skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The supermarket is located over a major highway

Instantly I thought of the Star Market over the Mass Pike, before I read the next sentence. And I only lived in Boston for a few years!
Wow. I didn't really know there was an 'animal grimace scale'.

I have to say, after googling that a minute ago, I have actually become an superfluous animal testing opponent, after having suspected animal testing was done excessively.

I dare you to google it.

These researchers... what assholes.
So then should the food be labeled by the race, sex and sexual orientation of the person/people that grew/produced/shipped it? Maybe you'd also like to avoid food made by people of a certain race? Or maybe you'd like to avoid food made by people of a certain sexual orientation because you're afraid you'll catch their "disease".

Just hopefully pointing out there's a spectrum of arguably good and bad labeling. Which side GMO falls on is clearly a personal opinion but it's not an obvious good.
there is zero correlation between how people comport themselves in job interviews and their ability to do a job.

Agreed. What is your approach to finding good people given this phenomenon?
What are your B2B pain points? Developing B2B Startup Weekend ideas
Yes, I should have gone logarithmic. But I spent enough time playing with that. Had to get back to work. ;) Thanks for figuring out that it's 16 cents. And yes, 16 cents is very noticeable. I might even say dramatic.

The thing is, tunesmith wasn't talking about a perfectly tuned equal temperament guitar. We're talking about tuning a guitar by ear so that one chord is sounds perfectly in tune (i.e., is in just temperament), then trying to play a different chord. It's going to sound off for the same reasons a just-tempered keyboard would. And as someone who constantly has to resist the urge to tune his B string too high in G major, I can tell you this isn't just a theoretical assertion.

That said, I have played on guitars (especially electric ones) that seem to resist sounding in tune even when the open strings are tuned "perfectly." Maybe that's a fret spacing defect in action. But it doesn't make the tuning-by-ear error negligible.
I'm participating in an upcoming B2B focused Startup Weekend event in Seattle (http://seattleb2b.startupweekend.org/) I'd love to hear your B2B pain points and startup ideas. What would make your job easier? What do you "hate" at work?

I've created a public Google doc for B2B startup ideas if you would like to contribute or comment on esisting ideas: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F5QATdbv2V7BX2Y_LQqMTFRD...

Thanks so much!
I very much feel the same.

But to be fair, with Australis, the whole "widgets" thing is new, and I really like how Firefox and add-ons can both use it in the same way.
One of the assignments in my high-school science class was to do a presentation on the history of some scientific question. This meant stating the question, explaining the early hypothesis, explaining the early tests that disproved those, explaining the new hypotheses, explaining the new tests that disproved those, ETC.

As the end of almost every one of those presentations, there was a strong feeling of "then what" hanging in the classroom, until people realized that the most recently stated hypothesis is what they had learned, and scientists have not yet discovered why it is incorrect.
My hometown grocery store had an (by the sound of it) almost identical system. No vertical component though. Just a way to get groceries from the check stands to the pickup lane.
Building a Hacker News Style Voting App with Orchestrate and Node.js
The answer of course is no. The degree to which we think its shit is related to how much we know about related fields and the size of the effect among others. The prior isn't binary.

For the topic at hand, ESP would most likely invalidate quite a bit of physics no one is questioning for other reasons and there is no proposed theory to explain the effects. Our confidence in the studies is rightfully close to zero.
This seems like false conjecture.

That is to say the only Twitter Analytics company I know of YC funding in the last few years is Crowdbooster, which hasn't sold to Twitter.

Why make a comment like this? It adds nothing to the discussion and makes readers waste time on useless research. Normally I read comments like this, quickly google, and continue on with my life, but it's become an annoying trend.

