skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of one. My current director viewed my profile and didn't contact me during my employment with my last employer.

I took a look at the company he worked for and contacted him myself about an opportunity. Now I work for him (he's an excellent leader too).

Had I not seen that he viewed my profile, I wouldn't be working for his company now.

As an aside, I will generally always view profiles in an incognito window.
Not a great counterexample imo:

function make_dot_product(dim) {

return (dim === 3) ? dot3 : dot2;

function dot3(a,b) {
return a.x*b.x+a.y*b.y+a.z*b.z
}

function dot2(a,b) {
return a.x*b.x+a.y*b.y
}

}
I think this is very important for the market they're targeting as well (people on food stamps). An often overlooked aspect of poverty is how time consuming it is. Instead of clocking off work at 5, going home, cooking and relaxing, you've got to work multiple jobs, leaving far less time to cook, and far less incentive to cook well. This leads to a downward spiral of overspending on faster to prepare, but more expensive food (e.g. fast food, ready meals), and thus a relative loss of income.
He's making a point to raise awareness of a propaganda term that's made it into the common lexicon, and saying its use should be discontinued when discussing copyright infringement. He's expressing a prescriptive statement, and you're replying with a descriptive statement.
I worked on a decentralized social network for a while, but eventually gave up on it because it was impossible to get traction (especially since other open source alternatives "exist").
That really does depend on your market and customers. I've got a github account - but it's pretty much incidental to getting new work. My track record, value delivered, personal network, etc. do that.
As I noted on Twitter recently, "LinkedIn, the place where you can get endorsed for skills you don't have by people you've never met, reaches 300 million users." https://twitter.com/danielbmarkham/status/457298482978512896

What can you say? The thing is growing. People use it. It's definitely no Facebook (e-gads, is that EVEN a compliment?) but they're a contender.

If I had to choose, I'd say I hate LinkedIn less than Facebook because at least they haven't mastered social manipulation to the degree that Facebook has. They're kind of rookie-league slimy. I guess that's something.
Linkedin seems to exist entirely so recruiters can spam people. I put up with it for a long time but finally had enough and deleted my profile. Nothing of value was lost and I get a lot less spam.
> your business objects that contain all your logic shouldn't inherit from ActiveRecord::Base because that ties you to a specific version of a specific framework

Any time you introduce an abstraction layer to decouple some code, you're making a prediction. You're saying, "I think it is likely that I will need to change the code on one side of this interface and don't want to have to touch the other side."

This is exactly like financial speculation. It takes time, effort, and increases your code's complexity to add that abstraction. The idea is that that investment will pay off later if you do end up making significant changes there. If you don't, though, you end up in the whole.

From that perspective, trying to abstract your application away from your application framework seems like a wasted effort to me. It's very unlikely you'll be swapping out a different framework, and, even if you do, it's a virtual guarantee that will require massive work in your application too.

Sure, it's scary to be coupled to a third-party framework. But the reality is is that if you build your app on top of one, that's a fundamental property of your entire program and is very unlikely to change any time soon. Given that, you may as well just accept that and allow the coupling.
"Rest" is used to mean "remainder" is German as well. It was quite a surprise in class to read the line "Wo ist der Rest?" ... and find out it was legit German.
Unfortunate phonetic naming clash. http://www.datacite.org/
An easy start point is checking for large number of XSS-alike requests in your httpd logs.

... a dirty example (I apologise in advance)

grep --color=auto -i -s -P "(\/cgi-bin\/|\.exe|phpmyadmin|awstats|acunetix|(%22|%27|'|\")(%20| |\+)*and[^\w]|sqlmap|xss|BENCHMARK|eval[^\w]|phpinfo|[^\w]ord[^\w]|md5[^\w]|substr|information_schema|prompt|iframe|base64|waitfor|script[^\w]|[^\w]sleep[^\w]|hex[^\w]|unhex|chr[^\w]|char[^\w]|concat[^\w]|concat_ws|windows.*?win\.ini|union.*?select|etc.*?shadow|etc.*?passwd|\.\.\/|%(25)*2E%(25)*2E%(25)*2F|\.\.%(25)*2F|\/\.\/|%(25)*2F%(25)*2E%(25)*2F|%(25)*2F\.%(25)*2F|\\|%(25)*5C|%(25)*45%(25)*45|%[01][0-9ABCDEF])" access_log
So you didn't read this (again)? Yes, it's a carefully worded criticism on my side, too. And as is clearly stated in the intro of the initial post, it's on criticism on a language from the point of view of a community formed around an other language in general. (I'm in the JS-business for 18 years now and have contributed some to its use, so I would appreciate it, if you would consider this to be more than just a deliberate utterance.)

