skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was very sophisticated analysis. But let me emphasize two things:

- When you start, you are taking a leap into total emptiness. You explore a thousand different avenues, most of them are dead ends. Your day consists of massive amount of mental effort to stay focused, to stay sane, and to make good assumptions. Then you change tack/analyses continuously. You keep adding/deleting datasets. This is not theoretical statistics but sometimes you use arcane things; so you definitely need to be very strong at Stats. My personal dream is that one day, when I have time and money, I will use these methods to come up with a Meta- Statistics approach to empirical analysis -- i.e., to use Analytics to predict, based on the problem definition and available data sets, which methods to use.

- You have to have patient clients. Jumping 10 months into a project with absolutely NO guarantee of success is a huge leap of faith, financially speaking; but the rewards can be huge. One day you are still nowhere, and literally the next day, everything clicks, you check your conclusions once-twice-thrice, make a presentation to the client, and, boom!, your project is over.
This was first posted in r/dataisbeautiful. The author writes a post-mortem of its virality:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/259x4c/hey_...
That's interesting, I didn't really think about it until you mentioned it but they _must_ making a lot of money.

I couldn't find any specific rumors or estimates that are more recent than 2011. I did find a VentureBeat article from Jan 22 2014 that said that Dota 2 made $80 M and TF2 made almost double that at $139 M in 2013.[1]

Pricewaterhouse Coopers "Global entertainment and media outlook: 2013 - 2017" estimates that globally "entertainment and media" will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 5.6% over the next five years.[2]

So, even if you assume that they won't release Left4Dead 3, Half Life 3, etc over the next few years, just from Dota2 and TF2 alone their revenue for 2014 is likely to be more than $230 M. And that's a bare minimum guess. It's likely to be much more than that. But that's the lower bound of the estimate I guess.

Not bad.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/22/doat-2-made-around-80-mill...
[2] https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/global-entertainment-media-outlook...
+1 to both callmeed (sunk cost fallacy) and runjake (assets)
For those who like to read about the old Bell System, there's a great book called Engineering and Operations in the Bell System that gives an overview of the technology that was in use up to around the time of their breakup in 1984. It was published by Bell Labs. You can find used copies on Amazon for as little as 1 cent (plus the cost of shipping).
I freelanced once for the local VA hospital and they sure tried!
Because side-by-side is very redundant, wasting almost half the screen on the exact same information.

You don't have to "mentally apply" a patch, just ignore some lines of a certain color.
OK, I'm not a doctor, but presumably that 1-5 seconds difference is very significant. The higher temperature pretty much guarantees permanent damage. The lower temperature at least gives time for clothing to be removed, etc. And the McDonalds coffee was served at least at 180F, so presumably it would definitely cause 3rd degree burns instantly. That just seems way to risky, to me, to be serving as a beverage, which most people would not expect to cause instant 3rd degree burns.
You will doubtlessly get many opinions on this.

It's worth keeping in mind that the "dev time" is a function of existing libraries, internal and external. At any fairly large company (e.g. Google) that has many existing internal libraries in some language (java), the dev time will be massive to switch. By this logic, the dev time is too costly for absolutely any language you pick other than the one being used. There is little exception to this.

For a programmer or programmers with no legacy cruft, I'd argue that dev time is more a function of the programmer's familiarity with a language than the language itself. Perhaps there are a few exceptions to that, but in general I don't think that a language should be described as "too" anything. Java might be memory inefficient, but does that mean it's usage "too high"? Clearly not for some people as it's still used frequently.
If on Chrome, you might try https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/all-answers-for-qu...
Does anyone have additional links for that field of research? Favored without charge PDFs.
All the academic recordings, such as what student took what course and what grades he has a stored in Informix, at Middle East Technical University (metu.edu). It is such a pain in the ass that at the beginning of the semester, in the interactive registration the system always goes down. As far as I know it has something like maximum of 30-100 active sessions. They were unable to move it to some modern database. Here is some messaging https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.databases.infor...
It has a lot of options, people will answer a few, get bored... scroll down and read some comments.

The options towards the bottom of the list may not get as much attention and votes even if they are used by people.

If it were alphabetical, people might hunt and peck for the one they use most, e.g. PostgreSQL, they might then see things around there (memcached) but fail to scroll back up and vote for Custom too.

Random deals with it well enough without even knowing the poll content or number of options.
Google offering $1M prize for a much smaller power inverter
I think you're right, but it's really isotropy in combination with independence of x and y. Isotropy means you really are dealing with a function of r where r^2 = x^2 + y^2, and independence means the resulting function p(x,y) must factor as p(x) * p(y). This then forces the exponential form.
The pressure in the pipe is the same as the pressure in the pool. Additionally, the meter^3/minute is the same in the pool in the pipe, but the with the pipe, the meter^2 is much smaller. So, to keep the same rate of fluid, the meter/minute (speed) has to be much higher.
I don't know about this. I know I can have rather nasty nightmares, but I don't remember them when I wake up. That's a good thing. If I was lucid dreaming, bad things would probably still happen.