EDIT: Could I inquire as to the downvotes? If you're about to downvote please consider letting me know whether it's because:

a.)I made an initial error(in stating that YC aquired companies instead of funding them).

b.)I was unnecessarily overly critical of the initial parent comment.

c.)I Came across as braggadocios and didn't add much(if anything) to the conversation at hand.

d.)Something else entirely.

e.)A combination of any/all of the above.
Florida man uses iPhone to film arrest – and gets arrested
having trouble uploading a ~4mb jpg:
"413 Request Entity Too Large"

also, you apparently need to contribute BTC in order to upload:
"You have insufficient funds to upload 66.0 kB."
Michael Porter's "Competitive Strategy" is oddly missing from the list, as it's one of the most influential corporate strategy books out there... if you like the spirit of that list, you should definitely add that one.

(Porter's "5 forces" are one of the highlights of a typical MBA curriculum).

Also, learning some accounting is extraordinarily useful (thinking about capex vs. opex, etc.)
notably the goal with the GPU hardware was to avoid doing endianess conversions in userspace code that talked to GPU drivers.

userspace, the root of all evil
if you are wondering how to download, like i was, try downloading something first. after that you will effectively be "logged in" and have access to upload.
YC doesn't acquire companies.
Whistleblower Claims Google Stole Money From Publishers Using Adsense
Twitter analytics just confirmed how unimportant I am.
Actually this is pretty cool. I don't like that it's simultaneously playing multiple tracks, and would prefer if it just showed multiple tracks with hover-to-play. Also, the wave form is uninteresting - could you display them as a grid (just the covers) instead?

I'd love a tap-to-play app version for my Android device.
I look forward to the Vim bindings.
This article's existence, headline included is the straight-forward definition of ridiculous.

"In the future, the truest sign of human existential crises came not from plague, wars, or conspiracy, but ineffable journalism."

It also comes with a self-esteem hedge in the opening just in case you don't read. What might be an interesting story would the the meta-article on the set of these types of stories.
Now: Word of mouth spurred by high quality output. Before: Job boards and friends in business schools.
But at least on a touch screen I can perform a partial gesture and see a partial result — i.e., the feeling is that the image zooms as my fingers pinch the screen, or the map pans as my fingers move. It's a very different feeling to the approach demonstrated in the video.
I cannot access this page.

>> Server not found
>> Firefox can't find the server at analytics.twitter.com.

Down for everyone says it is up. I can't get to it. I can get to twitter.com just fine though. Anyone have an idea what I can try?

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/analytics.twitter.com
I'm confused GuiA. You have spent considerable time and energy promoting your view that well designed CLI apps are "insanely superior", but you can't cite an example? And the closest thing you cite, MC, is a text-based GUI?
My mom was complaining that her friend had received spam that appeared to originate from her AOL account about two weeks ago. I was worried my mom had some malware, but this is a bit worse, hopefully they follow up with some more information about what account holders should do, if anything.
Has Facebook switched to Mercurial? In one news it says so, in the next one read it has a ~50GB Git repo. If they really switched, it would be a good advertisement for Mercurial and its capabilities.
Fwiw I've been using Aurora (Firefox 30) Beta full time on OS X for the past few weeks, and it's more stable than Chrome under my tab & memory-abusing ways (20 browser windows open, god knows how many tabs, 4 Haswell cores and 8GB memory available). Great work Mozilla.
> Perfect graphene can take ~100 Gigapascals (14 million pounds per square
> inch) of force before it breaks...imperfect graphene...~4 Megapascals (580
> pounds per square inch).

Can anyone put these numbers in perspective? I understand that 100 Gigapascals is a lot, AKA more than anything I personally own. What items does the common person interact-with/own that require > 4 megapascals? I have to imagine that my old titanium lacrosse shaft could handle more than 4 megapascals.

CONTEXT ADDENDUM: Graphene hammer handle versus Hickory Handle?
Having seen a few people spend their (rapidly failing) final years with emphysema and related health complications due to smoking... I can't say that you'll live well to the end necessarily. I hope you avoid that fate, random internet stranger, but there are ways to improve your chances...
Many who sexually abuse others were themselves sexually abused. This is not excusing their actions, but it absolutely should be kept in mind when considering the punishment for any sort of crime. From petty to heinous, many people who commit crimes come from very shitty situations. And even those that don't often simply have mental issues.