And BTW, you accused me of things (in the post above) that weren't in my statement at all. I was just pointing out that there was in deed a point made by briantakita by noting that the various articles on JS published lately are mostly originating from communities grouped around other languages. And that perspectives may vary. Even the criticism on JS varies over time.
If you have A LOT of posts and pages it can take minutes to generate your blog, then push it to your server. Ghost is pretty much instant. Write in the browser, publish in the browser.
On the same site the author has a vegetarian cookbook targeted at people "people just becoming comfortable in their own kitchens".

http://www.leannebrown.ca/cookbooks/
> I would second this obvious suggestion to merely re-market to create something like a "first cookbook"

On the same site the author has a vegetarian cookbook targeted at people "people just becoming comfortable in their own kitchens".

http://www.leannebrown.ca/cookbooks/
Do you have any references on how eating meat is more affordable than things like dry beans and other grains?

http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/HHFS_BEANS_KIDNE...
http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/HHFS_RICE_WHITE_...

That seems like a pretty affordable meal to me. Maybe you have some information I don't and would like to share it?
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As I mentioned elsewhere, this is also better for who this book is aimed at - poorer people. They generally have less disposable time on top of lack of money, so will prefer less time consuming, but more expensive meals (such as fast food, ready meals). If instead they could prepare a load of (say) stew that would last for a weeks worth of lunches and dinners, it would be much easier for them spend less money on food.
Haha, this is great. Thanks for the link.
Ohhh ..uhhh shit. Well, good point then. Glad I asked. =/
You argue that the database should be thought of as a separate unit, and that unit tests should minimize interactions outside their unit. But this argument proves too much; it would also argue that unit tests should avoid using the memory allocator.
Well, at least some of the NoSQL movement was some people preferred to model data as documents or dictionaries or graph, etc instead of relations
1) His post made it to the first page of HN. So, either the ranking system for HN is completely broken and a terrible post made it to the first page, or some other people didn't consider it to be a "rant" and did have some idea as to what it was about.

2) Your repeated use of the phrases "bizarre rant" and "non-ranty" makes it clear that your comment is really a character attack. For that reason, it's hard to take your comment seriously.

3) I'll summarize it. The activities that broadly fall under the name of "hellbanning" are not consistent with democratic values. They are in fact antithetical to democratic values. Further, these same values are broadly exhibited by those in the "hacker" community. Further, because of the increasing importance of IT in our society, that is bad for our society at large. He is thus not reading HN any longer. And, finally, he dropped an awesome reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

4) His post was removed because someone didn't like it. He was not notified why. There was no transparency in the process. In some circles this is called censorship.
> Not everything that uses math is mathematics.

Of course not. And I never intended to say so. I originally said that "programming is applied math" (I insist on "applied"). Because if you ignore the math behind programming, you're running into trouble.

Same goes for bridge building, by the way: you can't ignore math. It's like Dracula: you may not see it often, but it is ever present, and influences everything. (I'm not talking about the laws of physics here, but about a bunch of people doing math, then using the results to make far reaching decisions.)

Saying that programming is a branch of mathematics is a stronger claim, but not such an outlandish one either. After all, it is all about the manipulation of a formal system. But I wouldn't go that far. Rather, I'd say computer science is math (not applied, just math).
I cannot deny I wish I had never gotten hooked. That doesn't mean I do not care or am making flimsy excuses. I am personally responsible for every choice I make, whether I like the results or not. To benefit my health I live a very non-sedentary lifestyle, drink a liter of water every day(minimum, I live in a desert), eat fresh veggies and home prepared meals daily and rarely eat fast food as it makes me feel heavy & uncomfortable(same goes for chips, bakery sweets, candies, etc). I do not take any pharmaceuticals and do not smoke tailpipe exhaust commuting daily(which is worse?). When not working & walking/smoking on breaks, I am hiking desert washes and game trails. Oh yeah, I'm a butt nazi, too...just because the ignoramuses on the big screen do it, doesn't mean flicking butts is not littering and I couldn't live with myself if I caused a fire that destroyed my playground.

My point is, besides the cigs, the marketing department would label me a health nut...6'0" @ 165lbs and still able to carry 80lbs compressors up a ladder or stone a 2000sqft floor when I have off-time from the keyboard. Thanks to the cigs, this witch hunt has made me a 2nd class citizen all the while the majority benevolently deride me while eating big macs, popping 'good' pills to 'manage' their weight problems, idly watching their 'shows' while smoking equivalent fumes in their vehicles everyday.

PS: I had three schoolmates with cancer by 9th grade, none smoked, they just lived in N/W Indiana of which they had no choice(I was a transplant).