Does anyone have any experience with lucid dreaming? It sounds like it would be exhausting.
I am in therapy, so that's already covered. Any other ways in which you wanted to be funny?
The person who wrote the CDDL says it was deliberately written to be incompatible with the GPL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribu...
> In this 'big data hiring' future companies still need to compete for talent. Companies which hire on the basis of arbitrary factors like political views, porn habits, family infighting risk losing talent to competitors.

Yes, but you forget the old banking maxim: it is better to fail conventionally than it is to succeed unconventionally. I think it's very likely that hiring managers would pass up the potential increased talent of an employee if that talent came coupled with increased risk that the employee would do something to embarrass the company or do something to make the company look bad.

>Also if you are concerned about this info impacting employment, just don't post it online.

So what do I do when the lack of online information about me in itself becomes a drawback?
If I analyzed the toolset I used years ago vs. now, I'd conclude the world is moving from Python to Haskell :)
Have you read the Aeropress instructions? They recommend water at 175F (80C) [1]

[1] http://aerobie.com/images/AeroPress%20Instructions%20for%20W...
CodeDay – A 24 Hour Hackathon for High School and College Students
Thanks for the suggestion! I did make the inputs a little bigger.
I wonder if Apple will follow jailbreaker UI when if and when they introduce a true multitasking/windowing system on iOS. They did so with multitasking and mission control UI designs.

I doubt Apple would introduce true windowing however, they seem to keep a large development/design crowd away from Android simply because developers only have to target a couple of screen sizes/aspect ratios.
What do you mean by "true" concurrency?

I think web workers will use multiple cores, if you have them, but don't quote me on that.
i have a lot of little beefs with new firefox versions for example not knowing that firefox leaks dns when you hover a link with no easy way to disable it.

but sponsored tiles is not one of them. out of all the browsers out there with silly home screen tiles firefox's are the easiest to disable or never actually hit in practice depending on your browser habits. it's not even really ads just someones homepage similar to the google sponsored home.

i feel this is not a functionality issue at all. it's a complete failure in the marketing and pr department. when people heard ad their alarm bells starting ringing(mine did too).
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Engineering_and_operat...
Well, I think textbooks often give the maxent justification as well, but probably neither is strictly superior to the other.

Often, where a measurement is perturbed by a litany of physically unlinked disturbances (e.g., antenna noise), the CLT argument is compelling. In a case like antenna or front-end electronics noise, justifying the maxent argument would require buying in to an almost mystical belief by comparison.

Interestingly, the two seem to have a deep connection related to thermodynamics, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_fluctuations, where you can see both as expansions of a configuration count up to second order in the exponent.

This is manifest in the detectable remnants of the Big Bang, which are a particular realization of a Gaussian random field that was present due to quantum fluctuations of a primordial system. It's funny to think of the universe as a draw from a random number generator.
The PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance book has been great for us, goes in depth into most interest variables that you can tweak on your instance to make sure you're making the most out of your machine's resources: http://www.packtpub.com/postgresql-90-high-performance/book

A bit of a lengthy read, but worth it.
Can we turn HN into a patent application? I wonder if it would work on a list of titles.
A thing that never was: ringback tones
Oh, joy-a fully automated caste system.
I remember watching once a TV show (perhaps in the old days of Discovery Channel) about experiments with obstacles put in front of elevators, so people wouldn't clutter in front of it and IIRC they have found the same thing back then. I wish I had magic skills to find a video of that show.
It's not going to interfere with anything: sponsored tiles aren't going to replace any of your newtab tiles (pinned or otherwise) in an old profile.

This is simply for new users and new profiles, to populate the newtab page with useful links until all of those items would be sufficiently populated.

Or you could click the button in the top-right hand corner of the newtab page to turn the tiles off completely (it also seems to disable thumbnailing now, you had to turn that off manually a few versions back.)
Also to note, the American qualifiers for the tournament will start tomorrow and run until Thursday. There's a good mix of North and South American teams in the qualifier and the stuff that is planned for the broadcast seems pretty exciting.
I'm aware of all that and don't see how it refutes my assumptions or solution.

Yes, the network is degraded at peak times naturally. My idea is to further penalize heavy users (weighted by time of use) but do it in favor of lighter users (which avoids the rent seeking problem).

As you note, this inevitably penalizes total use, but does it in a way that accounts for when the use is bad.
I think development has moved away from Oracle now partly, but at one point there was a Sun/Oracle only version. This piece [0] argues that the reason for not dual licensing it was that there might be GPL only contributions and then eventually a GPL fork, which is not that unlikely given the larger size of Linux vs VSD+Solaris. Same with ZFS I guess, even if Oracle mostly sponsored btrfs.