What about the truly evil? Should we not consider them 'sick'? The problem is that justice is seen entirely from a punitive perspective. I hope, in the future, that most crimes will be treated with not a punitive hand but a rehabilitative one. Drug abuse should be met with rehab, not mandatory minimums. Likewise, hopefully it will become the case that we will try to treat violent offenders instead of just carting them off to prison to rot or commit crimes again upon release. Prisons wouldn't disappear of course, but hopefully they would become options of last resort instead of the first solution.
I agree, I see no conflict or tragedy also.

He is a man that has pursued excellence, understands quality, likes to work for himself (performer, landscape gardener, etc), seems to have a competitive edge but also seems wise to it, and has demonstrated keenness to carefully coach others or explain how to do things.

It should be quite a successful business.
what rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over yours neighbors dog?
Is it somehow useful for these people to languish in prison at the expense of the public?

It's certainly cheaper. Also, in the case of innocent people convicted, it preserves the opportunity to let them out. What's the harm in not executing people?
Yep, it's been reported that around half a million users may be affected: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/aol-spam-data-breach,news-18703....
How did they determine who was a porn actor and who was not?
Even though the answer to the article's question is pretty easy (there are really very few athletic or show business fields of endeavor that you can actually make a good living doing), as I was reading it and watching the videos I was really glad that it was posted to HN. I think it's fascinating to learn about someone who's the best at something incredibly difficult.
> Neither is faster? Each one is slower than the other?

For regular comparable x & y:

not (x > y) and not (y > x) --> x = y

So "neither is faster" means "they are equally fast", not "each one is slower than the other".
Yes, but they lasted for a nearly a century first. While corrupt auditors will fail _eventually_, it isn't realistic to expect auditors to all be honest because they bad behavior will kill them in the long run. They can do a lot of damage in the short term before they fall apart.

It'll be interesting to see how this situation shakes out for this auditor, but I suspect they'll keep ticking along just fine.
I'd like to take a moment to reflect on the fact that within five seconds of reading this comment, Google took me from "Issac Asimov Conveyor belt road" to [1], and a ^F for "Asimov" later I had "The concept of a megalopolis based on high-speed walkways is common in science fiction. The first works set in such a location are "A Story of the Days To Come" (1897) and When The Sleeper Wakes (1899) (also republished as The Sleeper Awakes) written by H. G. Wells, which take place in a future London. Thirty years later, the silent film Metropolis (1927) depicted several scenes showing moving sidewalks and escalators between skyscrapers at high levels. Later, the short story "The Roads Must Roll" (1940), written by Robert A. Heinlein, depicts the risk of a transportation strike in a society based on similar-speed sidewalks. The novel is part of the Future History saga, and takes place in 1976. Isaac Asimov, in the novel The Caves of Steel (1954) and its sequels in the Robot series, uses similar enormous underground cities with a similar sidewalk system. The period described is about the year 3000." [1]

We might not have conveyor belts for roads, but we are defiantly living in the future.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_walkway
Thanks for the feedback.

So the main idea is that multiple tracks play at once and you can just hover over to judge which one you like. Is there any particular reason why you don't like all playing at once?

> - could you display them as a grid (just the covers) instead?

I could and that's what I started with. But the issue was that the covers are all squares and the grid has to be a rectangle (almost all screens are rectangular). I am not a design guy so I'm not really sure how I would do it. Any suggestions?
Flying with the Thunderbirds
This is going to put quite a few companies out of business. I used to work for a company doing data analytics on social media data. The thing I really like about this site is that it actually gives you great insights. For example, I can see tweet reach, link click data. This is pretty freaking awesome from a data science perspective.