Edit: I NEVER smoke indoors, hate the stale cig smell more than most. My nose olfactory senses are still quite acute at 42yo.
+1 for Gandi.net, they are really good. I was checking out their site, looking for a domain service. I had heard a bit about them, and then I saw their motto, "Gandi.net - no bullshit." So they got my business.
Yeah, I totally agree. Investor motivations also play a part in what you're saying. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the list of approved twitter parters could shrink once customers figure out that you can get very good Twitter analytics for free.
It's why I made sure "coffee" made it into my top 10 endorsements. Shows how seriously I take the the system ;-)

(BTW It's slipped to #9 now... if anybody wants to endorse me for coffee that would be lovely ;-)
Did you end up open sourcing the parts of the thing that you ended up implementing/writing? Seems like a waste to just throw it into a trash bin. (But of course there may be nuances / it may be hard to do that, etc.) Non-working code on github and a blog post explaining what has been done is imho >> nothing!
I think it is, worryingly for early backers.

http://blog.ghost.org/introducing-ghostpro/
Is this true? I was always under the impression that meat was considerably more expensive than basic vegetarian food. I know some vegetables can be expensive but I'm pretty sure cereals and pulses are cheaper than any meat.
Their shadiness is not limited to usability dark patterns; I am fairly sure they're scraping people's contact lists from gmail and the like without consent via impersonation (have gmail open in one tab, linkedin in another...). Exactly how they're accomplishing that, I'd love to know -- Facebook is likely pulling the same trick.
I didn't miss your point and you don't have any idea what front running is. Front running is when your broker, your agent who has a legal responsibility to seek the best execution for your order, trades in front of your order. If someone who you have no relationship with manages to react to a news event faster than you do, that's not front running.

If you took away exchange colocation, you'd just have a boom in property values around the exchange as automated traders would still try to get on the shortest network path to the exchange. Exchange colocation is actually a way to level that playing field. Everyone who is colocated has exactly the same network delay to the matching engine as everyone else who is colocated.
Hah. I followed the link from an article that I thought had a little insight, but which might be regarded as blogspam. That was comparatively recent, but, in accordance with the guidelines, I submitted the original.

<fx: shrug />

I still think it has value, and I hear very similar concerns expressed when the subject in mentioned in my hearing when I'm out and about doing in my school talks. Maybe it has changed, maybe it hasn't changed enough.

Maybe it has - perhaps you should document your experiences for us.
Just to be clear, the actual title of the article is "Unearthing a 13th-century metaverse". Might not seem like a big deal, but it feels a bit link-baity to change a key part of the title when posting to HN (and no, I do not mean link-baity on the part of The Economist - but rather on the part of the OP).
Practical experience, I lived on $4/day for most of my life. Energy is important if you are moving a lot. Also sleeping outside (in cold) drains energy very quickly.

Obesity and related problems are usually associated with lifestyle, medication (antibiotics!) and lack of physical activity, not the food itself.
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Python itself includes all the options; PyPy, Cython, Psyco, Numpy and other C extestions, Jython and more. It's all Python. That is one one of the strengths of Python.

Would you exclude use of stdlib parts that are written in C? Would you say Javascript can't run serverside cause Node.js is not part of your imagined "core language"? Or it doesn't say much about the speed of C when you use a better/more optimized compiler or compiler flags?
If you're on systemd, all stdout/err is sent to the journal.
Doubly so if that's synchronous (probably the case with vim).
And I can guarantee that the vast majority of long-lasting, maintainable applications out there (10+ years) are are tightly coupled to a framework somewhere.

There is a mindset out there that all coupling is bad. Uncle Bob's point of view that coupling to a specific framework is unwise, is one long held by OO design purists.

I'd rather prefer it thought that tight coupling is a tradeoff. You are trading productivity today for future migration risk.

If you know your app is a Rails app, and will always be a Rails app, then there's little reason to decouple. The question, is do you really know, or how reliable are your guesses?
The thing that gets me is their pricing. I pay about $40/month for my cablemodem if you extract that cost away from the other parts of my internet provider. LinkedIn costs minimally $30/month? I realize it's apples to oranges, but it just seems like an absurdly expensive service unless you're working as a hiring agent for a company. But based on the number of emails LinkedIn sends trying to convince me to upgrade my account - I can only assume they see their target customer as more than just the HR departments of the world.

How could I possibly value what LinkedIn could provide at close to what I get from internet access? It's not even close. I'd pay maybe $3/month to access what LinkedIn is selling out of curiosity ... but even then, I don't know that I'd keep the plan.
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You think using LinkedIn is bad, try developing for it. The developer community is left to fend for itself – the API randomly changes, questions go unanswered, bug fixes are promised and then never delivered.

See: http://fucknolinkedindev.tumblr.com/
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The title is just silly and unrealistic.

People said the same about silkroad, and look what happened.