[0] https://blogs.oracle.com/ahl/entry/dtrace_knockoffs
Firefox needs to make money. An optional extension that hardly anyone will install won't help with that.
The categories are useful, but it would be great if you could work out a way of returning relevant search engines to a particular request, inline with that request. It just reduces friction.

> Would the suggestion of making them searchable by category be a good solution or something even different?

On the /bang.html page I think it would be good if you could search through the !bangs using a small text description, or a series of tags, because a single category doesn't really cover it. For instance, scirus or google scholar are science search engines, you can't just put them in the 'academic' or 'learning' section, and expect people to be able to find them, unless they already know the sites.
I'm partial to the Haworth Zody, plenty of adjustability without looking like a set piece from an Aliens movie.
Or just politely say, "Now that I'm here, I can really see this is not the opportunity for me. Let's not waste any more time. Good day."
What exactly is wrong with Tokyo Cabinet?
I wonder how effective this method compares to that of using something like binaural beats.
I don't like that the generated UUID has uppercase letters.
If you have a C function, calling it from python is trivial. It even has great support for passing numpy arrays to functions that expect C arrays, and taking C arrays and treating the like numpy arrays.
This is good advice. I've scaled multiple sites to +3 million registered users and more than 1 million unique visitors with heavy DB usage. This is excellent advice for starting out. Along the way we found areas that could be improved and we were able to move quickly to them because our underlying DB was standard stuff. We knew what areas were breaking down and then fixed them with targeted moves to other DBs and things like memcache. Yes, each DB has a specialty but a good general DB gets you a lot of mileage because those specialty DBs do very little a general DB can't but that is often not true the other way.

You would never start a journey with cloudy destination and of a million miles by asking for a moon rover as your vehicle. As your journey develops you would start looking at other options or options for certain segments. Apps follow similar patterns.
This might be good advice if you're building cookie cutter systems for clients that have high turnover of contractors, but for startups I think it's horrible.

I'd take one person that really groks devops and database internals well enough to make informed choices over a million one-size-fits-all SQL/Mongo+MVC devs. Any day of the week.
How much of the current wealth of Apple is due to jailbreakers ? 20%? 30%? If not for jailbreakers, there would have never been the appstore for iOS nor OSX. The popularity of the iPhone would not have been nearly the same if not for jailbroken applications then for the appstore applications. Apple should issue apologies to each and every jailbreaker.
It says 27 subjects experienced induced lucid dreaming. How many didn't? If the rate is anywhere near 100% and the experimental setup description can be obtained there will be DIY boxes galore to do this and soon.

Does anybody know where the paper is? This is a rare case where I don't give a damn about a pay wall.
ElasticSearch and Solr are both search engines built on top of Lucene. ElasticSearch just has all the hipster hype these days. Maybe update the description to include all three.
Has anybody ever used Tarsnap to back up Time Machine sparseimages? I've wanted to try it out but I'm not sure if Tarsnap will handle the de-dup on all of the Time Machine snapshots properly. Will I end up with just the original plus deltas or hundreds of copies of the original?
You can turn this in to a cool Wordpress plugin for adding a ribbon for blog posts: "Patent me on USPTO". It would be like ribbon for "Fork me on Github" :).

This has real possibility of increasing awareness about how broken current patent system is.
Anyone have any more information on this? Going off just the post leaves a lot of questions.
Honest question: has bandwidth providing costs actually grown very much, or are ISPs just profit hungry and try to rip off everything they can? Because if it's the first one, something should actually be changed for them to compensate.
because they're not cool anymore
I worked on Domino--it's a mail server that uses DB2.
Tom Stuart used various Church encodings in his presentation "Programming with Nothing" [1] [2]. He used nothing in the Ruby language but creating procs and calling procs. He demonstrated this by implementing the fizz-buzz program in nothing but procs.

[1] http://codon.com/programming-with-nothing

[2] http://computationbook.com
> oh boy, another GPL debate! phk was right, seems we never get tired of this stupid shit.

Well, we're in a thread in an article about the GPL, what did you expect? :-)
> Refuted so many times that anyone still saying this is either intentionally misleading or utterly uninformed about what they're railing against. systemd runs incredibly little in PID 1; it has numerous separate single-purpose processes (typically named /usr/bin/systemd-foo or /lib/systemd/systemd-foo), as well as several libraries abstracting out key bits of common functionality for other code to use.

Come come, no need to pretend to be dense on this topic. Address the argument, rather than engage in rhetorical bluster.