Now someone needs to make a data miner so you just upload that CSV and it tells you 3 actionable things. Stuff like:

1. Your tweets about technology are the best

2. Tweet during the morning

3. Humor in your tweets is not your strength
I edited this to funded within under a minute of posting and must have forgotten to submit.

Care to comment on anything other than that egregious error?

edit: I made this error because the initial parent comment to which I had responded had the word 'aquired' in it. I must have subconsciously confused the two, if you're implying that I don't understand how YC functions after years of reading the content here(entirely possible, albiet unlikely), that's simply not true.

I'm a human and entirely fallible, this was an error; sorry gals/guys.
Fixing E.T. for the Atari 2600
> Genetic engineering is a very young science.

Actually, genetic engineering is one of the oldest sciences. There are more modern methods of genetic engineering, but the discipline itself is as old as civilization. Most of the foods we eat are not found in the wild. They were developed through genetic engineering.

For example, look at wild apples and apples found in the store. Better yet, actually taste them. They are hardly alike. In fact, none of the apple varieties we consume today were around just a few hundred years ago. They did not magically appear. They were developed through genetic engineering.
580 pounds per sq. inch seems a lot for household applications. Say a human were to stand on a Graphene TV, it would be ~250 pounds on ~100 sq. inches, i.e. 2.5 psi.
>>Will it get me another job? ... If you can’t understand why I don’t waste my energy on doing seven balls overhead for a minute to make a youtube video for people to watch, then you haven’t entered the real world yet.

I had a similar discussion with my office colleagues a few weeks back. When there was a call for a 'Hacknight' at our workplace to drive revenues up, when a SVP panicked he was going to miss his target. And the people where asked to contribute and magically rescue the whole situation out of nowhere. Nearly every one agreed that they would not contribute a minute to that 'Hacknight'

When people just give up, start giving damn about things. Its generally because they've been taken for a ride, before. Once hard working night owl hackers stop doing things because they watch some jack ass four levels above them doing 1/100th the work but taking nearly everything that is right fully theirs.

The Hack night was a big flop, ofcourse the SVP called for a meeting next day and lectured about motivation and lack of passion in the team(Meaning, people not ready sacrifice a great deal and give away their work for free). And how despite all the help from the leadership(Meaning, Arranging for biscuits and tea, and then going to home to get sleep) people were not ready to contribute to the company(Meaning, Help the VP make an additional million in yearly bonus).

Ultimately you get what you pay for.
I used to run the world's biggest juggling video repository (JuggleThis.net, now defunct) which itself was definitely responsible for a lot of the irritation Gatto found with the new generation of camera-happy juggling kids.

Certainly he was frustrated by newcomers filming 100 takes and showing just one (something I'm guilty of too!). But without being a juggler yourself it's hard to express just how much better than everyone else he really was. If being able to do a trick with N balls is unit difficulty, adding N+2 balls is a factor of 10-100 harder. Being able to perform it is another 10-100 times again.

Gatto regularly performed things the next best jugglers could barely do at all. He was the Donald Bradman of juggling, and I'm very sad we now have to say "was".
Sure. 100 GPa is 14.5e6 psi. The pressure of an adult human standing on the ground is 1-2 psi (depending on weight, foot size). Pretty much all metals begin to yield at or less than 40e3-70e3 psi.
The bit about the bits.
It's so easy to believe our food is toxic because the people selling it have no long term concern for our health. If it doesn't cause an acute health issue they've done their job. Food that is sweet, long lasting and attractive is what we are told to buy with marketing dollars and shelf space that is paid for by food companies. Supermarkets in the US devote 80%-90% of it's food space on products that are not fit for regular human consumption. Companies driven by quarterly profits are not worried about some health problem that might happen at some future date. The C level executives will be retired and cashed out the stock options long before they'll be called on the carpet. I know it's supply and demand, but it's also deceit and manipulation.
Launch Code
Containers, not VMs.