Saying something like this can't be shut down is like saying there's an unhackable system out there. And really, historically, these online drug markets have been much more short lived than AFK drug enterprises. They have really lived by the rules of startups in that sense. ;)
Please read the guidelines again. Specifically the part about not using HN to make suggestions. Either email them or use the dedicated thread.

Making repeated threads like this (after having been rate limted already) is would (i I had any say (and I don't)) lead to permanent blocking.
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I live in Europe, so I can not really say for US. For 1 burger you need like 4 pounds of vegs, so the meat is cheaper here.
This is an excellent point. The key complaint you hear from lower income (and really almost across the board) is that they don't have time to make food at home, because they are busy working/transiting, so they buy fast food.
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The clearest way of saying the above is "you can collect damages for a patent, even if you don't practice it." While the two statements may be logically equivalent, they're not rhetorically equivalent. Samsung's lawyer probably doesn't want to start a sentence with "you can collect damages . . ."

Also note: "X doesn't mean you can't Y" is logically equivalent to "can Y . . . even if X." The former phrasing is clumsier, but highlights the idea that things besides X might create a bar to Y. It places an overall negative connotation on Y, while the latter phrasing places an overall positive connotation on Y.

I personally would have said: "it's true that not practicing a patent doesn't prevent you from collecting damages for it." It's not the easiest thing to read, because it just buries the double negative in the phrase "doesn't prevent" but it avoids framing things in the positive.
Off topic and a little nosey, but what skills do you have that command 650/day?
> A scientist, philosopher, mathematician, theologian and at one point Bishop of Lincoln, he was one of the first thinkers in northern Europe to read both Aristotle and the various Islamic commentators on the Greek philosopher’s work, all of which were newly translated into Latin.

I'm always amazed by how productive the pre TV/internet/facebook scholars sound. Who would have time for all that reading and thinking today with a day job as a Bishop?
I usually roll my own.

I've found that certain things, especially NLP pipelines, are usually very tricky to get right.

Let me give you one example from my day to day:

Sentence segmentation/tokenization ---> part of speech tagger ---> filter words by part of speech and then rank by tfidf scores for topic relevance scoring.

Computer vision also has its own problems ---> binarize images for detection of certain kinds of features vs needing colors, so different kinds of image transformations for handling of different kinds of object recognition, or scene detection.

I also do churn prediction, by the time you're done vectorizing users, why should I take time out of my day to then upload all of this to an external service when I could just run logistic regression, random forest or what have you locally? I typically calculate profit curves and the like as well.

Re: your word vectors and deep learning. I do this in my distributed deep learning lib I hand wrote myself[1]. In my word2vec computations, I have found it takes a significant amount of data to tune right, I usually want control over this pipeline as well.

Again, not your target audience ;).

To give you some helpful feed back, don't try being everything to everybody, own a certain niche really well and run with it. If you'd like to take this discussion offline, I'd be more than happy to help, email is in my profile. Again, good luck with the service!

[1] http://deeplearning4j.org/
To give the article itself the same MST3K treatment they gave the Kahn videos, a much better demonstration of the difference between mechanical skills and "judging between two equivalent concepts" would focus around shell vs disk integral calculus methods. Trivial to teach the mechanics of either, and the names are very intuitive of what they do, but it takes some experience and discussion to internalize when to use which strategy.

"the study of how to ... pass mathematics exams."

Some .edu folks think its hilarious to use math as a gatekeeper although the grads will never use it on the job... jokes on them if someone hacks that system and bypasses their artificial little gatekeeper.
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Todd from @BuySellAds here.

An ideal setup is one in which you utilize about a handful of different companies in the "Tier 2" position. Probably no more than a handful though, because after that it gets hard to manage and rather convoluted.

Tier 1 is your directly sold ads (stuff you sell on your own directly to an advertiser or through a company like BuySellAds).

Tier 2 is where the AdSense's of the world will live. It really depends on your "niche", but in general the best options tend to be: AdSense, Rubicon Project (if you're big enough), PubMatic (again, if you're big enough), or a "niche/vertical" ad company that focuses on sites like yours. By-and-large, AdSense "owns" this space outright, and even if you're using a program like ours (http://buysellads.com/publishers/unreserved) for your "non-reserved" inventory (stuff that isn't sold direct) there's going to be SOME mix of AdSense (or AdX) in there.

Ad money certainly isn't easy, and more and more is going to go toward those publishers creating great content and curating high-value audiences (i.e. not user generated content...). The days of "set it and forget it" are over for most publishers who aren't interested in earning pennies on the dollar. If you can't sell ads directly through a service like BuySellAds or on your own, well, I wish you luck :)

It's not all doom and gloom though - we see publishers make quite a bit of money all the time. It ultimately comes down to the quality of their site, it's content, and the users.
Rice, lentils, beans, vegetables (corn, potatoes in particular), soy/tofu/tempeh, oats are all stupidly cheap and healthy.
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