trader is injecting himself into the transaction?
I am still appalled by the fact that Play Store doesn't allow users to search for apps based on requested permissions or size. It's extremely ironic, considering Google's core business.
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Is it really that difficult to understand why the CEO would be treated differently in that regard? His job is to lead the company. It's hard to do that when many Mozilla employees fundamentally disagree with his stance on how their LGBT friends, coworkers, and family members should be treated in the eyes of the law. That's just the nature of the role.
Ah yes, the old "if you're truly tolerant you will even tolerate intolerance and hate" argument, a perennial favorite among bigots and those looking to distinguish themselves by their courageous adherence to "logic" in the face of social norms, but who have never been the target of intolerance themselves.
> Always hire the best people… who are willing to live in San Francisco

... and are allowed to do so.
Wow, I'm impressed with the detailed events tracked before the error.
I don't think your Wall Street exec is expressing a common viewpoint. In fact, I think he's probably a sociopath, and if we can architecture a society which is actively hostile to those kind of attitudes I think it could only be a good thing.
I'm also gay and agree completely. The whole GLAAD contingent can be a little too self-involved a lot of the time.
THE WHITE ROOM, Trancentral, Thursday (NTNME) — The illegal party drug ketamine is an “exciting” and “dramatic” new treatment for depression, say doctors who waited about two decades too long before conducting the first trials in the UK.

The single small study has attracted due caution from evidence-based medicine experts, since 80% of single studies turn out to be in error. However, middle-aged doctors and researchers who feel they didn’t get out enough in their youth are clamouring to do multiple large-scale replications of the study, probably this weekend.

The findings open up whole new avenues of research. “It’s the sort of thing really that makes it worth doing psychiatry,” said lead researcher Dr Rupert McShane, or, as he now calls himself, DJ Rupe McK-Hole. “Can we get back into trials on LSD yet? I understand there’s also considerable clinical possibilities for the therapeutic qualities of sequences of repetitive beats, MDMA and the possibility of shagging cute raver chicks like the ones I remember.”

The duration of the effect is still a problem. “We’ll have to make sure we repeat the trials next weekend and the weekend after as well. For science and verifiability.”
The difference is that you were too late in the game.

When image hosting started blowing up alternatives to Imgur were horrible, horrible ad farms with low quality images that took several seconds to load.

Comparing to what Imgur brings to the table and what you bring to the table, the different is not that drastic.

Also you can't compare rules Reddit has in place now with rules it had years ago.

There has been weeks where multiple image providers with shitty off the shelf solutions would be doing same thing you were trying to do after seeing Imgur take off every single day.

Like I said, it's just too late at this point. Find another market.
Proposition 8 was not a campaign to change the political views of people. It had but one purpose, and that purpose was to declare a subset of the population legally unequal to everyone else.
So, openmindedness to you means...

Supporting female genital mutilation

Racism

Homophobia

And much more

Are you sure you want to take that stand? Isn't that like doubling down on segregation in 1970?
yeah he had great views such as making firefox technically relevant (through rust, through asmjs, through multiprocessing, etc) and looking at mozilla's real value (users trust mozilla)

except, that 2nd point became an issue with him ceo, too. sad.
This is a decent start. However, the data set is statistically insignificant. Only 52 founders? HBR can do much better than this.
To be fair, Eich has never said he made a mistake.

I pretty strongly disagree with his views on Prop 8, HOWEVER, I wouldn't disqualify him on those grounds. I disagree with my own boss on a lot of things much closer to home, and yet I gladly work with and for him.

Occasionally, I guess I'm grownup.