Containers contain processes, and Docker base images allow you to use yum/dpkg/apt in various containers, it doesn't matter what host OS you use, as long as you run a supported Linux Kernel.
> I do, if FDA worked better. I certainly do not subscribed to the idea of abolishing it because it is broken. I subscribe to the idea of fixing it. Closing the revolving door as much as possible, making it stronger.
I have lived for many years in a country with an effectively missing FDA. It was there de-facto but it was a joke. So anyone could sell you anything. The joke about baby formula and chalk mixed with water was not a joke, it has happened. Other foodstuff is just like that.

Your argument is broken as well. There's no way that the FDA can guarantee everything, because they would need 1000 times more inspectors if they wanted to do a reasonable job at it. Currently as long as a site is visited ONCE by the FDA and considered safe, it won't be years before that site is visited again by the same body. Everything that happens in between is basically completely out of the FDA loop, so anyway you have to trust in the products you buy.

Food traceability is a myth. You still don't know, more than 50 years ago, what's inside the products you buy, and whether these ingredients are consistent in concentration or not from one batch to another. You don't know what your animals eat before they become meat in your supermarket. You don't know what fertilizers were used to grow the crops you consume. You know virtually nothing about the food you buy, and guess what, the food has never been safer to consume than now, EVEN in countries where there's no FDA - Don't worry, Communist China also had issues with chemicals in the baby milk powder, except that people did NOT know or hear about it before. And China actually has a pretty strong FDA-like body and that does not prevent any of these issues from happening.

If tomorrow you got rid of the FDA, suddenly all manufacturers wouldn't put poison in your food, as if they were just waiting for that. Even before the FDA there were industry associations and consumer groups pushing for better quality standards - Health supervision was not born with the FDA.
I love Google unit conversion. Just enter "100 psi to pascals" as a search phrase and you get an answer. Based on this, it's possible to note some typical things converted into Pascals:

Bike tire pressure 100 psi = 690 kPa

Tensile strength of 6061 aluminum (the most common alloy) = 45000 psi = 310 MPa
Are you referring to vagrants or dockers?
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Seems like they’re in the process of switching; they have lots of code to migrate: https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
The sweeping button pushing is the headline, not the study. I'm ignoring headlines these days, since they're all written as click bait :(
Why Are Venture Capitalists Ignoring The Future?
Good point. The previous title ("Why did the greatest juggler alive quit to open a concrete business?) wasn't much of a question, so we changed it.
I don't mind the discussion, but I think the arguments on both sides are typically rationalizations. People have quick, visceral responses in which they form conclusions on these matters, then they think of reasons why those conclusions must be true. That process seems to happen in a lot of areas, but none more so than discussion of politics and morality.

By the way: Thank you for your responses. I like how you've managed to be concise, civil, and probing.
Hm, do we need a study for that? IMHO goes without saying. It's a very well known technique in management when you have to make an important decision. To take a 30-40 minutes walk and concentrate on the issue, review your initial assumptions etc. I've heard it more than once from different management coaches. Of course it boosts creativity too.
I don't like that they're playing simultaneously because it's jarring when I hover over another track that's playing in the middle somewhere (related: when I change tabs, it jumps to another track (in the middle) that I didn't select). I don't feel "in control" when I'm listening to something in the middle.

It would be different if you provided a cross-fader, but it doesn't seem like you want to make an n-way DJ tool.

> Any suggestions?

http://isotope.metafizzy.co/

EDIT: Also, playing multiple at once implies a lot of wasted network traffic.
Please do finish the post, this is a hard problem.
The title should include "cryptographic hash functions".

There are also other types of hash functions like pHash, simhash, etc.
This article is much more about the journey of his life and the journey of a journalist to answer the question. The final answer means very little; there are a myriad of reasons he quit. Perhaps you should read the article. It's very enjoyable.