You know, and I know, and everyone knows because it's public knowledge, that systemd is an incredibly tightly bound bundle of highly opinionated tooling, regardless of how many process IDs it uses. You know, and I know, and everyone knows because the maintainers say so[1], that no piece of systemd can be replaced, and indeed they further astonishingly assert that certain bits of systemd logic literally cannot be reimplemented by anyone else or removed.[1]

You know, and I know, that systemd is attempting to gain creeping control over an ever-growing pool of functionality normally handled by logically separated tools, frequently without regard to merit (e.g., stashing core dumps in a binary log; the 'debug flag' debacle[2]).

So if we know all of these things, then why do you pretend otherwise, and unleash vitriolic insults against people based on your straw-man specious reasoning? And if you can answer that, can you then tell me, why is this not just standard practice amongst the systemd advocates, but rhetorically uniform therein?

[1] https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/2/420
eww, biscuits!
Alleged insider trading case cracked through LinkedIn
Excellent read. I usually don't have the patience to read longer pieces, but this was a great story.
This is why I prefer to drink coffee in Italy (which can pretty much claim to be the origin of coffee in the western world) where they serve it warm-hot, but not boiling, and it's delicious. I tend to be on the libertarian side of the 'allowed to do things that might be dangerous' debate, but - in this case - the default (only?) option was 'extremely dangerous', which I don't think is wise.
> software engineering should also be respected rather than commoditized.

I am not so sure anymore. When anyone who has done six weeks in a boot camp can call themselves a software engineer, the semantics of the word are lost.

> That sucks, because the skills of a truly good software engineer are also quite important.

The best people? They are valued and known to be valuable. For example, there is a guy in my company who works remote from the midwest. He is truly amazing. When he interviewed me, I quickly got the feeling that his machine learning skills were top notch. BUT, when I work with him, I realize that he is truly phenomenal. He can write code up and down the abstraction ladder. Good, solid fucking code. Hell, he can double up as an SRE and fix shit when he wants to. Sure, he is a "machine learning engineer". But he is much much more than just that title.
Those two categories have some overlap though. I had an account on quora, and for browsing the site the requirement is fine, but when searching for something and stumbling on to content from quora (especially on a mobile device where typing is a chore), the added frustration was enough to make me delete my account.
In other words, comments should explain why something was done and now how.
The GPL is the world's most popular license. The CDDL was purposely designed to be incompatible with it. Anyone choosing the CDDL is purposely choosing to exist in an island outside the GPL.
haha yeha. too many people confuse us with loopt :(
CouchBase isn't the same as CouchDB.
Saltarelle compiler, Open source C# 5.0 to JavaScript.
This does suck, seriously. And honestly I don't think we do enough to allow you to prevent stuff like this from taking your application down, sure.. you should be building clustered, highly available applications that have good failover, but really we don't provide you with the best tools to do real fail over. We're working really hard right now to provide a shared ip so you can fail it over onto another IP, and we're also in the early stages of building out a really nice load balancer. People forget DO is still a pretty small team, 15 engineers now.. and we're doing our best. :)

Again, this really sucks and I'm sorry it happened - I'd love you to email me the IP of the droplet you had issues with (je@digitalocean.com)

j.

CTE, DigitalOcean.
The numbers for redis are going to be misleading.

Are people voting for it because they use redis as their primary data store, or just because they use it at all?

I use it redis a cache and I haven't voted for it because I assume this poll is asking about the primary data store. Does anyone use redis as their main db?
I searched for - "top selling ecommerce products in india"

Not great results. May be I don't know how to use your site.

P.S. I like the idea of your site. Good luck
I expected the story to end with, "And then the billionaire's son ran the company into the ground," but it didn't.

Still, I'm skeptical to credit Travis Knight with "saving" the studio. The money and nepotism definitely rescued the studio as a profit-making enterprise.

But if the same artists had worked on the same Coraline with someone else's capital, would the outcome have been any different? Probably not. Did it matter if the money was branded Knight or someone else's?

The wrongest takeaway would be to credit Laika's new management with being anything more than turnaround artists (as opposed to film artists). Vinton was a creative visionary and always will be, money in the bank or not.

Vinton should have known what he was getting into when he took Knight's money. Of course the objective was to acquire (or in this case, inherit) Vinton's creative vision and make it Travis Knight's.

It is remarkable that Travis, through nothing more than the luck of being born who he is, manages to obtain these intangibles: Vinton's identity as an artist composed of his studio and his work.
I can't speak for any other 'systemd detractor', but I can definitely confess that I've completely ignored what's going on on the desktop. Because it's been utter crap for the last 20 years and is clearly getting no better.

The fact that the desktop is now spawning lovecraftian horrors from the deep in the service of 'booting to the desktop faster' and 'supporting hot-plug devices better' and that those awkward, stupid requirements now threaten to invade the standard installation on my servers, that definitely has my attention now, though.